With james hodge who is director of the center for Public Health law and policy at Arizona State university. Washington journal is next. Is next. Is next host good morning. This is washington journal for tuesday, march 17, 2020. There is very little celebrating planned due to the shutdown of bars and restaurants nationwide because of the coronavirus and further restrictions and limited by the federal government, the white house, State Governments and localities. We would love to hear what you are seeing in response to the outbreak. The7488000 is the line in eastern and central time zones. For mountain and pacific residence, 2027488001. In the line we have set aside for medical professionals. Your line, 2027488002. We would love to hear your experience. You can text us a message. That is 2027488003. We would love to hear where you are texting from, your name as well. Andwitter we are cspanwj post your comments on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. There was a briefing yesterday with the Cor
People staying in their homes, no restaurants, no bars, no congregation. The United States has been very slow to that. Particularly, the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time, the cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. That is probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on Infectious Diseases and Global Health through my life and i have never seen anything like it. And i think americans should expect with the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Host even before this disease, if you look at what the federal government can do, based on our Federalist Society and based on the fact that we are 50 states and all of them have their own Health Protocols and etc. , what are the challenges, the roadblocks for t
Saw a briefing yesterday by the White House Task force and a number of news outlets have reported a ramping up, this turn from the president. What did you hear in terms of extra measures that came out of the briefing that caught your ear . Host many countries have been aggressively getting guest many countries have been aggressively doing social distancing. The u. S. Has been very slow to that. Particularly the federal government has not been urging it. Just two days ago for the first time cdc recommended that there should be no gatherings of 50 people or more, which is way too many. The president yesterday said that we should try to avoid gatherings of 10 people or more. Thats probably too many also. But this indicates to me that we are in whole new territory. I have been working on and globaldiseases health through my life and i have never seen anything like this and i think americans should expect in the coming weeks to have extraordinarily strict measures of social distancing. Even
Good morning to everyone assembled here and those watching online and tuned into cspan one. We are delighted to be able to host this one hour session today and the release of the review. We are doing this today under the auspices of the csi says csis special thanks to my colleagues at csis. Special thanks to the csis Production Team putting this together. From dod, special thanks to jennifer nicholson. There has been a lot of support from dod in putting this together. The biodefense posture review a few minutes ago, we published here csis at csis, my colleague and i published a critical questions piece on the release of the bpr. Week my colleague and i also released a piece and it began by impacting unpacking many factors that feeds the pessimism that they will be little sustained against future path again eight pathogenic threats. And makes the case that there is reason for optimism and hope based on several factors, survey work that shows strong support for active American Government
Chairman, the house now has a task force on countering the cartels and its chair talked a little bit about some examples of what a umf might do. What we want according to this individual is to get mexico to ask for military support such as Close Air Support while they are prosecuting may target, which is exactly what happened earlier this year. This is getting back to this idea of mexico is in a civil war or an insurgency or something. But they just do not understand it or will not fight hard enough. I mentioned before this idea of insurgency, counterinsurgency, stability operations. I remember during the battle days in iraq and afghanistan thinking at least 7000 miles away. A terrible thing for us to be doing, but at least it is really far away. But the idea that you would import an insurgency and stick it on your border in your largest trading partner seems to me the height of imprudence. There is this idea of living in an alternate reality. There have been shootouts using military e