power. ng ld trump is destroyi that.ng that. and that will have great effect on the security of the american people. reporter: how do you feel about the payroll tax -- senator schumer: i just mentioned it a few times. reporter: are you comfortable with prisoners in new york state make just pensies -- senator schumer: i haven't seen what governor cuomo is doing on that specific issue. i heard about t i couldn't comment on it. reporter: governor cuomo is proposing a quarantine on city officials -- senator schumer: i don't know the medical details. i'm sure he relied on a lot of medical people. i defer to them. thank you, everybody. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. sit ncicap.org] >> senate democrats talking about federal proposals on the response to the coronavirus.

republicans spoke to reporters. you can find that online at c-span.org. so did the president. he was at the republican lunch and spoke to reporters after that. again those remarks at c-span.org. also to let you know, coverage later today the white house coronavirus task force led by vice president mike pence will brief reporters at 5:30 eastern. that will be over on c-span3. the u.s. house is back at 3:30 eastern. they'll vote on recommendations for modernizing congress. we'll have that live for you here on c-span when they return. in the meantime, we'll take you back to today's "washington journal." state. so peterson is a democrat of a different era. he's got a good shot at winning reelection. win reelection, whatever republican when their primary would certainly win that seat. peterson is one of the rare members of congress who has built himself a reputation that transcends party. there aren't a lot of those across the country.

host: is there another one off the top of your head? >> pete king from new york. democrats have a pretty good shot of winning his district. host: john. republican. good morning. caller: thank you for c-span. i have a statement to make about bernie sanders and then i have something to say about the coronavirus. have is in your research and talks with different people, what are some of the reasons they say they support bernie sanders? because bernie sanders whether we like it or lack -- or not, is out of touch with his own party. free health care for all because it just can't be done. when i talked to a lot of the people in palm beach, especially the cuban people will tell you

that socialism has never worked. on the coronavirus i think we all do need to come together on things --to get same some things done. do like we used to do in the old days. we would just come together and help each other. relatives andly so forth. little things like that. accomplish a lot. that's all i have to say. >> so why sanders. the people i talked to at sanders rallies, they want to revolution. i think the system is stacked guy, those little who are not powerful. found just a huge number of people who gravitate to that and to his point, there are a lot of people who come out for

him because of him and would not show up for any other politician anywhere. sanders attracts a group of people who want to see the system blown up and refashioned in a way that would that to them. on your neighbors, excellent. i love to hear it. let's all do that. host: we will head to minneapolis. douglas. independent. good morning. >> thank you for taking my call. i don't know how people can continue to defend president trump with his most ignorant kind of conduct regarding so many issues. but about the virus for example. he has come out and said that people can even go back to work

during this time and it will just go away. him.hen they defend it's indefensible. peopleer aspect is the who are panicking about socialism. you already have socialism here. public schools. roads. public hospitals. i can go on down the list. most people have no clue what socialism is. they just regurgitate and don't read or anything. host: we talked about president trump's proposed economic response to the coronavirus. raising the payroll tax cut, relief for hourly workers. do you support those? >> i support it. it's late and there was a comment made that people don't prepare. will obviously south korea was prepared because they have run

so many tests. it's incredible. not beingws you about prepared and that he allocated this money after we were already in crisis. and then for the people talking about not testing people that are detained, it's just an ignorant idea because the people can go back, spread the virus, wherever they come from and it reenters us in larger quantities. >> there are a couple things that the president has a limited supply of and can never get get -- get back. the clock is always ticking whether it's a four-year clock or eight-year clock. the other is trust. the president squanders trust that americans have in him to handle a crisis, he might

never recover. we saw that with george hwb bush. after hurricane katrina and mishandling what happened in new ratings his approval fell and never came back. not into calling this somebody's katrina or something like that but if this response goes really poorly for president trump, his solid base may start to crumble pretty fast. host: who are the trusted government officials during ebola and are any of them still around today? >> one was tom friedman, the director of centers for disease control and prevention. he's now running a global nonprofit. i spent an hour on the phone with him trying to learn lessons from the outbreaks in his career.

