Question of the, but when. So needless to say, it is a lot of anxiety here on wall street. The questions of what are the implications of the coronavirus if it comes here to the u. S. What does that mean for the economy. And already, we have heard from a number of Companies Issuing the warnings of how it will affect their sales. Today, mastercard said a 2 to 3 hit in first quarter, because it is expecting people to spend lez money, less money and they are going to be out there shopping less and one trader said that he is going to be surprised if any company is not untouched by the coronavirus. Thank you, alison kosik. Thank you so much as the Health Officials are warning that the coronavirus is certainly going to become a pandemic and the u. S. Needs to be better prepared for it. And moments ago health and Human Services secretary alex azar felt compelled to come before the cameras. This is seen as aggressively as how President Trump is responding to the outbreak. Secretary azar is forced to play cleanup after going before the lawmakers and acknowledging that the u. S. Is as of right now not prepared. Can you assure every single american today that if the pandemic hits our shores, that we have everything available and we have stockpiled it and we are ready to go . That is precisely why we need to work with congress for additional appropriations to procurement. And dr. Fauchi has told you that we dont have a vaccine i am asking you about the diagnostics and the testing, which we dont have enough, correct. Yes, we have a diagnostics. Democrats and republicans today warning that the Trump Administration does not seem fully prepared for the virus to spread in the United States, while it continues to spread into and throughout europe, and cnns Jeremy Diamond reports that even though President Trump is frustrated privately with how the administration is handling the fallout of all of it, he is publicly trying to project confidence. Reporter sources telling cnn that President Trump has privately expressed frustration about the administrations efforts to contain coronavirus epidemic even as he is emotes confidence publicly. His optimistic note comes as the officials are warning that the cases will rise in the United States. That whole situation will start working out. A lot of talent, and a lot of brain power is being put behind it. Reporter but sources tell cnn that behind the scenes the president is not so confident in the brain power, and he is upset that americans who are testing positive for the coronavirus were quarantined in the United States, and that his administration plans to quarantine some patients in the pro trump state of alabama. He was completely unaware of this. He was annoyed that the individuals had been brought back to the continental United States while they were still infected, but assured me that he would get to work to try to stop it. Reporter the president s frustrations reflecting a growing number of concern inside of the white house that the viral outbreak is going to be a bigger challenge than previously thought. Recent outbreaks in italy, south korea and iran hiking global cases to 80,000 and triggering fears that the disease could become a panpandemic. Folks, this is a rapidly escalating pandemic in places, and we have to rapidly attack to prevent a complete pandemic. Reporter and now congress is being asked for 1. 2 billion funds to bail out a 1. 25 billion federal effort. For some on capitol hill. It is too little and too late. And the Administration Must increase the emergency budget request to at least 3. 1 billion with no cuts. Reporter bipartisan outrage grew as the officials fielded questions on capitol hill. You are supposed to keep us safe and the American People deserve some straight answers on the coronavirus. Senator and they are not getting them from you. I disagree. And as the administration is trying to beat back the criticism, a member of the Coronavirus Task force did not exactly inspire confidence and taking to twitter to say that he was struggling to access data about the epepidemic. And the department of homeland departments number two asked, have they stopped working for other people or just me . Here is hoping that it goes back up soon. And jake, beyond the Health Impact in the u. S. , one of the biggest concerns for the president and the administration is the Economic Impact that this is having and could continue to have in particularly a reelection year, and with the stocks tumbling today, they sent out the chief economic adviser larry kudlow out to assure investors. He did not stop the selloff, but what he did do was to muttle the message. While he said that the administration is successfully containing the virus, today, the center s for disease and control said it will spread in the u. S. , and expect disruption in the United States. Thank you for the excellent report. Our chief medical correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta is with us. Just to be clear so we can be clear to the viewers. The cdc says that the coronavirus is going to spread in the United States, but the white house today said that it is contained. Who is right . Well, i mean, the cdc has been pretty clear about this. I spent some time with the head of the cdc to better understand this. I think