Address the rises in covid19 cases and reopenings in the starting of the economy, how do you balance those two . Guest those are important stories. People are correct to be concerned. The numbers that appear to be going up. People are also concerned about the continuation of having to the economy as contracts the way it has. You will have to balance both. Thise are smarter about disease than they were a few months ago. We have all seen the benefits and wisdom of social distancing. Certainly, i could to give times in the past where i didnt feel well but i went to work anyway. You cannot do that right now. If you are sick, stay home. If you suspect someone is sick, dont be around. Remember back in march, the purpose of Closing Everything down was to save the health care to be from what appeared a coming surge of patients who were very ill. Wouldnt overwhelm our system . Youe was no concern because kind of saw it happen in wuhan, china. You kind of side happen in italy. There was concerned this could happen. It is not that we are completely past the point of crisis but it does appear we are past that part of the crisis with this virus. Up, itu open things doesnt mean there will be no more cases. Is young with this virus have to keep an eye out for those hotspots. There is a cluster of infections, do the things necessary to stymie the spread in those locations. Host the current debate on capitol hill is federal assistance financially to those affected by covid19. Theres a third package currently be debated. Where have you voted on the other package, what do you think about another round of money . Guest technically it would be a fourth package. Been three bills , inally three and a half early march it was primarily geared at testing. In the middle of march it to thed the money going agencies responsible for responding. Ofn the cares bill the 27th march. This had the payroll Protection Plan and many of the other features. With both parties, both houses participating in the discussions. That was a good thing. That bill passed with overwhelming support. The first favor of three response bills. Then there was a touch up bill that happened a couple weeks after cares to add more money to add more money to the payroll Protection Plan. I did not vote for the bill that passed on the floor of the house. It was constructed entirely differently. Any republican ideas, antirepublican input, it was simply a bill for democratic leadership supported by democrats on their side with the house of representatives. I dont think it is likely to emerge as passed from the house in the senate. We will see what happens. Hasink the jobs report probably added another layer of what needs to be a consideration. Is it recovering . If so, is it necessary to have a a 3 trillion bill on top of the probably 3 trillion bill spending that has already gone up urgently in the first 3. 5 bills . Are some parts, i dont think there is any question. I spent a lot of my time these the people atith health and Human Services on the relief fund. The ideal was to help hospitals, thatrs, medical practices were hurt when we asked them to refrain from elective procedures. Having practiced medicine for 25 years, that really kills your cash flow. That is how you pay your overhead every month. Many clinics, many hospitals got into significant Financial Stress from this. The purpose of the fund was to provide a safety valve for that. Unfortunately, there really was not much in the way of direction or guidance or guardrails to the agency. Theret lots of money over. The agency has been a little slow. That is partly understandable. They want to do things correctly. It has taken some time. This week there was 25 billion announced for practices, they were left out of the first couple of rounds. Thatthink to the extent other help was necessary, we need to get back to doing our work. As a member of an authorizing committee and health care subcommittee, we need to have the hearings and hear from the experts. To say how it should be constructed and spent. That him and of itself becomes problematic. In an odd way may delay getting the dollars to where they are needed the most. Host if you want to ask our guest questions it is 202 7488001 for republicans, 202 7488002 for democrats. Nd independence 202 7488002 our first cause from massachusetts, this is elizabeth on the democrats line. Hello congressman, we have seen the damage of covid19 that it has done to the health of the American People. Have beente how you trying to address covid19 and its effects, how will we prevent future pandemics . Actglobal Health Security has been introduced and focuses on supporting academic preparedness since diseases do not follow borders. Guest we are at the anniversary of the pandemic repaired in this act. When i was subcommittee chair of the Health Subcommittee we did a significant amount of work on that bill. We didnt quite get past a roadblock in the senate. Early part ofhe 2019. I have thought one of our failings in the house of representatives was why, if we just pass this bill it is to protect us from pandemics and all hazards, just like it says, when we are faced with such a crisis as we were in january and february. Where was our curiosity as a committee. Did we do the right thing . Did we give the agency the right tools . Assistantout the secretary for planning and response. It didnt turn out to look like that when he got into battling the pandemic. The implementation questions about the billing, it was just a mere six months old. At some point in the aftermath, there will be looked back and how do we better fortify things in the future . The month of february wouldve been a great time for us to have on congressional hearings the funding of the preparedness act. Have heard from experts with congress out of town in the virtual fashion. We have heard from a number of people on things like the Strategic National stockpile. All