What did you think of the night . Nts speech last guest it was an inspiring speech because it was so optimistic and an appreciation of the nations past and a very upbeat look at what we can achieve in the future. Host you have defended the president s handling of the pandemic. What grade would you give him . Guest i would give very highgrade to him. The centers for Disease Control and prevention, not so much. Unfortunately. , the career people who have in been there year after year have disappointed americans not only in the handling of this pandemic but in Previous Global Health challenges, whether it. As h1n1 or the zika virus so big changes need to be made at the cdc. I would like to start by explaining to the audience what the committee to reduce infection deaths does, because i am really here on behalf of the committee to provide a lot of valuable, nonpartisan information about how we can prepare for the next pandemic. Host please, go ahead. Guest the committee to reduce infection deaths, which you can find at hospitalinfections. Org is a national campaign, 18 years old now, to stop infections in hospitals, Nursing Homes and other health care institutions, one of the largest causes of death in the United States year after year. But since covid19 hit our country, it has never been in more demand because our expertise is showing health care professionals, patients and others, how to stop the spread of dangerous pathogens, whether bacteria on surfaces like a benadryl in a hospital, or whether they are airborne such as coronavirus sometimes is, or whether they are droplets,d in large which is how we believe coronavirus is usually transmitted. So i would urge everyone to come to our website, in good times, when we are not threatened with the pandemic. We provide information like this 15 steps to reduce your risk of getting a hospital infection, very valuable information if your loved one is going to hospital. Now more important than ever, because hospitals are riskier places than ever before. When i wrotened, the next pandemic, my purpose was to look ahead at how we can be better prepared as a nation next time a viral pandemic hits or even possibly germ warfare, because people across the political spectrum agree that is risk of germ warfare heightened now that evildoers whether they are rogue states or terrorists, see how many nations can be brought to their knees by a little virus, right . You dont need to build aircraft carriers or Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles to attack a nation anymore. So we need to be prepared. The last 15 years, congress ofeived at least 10 reports products of commissions and hearings on how unprepared the United States was. That is through republican and democratic president s like, but they did the most nothing. A major reason we had the shutdown is because of our unpreparedness. The shutdown was justified as a way to flatten the curve and give us time, time to prepare our hospitals, our stockpiles, our supply chains. So here is my list of the six vital areas where we need to be prepared. I will only talk about a couple of them before we open up for questions stock the national stockpile. It was empty of everything we need the most. Build a made in America Supply chain over half the imported goggles and masks and gowns that we use to control the spread of disease are made in china. China is also the second largest producer of imported active ingredients for antibiotics, pain medications and other medications we need as we are treating patients with this virus. Important one. We already achieving a lot in that area. Improved hospital infection rigor our expertise. I will talk about that. Equipment and staff. Nursing homes if the virus attacks the elderly, as this one. 2009 attached children is that of the elderly. Key items use the technology we are at a half to make workplaces and schools safer. We are not doing that right now. And finally, short of Vaccines Development process as much as possible safely so we can have a vaccine while the virus is still attacking unfortunately in 2009, the vaccine was not ready until late december, and the late october. N these are some of the steps we can use to avoid a shutdown next time. Let me focus on a couple. Said, stocking the stockpile, we can check that one because congress recently passed legislation and the president signed it, that will increase funding for that stockpile 38 times over. Unfortunately in the past, theral officials ran stockpile and failed to even request sufficient funds to run that. The medical supply chain already the Trump Administration has signed contracts to put in place domestic production, especially of the key ingredients of antibiotics and for ppe. Let me go onto a key one where our expertise really counts improve hospital infection rigor. This is one of the biggest buyer defense gaps in our nation, although it is not talked about a lot. It is a major reason why we had to flatten the curve. We closed hospitals to elective procedures not simply because of the overwhelming number of patients we anticipated would be in hospital, but also because of the justified fear that hospitals would not be able to prevent the spread of this virus inside the hospitals to patients who didnt come in with it. And we know that is the case. After all, over 75,000 patients a year die from bacterial