international television. to find clips of what other people said and be able to put those in blog posts like.e the idea is to make it so people contrast, compare and think critically what's happened on television. communicators" tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. good monday morning, the front page of "usa today" with a picture of surgeon general jerome adams on "meet the press yesterday" when he was asked about of the advice he has given to governors who have not issued stay-at-home orders. say.is what he had to >> i would advise them to follow our 30 days to slow the spread guidelines. iran the department of health and here's what i say to them, here is what i would say to them right now, the next week is going to be our pearl harbor moment, it is going to be our 9/11 moment.

it will be the hardest moment for many americans and we really need to understand that if we want to flatten the curve among everyone has to do there per. doing theircans are part even in states where they have not had a shelter in place order but if you can't give us 30 days, governors, give us what you can so we don't go on the health care system in the next week and then let us reassess that last point. >> at a minimum. >> you have to be rosie the riveter. part.ve to do your host: also yesterday from the white house, the white house task force held a briefing starting at 7:00 p.m. andident trump led off talked about the tough days ahead but also said there is light at the end of the tunnel. the president. >> we see light at the end of the tunnel. things are happening. we are starting to see light at the end of the tunnel.

hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, we will be very proud of the job we all did. you can never be happy when so many people are dying, but we are going to be very proud of the job we did to keep the debts down to -- on a death -- to keep the deaths down to an absolute minimum. host: the president yesterday from the white house also at the briefing yesterday, dr. anthony fauci of the n i h, followed up on the president's comments about the light at the in of the tunnel and about what to expect this week. dr. fauci: when you look at the indications that dr. birx and the president were talking about, we see a threatening out of cases, and you don't sue the realization of what that means until two weeks later. right now we are seeing, as we all set correctly, but this is probably going to be a really

bad week. that is a reflection of what happened two and a half weeks ago. if we start seeing a flattening or stabilization of cases, what you are hearing about -- attention light at the end of the tunnel -- doesn't take away from the fact that tomorrow, the next day will look really bad. we always talk about a two and a half week lag. a couple of people asked that question -- it is really not incompatible with what we're saying. with regard to what we tell the american people, what we have been telling them all along, that the only tool or the best will we have is mitigation. we know it worked in other countries and we are seeing how it is working here. so if we really want to make sure that we don't have these kinds of rebounds that we are worried about, it is mitigation, mitigation, mitigation. host: dr. anthony fauci yesterday from the white house. another briefing is scheduled

for today, you can also watch about here on c-span. here is a front page of the "wall street journal." "u.s. braces for a brutal week as the death toll nears 10,000." 9006 hundred 48 americans have died so far from ,oronavirus -- the number 9000 648 americans have died so far from coronavirus. the total recovered, that number has been ticking up as well, over 17,000 at this point. up our phone calls, 202-748-8000 if you are on the eastern and central time zones, 202-748-8001 if you are on the mountain or pacific time zones. first out of ohio, good morning. caller: good morning, how are you today? host: i am doing all right.

caller: i am in my 50's and i am wondering, what is going with this administration? we can't call it republican or this is hysteria. this is the united states of can't we get a respirators and masks and gloves? this is trivial. come on. if you don't have an answer, please don't say anything. but the people who claim to be the ones who are supposed to c.d.c., if at the you will not allow us to talk about it -- i feel from my -- i feel for my grandchildren. i would like to see them grow up some but times are hard enough. i don't have more to say about it. host: how is governor to one --

how is governor dewine doing? caller: at least he was a person and did what he was supposed to do and tried to save lives. it is the united states of america. are you kidding me? people in china and all these other places, how come there is no coronavirus in north korea? what are they doing that is so great? we just can't get respirators and masks to the people who are supposed to help us? children, old people, middle aged people, even the prime minister in the uk's in the hospital. from the coronavirus. come on. that is all i have to say. host: from ohio to florida. good morning. caller: c-span audience, i just wanted to make some points about

