Republicans spoke to reporters. You can find that online at cspan. Org. So did the president. He was at the republican lunch and spoke to reporters after that. Again those remarks at cspan. Org. Also to let you know, Coverage Later today the White House CoronavirusTask Force Led by Vice President mike pence will brief reporters at 5 30 eastern. That will be over on cspan3. The u. S. House is back at 3 30 eastern. Theyll vote on recommendations for modernizing congress. Well have that live for you here on cspan when they return. In the meantime, well take you back to todays washington journal. State. So peterson is a democrat of a different era. Hes got a good shot at winning reelection. Win reelection, whatever republican when their primary would certainly win that seat. Peterson is one of the rare members of congress who has built himself a reputation that transcends party. There arent a lot of those across the country. Host is there another one off the top of your head . Pete king from new york. Democrats have a pretty good shot of winning his district. Host john. Republican. Good morning. Caller thank you for cspan. I have a statement to make about Bernie Sanders and then i have something to say about the coronavirus. Have is in your research and talks with different people, what are some of the reasons they say they support Bernie Sanders . Because Bernie Sanders whether we like it or lack or not, is out of touch with his own party. Free health care for all because it just cant be done. When i talked to a lot of the people in palm beach, especially the cuban people will tell you that socialism has never worked. On the coronavirus i think we all do need to come together on things to get same some things done. Do like we used to do in the old days. We would just come together and help each other. Relatives andly so forth. Little things like that. Accomplish a lot. Thats all i have to say. So why sanders. The people i talked to at sanders rallies, they want to revolution. I think the system is stacked guy, those little who are not powerful. Found just a huge number of people who gravitate to that and to his point, there are a lot of people who come out for him because of him and would not show up for any other politician anywhere. Sanders attracts a group of people who want to see the system blown up and refashioned in a way that would that to them. On your neighbors, excellent. I love to hear it. Lets all do that. Host we will head to minneapolis. Douglas. Independent. Good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I dont know how people can continue to defend President Trump with his most ignorant kind of conduct regarding so many issues. But about the virus for example. He has come out and said that people can even go back to work during this time and it will just go away. Him. Hen they defend its indefensible. Peopleer aspect is the who are panicking about socialism. You already have socialism here. Public schools. Roads. Public hospitals. I can go on down the list. Most people have no clue what socialism is. They just regurgitate and dont read or anything. Host we talked about President Trumps proposed economic response to the coronavirus. Raising the payroll tax cut, relief for hourly workers. Do you support those . I support it. Its late and there was a comment made that people dont prepare. Will obviously south korea was prepared because they have run so many tests. Its incredible. Not beingws you about prepared and that he allocated this money after we were already in crisis. And then for the people talking about not testing people that are detained, its just an ignorant idea because the people can go back, spread the virus, wherever they come from and it reenters us in larger quantities. There are a couple things that the president has a limited supply of and can never get get get back. The clock is always ticking whether its a fouryear clock or eightyear clock. The other is trust. The president squanders trust that americans have in him to handle a crisis, he might never recover. We saw that with george hwb bush. After Hurricane Katrina and mishandling what happened in new ratings his approval fell and never came back. Not into calling this somebodys katrina or Something Like that but if this response goes really poorly for President Trump, his solid base may start to crumble pretty fast. Host who are the trusted government officials during ebola and are any of them still around today . One was tom friedman, the director of centers for Disease Control and prevention. Hes now running a global nonprofit. I spent an hour on the phone with him trying to learn lessons from the outbreaks in his career. This is not the first outbreak. There will be more in the future so we need to learn the lessons. Still inho was government you have probably or seenthe sunday shows him during their briefings. He is the director of the National Institute for allergy and infectious diseases. Hes been there since the reagan administration. Trump is the sixth president he has served and he is a guy who takes these really complicated questions and translates them for us. One of virus hits, he shows up on the sunday shows. He