what is federalism and is that federalism?that's not just the governor cuomo version, that is the national governors association's version of a deal federalism which is the federal government collects the taxes, turns the money over to the states and the states get to spend the money as they wish. if your governor that's the best of all worlds. you don't have to take the political heat for raising all the money your spending. symbiosis doing that, but you have wide discretion in expenditures. once the natural position of a governor, they will argue for that, but the fact is that as more and more money comes from washington, they are in more and more subtle ways, whatever they may say at press conferences, obliged to align themselves with the views of the federal government, and often the views of a particular bureaucracies. don't just think of congress, but think of the hhs and the department of education that put so much money into state and local government. if i have one worry about the effects of the coronavirus epidemic i

the union owned federal bonds at some point. i devote an entire chapter to bondholders in virginia, the home state of great debt pessimists like thomas jefferson. many federal bond holders in virginia owned plantations and slaves. others were professional doctors and lawyers, others were urban artisans and retailers. and some were women. abigail adams wasn't the only female trading government securities, woody. woody's not here, okay. some bond holders lived in what is now called nova, what could become the nation's capital, others lived on the south side, others on the blue ridge, and others along the james, in richmond and beyond. we'll never know with certainty what influence those bond holders had on public opinion in virginia. but the fact that federal bond holders were spread across the state, both geographically, all right, geographically and occupationally, suggests that they could well have cemented the union. one federal bondholder was a bona fide revolutionary war hero who would raise his own legion in defiance of the

what we needed was for the federal government -- still need -- the federal government to enact the defensen act to make it easier for us to obtain the swabs, and the vtm, and the reagents that we need. none of that have been done at the federal government level. that is the mistake that has been made all along here. we could have organized this and led this at a federal level. everybody, including libertarians, would tell you the purpose of the federal government at a minimum is to manage a national emergency. and this is a national emergency, and it is not being managed well from the white house. robert: why would you want to see the defense production act used versus more appropriations from the federal government to provide you with that testing material? gov. pritzker: again providing us with dollars for the testing material does not really do the trick. what we have got to do is -- there is a worldwide market for these things. we need to make sure we are producing it and acquiring it as a nation for our states. but instead, what is happening just like with ppe, we are competing agains

federal government is doing? we see this push and pull almost every day with president trump talking about the economic crisis versus the health crisis. being hopeful to get the economy and country back up and running like normal. the past deadline for that was easter. that passed and things are still not back to normal. do you think the federal government is doing a good job right now in handling this? rep. neal: i think the implementation was slow. i think they were confusing messages from the administration. i go back to the new york times story that appeared in the last between four hours. it is well sourced and well documented. i think there was another very important consideration here. it is called the national principal. that is when the upper occurred in washington state, we did not say in america this is a washington state problem. we said this is an american problem. and the response has to be based upon an american belief in the national principal. we were able to rush a two the state of washington. i

that is what you are declaring you will do when you declare something a federal emergency, a federalisaster. yes, local officials and state officials are in charge of their own problems in general on a day to day basis. but in cases where it is beyond their means to do so, then a disaster, an emergency is declared. and when that is declared at the federal level, as president trump did for coronavirus on march 13th, that means something specific. it means the president has invoked the statutes that explicitly declare that the federal government will coordinate all disaster relief assistance. but then once you have declared that, you actually have to do it. in katrina, the bush administration ultimately did figure that out way too late, after they fired the arabian horse association guy. heck a job and all the rest, right? ultimately they brought in a u.s. army general, general russel honore, who was just on with chris last hour. they brought him in to actually take charge and to start to clean up what had been a failed, feckless federal mess. but by the time general honore came in and

and he was put on trial in federal court. and his trial would be held up for years in its wake as basically a paragon of what the federal courts can do, even in horrific terrorism cases, even in cases with more than 1,000 people hurt by the crime in question. even in cases with huge national security and intelligence implications, even in cases where the defendant is an absolutely unrepentant international terrorist who wants every chance he can get in a u.s. court tomorrow denounce the united states and try to recruit other people to his cause. the ramzi youssef case after the 1993 world trade center bombing is part of how we know as a country that terrorism cases can be handled and handled well by our normal courts. you don't need to invent some kangaroo court system somewhere else to handle serious cases like that. the ramzi youssef trial took about five months. it was a long trial. he was convicted. at the end he was sentenced to life in prison plus 240 years. when his conviction was appealed to a higher court, the appeal

