The food and Drug Administration during the obama presidency. Moss from theliam Johns HopkinsBloomberg School of Public Health talks about the global effort to develop a vaccine. Good morning, this is washington journal for september 10. In the first hour we will take your comments about bob woodward about the early assessments of coronavirus. The president saying that initially he wanted to play it down. If you want us to let us know your thoughts on this release of the audiotapes from yesterday and the reaction to it. If you support the president and Vice President call into 2027488000. If you support joe biden and kamala harris, 2027488001. If you are undecided or supporting others, 2027488002. You can text us your thoughts at 2027488003. Wj and postcspan on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. The Washington Post headline from one of the excerpts from the audio releases from yesterday, i always wanted to play it down. This is coming from Bob Woodwards book say book rage. This are quoting from it is the Biggest National security threat. Thising the president that is going to be the roughest thing you have faced. It was 10 days later that the president called bob woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was more dire than what he had been saying publicly. One of the excerpts released was a conversation on february 7 of this year. This is between the president and bob woodward. What was president xi saying yesterday . Pres. Trump we were talking mostly about the virus, and i think he will have it in good shape, but it is a tricky situation. It goes through air, that is always tougher than touch. Touch, you do not have to touch things. With the air, you breathe the air, and it is past. That is a very tricky and delicate lawn and more deadly than even your strenuous flus. Losee do not realize we 25,000 or 30,000 people a year here. That is amazing. And then i say, is that the same thing . This is 5 e deadly, versus 1 and less than 1 . So, this is deadly stuff. Host that was the president from earlier in february of this year. Other audio excerpts were released, but it was the president yesterday at the white house talking about the release of the audio and making comments about the book. [video clip] can you address the concerns from the woodward book weather did you mislead the public by and downplaying the coronavirus and that you completed late you repeatedly did that. I think you said in order to reduce panic. The fact is that i am a cheerleader for this country, and i do not want people to betray frightened or create panic, as you say, and certainly i will not drive this country or the world into a frenzy. We want to show confidence, strength, strength as a nation, and that is what i have done and we have done well. We have done well from any standard view, look at our numbers compared to our country other countries. It has been an amazing job. Because thes sad incredible individuals working so hard including our Vice President , they have done this great job and have not been acknowledged by the news media, they should. Whether it is ventilators or you will see, soon with a vaccine and therapeutics. The job we have done is incredible. ,e do not want to instill panic we do not want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem that is a tremendous problem and scare everybody. I will tell you the other thing we immediately started buying all over the world, masks, gowns, and everything else, and we do not want to cause pricing to go up to a level that becomes almost unaffordable. In that sense, i agree with it. Have you reassure the American PublicGoing Forward that they can trust what you are saying . That is a big part of trust, we have to show leadership in the last thing you want to do is create a panic. This was a horrible thing sent to us by china and should have never happened. This is a disgusting, terrible situation that was foisted upon us, and we have to show you the best word is panic, we do not want to show panic, and that is exactly what i did, i was very open, it is another political hit job. Whether it was woodward or anyone else, you cannot show a sense of panic or else you will have bigger problems. [end video clip] host call us on the phone lines or text us at 2027488003. Post your tweets at cspan wj and our Facebook Page too. Biden a supporter of joe starts us off. Go ahead. Is why yes, my question are we still listening to this man . He has been doing all of this lying. He was saying that he did not want us to panic but he was trying to get his supporters to panic a couple of days ago. It is just appalling that we have to listen to this, and the last thing i wanted to say is that if anybody looked at the rise of hitlers from 1933, we are on the same track. He is saying some of the same stuff and the people, i do not know where these people come from, because they have that same ideology and they will believe anything. Host al in texas. From columbia, maryland. A supporter of President Trump. Caller thank you for taking my call. Maybe this is a thing that will knock donald trump off. This is another situation where, i am a father of small children, and if there is a thunderstorm coming towards my house, do i look at the radar and say what is going on . Do i tell my kids it is going to be horrible tonight when you go to bed it is going to be awful and send them to bed that way, or do i say do not worry about it we will take care of it . As a father that is what i do. As a Business Owner do i do the same thing to my employees . Do i paint a picture of hope and trying to get onto the other side . Yes i do. Do i tell them the daytoday struggles to try and get everybody over the hurdle, no i do not. That is what was going on there. And, i know people do not face see that. I know that everything that that man does, everything the man in hyperspace,ed and if he were to have said, this is horrible and it will kill a whole bunch of people, people would have went crazy. ,e tried to calm things down and of