rising and experts warn that it's going to get worse what can the government do we're joined by chris lou of course is a form a veteran of the obama administration he served as the former deputy said.

joining us now, former white house cabinet secretary for president obama, chris lou. ctor for mitt romney. so let's start with you here, chris. you're going through the planning. what would happen if we faced a national emergency like this. you would have to activate and say, hey industry, we need the beds. start making them, for instance. >> there are portions around the u.s. economy to deal with these. there are companies to produce certain items as well as to stop price gouging and hoarding. this is a wartime president. this is a president dealing with a public health crisis that we have not seen in generations. that everything needs to be on the table right now. and what is unclear from the white house briefings is whether he actually has invoked the defense production act or not. it is more of a threat that he is holding over companies right now to try to get them to shift the manufacturing. but the broader issue needs to be asked, yes, we need to use every authority now but how much time was waisted over the last couple months when we first heard about what is ha

white house cabinet secretary under president obama and former deputy of secretary of labor chris louis is a training exercise during the transition for incoming staff members of the trump administration run by the obama administration. what was it? >> this is about the continuity of government and we did an exercise in 2009 where we took over from the bush people and a chance for the out going team to sit down with the incoming team and go through kind of a table top exercise, some role-playing about some different scenarios. so the bush people had done this for us in 2009. we did it for the trump people in 2017. so there are about 30 different trump officials there with 30 of us from the obama administration, and we went through three possible domestic incidents they might face. a hurricane, a pandemic and cyber incident and for about three hours through those through incidents, we talked about how the whole of government comes together to solve a crisis like this. >> and in the case of the pandemic, it was something, somewhat similar to this, a strain of the flu, contagious. >> how

cover 19 crisis is only going to get worse we're now going to talk with former secretary of labor chris lou and get his take on this edition of problem. was going to politicking on larry king for the 10th straight day on the home i hope you're staying at home to and the virus keeps spreading and the economy is stalled and death tolls are rising and experts warn that it's going to get worse what can the government do we're joined by chris lewis of course is a form a veteran of the obama administration he served as the former deputy secretary of labor he's in washington chris what's going on. the wires it's going to be severe larry but i don't think we quite know the extent of it yet we don't know if this is a shoot week shut down at the church you might be out of the economy but wonder if it's one or the other up for working men and women into this you know about 58 percent of workers in this country are hourly wage worker this is food service workers retail workers none of those people are getting a they're all filing for unemployment insurance now we've got a whole industry of independent

, and that's a real problem as well. >> susan teeing that up perfectly, chris lou watching a piece for the washington monthly. the coronavirus is bad. trump could make it worse. he wrote this a couple of weeks ago, chris, let's dig into what we heard from the government a moment ago, reacting to what we heard from the president, the vice president, if officials at the cdc and other health agenci agencies as well. there's an incredible amount of dissidence here. >> >> what's remarkable is the contrast between what governor cuomo did to what the president did even yesterday at the cdc. governor cuomo stuck to the facts. he talked about the emergency management systems, the data, the science, he wants people tested. he talked about your probability of getting sick. that's not what you're hearing from the president right now, and in a time of crisis, one of the most important tools that the government has is public trust, and that requires people believing in their government, and of course that's challenging with this president, but he's compounded it over the last couple of weeks. think

label chris lou and get his take on this edition of problem. while going to politicking on larry king for the 10th straight day on the home i hope you're staying at home too and the virus keeps spreading and the economy is stalled and death tolls are rising and experts warn that it's going to get worse what can the government do we're joined by chris lewis of course is a form a veteran of the obama administration he served as the former deputy secretary of labor he's in washington chris was. virus it's going to be severe larry but i don't think we quite know the extent of it yet we don't know if this is day to week shut down at the church you might be out of the economy but whether it's one or the other for working men or women it is. you know about 50 percent of workers this country are.

we're now going to talk with former deputy secretary of labor chris lou and get his take on this edition of probably. going to politicking on larry king for the 10th straight day on the home i hope you're staying at home too and the virus keeps spreading and the economy is stalled and death tolls are rising and experts warn that it's going to get worse what can the government do we're joined by chris lewis of course is a form a veteran of the obama administration he served as the former deputy secretary of labor he's in washington chris what's going on. the wires it's going to be severe larry but i don't think we quite know the extent of it yet we don't know if this is they shoot we shut down at the church you might strike out of the economy but wonder if it's one or the other for working men and women it is just you know about 58 percent of workers in this country are hourly wage worker this is food service workers retail workers none of those people are getting a they're all filing for unemployment insurance a we've got a whole industry of independent contractors. that are going to be

covered 19 crisis is only going to get worse we're now going to talk with former secretary of labor chris lou and get his take on this edition of problem. while going to politicking on larry king for the 10th straight day on the home i hope you're staying at home to and the virus keeps spreading and the economy is stalled and death tolls are rising and experts warn that it's going to get worse what can the government do we're joined by chris lewis of course is a form a veteran of the obama administration and he serves as the former deputy secretary of labor he's in washington chris was. it's going to be severe larry but i don't think we quite know the extent to be yet we don't know if this is a true week shutdown of the year 2 might strike out of the economy but wonder if it's one or the other for working men and women in the. you know about 58 percent of workers in this country are hourly wage workers this is food service workers retail workers none of those people are getting paid they're all filing for unemployment insurance we've got a whole industry of independent contractors get your pu