-- i think there is a clear correlation them if you want to look at it that way, between climate disruption perhaps releasing more melted ice, which is causing more water, which is causing more most gators. mosquitoes. these new viruses being the these from the arctic are millions of years torment and coming into contact with species -- millions of years dorm ant. and coming into contact with species. this will be an issue we will have to address while we are trying to research the economy. i think the resurgence of the economy will be built around anticipating what may be looming as a result of the mouse down. i think it has been downplayed

by the administration because they have been trying to go back to the fossil free will -- fossil fuel industries that have generated what we are seeing with climate disruption. host: from what you are seeing in florida, do you think people have woken up more to the issue of climate change in the past couple of weeks? caller: no, sir. that is just my opinion. i am an educator and i have been doing at-home services with all types of children, all kinds of income groups, from the wealthy to the low income groups, and i just feel that people are still not quite getting it. life itself is a delicate entity. i think it is based on more things that they want

or want to pay attention to. paradigmo change that of thinking. it has to become survival, spiritual, help your brother. i have been trying to talk about those kinds of things for years. , "run in my shoes ," where i bring about the point that it was going to take something like this to bring us together. host: this is cindy out of norwalk, connecticut, good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. just a few points. wanted to,l, i just if everybody is listening, christian care hospital in delaware desperately needs and masks.s -- n95 my daughter is a pulmonary nurse and she has had to reuse her mask for five days. it makes it really hard for her to stay calm and healthy and

stay up all night. that being said, we were not prepared for this. we should have been prepared after 9/11. there is a lot of blame to go around. people want to look back at history. we were not prepared for pearl harbor. it took us six months to gear up to go to war, same with 9/11 and the same with this. so this is a historical brain fart, if you will. if you look throughout history. i don't recall any world leaders seeing this coming and sounding the alarm. said, climate change, i agree with that color. it is also the way we -- i agree with that caller. it is also the way we travel now. i think there needs to be more videoconferencing. i just think that travel aspect

of it all -- host: do you think people will travel a lot less after this? caller: for business but not for pleasure. i'd know -- i know people who travel back-and-forth to china several times a month. i am wondering if it is necessary that we do that. it helps to facilitate the spread of viruses like this. why it was as big of an issue, because travel was not as big as it is now. host: before we go, how is your daughter doing? caller: she is trying to keep her courage up. we have been leaning on our faith a lot. healthy,ung, she is but she does get exposed to heavy viral loads. i feel for her. i am very proud of her. host: our best wishes to her as

well. rosanne in san diego, california. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. the story from the caller from connecticut was really sad, what is happening to our first responders. it should not the happening. it is a tragedy. what you said yesterday, lots of death. lots of death. that is how he's had it. then i remembered that is actually a hoax. right? toi don't really know what do, because the leadership in this country has completely failed. after hearing the story from the lady who just talked to you about her daughter not being able to have a mask for five days, it is just incredibly sick. trump should be doing something more about it than talking about "lots of death."

host: story from "usa today, governors found that they are tested in the extreme. how has governor some done -- governor newsome done? caller: he has been doing really well feared he has been on top of it unlike a lot of other governors. host: thank you. james from new york, good morning. caller: good morning. host: go ahead. caller: i am just a little upset with the leadership. again thatory house we have, running our country. it is like a blind bus driver with a bus full of our kids. nobody is doing anything about it. we are just sitting there looking at him every day and rebounding comments. rebound them,to because he repeats everything. he thinks he sounds so good. i am a vietnam vet.

4 the eighth of this month, days after king had gotten assassinated in 1968, i was drafted. i got bad feet. he said he had pumps in his feet. i'll tell you, my feet are scary, but i went through it. and i am glad. my flag since he has been in office has been upside down, ok? i couldn't believe he went in. the first time i ever heard of trump, he put that skating rink in. he has just been a clown all through. -- let news, the press me tell you, the first time he was interviewed about his opinion about iraq, he answered "uh,, yeah, i -- agree." host: who do you look to for leadership right now? caller: i look for biden.

he got gassed. so what? he has been there since the 1970's. he is a clean-cut guy, he is a gy guy, this or that, but every time a situation pops up, he will get the proper fit for that situation. this guy got old friends. let me give you a story -- host: you bring up joe biden. he was also on the sunday shows week"day, on abc's "this talking about not only the coronavirus response, but also what it might mean for the upcoming democratic national convention, saying it might need to be moved. this is joe biden. [video clip] mr. biden: we will have to do a convention, we may have to do a virtual convention. we should be thinking about that right now.