of those are components that will have to be looked at. Again, had congress funded them to a level where they could respond when challenged. Host in canada, the this is richard calling from montreal. Guest montreal was where my father was born. Doctors in the United States like dr. Steven smith and William Oneill are having tremendous success using hydroxychloroquine. They say it is totally safe. You only have 182 deaths there. How come republicans are not calling the media and asking them to bring in the doctors into the Daily Briefing room to brief the American People. People are dying needlessly. When we had the hearings on when the doctor was reassigned and sort of a whistleblower hearing, i heard from doctors all over the country who were using hydroxychloroquine. There have been conflicting reports. This is one of those where you could construct your own narrative. There is some significant evidence that has been put forward. Randomized placebo control. There were some observational studies and he references those. I think it is important to Pay Attention to those. I think in the month of february , there has been some controversy about this. , if nothing else, he is very honest with you. He related he had been using the medicine himself. I have taken hydroxychloroquine in the past not for coronavirus at when i was traveling to malaria stricken area. Thats why it had some side effects that left me a little depressed. I dont recall anyone being cardiogrambout my that got all the excitement in the press recently. Hydroxychloroquine have been patientssome time in going to malaria areas. Are other agents that have shown some promise. I think part of the answer in all of this may be the of the intense inflammatory response that appears to occur with coronavirus. Which is one of the mediators of disease. They have learned a lot over the last five months. There will be much more learned going forward. Does point out an important fact. And in myfolks around own state who contacted me the hearing toe that relate to me their experience that they said was hydroxychloroquine. I think it is something that on the scientific side. Story thiss a morning in the wall street journal looking at possibly advanced trials of the vaccine by summer, are you comfortable with the rate this is going . Guest let me side the cautionary side of the tail. , we i was in medical school had a bad bout of swine fluid in this country. There was a Rapid Development of the swine flu virus and. Gerald ford mandated everybody get the vaccine. It was not helpful. It was more hurtful than helpful. Comene development has along way since the 1970s. Vaccines thatal are coming down the track with very different methods of production. I think everyone of them is intriguing. In the old days you would make a vaccine by using part of the virus for the antibody response. I have never seen i was here through ebola, zika, i have never seen this kind of energy coming through the federal agencies. Hhs to work on this problem , to collaborate private and Public Sector to get this to the finish line. Heres the other thing, i think there will be more than one vaccine that is ultimately available. That is not necessarily a bad thing. Im almost old enough to remember the polio vaccine and how it was transformative in this country. About theiried child becoming infected with had this lifted. Talk about the bells rang in the churches when that news was brought forth. It will be an event of similar vaccine,nce with this which everyone makes it across the finish line. Thanks for having me. The covid19 pandemic and lockdowns are causing spikes in tuberculosis cases in developing nations around the world. There is legislation in the senate right now to recommit the u. S. To Tuberculosis Research by establishing new sciencebased prevention and treatment goals as well as by authorizing increased assistance to the World Health Organization. If this legislation were brought to the house would you prefer that would you do Anything Possible to ensure that u. S. Is fighting tuberculosis. Guest we would certainly take a look at it. The fight against tuberculosis is probably what has defined the that weealth response today just except as normal business. The turn from the 1800s to the 1900s, it is devastating in this country. There were no chemical agents to fight the disease. Quarantining and many of these things you are hearing about today. I dont know that i have heard exactly to what the caller is referring. It certainly makes sense. If there is tuberculosis in the community, yes that is the environment in which you can and does spread. Attention needs to be paid to that. You reference World Health Organization, it has been in the for a couple of reasons in the past few weeks. Think there are questions the World Health Organization needs to answer. , someone our knowledge during been to geneva the first bird flew back in the middle part of the last decade, i know there is a significant contribution to make. Outnother caller pointed that we will not recognize borders between countries. What goes on in one country could be important in another. Been multiplehas. Rug resistance of tuberculosis that is the form of tuberculosis that requires our attention because that becomes very the agents. Treat host we heard the president threatened to pull funding from the World Health Organization, would you recommend that . There were questions about how it handled the World Health Organizations as it came out of china. Statements had human tradition early in the month of january that were misleading and probably played our response. Human to human transmission was not recognized as happening was probably about the 18th of january. That is the point that i became very concerned about the coronavirus. The fact that the chinese shut down a city of 10 million people, i never heard of that happening before. Told me it