infections that are spread through hospitals on things like contaminated bed rails, unclean caregivers hands. If hospitals cannot control the a bacterium that has to be spread by touch, how are they ever going to control the spread of an airborne virus . So we need to improve hospital infection rigor. The c. D. C. Warned hospitals in the years leading up to this pandemic that they did not have in place the training and skills to anticipaten that someone would come into the emergency room unidentified, the carrying a virus like this one. New york City Hospitals took 2016,tests in 2015 and and in many cases, failed, to do the right thing to protect people in the emergency room and the rest of the hospital from becoming victims of an unidentified pathogen. The best example of this and quite an eyeopening story, i should, is the story of sars which reached the western hemisphere in 2003. Travelers from the east, from asia, came to canada, in this case, and landed on the same day toronto and then vancouver. Vancouver had a very rigorous culture of Infection Prevention in the hospital. The man who arrived here unknowingly carrying sars unwittingly went into the emergency room. He was wished into a negative pressure room, everyone gowned and gloved and put their goggles on, and no one got sars. But in toronto, which has a very lax culture of infection control, the man was left sitting in the emergency room for 16 hours. A patient. Three beds down on the right who was therefore heart attack got sars. Sars. To the left got all in all, 77 of the people in toronto who contracted sars got it in the hospital. They were hospital patients, doctors and nurses, or even hospital visitors. So it is key that all hospitals have more rigorous infection oftrol to limit the impact an unexpected pandemic, because, often the first place you will see it, and this is true with covid19 right here in the west coast of the United States, the first time you will hear about it is in an emergency room. Preparing , unfortunately, was an afterthought here in the United States, although there were several red flags. Half of all the deaths in the United States have occurred among nursing home residents. Half. If Nursing Homes have been wellprepared, if we had rushed resources and staff to Nursing Homes right at the beginning, we could have cut the mortality rate certainly by double digits. Some of those elderly patients would have died anyway, but many could have been spared covid19. Host Betsy Mccaughey, let me pause so we can get to some calls because our time we only have about 15 minutes left with you. Guest sided white to i did e points, very important. One is that we are not using the technologies that are already available as we discuss how to open up the country. The c. D. C. Issued a 17page guide a few weeks ago on how to open up the u. S. It could have been written 50 years ago, maybe even 100. Says, desks six feet apart in schools. We have technology right now like antimicrobial keyboard, antimicrobial coatings for desks, doorknobs. Studies show that people contracted the virus by touching the same doorknob. Copper push plates. And most important perhaps, technology that can be installed right in the hvac systems in schools and office buildings, as they already are in many types of businesses food processing, fast food outlets like chickfila they have these hvac installations that automatically continuously, nontoxically deactivate verses in the air and destroy them on surfaces deactivate viruses in the air and destroy them on surfaces. This would make us safer. Five years ago. , my organization, the committee deaths,e infection awarded the highest award we give to a new technology, diluted hydrogen peroxide. At that time it was just an idea with a lot of data behind it to back up its efficacy. Now i have joined the board of that company as a patient advocate because i know it can be transformative. So, the fact is that we have the technologies to make these venues safer, and we ought to be using them. Now i invite some questions. Host ok. Beth in evanston, illinois, democratic collar. Caller hello. When you first came on, you said that you thought the president was doing a good job and that we werent prepared. Paper andwas a whole instructions written that said the virus would probably come from china, and we had people in china that he removed. Plan, andd this whole he could have been a hero but he chose not to read or listen to it. Thefar as the Schools Congress the senate hasnt given us many for that, so how would we ever afford all those technologies . Guest i will address the schools first, because i dont want this to be a political event, although i dont believe the president has taken very important steps, including closing off travel with china, something the democrats opposed. Lets start with the schools, which is the current issue. Almost all of the studies show that for the primary grades, children are not particularly vulnerable to this virus. It is very rare. For example, here in the United States, the c. D. C. Reports many future of and have succumbed to covid19 than to the ordinary flow. Many fewer children have succumbed to covid19 done to the ordinary flu. Not one teacher was infected by students in the school. Have a lot of evidence, which is why the major Patriotic Organization in the United States has arched