when you declare something a federal emergency, a federal disaster. yes, local officials and state officials are in charge of their own problems, in general, on a day-to-day basis. but in cases where it is beyond their means to do so, then a disaster, an emergency is declared. and when that is declared, at the federal level, as president trump did for coronavirus on march 13th, that means something specific. it means-l the president has invoked the statutes that explicitly declare that the federal government will coordinate all relief assist. but then once you have declared that, you actually have to do it. in katrina, the bush administration ultimately did figure that out, way too late, and after they fired the arabian horse association guy. heck of a job and all the rest. right? ultimately, they brought in a u.s. army general, general russell who was just on with chris last hour. they brought him in to actually take charge. and to start to clean up what had been a failed, feckless, federal mess. but by the time general came in and started to get thi

federal government? -- the state overall, the city and the state have received 4400. we have distributed many of them. i have not heard of any faulty -- >> i have not heard of them. >> in the los angeles times it was reported that some of the ventilator sent to them by the federal government were faulty. the exultation is that you apparently have to run ventilators every so often, it's not unlikely -- not unlike a car battery. that's what they chalks the issue up to. in new york when we saw the report, we are in the process of reviewing our stockpile, and we have not seen a problem so far. >> are you expecting more ventilators from the federal government at this point? >> the federal government is very aware of our situation. i spoke to the president this morning, i work with the vice president, the white house staff, i don't think the federal government is in the position to theide ventilators to extent the nation may need them. question ofk it's a whether the federal government has ventilators that the

the federal government, the president said the federal government is not a shipping clerk for states. is theeral government supply purchaser for states. that states are not left to their own to scale up for a global pandemic. the federal government does it. that's what fema does. i come from a strong federal government background. part of the clinton administration, we were reactive on disasters and fema was a key player. to me, that is a viable option. yes, this is a federal emergency declaration. it is a war. when you go to war, that is a federal effort, right? it is not state-by-state that declares war. it is not state-by-state that you go out. this is a global pandemic, it is a national situation. 98% of the country is under stay-at-home orders now. the federal government is the purchaser in chief, strategist in chief. fema buys the equipment, distributed to the states that need it. ok, that is option a. and i think that is a viable option, but people can say i don't want to do that. b could, ok, option theoretically be designed -- we have never done this -- if you are saying the

nowse call the number right and be counted, because west virginians are really depending upon those federal dollars and the more that are counted, the more we are going to get. again, i thank you and just stay the course. you are doing great, west virginia. really proud of all of you. bye-bye. live you miss any of our coverage of the government's response to the coronavirus outbreak, watch it any time at c-span.org/coronavirus. from daily briefings by the president and the white house task force to updates from governors of the hardest hit states. there.l use the charts and maps to track the virus's global spread and confirmed cases in the u.s. county by county. our coronavirus webpages you're fast and easy way to watch c-span's unfiltered coverage of this pandemic. >> joining us from annapolis is maryland governor larry hogan. governor hogan, thank you for joining us. how is your state doing? >> we've had one of our biggest tolls in the number of people getting the virus and we've had some pretty difficult situations but like the rest of the country, we are come to deal with the best we ca

i was in touch with jay powell the federal reserve board. an jack lew has been unyielding in loyalty to me over the years. subsequent get-together lasted for more than two hours with speaker pelosi. we did it again a week ago. i was in touch with secretary lazar, secretary mnuchin regularly. we decided to try to divide public policy here understanding until the health issue is resolved you are not going to get to the economic contagion it's created. help foremost and then we moved to the economic process. relying upon people who in this instance stand behind the president everyday at the briefings, their careers. these are individuals who have great credibility in this conversation. relying upon those who have experience in career responsibilities is a really important step. stephanie: everything you just said peach my interest but could you talk about the role of the federal government in this whole crisis and how you think the federal government is doing? almostthis push and pull every day with president trump talking about the economic cr