the idea of holding a convention will be necessary, but we may not be it were put 30,000 people in one place. that is very possible. let's see where it is. what we do between now and then will dictate a lot of that as well. my point is i think you just have to follow the science, listen to the experts, listen to the faucis of the world. we have never allowed any crisis , from the civil war straight to we haveemic of 16 -- never let democracy take a second fiddle. we can both have a democracy, and elections, and at the same time, correct and the public health. but i think it is time we start thinking about how we are going to hold elections. whether we will have to spend a lot of time figuring if weather what we do, is it going to be by mail? how are we going to make it available to everybody? and i think that has to be --

host: i know you talk to bernie -- . host: david is joining us this morning from anderson, south carolina. good morning. david, are you with us? you have to stick by your phone and turn down your television if you want to join in in the conversation. it is easier to hear if you turned on the television while you are waiting. patrick from south carolina, hank, good morning. caller: i wanted to chime in on this corona -- i hear a lot of blame this morning going around, blaming this person are that person. i hadn't heard the word china come up in any of the conversations. i think that is where it started. it didn't start from melting ice, i can tell you that. coal killedld --

viruses! [laughter] one person said it started from melting ice on the south pole. another person chimed in about what -- why we hadn't heard anything from russia or north korea. well, i think the media kind of have something to do with that in russia and north korea. they don't report on it. [laughter] that is why you haven't heard. wake up, people wake up! thank you. int: that was hank south carolina. this is the opinion section of "washington times" this morning, looking at the media and the blame that is going around. "coronavirus now, politics later, please, how the media has covid-19." if you want to read his column, it is on today's "washington times." next caller.

caller: i have two points, one generally on the crisis and one on pearl harbor. i always thought about the confederation and what it was like to live in the country under that document. you live in a nation but you don't have a stable federal government. the federal government has no power and all that states are doing their own thing, there is no stable leadership. i am now getting that experience, because every state has a different covid-19 response. it has led to chaos. and the federal government, because of the president's incompetence, has not addressed that. the government stockpiling mask, it is nonsensical. doing their job. i am lucky to live in new york where i have a governor who is competent. what if i lived in mississippi? the governor yesterday was

commemorating the confederacy. is that a constructive use of time right now? host: on the first point, the mask from the new york times showing -- the map from the "new york times" showing states that have stay-at-home orders, some 311 million americans living in states with stay-at-home orders. we will talk about state powers to impose those orders coming up at 8:30 this morning. scott burris will be joining us from temple university on that topic. go ahead, you had another topic he wanted to bring up. caller: so with the comparison with pearl harbor, nobody knew what was coming. but the government stepped up and had to deal with the aftermath. with this crisis, we absolutely could have predicted it. yesterday, headline "trump administration ended .andemic early warning program we had"a lab in wuhan, china dedicated entirely to testing corona

viruses and the federal administration defunded it. they don't value the work of science and the c.d.c. so i can't blame the president for the development of the virus, but the defunding of an organization that could have protected us, the disregard for repeatedand the attempts to defund the cbc, and then his rhetoric calling it a hoax? not advocating for social distancing? that is why this crisis is so bad. it is a prices that has been borne about because of incompetence at the white house. host: edward out of liverpool, texas, good morning. caller: good morning. i am 68 years old. i live on the gulf coast of texas near galveston island. i wright a motorcycle up and down the coast a lot.

-- i ride a motorcycle up and down the coast a lot. at the coast yesterday, i seen people walking a seawall, tens here and there. the beach was closed by the city, finally. just a few days ago that they finally closed it. then i went to a laporte, texas and they were on the beach but they were not backed up or nothing like that. is, howm worried about come after what i saw last night on msnbc, the documentary with italy, when i saw what they are going through, they are not getting wiped out or anything, but it is spreading so easily that people walking around in the grocery stores and not wearing masks -- i am saying, or obama, i have been doing this i am saying, wow. i have been doing the same thing. why are you not wearing masks if you step outside? why are you wondering around?

why aren't you getting some sun close by where you live? it is a little more scarier than what we are getting from our government when they are saying what is about to happen. they said we are going to get hours in the next week or so. it is starting to pileup, but it is not bad yet. to, my god, what happened those people in italy, i couldn't watch the whole thing. it was really bad. host: speaking of news from overseas, one of our colors this up this morning. prime minister boris johnson is testing positive for coronavirus 10 days ago, that is the news out of london and this is a story from the "new york times ," mr. johnson had been in isolation in his apartment next door to 10 downing street where he was running a temperature. his aides said they expected him to finish his sofa solution on friday but he still looked visibly weakened when he made a

statement in a video list last week. advice of ahe doctor, mr. johnson has been admitted to hospital for tests. this is a precautionary step as the prime minister continues to have symptoms of coronavirus 10 days after testing positive for the virus." thestory noting that british foreign secretary dominic rob is expected to lead cabinet meetings on the pandemic today and of the government's succession plan. he would take up mr. johnson's duties if he became incapacitated. that is from the "new york times." some of our viewers also tweeting about this this morning -- queen elizabeth of england delivering a historic address on sunday, acknowledging the challenges brought by the coronavirus. aside from her annual christmas speeches, it was only the fourth time since her reign began on 1952 that she addressed this.

