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Cspan. Org coronavirus. Host another briefing late yesterday at the white house of the Coronavirus Task force. We will show you bits of that throughout the morning and we will hear from you as well. Here is the reporting on that briefing, the front page of the Washington Times. Shut down. U. S. To the president changes tone as coronavirus threat to america grows more serious. They write that President Trump implored americans to stop eating inside restaurants, bars and food courts to avoid groups of 10 or more for the next 15 days as the u. S. Tries to avoid the fate of china and italy in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. The guidelines say americans should avoid discretionary travel and stay home if they are sick. President trump also wants americans to work from home if possible to disrupt chains of transmission. The Washington Times writes it was a shift in tone from mr. Trump relate in february protected that the u. S. Would tackle all of its cases swiftly, he now says the outbreak may last well into summer. Here is what President Trump said yesterday. [video clip] it seems to me that if we do a really good job, we will not only hold the deaths down to a had wehat is much lower not done a good job but people are talking about july, august, Something Like that. It could be right in that period of time where i say it washes through. Other people dont like that term. Is this the new normal . We will see what happens but if that but they think it could be july or august or longer than that. Host part of the News Conference yesterday. More coming up on this mornings washington journal. 202 7488000 for those of you in the eastern and central time zones. Mountain and pacific, 202 7488001. Some of the guidelines out of that White House Briefing yesterday, calling on individual americans to engage in schooling from home and possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 or more. Avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating, drinking in bars, restaurants and public food courts. Here are the numbers from the Johns Hopkins University Center for systems at science and engineering. 100total number of cases, 83,304. Total deaths, 7166. Recoveries, nearly 80,000. For theat the numbers u. S. , jumping to 900 cases from yesterday. Reported in cases the United States 4006 entered six t1 cases report 4661 cases reported in the United States. Lets hear from donna in georgia. Questiones, my concerning the elderly people here in this crisis. What do we do . Have you heard anything on that . Host in terms of doing your income tax by april 15 . Caller right. There has been some talk of extensions but i dont have anything specific for you. We will try to find that out as the morning continues. Thanks for your call this morning. Today. Front page of usa plan to stay in longer is the headline. It is primary day and ohio is postponing theres. The governor announced on monday afternoon that he was requesting a delay for in person voting until june 2, making it the only state holding a contest on tuesday that tried to delay the primary. Three other states, arizona, florida and illinois still plan to head to the polls tuesday, today with former Vice President joe biden and senator Bernie Sanders leading the democratic race. Representative Tulsi Gabbard is still in the race but she trails by hundreds of delegates. Ohioecretary of state in made a video announcing the delay in the voting. [video clip] when i received a call from the lieutenant governor, and the director of the Ohio Department of health, they made it clear that due to the changed guidelines from the cdc, did the guidelines that they were putting out in regards to ohios over 65, it was not going to be possible to conduct an election in a way that would be safe for ohioans. At that point the governor knew what he had to do. He took Decisive Action to protect the health and safety. Making itsued clear that the polls would not be open tomorrow in order to protect Public Health and safety. The governor took action to protect health. I took action emilio for that to provide the certainty that ohioans need that their voice would be heard. Moments ago i sent out a directive to all 88 quarts of elections to make it clear we were going to comply with the order. I also wanted the light to lay out the circumstances under which we would hold a free and Fair Election and here is what we are doing. On june 2, ohioans will have the opportunity to vote in person. Between now and then, they will have an opportunity to vote by mail. Ohioans are familiar with the vote by mail program. It is something we have enjoyed for many years in the state. By doing this, we will make sure we have a fair and free election and also protect the health and safety of ohioans. Pressthe associated headline, government issues historic restrictions amid virus outbreak. Lets get to your calls. Audrey is in alabama. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I had an experience yesterday. I went to the hospital with chest pain and it was virtually deserted. Casese had four suspected and they had a suspected case that had been in contact with somebody from Washington State that seemed like they were having a problem getting the buting rules correct and everything was going pretty. Mooth and myare locked in sons last day of school was yesterday so we are hunkered down but i am making sure to keep my hands clean and making everybody wash their hands. I guess i will be seeing a cardiologist pretty soon. Peopled to let you know, are not using the er lest they have to. Everybody stay safe and healthy. Host we have set aside a line for medical professionals. 202 7488002. Tennessee, james, hello. Caller hello. Host you are on the air. Caller thank you. I would like to say this. All, it started out that it was a hoax and you cant believe nothing that this man says. He finally got serious yesterday. He said he was smarter than the generals, smarter than the scientists and the doctors. It is always somebody elses fault. Nameuldnt call obamas but that is what he meant when he said they had to fix everything. Still lying. Thank you. Host Washington Times in their reporting pensioned a change in tone from the president. Americans kept wondering what the president wanted them to do about coronavirus. Finally, trump offered some guidance. President trump for weeks dismissed the danger of the novel coronavirus. He distracted himself by stroke by stoking unrelated feuds and nursing grievances. He shared little concrete information about the spreading pandemic and much of what he did share was false. Governor governors and mayors as well as leaders of businesses large and small stepped in to make difficult decisions affecting their constituents, employees or customers in the absence of an ambiguous guidance from the president the citizens he was elected to lead. The frustrations of governors boiled over. Quote, we have an invisible enemy, trump said with a notably changed demeanor and tone. Here is ray in pennsylvania. Caller good morning. I have three or four points i would like to make. The first thing, anybody who believes the numbers coming out of china, i have a bridge in brooklyn i want to sell them. Station that said for every infected person they identified there are at least five to 10 that they dont. These numbers coming up on the screens about cases, you should effectively multiply them by at least five to 10 to get a more accurate description of what it is like. Here arething, people going to set of the hospitals. If i think ive got this thing, i am not going to let some doctor or nurse tell me i cant get tested. Im going to a hospital to say i might be infected. But is the way it should be. Everybody should get tested because it is a lot worse than people think. The