what other measures do you think the federal government needs to take to ensure the security of federal workers and workers countrywide? guest: i think that more than anything what the federal government needs to do is be making sure that if an employee is high risk, that they all have opportunities to be away from the job in order to not affect anyone else. they also need to make sure that all federal employees working under these conditions have the opportunity to be paid hazardous duty pay. because i think that that is also important. host: the headline says federal workers in the union sue for hazard pay. a federal class-action lawsuit argues agencies should be required to provide hazardous duty pay to employees exposed to the coronavirus. parenthetically, of us anecdotally what you may have of your members in terms of stories you may have heard being asked to work when they do not want to work or are concerned about coming into work. have you heard things like that? guest: we certainly have. we have heard people being forced into work and knowing that they may have been around peop

you need a federal stimulus bill. you need a federal stimulus bill.hey have passed a couple already. what you need a fair federal stimulus bill that is not a political porkbarrel bill. right? you know that cases are. you know with the need is. i understand the applicable dynamics of the u.s. senate. understand not -- i the political dynamics of the u.s. senate. but this is not a time to be passing bills that really art to make sure that your home state gets enough funding. that is not what this is about. this is about helping the country come back. and focusing on the need. when i say the bills were unfair to new york, the past bills. it is not because i am advocating for new york. look at the need. get where the cases are. look at where the damage has been done. the federal government is trying to address that damage. you know where it has been done. at the chart on where the cases exist. look at the number of deaths. the number of cases. the number of hospitalizations. and help those places come back and come back quickly. that is what the stemless

this is basic federalism, the role of the states and the role of the federal government. it is important that we get this right. the founding fathers understood. we have to remember, today, that the balance between the state nd federal, that magnificent balance articulated in the constitution, is the essence of our democracy. we do not have a king in this country. we did not want a king, so we have a constitution and we elect the president. the states, the colonies, formed a federal government. the federal government did not form the states. it is the colonies that ceded certain responsibility to a federal government. all other power remains with the tates. it is basic to our onstitution. hamilton, who in many ways was representative of this discussion of the balance of power, state governments possess inherent advantages which will ever give them an influence in -- influential of asent dansy over the national -- and ascendancy over the national government and will preclude the possibility of federal encroachments on the states. that their liberties, indeed, can be subver

the federal and the state governments can do what they want. the question is, is there plausible basis? there have been questions about masks. there has been back communication. it is strange to tell people, well, masks won't help you, but by the way, we need all the masks we can get for health care providers. so we have not explained what is going on, and make clear the very different risk profile that health care providers are facing versus citizens. that it is pretty clear all things being equal, masks can prevent certain types -- certain types of masks can prevent certain types of drop us from getting into your nose, mouth, or eyes. and we know now, pretty clearly, that our -- that there are people who will be walking around a coronavirus that don't know they have it. announcer: we are going to leave this discussion, but you can watch this and any c-span program online i c-span.org. we take you to new york

and federal agencies are working together. the atf has sent two national response teams and a mobile command center. it has three explosive technicians and three laboratory technicians in oklahoma city. it is prepared to send a 20-25 more personnel tomorrow. the secret service is also sending explosives experts. in addition, the oklahoma national guard has been deployed to evacuate the area and the evacuation of the entrance. the u.s. army deployed the 61st ordnance detachment with a robot from fort sill, oklahoma. the tulsa police department has deployed two bomb technicians, two dogs and a robot, and fema is playing a major role in aid and assistance. we can't tell how long it will be before we can say with certainty what occurred and who is responsible, but we will find the perpetrators and will bring them to justice. >> had you put out a bulletin, [inaudible] can you tell us about that? there are reports of descriptions of a couple of people. say about all evidence and all leads is that it will hinder our investigation, bu

let the federal government take responsibility for the federal supply chain, the national manufacturers. that is what we agreed in this meeting. intelligent division of labor in my opinion. let each level of government do what it does best and it ends this back-and-forth, what do the states do? what does washington do? who is responsible, etc.? to quantify that in new york, we have on average, 20,000 tests per day. our goal, very ambitious, set it high, then try, our goal is to double that to get 40,000 tests per day. we need several weeks to ramp up to that. it is aggressive. that is our current system at maximum. our current laboratory system, seven days a week, 24 hours per day, the maximum our system as it exists can do, is that number. that is our goal. it was a productive conversation. again, that is the biggest legal task we have to do that is identifiable from today. back-and-forthle and finger-pointing in a very fair and smart way. it is a smart resolution. i feel very good about that. if we could double our tests, that would be a home run. that is a big deal. funding to the st

