>> coming up in an hour, larry

bucshon, a medical doctor on the u.s. and global response to the coronavirus outbreak. at 8:30 a.m., congressman tim ryan discusses the global response to the coronavirus and camping 2020. ♪ host: good morning on this friday. we will begin the conversation with your confidence level and how washington is responding to the coronavirus outbreak. from capitol hill to the white house, your turn to tell politicians how you want them to respond. republicans -- democrats -- and independence -- state --e, city and wjn us on twitter at c-span and facebook.com/c-span.

we will get to your calls in just a minute. the vice president yesterday in washington at the annual conservative clinical action conference talking about what the administration has done to contain the coronavirus outbreak. >> president donald trump has no higher priority than the health, safety and well-being of the american people. [applause] last month following word of the outbreak of the coronavirus in china, trump took unprecedented action to protect the health of americans. he declared a public health emergency. -- we initiated quarantine efforts for american citizens returning and established a task force which has met every single day to

protect the american people. [applause] today, we have 15 cases of coronavirus that have been detected in the united states with only one new case detected in the last few weeks. there is another 45 cases that have been diagnosed among americans have been repatriated from china while one american is hospitalized, and fully all the patients have been treated and are doing well. [applause] that was the vice president yesterday it also happening yesterday on capitol hill, nancy pelosi had this to say about the disease. >> the government must address the spread of this deadly coronavirus and a smart, strategic and serious way. we stand ready to work in a bipartisan fashion in congress

and with the administration to achieve the necessary goal. lives are at stake. this is not a time for name-calling or playing politics. the first step that congress must take is to ensure the government has the resources needed to combat this deadly virus and keep americans safe. host: that was speaker of the house along with her democratic counterpart, chuck schumer, in the senate have requested that the administration put more money toward the coronavirus outbreak along the lines of $8 billion. what they want and the funding is, there must be new funding and not be taken from other counts. the president cannot transfer new funds to anything other than the coronavirus, and the vaccine must be affordable and available to those who need it. they also write -- want interest -- interest free loans.

and state and local governments reimbursed for the costs while assisting federal response. do you agree with this? what do you want washington to do? what is your confidence level in washington? caller: my confidence level is high but my concern is for what democrats are after. wall and toward the disease,ucation on the because we do not know. if we know what to do, wash her but what all that other preventive measure do we need to take? you know? you have concerns about the availability of that? caller: yes.

if we know what to buy and what to get instead of going to the , so that we know what to do instead of just staying in the house and don't know what to do. host: robert fitzgerald, georgia, a democratic caller. morning to you. caller: good morning to you. i am calling in response to do we have the confidence back in washington? , i have been listening to the people that president trump have put into power here and everything else. me, chito wants to get the experts to come in and help. it is like with the vice president pence and all the

other spokesman he wants to put out here now and everything else. to respond back to this year. sentences, three they come out there mouth with is all about what he has done. they start talking about something and within three sentences they talk about president trump. he needs experts. he is not a doctor. he is a good man but we need experts. he does not know everything. he needs experts around him. right now, because president trump, he is not a doctor. he is not a scientist. we need people to let us know what is going on and what we need to do. i just would appreciate if he would just -- people around him would stop talking about what he has done. he ain't done nothing. we need experts. host: you just want to hear from

the nation's top scientists and doctors? caller: excuse me? host: you just want to hear from the scientists and doctors? caller: yes, because we need to know who knows what is going on. if he gets the right people around him but he wants to take all of the credit. is he going to be ready to take the blame? host: patrick, florida. independent. caller: good morning. first off i would like to say, i really wish c-span were reading the crystals article. used to read them all the time, telling half-truths are lies about clinton or obama. you didn't put on the information that the ap said president trump has shut down 37 out of 47 pandemic programs. i notice you did not mention

when pence with -- was governor he wouldn't handout sterile needles to prevent hiv spread because that was against his religion. you leave out real information. host: we are eight minutes into this and that is the beauty of the show is that you get to call in and mentioned the things that are concerning you. that is what we are asking all of you this morning. tot is your confidence level respond to the coronavirus outbreak? barney in florida? confidence? host: yes, what is it? caller: how can you believe anything coming out of the white house today? all you hear is lies, lies and more lies. it is ridiculous. only way i believe anything

coming out of the white house is if it falls on my head. you've got these morand's up there praising this idiot -- these morons up there praising this idiot. host: across the papers, a lot of focus on the traders on wall street and their jitters with this coronavirus break. here is politico. u.s. stocks plummet and experts warn against drums claim -- against trump's claim. you have cnbc, after thursday's massive tumble on the coronavirus fears and the asian markets have already opened up. cnbc with the headlines, seven asia-pacific markets have tumbled. the washington post notes that in european markets, they have taken economic hits as contagion spreads. they report this that financial

markets in europe have lost about as much ground this year as their u.s. counterpart. the blue-chip euro stocks have given up nine point 5% of its value compared to the loss on the dow jones industrial average of 9.7%. january 20, the outbreak has stripped 4 trillion from the stock market. president trump with tweets saying this "the coronavirus which started in china and spread through various countries but very slowly in the u.s. because president trump slowed the border is now being blamed other do-nothing democrats to be the fault of trump." he also wrote this morning the do-nothing democrats were busy wasting time on the immigration hoax that anything else they could do to make the republican party look bad while i was busy calling early border in flight

closings. dems called it very wrong, he says. ed, your confidence level in washington to respond? the greatest thing president trump did was stop the people from china that are not citizens in the united states, they were not allowed to travel to the united states. that stopped a lot of the infections right there. i have been watching the program and listening to some of the en route people that called in here talking about the president -- i getting the impression that the democrats actually hope that this virus spreads all over so they can go after trump and blame him. trump did not make this virus. trump is doing everything he can to stop this virus. why anybody would think he wouldn't want to stop the virus

is out of their mind. hemp has his own children, doesn't want his children to die. everybody in this country wants trump to solve this problem. and calling him names and accusing him of being an idiot is just not american. now a lot of you people on the democrat side, you do not love america. you want to change it. why don't you just leave, because you do not love the country? host: ed's opinion in georgia. youngstown, ohio. we are going to have tim ryan on the program later this morning. caller: what was that? host: we are going to have tim ryan from your time -- from your town later on this morning. caller: ok, thank you the problem is is anyone old enough to remember the boy who cried wolf? we cannot trust the president tell us the truth.

he eliminated all the money in infrastructure that we had in pandemics.event i would like a doctor to be able to speak to us about what is going on, but i heard him on tv saying he is not allowed to speak. he has to go through pence and i don't understand why he would put pence in charge of this pure he doesn't believe in science. -- of this. he doesn't believe in science. this whole pandemic might be a huge deal and it might could be kept in perspective if we had a president we could trust. host: that is the headline in the new york times. pence will control all messaging from health officials. if the health officials want to speak publicly, they need to clear it through the vice president, through the white house before they do so. ohio, independent. caller: hi, good morning.

