KEILAR: As the coronavirus pandemic sent the country into lockdown, governors were left to fight among each other over life-saving supplies. President Trump laying the blame on the previous administration.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We didn't have ventilators when we started. The cupboards were empty. The previous administration left us empty cupboards.</s>KEILAR: Actually, they did not. Trump claimed he inherited no ventilators. Also not true. And now his own administration has released figures to prove it. A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services said there were more than 16,000 in the stockpile ready for use in March. I want to bring in CNN Reporter and fact-checker, Daniel Dale, joining us now to break this down. We knew that that claim was false. But now we're getting the numbers from this administration itself, Daniel.</s>DANIEL DALE, CNN REPORTER: That is right. These are the first official numbers we've gotten. So that spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services told me that there have been for quote, "many years, about 19,000 ventilators in the national stockpile." And they said 16,660 were ready for immediate use in March before the Trump administration started buying more. And when I asked them how many of those 16,660 were purchased by the Trump administration and they said none of them. All of those, every single one was inherited. This does two things. It blows up the president's narrative that he was left nothing at all. And the spokesperson, number two, told me they've distributed fewer than 11 throughout the pandemic crisis. So they had 16,660 ready to use and they distributed less than that. That is important information.</s>KEILAR: That certainly is, Daniel. Thank you so much for breaking that down for us. And we're back in a moment.
Trump's Administration Debunks His Claim The Obama Administration Left "No Ventilators".