Discussion on the corona virus, the former Ebola Response coordinator under president obama. Live coverage from the center for American Progress on cspan2. Im pleased to welcome you to the center for American Progress. Im glad you could join us for this critically important conversation. The default for the coronavirus exceeds 3200 people, with 200 cases confirmed inside the United States. As Health Officials warn the coronavirus will ultimately become widespread in the United States, serious questions have emerged how the federal government is responding. Around the world countries are beginning to take significant measures including restricting travel, closing schools, postponing religious pilgrimages and imposing quarantines. Critics say the Trump Administration has been slow to address this crisis. The president and his team are set to downplay the risks saying last night but everything was going to work out fine because the virus, quote, will go away by april contradicting the cdc
Its 5 00 in new york city, and this is the five. Democrats fearful of another trump presidency, and they are sending up more Smoke Signals in the hopes that someone at 1600 pea Pennsylvania Avenue is watching. One very worried fundraiser bluntly telling the Washington Post that his party is prepared to lose are and adding this colorful quote as my grandfather used to say, well, make that the great grandfather, im as nervous if as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. We all know this is a jump ball. Way to mix a metaphor right there. And bidens former righthand man is going on tv, former Chief Of Staff ron klain says the president needs to get it together, jesse. Prices are still high, the price of gasoline is still high. You know, other prices are still high and people feel that pinch. And the wages have gone up, and wages have gone up faster than prices. People still feel pinched in their pocketbooks, so i think the president needs to make more progress on that. Hes got to continue