c-spanbeen watching since mid-20's and i manage a medical office. i try to be a volunteer and donate. trumpk of confidence in and pence is so great that if i had my way, i would have them both arrested and i would have nancy pelosi be in charge. thank you so much for letting me speak my voice today. host: marcia, new jersey. democratic caller. caller: good morning. i want washington to protect people with great concern for politicse which is not as usual. it is human life now. this is not a democrat or republican issue. it is a human response. i want a candidate for the

democrat party to be aware of this virus and address it. we have many problems in this country, but we have to work on this virus and make it a priority now. thank you so much for letting me speak about this, because it is a great concern for human life. thank you so much. indiana, right, democratic caller. howard, you are letting -- we are letting you tell washington about what you think about their responsive far. failing, the trump administration's response to this has failed. he is adding more confusion. he is undermining the confidence in this administration's ability to handle this. host: what do you .2 -- what do

you point to? caller: his coffers call yesterday or the day before -- conference call yesterday or the day before where he was giving misleading facts about how close we are to resolving this. his ignorance is a blatant on how to handle this. i am not sure why this whole country isn't outraged on how unfit this man is for office. busily, just obviously, it is moving at a pace -- obviously it is moving at a pace faster than we are able to solve. this issue is really much -- moving much more rapidly in a negative way then we are

understanding. trump is totally inadequate for this. he should be impeached on this alone. host: critics are pointing to the reaction of the markets and how he has addressed the coronavirus in his public statement. nancy pelosi yesterday talked about how it was important to reinsure -- reassure the markets . >> we are hoping to work in a bipartisan way to stop the spread to have serious prevention, science-based, evidence-based decision-making with professionals who know the territory of science and epidemiology to do the job. dropped 3000, 2500 as of last night. again, weurbing, but want to instill confidence, prevent without panicking people

about this. the market will do what it does with the invisible hand. it does show some fragility on the part of the market that it would drop so much. again, it cannot affect what we do. we are there to prevent and not panic people on the subject. the president said something so strange that you really have to wonder he said the reason the markets dropped is because of the debate the other night. the market dropped 1800 points before the debate the other night. the market dropped while he was speaking yesterday at his press conference. let's not be silly about what that is. host: the wall street journal editorial board this morning has this headline on their piece "the coronavirus is not partisan

, they write. it is not too soon to recognize that washington is already politically ill with delirium. senator schumer, almost at the same moment he was joining speaker pelosi went onto the floor of the senate recycling this towering and dangerous and confidence line. here's a suggestion. we heard from mr. trump to reassure americans, donna protective suit and meet with ill or sequestered, especially coming from the germaphobe president, this would be an act of leadership even chuck schumer would have a hard time attacking. here is the democratic leader from new york on the floor yesterday. >> the president must stop trying to minimize the coronavirus threat. his attempts at spinning the facts are not credible.

they are harmful to the respect -- to the federal response. in order to prevent overreaction, it is essential that the officials level with the american people, telling the american people the truth and coming up with solutions to solve it is the way to calm people down. not simply saying do not worry about it. and then spending time blaming others. that is going to make them more worried. let's let the science and facts guide us. the american people do not need or want uninformed opinions from its leaders. they want the truth. host: chuck schumer on the floor . the washington post editorial board right "mixed messages on the coronavirus board." president trump is right in wanting to calm the atmosphere but his administration has delivered mixed messages.

they need to get their act together. the mission from mr. trump is to feed the reason, not the dread. that is the washington post editorial board. the leader in the senate, mitch mcconnell, the republican, he was also on the floor yesterday. here is what he outlined. next up, by lawmakers? this virus -- lawmakers to tackle this virus. the coronavirus does not care about bickering. this new disease is not going to press pause so members can engage in performative outrage that gets us farther from results, rather than closer. this is our first step in confronting the challenge. congress must be prepared to work together across the aisle in a collaborative way and get results. fortunately, it appears we will

have an opportunity to put this cynicism behind as quickly and move forward in a unified way. bipartisan discussions are underway among our colleagues on the appropriations committee have confidence that our colleagues are capable of handling this quite well. i have faith the committee will consider the right some to appropriate at this time to ensure our nation's needs are fully funded. i hope they can work explicitly so the full senate will be able to take up the legislation within the next two weeks. i am hoping to move through this challenge and put partisanship aside and uphold the spirit of cooperation and collaboration that this will require. host: your confidence level in washington. frederick burke, virginia, republican. caller: i am very confident.

i think 15 people have the coronavirus and were sick. that is no longer true. i think in california, they want to panic. i see the governor. i see counties. say -- i see mayor de blasio talking about handing out 1.5 million masks and panicking people. what is going on in the stock market and i am still fully invested -- i have faith in donald trump. what is really going on is the supply chain. this goes to show america exactly what has been happening over the past 25 years when we gave all of our factories, all of our jobs to china. every bit of them. i think having factories in mexico helps quite a bit. last year, i bought one article from china.

i paid four dollars less for some things than i did before donald trump brought up china in tariff. i think it is a wonderful thing that is going on and people need to get a hold of the fact is, we have supply chain problems. we need american factories in america. then we will not be panicked, because there is no excuse. the common cold is coronavirus. why in the world are we getting panicked over this? i think donald trump did the right thing. i think the democrats are politicizing. host: roger, warren, michigan. your turn. inler: i have no confidence this guy sitting in the white house right now. never, never trust a person who speaks of themselves in the third party all the time.

it is incredible. how can they continue doing this? how can they be blinded by this hideousy.ous see -- he knows more than the generals. mr. president, and i use that term loosely, why don't you get into one of the laboratories and create an antiviral for this particular disease, since you are so brilliant. the people who would vote for you are the same ones who over 2000 years ago were screaming the name arata's -- the name barabbas. jeff, democratic color. caller: i have no faith in donald trump. the reason for that is, you cannot trust their word of a

habitual liar. what is america going to do if he decides now, it is not a virus, it is nuclear war? there is that part of it. who we putart is, is has noge of everything experience in what they are dealing with. what does pence no about viruses -- know about viruses? appointed who he have to everything, they don't know anything about the business they are leading. your were going to say something. host: npr and others are reporting this announcement from the white house. -- works on global health diplomacy issues. the vice president said she would be detailed through his office.

burke will also join the task force led by the secretary and czar. pence also -- adding the treasury secretary and shrubs -- and shrubs sector advisor, larry kudlow. toler: i think it comes down , for me, if this person is , then whyo the work doesn't he tell us that he has a professional on-the-job? instead, he tells us we have pence. what are we going to do if pence doesn't like this disease? does he cut it out like he did in indiana? for hiv? what does he do? in washington, there will

be cabinet secretaries including mike pompeo talking at the conservative political action conference. that gathering began just moments ago. ,ur coverage of it on c-span3 as well as c-span.org. you can listen along throughout the day to the speeches with the free c-span radio app, if you download it. the president is going to speak on saturday at 3:00 p.m. eastern time and our coverage is right here on c-span and our website and radio app. is testifying on u.s. policies regarding iran, iraq and the use of force but he is likely to be asked about a.m.avirus today, 8:30 eastern time. he will be testifying on capitol hill. you can watch that on c-span2 and on our website or with that free c-span radio app.

florida, democratic color. -- caller. caller: we were still talking, you never cut me off. host: let me go on to another person. david, republican. caller: good morning. this is my first time calling so i'm a little bit nervous. host: go ahead. guess that is all i've got to say. there been a lot of people calling in and saying they are not getting enough information. computer they go on a and check? find out what they are doing. will help them ease

their mind a little bit. host: ok. david in oklahoma. here are some of our viewers on social media. here is a tweet. is, i expect this administration will fail miserably, but say we handle the crisis better than any other country." and then you have this text from tom in south carolina, "the coronavirus and its potential pandemic affects have become another weaponized issue by both parties with the goal of getting a political advantage in the upcoming election. we have not heard our elected officials. what do you need and how can we help you?" and then you also have mike with this tweet, "the bottom line is, my man, donald trump wants to

secure a border to keep hour our .ociety safe those people calling and saying actions are not taking place are not in the know." "i think we need medical people to make the medical decisions. everything will go all right." joe, westminster, maryland, independent. we are getting your confidence level in washington to respond. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i agree with nathaniel. where we -- why are we depending on washington to solve this? there are plenty of smart people inside and outside the government. those people are not the politicians and i don't know why we are looking at donald trump for medical advice and guidance. i may be a supporter of his politically, but this is a medical health care issue that needs to be looked at and addressed by those people.

