It will be the hardest moment for Many Americans and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten the curve among everyone has to do there per. Doing theircans are part even in states where they have not had a shelter in place order but if you cant give us 30 days, governors, give us what you can so we dont go on the Health Care System in the next week and then let us reassess that last point. At a minimum. You have to be rosie the riveter. Part. Ve to do your host also yesterday from the white house, the White House Task force held a briefing starting at 7 00 p. M. Andident trump led off talked about the tough days ahead but also said there is light at the end of the tunnel. The president. We see light at the end of the tunnel. Things are happening. We are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. Hopefully, in the nottoodistant future, we will be very proud of the job we all did. You can never be happy when so many people are dying, but we are going to be very proud of the job we did to keep the debts down to on a death to keep the deaths down to an absolute minimum. Host the president yesterday from the white house also at the briefing yesterday, dr. Anthony fauci of the n i h, followed up on the president s comments about the light at the in of the tunnel and about what to expect this week. Dr. Fauci when you look at the indications that dr. Birx and the president were talking about, we see a threatening out of cases, and you dont sue the realization of what that means until two weeks later. Right now we are seeing, as we all set correctly, but this is probably going to be a really bad week. That is a reflection of what happened two and a half weeks ago. If we start seeing a flattening or stabilization of cases, what you are hearing about attention light at the end of the tunnel doesnt take away from the fact that tomorrow, the next day will look really bad. We always talk about a two and a half week lag. A couple of people asked that question it is really not incompatible with what were saying. With regard to what we tell the american people, what we have been telling them all along, that the only tool or the best will we have is mitigation. We know it worked in other countries and we are seeing how it is working here. So if we really want to make sure that we dont have these kinds of rebounds that we are worried about, it is mitigation, mitigation, mitigation. Host dr. Anthony fauci yesterday from the white house. Another briefing is scheduled for today, you can also watch about here on cspan. Here is a front page of the wall street journal. U. S. Braces for a brutal week as the death toll nears 10,000. 9006 hundred 48 americans have died so far from ,oronavirus the number 9000 648 americans have died so far from coronavirus. The total recovered, that number has been ticking up as well, over 17,000 at this point. Up our phone calls, 2027488000 if you are on the eastern and central time zones, 2027488001 if you are on the mountain or pacific time zones. First out of ohio, good morning. Caller good morning, how are you today . Host i am doing all right. Caller i am in my 50s and i am wondering, what is going with this administration . We cant call it republican or this is hysteria. This is the United States of cant we get a respirators and masks and gloves . This is trivial. Come on. If you dont have an answer, please dont say anything. But the people who claim to be the ones who are supposed to c. D. C. , if at the you will not allow us to talk about it i feel from my i feel for my grandchildren. I would like to see them grow up some but times are hard enough. I dont have more to say about it. Host how is governor to one how is governor dewine doing . Caller at least he was a person and did what he was supposed to do and tried to save lives. It is the United States of america. Are you kidding me . People in china and all these other places, how come there is no coronavirus in north korea . What are they doing that is so great . We just cant get respirators and masks to the people who are supposed to help us . Children, old people, middle aged people, even the Prime Minister in the uks in the hospital. From the coronavirus. Come on. That is all i have to say. Host from ohio to florida. Good morning. Caller cspan audience, i just wanted to make some points about i think there is a clear correlation them if you want to look at it that way, between climate disruption perhaps releasing more melted ice, which is causing more water, which is causing more most gators. Mosquitoes. These new viruses being the these from the arctic are millions of years torment and coming into contact with species millions of years dorm ant. And coming into contact with species. This will be an issue we will have to address while we are trying to research the economy. I think the resurgence of the economy will be built around anticipating what may be looming as a result of the mouse down. I think it has been downplayed by the administration because they have been trying to go back to the fossil free will fossil fuel industries that have generated what we are seeing with climate disruption. Host from what you are seeing in florida, do you think people have woken up more to the issue of Climate Change in the past couple of weeks . Caller no, sir. That is just my opinion. I am an educator and i have been doing athome services with all types of children, all kinds of income groups, from the wealthy to the low income groups, and i just feel that people are still not quite getting it. Life itself is a delicate entity. I think it is based on more things that they want or want to Pay Attention to. Paradigmo change that of thinking. It has to become survival, spiritual, help your brother. I have been trying to talk about those kinds of things for years. , run in my shoes , where i bring about the point that it was going to take Something Like this to bring us together. Host this is cindy out of