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senator from louisiana, bill cassidy, senator, thank you so much for joining us.ou have a unique perspective a politician and physician, you have dealt with all sorts of health crisis in your state, including katrina. what is your reaction from the proposal for from the president to start with new york, new jersey, connecticut and put those states under some form of short-term quarantine. >> there's a paper from mit which i tweeted today which says basically it is not when you institute such a community restriction but, it's not if you do, it's when you do. the longer you wait to do it the higher the velocity of spread which meenz the longer it must last. this modeling is from mit on the website. today a interviewed a -- government brought in people from the private media and et cetera and they spoke about having to take communities and if you will, restrict travel in and out if you're going to contain. this is ultimately for the better of the community. flight there's cities hoarding vechbt lators and personal protective equipment because they're afraid the virus

senator bill cassidy, a republican from louisiana, is one of them.240 confirmed cases of the coronarus, and so far, seven people have died. he is also one of three medical doctors currently serving in the senate, and he joins us now from capitol hill. senator cassidy, thank you so much for being with us. so the legislation the senate passed tay providing free testing, paid sick leave, help for some of the poorest americans, how much do you think this is going to alleviate thema hi americans are going to be taking now? >> i'm not sure.g thl is to alleviate it as much as possle, but this is only the second of at least three packages. w there's something thcan do that has not been done in the first two packages, we shall do it. i mean, the american people need to know that congress is there with theand, as much as we can, we're going to get our nation through this rough patch. >> woodruff: wele know there's a second package being worked on,3 $1.illion, that would include direct cash payments, among other ings. how cofident do you think americans can be

>>louisiana's bill cassidy says now is the time to save jobs. >>and save money we can borrow at record low interest rates. and soow we would do it and minimize the negative impact upon our debt alama's mike rogers also wants to see more money for protective gear like mass gowns and hand sanitizer for immigration officers intercepting migrants at the border, they're putting themselves in harm's way with this deadly contagio lawmakers aren't heduled to come back to washington until after easter in the meantime courage, the president to use the defense production act for everyo tennessee's steve cohen urges president trump to take full advantage of the laws already on the books to help states combat the coronavirus pandemic now in washington, i'm just eaten or. >>and i talk to bay area congresswoman jackie spear today to get her take on what the next stimulus bill could look like. >>it's a very comprehensive sba a package and many people that historically not be interested and the sba loan program may find that this is just what the doctor ordered

, a day after democrats blocked the passage during a procedural vote joining me now is senator bill cassidynator, it is great to have you. where are you and where is this bill as it currently stands? >> yeah. i'm in my office about to go vote democrats continues to say they're not going to vote to pass it. i'm not quite sure what schumer was complaining about. it was formed because there were five working groups that republicans and democrats and those five working groups, the product was joined together. the speaker, pelosi, she also had input. i know that because a provision i thought would be a good idea which democrats in the senate thought was a good idea i'm told her staff vetoes there was an agreement and then pelosi and schumer walked in and blew it up they have been claiming they need more and more and more. i'm not sure what is going on. i do know that the american people there, if you will, bad situation will be prolonged because of what schumer is doing. >> one of the demands was, i think, for airlines to be -- i forgot the language exactly -- more climate focussed as a spring a

joining us now is louisiana republican senator bill cassidy, who is also a physician, as is his wife. the senator sits on the finance committee. senator, i appreciate the time you've been taking in the last few days to have conversations about this. it is crucial, as kasie said, that this doesn't, and partisanship just doesn't have a place in this conversation. so let's talk about the specifics that are holding this up. specifically this issue about a slush fund that for the moment doesn't have strings attached to it. so we're talking about $500 billion that the treasury secretary and in theory the president can have control over, giving to industries, many of which, i think, you and i can agree, will need that money, including the hospitality industry. i think there are a lot of americans who think, fine, maybe the money needs to be available, but not a dollar of it should be without strings attached. >> that is totally a misrepresentation of the process, ali. and it has become partisan that people have presented it as such. the airline is its own set of industry. by the way, these a