was a pretty serious problem. I think the cdc could be helpful to us. Our cdc was not allowed on the ground. The World Health Organization was. To the extent they have or could the shared information, president is correct, we are paying 90 of the bill. Not getting the correct return on investment. I dont think it is appropriate to look at that investment. To ask some questions of the World Health Organization. Have an Important Role to play, yes. World Health Organizations significantly benefits from the center for Disease Control prevention in the United States. It became apparent to me that cdc, we really didnt have the resources needed to mount to the type of response that might be retired required. Host republican line, brooklyn new york, you are next up. Morning, i have a , i know my grandfather had to personally take the hydroxychloroquine. It is very, very good. Guest many people will point to the study and the american medical association. The patients selected for those that were at the end of the road. Have been tried, nothing else was working. Surprise, the results were not that great. It was already perhaps to appoint where there was nothing. The same story got told with remdesivir. It is used in people who are , not seriously ill or on the way out. I dont want to see hydroxychloroquine only used in that environment. Some of the reports that came back to me from doctors in texas is that it seems to be of most value used as an outpatient. Someone who has tested positive, beginning to show symptoms. As a rescue in that setting. The advantage hydroxychloroquine has over remdesivirs it could be distributed in a pill. Remdesivir requires the access. There is the availability of treatment done entirely done. That is intriguing. That is something that will be necessary in the fight against this disease. There are number of studies going on right now. I want those studies to be done. Ant them to have asked her accurate data. We want them to be working with. Eople the studies have been underway. There is an effort to get those studies done quickly. That will be an important part of this. We saw House Democrats unveil the proposal, is there anything you could sign onto . Similar to the last , it is constructed behind closed doors. This really should require or should be important enough. Lets listen to multiple voices on this. The actualto see language of the bill. I think it may now be available. Originally it was talking points that we had to evaluate. Sure, there are things people could talk to me about. I didnt really understand why no nonclause was necessary. It perhaps time that we look at that. The president is based making Great Strides with criminal justice reform. Congress passed a bill, the president signed it, and the president said a lot of things i think would be helpful in that regard. Theres no reason this cannot be a bipartisan effort. There is no reason both sides should not want to participate. In whatever it is that makes us better. We are always striving for the more perfect union. This might be one of those times that it is achievable. It will not be achievable if you constructed behind closed doors. Host what would you add to the bill making it acceptable . Guest i havent had the opportunity to go through what they put forward. Ive seen some of the points certainly that i can agree with. I think we have to be careful if we make it harder to be a policeman. Right now, the city of dallas is down the road for me and about 600 officers and is about 600 officers short of what the chief says they need. For the Dallas Police department, three years ago four years ago this july, there were five Law Enforcement officers who were killed, while providing protection for a protest march. That has made recruitment difficult. If you do things like constrict resourcesough to the Police Department or jeopardy they are in as a consequence of doing their job, this will lead men and women away from being a police officer. Needery women and men we to need Police Officers not just today but tomorrow as well. Host our next call is from dallas. This is the democrats line for our guests. Michael burgess. Hi. Caller good morning. I wanted to know how many more people do you have to die before you completely shut it down . Im from dallas, texas. I dont understand whats going on. What number are we looking for . Guest not sure what the implication is of shutting things down. If it is shutting down the Police Department, there could be serious repercussions of that. There are couple places in the country where communities that, if you will, are experimenting with things of that nature. Willing to look at what they are what their experience is, but right now, the efforts to restrict funding for police ,epartments, if anything that anything, the city of dallas needs to increase funding for their Police Department. They need to be able to recruit the highest caliber of officers, highest caliber of men and women into the profession. They are on the front lines. They are called First Responders for a reason. When i was practicing medicine, i was a doctor in the hospital. I wasnt on the front lines. Dont you want the best people to be placed in those positions . It seems like that would be a vital good also. Host representative burgess, the House Speaker made the request for 11 can spatter it 11 confederate statues to be removed from the college campus. What do you think of the proposal . Guest first off, i wasnt aware there were 11 statues. It seems like we were through this before in 2015 when all of the confederate emblems were removed. Thats a long time ago. Weve got problems in the here and now. Lets focus on the problems we have immediately in front of us. Things that people decide they want to reconstruct, lets do that. I think i heard someone talking yesterday about removing the washington monument. I dont think thats a good idea. Host steve is in topeka, kansas. Independent line. Morning. Caller good morning, representative burgess. How are you . Guest im well. How are you in topeka . Caller im great. Im on a park bench and if i have to mute anything, the birds are singing in the background. Host go ahead with your question. Caller my concern was that you mentioned actually i think representative, youre doing a great job in some areas, but i called on the independent line, but basically, you talk about hotspots. Well, welfare trump. Sident gum she used to be my senator and graduated to the governorship. If you look at the rate of occurrence, im not sure how you define it. Its per 1000, dodge city is per 1000 forcases dodge city, which is not like new york city. County. In between, is great county. A small county in between the two. There is 4. 