norwalk, connecticut, good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Just a few points. Wanted to,l, i just if everybody is listening, christian Care Hospital in delaware desperately needs and masks. S n95 my daughter is a pulmonary nurse and she has had to reuse her mask for five days. It makes it really hard for her to stay calm and healthy and stay up all night. That being said, we were not prepared for this. We should have been prepared after 9 11. There is a lot of blame to go around. People want to look back at history. We were not prepared for pearl harbor. It took us six months to gear up to go to war, same with 9 11 and the same with this. So this is a historical brain fart, if you will. If you look throughout history. I dont recall any World Leaders seeing this coming and sounding the alarm. Said, Climate Change, i agree with that color. It is also the way we i agree with that caller. It is also the way we travel now. I think there needs to be more videoconferencing. I just think that travel aspect of it all host do you think people will travel a lot less after this . Caller for business but not for pleasure. Id know i know people who travel backandforth to china several times a month. I am wondering if it is necessary that we do that. It helps to facilitate the spread of viruses like this. Why it was as big of an issue, because travel was not as big as it is now. Host before we go, how is your daughter doing . Caller she is trying to keep her courage up. We have been leaning on our faith a lot. Healthy,ung, she is but she does get exposed to heavy viral loads. I feel for her. I am very proud of her. Host our best wishes to her as well. Rosanne in san diego, california. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. The story from the caller from connecticut was really sad, what is happening to our first responders. It should not the happening. It is a tragedy. What you said yesterday, lots of death. Lots of death. That is how hes had it. Then i remembered that is actually a hoax. Right . Toi dont really know what do, because the leadership in this country has completely failed. After hearing the story from the lady who just talked to you about her daughter not being able to have a mask for five days, it is just incredibly sick. Trump should be doing something more about it than talking about lots of death. Host story from usa today, governors found that they are tested in the extreme. How has governor some done governor newsome done . Caller he has been doing really well feared he has been on top of it unlike a lot of other governors. Host thank you. James from new york, good morning. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Caller i am just a little upset with the leadership. Again thatory house we have, running our country. It is like a blind bus driver with a bus full of our kids. Nobody is doing anything about it. We are just sitting there looking at him every day and rebounding comments. Rebound them,to because he repeats everything. He thinks he sounds so good. I am a vietnam vet. 4 the eighth of this month, days after king had gotten assassinated in 1968, i was drafted. I got bad feet. He said he had pumps in his feet. Ill tell you, my feet are scary, but i went through it. And i am glad. My flag since he has been in office has been upside down, ok . I couldnt believe he went in. The first time i ever heard of trump, he put that skating rink in. He has just been a clown all through. Let news, the press me tell you, the first time he was interviewed about his opinion about iraq, he answered uh, yeah, i agree. Host who do you look to for leadership right now . Caller i look for biden. He got gassed. So what . He has been there since the 1970s. He is a cleancut guy, he is a gy guy, this or that, but every time a situation pops up, he will get the proper fit for that situation. This guy got old friends. Let me give you a story host you bring up joe biden. He was also on the sunday shows weekday, on abcs this talking about not only the coronavirus response, but also what it might mean for the upcoming Democratic National convention, saying it might need to be moved. This is joe biden. [video clip] mr. Biden we will have to do a convention, we may have to do a virtual convention. We should be thinking about that right now. The idea of holding a convention will be necessary, but we may not be it were put 30,000 people in one place. That is very possible. Lets see where it is. What we do between now and then will dictate a lot of that as well. My point is i think you just have to follow the science, listen to the experts, listen to the faucis of the world. We have never allowed any crisis , from the civil war straight to we haveemic of 16 never let democracy take a second fiddle. We can both have a democracy, and elections, and at the same time, correct and the public health. But i think it is time we start thinking about how we are going to hold elections. Whether we will have to spend a lot of time figuring if weather what we do, is it going to be by mail . How are we going to make it available to everybody . And i think that has to be host i know you talk to bernie. Host david is joining us this morning from anderson, south carolina. Good morning. David, are you with us . You have to stick by your phone and turn down your television if you want to join in in the conversation. It is easier to hear if you turned on the television while you are waiting. Patrick from south carolina, hank, good morning. Caller i wanted to chime in on this corona i hear a lot of blame this morning going around, blaming this person are that person. I hadnt heard the word china come up in any of the conversations. I think that is where it started. It didnt start from melting ice, i can tell you that. Coal killedld viruses [laughter] one person said it started from melting ice on the south pole. Another person chimed in about what why we hadnt heard anything from russia or north korea. Well, i think the media kind of have something to do with that in