course he is a human being and he will have a conversation with somebody and be real with them. Host that is chris in maryland. A supporter of joe biden in fort worth, texas. This is stephen. Caller i am a special Education Teacher and i wrote a book that explained his social communication issue, which comes into play here, and that talked about a pervasive develop mental order. It is a form of autism known for rigidity and a whole bunch of other issues that comes into play. Now, what is significant is that this is a form of Autism Spectrum Disorder and he does not understand a lot of things like logic. Host aside from your assessment that you offer, how does this relate to revelations from yesterday . Caller he doesnt have a cognitive filter. That is supposed to be developed around age seven or eight, and then, even though most on the spectrum habit by their early 20s. This explains why he does not hide things well. When he talked to woodward he was feeling comfortable. It is similar to all these other issues that we have had. This is a surprise to most people, but if you have worked with people on the spectrum, they will say and do things that are impulsive, socially, or politically hard. Host gordon, kansas city, kansas. A supporter of President Trump. Good morning. Caller i support my president s and always will. And one other thing, if they do not get the schools open there will be a bunch of grandparents walking on the streets like zombies. Host what did you think about the revelations from yesterday . Caller woodward is a hack that has been against trump since 20 15. He and the other guy at the Washington Post broke the nixon story, and they have been dire democrats their whole life, and people say things. Host it does not matter that the president was the one saying things . Caller it does not matter to me. Host why not . Caller all of these people will lie and distort the truth to make him look bad, that is all they are trying to do. They are pulling out all of the stops to beat him in november, and i hope they do not. Host that is gordon in kansas city. In maryland, we will hear next from may. Caller hello. You can listen to the previous caller and see how bad some things are in the way that peoples minds work and the fact that you can hear him say those words himself, and then they will turn it around to say someone else said it or someone is against him. If you listen to trump, he will indict himself. The only other thing i have to say is what we are looking for in this country is peace and civility. That is what everybody is looking for. We all have to Work Together. We are either going to float up or sink together. We just need peace and stability. Host that is may in maryland. Some of the calls coming from the interviews, a series of 18 that the president did with bob woodward. Some of those excerpts being released. From march 19, where the president was talking with bob woodward about the danger of the coronavirus. Pres. Trump it is turning out it is not just old people. Some startling facts came out. It is not just older people, plenty of young people. Give me a moment of talking to somebody, going through this who fauci or somebody caused a pivot in your mind, because it is clear from what is on the Public Record that you went through a pivot on this to all my god, the gravity oh my is inexplicable and unexplainable. Pres. Trump to be honest with you, i wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because i do not want to create a panic. Host again, that is some of the excerpt making news out of the release of this book. If you go back a couple of weeks to february 26, it was when the white house was hosting regular briefings. Here is some of the president from the briefing on the 26th of february. [video clip] u. S. Citizens coming into america from china, that was done early on. We have been screening people at a highlevel, screening people coming in from infected areas. We have quarantined those infected and at risk. We have a lot of great quarantine facilities, we are rapidly developing a vaccine. The professionals can speak to you about that. The vaccine is coming along well, and then speaking to the doctors, this is something that we can develop rapidly, a vaccine for the future, and, coordinate with the support of our partners. We have great relationships with all of the countries we are talking about. Number ofy large countries, some with one person and many countries have no problem whatsoever. We will see what happens. This, fordy for anything, whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not we are at that very low level, and we want to keep it that way. As they get better we take them off the list so that we are going to be pretty soon it only five people, and we could be at one or two people over the next short period of time, so we have had good luck. [end video clip] host all of those Still Available at cspan. Org. State, arom washington supporter of President Trump. Caller good morning. I really do appreciate that trump was a calming voice in this. I anybody who was watching china and the sickness, we were already scared, and being in washington, we had the first case that put us on alert. We were at a 1 infection rate and it is good here. Understand why people were not watching. Worse, had panicked any i did not know what i was going to do. When they shut us down for months, we were so terrified as it was. We did not even see our kids for a month. And now, it is just odd. No i know no one who has been sick or has gotten the virus and i have not gone to my doctor or a hospital, i am afraid. There is a big fear. Voice and weing were watching the professional speak. Things changed so much with this virus. Who knows. I want to thank you and you have a good day. In pennsylvania, a supporter of joe biden. You are next. Caller a couple of items. First of all, like your previous and the last one who said that there was going to be a panic, i would like to know what the panic would have been. I know what it would be