3, which is one of the worst in the state. Host we are running short on time, so if you wouldnt mind, address your question to the guest. Caller bronx, new york has lower rates. There rate was 30 something. So how would you do that, addressing the hotspots . Host steve, thanks. Guest here is the thing, this virus, its behavior is different in different parts of the country. No one knows the exact reason for that. Is it population density . Is it people who get exposed to the virus on the subway, mass transit . Is it anything to do with environmental temperature . We are in hundred year degree temperature. No one knows the answer to that we are in 100 degree temperature. No one knows the answer. Of the states understand the conditions on the ground in their area that are then someone in an agency building. Monitoring for hotspots, texas is a big one. The governor has moved forward with phase three openings of things around the state, but, if jail, aa nursing home, Meat Processing plant where there are a lot of cases that seem to be clustered around this activity, you have to be quick to respond. If the response is isolation, if it is surging the testing, if it data that we will get hydroxychloroquine, or some other agent needs to be administered, this is the type that surveillance of the caseload can provide. Not need to necessarily apply universally across the community or the state, but in that location, you may need to be doing something that is vastly different. Call from tim in wisconsin. Go ahead. Caller i would like to ask the ,entleman and representative considering texas, arkansas, and other states have gone up lately with corona, if he believes its a good idea for President Trump to be having a rally in oklahoma with 20,000 people packed in an arena. Thank you. Surely it does need to be monitored. One of the things i monitored. Case rate might be affected by the fact that we are doing so much more testing in texas. We were behind the curve one month ago, but that governor but the governor said he wanted every nursing home staff are being tested. They probably found cases they did not expect, so that will affect the overall case rate. I try to monitor, in my communities, what is the icu occupancy, and i hear it is about 40 , so there is capacity there. Overall hospital occupancy is 60 , so there is capacity there. Ventilator uses under 20 , so there is clearly capacity. We dont want to overstress the capacity of our Health Care System right now in the areas i represent. Im satisfied that that demand could be met, but it does not mean you stop looking at it. It does not mean you stop watching it. The surveillance is going to be critical here, as far has his reference to doing the rally. Share. As far as a reference to doing the rally, i dont know what data they based that on. We have seen large number of people take to the streets. We know this virus has an incubation period of about two weeks, so perhaps we will get new information over the next couple weeks as to what the result was of that abandonment of the social distancing principal. Could that perhaps inform the white house to rethink their decision . I dont know but we would do well to Pay Attention to the case rate where we saw these large numbers of people where some had face masks and some did not. It certainly social distancing did not seem to be part of their question. 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Host until about 10 00, your Public Policy issues, top Public Policy issue. The phone lines are available to you. You can text us at 202 7488003. You can post on twitter , cspanwj. When it comes to twitter, a viewer that identifies themselves as emma, says if i would pick one is publicly funded elections. We have to be the source of their campaign revenue. The previous conversation on covid19, the topics of policing , we can talk about these until 10 00. From los angeles, california who starts us off. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I would like to know if the republicans who dont want us to take down the confederate monuments, if they would be ok with japanese flags flying in american capitals . Host whats the parallel . Caller im sorry . Host whats the parallel between the two . Caller the parallel between the twos would be the conservatives two would be that the conservatives are ok with the flag flying. It is not an official flag. Only official flags should be flying out the state capital. The Confederate Flag is not an official flag. Its ok if they fly the flag in their yard, but the second you fly it at an official residence like the state capital, it is a violation. They wouldnt want a flag flying at the state capital with black fists that say black power at the state capital. It sounds a bit hypocritical to allow those Confederate Flags to fly. Host anna is next in newcastle, delaware. Republican line. Caller im calling about the house of representatives. Do you think they will ever come back to work . Or are they going to let the taxpayers pay them for the rest take property . Nd host i know that a representative said they are