Are in the eastern or central. Ime zones, 202 7488000 if youre in the mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. Send us a text. 202 7488003 is that number. A very good wednesday morning. You can start calling you now as we show you part of President Trumps speech yesterday in phoenix, arizona, highlighting his administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic. [video clip] we do all of these tests and we find pockets and we find people we find cases and they say that cases have jumped instead of saying what a job we are doing with testing. We did the job with testing and we did ventilators and we came up with tests. We have 70 different types of tests. It is a lot of tests. Other countries that have done very well with testing, they call us, and they say nobody has been able to do the job you have done. The l. A. Ones who cannot say that are the Fake News Media people the only ones who cannot say that are the Fake News Media people. [booing] someday it will be recognized by history. Our actions and our selfless sacrifice saved hundreds of thousands of lives. We had to do it and we did the right thing. Now we opened. We have to get it open. I said we have to get it open. People get sick from the other, it is not just from the virus. They get sick from all of the other things that happen. You know what i mean. Tocut through red tape accelerate breakthrough therapies and vaccines. We will have the vaccine very soon. We distribute 1. 5 billion pieces of personal equipment. We unleashed the medical and logistical power of the United States military, and thanks to our efforts, not a single american who needed a ventilator has been denied a ventilator. Host that was the president in arizona yesterday. Back on capitol hill, this was the topony fauci, Infectious Disease expert saying where he believes the United States is when it comes to the response to covid19. [video clip] it is a mixed bag. We have a large country. Very heterogeneous. A difference between the new york metropolitan area and wyoming. We have been hit badly. Anyone who looks at the numbers. We have had over 120,000 deaths. 2. 5 million infections. It is a serious situation. In some respects, we have done very well. Right now in the new york metropolitan area, which has been hit extraordinarily hard, has done very well in bringing the cases down and using the guidelines we have carefully put together to try and carefully reopen their city and their state. In other areas of the country, we are now seeing a disturbing surge of infections that looks like it is a combination. One of the things is an increase in community spread. That is something im quite concerned about. You know that this is been something that has been in the press over the past couple of days. We were going down from 30,000 to 25 to 20, now we stayed flat, and now we are going up. A couple days ago there were 30,000 new inflections. That is troublesome. The way you address that, and ive said this over and over again, is you have to have the manpower, the system, the testing to identify, isolate, and contact tracer so that when you see those increases, you can understand where they are coming from and you can do something about them. Right now, the next couple of weeks will be critical in our ability to address the surging piercing in florida, texas, arizona, and in other states. They are not the only ones having a difficulty. The bottom line, it is a mixed bag. Some good, and some we have a problem with. Faucidr. Anthony yesterday before the house energy and Commerce Committee. If you want to watch either of those two events in their entirety, you can do so on our website, cspan. Org. Asking you what you think of the Trump Administration response to the coronavirus pandemic. Phone lines split up regionally. We are also looking for your comments via social media. This is bilking on twitter. The Trump Administrations response has been totally inadequate. They are treating it as a nuisance than the Health Emergency it is and we are suffering because of it. This from friend on facebook. He left it up to the governors of each state. That is who all the liberal democratic snowflake should be bashing, not our president. Wasople seem to forget he downplaying it is just the flu when response was critical. Thousands have died on his watch. Wante hateful man with not empathetic bone in his body. Looking for your phone calls. Dean out of louisville, kentucky. Good morning. Republicanm a disturbed with the leadership of our country. We are International Emergency and donald trump does not wear a mask. [indiscernible] they are turning around and they are leaving. Another thing disturbed is in vietnam donald trump was awol, he was a draft dodger. How can i vote for a draft dodger who would not fight for the his country. God bless you. Host dean in kentucky. Kentucky one of the States Holding primaries yesterday along with new york and virginia with all of the mailin ballots that have happened, no expectations for knowing the results of the races anytime soon. It could take days or longer. A key race to watch, the democratic primary in kentucky, the Senate Primary to see who will take on mitch mcconnell, the majority leader in the senate. A lot of focus on that race. Amy mcgrath, former marine pilot in that race running in a crows a close race against representative charles booker. Today we will see what happens as results continue to come in. Yolanda is next out of new jersey. Caller good morning. Tom calling in response President Trumps response to coronavirus. I feel he does not respond appropriately to the pandemic that is against is globally, not just in the United States. It is not just our nation. It is a real pandemic and he should be showing leadership by wearing a mask