opening ups, because there is a terrible cost in terms of Health Children who are deprived of their ability to go to school. As for the technologies i mentioned, actually, there is a lot of money that has in proposed has been proposed for the schools. The key here is that shutting down the economy is more costly than investing in technologies to enable the economy to open up safely. Host jack in michigan, republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. Betsy, she is awesome. Great job. She needs to get more results of out there. Everybody was confused, everybody trying to blame somebody about the virus once it got here. It did come from china, we know that. Lets fix the problem. Keep up the good work, betsy. Have a great day. Guest [laughs] thank you. Let me at this point interject another set of facts. The president i was very surprised, included a bit of this in his speech last night. I have seen columns like Paul Krugmans column in the New York Times saying, if only the u. S. Was more like italy, right . I would urge everyone watching who is particularly interested in this to go to the Johns Hopkins website. Every day it is updated to include the fact comparing whats happening in each country with covid19. One of the most important things to look at is the case fatality rate and also deaths per million population. You will see that despite Paul Krugmans claim that you would be better off in italy, the fact is the u. S. Is doing much better than many of these European Countries on saving lives from the coronavirus. For example, when i look at the case fatality rate, 3. 2 in the u. S. In the u. K. It is nearly 15 . In spain, 8 . France, 12 . Even germany is a bit higher. Get covid19, your chances of surviving it are significantly better if you are treated in a hospital in the u. S. Than in europe. Of course, that doesnt include chances of getting the infection. That is why you would look at the second set of figures, deaths per million population. There again, the United States is doing significantly better thanthe uk, then spain, sweden. A little higher infection rate than france. Over, it is unfair when people say, if only the u. S. Were doing as well as europe, the fact is we are doing quite well compared to other European Countries. I would say only germany has exceeded our performance. Host in hollywood, alabama, democratic caller. . Uestion or comment caller i have a comment about President Trump and how he dealt with the pandemic. I think that he has gone against the science, ok . Governorso let the be the people responsible for reacting to the virus, especially in the early stages. It seemed like he didnt want to have a national response. He wanted to shrink federal government and so he went to the governors to be the ones that dealt with the pandemic and not himself and his administration. Guest that is a great question and i am glad you asked it. Let me address it in two ways one is constitutionally. It is the governors, under their state constitutions, that have the authority, not the president , to lockdown businesses, to require people to wear a mask, and to issue other Emergency Health edicts. The president does not have that authority. Secondly, i would urge you t look at the size of the United States. It would be like the European Union imposing a onesizefitsall plan on all of the countries from germany all the way to france, spain, portugal, greece it would not have worked, because, like the European Union, in the United States, this virus has moved from one part of the country to another. There was a serious lockdown in new york and new jersey. In my view, it was unsuccessful, those two states have the capita thanh per any nation from covid19. But it would have been extremely foolish to lockdown arizona, for example, when the pandemic was speaking on the east coast and there were very few cases on those other places. So the very size and and variation within the continent of the United States makes that kind of onesizefitsall National Plan scientifically unwise. Let me say one more thing about science now that you brought it up. Hindsight is 20 20. We now have the benefit of hindsight. I am not criticizing the countries who shut down, but i will say they used partial rezoning. They did what they thought was best partial reasoning. They did what they thought i will say they used partial reasoning to minimize the deaths from covid19. But they used suffering and death the huge suffering and death as a consequence of the shutdowns itself. For example, we know that 1 uptick in the Unemployment Rate produces a 3. 