our default is to listen to the politicians and think they are going to solve everything, and they are not. host: does that same concern of yours apply to having vice president mike pence be the point person on this? caller: no. the confusion that was being caused was by the next messaging. i agree with people on both sides who are saying that the doctors in the president were saying different things. one person needs to coordinate the message. that doesn't necessarily mean he is going to disregard the evidence that is being given to him or use his own -- as everyone says, he does not believe in science. if these professionals are coming to him and providing information, he just needs to control how it is coming out so the panic isn't created by everyone hearing what they want to hear. just by listening this morning, people are just like, everything is so polarized now. we can't agree on anything.

at least if we have one spokesperson, that makes the most sense. when there is a fire, every fireman running out of the building doesn't give his version of what happens. they have an information officer who gives information in an orderly fashion. that is what they are trying to do here. the vice president talking , newsomrus with cuomo and other governors. that is some reaction with the governors about their conversation with the vice president. saidricketts wrote in and spoke with the vice president." hogan,o have avner larry -- governor larry hogan, "i spoke with the vp who is leading the federal response to the coronavirus.

he understands the importance of a coordinated response and we agreed to keep in close contact in the weeks ahead." jay inslee, a democratic governor from washington state, "i just received a call from the vice president thinking washington state for our efforts to combat the coronavirus. i told him our work would be more successful if the trumpet ministration stuck to the science and told the truth." here is the vice president talking about coronavirus and at thetration efforts conservative political action conference yesterday. [video clip] >> while the risk to the american public remains low, as the president said yesterday, we are ready. we are ready for anything. yesterday, president trump directed me to lead a whole of government approach to address the coronavirus in this country. i promise you, we will continue to bring the full resources of the federal government to bear

to protect the american people. [applause] -- the president also said, it is important to remember we are all in this together. this is not the time for partisanship. [applause] the american people expect us to work together, and i promise you, this president and this administration is going to work with leaders in both parties. we will work with leaders across this nation at the state and local level, and this president will always put the health and safety of america first. [applause] that was the vice president yesterday here in ofhington and i gathering conservatives talking about what the administration is doing. youant to know from you, do have confidence in what they

have done so far? what are your concerns and how do you want, not only the white house, but capitol hill and lawmakers there to prepare and respond to this virus? josh in connecticut? caller: i think they are doing the best they can. i wanted to get a couple of points across. cbc -- cdc funding was not cut per the ap. bloomberg and biden tried saying that on the debate stage and ap had to fact check them. trump does not control the funding, congress does. so i would say that anyone who calls in and says trump cut the funding doesn't know what they are talking about. second of all, the staffing issue, i heard people calling and saying he is putting bad people and bad positions. you have to remember that everyone that works in washington that was there before trump pretty much hates him. he can't trust any of those people to not work against him. there is going to be some whistleblower that pops up or someone else looking for their

15 minutes, and they are just doing anything they can to take him down. lastly, i just want to agree with the caller very early who agreed, the democrats want america they way they wanted -- the way they want it. i won't say that they hate america, but they just want it completely different than what republicans want. i just wonder if it is better to have an amicable split as opposed to this arguing because i don't think it gets us anywhere. host: ok. gary, cleveland, ohio. caller: hello. what i like to say that think, i think this is all about this virus. i think the virus was created in out innd purposely let retaliation for trump's

correction on the trade agreement with china. theyhe stood up to them, lost some money. he corrected something. he made it more fair for the country. the chinese people and their leader, that looked week on their leader. something fored our country's benefit. isn'tif that were true, in china losing a lot of money right now? caller: pardon me? host: why would china do that to hurt themselves because their economy is being hurt the worst right now. caller: i will tell you why. because they are communist. it is about saving face.

their leader is there like supreme leader. he looks weak now because of this correction in this trade agreement. market keepsstock falling here, every man and woman that pays into a 401(k) is going to be in the same condition we all were when bush and cheney were presidents and running the white house. remember how bad it was? it is falling. that is what i think. host: ok. take a look at drudge report -- drudgereport.com. -- headline is from reuters excuse me, from washington times. high schoola shattered over coronavirus

fears." they shut the high school down on thursday so they could clean it. fromso had other headlines drudge report, including this one from cnbc. coronavirus has threatened to end the world travel boom with airlines cutting flights, etc." you also have this headline from panic.. sun, "virus a family was kicked off our flight yesterday after passengers complained their coughing 21 month -- 21 month old daughter could have the coronavirus. those are some of the headlines on drudge report. testified ontor capitol hill. we covered his testimony yesterday.if you missed it, go to our website.here is what he had to say about what the public should know about the

virus and the response so far. [video clip] >> we are still committed aggressively to get aggressive containment. i want the american public to know at this point that the risk is low. i want them to know that we are going to start identifying more cases like we did the other day. i'm going to ask them to accelerate their own view of the standard things that we do for flu, handwashing, coffin your sleeve, don't go to work or school if you are sick. nextve launched a larger, level of our multilayered public health response to institute broad surveillance. we have initiated it. we are planning over hopefully to actually weeks make our surveillance system for corona the same as flu nationwide so we could be very quickly picking up when there is

an introduction in the community and go in and try to stop it. i think that is our position at this point. host: the cdc director testifying. related to his testimony, the wall street journal this morning with their headline "u.s. bolsters their virus response." they said the food and drug administration was streamlining the authorization process for more than 70 developers designing tests for the noble virus -- noval virus. virus. we are gauging our confidence level this morning in response to the coronavirus. one last call here for lee. let me go to dan in stafford, virginia. caller: good morning.

i would like to show a little criticism to a guy earlier named jeff and vice president pence being the supposedly direct this response. he is a great person to take charge. what the response needs is leadership and someone who already has legal authorities and understands how to work between agencies or inner agencies support and international support. wrong, there will be doctors who are the professionals who have an inch link but a mile deep wide of knowledge. vice president pence has a mile wide knowledge of on how authorities reside and where limitations are so the response can be measured and accurately

can put the full weight of the federal government behind it. support.y i think it is the right person in the right response and i think we are going to overcome this. america always wins. i am really confident. host: ok. john in akron, ohio. good morning to you. this, sitting on my couch and listened in the morning as to what is going on. as far as the coronavirus, it makes me sort of laugh. we have politicians in washington trying to solve this coronavirus problem when they cannot even give the people of this country health care. how can it be done? host: ok. democrat in new jersey. good morning to you. caller: hi.

thank you. longtime listener, first time caller. listen every day. trump didthing that was, mexico was going to pay for the wall. he couldn't get the republicans and the democrats -- when he had the entire congress, he couldn't get them along. the government was shut down for the wall, and now he is diverting billions of dollars from the military, and probably from the cdc to help pay for the wall. in 2014, all he did was criticize obama about the ebola crisis, which actually was handled brilliantly. please, america, we need a good leader who knows the right priorities in this country.

problem, very serious but america is great. we can solve it. actually, we can solve it relatively easy with really good leadership. we are great, we don't have to be made great, we are great. please, america, come together. office and weof will be great again. host: you can bet that the presidential candidates on the democratic side are going to be talking about how the president has handled the response to the coronavirus and how they would handle it if they were president. we will hear from amy klobuchar, the senator from minnesota. she will be live today at 1115 11:15 eastern in virginia. from democratic presidential candidate bernie p.m.rs today at 2:30

eastern time in columbia, south carolina ahead of tomorrow's primary there. this evening, president trump holds a campaign rally at the north charleston coliseum in south carolina. live coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern time here on c-span. c-span, liveon coverage of the results from a 2020 south carolina democratic primary and speeches from the presidential candidates beginning i -- at 8:00 eastern. william in washington state, republican. hi, william. caller: hi. my thunder was kind of stolen about the guy that said that pence is a very good choice. he is a perfect choice to lead this because he is a governor. he was experienced, and i think

it was the sars outbreak. he has experience in dealing with state and local resources. he is not an expert, just like i repeat the previous caller. there are lots of experts around him. he also has close contact with the cdc. he is a perfect choice. good job, trump again. i just want to say the -- truended truth partisans are going to he and but atthey always do, them stick out like sore thumbs so we can just make a list, check it twice and vote them out. host: an update on that patient in california with the unknown source of coronavirus. cnn with the headline that that condition,in serious according to officials. california's governor held a press conference yesterday. here is what he had to say about

