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CSPAN Washington Journal August 20, 0415

Association of American Railroad president on Railroad Freight and passenger travel during coronavirus. President trump is expected to name a commission on reopening the u. S. As the coronavirus abates. Plans are in place to coordinate reopening. Good morning. Welcome to washington journal. Who should take the lead in the reopening of the u. S. Here are the lines. Mountain and pacific, send us the reporting this morning of the wall street the two groups of governors said they would coordinate efforts to gradually sociald as this is andes distancing. President trump said he had authority on restarting the economy. This comes after a decline in daily infection rates, propped officials to express cautious optimism. The same reporting in the Washington Times. Control of the reopening. West coast box trumps claim of ultimate authority. They are crafting plans for reopening schools and businesses in their state, putting them on a collision course with President Trump. He said he had the ultimate authority to reopen states. This is what he had to say on the issue. The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful. The president calls the shots. Back the states up. Its a decision for the president of the United States. We will work with the states. Its very important. Microchip, they are pinpointed. I would step in so fast. They cant do anything without the approval of the president of the United States. It is possible he will name that reopening commission. Briefing, he expanded on his comments on the federal government and the president s authority. The president s authority. When somebody is the president of the United States, the authoritys total. Thats the way its got to be. The governors know that. You have a couple of bands excuse me. Of have a couple of bands democrat governors. They will agree to it. The authority of the president having to do with the subject we are talking about is total. Critics challenging trumps authority to reopen the country dont want him to get any political credit for make it happen. Its irrelevant whether governors reopen, its time to put people back to work. Businesses who are deemed necessary. Essentialt get labels. Kim reynolds made it clear we will decide when to open the state. To lakeland,t florida. Caller im doing ok. Not going to its happen. And right now, we still dont around, andts to go what you are asking people to do risk theird and lives for a situation in this country where you dont have any control over how many people actually got the virus, the ones that they have as far as 1000 plus that have actually been tested. You have a lot more Walking Around better at home, isolating themselves, and you are asking them to go to work in two weeks, and most of them have the virus, and they dont even know it. There is not a building in this country, businesswise, that is set up for a virus, when you put people in a crowded situation, and you are expecting them to work and do a full days job. It is not going to happen. They are going to kick the can down the road, because until you control the virus and the hospital gets the account, you cannot open the government. Host your governor is ron desantis, right . Any plans on reopening there . Caller no, and i think he will be the one who basically will try it, because he is a trump supporter, and he does what trump says, but if you look at it from a realistic standpoint, we do not have control of this virus, and if you do not have control of it, then there is no chance for you to actually put people in harms way. A leader is what doing, politico, macron sets out a plan for winding down restrictive measures from next month. To add in winchester, virginia, good morning. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call this morning. I think the decision should be left up to governors, not to someone who is proven to be as incompetent as donald trump has shown us. , we are seeing the most incompetent person running our country, and he is going to go down in history as the death president. More people will die under his presidency and than any other president in the history of the United States, and donald trump is very proud, achievements of being number one, so i believe donald trump wants the country to continue in the path it has gone, and the sooner we get this incompetent fool out of office, and that wont be until 2020, and i am not a joe biden guy, but donald trump has got to go. Incompetent, killing americans, every day he is killing americans because of his incompetency. Host to lafayette, tennessee, we hear from michael next. Caller good morning, cspan. Host good morning. Caller i am going to give it up to the governors. I think they should make the decision. I am very fortunate that my primary care physician is a disease infection specialist at vanderbilt. He told his three children, stay in place until june 1, and then we will reevaluate, because we do not have control of this virus. We do not have the vaccine, we do not have anything to fight it except for staying home and keeping the distance, like what we are doing, so i am going to listen to him. Iam able to stay home, and just go to the Grocery Store, and that is it. Host how long has he been your doctor . Caller in 2005, when i was diagnosed with hepatitis b, he cured me three years later, and i asked if he could stay on, and he said no problem. One of the leading Infectious Disease experts at vanderbilt. So i am going to listen to him. He is telling his three children that are grown, i think they live in three states, he is telling them that. I am going to go with science on that. I would not trust donald trump as far as i could throw him. He is just an embarrassment. The guy who just called, i agree with him fully, he has got to go. Host ok, we will hear from stephen in michigan. Caller good morning. Host good morning. Caller thank you for cspan. I was watching the Daily Briefing yesterday, and when President