giroir -- or admiral giroir. >> both are fine. distinguished members of the committee, it is good to see you all again. testing is an essential component of america's public health response to covid-19. testing enables clinical decision making. it heralds impending outbreak, it informs resource allocation and it assists in minimizing economic and social disruption. but we cannot test our way out of this or any other pandemic. testing does not replace personal responsibility. it does not substitute for avoiding crowded indoor spaces or washing hands or wearing a mask. a negative test does not mean that you won't be positive tomorrow. a negative test does not substitute for avoiding crowds or wearing a face mask or protecting the vulnerable with your actions. all of that being said, as of this morning, the nation has performed over 59 million covid-19 tests. now averaging over 820,000 tests a day, up from when i appeared before this committee earlier this month. since march 12th we have increased our testing by over 32,000%. some ha

redfield and brett giroir all for combatting covid-19. all three speakers are in the room so we expect it to start shortly here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> we're live from the rayburn health office building on capitol hill waiting for remarks from doctors anthony fauci, dr. redfield, and admiral brett giroir. they'll been talking about combatting covid-19 on c-span2. it should start momentarily. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. let me welcome everybody. today our select subcommittee is holding a hiybrid hearing some are remotely and some from web x. since some are appearing in person, pursuant to the latest guidelines by the house attending physicians, all in

giroir not giving a full-throated defense of dr. fauci, instead making the argument that not everyone is right 100% of the time. yesterday from the podium, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany tried to downplay any divisions. but andrea, behind the scenes, white house officials, administration officials, have been undercutting dr. fauci not just in recent days but, frankly, for weeks. and that is really adding to what a number of critics have said is the muddled messaging that is coming from this white house on the critical issue of fighting the pandemic. it's putting the task force members in this position of having to not only fight the pandemic but having to respond to and fight all of these controversies that are bubbling up and surrounding the pandemic's response. for his part, president trump doesn't have any events on his schedule today, andrea. it's yet another day where we're seeing the vice president out front really as the person who is leading the effort to deal with this pandemic. he's going to be in louisiana t

i like admiral giroir of 65 million tests a month, 2 million a day. that would be really helpful now, or ideally a few weeks ago. it just feels like we keep achieving what we needed to have achieved three months prior. and we're constantly behind. and what seems to me that when you're constantly behind in a baseball game and falling further behind every inning, you need a new strategy. and we need a new strategy that brings in new types of testing and gets aggressive. i think the current approach will not get us where we need to be. >> now, he said that they were moving forward rapidly with antigen tests, with, he said, point of care tests. do you see that as something that is actually being ramped up? >> i think that would be helpful. we kind of need an "all of the above" approach. we've been so far behind on this. antigen tests are great. they have some problems with quality. but i still think widespread availability of antigen testing would be really helpful. fundamentally what we need from the federal government is much deeper engagement. just let

. >> admiral giroir was on with our jake tapper, and he was saying average was four days, but we are seeing some waits in parts of the country that are anywhere from 7 to 14 days, including some of our own colleagues who have tried to get a test and had to be quarantined at home for that length of time. it does look as though they are making a concerted effort to turn it around. they have been health and human services announced a new contract with a private company to produce more of the chemicals to help process the tests. that means more tests across the country will be able to be processed than currently are. the other announcement was by labcorp. they are one of the big labs that takes in so many samples. they said they have increased their capability so they can bring down their average turnaround time to two to three days. much better than two weeks the other thing i want to message is keeping the eye on the reveal they saided to provide $25 billion ramped-up testing. it will be interesting to see with the negotiations with the white house whether they actually got those there

giroir or admiral giroir. >> both are fine. chairman, ranking member scalise and the committee, it's good to see you again. testing is the response to covid-19. testing enables clinical decision making. it heralds impending outbreaks, it informs resource allocation and assists in minimizing economic and social disruption, but we cannot test our way out of this or any other pandemic. testing does not replace personal responsibility. it does not substitute for avoiding crowded indoor spaces or washing hands or wearing a mask. a negative test does not mean that you won't be positive tomorrow. a negative test does not substitute for avoiding crowds or wearing a mask or protecting the vulnerable with your actions. all of that being said, as of this morning, the nation has performed over 59 million covid-19 tests, now averaging over 820,000 tests per day, up from 550,000 tests per day when i appeared before this committee just earlier this month. since march 12th, we have increased our daily testing over 32,000 percent. half of those