expected to come back this month like police reform, around the 22nd. Im not sure of the exact date. I think they have come back and it hasnt bothered them . Why dont they left the house of representatives comeback . Host our next is the independent line. Caller thank you, cspan. I wanted to know who is in charge or how can we from alle wet markets of these different poverty places that continue to spread arounderrible diseases the world. Why cant they be stopped . Host from lee in rockville, maryland, democrat line. Caller good morning, pedro. How are you today . Host im well, go ahead. Caller i think the biggest threat to the United States is the federal deficit. Coronavirus, in this suppose it, and i use the word some pose it in fatah andn, prosperity we had , prosperity, we had ran up trillion dollar deficits. Had anof us, if we unlimited credit card where we never had to pay the bill could live well. He was running up trillion dollar annual deficits. It was a phony prosperity, if there ever was one. Now that he has this crisis, you have had enormous deficits, piled onto that because of all the assistance bills. We never had prosperity prior to the coronavirus. It was all on one big credit card. Host caller they are absolutely needed, but the funny part was that we had this suppose it prosperity up until six or eight months ago. We didnt have it. It was all on one big credit card called the federal deficit. No one is paying attention to it. Pedro, do you recall many members of congress harping on the federal deficit . Of course not. It was an issue no one paid attention to. Wouldnt you agree . Host well, you can go to the cspan. Org website and if you type in deficit issues, plenty have been said about the topic of debt and deficit over the various years. You can check out and compare for yourself what each administration has done for that topic at the website. Tennessee, republican line, anne, hello. Caller good morning. My concern is harmony in this nation. After the civil war, lincoln he looked the nations wounds. We did well for a while but we did not try to do them again. Ii, there wasr lots of money spent in germany and japan trying to help those nations. Had a spiteful attitude toward each other until wayover issues that are over 100 years old. It is so sad for our country to be in this position. We dont have to be. In polasky,s anne, tennessee. One woman says passing the e. R. A. Is my top Public Policy issues. Many of these issues would not happen if there were women in representing women in seats of house and senate. Im tired of men making decisions that affect womens lives. From washington, d. C. , our next caller. Caller i wanted to talk about nancy pelosi with the stimulus package. Could you tell me anything . Host do you mean the fourthround considered as our previous guest talked about . Caller im talking about the second stimulus package. Host i would go to our website. I know i point people there a lot but it has a lot of information we have shared, especially about these various packages passed by congress in the debate on a lot of those packages. A lot of those debates are internally within the joe biden pick for vp nominee. The New York Times takes a look at the call for biden to choose an africanamerican woman. On that list, according to the New York Times, saying it is part of a broader list. Mr. Biden is thought to be considering Kamala Harris of california, val demings of florida, Stacey Abrams for georgia governor, keisha lance susan eof atlanta, and rice are often discussed among mr. Bidens allies. Irene in butler new jersey butler, new jersey, democrat line. Caller thank you for taking my call. I would like to first hats off to the lady calling for more women in government. To the men who are so concerned about the deficits we have, i would refer him to the new york doctor who learned to love trillion dollar deficits argument thatthe deficits are ruining the nation. I would like to talk about my concern about the socalled republican, but i guess it is now the trump party. And the vitriol and hatred toward democrats. I hear democrats want to bring sharia law. Stuff. S horrible its not true, folks. Democrats are your fellow americans, and they may see things differently than you do. That doesnt make us bad, evil people. We are not weak snowflakes are crying about the election. Democrats are trying to make the country a better place to live for everybody. Host you will remember a couple weeks ago a walk President Trump took across Lafayette Square for that photo op in front of the church. There are couple tweets regarding that this morning. This is from the president , talking about generally the role of National Guard troops, saying our guards troops took care of the area around the white house could hardly believe how easy it was to walk in the park and to see park. The protesters, agitators and others were handled very easily by the guard. Another tweet from the New York Times this morning, along the topic of breaking news, saying the top u. S. Military official apologized for taking part in the president s walk for a church photo ops saying i should have not been there. There is a followup if you go to the website. He goes on to say in prerecorded that, my presence in moment and environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. That is his first public mark since that walk with President Trump. Line, fromdent pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller the reason i was calling its about the coronavirus. I believe i had the coronavirus back in november. I had all the symptoms listed from the cdc. This was in november. My son was sick at the end of october. And tello get up on tv all the American People it was a hoax and it wasnt real, no, it was real. It was already here in november. Probably early october. That is what makes me so mad, because he sits up there and says i shut this