Trump said he had ultimate power, i just leapt up out of my chair. He is not a king, and we need people with experience on this. Is for himself. We do not need that. We need instructions on what to do. I just went to the hospital for a dislocated shoulder, and fortunately, i did not catch the virus, but they were taking my temperature and everybody elses temperature every five minutes. It was unreal. Home with ating recovering shoulder, and i am watching him just make a full of himself. He does not deserve to be king. He is not king. Has ultimate power, but he is wrong. Host similar comments, stephen, from Governor Cuomo in new york. This is the headline of the watchmen examiner, that covered this briefing yesterday, too. We dont have a king. Cuomo disputes trumps claim about authority. We want to remind you, too, that all of the briefings were on cspan, those are available to you online at cspan. Org coronavirus. Cochrane wisconsin is next up. Jeff. Hello there. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call pete i would like to give a hooray for all of the people who voted in wisconsin during a pandemic and got jill corrupt korafsky voted in on the Supreme Court. And i agree with everyone else, President Trump is not king trump, and i would like to have the agriculture people in the states try to help the farmers that have times and times of vegetables in their fields, and they have nowhere to go, because the schools are closed, the colleges are closed. We need that. Host what is the solution to that . Feedinghehead of america on the other day. We talked about this. Milk,s dumping unused dairy products. What is the solution, do you think, jeff . Well, they are going to have to get together without foodservice of america and stuff like that and the farm bureaus of the states. American farm bureau, or every farm bureau in their state should be looking for areas where they can put that produce and the milk and stuff like that, because it is a big deal. Andan, stores are empty, their stuff in the field. Guest and his cochran, where you are, a rural city . Yep, i am on the Mississippi River about 100 miles south of minneapolis, st. Paul, on the wisconsin side. Host thank you for calling in. Jeff mentioned the primary. Joe biden one matt. He also got the endorsement of senator Bernie Sanders. Trump pickn trunk in wisconsin vote. A down ballot vote that didnt demonstrated a strong vote by mail, came as a shock to republicans and democrats alike in wisconsin, where contests were president , governor, and the states highest court have all been decided by about 30,000 votes or less, following weeks of democratic anger over republicans of Holding Elections republicans insistence of Holding Elections despite the coronavirus. Is peter. Ichigan, it go ahead. I amr i will tell you, tired of listening to these people call up and downplay our president. Our president is the best president we have ever had in this country. You know, he stops the people from coming to this country from china, and everyone is crying, oh, you are a racist, you are a blah. Obiae, blah, blah, he played all the clips yesterday on the damn tv, showing you people that, but they, and everything, they just went off the air as soon as they showed that, they cut the broadcast. They dont care about the people watching their own channels in this. Host peter, what network were you watching where they cut the broadcast . Caller i was watching fox, but i change the channel, and i could see the others, as soon as they started talking about them and showing the dates and that, oh, you are, you know, we are not going to let our viewers to see that, and they go off to their own opinion people. They are ridiculous, and they put down the president , they try to impeachment, they tried russia, they tried everything, and now they are trying it on a world scale level, and he is going to come out on top again. Host peter, to let you know, in terms of watching the briefing, watch it here. Whatever time it is on this afternoon, 5 00 or 5 30 eastern, whatever time it is, we show the whole thing all the way through. Most of the governors briefings, we show the whole thing all of the way through, so we hope you turn in for that. Caller are you still there . Host yes, we are here. Caller ok. I watched it on cspan, but yesterday i was watching the five, and they cut into the host i see. Caller but it is the same thing every time. It is the same thing every time for the last four years new , putting him down, i mean, he could cure cancer, and they would say he has not done it right. These people in china kept the. Ecrets host this is lizzie who tweets, the people will open further governor. You cannot keep people in their homes for much longer. Michael text from oregon, trump does not have the ultimate authority. The states do. There is not a onesizefitsall solution. Each state confronts a different solution, so it is up to each state to determine when to open. John from chillicothe, ohio, the president has all of the experts by his side, so i think what he said about working with the governor sandy experts best. I want to take a look at the Johns Hopkins University Worldwide cases and deaths, now approaching 2 million cases and the total deaths so far, 120,449. Cases ofers, 582,000 covid19, 23,649 deaths. We hear from steve next in san jose, california. Caller well, i totally agree with a couple of the comments on your previous caller, or what you just stated just a few seconds ago. That was my point exactly. Has the experts, however, i believe the power rests with the states. However, this has got to be a joint responsibility to opening these areas of the country up. Now, i trust to run. He has done an extremely, extremely excellent job. I would give him an a minus, not perfect, but an a minus is excellent, and i would trust him, because he met dougal, the goal wasl, and to flatten the curve. That has always been the goal. Now, when the country opens back up, this is not going to go away. We are going to have death and destruction, but we will be prepared. Now, theres going to be people in the news claiming that because we are still having death and attraction, that will be with us for a while, that he has failed. No, he has put us in a position to be able to handle this. Extremely important, yesterday, and that was not one person has gone without a ventilator, not one person has gone without a bed, and that was the fear from the beginning. Everybody has received health care. Nd that is what i have to say host great, thanks, steve. We go to massachusetts, and we hear from sheila. