joe show most americans disapproving of president trump's handling of the virus what do you think yeah it's a mixed record it's kind of surprising because 'd leaders tend to go up with a time of crisis because they're given an opportunity to really do what the people . need them to do because no one else can do it so i mean it's a long story larry but i say that the trump administration was a bit slow at the outskirt but it wasn't all their fault because honestly they were not left with a lot of place where the preceding the ministrations and i can tell you by coincidence in 2014 tom ridge the former secretary of homeland security and i were arrested co-chair a commission a bipartisan commission on bio of the fence and a big focus of it was are we 'd ready for an infectious disease pin them and we put

out a report yeah 2015 and we said the country is not prepare made a series of recommendations a number of them are actually put in the statute by congress and the president trump not obama but trump got around to doing one of the things we asked the president to do which was to adopt a national strategy of what we would do in the case of a and then fictious disease pandemic or a bioterrorist attack but the truth is there's very little it was done by our government the congress requested or the president's strategy outlined so when the pandemic hit we weren't ready and i think the president any administration or slow response when they serve a response i mean they had none of this as much as the one put expect in a very difficult situation including some strong bipartisan agreements with

democrats in the house and some but admittedly he is not an inspiring will eat there. no you know it can be a bit of a lot of the times it's not as just as personality and at some of these it's not surprising to me that he finally stopped holding these long press conferences because normally that's where an opportunity for a leader to speak to the people who country for that long and you know just ended up being negative because he didn't do that it's true the press is aggressive sometimes hostile but that's just the way it is and if you're in office as president or governor or mayor you know that's the case city that will be ready for that and don't get that in the mud of responding to tough press questions are going to are humans with unfortunately he did i think

something else happen which is he has a natural point and then see when he faces a problem to say it's going to be better quickly and and i think he feels that's a way to make it better and give people hope and part of what happened here i'm afraid and why is the numbers of approval for a month about her settled this crisis are down is that after a while people began to not trust his optimism because it wasn't reflected 'd in the numbers they were seeing your every day on the t.v. he's saying he praises themselves a lot for closing down travel from china saying he did so against the advice of almost everybody in that it actually same tens of thousands of lives you agree. well i don't know how many lies would say but i think it was the right decision. and i applaud him for but really he should have done a lot more then another if he acknowledged this is at the end of january so

basically he was acknowledging this was going to be a real threat or else was a pandemic. but what he what he also should have done was focused inside america and it would have been tough but move right away to this show caring and place a request that followed about a month later and right away to urgently trying to use the powers of the presidency getting the place all the supplies we needed i to this is not the time for an extensive post mortem unfortunately we're really on what our after action review of what happened when and how we could have been better prepared we needed an independent bipartisan investigation once this viruses and control just the way we had one after 911 that really helped us to avoid another 911 but but there's no

question in my mind as you look back now that the month of february was in some ways the last months of opportunity to immediately inside our country. get us ready to protect our people and take your those of the sick from the virus they still you and tom ridge did we can say that you would terribly surprised by a pandemic or you. not really and it's not that tom and here are our prophets and jesus is honestly larry we just talked to a lot of people who are experts in this field and they just said it's coming. and of course you have the extraordinary spanish flu pandemic of 918 which between 50000000 and a 100000000 people died so that we my father his mother died in that epidemic in the york city he was less than 3 years old and never knew it was mother really in

a chorus line of work or was a great loss to the family but and that's what the thousands tens of thousands of people in america are experiencing now about but in more recent years we've had sars and murders an ebola. and it was pretty clear it was coming also unlike when you compare it to $918.00 my god we're all traveling so much more goods are troubling and so there's a 'd there's a and then fictious disease own virus in china is so much back and forth with china that inevitably is going to be around the world and here we are are you concerned that so many states are opening up maybe prematurely. i am concerned about that unfortunately you know we always say what we think we're thinking about laws that the states are the great lever tours of democracy when the federal government doesn't do something the states try to work unfortunately this is

a real like real time experiment you know i'm worried about it but we're going to learn. which states do it right which states are able to continue to flatten the curve of infectious disease and death and we're fortunes it go up as and zoeth prematurely lifting those those limits. and how about the experts who say the this pandemic will come back in the fall well it may i'm not an expert gravitons but i learned a lot on the work on the commission with tom ridge you know and i think a teen and that the awful epidemic and. that it started in the winter one year it stopped this the weather got warmer which we hope it will and then came back with 'd ferocity that actually killed more people the following winter than it does before so i think it's best to.