has a very distinctive brooklyn accent. He was apparently back in the day the loan yankees fan and dr. Territory. A world leading aids researcher who works his way up through nih. There are not many people in the world who have treated more aids patients than he has. He is one of those people who t exudes confidence competence. There were some concerns that he was not allowed to speak as freely as he should. So becauseted doing he eggs is the expert. And yet he is warning about this. I think its fair to warn about the dangers of the coronavirus. Not to scare anybody put to spur people from prepare to prepare. As simple as washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough. Of shakingng instead hands. Im cool with just a wave. The elbow thing is weird. The hill. Com. It came out on saturday. The author reid wilson with us this morning. Delaware. Yce in republican. Good morning. Caller ive been listening to the show. This whole thing started with the democrats. Just another propaganda of donald trump. Hes doing everything he can. Theyve brought in the most leading people. I think its a scare tactic. Its all about the election and the Republican People i know are just sick and tired of it. Host i hope this thing doesnt become actually partisan. The coronavirus is scary and it is going to infect a lot of people. It already has infected more than 100,000 people around the world. The notion that this is a scare tactic is troubling to me because we have the greatest Health Care System in the world. We can stop Something Like this but it takes a concerted effort beyond just doctors and nurses. We have to engage in the practices that keep us safe. I have a three and a halfyearold at home. Im trying to teach him to wash his hands. No reason to be afraid, but reason to take precautionary steps and do things like wash your hands and stay home when you are sick. Host its about 116,000 confirmed cases around the world. Total deaths over 4000. Numberal recovered continuing to take up. Look at the orange line. That is the case count in china. You can see that its bending downward. Theres a bell curve that happens with infections. Experiencingey are fewer and fewer cases. The source of the outbreak is starting to show fewer cases. But they took really extreme steps that are not available to the united states. We are not going to lock down whole cities and prevent people from traveling. Which means its incumbent upon steps that are super simple. Thats our version of the measures they have taken in china. Americans are smart. We are smart enough to do this if people tell us. Host in vermont. This is jeanette. A democrat. Good morning. You are on with reid wilson. Caller im a native vermonter and i work on volunteered with Bernie Sanders for 30 years ever since he was the mayor. And then a big issue came up in vermont and it was the f35s. And f35 is capable of carrying nuclear missiles. And we are in a small community. I live about five miles from burlington. Bernie sanders was for the f35. We have a shortage of housing. In order to get the f35s to be located here and Bernie Sanders was a main leader of this, we had to take out at least 10 million worth of housing. Housing wasw income bulldozed because bernie wanted f35s. Well the f35s are totally capable of carrying Nuclear Weapons. For peace. Was he always said i dont want the proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and we said bernie, then you cant have it both ways. He goes, they are coming. End of story. And all these people that have supported bernie, thats why he only got 50 of the vote this time in the primaries. Talk on one side of his mouth and he will say another thing to his constituents. Host this is the story from july of last year. Bernie sanders faces backlash over the 1. 2 trillion war machine he brought to vermont. In my nonvirus and nonpresident ial life i cover what happens outside the beltway and to her point, one of the themes thats cropping up in cities around the country is a lack of affordable housing. And im not just talking about seattle and san francisco. Moines,ing about des iowa. Minneapolis is seeing rent skyrocket. We are experiencing a housing crisis around the country that is increasingly the focus of state and local governments. I talked to the speaker of the iowa state house and hes really worried about the supply of housing as a cap on Economic Growth in northern iowa. If you cant have workers coming into fill jobs, the companies cant get bigger. Youre going to see a lot more elected officials paying attention to the housing supply in coming years. I feel like that was a very odd tangent for the rest of the conversation that weve had. Host the house is getting ready to come in this morning. Calls asn, your phone we sit with reid wilson this morning. Denise in college park, maryland. Caller good morning. Thank you. Host go ahead. Caller i have a comment about the coronavirus and the voting. As far as the coronavirus im a little confused on why we are being told its ok to fly when youre guest just said earlier that the biggest problem we have with this virus in order to contain or end it is testing, testing, testing. If no ones