fourth thing the third thing, i would like to know the exact name of the person who said we wouldnt accept test kits from the who. I need to know that persons name. I Wish Congress would investigate. It came down to one person who said we are not going to use those test kits. They dont have domestic flights in china. They have how many cities with millions of people and they say they dont have any symptoms anywhere else in china, that is hard to believe but the real thing is, i would like to know between november and january, how many flights came from china into the United States because during that time, even our own intelligence communities knew there was something going on in china. I saw that on the news on cnn, that they knew ahead of time that there were things going on in china. The president had to know. I would like to know how any flights came in between november and january when he stood on the tarmac and stop the planes from coming in. Ray from pennsylvania talking about the numbers from china. Johns hopkins tracking it. 81,058 total confirmed cases. Over 3200 deaths. Nearly 69,000 recoveries. In oregon, richard, good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to my comment on how quickly to make a comment on how quickly the coronavirus started spreading in china and then when a couple months within a couple months it is global and it astounds me that that is even possible. But apparently it is. I would like to comment on the , how it went straight up for like three and a and it is an inflationary market. It is all printed money from the fed. Now it is just imploding. My belief is they are using this virus as something to blame it on. That is all i have to say. Host a caller earlier asked us about the tax deadline. She was concerned about how it ected taxing the taxing how it affected taxes. Here is what you need to know. March 16 is the deadline for corporations and partnerships to submit the 2019 income tax returns. Individual tax returns, payments are due april 15. While the Trump Administration said they would delay these two dates, details are scarce on what the new deadlines would be. It is also uncertain when tax payments must be in. If you are close to ready, filed for an extension if you need time file for an extension if you need time. Our next caller is in kansas. Caller hello there. Good morning. I have two comments. The first is, where is russia . Is anybody talking about russia . The whole world is suffering from this disease and the russians arent . Hi think what may be happening is the russians had sent some kind of virus to china and it is going all over the world. I just wonder about that. The second thing is this. The republicans freed trump of all the charges in his impeachment. Ive always said that i am not going to worry about it because the man upstairs is going to take care of trump. This may be that. Something happening. He has to be stopped. The only person that seems they can stop him now is god. The director of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the White House Coronavirus tax force led by Vice President pence. Yesterday on the new social distancing guidelines recommended by the administration. [video clip] what we are mentioning now, the guidelines when you look at them carefully, i believe if the people in the United States take them seriously, because they were based on some rather serious considerations, some may look at them and say theyre going to be really inconvenient they were well thoughtout and the thing that i want to emphasize and i say over and over again. When you are dealing with an emerging Infectious Disease outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are. If you think that today reflects where you really are. That is not words speak. It means if you think you are here, you are really here because youre only getting the results. It will always seem that the best way to address would be to do something that looks like it might be an overreaction. It isnt an overreaction, it is a reaction that we feel is commensurate, what is actually going on in reality. Of our reminder that all briefings, all of our coverage on the coronavirus is available on our website, cspan. Org coronavirus. Our next caller is from pennsylvania. Caller good morning. Is doing donald trump the best job he can as president of the United States. I think if anything, the governors of the states and the cities and the mayors of the cities within the United States should take the lead because the president cannot govern every county and every state. That this could possibly be michael warfarin could possibly be Chemical Warfare from china. It is what it is. I think he is handling it correctly. Stopnk everybody should being hard on the president. What about what obama did when he did not declare anything about the disease under his term were 12,000 americans died and he didnt mention anything until six to nine months later . Obama didnt say anything to the American People and yet 12,000 people died. To indiana, tim. Caller good morning. I want to speak from a First Responder standpoint. I am a disabled Police Officer and i have a brother who is my. Aretaker and i have met a few upould not ask them to gear give up their job in order to save my life. A police squad car, if you have ever had the misfortune of sitting in the back of one, it is like a public restroom. Everything that happens in a public restroom happens in the back of a squad car. Officer does not have the time to decontaminate Something Like that. It is not done but they are in my opinion or my question is, i wonder if our First Responders are actually bridging the gaps and spreading it themselves because their personal protection, their gear is not there. It is not something it is something you would have to have on every call and you would have to be decontaminated after every call because First Responders have to go in. They may not have it when they go in but when they come out, they take it with them. Host where did you serve and for how long and how long have you been on disability . Have i had caller i been on disability for 10 years. Protectionl equipment is just not there. My caretakers are both firemen. I would not ask them to stop serving because i know what it is like but i am in serious jeopardy because i have Serious Health problems. Host we had to stuart next in florida. Caller good morning. I think the hysteria and the hype that the news media is focusing on puts more fear into what is going on. You had a previous caller talking about a virus which was h1n1 when obama was in office and i dont remember the height from the news media over this. Yes we should all be vigilant we should all be vigil. I understand closing places down. That is the sad part sad part that is the sad part about this country we are living in. Ands take a deep breath look at what is. Going on. What is going on. It is a virus. We do not have a 100 cure factor on this but what the news media is doing with this under trump, they did not do it under obama. Nothing was being closed down. I believe it is right, that states should take more control. Borrowersre wants all all bars to have last call at 9 00. What is the magic number that is 9 00 . What happens to people that need to make a paycheck in this country . Is our government going to step up . 1000 doesnt last a month. If you want to do something, why not make it 12,000 . Host stuart in florida. On capitol hill, the Senate Returns again for legislative work. This is the reporting of the on the coronavirus bill. The revised coronavirus aid bill is heading to the senate. Economic aid to households affected by the covid19 pandemic is on track despite concerns among the gop rank and file, in that chamber about the , the treasury secretary said after huddling with senators that hang ups in the house over a package of technical fixes to the bill passed by the house Early Saturday Morning on the verge of being resolved. Dropped his objections and the corrections were adopted by unanimous consent. Argued he had not seen what the actual fixes were. