Public Health Emergency preparedness. He was also the acting assistant to the president for domestic policy during which time he ran the domestic policy council. He is presently writing a book about president s and disasters and how they respond to them. He has a bachelors of science and industry and Labor Relations from cornel and an emmy and ph. D. In American Civilization from the university of texas at austin and our fourth panelist is dr. Tara zubaydah Mission Manager and senior fellow at in detail. Dr. Otoole was undersecretary for science and technology at the department of Homeland Security. She served from november 2009 to september 2013. She before that was the ceo and director of the center for biosecurity at the university of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a professor of medicine and Public Health at the university of pittsburgh. She also was a major designer and after into major biorelated exercises and before that one known as dark winter in the other known as atlantic sto
I would not say that they were nasty. They tell you how much bush 41 was more engaged, dropping by the Briefing Room from time to time or seeing them in a casual kind of setting. And carter would do all of these things. And that was not the case with clinton, but the very first airforce one trip i took with clinton, he came to the back and was telling these southern eight stories in a funny voice, imitating royal folks. And you cant imagine that today. Obama does come back, but even then it is very, some lecturing. So i think that what we miss, though, to give him credit, he does more interviews than his predecessors, has less to predecessors. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] i am not getting these interviews. I am saying, give him credit for at least doing this. What he is not doing in the bread and butter of what the correspondence do is where you take a day in and the. [roll call] are two questions, how about this, that is where you hear the president day and day out about the m
Then after president Trumps Oval Office speech last night, that failed to ease concerns of a potential economic slowdown. The president then made another effort to calm the markets during a meeting with irelands Prime Minister today. Watch this. We have a lot of things that were working on with the Financial Markets and its going to work out fine. You have to remember the stock market as an example is still much higher than when i got here and its taken a big hit but its going to bounce back and its going to bounce back very big at the right time. The president addressed questions about coronavirus testing saying that enough tests will be available soon. They have a million tests out now. Over the next few days theyre going to have 4 million tests out. Frankly, the testing has been going very smooth. If you go to the right agency, if you go to the right area, you get the test. With that being said, as you know, millions are being produced. This is a brand new thing that just happened,
Away. Frankly, the testing has been going very smooth. If you go to the right agency, if you go to the right area you get the test. Congress has cancelled their recess next week. Now various industries are doing what they can to fill in the gaps. In the world of sports nhl, nba, Major League Soccer have all cancelled their seasons. Nascar, pga Holding Events without fans and were still waiting for decisions from Major League Baseball and the annual ncaa tournament known as march madness. Princess cruises announcing it will suspend Global Operations of its entire fleet for the next 60 days, an estimated 400,000 students from k through 12 will not be in attendance at u. S. Public schools because of long term closures in addition to numerous colleges and universities that moved Classes Online and now the state of new york is joining Washington State in banning large groups, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo announcing starting tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. Gatherings of more than 500 people are pro
President the very best projections. They call it modeling, wolf. They look at whats happened around the world. We think italy may be the most comparable area to the United States at this point for a variety of reasons. So weve built thatted m emodel Vice President mike pence yesterday saying that the white house modeling suggests the impact of the coronavirus in the United States may be most similar to italy. For reference, italy accounts for more than a quarter of all deaths worldwide from the virus, cordi i recording over 12,000 deaths. The death toll could be higher, as one study suggested some elderly victims died alone in their homes because they never made it to the hospital and were never tested for the coronavirus. Willie, that certainly is sobering news from the Vice President of the United States. Italy, of course, has been fighting through this for a month. As the wall street journal investigation uncovered, a lot of people in italy died at home, and they never bothered tes