being tested, why would it be safe to fly. So i have a problem with that. Voting, i like biden. I trust him. I believe in his track record. But i dont think he will be able to stand up to donald trump unless his debate is mostly attacking his policies, mannerisms, character and all the things that he did not do as president. And one other thing on the coronavirus. Why is he Walking Around shaking peoples hands. What type of leadership is that . To shake peoples hands during this outbreak . The shaking hands at the rallies, i wish you would stop that. Thats the one thing that man. Lets stop shaking hands for a little while. Thats a totally reasonable step to take. It doesnt cost anything. Host theres the picture that has gotten a lot of attention and the video of it from the Washington Post. The president shaking hands with supporters in orlando. He is just bathing in Hand Sanitizer these days. It would not be good if im not even going to go there. One of the things denise talked about is the challenges of joe budden debating. The guy who teaches democrats how to debate and highpressure situation is getting run clean. Former chief of staff to joe biden and al gore, also the guy who if you are reading Washington Post opeds about the coronavirus and the appropriate response, look at the byline. Host what was his background . Why did he get picked for that . The Obama Administration got criticized because he did not have a medical background. Thats not what is required for a job like this. What we need the most for an effort that is across departments and agencies and things like that as somebody who understands how Government Works and who to call to get agency x transport across the country to where its needed. How to get the leverage of government working and thats what you need most in a case like this. Its not a medical response. Its a government response. The government basically was acting to bolster the medical and Public Health systems. You dont need a medical expert to do that. You need somebody who knows how to get the supplies from the government to the health system. Host coronavirus likely to be a subject talked about on the floor of the house today. Livell take you there for gaveltogavel coverage. You can also continue watching on cspan3. We will be heading over to one of the subcommittees at the House Appropriations committee with the director of the centers for Disease Control. Robert redfield will be testifying there. Been talking a lot about super tuesday. Tonight our coverage of the results of the candidate speeches begins at 9 00 p. M. Here on cspan. We hope you join us for that. John in woodbury, new jersey. A republican. Go ahead. Caller good morning. Im on the air . Host whats your question . Caller keep saying they dont have money to pay the bills. What is an President Trump nstate the Corporate Tax doesnt President Trump reinstate the Corporate Tax and make it retroactive to 2006 . Thatt something republicans typically do. Increasing taxes especially in a retroactive way. Be an issue in the general election. The role of taxes and how much. Host in brooklyn. Democrat. Good morning. Caller i just had a quick comment. Thanks for doing this. Wilson,commented, mr. That americans are smart enough. Country only china or a like china would do Something Like shut down its country which obviously wouldnt be the case for Something Like italy. My question to you would be, whats it going to take for americans, and i hate to be polarizing on this, but americans that support trump so heavily, whats it going to take for them to realize that coronavirus isnt a political tool. Vice president mike pence is increasingly delivering a message of prepare and get ready. Areappropriate messages coming out of this administration. Maybe not from the president himself but at least from his people. So the message is getting across. If supporters he is delivering good advice about things like washing their hands. Those messages are getting across. I hope everybody listens to them and pays attention because they are coming from democrats, republicans, career officials, politicians and everybody across the spectrum. Its good advice. Less lets listen to it. Host reid [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] were going to win that election. For those who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. [cheers and applause] the president ial prime ears and caucuses continue tonight for six states. Including idaho, michigan, mississippi, missouri, north dakota and washington. Watch our campaign 2020 coverage of the candidate speeches and results. The u. S. House is back in just over 20 minutes at 3 30 eastern. We expect they will vote on recommendations for modernizing congress, a bill that debated earlier. Live house coverage of that of course here on cspan. On capitol hill a number of hearings and briefings on the coronavirus and the federal response to the outbreak. President trump was on capitol hill for the senate g. O. P. Lunch. Also meeting with house republicans. Were going to show you the president s comments to reporters next and also follow that with comments from Senate Republicans after their party lunch