assume that that may happen and get ready for it and that's why i'm so encouraged but all the effort that's going on the plan to treatment drugs for the coronavirus 'd of course most important will find a vaccine if we can do that we can blunt this this letters and. use it with him in the senate. you both democrats immediate thoughts on joe biden's current situation. you know i just all said it personally i'm an ass or 24 years of them in the senate is the strange person of the fittest of fate i was a state senator in the 1700 $72.00 joe biden it's elected to the u.s. from though he's not even 30 when he gets elected 3rd constitutional minimum age

when he takes office in january 2 years later i'm running for reelection i have a friend in. new haven almost as a mirage harrison writes us and says how do you like to have a u.s. senator come up and campaign for us that i can't imagine who would want the lowest it's well i would the series with a guy in a job i've ever had him up and he was very respected there together we've been friends ever since just flying human being. he knew how to make the senate the senate work i mean he he by the virtue of his personality the fact that people liked him and trusted him he has on usually strong relationships with republican senators even people like strom thurmond but certainly people like orrin hatch and a lot of others with whom he collaborated to get some big 'd was passed

so i have a lot of respect for him. do you worry that the maid to movement will now attach itself to him you know if you were divided i mean it's look this woman terrorist made a serious a decision i mean i will say myself from. oh is decades a month joe or particular 24 years 7 and there are so many like the behavior of the user even suggestive of the behavior 'd that is that he uses a mo but she's come out and it's not easy and maybe i'm as biting i'm so. she deserves to be taken seriously in the investigation and the accusation investigated one of the most significant things in these cases is that is there a pattern of behavior i mean there are others who will say that joe biden did some some or so forward haven't seen it so. my guess is because of the way

politics is that this will chase women hound him this kid is right through our actions but i don't really think it's going to this how many people unless something more is proven about this kind of behavior virgil byrd right now it's just an accusation or joe you love great aguirre's or very much good health. thank you not all eyes are always good who would take care that your senator thanks for your time today more politicking right after the break.

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welcome back to politicking senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says the senate will not pass another economic aid package unless it includes protection for businesses against lawsuits will lead to the virus for analysis on this i'm joined by dan abrams he's the chief legal affairs correspondent for a.b.c. news and founder of media right and co-author 'd of the new book john adams under fire we'll talk about that later can't wait to talk about that john adams the founding fathers fight for justice in the boston massacre murder trial then is like everybody else holed up in new york them for some other things what do you make a measurement connel asking for more liability protection. well look this is kind of like tort reform right what mcconnell saying is that in exchange for this next round he wants to make sure there are protections in place for companies so let's take a step back and talk about if that doesn't happen where are we and so the standard

then becomes like in any other case which is negligence and there are going to be a lot of lawsuits there are going to be people who are going to say that they were exposed to the virus either by going to work or being at a particular place etc but the standard still requires a level of irresponsibility on the part of the person being sued meaning if you just go to work and you happen to get the virus from someone else at work that doesn't mean that the company is legally responsible for it there still has to have been some sort of knowledge there has to have been some sort of action taken or not taken by the need to hold them responsible on a list saying is let's avoid all of that we just want to basically immunize the companies moving paul do you buy that. i mean look it's really

a. typical pull argument right i mean typically the right has been more supportive of tort reform limiting the amount of money that can be available to people suing for example a company typically the left has been more supportive of the people who are doing the suing so it becomes a fairly typical divide between republicans and democrats over an issue like this once again is this going to be sure as an issue is that going to change will new policies be written. well the insurance industry i think is going to be a super interesting question coming out of this which is you know when you talk about policies right and they have clauses in there which talk about force measures we call an act of god at a is this an act of god is this going to be determined to be something that was so

un for seeable ringback that insurance companies shouldn't be responsible for losses etc that no matter what passes or doesn't pass in the in the senate it's going to be an issue moving forward is going to be a question of how much liability do insurance companies have for damages for losses that companies have incurred based on the specific language in their policy . this is going to be an upheaval in the legal system is it not oh there's going to be litigation over this for years and years and look and you know we're probably thinking about it some of the smaller cases they're going to be some really big ones right some deals that got called off at the last minute putting aside insurance for a minute a lot of contracts that say for example you know this contract is valid unless there is an act of god and his district turman to be an earthquake

a tornado those are the typical things that we think of that language is used but there's going to be if you're debate moving forward as to whether this applies or doesn't apply in terms of contracts and about privacy people going to sue over being tested and they import. well you know that's going to be a tougher one the government has a lot of authority and power when it comes to a health crisis you know i hear people saying that you know civil liberties are being impinged on and maybe they are but the constitution is not absolute the 1st amendment is an absolute we have libel laws congress shall pass no law well libel law is one of those logs on the 2nd amendment we ban machine guns the 2nd amendment is not absolute either and so there are exceptions in the constitution and one of them that the supreme court has ruled on in the past has been this question of how