the testing of that patient and the ability of the state to test others who may have the disease. [video clip] >> we are currently in deep partnership with cdc on one overriding protocol that drives our principal focus right now, and that is testing, and the importance to increase our testing protocols and have point of contact diagnostic testing as our top priority, not just in the state of california, but i imagine all across the united states. we had conversations moments ago. -- moments ago with cdc assuring us that testing protocols will be advanced with urgency. we have just a few hundred testing kits and the state of california. that is surveillance testing as well as diagnostic testing. that is simply inadequate to do justice to the kind of testing

that is required to address this issue head-on. i'm very pleased with the cdc that they are moving expeditiously on that and have made firm commitments to the state of california that will significantly and exponentially expand our capacity to advance those testing protocols. nothing more important than point of contact diagnostic testing that can be readily made available so that we can have full spectrum testing of this disease. host: that was the governor yesterday talking about the importance of testing for this virus. president trump yesterday congratulations, thank you to the great vice president on all of the money professionals doing such a fine job at the cdc and all other agencies on the coronavirus situation. only a very small number look to be going down. all countries working well together.

the congressman in california who represents the patient responded saying your cdc won't allow california to use its own capable labs to test for coronavirus and has provided just 200 test kits for a state 40 million people. that inaction is a horrific the service to public health and safety and we will not stand for it. azarecretary alex testifying for the fourth time this week, talked about their efforts to ramp up testing. [video clip] >> we are working closely to prepare for mitigating the virus's potential spread in the united states because we expect to see more cases here. in terms of identifying cases, cdc has been able to test 6325 morning. as of this at least 40 public health laboratories should now be able to test using modified existing test kits.

in addition, a newly manufactured test can be sent to 93 public-health labs as soon as monday. there is a privately manufactured test that can be sent to the same labs s&s tomorrow pending fda clearance -- as soon tomorrow pending fda clearance. host: if you want to listen to all of his testimony or take a look at the highlights from his testimony this week, if you go to c-span.org, you put alex azar into our search engine. player, you will see gold stars where we have marked key moments in his hour-long testimony. that way you can get the gist of what he has said to lawmakers throughout his four times of testifying on capitol hill. the wall street journal has the headline about masks in this country. mask supplies drop as the crisis hits more spots. global hoarding has left european wholesalers with empty shelves. manufacturers outside china so they won't be able to fill an exploding stack of orders for

months. u.s. hospitals or medical supply companies have reported dwindling mass inventory and partial or delayed shipment. the surgeon global demand for protective equipment enters a second month. take a look at the pictures in the wall street journal. this is some of the shelves at amount heartened pharmacy. -- at a manhattan pharmacy. york.in new caller: good morning. governor newsom still some of my thunder because i was calling in. first of all, i have no confidence in this administration simply because president trump has lied to us over and over and over again. my second point was about the testing because i don't know how you can track a possible pandemic if you are not testing. people are going about their business possibly carrying this

virus asymptomatic. some people get very sick and some people don't get sick at all.if you are not tested for it, how can you possibly track it spread? for that reason alone, i really have no confidence. and also, i did catch part of mr. azar's testimony and i was concerned he seemed to head his answer about the availability and affordability of a vaccine when it became available. there didn't seem to be from him an outright statement that yes, it will be made available and affordable to everyone. host: i want to show you two moments from capitol hill on that point yesterday because the speaker of the house yesterday talked about the money that the administration wants, that congress wants to pass to address this, but also, what the secretary has set about the affordability of vaccines. [video clip] >> we don't know how much we will need.

hopefully, not so much more because prevention will work. nonetheless, we have to be ready to do what we need to do. regard, we want to make sure that the president cannot transfer any of these new funds -- this is part of the statement from leader schumer and me -- that the president cannot transfer any of these new funds into anything other than use for the coronavirus threat that we perhaps will have interest-free loans made available to small businesses which are suffering from a coronavirus, some but maybe have to shut down because of the. vaccines, we want to make sure that vaccines are affordable we think it is important to make that point because of what secretary azar said yesterday. we can't control the price because we need the private sector to invest.

this will be a vaccine that is developed with taxpayer dollars to again, prevent, and we think that should be available to all, not dependent -- i guess yesterday, when the secretary made that it led by statement, he was wearing his pharama hat. host: the speaker of the house referring to the secretary of health and human services, alex for's previous job, working pharmaceutical companies before he became hhs secretary. she was referring to his testimony earlier in the week. yesterday, he had an exchange texas, thebrady of top republican on the house ways and means committee about his comments. [video clip] >> talk a little about what is happening in the pharmaceutical area. my understanding is two companies are working on nih ands in this area,

others are working on vaccines and they will be ready for human testing somewhat shortly. you talked about the cdc tests, fda working on other medical products. can you tell us what you see in that regard of those medicine helps that could come to the rescue? >> event. one doctor talked last night -- you bet. one doctor talked about last a vaccine we invented that should be in humans within three months of the initial specimen being provided from china. that is just historic levels of progress. we will work to ensure because this is a joint venture that will be under contract with hhs. we will work to ensure there are appropriate protections to assure the affordability of any vaccine produced at a joint venture work that taxpayers are funding as part of these cooperative ventures throughout our barta.

we have that and also purely private sector endeavors around vaccine candidates. gilead is doing clinical trial research on one of their antivirals that is not approved for anything it. that is in critical trial now in at thechina as well as university of nebraska with patients. there is much promise, but it will take time. the health and human services secretary yesterday on the availability and affordability of vaccines. what is yourgon, confidence level in washington to respond to the coronavirus outbreak? >> it is sort of mixed. i think our government will try to do a good job, but we can see what some of the things that undercut our confidence. for example, the idea that a vaccine can be created and then it might be too affordable for common people and will our government step in?

i think that because you have people saying the real facts of how the virus is spreading, and then to have government officials because of political stance and come in and say everything is fine and we will just wash our hands and it will be over, even the common man gets uneasy with that because they realize that it is factually not true. i think another problem that sometimes can happen no matter what party is in power, the people who live in a state that, for example, oregon is a blue state. you just had big headlines across papers saying that trump is going to block money to go to new york city because it is a and --ate

the problem is, as a blue state, i'm thinking, are they going to block stuff, tests or are red states going to get more test kits than my state? there.e will leave it keep the calls rolling and because the conversation continues after the short break. we are going to hear from two members of congress. larryican congressman bushong of indiana and later on, democratic congressman and former democrat presidential candidate, tim ryan of ohio. ♪ the south carolina primary is saturday. join as to hear the candidates reaction to the results. live coverage is saturday evening starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, on at c-span.org or listen live on the free c-span radio app.