with us now is senator bill cassidy, republican from louisiana.e's one of three medical doctors serving in the u.s. senate and represents a state where unfortunately there are nearly 400 confirmed cases of coronavirus. senator, i really appreciate your time this morning. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> some of your colleagues are taking issue with these cash payments entirely. i want to start off by where you stand. i'm putting this on the screen. you have lindsey graham saying that direct payments make sense when an economy is beginning to restart. makes no sense now because it is just money. where would you -- where do you stand on this issue and would you vote yes on this proposal as it stands now? >> i would vote yes on the proposal as it stands now. there are families who have exhausted their savings just trying to buy the provisions they think they need for what's about to happen. yes, you -- you wonder if most people have a little bit of cash on hand, but a lot of people don't. and so to me it seems like a measured res

represent shell industry states like senator dan sullivan of alaska kevin kramer of north dakota bill cassidy of louisiana tom cotton of arkansas ted cruz of texas and james inhofe of oklahoma among others now the senators are scheduled to meet with saudi and the saudi ambassador to the u.s. later this week to discuss the oil price war in more detail so just how much longer can the kingdom maintain this flow before giving up from the pressure for that we go to our to correspondent saya tavenner so this is what we're dealing with add them and currently non opec members are producing close to $68000000.00 barrels of oil per day we have paid producers producing about $34000000.00 barrels per day so we have a total world oil consumption at $100000000.00 but the production is at $102.00 so ready there is a surplus of $2000000.00 mostly to do with china as slow growth and then we had to crown a virus and now we have the additional oil and met a price war where saudi arabia is promising about 2600000 barrels. more into the mix with the u.a.e. at a 1000000 now iraq has even joined this price war and

bill cassidy was sounding off on this program and he says it's unnecessary political drama. >> a billss. i think what's required now is for democrats to be honest. let's hope democrats come to the table in good faith as opposed to hiding their cards and recognize that whatever short term gain they're trying to achieve it is not worth it. >> ed: chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel is live on capitol hill where the action is. >> much of the conversation right now is basically trying to hammer out a deal with the expectation there could be a series of votes in about two hours. the debate, discussion right now is between treasury secretary steve mnuchin and senate democratic leader chuck schumer. they met six times yesterday. mnuchin says the stimulus package is $2 trillion and responded to criticism that $500 billion of it is a smrush fund. >> it's a mechanism that we can use working with the federal reserve that will provide another $4 trillion of potential lick i -- liquidity. a massive liquidity program is the president is determined we'll support hard-working americans. >>

an ideal time to bring in the senator from louisiana, republican bill cassidy. mr.reat for us to see the price of oil go down because i'm going to be driving with cheap gas, i know it, but it's not good news for the drillers and the major oil companies, which can't make a profit at $42 a barrel. what do you say? >> i would say it's not good for the country to have it too low, because that means economic activity is not doing well. it also means that air travel is not happening and we need that international commerce for many things, not to support the price of oil. that happens when you make a lot of jet fuel. but to make sure that we're communicating with foreign markets so in that sense, it's not good, either. stuart: on the other side of the coin, i thought this was terrific news, i read a report the other day that we exported four million barrels of oil a day, and i think a lot of it went through louisiana, didn't it? >> it does go through louisiana. if you will, we are the heart that pumps oil into the country and out of the country. it used to be into, now tha

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bill cassidy, thanks for joining us. appreciate it always. if we can possibly do that. we've got to do that. the virus didn't stop the bachelor's season finale. waivers were sent to audience members? lauren: live audience. it was a disclosure form, a, have you been in contact with anybody who is symptomatic of the coronavirus and b, did you travel to any high risk level 3 areas in the past three weeks. they want to know if your answers are no, you get to sit in the live audience. stuart: if the answer was yes, you stay away? lauren: come back another time in the future. stuart: i'm told that all kinds of people are talking about a very awkward moment at that bachelor event. i think we have it on tape. roll it, please. >> how do we turn the page and give this a shot together? >> chris, he's going to have to fail to succeed. that's it. it's all his friends and all his friends, all his family, everyone that knows him, knows that it's not, you know, it's not going to work. so we have been trying to help him. do we want it to work, yes. stuart: wo

