that's dan goldman. you know dan goldman.a pit in our stomach when we learned late last week from dan goldman's twitter feed that he had a fever, a headache, and a negative flu test. he couldn't rule out coronavirus because nobody was giving him a coronavirus test. he kept tweeting his updates in pursuit of a coronavirus test, ultimately deciding that he could drive up to a location in connecticut at 4:45 in the morning to try to get a curbside test quite far from where he lives. we found out over the weekend that that test came back positive. there is good news, though. daniel goldman is going to be okay. he is at home. he's quarantined and resting, and he's well enough to take a little time to talk to us about what he's been through right now. dan goldman, thank you so much for being here. joining us by skype, it's great to see you. >> good to see you, rachel. thanks for having me. >> tell us how you're feeling and what your odyssey has been like in terms of how sick you've been. >> i'm feeling much better, almost back to n

. >> dan goldman, you suffered not only getting the disease but being unable to get a test. what has your experience been as you tried to -- as you have been recovering thankfully from this? >> lucky my symptoms were probably on the moderate side. i didn't suffer any real breathing issues, which is the biggest concern for anyone who has coronavirus. but just like dr. brennan, i have been talking to some of the doctors that i was dealing with over the last couple of weeks and it is an absolute abomination these medical professionals do not have the supplies that they need. i think everyone needs to understand, there is only one aspect of our government that can require and fulfill those splay needs and that's the federal government. the states do not have the ability to force companies to make these supplies. only the federal government. and it is -- it is bewildering to me that we in the united states ever america are in a situation where as dr. brennan is describing, that the medical professionals to fight the biggest pandemic in a century do not have the supplies they need

. >> dan, i mentioned the tweet from the former chairman of goldman sachs where he wrote within a very few weeks, let those with lower risk to the disease return to work. he's not the only one. more and more people are starting to say -- and i understand how many feel it's insensitive. but he's starting to say if we leave business closed indefinitely, the damage we do could be devastating in its own way. >> yeah. i think there's little doubt about that, but i guess looking to a former chairman of a bank to basically give us some guidance on the health crisis is not particularly too helpful right now. if we use china as an example, i think it took over a hundred days for them to go back we reopen the factories, so, listen, i think if you're an ex bank ceo, i'd focus on what the market are doing, what the economy is doing, not about the timetable of getting workers back to work. right now in new york city, i know people who are sick all over the place and do not have access to testing. the stock market is careening low for every day that we do not have a financial assistance package. so

i think doctor goldman, the real issue is what happened with this field which is the world's largest pork producer. i know danou're certainly familiar with this transaction. where did all the pig intestines go from smithfield here in virginia? by the way, if you have sunday morning bacon or if you have ham on new year's day or if you go into mcdonald's for sausage, that pork is coming from smithfield which is now owned by a chinese company. we had a problem with smithfield, do you want to talk about that dan? this field controlled a very substantial portion of the pig Ãthe company was sold to china and with it we lost potentially lost and we don't really know because it's a private company and congress has no authority over them to ask. where are you spending Ãb sending your pig guts? are you shipping them to china were sending them to the united states to make this very important drug called heparin? >> if you can imagine, smithfield was the largest producer of pork in the united states at 36 percent of pork market and the company called shane way for them and paid a huge 30% premium for this company. pork i