and leading the American People. Testingow to support and we are still lagging behind. We are slowly catching up but it is changing and we did not respond in the timeframe we should have responded in the beginning. We are continuing to play catch up. It is a sad situation. We have a president of the United States not showing leadership by wearing a mask to show it is a real thing that is happening. Is a headline, the lead editorial in todays Washington Post saying wearing a mask is not a political statement. Do you think wearing a mask has become political . Caller in the mind of donald trump only. But for the American People it should not be a political statement. It should be something that is done like joe biden is doing. He is observing the rules set by cdc. And staying away from crowds. Certainly crowds in stores. Host that is yolanda out of new jersey. A few more comments from social media. This is kimberly on facebook. Saying the administration has done what they can with the administration resented along the way. It is up to me to keep myself safe and healthy. Angela saying the u. S. Is only 5 of the worlds population but we have 25 of the global cases and deaths. , saying from winnie the response has been totally incompetent, the numbers speak for themselves, as have his actions, especially engaging in indoor rallies. Speaking of the numbers around the world, plenty of the stories in todays papers focusing on the latest numbers, this from the front page of the wall street journal. The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 9. 1 million this week with more than 2. 3 million cases in the United States come and the nations death toll reach more than 121,000 according to data from Johns Hopkins university. The most populous states in the country, california and texas, each reported more than 5000 new infections, breaking their previous records. Arizona also one of those states breaking their daily records. Taking your phone calls, asking about the trumpet ministration response to the coronavirus pandemic. Ny and like a stir, ohio jenny in lancaster ohio. Go ahead. Say trumpwanted to needs to find an outdoor place and he needs to have regular people like me ask questions, not newscasters. I cannot think of the name. Question would you ask him if you could ask him a question . Caller i would ask him if he could have his rallies outside and spread the people apart and have a few people. You do not need a big audience for Something Like that. He needs to cut down the audience and he needs to do it , maybe at the white house. Just regular people like me. I think he just told a bad joke. Have you ever seen a community a comedian get upstaged who were not funny because they did not time it right . He wants to calm people down and say im not afraid of the virus, i am not. You do the best you do. You put a mask on. What i do not understand is people are walking outside with masks on, you do not catch it like that. Host you say you think he told a joke. Focusu talking about the this week on his comments about slowing down testing and that rally in tulsa . Caller yes. I think he told a bad joke. Sometimes things do not come out the way you want. Sayingpeople would quit people are blaming him. ,his country is falling apart tearing down statues. It might be a civil war. You never know. I think they will find a treatment. I think things should calm down and that is all he was trying to do. He told a bad joke. Host on that note, the president was asked as he was leaving the white house on his way to arizona if he was joking about slowing down testing. This is what the president said yesterday morning. [video clip] let me make it clear. We have the greatest Testing Program anywhere in the world. We test that are than anybody in the world. Our tests are the best in the world and we have the most of them. By having more tests, we find more cases. Plus, 25 million test. Think of that. Other countries did one million, 2 million. We did 25 million. Way more than any other country. Therefore we will have more cases. By having more cases, it sounds bad, but what it is is we are finding people, many of those people are not sick. They may be young people. What has happened is because of all the cases we find, we have a very low mortality rate, just about the best in the world. That is the advantage the testing, along with other things. Remember this. The reason we have more cases than other countries is because our testing is so much. That was thest president yesterday morning at the white house. On that hearing on capitol hill, the president s top medical advisors on his Coronavirus Task force were asked about the president s comments about slowing down testing. Heres one of the headlines. Note dr. Ey, fauci, no orders to slow virus testing. Here is dr. Fauci yesterday. [video clip] to my knowledge, none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing. That is a fact. In fact, we will be doing more testing. , butnly testing specifically identify people in contact trace, and also much more surveillance, if you want to get your arms around and understand exactly what is going on in community spread. It is the opposite. We will be doing more testing. Let me ask the same question. Do you agree with the president on this . You think we should be testing more people. He did not want to talk about the president , tell us if you think we should be testing more people. As dr. Fauci said, all of us continue to be committed to increasing timely access to detecting. We have made an improvement. We still a ways to go. One of the key things is surveillance, expanding surveillance because of the asymptomatic nature of the infection. Atdoing so, we are looking ways that can substantially enhance testing by pulling samples. Are