USA: Washington to deploy 1,000 military personnel to NYC to battle coronavirus - Trump

W/S US President Donald Trump taking podium, Washington DC
SOT, Donald Trump, US President: "This will be probably the toughest week, between this week and next week, and there will be a lot of death, unfortunately. But a lot less death than if this wasn’t done, but there will be death. We’re looking for an obvious focus and the hardest-hit regions. Some of them are obvious and some are not so obvious. They spring up, they hit you like you got hit by a club. An area that wasn’t at all bothered – you look at what’s going on in New Jersey, the governor is doing an excellent job by the way – but how that sprang up. Every decision we’re making is made to save lives. It’s really our sole consideration. We want to save lives. We want as few lives lost as possible."
W/S Reporters in briefing room *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Donald Trump, US President: "I can also report that at my direction 1000 military personnel are deploying to New York City to assist where they are needed the most. That is the hottest of all the hotspots. New Jersey is right there. It is right next to it. I do not know if it is overflow. But New Jersey, it is a great state. It is a crowded state, also. Where you have people on top of people, it is always tough. But we are bringing some of the ventilators, we got some for New Jersey just yesterday, and we are going to bring them some more, including doctors. We are getting doctors, nurses, respiratory workers, and others, support workers. And these are from the military. We are taking people out of the military and we have been doing it and now we are get on a larger basis."
M/S Reporter asking question *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Donald Trump, US President: "They are going into war. They are going into a battle that they have never really trained for. Nobody is trained for this, nobody's seen this, I would say since 1917."
W/S Reporters in briefing room *CUTAWAY*
SOT, Donald Trump, US President: "We will continue to use every power, every authority, every single resource we’ve got to keep our people healthy, safe, secure and get this thing over with. We want to finish this war. We have to get back to work. We have to open our country again. We have to open our country again. We don’t want to be doing this for months and months and months. We have to open our country again. This country wasn’t meant for this. Few were, few were. But we have to open our country again."
W/S Briefing room
M/S Trump leaving
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