giroir, or admiral giroir. >> both are fine.n clyburn, ranking member scalise and distinguished members of the committee, it's good to see all of you again. testing is an essential component of america's public health response to covid-19. testing enables clinical decision making. it heralds impending outbreaks. it informs resource allocation and it assists in minimizing economic and social disruption. but we cannot test our way out of this or any other pandemic. testing does not replace personal responsibility. it does not substitute for avoiding crowded indoor spaces or washing hands or wearing a mask. a negative test does not mean that you won't be positive tomorrow. a negative test does not substitute for avoiding crowds or wearing a mask or protecting the vulnerable with your actions. all of that being said, as of this morning, the nation has performed over 59 million covid-19 tests. now averaging over 820,000 tests per day, up from 550,000 tests per day when i appeared before this committee just earlier this month. since m

whole different idea than a 25% positivity. >> admiral giroir, please come back. we would love to talk to you more about this. so many other issues to discuss and i thank you for your time today. >> thank you, jake. >>> with a virus surging in dozens of states there are new warning signs for u.s. economy and weeks could be weeks away from a plan to implement. who will lose that extra $600 in the unemployment checks this week? yesterday secretary mnuchin described a plan to pay 70% of the previous wages. >> in certain cases people were paid more to stay home than they were to work and i think that's something that the american public understands. we won't use taxpayer money to pay people more to stay home. >> joining me now the president's top economic adviser at the white house larry kudlow, good to see you as always. many of us making this point for months. you can't reopen the economy without the virus contained. you, president trump, others pushed for the economy to reopen and we did and the cases skyrocketed. isn't it clear that the country reopened too quickl

giroir, dr. fauci, dr. redfield. you are on the front lines as well as the teams behind you working to implement president trump's plan to combat the virus and addressing thousands of people working under him, talked about 7,000 deployments that have been made under president trump's command to have men and women in the uniform to help at the state and local level. we have seen so much work done on the plan and i keep going back to it because i know -- >> i'm john king in washington and listening to the closing statements, the house select subcommittee on the coronavirus and a hearing for several hours. dr. fauci, dr. redfield of the cdc and admiral brett giroir have been testing for several hours and largely political hearing. that was steve scalise saying the president had a plan from day one and democrats just don't like it. but steve scalise making the point it's effective. the democrats say it may have been a plan on paper and not implemented it well, did not coordinate with the state governments and allowed sta

i want to thank doctor fauci, doctor redfield and admiral giroir for being here today. we appreciate the expertise you have shared as we work to end this terrible pandemic. as we heard today a comprehensive plan to reduce the spread of coronavirus would save lives . but every day affectionate action is not taken, more lives are lost. today's hearing has made clear the trump administration must put aside concerns and work with public health and medical science experts to craft a comprehensive plan to defeat this virus. the plan must public health over perceived political experience he. the plan must ensure states have the testing they need. give americans clear public health advice and follow the advice of legitimate experts like we have here today. even if their assessments are difficult for administration officials to hear. much of this is inconvenient to the public. nobody feels comfortable getting up every morning looking for a mask. nobody feels comfortable riding around all day with a mask. it's inconvenient for everybody . it was fun comparable for everybody but t

giroir, admiral giroir, on the testing that you've been involved in to help carry out parts of president trump's plan, you just talked about over a million testing machines, is a-minute machine, that will be brought into nursing homes across this country. i know ultimately it's going to be 15 n.o.w. over a thousand machines that are going to be delivered already. the is that plan in place in moving forward based on president trump's guidance? >> it is. >> and that money in part was taken from the cares act, the bill that we worked with president trump to pass in a bipartisan way through this congress, is that correct? >> yes, sir, that's correct. >> and i have heard specifically from nursing home directors who have told me that this decision will save more lives in nursing homes. have you heard the same? >> there is no question. i don't think any single decision has had more positive feedback than that one. >> and i know early off cms put out guidelines back in march. these were part of many of the guidelines that cms put out on guidance to prevent covid spread in nursing homes. we know