3 increase in opioid deaths. N and we see those soaring now. It also produces an almost 1 increase in suicides. We know it produces more alcoholism. All deaths of despair. That was not taken into consideration by the scientists, who only looked with a laser focus on how to reduce the. Ovid19 infection but we know that an unemployed person is 63 more likely to die than somebody who has a job, and we are seeing all the terrible effects of the shutdown now, the health effects. That is why it is so important to plan ahead for the next pandemic or a resurgence of this virus, in a way that makes it shut down absolutely not the solution that the will consider a second time. Host we will go to brooklyn bianka republican. Caller good morning. I am very pleased you are in today. Educating us with what you know you have basically opened my eyes because at this point, we are here in new york and we still dont know what we are going to do with the children. They have no plan for us. I was thinking maybe you could enlighten us and let us know, maybe we can do something or have some type of meeting with all the parents where we can basically come up with ideas, and maybe the mayor of new york, which really we are not too happy about because he doesnt have a plan. Guest [laughs] right. Let me comment on a story that was in the New York Post just yesterday. This is how technologically behind the times they are. In new york, they told the teachers and other people preparing the schools to take a piece of toilet paper on a stick, like an ice cream stick and let and hold it up toward the ceiling and the how much ventilation and air flow there was. In this day and age when kids lives are at stake, we can do a that, and it is disturbing to me to see that the centers for Disease Control and prevention has not been much more forwardlooking, much more schoolsive in helping and also places of business learn about the technologies work,an make returning to returning to school, and surviving the nest pandemic and there will be more to come, we are in a Global Environment now that we will be prepared for them. Host bark from houston, texas. Democratic caller. Caller thank you for taking my call. , cspan, forys giving us an opportunity to air our views. The sameoday is not america when the constitution was written so many years ago. America is constantly changing because of immigration. Allowing new people from all over the world to come to america, that is why america is the melting pot. It does not appear to me that. Onald trump understand that he does not want to see that positive and forward and progressive change to be continued. He wants to take us back to the america when the constitution was written for white people and by white people only. Guest let me address this caller trump is the wrong leader for this country, ok . Any responsible white man or woman would know that america is changing and would embrace the progressiveness of this country. Host i will have Betsy Mccaughey respond. Guest although this is not on the topic of this particular session, i am happy to respond, and actually, the president responded in his speech last night. The constitution was written 200 years ago, is still our guidepost for how we govern. If we want to change it, we must amend it. But the more important point is that our nation welcomes immigrants from everywhere. And the president has made a point last night particularly of saying that he wants to run new Economic Growth and provide opportunities renew Economic Growth and provide opportunities after the pandemic as he did before. When unemployment among africanamericans, asian americans, hispanicamericans was the lowest in history and the lowest for women in 60 years. In other words, he wants an economy that will support the dreams and aspirations of people of every ethnicity. We dont want to divide this country. We, all of us, regardless of our partisan views, want this country united and looking ahead. That was the point of last night s speech, to look ahead, not to tear down this country, tear down its statues, to disavow its history, but rather to look ahead and live up to its ideals. Host Betsy Mccaughey, we are all out of time. Thank you very much for the conversation with our viewers. We will turn our attention to campaign 2020. The last night of the Republican Convention last night. You heard from the president accepting the nomination from his party. We wanted to get your reaction from what you heard from the speech, and the whole Republican National convention, as well as the Democratic National convention. We are taking your polls of the lse ofgn your pu the campaign. If you support the president , 2027488000. If you support the former Vice President and his running mate, dial 2027488001. If you are not sure, you can dial 2027488002. Joining us on the phone is congressman brian bevis you, republican of texas who represents downtown jasper and livingston, texas. What has been the impact of the storm in your area . Guest it was an enormous storm. Enormous storm. It rapidly increased in intensity came ashore as a category five 150 Miles Per Hour plus wins. We were being warned of unsurvivable 20foot storm surge. It was done in a very orderly evacuation, much better than it was in 2005 after hurricane right before hurricane rita. We dodged a bullet here in east texas. We have some damage. Isnge county, orange, texas heavily hit the hardest, but we have roughly 160,000 people without power. I am currently without power. I am on a generator as we speak. 