Contradicts the common cause and thats the way we going to run the Atlantic Council at this time. We see this as a challenge. Safe,e to keep our staff the community safe. At the same time, we have to rally. We do not have you here in the room, but we encourage you to engage in our discussion. Accoronavirus throughout this event. Our team will be monitoring your comments and passing them to the moderator as much as possible. At the Atlantic Council, we are working rapidly to respond to provide all viewers as much understanding as we can realtime, but also policy ideas that we how we can collaborate better. We find ourselves racing for. Ajor geopolitical impacts the covid19 spread is causing chaos and confusion around the globe. But what we know already is the coronavirus has reached 130 countries. We know that this has spread to 169,000 cases. In the United States, it could be as many as 80,000. What we know is the information and misinformation about the Novel Coronavirus is spreading
Weekly caucus meetings. Republicans are meeting with treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin this afternoon about the coronavirus response. We expect to hear Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell address reporters at 2 p. M. Eastern. The senate will gavel back in at 2 15 eastern and, of course, well have live coverage here on cspan2. Up next, a conversation on the coronavirus pan dem sick and public trust in pandemic and public trust in government. We hear from this forum hosted by the Atlantic Council. Good morning. This is fred kemp from the Atlantic Council, and thank you for tuning into this timely, unfortunately timely conversation on Public Trust Institutions and the coronavirus epidemic. First of all, i want to thank ours. Speakers who are here tody and everyone whos joined us online whos being responsive to the call for social distancing. We actually dont think that social distancing contradicts common cause, and thats the way were going to run the Atlantic Council during this period
Trust in government. Live coverage here on cspan2. Okay. Good morning. This is fred kempe from the Atlantic Council, and thank you for tuning in to this timely, unfortunate timely conversation on Public Trust Institutions and the corona virus epidemic. First of all i want to thank our speakers who are here today and itll just joined us online for being responsive to the call for social distancing. We actually dont think that social distancing contradicts common cause and thats the way were going to run the Atlantic Council during this period of time. We see this moment as a challenge. Went to keep ourselves safe. We as Atlantic Council have to keep our staff safe, arcing or be safe at the same time we have to rally our community globally, transit medically at the town to take on the challenge of the sort that none of us have seen in our lifetimes. The we do not have you in the room, we encourage you to engage in our discussion. Please use the hashtag ac coronavirus, ac coronavirus. Thr
We see this moment is a challenge. We have to stay safe. Our community safe. We have to rally our community to take on the challenge of a sort we have never seen. Our team will be monitoring your questions. You can do this as much as possible. We will get more of this sort of thing from the atlantic council. We are working together with our friends and partners. We are working rapidly to respond to provide all of you policy understanding and ideas and how we can collaborate better. We find ourselves bracing for major geopolitical and economic impacts. Causing chaos, confusion, but also the beginnings of common cause. 130coronavirus has reached countries. 169,000 cases. U. S. , it could be as much as 80 deaths now. Is this information about the virus is spreading faster than the pandemic itself. We must all turn to fax first. The words we use matter. This is a pandemic. The president called for a national emergency. Viralis reason the term applies to this. This is making it harder to mo
In to thisor tuning fortunately, timely conversation on public trust, institutions, and the coronavirus. First, i want to respect the haskers and everyone who responded to the call for social distancing. We do not think that that contradicts the common cause and thats the way we going to run the Atlantic Council at this time. We see this as a challenge. Safe,e to keep our staff the community safe. At the same time, we have to rally. We do not have you here in the room, but we encourage you to engage in our discussion. Accoronavirus throughout this event. Our team will be monitoring your comments and passing them to the moderator as much as possible. At the Atlantic Council, we are working rapidly to respond to provide all viewers as much understanding as we can realtime, but also policy ideas that we how we can collaborate better. We find ourselves racing for. Ajor geopolitical impacts the covid19 spread is causing chaos and confusion around the globe. But what we know already is the c