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. This business of who is in charge, the feds for the states, i am thinking we are in the midst of i declared National Emergency. The president ives the primary power to decide how this opening is going to proceed. I think what he will do is he will declare that the emergency has ended, and that he will allow the governors, with federal guidelines, to reopen carefully, with caution, and with concern for those who are infected with this virus. I am tired of these democrats calling up, bashing the president day after day after day for 300 and however long he has been in office. It has been every single day, nobody can find anything good that this president has done for this country. Now is the time that we must join together and get the economy going, get people back to work, and have some peace in this country. Provide with this type of division in our political way. Be prepared. President trump will be president again in 2020, so all of these democrats can just get sob ready,urt because they will have to use it for the next five years. Host it was fox news reported yesterday, some of the initial reports, that the president is putting together a commission on the reopening of america. Some further information on that, this is actually reported in the politico playbook this morning, but they are quoting a New York Times story from today, saying the president spent sunday assembling advisory officials with the like treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin and a host of other cabinet secretaries, but he later ruled out his eldest daughter, a ivanka trump, and his soninlaw, Jared Kushner, despite earlier discussions of including them. Outside figures could also be seated including investment , blackstone. It is unclear if Health Experts like dr. Fauci would be included. Again, more from the New York Times, the president s task force will include members from the cabinet, including mr. Mnuchin, wilbur ross, sonny perdue, the agriculture secretary, elaine chao, transportation secretary, the energy secretary, eugene scalia, labor secretary, and housing secretary ben carson, trade representative Robert Lighthizer and russell vote, the acting director of the office of management and budget. Reported, New York Times also says it is likely that mark meadows, the president s acting chief of staff come up would be the chair of that commission. Lets hear from barney in bradenton, florida. Go ahead. You are on the air. Go ahead. Barney in bradenton, are you listening . Well, sorry about that, sir. We are going to go on to lia in seattle, washington. Caller hi. Good morning. Guesthost good morning. Caller i think it should be the governors. Isly power the president has as a lifelong democrat, i never understood why republicans have always said states rights, state rights, states rights, but now it is and critically important that the states have the rights. I have family in louisiana, washington, d. C. , missouri, texas, in new york, and i certainly dont want their lives in the hands of mr. Trump. Host alright, we will go next to nearby oregon. Actually, this is oregon, illinois, i am corrected. Richard, go ahead. Caller good morning, cspan. Preaching the broadcasting of all of the briefings, i glued us of the noticed some local briefings have not put the president on. This is john from connecticut i have on, right . Caller no, this is richard from oregon. Host the local networks in your town or not showing your governors briefing . Caller not on the local stations, like abc. Host oh, really . Caller no. Host go ahead. Go ahead with your comment, richard. Caller my problem with the states are they cannot even handle balancing the budget. They have to return to the federal budget, which determines that summonses are illegal, but they can go ahead and sell it, thoughotally states, they are not going to get no assistance at all from the federal government. Balance the budget, do things right. Particularly our governor in illinois, he is a billionaire. I dont think a billionaire has any problem with money. So when this comes about again, you are doing things that the government has said to the states you are not allowed to do that. The states dont care, you are going to do it anyway. Host all right, richard. Fauci, when President Trump we tweeted a fauci, here dr. Jolted a conservative Fringe Movement that viewed it as acknowledgment of their cause and the fire county was ready a replacement, a controversial scientist who is pushing a variety of claims that range from dubious to disputed to outright false. He is saying and and and since he aided view at oz with the oddsal computer the at with the medical community and research. Host dr. Fauci was on washington journal prime time last night, and was asked what he thought when he saw that how , that fire county fire fauci. Guest you know, you are going to see things like this all the time, that was the result of an answer to a question that i was aven by a reporter, which was valid question, a hypothetical question. Somebody did not like the way that i answered it, so they hashtagged it fire fauci. That is it. That is the world that we live in. It does not bother me. Host but can be president fire you . What well, it depends on you mean by fire me. I am on the task board, serving at his pleasure. He could report remove me from that. I was with him for quite a

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