giroir on the second round. yesterday "vanity fair" reported something astonishing, which is that jared kushner recognized there was no plan and he formed a secret working group at the white house in march and april to develop a national testing plan which operated in a, quote, bubble and did not coordinate with other experts at hhr -- or rather, at hhs. and they actually came up with a very detailed and potentially effective national testing plan. one person involved said it wasn't rocket science but it was a real plan, in which the government would coordinate the distribution of test kits and an aggressive program of contact tracing across the country but the white house reportedly dropped the plan, according to this article, "how jared kushner's secret testing plan went poof into thin air," okay, the white house dropped the plan on the political logic that the outbreak was going to be limited to democratic states. this is back in march. in new york and new jersey. and you remember, there was a lot of talk abo

admiral giroir addressed that but maybe i could summarize. there's no doubt and i have said that myself. if you have to wait multiple days for the result of a test and the test is done in the context of contact tracing, that it in many respects obviates the idea of doing it because a person is out in the community for that period of time. one of the ways to kind of prevent that and mitigate that a bit is if a person goes in to a test they should assume it is positive and isolate themselves until they get the result of the test but in response to that, as admiral giroir had said the reason is there's a surge of demand for the test that they're trying to separate testing for surveillance and let the testing to do to determine if an individual is infected to be able to cut that down. he explained that but as i said he is much more capable of giving us the precise numbers. but it is an issue if you can't get it within a 24 to 48-hour period. bob? >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank the gentle lady for yielding back. the chair now recognizes cong

somewhat reassuring to hear admiral giroir admit of a lengthy turn around time and asked him that last week and seemed to imply the examples of seven, ten, 12 days were outliers which we knew not to be true but today he was clear. he acknowledged that there is a problem with testing right now in this country and that there's a problem and that they're doing everything they can to fix it. >> are you happy where testing is right now? >> i'm never going to be happy until we have this under control and we are going to continue to push every single day to improve the testing. >> in march, president trump said falsely anyone who wants a test can get a test. at what point will it be true, sir, that anybody who wants a test will be able to get one with a quick turnaround so as to be effective? >> what is true now is that anyone who needs a test can get a test. we are not in a situation and i want to be really clear, whether it is mick mulvaney or anyone else, i feel like going somewhere so i need a test, that is not where we are. >> reporter: admiral giroir made some big announcements through

giroir, dr. redfield, there's a whole array of doctors, medical experts, best in the world that are helping work with president trump to develop this plan. is that correct if i could ask any of you? by the way come over any of you sidelined from coming here? i know some people try to use that term that i haven't heard of anybody sidelined. you were sidelined, please share it because i haven't seen that. good to see all of you here. dr. fauci, let me ask you about some of the decisions that you work with president trump on in the whole team did. i know when you go back to the beginning of this, the china band was very heavily discussed. were you involved in working with president trump on deciding to ban flights from china? >> yes, sir. i was. >> do you agree on that decision? >> i do. >> do you believe that saved lives? >> yes, i do. >> did you agree to the decision when we saw the spread in europe and the president recommended that we extend that to europe, did you participate in that discussion

>> well, i think you can get more detailed response from admiral giroir, but i'll comment, i think that things are considerably different and improved now than it was several months ago, both for the numbers of tests that have been improved and the efforts going into -- to expand our capability. in other words, to more prudently have screening testing done in one segment as well as testing to determine diagnosis and follow up and others. dr. droir giroir is much better qualified to give you the details of that. >> i would like to move to vaccines. that's the challenge now. i recall reading one of your reports on aids and you said i will never retire until we have a vaccine. we still don't have a vaccine for aids, ebola took five years, how realistic is a vaccine, is it dreaming or is it a reality, are the protocols as safe as they possibly could be for -- as we always had for vaccines, could you give us an honest assessment of where our country is in vaccine development? >> yeah, it is reality, congresswoman maloney, i believe it will occur. i think the difference between hiv and corona

testing czar admiral giroir. they have paused for a five-minute recess. we'll go back to it when it resumes. this morning they're sharing quite the warning. there is still no end in sight for this pandemic. we did hear dr. fauci say he's somewhat optimistic that there's a possibility for a safe vaccine, possibility by the end of the year. today's hearing is called the urgent need for a national plan to contain the coronavirus. it's trying to basically answer exactly that, what is the plan. as the hearing got under way, majority whip jim clyburn blasted the administration's struggle to implement one. >> it is clear that the administration's approach of deferring to the states, sidelining the experts and rushing to reopen has prolonged this virus and led to thousands of preventable deaths. in fact, the united states response stands out as among the worst of any country in the world. my question is where should we go from here. today i am calling for the administration to finally give america a comprehensive national plan that prioritizes science over politi