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he was at the hearing yesterday where he was chairing the discussion with the cdc director. he talked about this new case at uc davis, the patient with the unknown source. i want to get your take on this. [video clip] know iffar, we don't this patient had any travel history, we are not aware of any contact. that work continues. the patient arrived at uc davis last wednesday or thursday, was intubated at the time on a ventilator. at that juncture, the doctors at uc davis on the medical staff did not have a concrete diagnosis and had requested testing for coronavirus. it was determined that this adopted the criteria for coronavirus. this past sunday, the doctors and medical staff insisted on the test. a test was performed. last night, we got the results

back and the news that all of you have heard. this is the first patient testing positive where we don't have confident context tracing. with ther concerns testing criteria, the fact that there is an unknown source for this patient. >> that dr. is very knowledgeable. i think he was at uc davis before he came to congress. he knows what is happening there. i'm very concerned about it. it is a novel virus. it is new and probably came from animal source, and we don't really know the characteristics of how this acts long term and whether this will be an annual problem or whether it will continue past the flu season. we have a new patient, critically ill. we need to really do some testing and do some epidemiology and try to figure out exactly how this happened. i'm very concerned about it and i think anytime you have a novel virus and don't know it's characteristics, it is

concerning. host: what do you think about this headline from reuters? the world health organization's chief fatal mistake. guest: i think that is right. see coronavirus and more than 30 countries. it started in china, apparently. i think one of the things that happened is the chinese government did not allow the world health organization and people from the u.s. government to get in there really quickly. they blocked them until relatively recently so that we could help them determine exactly what was occurring. i think that allowed some of this to spread more rapidly than it probably could have. since that time, i think the chinese have stepped up. with isolation and other things they have done, but i do think every country in the world should be concerned. host: this country, the cdc on its website, somewhat ominously how thelked about coronavirus could affect the united states.

if the virus start spreading, health care systems could become overwhelmed and overloaded with elevated rates of hospitalizations and deaths. guest: this time of year, with the normal flu, hospitals around the country are full of patients. i was a practicing physician in evansville, indiana, and every year, our hospitals were full of patients with just the regular flu. add on top of that, the potential for the coronavirus, in addition to the flu we already have, and i think the health system will be stressed. again, i want to point out that we have tens of thousands of deaths from the regular flu every year in the united states. we don't have a death here yet, and i think we are out ahead of it. i think all of the agencies and the federal government our ahead of this. i hope is that with the things that we do for public health in the u.s., that we will limit the spread in the united states. guest: what are those methods that we do in public health? -- host: what are those methods that we do in public health? guest: one of my colleagues had

a traveler go to her district. the federal government called the local health officials and said this person has a travel history to china. them. following they connected with local health officials not only in the state of indiana, but at the local level, to make sure people are aware of where people are going, traveling. all of the local levels, people are prepared for these types of things, for pandemics. they prepare for the flu every year. some of the same methods there apply, wash your hands, make sure if you cough, you cough into your elbow, try to state out of the public. don't go to work if you are sick. these are things we are doing in the united states very well and will hopefully limit the spread. host: wanda in chico, california. caller: i was just wondering why we are not worried about all of cominger deadly diseases across the southern border like

drug-resistant tuberculosis, polio, warping cough and a lot of other -- whooping cough and a lot of other kids diseases. they just let them flow across the border and then put them in sinks very cities to spread their diseases all around the country and the news media is ignoring it. nobody talks about it and now this one little disease comes from china and it is all over the headlines. i think we should be talking about the diseases that are coming across the southern border that nobody is doing at damn thing about. host: thanks for your question. we are actually doing -- guest: thanks for your question. we are actually doing something about that. we have very stringent health screenings down there. i do think the united states government is concerned about that. we have identified some people who are sick with tuberculosis. they are being treated properly. i don't think it is true that we

are not concerned about the type of diseases that are coming across the southern border. we are screening those folks. i think you can be rest assured that we are not sending those out into the communities with these types of illnesses. host: would you call the coronavirus, as she did, this one little disease? guest: no, i wouldn't. we have already had a dramatic spread around the run very quickly. we don't know yet how many people are going to be critically ill from this. we have an idea annually about the regular flu, but this is a novel virus. i think right now, all of the scientists around the world are trying to figure out how serious this could be. i think personally, it is when to be similar to the flu, maybe a little worse. we are going to have to find that out. we just don't know yet. my comment was some of the earlier collar -- callers

were making this a little more political and slows down process. thought that money might have been taken away from the cdc for the wall, another thought that red and blue states were the determining factor for he gets test kits. i was doing checking and it seems to me that this flu has the fatality rate of somewhere between 1% and 2%. i was a little surprised to see that already the regular flu had taken over 5000 people. 5000 deaths this year alone. i'm kind of wondering if this attention is going to take away support from the people that are actually dying of the annual flu. guest: in actual fact, i think it is going to bring more attention to the annual flu because everybody is worried about coronavirus. i think people are going to pay more attention to doing things like washing their hands, coughing into their elbow, not going to work if they are sick. i actually think it is going to

bring more attention to the annual flu. what you said about the polarization of this, i don't think at this point we have had a little bit of that. i think when people actually start to look at this, both political parties are going to rely on the scientists at the cdc and nih and other organizations around the world to make sure that all of our citizens are protected and treated if they develop this disease. i would hope we would keep the politics out of it. these agencies have all the funding they needed to. handle this the federal government has been funded through this fiscal year. it is not true there has been cuts to this agency. the budget proposal for the white house had changes in the funding levels, but it is not true that they have been cut. also, the white house has requested supplemental appropriations. a lot of people think it should be around $4 billion or more. i'm waiting for that to come to

the house floor so we can get more money to the agencies. host: when do you think it will come to the house floor? guest: i don't know, i was hoping it would be this week. hopefully the beginning of next week. agencies request extra money from what they normally have in their budgets, and again, they are fully funded through the end of this fiscal year, then we should really try to address that as quickly as possible. host: how quickly does it get out from those agencies? been: once the money has appropriated, agencies will have access to the dollars. host: woodbridge, illinois. caller: good morning. hopefully, nancy got my message. i told her i hope she can get this funding through faster than she did the usmca. i have two questions for you. one, is about your committee that you had witnesses on. why do they have to sit there and be abused so badly?

can't they defend themselves? guest: i can answer that first question first. first of all, every member of congress has a right to ask the witnesses questions, and the witnesses do defend themselves. i do think sometimes, you will see unfair questions that are mainly for political theater. i think that is unfortunate, especially when you have situations like this. andink secretary azar representatives from all the agencies present at our hearing this week did an excellent job of outlining the facts and talking about what the ministration is doing and is proposing to do to help the american people. yes, sometimes these things do get a little political, and i think that is unfortunate, but i do think the people that are testifying really do defend themselves. host: terry, are you still there? your second question. caller: i am talking more like ice, how they call them nazis

and everything. i know it is in the constitution, freedom of press. in an issue like this on the coronavirus, i would consider this national interest, emergency interest in everything. -- and everything. is there something congress can do to pass some sort of legislation like the new york times, that trump virus? guest: i think one of the things that we have on the constitution that is important is a free and independent press. it is unfortunate when you have opinion writers that write in newspapers or talk on tv and give an opinion that is very political, especially on something like the coronavirus and give unfair criticism to the president or people who are career people at the cdc and nih. i'm hopeful that people will realize they need to avoid those types of comments. i free and independent press is important, but with that comes

responsibility. i'm disappointed occasionally when opinion writers say things that they know skirt the truth. , honestly in this particular case, can inside a panic amongst the american people. host: earl, st. louis, missouri. thanks c-span for taking my call. it hasn't been two weeks since i read an article on one of the newspaper articles i get every trump, the president department that obama has set up to take care of viruses that he just about completely eliminated that apartment and just about took all of the money away from the department. i can't quote you the exact article, but it was in a major newspaper. i think it was even on bbc. please?respond to that i really appreciate you and thank you c-span for taking my call. guest: every organization --

every administration has an organizational structure. the obama administration may have had a different structure at the cdc or nih, but i can assure you and the american people that these agencies have adequate funding normally and they may need supplemental funding when you have something like coronavirus, but they are adequate professionals to deal with all of these situations. again, sometimes there is internal organizational differences, but i have full confidence in this ministration as i did in the obama administration to handle the viral challenges that they had, the ebola virus, for example. i think the american people can be rest assured that the agencies have the people in the funding that they need. host: greg, south carolina. question or,. -- comment. we don't know when it started and we don't know how

long it started. i have heard nobody mentioned nothing about money and credit [indiscernible] host: you mean by people touching those? coming in contact with them? caller: yeah, that come from overseas that had time to come into the united states. host: the congressman is a doctor as well as a congressman. guest: i think it brings up the important point that you should be washing our hands anytime you have a situation like this. honestly, you should be doing that all the time, but particularly during seasonal flu and now we have the coronavirus. and yes, things can be spread by touching inanimate objects including money or credit cards. i think most of the time, that is not the case, but it is important to wash her hands under the things that you normally would do during the flu

season for the coronavirus. we don't even know exactly when it started. we think it was mainly in december as a novel virus in the china, but we don't know exactly and that is why it is creating uncertainty. we really need to find out the epidemiology of the virus, how it acts and what the long-term effect is. host: how often do you wash your hands? guest: all the time. host: how many times a day? guest: i'm not obsessive compulsive, but i shake a lot of hands. i touch a lot of people. when i do that, i make sure after i have been in a crowd or en a lot of hands, i wash my hands with soap and water. sometimes it doesn't work and you catch a cold, but i think it is important and people should pay attention. host: gavin in illinois. caller: thank you for taking my call.

