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Asset prices since 2008, with financial prices, since 1991 with oil prices. that is the result of the presidents confidence talking, attempts to talk up the markets. i think whenever he opens his mouth now, the danger is the markets are going to plunge more steeply. if you think about his first real intervention, the day he -- less than two weeks ago, he appointed mike pence for the coronavirus. he said, we have only 15 cases, real cases in america, and theyre going down to zero. theyre going do...

People to go when they have symptoms or they have the coronavirus. if they continue to go to hospitals and to their doctors office, or walk around with the symptoms, it is going to spread. we have literally -- we have totally failed. america has failed at dealing with this. the fact that these arent put up in localities, even tents at this point for people to go to get tests. oh, there are no tests. im sorry. theyre walking into hospitals? this is crazy. you cant -- cancelling school is not goin...

If you had the ear of the president and policymakers on capitol hill, what would you be telling them they must do right now? >> to be frank, i think it is appropriate right now to declare a national emergency or a national security emergency. we know that almost every state in the union is affected right now. once testing is up and running, i have little doubt that all states in the union and our territories will be infected. affected, i should say. that being said, we know our troops are at ris...

Another part of this that actually we all need to be concerned about, all of us with loved ones who may not be completely healthy, the doctor was talking about the possibility of people who have diabetes, people who have cancer, people who have heart problems, people who are having childbirth are -- may not get the type of care and treatment they need because health care facilities are so overrun. im thinking about this weekend, one person walks into an emergency room and, suddenly, 40 health ca...

People are congregated together, it has this amplification. i call it a slingshot effect. >> reporter: when we started doing it our way with the cdc testing guidelines, we aimed for the stars and we missed. thats gotten us behind the 8 ball. how can we catch up now? >> weve really made some missteps. theres obviously been a lot of transmission going on, silent transmission. weve done almost no testing, no e research. we catch up by funding the public health agencies. we need to fund research and...

Expected to be on the forefront in areas like this, fighting epidemics, preventing pandemics, is now trailing the world and has a respond that reminds me very much like south africas response to the aids epidemic 10, 15 years ago. >> look, this is the third great crisis of the last two decades. weve had 9/11, then we had the financial crisis. this is the third one. domestically, testing is part of it. youve been talking about that for obviously reasons. thats just one piece of the puzzle. weve g...

House is not even outlining how we expand the testing. one of the things i said at the weekly saturday rally at the action networks this saturday is what about those in low-income areas, in multi-dwellings, where you have people that live in housing developments? people that go to church, and we have no access to the testing. how do we get testing sites, doctor, for example, maybe at churches and maybe at community centers? because were in communities that dont have a lot of health facilities. b...

Country. >> right. again, were at a stage now where containment, trying to keep people from coming in with the virus, were past that point. now what we have is transmission within society. how do you make a society where the virus has already entered and spread, how do you make it less vulnerable? testing is essential. keeping sick people at home, essential. keeping large groups from gathering. if you have a thousand people in a room, the odds that several of them do not have the virus is increa...

Lack thereof across the country in just a moment. but i just have to ask basic common sense. you heard dr. gostin talking about staying away from hospitals, nursing homes, anywhere where there could be people at risk, not to have them exposed. you walk into an er, and chances are, theres going to be 20 people over the age of 60 and 70 sitting in the er, trying to get care. why are there not coronavirus testing and treatment centers being set up in localities across the country so you dont have p...

So it makes sense that there is so much that we dont know. whats so critical is for people to understand whats happening. we in america need to practice what we preach. we talk about other countries needing to have transparent, honest communication. not suppressing information, but being open with the public. we node to eed to do that here every level of government. >> reporter: what should we be telling our friends, neighbors, and patients this week? >> as we get more testing, we are going to f...