besser, what i heard admiral giroir saying is they're light years away from where they began. they made progress, they have more tests now than we did five months ago, they're surging supplies and capacity to the places that need it. that's what i hear him saying, but it still doesn't square with what we need. should we have been able to ramp up in these past five months somehow? >> well, there are more tests available than there were, and if you are in a strategy where everyone was still staying at home, it wouldn't matter as much, whether the turnaround time was two days, three days or five days, but as you're trying to reopen the economy, and get people back to work, and get children back to school, your strategy switches and you need to be able to identify every case very quickly, even asymptomatic cases because they can spread. you have to be able to then identify their contacts and provide what people need for isolation and quarantine. so this transition from an everyone under lockdown to opening up is what makes this turnaround time so critically important. >> also to c

approaching 137,000 now, despite those numbers the trump administration's testing czar, admiral brett giroir made this optimistic assessment today on nbc. >> the early indicators we see, for example the percent of test that are positive have leveled off, going down in most of the jurisdictions that we have a problem with and we're seeing e.r. visits go down. these are the early indicators that are turning the corner. this doesn't mean we've turned the corner. >> we'll be hearing from the president when he holds what's being billed as a news conference at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. two hours from now. no word yet on what the president he'll address but the optimism we're hearing from that man in the administration runs counter to what we're seeing on the ground in the states with the biggest outbreaks. in california for starters, indoor dining has been stopped. places like bars, zoos have been closed. the governor has ordered gyms, houses of worships and other businesses in most counties to shut their doors. in the hard-hit state of texas, houston's mayor is calling for at least a two-week shutd

unlike his boss admiral giroir is willing to acknowledge the science and acknowledge the obvious. the virus is not under control today, and if things don't improve considerably, back to school in many places will just not be safe. the admiral does say he does see some light at end of the tunnel. how far off is that light? well, the mayor of philadelphia just today making clear he sees a long road ahead. the city today, philadelphia again, says all large public events like festivals, parades are prohibited, get this, through february 202 is, seven months from now. the judge leading the coronavirus response in houston says if you want a better new normal any time soon, americans need to put on a mask, stay out of bars and think about others. >> we have to bring that curve down, and the more we buckle down the faster it will come down and the faster we'll be able to drop our kids off to school and ask them about their day and get on with the economy not fully open until there's a treatment or vaccine but a new normal. >> the numbers in our map tell us the children is as great as ever

giroir, when he said testing was horrible, testing was great. maybe his credibility should be -- >> i respect dr. fauci a lot but he's not 100% right and he doesn't have the whole national interest in mind. he looks at it from a very narrow public health point of view. >> i guess infighting has been a trademark since day one of this administration, but that is remarkable. >> yeah, it's absolutely remarkable to see someone on the sunday shows essentially trashing one of their colleagues, not one of their colleagues but one of the highly respected scientists that we have in government, the top infectious disease expert in the entire government, someone who has worked in the government for more than 50 years and if you look at polling is seen as credible by a much larger portion of the american people than some of the politicians who he's been talking about including the president. putting out official statements trashing dr. fauci and saying he's had a long list of mistakes in the past, it shows sort of the chaos that this administration response

the we are engaged with admiral giroir and doctor about,.iral giroir said we have 52 sites in america, 48 states and district of columbia. 65% of the sites are located in counties with moderate to high social vulnerability and 201 additional sites will go live this week. that is on top of 1300 federally qualified health centers out there testing as well. and the commercial testing sites. reporter: interview with cbs news president trump said more white people are killed as an answer to why black people are still being killed by police officers, but by population percentages, black people are three times more likely than white people to die in a police encounter. if the president won't even acknowledge that, how can he fix the problem? >> the president has routinely acknowledged in his expressed the absolute atrocity of the case of george floyd and his heart goes out to that family still. he was noting a fact that there were, when you look at unarmed killings with police interactions in this country, that you had nine unarmed black individual