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell yesterday on the senate floor as they came into session said this package was just the beginning of congresss response to the coronavirus. [video clip] Senate Republicans are convinced the house bill can only be the beginning, just the beginning of Congress Efforts to secure our economy and support american families. Challenge, aque unique challenge unlike any other tough circumstances, our shortterm goal is not simply to bring Economic Activity right back to normal starting tomorrow. Instead, our task is to secure the historically Strong Foundation of our nations economy and support americans with whatever Public Health may require and certain activities simply be scaled back. Ive spoken to countless colleagues over the last several days and we agree there are three major areas or the senate must continue to develop bold and bipartisan action. Number one, we will need to take further steps to assist individual americans and families with financial challenges in the weeks and months ahead. Number two, we will need to significant actions to secure our nations economy, particularly main street Coronavirus Task<\/a> force. We will show you bits of that throughout the morning and we will hear from you as well. Here is the reporting on that briefing, the front page of the Washington Times<\/a>. Shut down. U. S. To the president changes tone as coronavirus threat to america grows more serious. They write that President Trump<\/a> implored americans to stop eating inside restaurants, bars and food courts to avoid groups of 10 or more for the next 15 days as the u. S. Tries to avoid the fate of china and italy in the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. The guidelines say americans should avoid discretionary travel and stay home if they are sick. President trump also wants americans to work from home if possible to disrupt chains of transmission. The Washington Times<\/a> writes it was a shift in tone from mr. Trump relate in february protected that the u. S. Would tackle all of its cases swiftly, he now says the outbreak may last well into summer. Here is what President Trump<\/a> said yesterday. [video clip] it seems to me that if we do a really good job, we will not only hold the deaths down to a had wehat is much lower not done a good job but people are talking about july, august, Something Like<\/a> that. It could be right in that period of time where i say it washes through. Other people dont like that term. Is this the new normal . We will see what happens but if that but they think it could be july or august or longer than that. Host part of the News Conference<\/a> yesterday. More coming up on this mornings washington journal. 202 7488000 for those of you in the eastern and central time zones. Mountain and pacific, 202 7488001. Some of the guidelines out of that White House Briefing<\/a> yesterday, calling on individual americans to engage in schooling from home and possible, avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 or more. Avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating, drinking in bars, restaurants and public food courts. Here are the numbers from the Johns Hopkins<\/a> University Center<\/a> for systems at science and engineering. 100total number of cases, 83,304. Total deaths, 7166. Recoveries, nearly 80,000. For theat the numbers u. S. , jumping to 900 cases from yesterday. Reported in cases the United States<\/a> 4006 entered six t1 cases report 4661 cases reported in the United States<\/a>. Lets hear from donna in georgia. Questiones, my concerning the elderly people here in this crisis. What do we do . Have you heard anything on that . Host in terms of doing your income tax by april 15 . Caller right. There has been some talk of extensions but i dont have anything specific for you. We will try to find that out as the morning continues. Thanks for your call this morning. Today. Front page of usa plan to stay in longer is the headline. It is primary day and ohio is postponing theres. The governor announced on monday afternoon that he was requesting a delay for in person voting until june 2, making it the only state holding a contest on tuesday that tried to delay the primary. Three other states, arizona, florida and illinois still plan to head to the polls tuesday, today with former Vice President<\/a> joe biden and senator Bernie Sanders<\/a> leading the democratic race. Representative Tulsi Gabbard<\/a> is still in the race but she trails by hundreds of delegates. Ohioecretary of state in made a video announcing the delay in the voting. [video clip] when i received a call from the lieutenant governor, and the director of the Ohio Department<\/a> of health, they made it clear that due to the changed guidelines from the cdc, did the guidelines that they were putting out in regards to ohios over 65, it was not going to be possible to conduct an election in a way that would be safe for ohioans. At that point the governor knew what he had to do. He took Decisive Action<\/a> to protect the health and safety. Making itsued clear that the polls would not be open tomorrow in order to protect Public Health<\/a> and safety. The governor took action to protect health. I took action emilio for that to provide the certainty that ohioans need that their voice would be heard. Moments ago i sent out a directive to all 88 quarts of elections to make it clear we were going to comply with the order. I also wanted the light to lay out the circumstances under which we would hold a free and Fair Election<\/a> and here is what we are doing. On june 2, ohioans will have the opportunity to vote in person. Between now and then, they will have an opportunity to vote by mail. Ohioans are familiar with the vote by mail program. It is something we have enjoyed for many years in the state. By doing this, we will make sure we have a fair and free election and also protect the health and safety of ohioans. Pressthe associated headline, government issues historic restrictions amid virus outbreak. Lets get to your calls. Audrey is in alabama. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I had an experience yesterday. I went to the hospital with chest pain and it was virtually deserted. Casese had four suspected and they had a suspected case that had been in contact with somebody from Washington State<\/a> that seemed like they were having a problem getting the buting rules correct and everything was going pretty. Mooth and myare locked in sons last day of school was yesterday so we are hunkered down but i am making sure to keep my hands clean and making everybody wash their hands. I guess i will be seeing a cardiologist pretty soon. Peopled to let you know, are not using the er lest they have to. Everybody stay safe and healthy. Host we have set aside a line for medical professionals. 