8500 people went to shelters. From what we know, i think there are six dead in louisiana possibly one in texas,. And now the storm has passed through. But it is the intensity of it, rapidly intensifying, it is just unbelievable. I would say that louisiana really caught the brunt of it. Host what would your area need from the federal government for cleanup . Guest well, yesterday, i was with Governor Abbott and with , our state ands local officials from around, and also with fema, senior officials at fema, the coast guard, and the army corps of engineers. And what we need are the resources. We have to meet the threshold of losses so we can get fema help to these individuals who havent had their homes destroyed or their businesses. That is what we are doing now, making assessments. Of course, we have been declared a disaster area by the governor, we have got to get the federal government, the president. Then we will be able to get fema and Small Business administration help. And we will be on the way. I cant be any more proud of our first was wanders, our local officials First Responders and local officials. It was a great meeting yesterday. I feel like texas, now, our duty is to get our folks back up and running, but we need to help our neighbors over in louisiana. They have always come over and helped us when we have had a terrible storm like harvey and rita. We also want to get over and start helping these folks there. That is what we plan to do. On top of it, we have the challenge of covid. We are all Wearing Masks at these meetings. People in shelters are being homebound folks and folks in Nursing Homes have to be spaced out because of covid and that kind of threw a Monkey Wrench in the works. The storm has gone north. It is a tropical storm, not sure exactly where it is today, but i know it is headed for the east coast, it made an easterly turn through arkansas. I think it is going to end up close to washington, up in the northeast somewhere, dont but,y know where that is, i was supposed to be at the president s acceptance speech last night at the white house. But when you have a category five hurricane coming through your district, you stay there, and that is what i did. Host congressman, what are you telling your constituents about how they get help from fema or other resources, how would they go about that . Guest we are hurricane veterans down here, greta we have been through a number of these things. Most people, date play thes y played this game before. We have a tremendously abled staff, very experienced. We know our staff and they can go to my website, babi n. House. Gov. We have four congressional here. S in our district they can go to our website or call any of those offices and we can help them with Small Business administration loans, with fema questions. We have actually helped hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people in the past. So this is what they can do. They can reach out to us and we will direct them to where they need to go. Host congressman, we appreciate your time this morning. Thank you very much. Guest you are welcome. God bless. Host now we will turn our conversation to the Republican National convention and campaign 2020. Lori is joining us in texas, supporting the president. Did you watch last night . Caller yes, i did. Host and what stood out to you from the president s speech . Caller all of the common people, the people that spoke during the convention, but most of all the love that he had you can see the love he has for his country. He is working for our country for free. He has not benefited financially like all of the other president s in the past. Host ok. Lori. Bob in pasadena, texas supporting joe biden. ,tell us why you are supporting the former Vice President. Caller thank you. Good morning. I would like to first thank you for doing the Fact Checking that you have done this morning. Trump lies all the time. Every word out of his mouth is a lie. Trump supporters should do some Fact Checking and find out what the truth really is. I think that the president needs to have character, and trump does not have character. Host is that your motivation for voting for joe biden . Republican,ed to be but when they started treating people bad i am a registered democrat you know, they talk about diversity and everything. The Republican Party, the grand old party of lincoln, they dont have much diversity. Now, the democrats do. They have races of all types representing their people, but not the republicans. Host ok, bob. Lynn in oregon sent us this text to say i watched the convention, and i think if anyone was feeling depressed about policies or the state of future, they the would not have been in that same frame of mind after watching the policy direction of the Trump Administration and elected officials. Roger in ohio supporting President Trump. Good morning to you. Roger, are you there . Roger in bidwell, ohio. Ok. A,ts go to kenosh supporting joe biden. Why are you supporting joe biden. Opinion, il, in my think it is not like we are choosing a marriage, you know what i mean . You are not choosing someone you will be with for the rest of your life. You are choosing the lesser of two evils. That is definitely joe biden. He is not perfect at all. I am an african american, and i am 23. He is not perfect at all but he is the lesser of two evils. I wanted to comment on what the other caller said about trump not benefiting financially he definitely does. All president s do, actually, especially after their term, with deals and interviews, but trump is a very greedy person. He has a very greedy personality. Of course, he finds a way to benefit financially, socially, every way possible. I dont understand why republicans coming to office their whole point is public service, but they are so stingy and disrespectful and oblivious to everything going on in this country. Is innly care about what their pockets and what is going on with their families. Host if