i just want to know how we are so prepared for this epidemic when we don't have testing kits and we don't have a full proof -- foolproof way of even testing for this so-called virus. this is not a virus, it is a fungal infection. it is called pneumonic plague. it gets up in the lungs, gets the host, starts out as micro spores and basically grows into mushrooms. host: let's get the doctor's perspective. guest: i think the coronavirus is definitely a virus. they have identified it in sequence to the dna. we are prepared for these types of things normally to test for the flu or test for other known infections. again, this is a novel virus. they had to find out what the dna sequence was, what surface structure there was there that could be identified to be tested, so it took some time.

it is true that the current testing is pretty accurate, but there has been a few issues with it. we talked to the cdc about that. they are resolving a problem, but i do think we have adequate testing. the problem is going to be the number of tests available. we are ramping that up and i think we are ready and we are going to be even more ready in the near future. host: what concerns do you have with this northern california community? cnn had a headline that 100 health care officials have been exposed. what are you watching for in how the virus could potentially spread in that area? guest: i think it is pretty clear, it spreads and the normal way like a flu virus went from human touching and from respiratory particles. if someone sneezes or coughs. you do the normal things you do to protect yourself. if you are not sick, the masks have not been shown to be effective. if you are sick, it helps protect other people. and so, i think we are doing those things, but we don't know

the epidemiology of this virus because it is a novel virus. if it acts in the same way the seasonal flu does, it will go away naturally as the weather warmer. if it doesn't, we have a different problem and i think we have all of the appropriate people working on it trying to figure that out. host: what kind of problem would we have? guest: a year-long problem with people getting the virus and getting the flu. imagine if we had a flu season all 12 months. host: is that possible? guest:. we don't know exactly i don't think so. as i mentioned earlier, during the flu season, a lot of hospitals are pretty full, especially with older people and children. this flu season has been particularly dangerous for young children. i'm hopeful that this will turn out to be just like the regular flu and will go away, and i think i'm a think that that is the case, but we just don't know. host: brandy is next in ohio. caller: good morning.

experience,sonal and then i have a question, if i could. i am personally experiencing a lot of flu symptoms, and i was recently on a cruise two months ago. obviously, there were people from china that were there and i flew. i have not been able to get a test. obviously, i am not deteriorating, i am getting better, so it was just a regular standard flu, but my question to you is, why do you sound so completely different than the president and now the vice president who is running this? why do your concerns seem so much more pointed than theirs? is, but 24uestion staff members that came in contact with the woman in california, they are being watched, but no one is being

tested. one isstounding that no being tested and it is almost like the stock good is more important than actually seeing how many cases we have in the united states. guest: first of all, on the second, not the stock market, i think that couldn't be further from the truth. i watch the vice president last night on tv talk about the situation in an interview on fox news. he sounded basically exactly what i've been saying today. it is very concerning, we need to have everybody prepared. they have a task force at the white house which they have had for a long time. they made some changes in travel patterns almost a month ago and have people on this for quite a long time. again, i said this the other day, the president postural in this is slightly different than mine. the president is the leader of the country, honestly, the leader of the free world. he wants to be accurate. he wants to make sure he doesn't insight unnecessary panic, but

also wants to get the facts out to the american people, exactly what is occurring and let the scientists determine exactly what we should be doing. i think that is what the white house is doing. i think the criticism of the white house has been unfair and inaccurate for political reasons and that is unfortunate because i can tell you that they have been doing everything they can on this. part of the problem again was the chinese do not allow us to get into the country early enough and to get the information on what was , and also determine what the virus was anchored get a dna sequence in an adequate timeframe, and that was on them. the administration is doing everything they can and i think they have been saying the same thing i have. host: on her personal story, on a cruise ship two months ago with residents from china, should she be tested? guest: i think needs to talk to her physician. i don't know her situation. i think it is very unlikely that she had coronavirus two months

ago because at that time, we were just learning about the initial cases in china. most likely, she has a seasonal flu. she has persistent symptoms, shortness of breath, cough, fever, she should see her physician and certainly should be tested. physician and certainly should be tested. i think the local health organizations now in her community will probably make that available. host: richard in lynchburg, virginia. republican. about: i am just curious the coronavirus. where exactly did the first in the united states? where did it start in here? i know it came from overseas and started, but where did it start here? host: we will take that question. here. it didn't start

the initial cases we have identified were people who had traveled from china, and also then, people that came over on the cruise ship that was docked off of japan. that is why this case and northern california is somewhat earning because we don't really have a travel connection and a reason why this person would get the coronavirus in northern california. all of the other cases did not originate in the united states. they were people who had traveled to china and brought the disease to the united states. they have been improperly dealt with. they have been quarantined on no one has been let loose out into the community. that is why i think people are really looking at this northern california case to see exactly how that occurred. host: tucker, georgia. i'm calling from georgia. i'm calling about [indiscernible]

host: i am having a hard time understanding. guest: i think the question is a question about a foreign election and someone was elected in the previous president refuses to step down. i'm not aware of what country he is talking about or what the situation is, so i really can't answer the question. host: we will move on. hank in baltimore. caller: i'm just calling because i read an article recently that some man in miami had flu

symptoms, was worried and went to the doctors, had a blood test and mouth swab. the billing came out to $3500, of which he had to pay $1700 and. -- in. flu.st had the common it is not encouraging for people to want to go to the doctors if they are worried about racking bills. i was just wondering -- valid.i think that is i think physicians will make decisions on whether people should be tested. some of the cost of those tests can be significant. each case is an individual case. i do think that most of the time, there are ways to make sure that people are adequately tested for these things and not rack up big medical bills. without knowing the person's particular insurance coverage, i couldn't, further on that.

we do want to make sure if people, particularly ones that don't have health insurance have concerns, i think our local health organizations all around the country will make sure that if there is coronavirus testing necessary, they will be able to get that and it will be costing. them a lot of money host: dr. and congressman buche on, thank you for spending your morning with us. we're going to take a break and what may come back, we will talk with ohio congressman and democratic presidential candidate tim ryan on the coronavirus risk on's and how the democratic presidential field is shaking -- shaping up.