a federal government could put forth such a plan. and the governors, if it was smart, who -- look, nobody has been here before, and nobody wants the sole responsibility. if the federal government had a full plan, i would be the first one to say i'll cooperate. or let the federal government say, i'm not going to do it, i've delegated this to the states, that's how i started, and the states have to do it. okay. but then the states need support, because this is a federal situation. the president likened it to going to war. well when you go to war, you don't say to the states, every state has to buy its own tanks, every state has to buy its own guns. it doesn't work that way. this is a national situation. how do we do testing? where does the funding come from? either it's a or b. you can have a smart model either way, but either the federal government does it or the states do it in a clear delineation of responsibility and who performs what task. and the president is the president. let him put forth a model. but he has to put forth a mod

that is what the federal government is for.nstead, we're seeing what somebody described this week as darwinian federalalism, right? survival of the fittest. >> i've got one more -- i got one more that i want to ask you before i let you go. i'm running out of time here. the president tonight addressed this drug, hydroxychloroquine. listen to this. >> yeah. >> hydroxychloroquine, i don't know, it's looking like it's having some good results. i hope that that would be a phenomenal thing, but we have it right now in approximately now -- it's increased to 1,500 people. >> you say that's downright dangerous, why? >> because the drug has toxicity. the drug may be effective -- there is no one that is praying for this drug to be effective as -- and a game-changer in treating people who are sick with this virus than i am, but i need to see the data. the drug can cause a dangerous heart arhythm yeah in susceptible people. it's not taken under a physician's supervision, people are going to die. so it may be that the rivs are overshadowed b

the federal government is not learning. the federal government is getting worse. the response is getting worse. we're going to focus the next few days on the people whose lives are most on the line because of it. we're going to focus on nursing homes where the federal government is not even counting cases or tracking them, let alone making nursing homes get better at dealing with what is ripping through nursing home populations right now. they're not working on that part of the problem. they are not even counting or tracking those cases. that may cost more american lives than any other thing that's going wrong. we're going to focus on that over the next few days. we're also going to focus on what we can do if the federal government never does get better. some governors, particularly in hard-hit states, are now starting to realize that the federal government isn't going to spring into action here. and so states are starting to get together in small groups themselves to form slightly smaller subsets of the united states of america, basically to try to approximate, t

. >> is there anything the federal government could do? gov. whitmer: a few weeks ago, when the data first started coming in before i think everyone was focused on it, we saw the difference. i raised it in a conversation with the vice president, acknowledging that we think there is a racial component, a very serious one, and we would like the full weight of the federal government to help get all the data to coordinate. i've been vocal in terms of my observation that we really need more of a national strategy. this is one of those as well. what is happening in michigan is we are seeing that it is happening in other parts of our country, as well. it really needs to be a national issue with a federal solution as part of it. >> do you feel like vice president pence has been effective toward democratic governors like yourself as head of the task force? gov. whitmer: i have found vice president pence to be very cordial and accessible and i appreciate that. as a former governor, especially one from the midwest, we have been able to build a type of rep

called the federal care act. the federal cares act almost ignored state governments. when you ignore state government, you ignore our situation. 10 to $15 million deficit. we got our budget done, but our budget was contingent on what happens going forward. without federal assistance, how does this state economy come back? how do we start to fund schools? that has to happen from a federal level. above a statevel government that can make a difference besides the federal government. we did a statement on a bipartisan basis that said, the federal government has to fix this in the next bill. he called for $500 billion funding for state governments. on a bipartisan basis. from new york's point of view, the past bills were like most federal bills. through the political process. to get a bill passed in washington, everyone has to get their piece of the pie to pass a bill. i understand politics. i understand it very well. that is not how this should be operating here. you did an injustice to places that actually had the need, which, from a taxpayer point of view, that is what