doing 600,000 tests a day. That would samples bring it to 3 million tests a day. We are continuing to try to enhance testing. It is an underpinning of our response. Host dr. Anthony faucher and dr. Robert redfield, the director for the senator degrees control the center for Disease Control and prevention. They were also joined by the director of the food and drug ministration and the assistant secretary for health and Human Services administration. Getting a response this morning as we ask you about the Trump Administrations response to coronavirus. Josephine in livingston, new jersey. Good morning. Caller my concerns are economics. Europe is already making a decision they will ban russia, brazil, and the United States. They do not want us traveling there. They feel we are at the epicenter. They are doing better than we are. Ironically, who would have through,hat they went they are doing better than we are. I would say another thing. Keep in mind this is an election year. Itwill be one local will be the Republican Trump pence massacre because theyre going to be hundreds of ,housands of people sadly because they want to get elected, they are not worried about us. That is not leadership. Worried areine, how you in livingston, new jersey, estate that has been seeing its . Verages of new cases come down this is the map from Johns Hopkins university Coronavirus Task force to get your state your caller let me put it to you this way. Can. E doing as much as we i look at florida. Now it is the young people who felt infallible. It is now between 19 and 29. They have become spreaders. We who are older are vulnerable. There is no way around it. In 1957,s 13 years old we had the asian flu. 1. 1 Million People died. I was so sick as a child for two weeks. It happens. It kills. When i hear people say is that a political statement Wearing Masks . It should not be if you want to be alive. If youre taking this im infallible, it will never infect me, i will not get sick. Player, hethe tennis felt exactly like trump. It will never affect me. Guess what. He just got the covid19. Now the tennis players have got it. It is spreading all around the world and to deny it exists because you think your infallible, i hate to say it. You will pay a high price for that acre in spirit thank you. Host will fit you will pay a high price for that date and rents. You will pay a high price for that ignorance. Thank you. Host this is what it looks like in florida right now. President trump sang the new case map is not necessarily the map we should be looking at. Saying cases are only up because of the new numbers of testing. Mortality rates are down. The president focusing on those numbers. Well be talking more about covid19, about the medical side of it in our next segment of washington journal. We will be joined by dr. Ira breite to answer your continued questions you might have on the medical side. We are spending this first hour focusing on your thoughts on the administrations response. 202 7488000 if you are an eastern or central time zones. If youre in the mountain or pacific time zones. By the way, to show you a map of what the president says is the more important number, this map this chart is a chart of new coronavirus debts in the United States by day. It says daily tracking chart in the Washington Post. You can see that curve is what the president is focusing on, the cumulative death rate as of yesterday at 8 00. According to the numbers the Washington Post uses. Stephen in california, good morning. Thanks for getting up early for us. Caller my concern it is almost like genocide for old people, people who are sick, and people who are poor. About getting food and stuff like that. The whole thing couldve have been stopped in the beginning because they had a task force to stop things at the source. He disbanded all of that. Now he is playing like it is not a disease and it is not a health issue for other people, telling people not to wear masks. It is insane. It is genocide. Host that question we asked her call earlier. Has wearing a mask become political . Caller yes. And it is a health issue is not a political issue. You want to stop the spread or not. If youre not old and youre not sick and you do not have those , our nation says forget you, you are expendable. That is unamerican. A frontpage picture in the Washington Post. You can see Anthony Faucher you can see dr. Anthony fauci wearing his mask. At the same time the desk he was testifying of was being cleaned by one of the capital employees, also wearing a mask with lysol wipes and Hand Sanitizer wiping down the desk. Tommy is next out of virginia. Good morning. Caller my comment is the president and his Administration Still does not seem to be taking the serious. It seems like it is still about him. He is so narcissistic he believes is a conspiracy. Instead of listening to science and researchers, what he does is if the infection is going down, he takes credit, if theyre going up people in the governors. His supporters believe the same thing. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my comments. Host how are things in virginia, in central virginia, virginia, state any great next week to enter phase three of reopening. Caller i guess because we are so rural and we do not have much close contact, i live in the country, i think weve had a few infections in the county i am in. Lynchburg has been up around 30, ive have not looked at the numbers. I think Governor Northam has done a good job. Based on the fact the president threatened to discontinue funding and stuff like that to help us, i think virginia has done well. Host thanks for the call. The Johns HopkinsUniversity Dashboard is down to the county level. I believe you said you are campbell county, virginia. 32 confirmed cases