202 7488002. Tennessee, james, hello. Caller hello. Host you are on the air. Caller thank you. I would like to say this. All, it started out that it was a hoax and you cant believe nothing that this man says. He finally got serious yesterday. He said he was smarter than the generals, smarter than the scientists and the doctors. It is always somebody elses fault. Nameuldnt call obamas but that is what he meant when he said they had to fix everything. Still lying. Thank you. Host Washington Times<\/a> in their reporting pensioned a change in tone from the president. Americans kept wondering what the president wanted them to do about coronavirus. Finally, trump offered some guidance. President trump for weeks dismissed the danger of the novel coronavirus. He distracted himself by stroke by stoking unrelated feuds and nursing grievances. He shared little concrete information about the spreading pandemic and much of what he did share was false. Governor governors and mayors as well as leaders of businesses large and small stepped in to make difficult decisions affecting their constituents, employees or customers in the absence of an ambiguous guidance from the president the citizens he was elected to lead. The frustrations of governors boiled over. Quote, we have an invisible enemy, trump said with a notably changed demeanor and tone. Here is ray in pennsylvania. Caller good morning. I have three or four points i would like to make. The first thing, anybody who believes the numbers coming out of china, i have a bridge in brooklyn i want to sell them. Station that said for every infected person they identified there are at least five to 10 that they dont. These numbers coming up on the screens about cases, you should effectively multiply them by at least five to 10 to get a more accurate description of what it is like. Here arething, people going to set of the hospitals. If i think ive got this thing, i am not going to let some doctor or nurse tell me i cant get tested. Im going to a hospital to say i might be infected. But is the way it should be. Everybody should get tested because it is a lot worse than people think. The fourth thing the third thing, i would like to know the exact name of the person who said we wouldnt accept test kits from the who. I need to know that persons name. I Wish Congress<\/a> would investigate. It came down to one person who said we are not going to use those test kits. They dont have domestic flights in china. They have how many cities with millions of people and they say they dont have any symptoms anywhere else in china, that is hard to believe but the real thing is, i would like to know between november and january, how many flights came from china into the United States<\/a> because during that time, even our own intelligence communities knew there was something going on in china. I saw that on the news on cnn, that they knew ahead of time that there were things going on in china. The president had to know. I would like to know how any flights came in between november and january when he stood on the tarmac and stop the planes from coming in. Ray from pennsylvania talking about the numbers from china. Johns hopkins tracking it. 81,058 total confirmed cases. Over 3200 deaths. Nearly 69,000 recoveries. In oregon, richard, good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to my comment on how quickly to make a comment on how quickly the coronavirus started spreading in china and then when a couple months within a couple months it is global and it astounds me that that is even possible. But apparently it is. I would like to comment on the , how it went straight up for like three and a and it is an inflationary market. It is all printed money from the fed. Now it is just imploding. My belief is they are using this virus as something to blame it on. That is all i have to say. Host a caller earlier asked us about the tax deadline. She was concerned about how it ected taxing the taxing how it affected taxes. Here is what you need to know. March 16 is the deadline for corporations and partnerships to submit the 2019 income tax returns. Individual tax returns, payments are due april 15. While the Trump Administration<\/a> said they would delay these two dates, details are scarce on what the new deadlines would be. It is also uncertain when tax payments must be in. If you are close to ready, filed for an extension if you need time file for an extension if you need time. Our next caller is in kansas. Caller hello there. Good morning. I have two comments. The first is, where is russia . Is anybody talking about russia . The whole world is suffering from this disease and the russians arent . Hi think what may be happening is the russians had sent some kind of virus to china and it is going all over the world. I just wonder about that. The second thing is this. The republicans freed trump of all the charges in his impeachment. Ive always said that i am not going to worry about it because the man upstairs is going to take care of trump. This may be that. Something happening. He has to be stopped. The only person that seems they can stop him now is god. The director of the National Institute<\/a> of allergy and Infectious Disease<\/a>s, part of the White House Coronavirus<\/a> tax force led by Vice President<\/a> pence. Yesterday on the new social distancing guidelines recommended by the administration. [video clip] what we are mentioning now, the guidelines when you look at them carefully, i believe if the people in the United States<\/a> take them seriously, because they were based on some rather serious considerations, some may look at them and say theyre going to be really inconvenient they were well thoughtout and the thing that i want to emphasize and i say over and over again. When you are dealing with an emerging Infectious Disease<\/a> outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are. If you think that today reflects where you really are. That is not words speak. It means if you think you are here, you are really here because youre only getting the results. It will always seem that the best way to address would be to do something that looks like it might be an overreaction. It isnt an overreaction, it is a reaction that we feel is commensurate, what is actually going on in reality. Of our reminder that all briefings, all of our coverage on the coronavirus is available on our website, cspan. Org coronavirus. Our next caller is from pennsylvania. Caller good morning. Is doing donald trump the best job he can as president of the United States<\/a>. I think if anything, the governors of the states and the cities and the mayors of the cities within the United States<\/a> should take the lead because the president cannot govern every county and every state. That this could possibly be michael warfarin could possibly be Chemical Warfare<\/a> from china. It is what it is. I think he is handling it correctly. Stopnk everybody should being hard on the president. What about what obama did when he did not declare anything about the disease under his term were 12,000 americans died and he didnt mention anything until six to nine months later . Obama didnt say anything to the American People<\/a> and yet 12,000 people died. To indiana, tim. Caller good morning. I want to speak from a First Responder<\/a> standpoint. I am a disabled Police Officer<\/a> and i have a brother who is my. Aretaker and i have met a few upould not ask them to gear give up their job in order to save my life. A police squad car, if you have ever had the misfortune of sitting in the back of one, it is like a public restroom. Everything that happens in a public restroom happens in the back of a squad car. Officer does not have the time to decontaminate Something Like<\/a> that. It is not done but they are in my opinion or my question is, i wonder if our First Responder<\/a>s are actually bridging the gaps and spreading it themselves because their personal protection, their gear is not there. It is not something it is something you would have to have on every call and you would have to be decontaminated after every call because First Responder<\/a>s have to go in. They may not have it when they go in but when they come out, they take it with them. Host where did you serve and for how long and how long have you been on disability . Have i had caller i been on disability for 10 years. Protectionl equipment is just not there. My caretakers are both firemen. I would not ask them to stop serving because i know what it is like but i am in serious jeopardy because i have Serious Health<\/a> problems. Host we had to stuart next in florida. Caller good morning. I think the hysteria and the hype that the news media is focusing on puts more fear into what is going on. You had a previous caller talking about a virus which was h1n1 when obama was in office and i dont remember the height from the news media over this. Yes we should all be vigilant we should all be vigil. I understand closing places down. That is the sad part sad part that is the sad part about this country we are living in. Ands take a deep breath look at what is. Going on. What is going on. It is a virus. We do not have a 100 cure factor on this but what the news media is doing with this under trump, they did not do it under obama. Nothing was being closed down. I believe it is right, that states should take more control. Borrowersre wants all all bars to have last call at 9 00. What is the magic number that is 9 00 . What happens to people that need to make a paycheck in this country . Is our government going to step up . 