host: let's take the federal debt in excess of $24 trillion. lawmakers are negotiating another -- some additional aid to help the small businesses association loan program and hospitals and states who are requiring more money. potentially, we could be looking at another half trillion to $1 trillion in additional government spending over the course of the next couple of months. a lot of people have been debating it. let me break it down in a couple of ways. half a trillion is a low estimate. if we are running 3.5 trillion dollar budget deficit, we are telling about -- talking about $3.5 trillion of additional debt this year. i want to get underneath these numbers. you mentioned $24 trillion of debt that the nation has. about $18 trillion is what we borrowed from the rest of the public,rom the investors, and other central banks. there is another $6 trillion within the government. it is money that the government lends to itself. a lot of people look at the publicly held death -- debt, it is the size -- close to the size of being our overall gdp. n

but laws are not just made by the federal government. and so one lesson of antitobacco activism is the power of local laws to change the way people experience their day-to-day life. so by achieving scores of victories at the local level in the '80s and '90s, antitobacco activists made more non-smokers and a bigger constituency for the kind of future they wanted to see. i think there's a lesson in that for climate change activists that might be frustrated at federal inaction. >> host: guns? >> guest: there, too. one trademark of the antitobacco movement with these was kind of a visual vernacular. thank you for not smoking. i have noticed in more places that i've been to, signs that say no guns on these premises. and the wonder if that visual vernacular just raising awareness of the presence or absence of guns in place to make people more aware of their stance on an issue. >> host: i want to thank someone, doctor cynthia quinn yaris is an associate editor of the journal of american history for helping me prepare for today's interview. i ha

we need federal assistance. depending on how much federal assistance we get, we will have get that calibration of the budget going forward. coronavirus response in general. there is a lot of conversations about how we should respond to this governmentally or from an intergovernmental perspective. people want to say this is a states' rights question versus federal interference. who should decide what is done on a state level? there is no governor who is arguing that their state's rights are being trampled. right? it is not a states' rights issue. no one is standing up saying the federal government is trampling my rights. i have said that on other occasions. but no governor, democrat or republican, is saying that here. every state is saying the same thing. i need help, i need assistance. so i don't consider this a situation where the federal government is interfering with the state's rights. this is a situation that is, by definition, a national disaster emergency situation, where the states need and welcome the f

the colonies, formed a federal government. the federal government did not form the states. that cededolonies artain responsibility to federal government. all other power remains with the states. it is basic to our constitution. hamilton, who come in many ways, was reppo of this just -- representative of this discussion of the balance of power, said state governments possess inherent advantages which will give them influence and ascendancy over the national government and will preclude the possibility of federal encroachments on the states. that their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation. strongly wind, but that was the premise. that was language, but the premise there are laws and there are facts even in this wild palooka environment. what do we do? we do what we do. we are new york tough, but tough is more complex than many people think it is. within that were tough is smart and united and disciplined and loving. inconsistent, to be tough and to be loving. a personal point, not necessarily a factual po

that is where the federal government should help. that is the intelligent distribution of responsibility on testing. the federal government is right. the states should take the lead, yes. partnership, federal government, you have to help us with the supply list. after you do the testing, states have a second big task, put together an army of tracers who then trace each person who tested positive. who did they contact? and then isolate those people. reopeningill make decisions on a regional basis. region'sthat circumstances about the covid virus. just like some states will --pen you for other states before other states, it is true across the state. north country has a totally different situation than new york city. central new york has a different situation. we operate as one state but we also have to understand you want to get this economy open as soon as possible. if the situation is radically different in one part of the state than the other part of the state, we take that into consideration. applies togic that the country applies

or the federal constitution. so it is actually really interesting to kind of consider the chronology of the ratifying conventions as well. so the confederation congress wraps up shop in 1788 and on october 10th the last action of the confederation congress is to grant ten square michaels land to congress for a new federal town so after that point the government will move on up to new york city and the rest as they say is history. so i'm happy to take questions for about five minutes. one of my colleagues has a hand microphone. raise your hand if you have a question. i would be delighted to an it or direct you to a book that will answer it. >> good morning. can you hear me? >> yeah. >> you said earlier that for population counts it was quote all other persons close quote other than whom? were women counted? were children counted? >> yes. >> all other persons everyone other than enslaved people? >> yes. you got it. yeah. that's a great point that at no point in the constitution is the word slave or enslaved stated.