you missed any of last nights convention or the Democratic National convention you can find it all on our website, cspan. Org. Pressed play on the video player and you will see gold stars at the bottom they denote when, each speaker begins. You can quickly go through and find the speaker you are looking for. Here is a president from last night talking about what he believes is at stake in november. [video clip] pres. Trump despite all our greatness as a nation, everything we have achieved is in danger. This is the most important election in the history of our country. [laughter] [applause] pres. Trump thank you. At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between two parties, two visions, two philosophies, or two agendas. This election will decide whether we save the American Dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny. [applause] it will decide whether we rapidly create millions of highpaying jobs, or whether we crash our industries and send millions of these jobs overseas as has foolishly been done for many decades. Whether weill decide protect lawabiding americans or reinher we give free to violent anarchists and agitators and criminals who threaten our citizens. This election will decide whether we will defend the american way of life, or whether we will allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. It will not happen. Host from last nights speech. Again, you can find it all on cspan. Org. Karen in tennessee, supports the president. Good morning to you. Caller good morning. Yes, i do, i am a strong, strong trump. President i have been a fan of President Trump for a long time. It has been a wonderful he has been a wonderful businessman. He is smart. He knows how to negotiate, he knows how to see the future and to make it happen. I love how he is focused on america first. He has increased jobs. Unemploymentd across the board. He isjust amazing how really takes off everything that he has promised us. I truly believe he has. He has focused on our military. I am a veteran. What he has done for the nation, what has been done in the past has just , when citizens go and fight in the country and would come back and just being neglected. He has put a focus on all the peoples and the american , and let the American People appreciate veterans more. That is evident every time i go to the store now, people are thanking everybody for their service. That just wasnt happening before, and i think this president was truly instrumental in that. He is reducing terrorism across the world. America first is just really has platform for the next four years. I can only imagine what he is going to be able to accomplish but i know it will be positive, for this country. Host ok. If you support joe biden, you 2027488001. If you support the president , 2027488000. Supporting another candidate or unsure . 2027488002. Lori in indianapolis is supporting joe biden. Hi, lori . Caller good morning. How are you . Host doing well. Host have you been watching the Republican National convention, and did you watch the democrats before . Caller yes, i watched every night. I thought last night was one of the best nights at trump had that trump had. I just wish everything was true. There was a lot of stuff said that was fictional. I felt like i was watching a tv show. Of thert biden because for,ies that he has voted they also align with some of the stuff that i am supporting, like the economy, criminal justice, education, teachers, payouts. And for the global economy. Wish people would Pay Attention to what people are saying and fact checked it. I feel like a lot of the people that call in are arguing with stuff but trump has said or the media has said, instead of checking to see what has really happened. When i see make America Great again hats, or even when it is spoken, it makes me feel upset because we are living in the america that trump has basically been in charge of, and with the pandemic, everything that has trials thatl the have happened with the people he is associated with, the payout, you know, i just feel like these criminal activities. I love what our country stands for. I love that we are it would have the parties that we have so we can all argue and fight for what is best for the country, and it has really become a very nasty thing where people cannot even calmly talk about an issue to figure out what is best for the country. It has become a very dramatic fight that has nothing to do with the policies and everything to do with peoples personalities and what people are making it seem. Host ok. Maine, is next in supporting joe biden. Go ahead. Caller good morning, america. Veteran. Yearold as far as the speech last night and the speeches all week, i gave the president an a for the history lesson. That is about all i heard, but i heard that in the seventh grade. I was pretty good at it. I heard nothing about all the divisive this. If you looked into the crowd last night, you will see, that is not my america. I dont live in a world where 95 of the people are white. Believe i am really concerned about the virus and people not paying attention to it. Happenednt know what with the c. D. C. Last week, but i listened a couple of weeks ago, and that guy that was talking about making sure the efficacy and all that stuff was happening. Now i feel like that whole thing has been compromised. I heard him