Conversation. I wanted to start with our former surgeon general. If you could just tell us from your perspective how you think we are doing here in the United States and what you think we should be doing differently. Thank you, chelsea. Its wonderful to be here with all of you. Reflect on what an extraordinary moment it has been. Is, most of us have never experienced anything like this in our lifetimes in the world has not seen this in perhaps a century or more. So it is something we will remember for the rest of our let me start with the good some of the measures we have been taken are actually starting to work. Were seeing a flattening of the curve and a reduction in new hardestd some of the hit areas of the country. We are also seeing interesting things happen in technology acceleration, for example in telehealth, which is being more rapidly adopted. There is the bad news as well. Unlike perhaps what we saw in china where there was closer to a single peak and then i drop going toUni
Brought to you today by your television provider. Next, centers for Disease Control and prevention director dr. Robert redfield and National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases director dr. Anthony fauci testify on the coronavirus outbreak. They were joined by other Health Officials at this House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. It is two hours and 10 minutes. The committee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I want to inform members that we have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. This morning, we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to an emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details, just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of this sudden change, we are going to significantly reduce Openin
Redfielddr. Robert testify on the outbreak. It is two hours and 10 minutes. South korea has now tested more than 196,000 people but we are not anywhere close to that. They started conducting drive through testing, but people here in the United States cant even get tested by their own doctors. This is the United States of america. Were supposed to be leading the world, instead were trailing far behind. How did south korea test so many people so quickly but we didnt test a fracture of that number . Why did it take so long . We must do better. Unfortunately these delays have been systemic. Just last week the Trump Administration promised to deliver a million tests by the end of the week but it didnt even come close. On sunday they admitted they delivered only 75,000 tests, thats over 900,000 tests short. And this was their own stated goal to the American People. Now the Trump Administration is saying they have distributed a million tests and they will be distributing four million by the e
[indistinct conversations] the committee wil without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. I want to inform members that we have a change in schedule. As we explained in the hearing memo, we were planning to do Opening Statements from 9, 30 to 10 00 and testimony and questions from 10 00 to 1 00. Is morning, we were informed that President Trump and Vice President pence have called our witnesses to an emergency meeting at the white house. We dont know the details, just that it is extremely urgent. Now the witnesses have to leave at 11 45. In light of this sudden change, we are going to significantly reduce Opening Statements instead of doing 30 minutes, we will do 10. We will get right to questions. For the witnesses we have your wit and statements. Keep your oral statements as brief as possible. At 11 45 we will recess the hearing and work with the agencies to determine when the witnesses can return. With that i recognize myself for a few
Impeachment trial and senators sworn in as jurors. Well take you live now to the senate floor on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal king, ruler of all nature, thank you for the opportunity to serve you and country. Help us to give government what belongs to government, as we render to you our faithful stewardship. Lord, guide our lawmakers to make right choices in challenging times. Enable them to feel your presence and become lights to a dark world. Open their eyes to see your daily gifts and blessings, infusing them with a spirit of gratitude. Protect our nation from sea to shining sea as you empower us to live for your glory. We pray in your wonderful name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one n