and the federal government has to step up on testing. federal government is involved in testing. and they did a whole presentation at the presidents -- president's briefing on testing, and what they're doing on testing and what they are doing on helping the supply chain, etc., and that's great. between the states working with the federal government, we will do the best job we can. what was the president's tweet exactly? >> he said looks like i was right on ventilators. our country is now the king of ventilators. other countries are calling and asking for help. i'm right on testing. governors must be able to step up and get the job done. we will be with you all the way. gov. cuomo: we will be with you all the way. great. states must do their part. and the federal government must do its part. perfect. that's what's called partnership. i agree. >> and just a follow-up on the testing, i know initially there was some rationing of diagnostic testing. what will it look like for antibody testing? who will be able to get the antibody testing once that gets wrapped up? gov. cuomo: the anti

reportero: la tormenta econÓmica empeorarÁ en los dos prÓximos meses, vaticina la reserva federal. >>precedentes. reportero: ante ese prospecto, los demÓcratas en el congreso quieren aprobar un cheque de $2000 al mes durante seis meses para cada contribuyente. la ayuda durarÍa hasta que el empleo se normalice. >> especialmente ahora tenemos todas las razones para proteger a nuestros trabajadores. reportero: afirmÓ la presidenta demÓcrata de la cÁmara baja. el presidente no disputÓ las declaraciones de la reserva federal, pero dijo que en julio, agosto y septiembre la situaciÓn serÍa buena, y que segÚn Él, final de aÑo la economÍa sería realmente buena. por el momento la economÍa ha bajado 4.8 por ciento en los primeros cuatro meses del aÑo. trump tuvo una reuniÓn con empresarios. presidente trump: las grandes compaÑÍas estÁn emocionadas y felices con los prospectos. reportero: muchos pequeÑos empresarios dicen que la ayuda del gobierno no les llega a ellos. >> como pequeÑo empresario es muy difÍcil navegar el laberinto burocrÁtico que se requiere para simplemente solicitar la asistenc

need to do what the federal government wants.ederal government has become the brain trust and planning location. the cdc is supposed to be our national public health expertise help, supposed to know what is going out and advise cities and states as to what it is doing. the nih is our national research treasury. in the president is ultimately the leader of the whole country, so that federal government is supposed to be the entity that plans what everybody should be doing. for example, under the defense production act, which you have probably heard about, the federal government basically has the power to take over their manufacturing and distribution chain for critical medical supplies. that does not mean it takes over the companies and runs them, it just means it can say, ok, we have now got a list of everybody who makes masks. we are going to issue instructions as to where all those mass should go. -- masks should go. the federal government could be saying we are going to centralize the distribution of ventilators, so we will get

it's federally run. frankly, the federal agencies were not eager to do that. fema was not eager to do that. i called the president. i spoke to him about it yesterday morning. that afternoon -- yesterday afternoon the president called me back and said he spoke to the task force, they would grant the request to transition the javits center to covid only. that adds 2,500 beds, so that is a very big deal. i thanked the president for doing it. he did it despite the fact that the federal agencies were not eager to do it. and he did it quickly. so i thank him for that. it's a big deal for us. we're still challenging -- we still have the challenge of ventilators. we don't have enough, period. this system -- this situation is very simple now. people come in. they're almost all covid people. ironically, the number of non-covid cases has dropped because so many things are shut down that you don't have the same number of automobile accidents or people getting hit by cars. you don't have the same crime rate, so you don't have the same number of trauma cases coming into a h

and thus the federal-state partnership. i will do my part as a governor, i know the other governors will do their part. federal government is involved in testing. they had a whole presentation at the last presidential briefing. we have to work together and do the best we can. and we will. and i have faith that we well because we have in the past. >> on the funeral homes, the governor signed an executive order to allow funeral directors who are either retired or from out-of-state to be able to be licensed immediately in new york to help with the backlogs. yesterday, the, executive order we did allowed clerks to perform the weddings remotely. today, the governor signed a new executive order to allow anybody who is licensed to be able to perform wedding so it will not just be limited to clerks. on the website, it will be updated by 2:00 today. the covid tracker. gov. cuomo: i'm also licensed to perform weddings. i'm available for online services. special vows that i do. did you know that? >> i would have assumed it. [laughter]

we need the complete partnership from the federal government. i have found the vice president to be very helpful and accessible and responsive. the first thing that went through your mind you so president trump tweeted liver michigan? -- tweeted liberate michigan? gov. whitmer: we had just come off a demonstration at the capital. we had a lot of people show up who are not -- who were not wearing masks, who were not staying six feet apart. i sell adults handing things to children barehanded. we know this kind of activity flies in the face of all the best science including the scientists who are standing up at the nightly briefing with the president who have told us 30 days. they have promulgated a lot of the same best practices that we are encouraging people to undertake. to see this play out was unfortunate. i respectat while their right to dissent and demonstrate as long as they are doing it responsibly and not endangering themselves or other people, i respect that. to see people come from across the state and converge and congregate and then g