. >> sandra: his sentiments, great interview echoing the sentiments from bill cassidy at the top of the show this morning. what a few hours. we'll take everybody through this every day, every week this goes out. >> ed: let's get to "outnumbered overtime" right now. >> we begin with the fox news alert on the coronavirus pandemic right now that is surging. global cases now surpassing 350,000 with nearly 15,000 deaths so far. and as the united states general surgeon issues a sobering warning to his fellow task members. sglie want america to understand this week it will get bad and we really need to come together as a nation. everyone needs to act as if they have the virus right now. tests or no tests we need you to understand you could be spreading it to someone else or you could be getting it from someone else. stay at home. >> the united states now ranks number three in the entire world in total cases. with at least 35,000 of them in this country. at least 471 people have died of covid-19 in all of the u.s. and so now amid the spike in the numbers, which we kind of knew would come becaus

we heard from bill cassidy, that by thursday they're going to run out of ventilators at hospitals in new orleans. dr. al siyed, the surgeon generl mentioned detroit as an emerging hospital. >> we need personal protective equipment for our men and women on the front lines. these folks are literally putting their lives on the line to take care of us. number two, 2003 need more ventilators. we know the challenge has always been if we don't flatten the curve this disease has the ability to overwhelm our health care system. that is because we have a limitation in the number of ventilators we need because we know these patients will suffer real respiratory distress and will require mechanical ventilation. without those ventilators, we're in the position where doctors will have to decide who lives and who doesn't. third, we need beds and personnel. i know that right four they're making decisions about turning the tcf soap ter, one of the marriage largest centers in detroit as a covid-19 hospital. we need to have done that a week ago. in other communities we need to make sure people are lear

louisiana we heard from bill cassidy that by thursday they will run out of ventilators in hospitals inew orleans. i will say the surgeon general of the united states specifically mentioned detroit as an emerging hot spot. >> that's right. from what i hear, i used to be the health director for city of detroit, number one we need personal protective equipment for brave men and women taking care of the patients. they need n 95 masks if you have them get it to the front lines. they're putting their lives on the line to take care of us. northbou number two, we need ventilators, if we don't flatten the curve this disease has ability to overwhelm our health care system because patients will suffer real respiratory thrust and without ventilators doctors will have to decide who lives, who doesn't. third, we need beds and we need personnel. i know right now they're making decisions about turning the large convention center in detroit into a makeshift hospital, that's a good move but we need to have done that about a week ago. in other communities we need to make sure folks are learning from the

joining me now to discuss, republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana, we should mention he's a doctorexperience in public health. it is great to have you on. we're doing our best to speak to folks who know the most. so we appreciate you taking the time this morning. first, let's speak if we can to the current situation. you have a couple hundred people who tested positive so far, but we really haven't begun to test large portions of the population. and there has been some delays in getting those tests out. what should people expect as the u.s. tests more people? should we expect that number to jump? >> the number will absolutely increase. and it depends where you live. if you're in shreveport, louisiana, your risk now is extremely low. if you're in seattle, it is higher. and there is some mathematical modeling suggesting that washington state could have some problems. and so that means you have to go in, find your person of interest, the person you know is infected, and just start testing the people around he or she, ideally asking them to avoid contact with others, as you gain contro

joining us now is republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana and also a doctor who once helped turn an abandoned kmart into a makeshift hospital after hurricane katrina. senator, thank you very much for joining us during this difficult time. right now your state has more than 580 confirmed cases of coronavirus. at least 16 people have died there. health karcare officials pleadi for supplies. we have people going on twitter begging for donations to deal with this emergency. where are the supplies? why aren't they in the hands of medical professionals? >> clearly there's been a holdup in distribution and production. nobody imagined this would occur. i'm not sure where -- i'm not sure there's a snap your fingers and it's all taken care of issue but, clearly, states are attempting to do it by the regulatory process. there are masks used for industry. they are the same masks a doctor would use. congress has given liability coverage so this mask for industry can be repurposed to be used by hospitals. hospitals are ingeniously figuring out how to reuse masks safely. there is no single solu