make promises all of them about how politics wasnt going to get into it. Now i am really worried that we are going to follow a path that doesnt Pay Attention. I dont know if i can trust these people. One by one, he has silenced everybody, and things have changed and gone his way. Host charles, the president talked about the pandemic and the federal response last night. Lets listen. [video clip]. Pres. Trump unfortunately for beginning, our opponents have shown themselves capable of nothing but a partisan ability to criticize. When i took bold action to issue a travel ban on china very early indeed, joe biden called it historical and xenophobic. And then i introduced a travel ban on europe, very early again. If we had listened to joe, hundreds of thousands more americans would have died. Instead of following the science, joe biden once to inflict a painful shutdown on wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country. A shutdown would inflict unspeakable harm on our nations families and citizens of all backgrounds. The cost of the biden shutdown would be measured in increased overdoses, depression, alcohol addiction, suicides, heart attacks, economic devastation, job loss, and much more. Joe bidens plan is not a solution to the virus but rather a surrender to the virus. Host from the president last night. At the same time, the washingtonian tweeted out this video of protesters outside of the white house with this lit up sign trump failed, 180,000 died. On the pandemic. Happening in washington today on the National Mall is the get your knee off our next commitment much get your knee off our necks march. Thousands are expected. Usa today says it is hosted by reverend all sharpton and the National Action network. It will mark the anniversary of the march on washington when mlk junior delivered his i have a dream speech. They will gather at the mall and listen to the speakers starting at 11 00 a. M. Eastern time. You can listen on cspan. Org, and on the free cspan radio app as well. After the rally, those gathered are going to be making their way over to the Martin Luther King Monument here in washington. Lets hear from steve in hudson, florida. You are supporting the president. Hi, steve. Caller good morning. Host good morning. Caller i am shocked by what i am hearing from these people calling in. The gentleman who called earlier, the commentary he made was just nothing but hate was coming out of his mouth. A lot of these were facts. Some of the stories being spread of the National Guard or whoever starting these fires, black lives matter things it is just getting crazier and crazier. If you watch msnbc, you could watch as it happened, the speech. The president last night, the stuff they said about him i have never heard people talk like that. It is uncivil and just straight lies about everything. Speaking of lies, if you want to speak of lies, look at joe biden. He has a long history of lying. It is all documented. You can look it up. Every time he tells a story it is like from a memory he just made up. Come on. Liar. A habitual when asked what he would have done different about the pandemic, he went on to list things people have done, exactly what the president has already done. I mean, joe biden is an empty suit being guided around by the left. Thank you. Host ok. Steve also supporting the president in staten island. Caller thank you for taking my call. It was a pleasure to hear that man steve just week, because everything he said just speak, because everything he said is so on point. This president has been attacked since the day he became president. Negative, negative, negative. Nothing positive from day one. To the other caller from maryland saying that she is a 22yearold black woman, and President Trump has done nothing, obviously, obviously these people are not paying attention. The virus in this country right now is the Democrat Party and the Mainstream Media. They are the biggest problems the u. S. Faces and the american citizens face today. Nothing President Trump has said from the day he became president was divisive. Every speech that he makes is about bringing all of america together. That is not my opinion. I didnt dream that up, i have heard him say it over and over and over again. As far as the black universities it,merica, obama defunded and President Trump made it manently, without you have where the black universities in the United States will be funded for as long as they exist. That is what President Trump did. Prison reform. Joe biden put away black and for lowople for years offense marijuana smoking. President trump divorced. Reversed that. But these people in the u. S. That are brainwashed either Mainstream Media want know that because they dont know will not know that because they dont how to change the channel. As far as cspan goes, i wish you people would stop being also a little bit biased, because you always show ads from the Washington Post which is completely against American People. They are against President Trump. The other girl said that President Trump is making so much money being president he has lost 1. 