Well thanks for having me on. You know this is its not an opportune time to start to defund any efforts at Public Health i think that should be hopefully obvious to most people you know donald trump is no fan of Global Institution and i think he certainly would want to take steps to make sure that blame is placed didnt places other than where he is im not suggesting that the w. H. O. Did its job perfectly here i think the weather today b. H. O. The c. B. C. Or anybody else plenty of blame to go around but in the middle of a crisis to take the feet up the street that you need in the middle of a global epidemic doesnt make a lot of sense to me was the obama admin and what the Obama Administration is you know would have been prepared for this. Well look its hard its hard to prove a negative i think i think id say 2 things one is there was a. Structure in place that would have been able to respond more quickly and i think thats thats the 1st thing the 2nd thing is that. They would have pro
Something and weve all been late before you can usually recover but when youre 2 months late and something thats growing exponentially. Its kind of letting a speedboat swimming after a speedboat its 15 feet ahead of you by the time you get 15 feet its 100 feet ahead of you so that was very costly time so i dont think this is an easy crisis to handle i wouldnt claim for a 2nd that anybody would handle it perfectly but it would have been the warmest year if we would have been able to get out ahead of it a couple months earlier do you regard trump as a wartime president. Well lets think about what our best wartime president s do they arm their troops they read the data theyre in kept to kl of good news they are decisive they move their troops around and they make quick decisions and they follow the data theyre not instinctual so i would love to say i would love for President Trump to take on those characteristics those are his i thought tendencies i think hes more instinctual i think hes
Whats your reaction and into. Strong and the w. H. O. Well thanks for having me on. You know this is its not an opportune time to start to defund any efforts at Public Health i think that should be hopefully obvious to most people you know donald trump is no fan of Global Institution i think he certainly would want to take steps to make sure that blame is placed didnt places other than where he is im not suggesting that the w. H. O. Did its job perfectly here i think the weather today b. H. O. The c. B. C. Or anybody else plenty of blame to go around but in the middle of a crisis to take the feet up the street that you need in the middle of a global epidemic doesnt make a lot of sense to me was the obama admin and what the Obama Administration is you know would have been prepared for this. Well look its hard its hard to prove a negative i think i think id say 2 things one is there was a. Structure in place that would have been able to respond more quickly i think thats thats the 1st th
A wartime president. Well lets think about what our best wartime president s do they arm their troops they read the data theyre in kept to kl good news they are decisive they move their troops around and they make quick decisions and they follow the data theyre not instinctual so i would love to say i would love for President Trump to take on those characteristics those are his i think tendencies i think hes more instinctual i think hes more like to be praised and sees himself in the problem i dont think he has made it a priority to arm the front line namely the doctors and nurses but he should and i would give him all the credit in the world if he if he did. As of about Nursing Homes the best data and its very incomplete says that at least 2500 Nursing Homes in 36 states have corona virus infections what the federal government is not tracking the incidence of call the 1000 and factional deaths in Nursing Homes why not. Well look we have a 1000000 and a half People Living in Nursing Ho
Human activity has brought us to the brink of the worlds 6th major extinction of it and the people in this film just come take it anymore. Donald trump opens up a new front in the co the 19 war this time against the World Health Organization the experts will weigh in on this edition of politics. On tuesday President Trump announced that he would do with the whole contributions to the World Health Organization and blame the agency for not alerting his in ministration to the dangers of the coronavirus for reaction im joined by Andrew Sullivan former acting administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid during the Obama Administration he joins us from minnesota whats your reaction and into. Strong and the w. H. O. Well thanks for having me on. You know this is its not an opportune time to start to defund any efforts at Public Health i think that should be hopefully obvious to most people you know donald trump is no fan of Global Institution i think he certainly would want to take