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you are an appropriator. that means you decide how money is spent in washington. guest: me and many others. host: how much money do you think ultimately the two sides will land on between $2.5 billion the president would like to see and $8.5 billion that senator schumer has endorsed. guest: it looks somewhere between $6 billion and $8 billion. those of the recommendations from public health officials, which we need to follow in times like these. i think it will make everyone there aree if some provisions worth the money is not spent, the money can go back. i think in the short term, that is the deal that will be made. i think it will end up between $6 billion and $8 billion. host: how will it get through congress? guest: we only have a week or two left before we go on break. i hope next week. there needs to be a sense of urgency. the key in situations like this is how to get ahead of things.

you know, we have already kind of dis-invested in public health over the last 10-20 years in this country. in these situations, there is always an opportunity, and hopefully it is to remember why public health is so important. why it is important to have people on the ground all the time. why it is important to have a good public health infrastructure and communities across the united states, whether it is infant mortality or any other issue, addiction. all of these things are public health issues we need to deal with. hopefully, this is a reminder on how important it is. let's get that money out as soon as possible to deal with the immediate threat. host: has your district state and impacted by the coronavirus? whether the economy or patients. guest: not that we know of, but i'm sure a lot of people are looking at their 401(k)s in the last few days, people getting close to retirement and seen a couple of thousand point plus drops with no real end in sight because every day there is more news about something that brings

it closer to home. there is not a lot of certainty from the white house. you are getting mixed messages between the public health folks on the white house. nothing that we can necessarily put our finger on yet, but we have to be prepared because all indications are it is going to spread. host: what are you hearing from constituents, manufacturers in your district? guest: nothing yet because most of the economic impact really has been felt in the last few days. when you see what is happening with manufacturing in china, and coming from northeast ohio, we have been talking about losing manufacturing to china for 20-25 years. it is no surprise to us that a virus and china is going to affect the manufacturing supply chain and also in northern italy, which is a manufacturing hub, as well. i think it is a matter of time before we feel it. the analysts are saying this is coming down the pipe and you.

are seeing a ripple home. host: republicans, (202)-748-8001. democrats, (202)-748-8000. s (202)-748-8002. -- and independents, (202)-748-8002. remember, you can text us, as old. the to the funding, with democratic party and leader in the senate, chuck schumer, they required that this funding must be new and not from other accounts, the president cannot transfer funds to anything other than the coronavirus, and the vaccine must be affordable to all who need it, and they say that interest rate loans should be available to state and local governments while assisting with response. are these realistic provisions to put into any money bill that gets passed? guest: i think so. i think it is essential. you have the public health side,

vaccinations, making sure they are affordable, masks for health care workers on the front lines who are totally underfunded with how many masks in the reserve bank. so those things need to be funded. and then any business that will be impacted, too. we do not want a business to take a hit. we should have available resources to weather the storm. i . -- i think that is an appropriate role for us. what we just saw the president do with military reconstruction projects, he basically stole that to build the wall, and completely went against what congress did, the authorized projects. we have seen, whether it is in europe, trying to push back on russia, where there are 40 or 50 projects that will get deferred, and if you look in my district, we have money going to c-130 j's, new airplanes for the air force reserve. four were funded. the president took half of that,

so only two planes instead of four. this is across-the-board, so what you saw senator schumer and leader pelosi do was basically say, here is the money, it has got to go here, and you cannot take it from anywhere else. host: we will go to virginia, democratic caller. caller: good morning. masks of worry about the for the infected, by the way, but with the president use the coronavirus as a political thing or executive order if ecc is going to lose? or take it like this, how about during the elections? people are getting together, going up to vote and everything, wouldn't that help spread the virus if someone was infected? he could use anything, you know what i'm saying?

executive order, you cannot do this or that. you understand what i'm saying? guest: generally, yeah. this president has shown himself willing to do almost anything within the context of the budget or executive orders, but i would hope that we would have this thing well under control by november. we are hoping, optimistically, in the next month or two, we are able to get our arms around us, but we don't know because we have never seen this virus before. we will have to keep an ion the president, as always. host: janet, florida, independent. caller: yes. can you hear me? guest: yes. caller: ok. i would like to know about medications because they were saying that a lot of the shortages that come from china -- i know a lot of medications come from china -- i am wondering if that will impact the way we get our medications

and all of that. guest: unfortunately, yes. over the last 20 years or so, did not just lose manufacturing jobs to china, we also kind of outsourced our supply chain for pharmaceuticals, and i am on a bill now with congressman posey from florida to study that supply chain and to start fixing it. 80% of our drugs and the different elements and parts of our drugs come from china, which is, you know, how did we let this happen? way,i, and a bipartisan are trying to fix this problem because in situations like this, relying on china and how they handle this -- i think a lot of this, too, is a commentary on the system in china. it is dark. you cannot see. they live. they do not tell the truth. there were not willing to get ahead of this, no matter their spin now, they try to hide this.

we do not have an open society where the government can be critiqued, where whistleblowers are appreciated for their strength and the knowledge they can bring from underneath a be a political conversation. you have a lot of problems, and what i hope happens here, greta, is i spoke about a wake-up call around public health. i hope this is a wake-up call around our economy and how much we have given to china around 90 fracturing. why we need to have a defense industrial base because we rely on china for a lot of the parts that come in and supply our own military, dangerously reliant on them. you look at our pharmaceutical industry. dangerously reliant on china. it is good to have trade and be engaged. it does have long-term benefits and prevents wars in a lot of ways because the economies are so linked, but you cannot outsource your defense

industrial base and pharmaceutical industry for the sake of profits. this is where our system has gotten too far tilted so whatever the corporations want. they can write the trade agreements, the trade agreements can be written whether it is the new nafta or kind of what the most nation trade status with china or south korea, whatever, it has been tilted to write these things for the corporations, so the public interest is set aside. a i hope that this really is wake-up call for our country. host: we will go to tom, watching in royal oak, michigan. democrat. trump: yeah, i think that has done a terrible job on this. he is trying to minimize the situation, and he is not credible because he has lied in the past, and he discounts science, and he discourages

whistleblowers. i think trump should have technical experts leading this, not political hacks. congress, in particular the representative, will pass the funding resolution, but also attach a resolution saying trump has to put technical people in charge or he does not get the funding. that is my call. guest: i would not be opposed to that. i think that would be difficult to get through a republican senate, which is the matter we have dealt with the last couple of years, trying to initiate things that get stonewalled in the senate. but i agree with you wholeheartedly. not to get overly political, but when you look at the fact checking of the statements that the president of the united states has made the last three years, and the thousands of misleading statements he has

ise, i do not want to say it fine, but we are talking about russian interference in our elections, and he doesn't tell the truth about that. we talk about other issues. he doesn't tell the truth. when you get a public health pandemic, where you need transparency, more than anything else, or then you need masks, anything, you need transparency. just to see the press conference the other day with the president saying one thing and the public health officials saying something else, that is no way to run a railroad in a crisis like this. i hope the president rises to the occasion and recognizes this is not "the apprentice," for a reality television show. this is real life and lives hang in the balance of we do not do what is appropriate. host: you also were asked to talk about the 2020 presidential election, you being a candidate yourself. who are you endorsing and why? guest: i am with joe biden, and

i'm excited about it. host: why? guest: i think this scenario shows why you need experience and steady leadership. it was joe biden's chief of staff that ran the ebola situation for us here in the united states, ron claimed. he did a phenomenal job. that is one example of joe biden understanding what it means to govern. he understands a district like mine where we are trying to rebuild the manufacturing base and get good paying jobs. i think you will have a nice win in south carolina, and i think we will be off and running. i'm really excited about it. i watch these videos of him interacting, and watch him interacting with kids who may be starter or someone who lost one to cancer, and -- kids who may and someone who lost one to cancer, there is part.