that dr. Redfield could not have been more clear about this. I want you to listen to words, and keep in mind that the quarantine that we saw in china and the largest quarantine in history of the world, and probably never designed to stop the virus completely from spreading, but to slow it down. That is one of the objectives, but listen to how dr. Redfield put it. This virus is probably with us beyond this season or beyond this year, and eventually, the virus is going to find a foothold, and we will get communitybased transmission and you can start to think of it in the sense of like seasonal flu. The only difference is that we dont understand this virus. So, jake, describing it like the seasonal flu is what you need to know. Dr. Redfield is saying a foothold in the United States, and there is going to be community transmission, and obviously, that is concerning, but again, the policies and the procedures that have been put in place were to slow this down, not the prevent it. They have known that all along, jake. And senators from both sides of the aisle today suggested that the amount of money that the Trump Administration is requesting to combat this and slow it down is 2. 5 billion and that is insufficient, and what do you think, and the experts think is needed for the smart and robust sufficient response to the virus . Well, one thing that i would like to say, jakek at the jake, friends in the Public Health world, because of so many cuts propose fd for the varied preparedness programs and hospital preparedness programs and the cutts suggested in the middle of the coronavirus outbreak and just as a starting point. The 2. 5 billion number is tough to say how much is necessary, and they say 1 billion toward vaccine and 1. 5 billion towards other preparedness, and i will remind you for the Ebola Outbreak and the numbers were not near what this is, and the initial request was for 6 billion, and the h1n1 and the flu pandemic of 2019 which may have more similarities to this as you heard from dr. Redfield, the request was close to 8 billion. So there is a lot that is going into the numbers and this is maybe the first phase of money, i dont know, but as the initial starting point, it is a lot lower than what we have seen in recent history. And past president s have put in place an epidemic czar to lead the response when there is a outbreak over fears that it will come to the United States, and President Trump has yet to do that and is someone in the role, and can they help with the preparedness . Absolutely. I mean, there are so many different facets of the society upon which Something Like this hits. We obviously talk about it in terms of the Vaccine Development, but, look, Surge Capacity within the hospitals, and we have 57 patientsinthe country right now and the images of what is going to be isolated, and isolated and care for them in the hospital, and it is significant, and what you saw in seattle and the first patient being by himself, and having the robots helping to administer the care. What about thousands of patients like that, what is the Surge Capacity . How do we care for patients in the big cities, and that a big concern. You need somebody who is overseeing that in addition to the Vaccine Development and in addition to therapeutics, and all of the other ramifications. So that is why someone in that position is important. There is multiple different prongs to try and tackle a big outbreak like this. There are now 57 cases of the coronavirus in the United States. A Global Health expert told me earlier today that i think that it is going to be worse, and i dont think that we are ready including not mentally prepared to do the necessary contingency planning, unquote. Do you agree . I do. Again, i think that dr. Redfield has said that and i dont think that the public Health Officials have been opaque about it. In the beginning, it was never a binary thing, and it is either coming or not coming, and it is about buying time with the various strategies they put into place. One thing i will say, jake, when we are talking about the pan dem democrat pan ddemic and epidemi and that is spre t is how wides and not how lethal it is. We know that with 80 of the 8 in 10 had no symptoms or minimal symptoms, and the fatality ratio is hovering around 2 . So it is going to be spread. I think that most public Health Officials who i have talked with have said that, but it does not necessarily mean it is going to be some lethal spread, lethal outbreak, jake. Dr. Sanjay gupta with an interesting set of information. And now, the last time that the president floated it to other agencies is not stopping senator John Ratcliffe from being considered. Be with us again. Lets be honest. Quitting smoking is hard. Like, quitting every monday hard. Quitting feels so big. So try making it smaller, and youll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big. Start stopping with nicorette. Starting small can lead to something big. 