is queen elizabeth from her address yesterday. [video clip] >> i am speaking to you at what i know is an increasingly challenging time. a time of this option in the life of our country. a disruption that has brought grief to some, financial difficulties to many, and enormous changes to the daily life of us all. thent to flank everyone on nhs -- i want to thank everyone on the nhs frontline as well as health care workers and those carrying out a social roles who selflessly continue their day-to-day duties outside the home in support of us all. i am sure the nation will join me in assuring you that what you do is appreciated, and every hour of your hard work brings us closer to a return to more normal times.

i also want to thank those of you who are staying at home, and helping to protect the vulnerable, and sparing many families the pain already felt by those who have lost loved ones. together, we are tackling these disease that this disease, and a want to assure you that if we remain united and resolute, we will overcome it. i hope the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge. and those who come after us will say the britons of this generation were as strong as any. with the attributes of self-discipline, "it, good-humored results, and fellow feeling still characterizes this country. pride in who we are is not part of our past, it defines our present in our future. [applause]

[cheers] >> the moment when the united kingdom has come together to applaud its essential workers and care workers will be remembered as an expression of our national spirit and its symbol will be the rainbows drawn by children. across the commonwealth and around the world, we have seen heartwarming stories of people coming together to help others. be it through delivering for parcels and medicines, checking on neighbors, or converting businesses to help the relief effort. -- those self isolating me although self isolating may at many people are discovering that it presents an down, pauseto slow and reflect in prayer or meditation.

it reminds me of the very first brought cap i made -- broadcast i made in 1940. we come asas children spoke from here to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for their own safety. again, many will be of separation from their loved ones. but now, as then, we know deep down that it is the right thing to do. while we have faced challenges before, this one is different. this time, we join with all nations across the globe in a common endeavor. using the great advances of science and our instinctive compassion to heal. and that success will want to every one of us. we should take comfort that while we may have or still to

endure, better days will return. we will be with our friends again, we will be with their families again, we will meet again. but for now, i send my thanks .nd warmest wishes ,> phone lines are open to you the headline from most of the major news neighbors this morning coming from the surgeon general's statement yesterday, brace for our pearl harbor moment the white house warning that this will be the deadliest week yet when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. on the use of that pearl harbor term, comments from social media this morning, this is from facebook, hope for the best, prepare for the worst. hardly a pearl harbor moment. no surprise. pearl harbor was the sneak

attack against the country, this pandemic has been a four month low-rolling bundle. if they are going to use a term like pearl harbor, we had better see more deaths than the seasonal influenza, that would make this fear margaret at best. >> pro and 9/11, what is wrong with him? we gain nothing by the surgeon general hitting the panic button. and one more for michael in portland, the pearl harbor moment, the original helped in a temporary decline in partisanship in our country, hopefully covid-19 will help bridge the partisan chasm that has been opening up in this country. regionally,split (202) 748-8000 eastern or central time zones. (202) 748-8001 in the mountain or pacific time zones, and we do have that number for text, (202) 748-8002. st. louis, you're next. guest: i want to say that this

governor in missouri here, he hasn't shared anything. they are shopping, some of them are working, and he waits for the president to tell him what to do. we have nobody in washington to do anything for us. every time he fixes for the news to come on, he's campaigning. that's what he's doing, that's all i have to say. host: lily, when it comes to about theyou talk stay-at-home orders in your state, residents in kansas city, st. louis, and st. louis county were among those under instructions to stay at home before your governor issued a statewide order that is now in effect, the governor has issued the order to stay ahead of the

battle, that order effective as of today in missouri. oklahoma, good morning, you're next. >> we are going to leave this discussion but you can watch c-span.org.thing on going live to florida with an update from ron desantis. insantis: we've been contact with a lot of religious leaders across the state, oak in the christian and jewish communities and we want to discuss with them their plans for these upcoming events, both passover and easter. basically adhere to social distancing guidelines, what a lot of churches have done in terms of online services, some have even done outdoors for people to stay in their car. i think they've been