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Asset prices since 2008, with financial prices, since 1991 with oil prices. that is the result of the president's confidence talking, attempts to talk up the markets. i think whenever he opens his mouth now, the danger is the markets are going to plunge more steeply. if you think about his first real intervention, the day he -- less than two weeks ago, he appointed mike pence for the coronavirus. he said, we have only 15 cases, real cases in america, and they're going down to zero. they're going down to zero. as he spoke, there was a new case found in washington state. we're now up to several ...

People to go when they have symptoms or they have the coronavirus. if they continue to go to hospitals and to their doctor's office, or walk around with the symptoms, it is going to spread. we have literally -- we have totally failed. america has failed at dealing with this. the fact that these aren't put up in localities, even tents at this point for people to go to get tests. oh, there are no tests. i'm sorry. they're walking into hospitals? this is crazy. you can't -- cancelling school is not going to help if people are walking into ers with the coronavirus. we're going to see it happen. it...

If you had the ear of the president and policymakers on capitol hill, what would you be telling them they must do right now? >> to be frank, i think it is appropriate right now to declare a national emergency or a national security emergency. we know that almost every state in the union is affected right now. once testing is up and running, i have little doubt that all states in the union and our territories will be infected. affected, i should say. that being said, we know our troops are at risk. we've had several troops, army and navy, get infected. we know ships are a breeding ground for th...

Another part of this that actually we all need to be concerned about, all of us with loved ones who may not be completely healthy, the doctor was talking about the possibility of people who have diabetes, people who have cancer, people who have heart problems, people who are having childbirth are -- may not get the type of care and treatment they need because health care facilities are so overrun. i'm thinking about this weekend, one person walks into an emergency room and, suddenly, 40 health care providers have to self-quarantine themselves. something is radically wrong with the idea, and we...

People are congregated together, it has this amplification. i call it a slingshot effect. >> reporter: when we started doing it our way with the cdc testing guidelines, we aimed for the stars and we missed. that's gotten us behind the 8 ball. how can we catch up now? >> we've really made some missteps. there's obviously been a lot of transmission going on, silent transmission. we've done almost no testing, no e research. we catch up by funding the public health agencies. we need to fund research and development. we also need to plan for the future because our hospitals could easily be overrun....