this is not the first outbreak. there will be more in the future so we need to learn the lessons. still inho was government you have probably or seenthe sunday shows him during their briefings. he is the director of the national institute for allergy and infectious diseases. he's been there since the reagan administration. trump is the sixth president he has served and he is a guy who takes these really complicated questions and translates them for us. one of virus hits, he shows up on the sunday shows. he has a very distinctive brooklyn accent. he was apparently back in the day the loan yankees fan and dr. territory. a world leading aids

researcher who works his way up through nih. there are not many people in the world who have treated more aids patients than he has. he is one of those people who --t exudes confidence competence. there were some concerns that he was not allowed to speak as freely as he should. so becauseted doing he eggs -- is the expert. and yet he is warning about this. i think it's fair to warn about the dangers of the coronavirus. not to scare anybody put to spur people from prepare -- to prepare. as simple as washing your hands and covering your mouth when you cough. of shakingng instead hands. i'm cool with just a wave.

the elbow thing is weird. >> the hill.com. it came out on saturday. the author reid wilson with us this morning. delaware.yce in republican. good morning. caller: i've been listening to the show. this whole thing started with the democrats. just another propaganda of donald trump. he's doing everything he can. they've brought in the most leading people. i think it's a scare tactic. it's all about the election and the republican people i know are just sick and tired of it. host: i hope this thing doesn't become actually partisan. the coronavirus is scary and it is going to infect a lot of people. it already has infected more than 100,000 people around the world. the notion that this is a scare

tactic is troubling to me because we have the greatest health care system in the world. we can stop something like this but it takes a concerted effort beyond just doctors and nurses. we have to engage in the practices that keep us safe. i have a three and a half-year-old at home. i'm trying to teach him to wash his hands. no reason to be afraid, but reason to take precautionary steps and do things like wash your hands and stay home when you are sick. host: it's about 116,000 confirmed cases around the world. total deaths over 4000. numberal recovered continuing to take up.

>> look at the orange line. that is the case count in china. you can see that it's bending downward. there's a bell curve that happens with infections. experiencingey are fewer and fewer cases. the source of the outbreak is starting to show fewer cases. but they took really extreme steps that are not available to the united states. we are not going to lock down whole cities and prevent people from traveling. which means it's incumbent upon steps that are super simple. that's our version of the measures they have taken in china. americans are smart. we are smart enough to do this

if people tell us. host: in vermont. this is jeanette. a democrat. good morning. you are on with reid wilson. caller: i'm a native vermonter and i work on volunteered with bernie sanders for 30 years ever since he was the mayor. and then a big issue came up in vermont and it was the f-35's. and f-35 is capable of carrying nuclear missiles. and we are in a small community. i live about five miles from burlington. bernie sanders was for the f-35. we have a shortage of housing. in order to get the f-35's to be located here and bernie sanders was a main leader of this, we

had to take out at least $10 million worth of housing. housing wasw income bulldozed because bernie wanted f-35's. well the f-35's are totally capable of carrying nuclear weapons. for peace.was he always said i don't want the proliferation of nuclear weapons and we said bernie, then you can't have it both ways. he goes, they are coming. end of story. and all these people that have supported bernie, that's why he only got 50% of the vote this time in the primaries. talk on one side of his mouth and he will say another thing to his constituents. host: this is the story from july of last year.

bernie sanders faces backlash over the $1.2 trillion war machine he brought to vermont. >> in my non-virus and nonpresidential life i cover what happens outside the beltway and to her point, one of the themes that's cropping up in cities around the country is a lack of affordable housing. and i'm not just talking about seattle and san francisco. moines,ing about des iowa. minneapolis is seeing rent skyrocket. we are experiencing a housing crisis around the country that is increasingly the focus of state and local governments. i talked to the speaker of the iowa state house and he's really worried about the supply of housing as a cap on economic