1000 doesnt last a month. If you want to do something, why not make it 12,000 . Host stuart in florida. On capitol hill, the Senate Returns<\/a> again for legislative work. This is the reporting of the on the coronavirus bill. The revised coronavirus aid bill is heading to the senate. Economic aid to households affected by the covid19 pandemic is on track despite concerns among the gop rank and file, in that chamber about the , the treasury secretary said after huddling with senators that hang ups in the house over a package of technical fixes to the bill passed by the house Early Saturday Morning<\/a> on the verge of being resolved. Dropped his objections and the corrections were adopted by unanimous consent. Argued he had not seen what the actual fixes were. Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell<\/a> yesterday on the senate floor as they came into session said this package was just the beginning of congresss response to the coronavirus. [video clip] Senate Republicans<\/a> are convinced the house bill can only be the beginning, just the beginning of Congress Efforts<\/a> to secure our economy and support american families. Challenge, aque unique challenge unlike any other tough circumstances, our shortterm goal is not simply to bring Economic Activity<\/a> right back to normal starting tomorrow. Instead, our task is to secure the historically Strong Foundation<\/a> of our nations economy and support americans with whatever Public Health<\/a> may require and certain activities simply be scaled back. Ive spoken to countless colleagues over the last several days and we agree there are three major areas or the senate must continue to develop bold and bipartisan action. Number one, we will need to take further steps to assist individual americans and families with financial challenges in the weeks and months ahead. Number two, we will need to significant actions to secure our nations economy, particularly main street Small Businesses<\/a> and safeguard our historically Strong Economic Foundation<\/a> through this period. Number three, we will need further steps to ready our Health Care System<\/a> and support our nations medical professionals. The Senate Majority<\/a> is working toward next steps on all three of those fronts. I hope further bold action can be just as bipartisan and collaborative as the process by which we passed the first step. Host the majority leader yesterday on the senate floor, the senate in session today at 10 00 eastern and as always our live coverage of the senate over on cspan2. Democratic leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> also spoke about the pending coronavirus legislation. [video clip] in consultation with the ranking members of the committees of jurisdiction, we are proposing an immediate initial infusion of at least 750 billion to wage war against covid19 and the economic crisis it is now causing. Proposal will put money directly into the hands of American People<\/a> and among other priorities include federal funding to address hospital and treatment capacity issues, expand Unemployment Insurance<\/a> and increase medicaid funding, ensuring everyone can afford treatment for coronavirus, provide immediate loan payment forbearance for all federal student loans, mortgages, Small Business<\/a> loans and others and moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures. Deliver immediate help Small Business<\/a>, Fund Emergency<\/a> job childcare,rgency especially for First Responder<\/a>s. Help schools with remote learning, provide assistance to keep Public Transportation<\/a> running, address Public Health<\/a> and Economic Needs<\/a> in Indian Country<\/a> and utilize the Defense Department<\/a> to provide personnel, equipment, supplies and Critical Response<\/a> capabilities to support the nationwide response. Host democratic leader Chuck Schumer<\/a> on the floor of the senate. At 10 00 eastern, cspan2. This is from viewer lee who tweets the senate is fiddling as rome burns. At least trump has stopped telling the country it is in on fire. Foreign policy foreignpolicy. Com. Announced they were suspending operations globally and recalling volunteers for their safety as the outbreak spreads. Your response to the coronavirus and the government effort so far. You 7488000 for those of in the eastern and central time zones. 202 7488001, mountain and pacific. Medical professionals, we would improve your input and we would appreciate your input and insight. 202 7488002. Our next caller from West Virginia<\/a>. Go ahead. Caller good morning. I got burned a minute ago. I switched over to cspan and the gentleman, it is pitiful that we have an epidemic like this and the gentleman comes up and blames the politicians. I dont care if he is a democrat, republican or whatever, it is a disgrace. This guy ought to hide his face in the brush or the or the dirt. It is a shame somebody blaming politicians, especially our praise he cant for this virus our president this virus. Shamer thing, it is a that the American People<\/a> in our American Country<\/a> have to rely on telepaper product, paper towels, medicines and all of the stuff coming from a foreign country. I have complainedive complainew multiple times. We need to shut our borders down i start making stuff in america and take care of america. In West Virginia<\/a> mentioned the toilet paper supply. , relax,reet Journal Companies<\/a> will have enough toilet paper to sell. Shelves as coronavirus keeps people home and threatens to force more americans into quarantine, the toilet paper unlike other high demand items, remains plentiful according to the two biggest manufacturers. Charmin maker and cottonelle says they have ramped up production and are able to meet demand. Say,roblem, manufacturers is getting the products shipped to warehouses, retailers and onto store shelves quickly enough to keep up with store sales. From aland, we hear medical fresh and jaclyn. Thanks for calling in. Caller you are welcome. Host tell us about the work you do. Caller i am a physicians assistant and i work in cardiology. Are called to see patients throughout the hospital. We are seeing patients under investigation. Americans are not quite understanding the severity of the disease, partly because we even as a medical professional do not understand just how this is spreading, and that is so critical for people to really appreciate. You cannot compare this to the flu, you cannot compare it to swine flu virus the flu has a much different incubation periods. S with the flu have a period of three to four days, and the people who are spreading it are the people who are most active in society. The young people, the young and healthy, the children, and the people who are getting and dying from it are the most an act of, the most vulnerable, and i know that has been mentioned, but when you hear people say, if you have flulike