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there chris lou, thank you. shannon, as well. >> the internet is making this stay at home crisis more bearable in a way. but not without a cost. in hubei province, mobile speeds fell by more than a half. in the u.s., download speeds dropped almost 40e% in san jose, california. and 24% in new york according to researchers now during the coronavirus outbreak. why? because broadband traffic overall, well that's up almost 25% according to companies. and major broadband internet hogs are cutting back. netflix reduced resolution and lowering data use. facebook did the same for live video. hopefully trying to save data for essential service needs. beauty of this is that there is a spike in using the net. we can now still work together as you saw on our first segment of this show. microsoft's team product and slack, for instance, they're subscribers, that went up by 40% this quarter. working together although dijtdally now. no virus can halt that spirit. we'll be right back. as a doctor, i agree with cdc guidance. i rec

i'm fortunate to have two officers, officer lou and chris, they are great people persons. so they go out there, they are assigned to increase the quality of life issues. they have great rapport with the people who need services and the organizations that provide the services to individuals in need. we work collaboratively with the operations center, the hot teams, d.p.a., public works, parks and rec. traffic safety. oftentimes we get issues regarding increased traffic safety, people running stop signs, red lights, that's a common theme, and we focus on the five violations. we know the folks are very important because they are contributing factors to the traffic collisions that happen on the street. in addition, oftentimes we have a traffic car, which is specifically assigned to make traffic enforcement stops at certain locations to increase our efforts on the streets, in addition we worked with the traffic solo companies which conduct pedestrian sting operations. it's pretty much officers in plain clothes going into the field and other officers that are nearby waiting to s

i they bring in chris in the first question to you. a question from loun west london i need to wash food items that are delivered to my house? the items miserably will come packaged and he will not eat the packaging i hope unless the food inside is really bad. so therefore if you just adopt a normal practice of opening the packet and taking the food out and using your normal routine hygiene practices which is washing your hands after doing that anyway with handling any kind of packaging and there is no risk at all. if you were to open the bag and then touch your eyes, nose or mouth with hands that we re eyes, nose or mouth with hands that were 011 eyes, nose or mouth with hands that were on the bag, then there is a theoretical risk but let's recall that these viruses don't last forever on the services of a maximum ofa forever on the services of a maximum of a matter of hours to days depending on what these substance is made of and the risk of there being an infectious dose on there is really very trivial so that you can be reassured that wash your hands h

we hear from her daughter billy lou lourd. chrisllie lourd. daughter of carrie fisher. >> nothing, admiral. passing debris. >> reporter: taken from a new behind-the-scenes documentary of "star wars: the rise of skywalker" filmed after her death. >> we were able to sort of re-create everything as faithfully as it was on the day building our movie around her and so that involves figuring out the staging of the other characters as well. >> reporter: the documentary available on march 17th with the digital release of "the rise of skywalker" depicting how director j.j. abrams and star daisy ridley dealt with the scene's technical and emotional challenges. >> this is the first scene that we're doing with leia, and of course, we don't have the most important person with us. >> the reality of having to do a scene with someone who isn't actually there. >> yes, master. >> was very difficult. i had to walk off and have a moment. >> reporter: also in the doc entitled "the skywalker legacy," a deep dive into the filmmaker's decision to feature h

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lou: and it wonderful, . you mentioned god, you have the bible written large behind you, i suspect around you, people of faith do, ton turn to chrisay, in-- intrepid host on msnbc. >> i personally can't help but feel the daily session bad for the country. even dangerous from a public he'lhealth perspectives. >> seems crazy, that you have the my pillow guy up there talking about reading the bible. >> wow. lou: the pillow guy talk about reading the bible. >> i heard acosta attack me too, he was just 10 feet away from me, this is -- i said mr. president, you do these press conferences, i have friends on the left, said mike, you be i'm not a big fan of president trump, but god bless him, he is doing an amazing job, these are real people that are seeing now, that this president has been the best man in charge for such a time as this just those newscastsers, we know who they are, cnn what they did to me, i am sorry a put on a message of pope t hope to countt god gave us grace in november of 2016, a nation that turned its back on god, right now we're part of this big revival, we is go get back in with family and bibles and everyone pray

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let me bring in at chris and the first of the questions to you, we have had a questions to you, we have had a question from lousaying, "do i need to watch food items that are actually delivered to my house? " presumably, the food items are going to come packaged them and you are not going to eat them and you are not going to eat the packaging, i hope, unless the food inside is really, really bad. so, therefore, if you adopt the normal practice of opening the package, taking the food outcome and using your normal, what should be your normal routine hygiene practices, which as you would wash your hands after doing that anyway with handling any kind of packaging, that there is no risk at all. if you are to open the bag and touch your eyes nose or mouth with hands that have been on a bag, then there is a theoretical risk, but, let's remember that these viruses don't la st remember that these viruses don't last forever on the services. a maximum of a matter of hours to days depending on what the substances made up to him and the risk of there being an infectious dose on there is really very trivial. so i thank you

the chris criticisms fallen on deaf ears, american public learned to block a lot of noise that has been going on and focus on what works and what does not work, they there president stands tall. lou: yes, everyone -- remember fauci putting his palm of his hand to his head, as president talking about some of the problems with the bureaucracy. calling it the deep state. talking about the drug -- i can't way to try to pronounces this. hydroxy -- there i go. >> chloroquine. david: chloroquine. he was right. and the french were right, so were chinese, a lot of other country that were working with this, shown promise, is it the answer? i don't think anything will be the answer. in the short-term. but it seems to be one of the answers. and it time for medical people continueunderstand that trump ie leader, they are the experts. in public health. he has been -- fauci acknowledges, he has listened to them all of the way, listened to them on public health. he is the president of the united states and we -- i've have enough from whether a public health official, or anyone standing next to chief of staff, grimacing and making faces or clowning that is no way to act when that president is the