growth in northern iowa. if you can't have workers coming into fill jobs, the companies can't get bigger. you're going to see a lot more elected officials paying attention to the housing supply in coming years. i feel like that was a very odd tangent for the rest of the conversation that we've had. host: the house is getting ready to come in this morning. calls asn, your phone we sit with reid wilson this morning. denise in college park, maryland. caller: good morning. thank you. host: go ahead. caller: i have a comment about the coronavirus and the voting. as far as the coronavirus i'm a little confused on why we are

being told it's ok to fly when you're guest just said earlier that the biggest problem we have with this virus in order to contain or end it is testing, testing, testing. if no one's being tested, why would it be safe to fly. so i have a problem with that. voting, i like biden. i trust him. i believe in his track record. but i don't think he will be able to stand up to donald trump unless his debate is mostly attacking his policies, mannerisms, character and all the things that he did not do as president. and one other thing on the coronavirus. why is he walking around shaking people's hands. what type of leadership is that? to shake people's hands during

this outbreak? >> the shaking hands at the rallies, i wish you would stop that. that's the one thing that -- man. let's stop shaking hands for a little while. that's a totally reasonable step to take. it doesn't cost anything. host: there's the picture that has gotten a lot of attention and the video of it from the washington post. the president shaking hands with supporters in orlando. he is just bathing in hand sanitizer these days. it would not be good -- if -- i'm not even going to go there. one of the things denise talked about is the challenges of joe budden debating.

the guy who teaches democrats how to debate and high-pressure situation is getting run clean. former chief of staff to joe biden and al gore, also the guy who if you are reading washington post op-ed's about the coronavirus and the appropriate response, look at the byline. host: what was his background? why did he get picked for that? >> the obama administration got criticized because he did not have a medical background. that's not what is required for a job like this. what we need the most for an effort that is across departments and agencies and things like that as somebody who understands how government works and who to call to get agency x transport -- across the country to where it's needed.

how to get the leverage of government working and that's what you need most in a case like this. it's not a medical response. it's a government response. the government basically was acting to bolster the medical and public health systems. you don't need a medical expert to do that. you need somebody who knows how to get the supplies from the government to the health system. host: coronavirus likely to be a subject talked about on the floor of the house today. livell take you there for gavel-to-gavel coverage. you can also continue watching on c-span3. we will be heading over to one of the subcommittees at the house appropriations committee with the director of the centers for disease control. robert redfield will be testifying there.

been talking a lot about super tuesday. tonight our coverage of the results of the candidate speeches begins at 9:00 p.m. here on c-span. we hope you join us for that. john in woodbury, new jersey. a republican. go ahead. caller: good morning. i'm on the air? host: what's your question? caller: -- keep saying they don't have money to pay the bills. what is an president trump --nstate the corporate tax doesn't president trump reinstate the corporate tax and make it retroactive to 2006? thatt something republicans typically do. increasing taxes especially in a retroactive way.

be an issue in the general election. the role of taxes and how much. host: in brooklyn. democrat. good morning. caller: i just had a quick comment. thanks for doing this. wilson,commented, mr. that americans are smart enough. country only china or a like china would do something like shut down its country which obviously wouldn't be the case for something like italy. my question to you would be, what's it going to take for americans, and i hate to be polarizing on this, but americans that support trump so heavily, what's it going to take for them to realize that

coronavirus isn't a political tool. >> vice president mike pence is increasingly delivering a message of prepare and get ready. areappropriate messages coming out of this administration. maybe not from the president himself but at least from his people. so the message is getting across. if supporters -- he is delivering good advice about things like washing their hands. those messages are getting across. i hope everybody listens to them and pays attention because they are coming from democrats, republicans, career officials, politicians and everybody across the spectrum. it's good advice. less -- let's listen to it. host: reid

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dakota and washington. watch our campaign 2020 coverage of the candidate speeches and results. >> the u.s. house is back in just over 20 minutes at 3:30 eastern. we expect they will vote on recommendations for modernizing congress, a bill that debated earlier. live house coverage of that of course here on c-span. on capitol hill a number of hearings and briefings on the coronavirus and the federal response to the outbreak. president trump was on capitol hill for the senate g.o.p. lunch. also meeting with house republicans. we're going to show you the president's comments to reporters next and also follow that with comments from senate republicans after their party lunch.