that is what we need right now. we have enough data. we need a president to show some heart. i think he will be able to cut through the noise. like jim clyburn said, we know joe, but joe knows us, and i think that is going to be the secret sauce here. ift: i know it is early, but bernie sanders is the nominee, would you support him? guest: we will cross that bridge we get there. onhink most of us are set supporting the democratic nominee. i think president trump has been such a violation of the major institutions in the country. i just, you know, disagree with him almost across-the-board, and i think we have to shore up our institutions, whether you talk about that fbi, cia, trying to consolidate power within the justice department. that is scary stuff. another four year term, where the president doesn't have to worry about getting reelected, i

think you will see a unified democratic party. host: how do you think bernie sanders plays in youngstown, ohio? guest: i like bernie. i think he has articulated the economic anxiety almost as well or better than anybody else. that is his thing. he understands the structural problems we have had with the consolidation of power in corporate america and all the rest. i think his solutions are going to be difficult. when you look at the natural gas industry in western pa and eastern ohio, there is a natural plant inker western ohio. people are making $120,000 a year and the payroll of the place is $10 million a day. there are people in youngstown working in western pa and getting a good rate in pittsburgh. to say we are going to get rid of fracking and natural gas,

that is a tough sell for people making 100 grand a year. the idea that those same union members will be forced under his plan, forced into the public health care medicare for all plan, not an option but forced. now you will take their jobs and health care. i think other things like decriminalizing the border and free health care for undocumented workers, where a lot of workers struggled to pay for their own health care, those will be tough cells. -- tough sells. onnie and i had a debate that, and we are just standing by our positions. i think his heart is in the right place but i don't agree with his solutions. host: dan in youngstown, ohio, a republican. guest: uh-oh. former democratic precinct person and a democrat host of my life. i voted for trump and i'm

calling on the republican line. the democrats seem to want to make everything political venture. billion.ed for $2.5 instead of saying we want to give him 8 billion dollars and put restrictions on it, you could have given him the $2.5 billion right away. he could have started working on this. if you needed more, you could have given him another $2.5 billion. instead, you turned it into a political thing. i am tired of the dirty democrats. that is why i am not voting democratic anymore. you guys spent 2.5 years investigating the russians and could not find collusion. you went on to the next thing and talked about impeachment before he took the oath of office. it is dirty democrats dragging the country down. you could work with the guy and help us avoid the coronavirus. host: dan, let's get a response from the congressman. guest: i appreciate that.

i work with president trump, where i think he is doing something in the best interest of our community that you and i live in. i do not live too far away from where you live. on the new nafta the president pushed, i supported it. he is doing initiatives like being firmer with china on trade. i support that generally, not necessarily how he went about it . the space force and defense bill, i supported that. i do not let my personal feelings for the president get in the way of representing my constituents, but i will say all of the intelligence community has said that russia has tried to interfere in our elections, and there were contacts between the president's campaign, roger stone and other members of the campaign, who have been indicted and convicted. we cannot not look at that. and you cannot say the president

wants to $.5 billion and congress should have it to him and ask no questions. article one creates the congress and house of representatives, where funding bills starts. it may be inconvenient for some presidents, and i will just ask all of my republican friends, would you have that same opinion if we said, just get president obama $2.5 billion and let him do what he wants? no. i understand the frustration if you are a trump supporter, but the reality is many presidents un-convenientan entity that they have to reconcile with, and that is the same thing here. if we gave just one further step on this, we have to take care of this problem now. we cannot go $2.5 million because that slows down the process. all the public health experts across the globe tell us you need to hit it quick and early, and that is what we are trying to do by getting that money to him. and a republican senate will

have to pass it. host: we go to chicago next. james, a democratic caller. caller: yes, my question is, is it true we receive 87% of our prescription drugs from china? if it is true, why is this happening and when did it happen? guest: it is about 80% from the articles i read, whether it is different component parts of particular medicines, this has happened over the last 10-20 years. ,gain, it becomes a cost issue where businesses are trying to outsource costs. it is no different than manufacturing. if you can get something made in a low cost country, they do that . and capital flows to those areas, which is why you have to have trade agreements that lift other countries with the ability to organize, to have a union, to have some basic level of environmental standards that you need in the country, so you start leveling the playing

field. we want to lift other countries up, but when it comes to defense industrial base and pharmaceuticals, i cannot think of two more important things to having a country and for us to be able to rely on. you look at component parts for 5g, you know, we have gotten dangerously close to relying on the chinese for those component parts for 5g, it means they have an opportunity to steal a lot of information and data from us that we do not want them to have. that is a critical issue. we are in adea that situation where government should take over things, or like no government at all, that has been the conversation in this country for a long time, and the reality of it is what we are dealing with now is a symptom of that political conversation, so we have to have a strong,

nimble, smart government that is doing things right, like defense industrial base and making sure we have the supply chain for prescription drug investments, and for science, technology, and research and development infrastructure. we have to be super focused on the role of government, providing health care for people who cannot afford it, and all the rest, but being smart within the systems, and then appreciating the magic of the sector that can help solve problems and that the project motive is efficient and leads to job growth. who will come to youngstown, ohio and hire people? the government? no. we need to create an environment that at the end of the day, some private sector entities have to come in and create the business. it has to be that balance. if we do not have it, we get polarization and gridlock. host: congressman tim ryan with us until the top of the hour

when the house gavels in early further legislative session. the nice in southfield, michigan. republican. denise in southfield, michigan. republican. caller: thank you. i will try to do this quickly because i'm watching the clock. california with that one case of the coronavirus, it reminded me of a doctor who has been displaying enormous concern over the threat to the homeless, the lack of the governor addressing that and letting it continue, and he said something unheard of in this day can happen called typhus, and he is very concerned ,bout it, and nancy pelosi during the impeachment, that is all she cared about, impeaching donald trump. she should have acted on the coronavirus then. and donald trump was ridiculed by the democrats for cutting off the travel from china

immediately as soon as he heard about the coronavirus, and it was acknowledged this morning on television that because he did that, meaning right now, it is a whole lot less or it could have less, andle lot the experts agree that donald trump is doing everything that should be done with the coronavirus. thank you. guest: there was a lot to unpack there. has a hugecalifornia housing and homelessness crisis, which, again, is the lack of affordable, low income housing. i think it speaks to the economics of some of these cities that the average workers are dealing with. you talk about a working-class person and you think youngstown, ohio, flint, michigan, but in a lot of these cities it is so expensive to live that people are now losing their homes, and you have families living in

these areas where they are dressed like i am, suits, ties, nice clothing, they lost their house. so that needs to be addressed. obviously, there is a public health component to that because there are so many people who are homeless. want to overly politicized this. we want to work with the president, but he has to work with congress, as well, be transparent, speak their truth, and this is beyond politics. we want to keep our people safe and i'm willing to work with the president on this. host: lessons learned from running for president? guest: we should respect anyone who runs for president because of the grind and time away from your family, the sacrifices that the candidate and their families make through the process, so, really, a deep appreciation for all the candidates running. many of them have been running for two years. but, you know, it is

campaigning. like people would say in my district when i would go home, what is it like in iowa? i would say, they are people, just americans who have an opportunity to vote for the president of the united states, which is pretty cool, and they have the same hopes, needs, dreams, and worries about their kids and the future, and paying for prescription drugs, that most americans have. i think the candidates, like a joe biden, who really understand that, and you think of obama and clinton, and trump a certain extent, people feel like they know them. there was a connection there. it is a really cool system, so a deep appreciation to have the ability to partake in that, and, again, it is a lot of work. host: will you do it again? guest: probably not. host: declaring here you will not run again. guest: probably not. who knows what the world holds

for you, but i have a young family. mason is 17 and bella will be 60 next week, so a three week extravaganza for bella for her 16th birthday, and brady will be six in june. that was the hardest part for me, to be on the road for an extended amount of time. i miss my family. can i get a bus and they can all come with me? but they have their own lives, as well. i clearly want to have an impact in the world, and my ideas i talked about during the campaign about having a chief manufacturing officer, and then you look at what is going on in china. that is where my experience comes from. to reverseas edison chronic disease and talk about social and emotional learning in schools and mindfulness meditation and contemplative practices to heal veterans who have posttraumatic stress. these are things i believe in and i want to push. host: if not the presidency,

what higher office? guest: i am moving up on the appropriations committee. i sit on the defense appropriations committee. the chair is retiring next year and i will be the vice chair. that is largest by far of the appropriations, and we talk about defense and industrial base, and 3d printing and additive manufacturing like the technologies, and then some of the health care stuff we talked about, so i'm excited about that opportunity and i think it could be good for northeast ohio. host: congressman tim ryan represents the 13th district in ohio. a member of the appropriations committee. thank you. guest: thanks for having me, greta. host: the house is about to gaveling early. we will bring you there live the house floor on c-span.