russia and north korea. They dont report on it. [laughter] that is why you havent heard. Wake up, people wake up thank you. Int that was hank south carolina. This is the opinion section of Washington Times this morning, looking at the media and the blame that is going around. Coronavirus now, politics later, please, how the media has covid19. If you want to read his column, it is on todays Washington Times. Next caller. Caller i have two points, one generally on the crisis and one on pearl harbor. I always thought about the confederation and what it was like to live in the country under that document. You live in a nation but you dont have a stable federal government. The federal government has no power and all that states are doing their own thing, there is no stable leadership. I am now getting that experience, because every state has a different covid19 response. It has led to chaos. And the federal government, because of the president s incompetence, has not addressed that. The government stockpiling mask, it is nonsensical. Doing their job. I am lucky to live in new york where i have a governor who is competent. What if i lived in mississippi . The governor yesterday was commemorating the confederacy. Is that a constructive use of time right now . Host on the first point, the mask from the New York Times showing the map from the New York Times showing states that have stayathome orders, some 311 million americans living in states with stayathome orders. We will talk about state powers to impose those orders coming up at 8 30 this morning. Scott burris will be joining us from Temple University on that topic. Go ahead, you had another topic he wanted to bring up. Caller so with the comparison with pearl harbor, nobody knew what was coming. But the government stepped up and had to deal with the aftermath. With this crisis, we absolutely could have predicted it. Yesterday, headline Trump Administration ended. Andemic Early Warning program we hada lab in wuhan, china dedicated entirely to testing corona viruses and the federal administration defunded it. They dont value the work of science and the c. D. C. So i cant blame the president for the development of the virus, but the defunding of an organization that could have protected us, the disregard for repeatedand the attempts to defund the cbc, and then his rhetoric calling it a hoax . Not advocating for social distancing . That is why this crisis is so bad. It is a prices that has been borne about because of incompetence at the white house. Host edward out of liverpool, texas, good morning. Caller good morning. I am 68 years old. I live on the gulf coast of texas near galveston island. I wright a motorcycle up and down the coast a lot. I ride a motorcycle up and down the coast a lot. At the coast yesterday, i seen people walking a seawall, tens here and there. The beach was closed by the city, finally. Just a few days ago that they finally closed it. Then i went to a laporte, texas and they were on the beach but they were not backed up or nothing like that. Is, howm worried about come after what i saw last night on msnbc, the documentary with italy, when i saw what they are going through, they are not getting wiped out or anything, but it is spreading so easily that people Walking Around in the Grocery Stores and not Wearing Masks i am saying, or obama, i have been doing this i am saying, wow. I have been doing the same thing. Why are you not Wearing Masks if you step outside . Why are you wondering around . Why arent you getting some sun close by where you live . It is a little more scarier than what we are getting from our government when they are saying what is about to happen. They said we are going to get hours in the next week or so. It is starting to pileup, but it is not bad yet. To, my god, what happened those people in italy, i couldnt watch the whole thing. It was really bad. Host speaking of news from overseas, one of our colors this up this morning. Prime minister Boris Johnson is testing positive for coronavirus 10 days ago, that is the news out of london and this is a story from the New York Times , mr. Johnson had been in isolation in his apartment next door to 10 downing street where he was running a temperature. His aides said they expected him to finish his sofa solution on friday but he still looked visibly weakened when he made a statement in a video list last week. Advice of ahe doctor, mr. Johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests. This is a precautionary step as the Prime Minister continues to have symptoms of coronavirus 10 days after testing positive for the virus. Thestory noting that British Foreign secretary dominic rob is expected to lead cabinet meetings on the pandemic today and of the governments succession plan. He would take up mr. Johnsons duties if he became incapacitated. That is from the New York Times. Some of our viewers also tweeting about this this morning Queen Elizabeth of england delivering a historic address on sunday, acknowledging the challenges brought by the coronavirus. Aside from her annual christmas speeches, it was only the fourth time since her reign began on 1952 that she addressed this. Is Queen Elizabeth from her address yesterday. [video clip] i am speaking to you at what i know is an increasingly challenging time. A time of this option in the life of our country. A disruption that has brought grief to some, Financial Difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily life of us all. Thent to flank everyone on nhs i want to thank everyone on the nhs frontline as well as Health Care Workers and those carrying out a social roles who selflessly continue their daytoday duties outside the home in support of us all. I am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated, and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times. I also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, and helping to protect the vulnerable, and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lo