it was suggested on the "wall street journal" editorial page by senator bill cassidy himself, an m.drked with infectious diseases in indiana and colleague of his that had worked on crisis. the idea is that you do want to try to feed people back into the economy, the system in areas at have low incidence of coronavirus infection. they do exist out there especially in the midwest. i really like the idea of assessing these counties and trying to see whether it isn't possible to bring some of them back on stream economically while those of us in areas like new york city probably have to remain on a degree of lockdown to fight the virus. >> dana: right. dan hennenger please take care. >> thank you, dana. >> dana: next we go to the epicenter of the outbreak. healthcare workers on the front lines in new york risking their lives as they deal with shortages of equipment and protective gear. that's next. that's next. ♪ "protect your family as it grows" company. a "put enough away for college" company. and a "take care of your employees" company. we're a "help you ride the ups and downs of the

bring in louisiana senator bill cassidy also a doctor. your take on everything we just heard, the president talking about a 6 trillion-dollar rescue package for the country. two trillion out of congress, four trillion from the federal reserve in loan guarantees and more. your reaction to the numbers. >> we have to see exactly what they mean by that. what i was told, the money we in congress appropriated to treasury is then given to the fed and the fed uses that as loan guaranties. now that leverage is anywhere from eight to 10, even higher impact if you will. so i don't know if they're measuring and what leverage point they're using for those dollars coming through from congress to the treasury through the fed to reach that number. that is what i'm looking forward to seeing. elizabeth: essentially what is happening right now, this is the first time in u.s. history where the government told americans to stay home because of a flew pandemic. it is being called a super flew pandemic. essentially ordering u.s. commerce to stop. there are ques

. >> i spoke, scott, earlier today with republican senator bill cassidy who is an m.d.nd as we spoke this morning, he said he's dealt with public health issues before. i asked him if it was a mistake the u.s. wasn't testing enough people quickly and broadly enough early. here's his answer. >> it was a mistake. one thing we learned from the chinese pretty early on is that there are people who were infected but not symptomatic. >> the reason he made that point, scott, is because those asymptomatic people are still going around spreading it. so you need to test them early so you can identify them to keep them from going out and giving it to someone else. when you hear that from a republican senator, does that make you think, yeah, the u.s. should have tested earlier and more broadly? >> well, look, i think -- yes. obviously you'd love to test everybody as fast as possible and that obviously didn't happen, but they're working to make it happen. i think that the job of the president in this particular case, and in these cases where these are nonpolitical situations, is to pr

well, republican louisiana senator and licensed physician bill cassidy joining us now.at is our greatest asset, is it not, the fact that, and i love the way in which this administration is using the private sector, realizing that it doesn't all come from government, that very often you guys are pushing on a string where it's the people in the private sector that come out with the rescues that save us. >> we recognize that we are all in this together, private, public sector, individuals, businesses and government. we will come through it. we started off in a strong place, get through the rough patch, return to the strong place. but to your point, absolutely. private sector, public sector, pp3, if you wish, get it together. i think the president is trying to do that good job. now -- david: one other thing i'm encouraged by is you have republicans and democrats, republicans like governor cuomo from new york working with the president. governor cuomo was on earlier in his daily press brief about the virus. he said the panic over the virus is in some ways more dangerous than

now, on to senator bill cassidy, republican from louisiana. the new hot spot in the country appears to be new orleans. what's the situation there with the hospitals? >> yeah, so good morning, stu. we are increasing capacity. there's going to be an off-site hospital, if you will, set up but clearly we have a lot of cases. per capita, new orleans, the parish in which it is, the county in which it resides, is the highest in the nation on a per capita basis. so we've got a major problem here. we are doing our best to cope. stuart: are you asking for the federal government for help building field hospitals, for example? on the phone: absolutely. there will be a field hospital that will be established here, our hospitals are coordinating with one another so that those facilities which are -- where you normally get a colonoscopy or get your orthopedic procedure are now being enlisted to also help so there's a variety of things being done but ultimately, if the number of cases continues to increase, they will overwhelm our facilities which is why we n

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senator bill cassidy joins us now, republican from louisiana. we are talking now about major, major stimulus going in front of the senate, $850 billion is the latest package we hear. when are we going to get this through the senate? >> i think it will be soon. obviously we want to think it through, make sure the money's used wisely but i'm all about we need to put americans back to work, create demand, if you will. i would like to see an infrastructure package. this would be the time to put working americans in construction, draw through for manufacturing, stimulating service economy. i think it's the way to go. stuart: what about this bailout money? they are calling it a bailout, money for the airlines. they want $50 billion. should we be doing that? >> i think we have to have an economy that holds in place until this is through. clearly having rapid transportation is an incredible enablement of commerce, of business, of medicine, you name it. if somebody needs a liver transplant, they are cross the country and have to get to new orleans, they