you had admiral giroir earlier on in the show laying out their testing strategy.n response to what zerlina, putting the vice president in places where he can most effective. that's not the way the presidency makes. you get put into the presidency, not someplace where you're most effective. you have to show that you yo can deal with the stress and the difficulty of the job and that's what i'm talking about that they have to show the american people. >> amanda, everyone will be scrutinizing the vice president's choice for a running mate as well. lot of talk this week about rahm's fellow senator from illinois, tammy duckworth, what do you make of that. >> sort of interesting. it seems like the strategy from the republicans is sort of biden out of hiding. i think chris would agree with that. all trump is trying to do is force people back into these petty political fights. i think a lot of americans have had enough of that. what makes tammy duckworth appealing to a lot of people right now, she got poked, she got poked by tucker carlson. she said i'm not going to take t

. >> vice president pence: thank you, admiral giroir. as we said, the focus today is unsafely reopening our schools. as we discussed yesterday at the white house summit, from very early in this process, the centers for disease control has been issuing guidance for schools and for child care services in early march. march the 12th, to be specific. when we first published the 15 days to slow the spread and encouraged people to engage in schooling from home wherever possible, from that point forward, cdc has published decision trees about how schools can begin to redeveloping plans and published guidance for k-12 schools. as dr. redfield can elaborate, in a few moments they will be issuing five new documents that will range from preparing communities to return to school safely. the decision-making tools for parents and caregivers, and to create symptom screening considerations as children and teachers returned to school. as we made clear yesterday and we will make clear again today, we are here to help. none of the cdc recommendations are i

hahn, admiral giroir, secretary azar, for all their help to ensure we have what we need to get these tests turned around even faster. we're going to continue to build capacity. at the same time, we realize there's more labcorp can do. since the beginning, we are part of a coalition called the fight is in us. and it's a group of companies that came together to try to encourage people that have had the disease in the past to give plasma. to accelerate that, we're going to announce in the next several days that we will have free high affinity antibody tests available for anybody through their physician, where if they are going in for routine blood work, the physician could just add on an antibody test. we will run it. and the only thing that we ask is that if the patient has antibodies, they please consider to donate plasma. pres. trump: that's a great idea. thank you very much. appreciate it. dr. hahn, please. dr. hahn: thank you, mr. president. based upon your call to action, fda has responded to remove any unnecessary barriers to this --ting of medical collects speeding of america --

you heard admiral giroir describe the extraordinary commitment in just one community alone. and what we've conveyed to governors is whatever support they need to get kids back to school, we're going to make sure that they have. we're going to make sure they have the testing resources. we're currently educating states on the possibility and working with commercial labs, the possibility of what's called pooling so that literally there could be one test run on, say, ten samples, and there are particularly universities that already have built into their plans the idea of testing all of their students at the beginning of the academic year and then doing surveillance testing. we made it very clear, whether it's testing, whether it's personal protective equipment, or other resources, that we stand ready to provide those resources to the states and, umm, and, uh, we reiterated that once again and to the governors. but the good news is, because of the historic mobilization that president trump initiated, we literally have hundreds of millions of supplies of personal protective equipm

admiral brett giroir, and dr. anthony fauci. they are both going to be here tonight, taking your questions. also, legendary sports journalist bob costas. and again, we want to take your questions as well. you can tweet them to us with the hashtag cnn town hall or you can leave a comment on the cnn facebook page. >> a lot of you have sent in questions, already, in video form. we'll try to get to as many as we can tonight. we also have reports around the country and around the world. we start with where we are right now, with nearly 4.5 million confirmed cases and almost 150,000 american lives now lost. >> states in what the white house calls the red zone, florida, california, texas, and arizona, remain a concern. dr. deborah birx says there are signs that cases in those states are leveling off. concern is also high for states the white house task force has marked in the yellow zone. >> now, we see the virus, probably because of vacations and other reasons of travel, moving up into kentucky, tennessee, southern ohio, missouri, iow

admiral giroir, welcome. admiral giroir: distinct members of the committee, it is good to see you again. i want to clarify my current role. on march 12, secretary a's are laid the task force. although i am assistant secretary i am maintaining coordinating testing including the nih red x along with dr. collins. in order to get back safely to work and school the over arcing, most critical and essential action we must accomplish is to control the virus. meaning rapidly extinguishing any outbreaks and minimizing community transmission. all of us are concerned about recent data from several states indicating rising infections and now an uptick in hospitalizations and deaths even as other states and the majority of counties are remaining low. knowing what we know about a symptomatic transition, we can reverse these trends if we work together. first, we must take personal responsibility and be disciplined about our own behavior. maintain physical distancing, wear a face covering whenever you cannot physically distan