and it was the same thing i did, if people found out early on that that was going to be a problem and they would get sick if they did not if they didnt interact with other people. The first thing i said is i got my wife and we are going to buy everything we can from a supermarket, and costco, get it into my house and hunker down. That is what the panic wouldve been and that wouldve saved lives if trump had been honest and said this is what would be going on. Panic not want to cause a when a meteor will hit the earth and kill everybody. I think that is the panic that people will think about. People will tear their hair out and scream it in the streets, that is not the kind of panic that wouldve happened here. People wouldve bought out the supermarkets gone into their houses and close the door and said i am not coming out to the pandemic is over and that wouldve saved lives. Host franc, pennsylvania, who is not voting. Good morning. Caller good morning. So to make it very clear i have no agenda i am not voting for biden. People think when i talk about trump that i must be one of the others. At the end of the day this is a sick man, and he is out of his mind. I listen to all politicians and they all want to brainwash us and tell us what they want to hear, that is a reality, but he takes it to another extreme, and i live in Trump Country appear, and i just try to talk to people and say, everything out of his mouth is crazy. I have never seen anything like it. He takes it to another extreme. Regarding the virus, he was full of it from day one. He believes that it will miraculously go away, this whole panic thing, he is trying to save face and i need people to realize that. Host we will go to dennis in west virginia, a supporter of President Trump. Caller hello, how are you . Host well, thank you. Caller you say that i am on . Host yes. Caller this will go away just like the bob woodward deal. This will not faze him one bit. Host even if it is the president himself making these statements . Caller let me tell you what is on my mind. Like trumpnds talking to the guy how he feels. He knew bob would sell the stuff, and trump has rubbed elbows with all of these people for years. Publict sounds like the are lighting their hair on fire, just like the guy says. Host if he knew this stuff, should he have said something along the lines about the seriousness early on . Said march 30k he is the last time he heard somebody say anything, march 30 he said it. Host he knew about the seriousness by early february, should he have said something then . Caller i thought maybe that pelosi, i hate to bring this up going to, when i heard pelosi and a few more politicians downplay this and joe biden did too, i felt like they did not want people to panic, they did not think it was serious, going to chinatown and partying. I think i a lot of them had things to say, they did not know what they were talking about. Thenhing this big, and when the president found out more, he went along with it and tried to do more. I wasre thing, yesterday a little disappointed. Host we are not going to revisit yesterday, we will keep to the topic at hand. Hillside, new jersey, a supporter of jill joe biden. Hello. Caller i am appalled at the last caller making up stories about how democrats were downplaying the virus. End oped an op on january 26 where he talked about the virus and the pandemic and what trump needs to do. Article,know the exact i am angry as an american citizen. We are americans, we are used to knowing what is going on. Te,re was panic at shop ri and how much tissue that we need to buy for the lockdown. They would not be people screaming in the streets. Look at the word panic. Trump says panic and now everyone is using the word. He wasly, this july, telling people not to wear masks. He told a person a reporter to not have his mask on because he could not hear him. He was so against the masks and finally he wore the masks. This guy wanted us to open up, he was worried about the economy and not the health of the American People. If anybody does not see that, i do not know what is wrong with the Trump Supporters. Why do they have to make stories up to support the man. Host if you go to the Washington Post website, their medium media columnist talked with bob woodward about the timing of the release and the issues connected with that. She writes this, and you can read it online saying ward ward woodward told me that he did not have a formal embargo arrangement with the president and the white house to hold back their conversations. I told them it was for the book as far as paul promising not to publish, i do not do that. The aim was to provide a fuller context that could occur in a new story. I knew i could tell the second draft of history and i knew i could tell it before the election. More, there were two problems he heard from february that kept them from putting in a newspaper, first he did not know the source of information and he learned that it came from a high level intelligence briefing that was described in wednesdays reporting, and second, the biggest problem i had was that i did not know if it was true. The president spoke with woodward in a dozen cases and in some cases it he put he called me a knot. It took months to put together the process. There is plenty more if you want to read it from Bob Woodwards perspective, from the book rage which is forthcoming. We go to chicago, illinois and a supporter of President Trump. Kimberly, go ahead. Caller i am in support of President Trump and my daughter has her own business. She is trying to keep them calm. Every day she would come home and say i do not know what i am going to do, i am scared, that i cannot let my employees know that i am scared. I am in support of him trying to keep us calm he started ordering supplies. A lot of the democrats are running around calling him a xenophobe and saying that they go to chinese town to eat. Maryland. From a supporter of joe biden. Hello. Caller good morning, thank you for having me. Brainwashed th