down and i shut that down. How can you say you shut things down when it was already here . So what you had already done made no sense because the virus was already in the states at that point in time. Thats what makes me so angry, that everybody listens to him. And hee listens to him, just throws out the false narrative on everything. It is just it just disgusts me how he never takes responsibility for anything. At least admit to some of your wrongs. Host ok. Lets go to arthur in new jersey. Democrats line. Hello. Caller hi, pedro. I try to get through when the representative was on. I dont need lectures on gun violence from republicans, especially from taste like to from states like texas. Terrorists on the nofly list can easily purchase an ak47 with all the ammunition he needs. The system is hypocritical and im disappointed you didnt bring it up to tell the truth. Thet ever do that with public brings of gun violence. Dont just sit there. Bring up that fact. Host larry joins us from rapid city, south dakota. Hi. Caller good morning. Two things i wanted to comment on, and with this virus response, which is no response at all. It is a herd immunity technique. Basically all they are trying to do is they want to get this thing over with. They open up the whole country, the whole country is opened up for people to move around and spread their covid virus. There no testing or nothing. So it is a immunity response that is basically herd immunity. We die and everyone else can live. This countryt, plays monopoly with the deficits. It is a big monopoly game. The rich guys get the land, everybody pays the rent. Host that is larry in rapid city, south dakota. From twitter, when it comes to one top policy issue, that would be u. S. China relations. Tony is next from chapel hill, tennessee. Caller good morning. I have two problems. One of them is the suppression of the vote by the republicans. I dont understand that. It looks like that if they were true republicans, they would want everyone to vote so we could have a consensus of the entire country instead of the select few they want to vote. Host what do you mean . By mail or other means. In november, people go to the polls. Caller i mean by this these republican states suppressing the votes. It looks like they would want everyone to vote. It makes sense to me that everyone in this country votes and you have a true consensus of what should be happening. All of this democrat republican is just a bs. Host which states are you talking about . Caller which states . Like the actions in the courts exas, georgia are trying georgia, they are trying to suppress the vote there, they make long lines in the minority areas and areas with the caucasians they just walk right in and vote almost. It is ridiculous. Ais is supposed to be representative republican. It is not representative on everybody when everybody cant vote. Host that is tony in tennessee. Voting rights and the coronavirus pandemic will be the topic of a hearing at 1 00 this afternoon. It will be held by the house administrations subcommittee. If you are like our previous color and have interest and concerns, you can follow along at 1 00 at cspan, cspan. Org, and the free cspan radio app. Men and women quite frequently during the impeachment trial of the president , the house managers, and they have an oped this morning, taking a look at other issues regarding the president. They headline the president is as lawless and corrupt as ever. Trial,he impeachment thousands have perished since the pandemic, and systematic racism has erupted nationwide. America is looking for leadership and said this administration and president take action. There is more there, but the house managers with that oped, you can find it in the New York Times. From bill, tennessee, the republican line. Caller thank you for taking my call. Was therry, that previous one. Go ahead, bill. Caller im sorry about what is going on in the news media. Im tired of these people in the news Media Broadcasting opinions, which is ok, and them being fired for passing an opinion. And they are in an oped page. It is absolutely wrong. Hopefully, host are you referring to the offense of the oped in the New York Times . Caller yes. Yes, its wrong. , firingy did to him people over that sort of stuff is ridiculous. You are on an oped page and you have an opinion, that is where you put it. Dont put it on your news program. Dont put it somewhere you dont pass opinions. I havent heard you pass one yet. You dont. Host our role that is bill in tennessee. Democrats line, daniel, hello. Caller it is an honor to speak with you. You and your fellow moderators paul, steve, greta and the gentleman on saturday. You are the a pity me of journalism. They are great. Me keep it to me of epito of journalism. Called, my fellow volunteer said something about people being fired for expressing a view. Can we see whats happening in the white house for god sake . For press secretarys, four generals, hes about ready to fire esper the other day. You just had the representative from tennessee from texas on there. And he should know better about the mask situation and he should the president he is helping enable has cost this country approximately 10,000 lives i can imagine from his refusal to acknowledge the mask issue because of his ego. His ego has cost this country 10,000 lives. Host i apologize to stop you there, i really do. Only because we are about to take it to the hearing on the senate side, Senate Judiciary going to mark up the Inspector General access act of 2019 and hold votes on the crossfire hurricane investigation subpoenas and the nomination of cory wilson as a judge to the fifth circuit. All of that you can follow along just about now, that hearing just about to start in a few minutes. Thats it for our program. Another one comes your way at 7 00 tomorrow morning. 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