i interviewed the man in charge of testing, admiral giroir. take a listen to what he said to me yesterday. >> we are never going to be happy with testing until we get turnaround times within 24 hours. and i would be happy with point of cure testing everywhere. we are not there yet. we are doing everything we can to do that. we need to continually improve our ecosystem. >> we're six months into this pandemic in the united states. what does the white house need to do to get the testing and the turnaround times for these tests where they need to be? >> well, we need, as i've said many times over, a national plan. and that would include doing everything we can to stimulate more testing and get it focused actually on the most high-risk populations. most of us in public health think we ought to be focusing on low-income groups, people of color. we ought to be looking at nursing homes, prisons, meat-packing plants and those areas where we see that the virus is spreading the most so we can direct our public health resources to actually those places. t

. >> let's talk about what we just heard from admiral giroir.esn't seem effective when you're finding out three weeks later that you actually have covid, especially when you're asus tom matic. what's your assessment on this? >> what we're hearing from officials local and federal is this is deja vu. we're back to where we were in march when the pandemic just started and we were having trouble scaling up. this is why lawmakers on the hill are so adamant about additional funding in this additional stimulus package for covid-19 testing and contact tracing. there's been talks about 25 extra bill upthat goes into that. there's been pushback from republicans who already think this package is too big and bloated. but these long delays, you know, we've heard a lot anecdotally from family, friends, tweet threads of people dying because of these delays. but what we heard the admiral confirm this weekend is that, you know, there is, in fact, delays, and the federal government has not been able to ramp up to the capacity yet. there's still a shortage of, you

redfield and admiral brett giroir will be testifying. they're trying to find the urgent need for the national comprehensive plan to contain the coronavirus. hard to believe we're talking about all these months later. >> yeah. we'd like to hear a national plan. thank you very much. >>> we have an update from the national hurricane center on the forecast track. so let's get right to cnn meteorologist allison chinchar. she is tracking it for us. what does the latest update say? >> yeah, good morning, alisyn. it still has the sustained wind speeds at 80 miles an hour. gusting up to 100 miles an hour and moving to the northwest about 17 miles an hour. for some perspective, that's pretty fast for a tropical system, especially as it's kind of sliding through this particular region as it works its way to the bahamas and that's the track of isaias over the next 24 to 48 hours. florida is in the cone, meaning we can't rule out a landfall in florida. and a landfall over the carolinas is likely. it would be a day or two later as it continues to slid

but giroir also suggested that people in charge of testing have everything they need. obviously they do not. where is this disconnect and what more needs to be done to get the testing and the results up to speed? >> the disconnect, jake, i've been thinking about this a lot and i watched your interview on sunday. the disconnect is they're changing the goal line, jake. i mean, if the goal line says, hey, look, we just need to do enough testing to surge in hot spots and to identify where the fires are, then, yeah, we have what we need to do that. but the idea of doing surveillance testing, we know this spreads asymptomatically so you got to test people who don't have symptoms. how else are you going to find it? they can still spread it. we're not doing surveillance testing. we're not doing what's called assurance testing. what assurances do you have, jake, that you don't have the virus and that the people that you're working with today don't have the virus? we don't have that sort of assurance testing. if you just say we just need to do the basic minimum which is just hol

robert redfield, head of the cente for disease control and prevention, and admiral brett giroir, the white house testing czar. democratic committee chair jim clyburn of south carolina administration's response, especially on testing. >> the federal government has still not yet developed and implemented a national strategy to protect the american people. >> reporter: testing and contact tracing have been mostly handled at the local and state levels. with cases surging in much of the nation, admiral giroir acknowledged danays in an ex with democratic congressman andy kim of new jersey.ld >> wt be possible for our nation to have results for allco covid testleted and returned within 48 and 72 hours? is that a possible benchmark that we n achieve? >> it is not a possible benchmark we can achieve today, given the demand andupply. it is absolutely a benchmark we can achieve moving forward.li >> reporter: rcans pushed the panel on re-opening schools, sential servicesnot inlose the classroom. blaine luetkemeter of missouri warned that child abuse is going acported, because kids are not in sch