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I have not been given help from any country. Reporter without evidence, trump claiming that the democrats leaked details with a classified house intelligence briefing involving russian meddling. And trump is also using press conference in india to target u. S. Supreme Court Justices and mischaracterizing justice sew a ta sotomayors breaking with controversial cases. And the justices write that i fear that the disparity and the treatment erodes the fair and balanced decisionmaking process that the court must strive to protect. Trump is suggesting that she is trying to pressure other justices. When you are a justice of the supreme court, and it is almost what she is trying to do is to take the people who are feeling a different way and get them to vote the way that she would like them to vote. Reporter meantime, miles from trumps meetings with the indian Prime Minister narendra modi, there were clashes over modis citizenship law that discriminates against muslims. When asked about the violence, trump praised modi for fighting for religious freedom. He wants religious freedom, and he said in india, they have work hard to have great and open religious freedom. Reporter but modi has faced accusations of islamic phobia before. In 2002 as the top official, modi was accused of condoning a ethnic riot that killed almost 1,000 people, mostly muslim. And jake, President Trump revealed today that he and modi did not discuss the clashes that took place a short distance from where they were meeting, and President Trump says that resolving the violence is simply up to india. Jake . Boris at the white house. Thank you. Lets chew over this with the panel. Let me start with you, bill crystal, because a lot of people have been criticizing Bernie Sanders for his comments and also criticizing china and cuba and also praised facets of their governments, and here we have President Trump with a real life not a dictator and he was elected, but somebody accused of having blood on his hands Prime Minister modi and not saying what a lot of people feel is an tie is an antimuslim feeling there. And so some are democratically elect and some are not even pretending to be democratically elected. This is a wonderful choice if it come down to that. And mr. Harwood, listen to President Trump speaking to reporters and being asked about if he believes what the intelligence officials have said publicly that russia is attempting to interfere with the 2020 election. They told bernie with something to do with bernie to win, and intelligence never told me and we have a couple of people here who would know very well, and they never told me that. And just to be clear on my sources and other sources at cnn, they have not said that they want bernie to win, they have no preference and working right now the disrupt the primaries and helping sanders that way, and they dont have a preference, but it is looking like they are going to politicize the intelligence. Yes, they have a primal responsibility to project upon other people fault or in this case, yeah, the russians want him and not me. That is simply a reflex for the president. It is not about his reasoned consideration of the intelligence evidence. He did this in 2016 saying, oh, yeah, russia, go out to find the emails and saying that well, they probably wanted hillary rather than me, and that is what he does. And laura, the president has long downplayed the critics and some say he has not criticized russia enough. Listen to secretary of state mike pompeo however. The Trump Administration is going to work to protect the integrity of the elections, period, full stop. And should russia or any other actor try to undermine our elections, we will take a appropriate response. That is muscular pushback on russia, and what they are doing, but is that mixed messages . Yes, and no telling when the president , which he has in the last year, he will go out on the to lawn and say, go ahead and mettle, russia or china, and no doubt he will do it in the next election. When he says that do we take it literally or figuratively . Well, both. There are mixed messages constantly from the officials that work for trump, and work in the Government Agencies and from the white house, itself, and no telling what he is going to do. And jacque, i want to get your view on President Trump, and he was asked whether it is inappropriate what Justice Sonia sotomayor had to say. The way i look at it, he is trying to shame people with perhaps a different view to vote her way. That is so inappropriate. This is what sotomayor said in her opinion, claiming one emergency after another, the government has sought stays in a number of cases, and it is difficult to know what the government would seek relief or that the court would grand it. So it sounds like to me she is doing her job. And getting the justices to side with her is what her job s and the president has shown that there are not any boundaries between the executive and the Judicial Branch and trying to assert himself. And so this is the same liberal justice that he has attacked. He went after Ruth Bader Ginsberg last year. So this is very on brand. And everyone, stick around. We are hours away from the last debate before super tuesday and the democratic president ial hopefuls are making it clear who they plan to target. That is next. Man whats my safelite story . I spend a lot of time in my truck. Its my livelihood. Rock music man so im not taking any chances when something happens to it. So when my windshield cracked. 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