5 billion since he has been president. Host ok. We dont show ads from the Washington Post as an endorsement, we show you what the decisionmakers are reading here to give you an idea of how the stories are being framed for them and for others across the country who read these newspapers. Michelle in charlotte, north carolina. Supporting joe biden. Caller yes. Good morning. I am supporting biden and harris. I think they have the better path for a better america. Her speech yesterday was so powerful. I am going to be watching it for the rest of this election so i can get people out to vote. I watched the Republican Convention out of respect, but when it came to watching President Trumps speech, i knew that he was going to be divisive and the same rhetoric would apply. It. I am just done with the four years of him is more than enough and it is time for a change. Host teresa in st. Louis, missouri supporting the president. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host what are your thoughts this morning . Caller i guess i am listening to a lot of callers call in that are basing their opinions on emotion rather than facts. Americans to do the research and create being so emotion quit being so emotional about the presidency. That is not the president s job to be liked. I heard a couple of callers call in. Once said that President Trump is greedy. That is far from the facts. He has lost over 1. 5 billion being president. He stands for the American People. I heard another caller call in, blaming the president for the rioting and the condition of some of these democraticrun states, and that is far from the facts that is the governors responsibility to run their states and to call on the president for aid. It is just frustrating. To hear some of these callers call in and just base their opinions on emotion. People need to wake up. The Democratic Party isnt about black lives. Black lives matter is a democraticfunded organization that doesnt even have anything lives. Ith black i just want people to know that if you are going to have an opinion, just do your research. Host shane in frederick, maryland sent us this text this morning i find myself in a similar situation as 2016 not one candidate i feel good about voting for. The main reason i will vote for donald trump is his resilience dealing with china. The two prior administrations drained u. S. Jobs, cash technology. President trump stood up to them. There is still work to do and trump will continue down the correct path. Next caller. Why are you supporting joe biden . Caller first of all, good morning. Host good morning. Caller i support joe biden because when he was Vice President for obama, they introduced the a formal Health Care Act also known as obamacare. Now, i have a neighbor that and he tellsor, everybody in the neighborhood about his experience with his wife. He got laid off from the coal mines. Under 900 jobs right here trump. He has promised all these coal mining jobs and they are not here. They are dismantling plants. I am supporting the joe biden and harris ticket. Was signed into law by obama, the judge said, this is a big, you know what deal. I can verify that firsthand, my neighbor, his wife had a tumor. She was literally dying. He was out of work. It was so frustrating to watch and hery about his wife didnt have any insurance, no coverage whatsoever. So he went to the local department of health and Human Services and they told him immediately that he qualified for obamacare, and they set it up with him to have obamacare. They took his wife to cleveland clinic. They save his wifes life. She was literally on death row. I feel that joe biden will continue to carry the torch, and right now, whether people realize it or not, the Republican Party are in the , ever trying to dismantle since it was enacted, the affordable healthcare act. I like to say the obama Health Care Act. They are trying to do away with it. Then you have this pandemic coming along, and he was mishandled from the getgo. I just feel if we got a private Administration Biden administration, he would be on top of it, and he would have less americans republican or democrat or whatever lives being saved, whether it is kids or adults or whatever. All lives matter, period. Brooklyn, you say you want on voting. Caller thank you for taking my call. There is a big problem in america. Everybody from the democrats or republicans when they are running, they always want to get the black vote, and they need the black vote. The problem is, we give our vote away for free. They always have these promises of what they do for black people, but the most important thing we need is economic stability, and none of these candidates ever proposed economic stability in the black Community Host i apologize for cutting you off. We will continue this conversation tomorrow money at seven tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time. We want to bring you National Security advisor Robert Obrien sat down with the Atlantic Council and talked about leadership and security challenges. We want to show you that conversation. We will see you back here tomorrow morning. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] it will examine the policies and actions needed to protect and promote americas interests at home and abroad. A not a political event or partisan debate, but a series of exchanges that take into account the full spectrum of views that will shape and define u. S. National Security Policy and americas role in the world. The Atlantic Councils nonpartisan virtual stage brings to our
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