this morning white house task force member admiral brett giroir, the nation's top testing official blamed the long lag from gettihigh demand. we're still far behind where most experts say we need to be. >>> so let's start in california where there are contradictions and confusion as the number of coronavirus cases climb and the governor announces a sweeping rollback that affects, as we said, indoor restaurants, bars, movie theaters, wineries, big deal in california. then you have the los angeles and san diego school districts announcing that they will reopen schools with remote learning only next month. compare that to the orange county board of education doing the opposite. voting last night not just to have students back in their classrooms, but without any requirements for social distancing or masks. nbc's joe fryer is in los angeles for us this morning. it's good to see you, joe. what is going on in california? >> reporter: first things first, california's reopen is basically going in reverse. the governor looking at the numbers doesn't like what he's seeing. first what's happening is

redfield and add miral giroir on a national comprehensive plan. watch live hearing coverage friday on c-span 2. live streaming and on-demand viewing. . he's also the chair of the national governors association. governor, let me begin with the news on the coronavirus. one 50,000 debts, cases are on the rise in your state and across the country. is it time for a national strategy rather than governors coming up with her own strategies? 12 it was probably time for a national strategy back in february or march. i've been somewhat critical of the fact that, and i talk about this in

admiral brett giroir admits the u.s.s testing and he compared the amount of work and focus being put into the matter to the manhattan project, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during world war ii. giroir spoke with cnn's jake tapper. >> are you happy where testing is right now? >> i'm never going to be happy until we have this upped control, and we're going to continue to push every single day to improve the testing. >> in march president trump said falsely anyone who wants a test can get a test. at what point will it be true, sir, that anybody who wants a test will be able to get one with a quick turnaround, so as to be effective. >> what is true now is that anyone who needs a test can get a test. we are not in a situation, and i want to be really clear, whether it's mick mulvaney or anyone else. i feel like going somewhere, so i need a test. that is not where we are. >> well, the u.s. state of georgia was among the first to reopen during the pandemic and recently reported a new record of cases in a single d

assistant secretary of health and a member of the president's coronavirus task force admiral brett giroirmiral, welcome back to "meet the press." the president says we're winning, but honestly, admiral it does look like we're right back to where we were in april, which to a lot of laypeople, it looks like we are losing this battle with the virus. what do you say? >> so, thank you for having me on. we are definitely not losing the battle, but we are in the midst of it. the numbers of cases have gone up recently, particularly over the last month. the positivity rate is leveling off. we have about 63,000 people in the hospital, and that's a lot more than 40,000, a lot less than 85,000. and we do have a lot more tools in our toolbox right now to combat this, but i don't want to underestimate the seriousness of this right now. it's all hands on deck, and we have people in the field assisting essentially every county, every hot spot so we are in the midst of this and we're taking it very seriously. >> here's what i don't understand. in march and april it was understandable we didn't have ppe an

. >> general giroir said he thinks we're turning a corner nationally in the fight against the coronavirust what you're seeing in this hospital? >> we're seeing a plateauing of the number of patients being admitted to hospitals across san antonio, which is encouraging. which means we're not having that steady rise that we had seen a few weeks ago. so that is always a good sign, when, you know, you're in a pandemic like this and things plateau. >> really quickly, one of the next big changes kind of on the calendar here is the start of the school year, in august, coming up. is that something that concerns you that might sort of shake us potentially out of that plateau in a negative way or something that can be handled safely here? >> i think, you know, officials, school officials are coming up with plans on safely reopen ing, but i think we have to, you know, make sure those plans take into account the safety of the faculty, the students, teachers, ancillary workers at the school. we realize that there may be a surge, we have to be able to respond to it, both from the public health standpoin