symptoms, that is somewhat misleading and we have to use some terms of the general American Public<\/a> can have something to watch out for, but this is truly, everything i have read and ive been reading out of china and i am looking and listening to our governing bodies in the cardiology it presents like a common cold, and that is where we are misled. Faultnot the governments or the cdc, but it is completely under investigation and the research is ongoing and years later, we will be able to look back retrospectively, but i think what we have to understand is the danger is the asymptomatic nature of it, and it hasnt incubation of 14 days meaning that during those 14 days, you could be spreading it to 10, 15, 20 people, we do not really now and i think that is what people have to understand. It is not the flu and it is not present like the flu, and you cannot really compare it to that. The other thing and this is my last point. Millenials, and i heard them mention this yesterday on the press conference millenials have an enormous impact on how we can help get ahead of this. We do not have enough supplies. Our hospitals reach capacity on a regular basis, and i work at a pretty large cardiac trick institution and we have to think outside the box. If we could invoke social media and if the press conferences would start giving some authority to the millenial generation, the facebook generation, i think that would make a very strong impact on trying to create phrases, bumper stickers, things that that generation clings on to and i think that would help to try to keep these people from being so active, keep them home. Host let me ask you, what are you and your colleagues in the hospital doing as extra Safety Measures<\/a> . Caller we are doing daily huddles. I am not in those at the nursing station, but every morning, we do daily rounds in daily huddles in the hospital. We are getting updated protocols every day if not twice a day. Amount ofreasing the people getting into the health , and in the 5ospital, i am seeing the n9 masks. Resources andull n95 masks the have had to be pulled, so you are seeing supplies be diverted. We always have isolation procedures. Hospitals are very good at isolation, in fact, if you ask medical providers, we are sometimes too good, meaning that we are inconvenient. We are doing what we can, but we are short supplies. The biggest fear is that our physicians and providers will get sick and people will get sick and people will die. I think that is the biggest fear is that there is no perfect answer, and this is a virus that is just getting started. To have some personal responsibility and i think americans are not used took crisis and our country, and we are not used two basic survival. To our we have to lean neighbors and local communities in this instance, because there is no overarching answer to this right now, and if we recognize youth,d we empower our which are quite powerful, make them feel powerful, give them a chance to make a difference. Host thank you for your input. The messaged yesterday coming out of the briefing. Some of the message coming out of the briefing from the white house and part of that was rksivered by dr. Deborah bu who is the Coronavirus Response<\/a> coordinator for the task force. [video clip] our older for population are those with preexisting medical conditions, everyone in the household needs to focus on protecting them. I want to speak particularly to our largest generation now. Our millenials. Of two wonderful millennial young women who are bright and hardworking and i will tell you what i told to them they are the core group that will stop this virus. They are the group that communicates successfully, independent of picking up a phone, they intuitively know how to contact each other without being in large social gatherings. We are asking all of them to hold their gatherings to under 10 people. Not just in bars and restaurants, but in homes. We really want people to be separated at this time. Address this virus comprehensively that we cannot see for which we do not have a vaccine or therapeutic, the only thing we have right now is the amazing ingenuity and compassion of the American People<\/a>. Appealing to all americans to take the steps. To protect each other and to ensure that a does not spread. These guidelines are very specific, they are very detailed, and they will only work of every american takes this together to heart and responds as one nation and one people, to stop the spread of this virus. Host reporting on the briefing yesterday the Washington Times<\/a> focusing on the role of dr. Burks, the coordinator of the task force and a right, when it comes from starting from scratch, dr. Deborah birx has been there. Dr. Birx cut her teeth in Public Health<\/a> with the hiv aids epidemic starting her career in 1985 at Walter Reed Army<\/a> Medical Center<\/a> and rising to head the president s emergency plan for aids relief in 2014. Name encouraged to the administration, Vice President<\/a> mike pence described her as a worldrenowned health official, and that is no exaggeration according to others in the field. Thoughts,xt us your. 202 7488003 this one from roger, he says, we are doing fine in idaho, i think President Trump<\/a> is doing a great job. The store shelves are empty and America Needs<\/a> to slow down with the panic and remember that there are elderly and young people trying to buy stuff. Be polite to others if you are aing to buy and this is pandemic, help each other and be kind to each other, prayer to us all. From melissa, is it possible that the virus can be transferred by our daily mail. And another person says, lets all selfcontained, we can do it, and lets look true facts and criticizing those trying to help and stop with the hatred, and try and help all of us worldwide. In hawaii, we say good morning to george. Go ahead with your comment. Hello, i do not know your name, but i like you, and a loja. Host aloha. Caller i have an ideal for the thinkretail stores, and i they should regulate the number of people they allow in the thems so they can maintain social distancing between customers and workers. Times, i saw news about a police car being in the main entrance of costco or something because they were fighting each services,goods and and the police were there to break up the fights and arrest people if necessary, but you might not need a Police Officer<\/a> at the entrance to big stores to help management count the number of people coming in, and when you reach the limit, stop the people and until three or four people come out, he let three or four people come in. I hope you understand my point. Host absolutely, sure. Go ahead and finish your thoughts. Caller that is about it. I think they should give that some attention, just do not let the stores get all crowded with shoppers crawling all over each other. Host fairmont, West Virginia<\/a>. Morning and thank you for the National Treasure<\/a> that cspan is to all of us, thank you all. Say, i think the government is getting caught up and it is getting things rolling there, and our governors and states keeping everything going, i have severesay, copd and on oxygen, so this is a really dangerous time for me as well, so my doctor is working with me. Yesterday,ppointment so he set it up to do a phone visit in place of an office visit, and medicaid ashley paid for that. I think our government is working well, and please, everyone, stay safe and please do not politicize this. Partes not care what you are with. It does not take a lot of people to make a difference, only takes a few. I think you and you all have a great day and thank you to cspan. Host thank you. Park, illinois. Caller good morning. I am sick and tired of thinking this is a political problem people thinking this is a political problem. Crisis, theola white house started