much power the government can have in a health emergency and this is a perfect example of that i think the more interesting legal questions about sort of the rights of citizens is going to come a little bit down the road we're already seeing the 1st of these lawsuits it's basically saying for example wait a 2nd state how can you treat a drive through differently than a religious nation and those are interesting lawsuits but they're going to have to be specific it's going to have to show an even treatment it's not going to just be able to say my civil liberties were violated here and as a result i'm entitled to damages. who got an election coming do you see a lot of issues during they're based on the virus nomo boating by mail in some states will lead to probably you know conventions you know conventions. well though

they'll have online i would assume they'll have online conventions right to be a virtual convention that don't have but they won't have a live convention i don't think in the in the typical way the interesting question of course from the from the election point of view is going to be what happens if business 2nd round of corona by then if things haven't continued to decreased and then do people not show up to the polls and in certain states there is no absentee ballots and how do you deal with these questions because you can't just postpone the election that would be the president certainly can't postpone the election so so it's going to be there's going to be some very tricky questions that come up as the election approaches in connection with the coronavirus usually the trump would have better ripple ratings right now if you hadn't tried to shift blame in this crisis on the tag of

a miss expand on that look i said this on my radio show that i thought that the president could have had a 60 plus percent approval rating right now if he had. then to this and just gone for supporting unifying not attacking that this is an opportunity for a political leader in an environment like this we all want our president to be the person we can look to for information and there's a reason that the governors across the country according to polls are more popular than the president right now because the vast majority of republicans democrats whatever they are there's a sense within those states they're doing what they have to do to do what's best for us and when the president engages in these fights with the governors when he attacks people on twitter rather then in this time when the country is nervous and

afraid simply saying. i'm here for you we're going to do everything we can that that i think that that trumps supporters in particular should feel like it was an opportunity lost for the president to to really emerge from this even more popular than he had been before and now he's back exactly to where he was maybe even a little bit low. let's turn to a book before he became the 2nd president of the united states john that i'm swiss and distinguished lawyer and boston what was this case the boston massacre. this was a case where british soldiers in 1770 fired on the american colonists and killed 5 of them and as you can imagine this is a time right before the revolution when tensions are high and the colonists wanted justice otherwise known as revenge they were angry they were furious at what the

soldiers had done and john adams took the very unpopular case of representing the british soldiers at trial there were actually 2 cases one of the captain one of the 8 soldiers he represented them in both cases and he i think became it became one of the most important moments in his legacy we used a transcript from those trials actually someone had been hand writing what happened in court to tell the story of the boston massacre trials in this book that they hire adams or that he volunteered to do this. it's a good question and he was hired and he was later frustrated that he felt he was appropriately and you know without giving it all away i'll tell you that the captain is found not guilty and adam said that he later bumped into him in london and the captain basically ignored him and was not appropriately appreciative either

psychologically or financially for the amazing thing that adams did in helping to get the captain to quit the case of the soldiers was a much more complicated case because it became clear the captain had not given the order to fire. i can't wait to read this book john adams is a fascinating character in american history like the bush years later his son became president he was also was he brighter than most or you thought he was brighter than most. he was brighter than most and he thought he brighter than most . both are true he definitely had a very high self esteem when it came to his intellect but he was also a very smart guy was also a very difficult guy. and i think that you know as president there were certain mistakes that he made there were certain things he did very well but he really i

think is underappreciated and he felt this way. for what he did in this case for taking on such an unpopular case what he did is he also did not attack the citizens of boston someone else in his position might have felt the only way to win this is to really place the blame on them because it was a self-defense case adams walked a very fine line in this trial of on the one hand saying it was self-defense there was nothing else they could do but being very specific about the blame without sort of casting a wider net which also would have made him even more unpopular in that area at the time his his wife having a right was a very important figure in the early american history. and the letters that she wrote the letters between them are some of the greatest historical artifacts that we have i mean you know we don't have george washington letters with his wife we

have some letters from thomas jefferson and cetera but we don't have the kind of treasure trove of exchanges that we have between abigail adams and john adams that range from the political to the personal and she was i think if she were alive today she would be running for office herself and pretty darn successful at it then i can't wait to read this book thank you so much for being with us larry always great to see you and great to be with you the new book is john adams under fire the founding fathers fight for justice in the boston massacre murder trial it's out now and available everywhere including to download and thank you for joining me on this edition of politicking remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me against things don't forget to use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking.

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