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despite the positive development from new york, the federal government's testing czar brett giroir said we can expect to see the death toll rise. >> we do expect deaths to go up. we expect to see that over the next two, three weeks, before this turns around. >> breaking news in just in the last hour the two largest school districts in the state of california say they will be online only come fall. school districts in los angeles and san diego made the announcement citing the surging number of cases in their cities, we'll have more on the debate over schools with former education secretary arne duncan. >>> we mentioned this, all of this comes as the white house has mounted a serious effort to discredit dr. fauci, the nation's top infectious disease specialist during a pandemic. in what looks like an opposition research dump on a political rival, a white house official provided news outlets including nbc news with a list of comments made by dr. fauci earlier this year, some as we were just beginning to understand the virus, others taken out of context as part of this smear. for his part t

redfield and add miral giroir on a national comprehensive plan. watch live hearing coverage friday on c-span 2. live streaming and on-demand viewing. . he's also the chair of the national governors association. governor, let me begin with the news on the coronavirus. one 50,000 debts, cases are on the rise in your state and across the country. is it time for a national strategy rather than governors coming up with her own strategies? 12 it was probably time for a national strategy back in february or march. i've been somewhat critical of the fact that, and i talk about this in my book, early in the pandemic i thought it was important for the federal government to come up with more of a national strategy on testing, on contact tracing, on a more coordinated attack on stopping this virus. that's all behind us now. governors have been on the front lines taking the actions that i think are necessary. obviously we are continuing to do so and doing everything we can to stop the virus. we do have the support and the assistance of the federal government t

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levels not seen since early apri today, white house coronavirus task force member, admiral brett giroir said completely shutting down again is not necessary and supported bar-closings and mask-wearing. >> our models really show that if you close down bars, where there's a lot of transmission, if you decrease restaurant capacity to about 50%, that you really strictly physicallyal distance, and , everybody, if you are out in public, we have to have about 95% mask wearing or face coverings. if we do just those simple things we can bring that r value, that transmissibility value down to below one, which means it goes away. >> sreenivasan: more than three months after the c.d.c. first recommded wearing a face covering, president trump wore a mask in public for the first time yesteayuring a visit to walter reed national military medical center. mr. trump previous declined to ar one, arguing that he's regularly tested for covidti9. but many ccs have argued that it sends an important symbolic message, reinforcing public health guidance that face coverings are an important tool to prevent the sp

admiral giroir, i wanted to start with you. do you assess we have successfully flattened the curve in the united states? >> let me give you two tenths of this number. number one, we did flatten the curve during the time to flatten the curve because we expected a lot more cases. right now, as you know, the numbers are going up. >> are we flattening the curve right now? >> we're not flattening the curve right now. >> do you think we're headed in the right direction? >> right now, and i try to nuance this a little bit. in many counties we are, in many states we are. in many states we aren't. four states are accounting for about 50% of our cases and they're very concerning to all. >> with those states with increased cases, i often hear and have heard my colleagues here say this last time around, that the increase in the positive cases is due to increased testing. in your professional and expert assessment, is that -- does that account for the increase that we're seeing in those states? >> there is no question that the more testing

i know doctor giroir was with the vice president talking about what we're doing to increase testing even to limit the number of days as a goal to get below seven days for anybody to get results and that number as narrowed dramatically to more than half of america, half of americans to get their results in less than 24 hours because of the rapid work that this team has done carrying out the president's plan. testing is not just about numbers area it's about targeting testing to the right people at the right time so that what the trump administration has begun distribution of rapid point-of-care tests to nursing homes. i talked to nursing home tests who said that decision by the trump administration to purchase nursing and actual testing kits for every single nursing home in america for 15,000 nursing homes, each of them well will have their own 15 minute test area that will save lives. that's part of this plan. on may 15, 2020 president trump announced operation work speed. part of a very direct and national plan to combat this deadly virus. operation work speed is a public-private partne

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robert redfield, an assistant secretary for health and hhs, admiral brett giroir, before the house subcommittee on a copper has a plan on that 1 -- comprehensive plan on that one of ours pandemic. much coverage friday on c-span2, live streaming at c-span.org, or this and on the free c-span radio app. >> this week, the house is working on a 2021 spending package that covers several departments, including defense, commerce, health and human services, transportation, and housing. a final vote is set for tomorrow. here's some of the floor debate from earlier today. investingwe continue for the people with hr 7617. this minibus combines six appreciate -- appropriation bills, defense, commerce, justice, science, energy, water development, financial services and general government, labor, hhs, and education, transportation, housing and urban development. than $200s more billion in emergency funding to rebuild our nation's transportation, housing, and energy infrastructure, to expand broadband to unserved and underserved areas and to rebuild age, public health, and support state and local health agenci