a Pandemic Response<\/a> team to prepare the country for emergencies. President trump fired those people. Committee inthat 2018, so this is not political. This is fact, that we are being by a clown in the white house, someone who has no idea of how to run a government. Host thank you for that. On your point, the Washington Post<\/a> is writing about that, and this is actually an opinion piece by a man named tim morrison who is now at the hudson institute, so this is the pandemic line the tim morrison writes, President Trump<\/a> gets the share of criticism, some warranted, and others not, but recently, they have chosen curious ground to question his response to the coronavirus outbreak. It is alleged by multiple officials of the Obama Administration<\/a> including the post, the president and his then National Security<\/a> adviser john officedissolved the of the Pandemic Response<\/a>. To anothernded off official who still holds the post, i know the charge is spacious. Not that i am naive this is washington, it is an election year. Officials out of power want to be back into power after november, but the middle of a Worldwide Health<\/a> emergency is not the time to be making accusations. Im morrison writes, when joined the National Security<\/a> Council Staff<\/a> in 2018, i inherited a strong and Skilled Staff<\/a> and the counter proliferation and bio defense directorate. This team of National Experts<\/a> together drafted the national bile Defense Strategy<\/a> of 2018 and an accompanying National Security<\/a> president ial memorandum to implement it. We wrote an executive order to modernize influenza vaccines and coordinated the United States<\/a> response to the ebola epidemic in congo, which was ultimately defeated in 2020. It is true that the Trump Administration<\/a> administration has seen fit to shrink the nsc staff, but theyll bloat that occurred under the Previous Administration<\/a> clearly needed a correction. The event secretary robert gates Congressional Oversight Committee<\/a> and members of the Obama Administration<\/a> all agree the nsc was too large and too operationally focused. In 2015ost reported from the Clinton Administration<\/a> to the Obama Administration<\/a>s second term, the nscs staff had quadrupled in size to nearly 400 people. That is why Trump Administration<\/a> began streamlining the staff in 2017. You can read that thewashingtonpost. Com. The daniel and alabama. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. I have advice for the general public and the sensationalist media. When protecting against hiv, we assume that every patient has hiv, so we are careful around bodily fluids. Similarly, because there is a 10 to 14 incubation period where we are not showing any symptoms, we need to assume that we are already infected, and then take actions accordingly to avoid touching others such as staying six feet away and so forth, washing hands. Assume one key advice, that you already have it and you are not showing symptoms, and stay away from others so you do not spread it, if in fact, it turns out you do. Clarification for the news media, there is reporting about the effects on the economy, but there is a second issue that has rolled into this that is not getting any attention, which is the Federal Reserve<\/a> and fiat currencies, since the 2008 crisis, the Federal Reserve<\/a> has been pumping u. S. Dollars to hold up the stock market, and the one misstep of our president who i think is a narcissist, he took credit for that as if he was the one that recovered the stock market where they kept pushing money into it and now it seems that they are not able to do that anymore, and it may be the case that the bubble is collapsing, and there is a law fraudulent activity going on, and that is one of the ways that they dealt with 2008. And people who do not know what they are buying, so anyway, the point being, there is a lot of bad activity going on with fraudulent fiat currency that is not being discussed, so the impacts on the economy may not , butst a coronavirus basically when you are watching sensationalist news on tv, they are pushing a narrative that is based on facts, but they are not necessarily reporting the actual situation. Of other reports on the economic impact, the front page of the wall street journal, two different stories, airlines pressed for aid topped at 50 billion. Hiring 100,000 workers and a plan to hire additional 100,000 workers. Americans continue to reorient their lives to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The wall street journal writes that amazon plans to deploy new workers to fuel its sprawling ecommerce machine and raising pay for all employees and fulfillment centers, transportation stores, and deliveries in the u. S. And canada by two dollars an hour through april. They now pay 15 an hour as the starting wage for workers and its a fulfillment centers. We now hear from bonnie. Caller hi, i am shocked that the United States<\/a>, knowing the crisis we are going into with the healthcare workers, why we are not setting up factories and making everything that we need for them. Ventilators and masks, i know i have a friend who works in a hospital in south dakota, and she is washing masks so they can get by. I know i have seen on tv about a week ago how many masks are we making, but where are they . We must be capable of getting something together and making. Tuff that we are going to need host marty in leavenworth, texas. Caller yes, all they talk about is helping families. What about the elderly that has preexisting conditions that are on very tight budgets . They will need a lot of help, been payingave taxes for over 60 years and ive never asked for anything, and i would like to know what the government is planning for the elderly. Host tracy, we go to silver spring, maryland. Your thoughts. Caller hello, and thank you. I would like to ask for cspan or the news media to give more coverage to a company in rochester, new york that is called oygen. They have a drug that was apparently approved for cancer used in the 1960s, and from the reporting, was shown to be safe to be used in humans. The drug apparently is not covid19currently like but dr. Harold smith gave an to seem to indicate that and lab tests in fort dietrich, maryland, a u. S. Government facility, the drug as oya1 seems to be very effective at neutralizing the covid19 virus. Host i know in terms of the development of the vaccine, that process just getting underway yesterday. The task force holding a briefing middle of the afternoon, and President Trump<\/a> leading off with his comments and the rest of the task force getting questions from the reporters. The president asked during that briefing if the famous saying if the buck actually stops with him, [video clip] does the buck stop with you mr. President . Pres. Trump normally. But this has never been done in this country. If you look back and at some of the things that took place and 2009 or 2011, nobody has ever done anything like what we are doing. I will also say as well, we are also getting this ready for the future, so when we have a future problem if and when, and hopefully we do not have anything like this, but if there is, we will be starting off from a much higher plateau. We had a system that was not meant for this and it was a smaller system. It was meant for a much different purpose, and for that purpose, it was fine, but so not for this purpose. Now we have something that is going to be and is very special, and is ready for a future problem, so i think we can say that strongly. Host maryland, we hear from thomas. Hello. Caller yes, good morning. I am a retired army officer and i used to work for the Public Health<\/a> center, so my thoughts are my own. I want to ask my fellow listeners, are we going to be remembered for this for posttraumatic growth, ptg, or