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joining us now is louisiana senator, medical doctor himself, bill cassidy.ps, dagen mcdowell and mitch roschelle. thank you for being here. >> glad to be with you. maria: do you think you will stay here in washington to get a package done? when would you expect a stimulus package for coronavirus. >> we are scheduled to return on monday at 5:30 for votes. we'll take the package coming over from the house. i think there will be a subsequent package after that. the first package supports workers and businesses who have been hardest hit. i think we need a package that if you will stimulates more economic growth, gets working families back to work. i think that will come next after that. maria: you are a medical doctor, senator. what are your plans for keeping safe amid the pandemic and what tips do you have for our viewers this morning? >> i'm going to do what everybody is advised to do, sneeze into my sleeve. i have gotten my flu shot. i carry clorox wipes to clean my phone. i am going to avoid large groups. that's what we need to do and just be wise. if you ha

bill. his determination, as well as the leadership of many of my colleagues, like senator cassidy, senator collins, senator daines have further improved the legislation. we have a bill, we have bipartisan support, we have white house support, and we have the opportunity. so, bottom line, let's act. and i thank my colleagues for joining me in this effort and i'm going to yield now to my colleague senator collins. ms. collins: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. first i want to express my appreciation to the chairman of the finance committee, senator grassley, not only for his leadership but for his persistence on an issue that affects so many earns, and that is the soaring price of prescription drugs. mr. president, three committees, the finance committee, the help committee, and the judiciary committee have all advanced bipartisan legislation to reform our broken drug-pricing system. the aging committee, which i chair, has held eight drug pricing hearings highlighting the burden of soaring prices and the manipulation of the ma

president, the coastal act, the quarterback on the bill is the senior senator from louisiana, senator bill cassidy. i'm helping him all i can. so are the senators from texas and mississippi and alabama and other states. and all we're asking is for equality. i don't want to end on a negative note by just talking about our problems. if you haven't visited louisiana, please come. i've lived in five states and a foreign country. i've never -- i've just never lived in a place like louisiana. it is my home and i know i'm biased. god blessed. when you playbook at our location, we're at the -- when you look at our location, we're at the gulf coast. we have more oil and gas than most nations do. my people are experts in things like agriculture, aquaculture, petrochemical manufacturing, oil and gas exploration, food, timber -- i could keep going -- health care. our people, they're hardworking, they're god-fearing, and they're fun-loving. i tell my friend friends senatoz and senator cornyn how much i love texas, and i do. texas is a great state. every day it seems like they win an award. but i tell senator c

cassidy. this will help us build on the work that congress has done to promote ccus through the tax code. another area of great focus within the bill is nuclear energy, clearly our largest source of emissions-free energy. here in this country, we created nuclear energy. american ingenuity created nuclear energy, but conventional reactors are closing, and what has happened is we have ceded our global leadership in recent decades. so through my nuclear energy leadership act, the nela, the nuclear energy renewal act from senator coons as well as the integrated energy assistance act from senator risch we seek to restore that from next generation reactor concepts. we support smart manufacturing

cassidy. this will help us build on the work that congress has done to promote ccus through the tax code. another area of great focus within the bill is nuclear energy, clearly our largest source of emissions-free energy. here in this country, we created nuclear energy. american ingenuity created nuclear energy, but conventional reactors are closing, and what has happened is we have ceded our global leadership in recent decades. so through my nuclear energy leadership act, the nela, the nuclear energy renewal act from senator coons as well as the integrated energy assistance act from senator risch we seek to restore that from next generation reactor concepts. we support smart manufacturing for industrial and vehicle toings which will help -- technologies which will help create new jobs in america's heartland, some of the toughest sectors for emissions reduction. so in this space innovation is key. i want to thank our colleague from rhode island, senator whitehouse -- he just left the floor -- for his leadership on the clean storm -- clean industl technologies act. the third is at the heart of federal efforts to promote energy innov