Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will address that pandemic at 10 30 eastern. We will have that lie for you when it gets underway here on cspan. We are joined by michael thenberger, the director of university of Maryland Center for health and homeland security, a title which ties in really, both of the issues facing the u. S. And the world when it comes to the covid19 coronavirus. What does your organization focus on . Our organization was founded by the university of maryland president in the wake of the 9 11 attacks to deal, and the first instance in those days, with principally counterterrorism issues. We are about to celebrate our 18th anniversary on may 15, 2002. Movedhe years, we have from counterterrorism, controlling, emerging infectious diseases, responding to superstorms like superstorm sandy, and also dealing with cybersecurity issues such as ransomware. Certainly, since 9 11, the nation, the world has never seen an epidemic like this, but in your organizations experie
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Again, thank you for being here. It we look forward to your remarks. President trump thank you very much. It is great having fema involved. We have had tremendous success working together and we appreciate all the people here. It is an honor to be here with all of you and you are doing a fantastic job, by the way. As of yesterday, when we gave a lot of progress is being made. I look forward to speaking with the governors. From what we understand, we have close to 50 governors. We have just about everybody showing up. That is very nice. We will put them on the screen as soon as you want. Mike, you want to Say Something . Pence thank you, mr. President. Thanks notdd our only to fema, because fema takes. He lead on the policies but as you do, continually, mr. President. And i want to thank the governors today, talking about the progress we are making on mitigation. On testing, on supplies. As femas mission, this effort through fema will be executed and state managed and federally supporte
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