acrimony and throat cutting . We embarrassed ourselves during katrina, and the japanese during their fukushima radioactive situation. I think we have a conscious choice. I personally am a christian, i am not preaching on air, but i think we need to look at the idea of being transformed through our suffering versus getting each other and becoming more divided. Finally and in the interest of brevity, we need to be honest of sort of the economic triage. The government cannot reward everybody for every bit of suffering that they go through. If you take a look at everything from paying people following 9 11, and i lived in new york city during that, there are going to be things that occur that will decimate you economically. The government cannot constantly make up for perhaps that you cannot continue to grow soybeans in the midwest for your business to survive. A certain amount of aid, yes, but the idea that we go into deeper debt and suddenly everything that goes wrong is way too much for me. I do not mean to come across hardhearted, but i just want to be remembered getting through this together and not rip each other to shreds. Host appreciate that, it is st. Patricks day and on sunday, the nation of ireland close to their pubs and very little celebrating going on there or in the u. S. Or anywhere else. This is from the rte, the nations broadcaster. Showg st. Patricks to solidarity, and then his annual message, the president called for the legacy of the patron saint, saying today as the world faces the global spread of the coronavirus, we are called to follow the values of the story of saint patrick. Solidarity, they will play a fundamental role and are effective confronting of the challenge with which we are now presented. You can read all of that at rte. Ie. Anne is in greensboro, north carolina. Caller good morning. I know you got a lot of calls of persons making complaints about closeddemic office earlier, and i think maybe that might have been because perhaps information is out there, and you read an article from a paper that said that no, it was not there is an article that came out maybe two or three days before that one who the person said that she led that unit and that it was closed, so do you mind reading that article. Host the piece i read was an opinion piece, so it is just one of several out there with response to a caller mentioning that. I appreciate your input. To colorado, this is nicole. Here tohey, i am not complain about anything. I just feel that having it statewide or nationwide shutdown , especially for Small Businesses<\/a>, is completely unnecessary. Feel that asdo not a Small Business<\/a> employee and it isg for a business, not up to the government to tell us to shut down. If people want to come into a bar or restaurant and they choose to be in public, it is their decision. Come int tell anyone to and spread a disease or virus that we know nothing about. We do not know how it is spread. We do not know exactly how it is going to end, either. All we are told is that there is weimal opinions, and just are put into fear right now. To shut us down, it is saving may be government taxes and federal taxes, but is hindering my life and Small Business<\/a>s life. Host what kind of Small Business<\/a> do you work for . Bartenderhave been a and restaurant employee for a long time. I rely on people to come in and i live off of their money so to be closed down from the public hinders all of that. All Small Businesses<\/a> are being shut down, and what are we supposed to do to survive. Host appreciate your input, the text align, 202 7488003. Our is from facebook, country is fortunate that donald trump is our president during the crisis. If you follow the recommendations put forth by the medical team, you are doing everything you can do. Another tweet, it is interesting to watch the trance are made in from this is a joke or a hoax, lincoln,ent trump as washington, fdr all rolled into one. He did a 180 turn come up trump still does not have a clue and he is way too worried about the stock market. This is a Health Crisis<\/a> that ignorance turned into a major financial collapse, and that is from mike in orlando, florida. Lets hear from roy in georgia. Caller thank you for taking my call. Taketen hear that god can something intended for bad and turn it into something for good. Hascurrent coronavirus revealed that china has taken over 90 of our antibiotics, prescription medication, and Safety Equipment<\/a> used by the general public and the military. It is time to bring the industries back into the United States<\/a>. Critical ofre President Trump<\/a> should remember, when ancient israel was going battle, god would send judges to them. The only qualification was the availability to be used by god to face the challenge. Host we are spent this first hour talking about the u. S. Response to the coronavirus and coming up on washington journal, in particular, we will focus on the powers the federal government can use during a health emergency. States andhat localities can do. First up, new York Governor Andrew Cuomo<\/a> and his state Coronavirus Response<\/a> briefing yesterday talked about the state ability to ramp up testing their. [video clip] cuomo we have had a phenomenal increase in testing. We were able to use our laboratories, and our Emergency Management<\/a> team has done a good job of reaching out to our state labs, getting them on track, getting them coordinated. Our testing numbers are way up as you will see. Next week by the end of this week, we think we are going to be up to about 7000 tests per day which is an exponential increase of what we have done. I made the suggestion to the Vice President<\/a> , and i made it to the president , i often tell you with the unhappy ,ederal response to this state and the fairness dictates that kudos where kudos are due, and hear the Vice President<\/a> in the president responded very quickly. I want to thank them for that. Testinged drivethrough facility and new Rochelle Westchester<\/a> we have one of the highest clusters and it is one of the first and the United States<\/a>. It is the first on the eastern seaboard, and it has worked very well. It is safe for everyone. You drive up in your car, you never get out of your car. You are tested in your vehicle. They take the test gets back. Test kits back. The time that it takes to take the test is faster than we thought. It doesnt normally happen in government. We have 15 minutes per car. Its actually running ahead of that schedule. We want to replicate that. Is that because it is just as smart. The worst thing is a person walking into an emergency room. If you are positive, you infect other people. If you are negative, you may get infected by walking into the emergency room. So, this is the best way to test someone. An update on the coronavirus aid making its way through congress. The senate expected to consider the next relief bill. ,enator jake sherman saying they are considering combining the house coronavirus bill with 850 150 billion proposal creating a huge aid package. A reminder,ts secretary mnuchin will talk about his plan today at the senate gop lines. Much will depend on how Senate Republicans<\/a> react to this. Thisenate is in session at hour, and the pending business is the fisa reauthorization, but the senate is standing by to begin work on on the package. Be gathering in the kennedy caucus room and will reportedly be hearing from the treasury. Democrats will conduct their meeting by conference call. Host joining us is lawrence gostin, director of the Oneill Institute<\/a> for global and health law at the Georgetown University<\/a> law center here in the nations capital. Joining us to specifically focus in on the powers of the federal National Government<\/a> and a health emergency. 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