She also addressed some democrats concerned about the possibility of Bernie Sanders being the democratic nominee. Speaker pelosi good morning, everyone. This morning, leader schumer and i put out a statement on the coronavirus threat. Probably is in your inbox, but in case you dont look there, we said the United States government must address the spread of this deadly coronavirus in a smart, strategic, and serious way. We stand ready to work in a bipartisan fashion in congress and with the administration to achieve the necessary goal. Lives are at stake. This is not a time for namecalling or playing politics. The first step that Congress Must take is to ensure that the government has the resources needed to combat this deadly virus and keep americans safe. Then we go on to some of the provisions that we think we need to go with it, but thats, again, in your inbox. Earlier this week, yesterday, actually, i said that the American People need a coordinated, whole of government, fully fund
The vaccine would be affordable although they would work to make it happen because we had to rely on the private sector. Pharma. Lking about big i made the point that the taxpayers have really done the research, the bulk of the money has been from every one of us and yet he is saying we cannot assure it will be affordable. Imagine, we are talking about the potential of a worldwide pandemic. We cannot do anything about controlling the private sector, big pharma. Taxpayerhe right if dollars are not being used for that . Taxpayer dollars have been doing the basic research, about 80 and you would think the government would have some control over the price. He says price control will not help us. The priority is to get vaccine therapies. We cannot control the price. Really . The United States of america . This is a matter of National Security, cannot guarantee that and are are therapies vaccine, that it cannot be affordable to the American People . We are under the control of pharma and the
In case you dont look there, we said the United States government must address the spread of this deadly coronavirus in a smart, strategic, and serious way. We stand ready to work in a bipartisan fashion in congress and with the administration to achieve the necessary goal. Lives are at stake. This is not a time for namecalling or playing politics. The first step that Congress Must take is to ensure that the government has the resources needed to combat this deadly virus and keep americans safe. Then we go on to some of the provisions that we think we need to go with it, but thats, again, in your inbox. Earlier this week, yesterday, actually, i said that the American People need a coordinated, whole of government, fully funded response to keep us safe from the coronavirus threat. Unfortunately, and this is the purpose of my telling this unfortunately, up until now, the Trump Administration has mounted and often chaotic response to this outbreak. They left critical positions vacant, in
Potential changes to the u. S. Political system which he writes about in his book. [video clip] for this for ready anything whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way. Yesterdayident trump flanked by white house officials reassuring americans about the response to the coronavirus. We want to get your thoughts on that. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. Ndependents, 2027488002 text us with your first name, city, and state at 2027488001 or you can go to twitter at cspanwj and facebook. Com cspan. Before we get to your calls, lets begin with more of that News Conference from yesterday. The president rom talking about the state of the coronavirus. [video clip] earlyhave through decisions, closed our borders to flights coming in from certain byas, areas that were hit the coronavirus and hit hard. We did it early. A lot of people thought we should not do it early and it turned out to
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