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good for him. >>> california actually pays more into the federal coffers than it gets back from the federalects, you know, california in that way, but states like kentucky, mitch mcconnell's over state, they actually take in more money from the federal government than they pay in. this is chutzpa to a lot of folks, but what do you make of this argument? >> yeah, so let's unwhat he's suggesting. he's suggesting that the federal government should not support and give resources to aid state and local governments. let's deconstruct this. failure of leadership in the white house, and failure to act -- i went through the whole litany that trump did not do during a crisis -- what happened then is that it fell on local and state leaders, like so much of the mayors of california that i'm proud to know and work with. the governor of california. so many mayors and governors around the country, state and local leaders took on the responsibility on their shoulders to carry the weight of the burden of addressing this health crisis. they did that with their local and state resources. the federal governmen

and understanding of who enforces immigration laws is it a federal issue or is it a state issue and when there is written context within federal statutes with regards to what form information on that form can be used for can states use it for something else that is specifically what it sort of narrows down to. so kansas look we have the right to criminally prosecute if we have laws 'd that put these to say that this particular person did something wrong yes we're familiar with the fact that the feds have some involvement in this arena but we haven't lost our right under the what we call health safety in welfare protection of our citizens to do what we wanted to do so what they've done is they've said to immigrants what what are they saying immigrants right and so i think it's a far stretch and to just talk about the facts of the case specifically in this case these 3 individuals were pulled over for a traffic violation so it wasn't an audit procedure at a company to see if the check in the company documents what the what the government can do at any level which is sort of relegated

that federal role is so important. this was a federally declared disaster, not a new york state or california disaster but a federally declared disaster. where was the federal government stepping in? as the mainma entity managing this for the nation? you are right. we are not in a situation where every state had to manage a federal disaster -- how does that happen? buy thell trying to same materials. everyone needs masks, gowns, and ventilators, so it was like being on ebay internationally, competing against every other state and the federal government to find the equipment. if you are a smaller state, california, new york, and illinois could outbid you. it should never have happened that way. companiesate sector do testing. nobody has the scale or volume we need. youcannot buy the swabs, don't have the manufacturing equipment, so you are going to have another situation in 50 states, all competing and trying to buy the testing. i have been saying today that the federal government has to take over testing and let us fig

what how can you do that donald when the federal government keeps out bathing or outright stealing from them with no real explanations as to why so it was a good time to start watching the hawks before you know the feds come confiscate all of us. what's going on a city street. there so let's see the prices you always state see. graves see this least systemic deception is the late show which we saw with. the welcome everyone to watching the hawks i am sorry robot inter-island so major they are just snatch and grab and all across the country now the last 2 months or so absolutely i had the 1060 really crazy but when you see it in action it's a whole different level governors are trying to protect their their p.p. equipment trying to make sure that they have what they need especially those in blue states because the president trump has announced that he's really not trying to help them and and i think that you know what we're seeing happen in real time is something that we haven't seen in this country before especially not in pain to make times and. even in my home state of illinois we've

this was an opportunity to take my work to the federal level. hhs.gov/aging is where you can go to learn more about lance robertson and his work. taking your phone calls this morning. special phone line for those 65 and older (202) 748-8000. for everyone else, (202) 748-8001. this is dale out of jackson new jersey. caller: good morning. i am 68 years old, but i am also a family caregiver of a loved one that is 88 years old. i am representing a lot of people that are, again, worried about carried for a loved one who may be a very high risk. -- caring for a loved one. i want to know what you are doing for family caregivers who are not only worried about themselves, but people that they are caring for that may be a high risk -- at high risk? you quitean tell clearly that you are the target of who we are trying to serve because the role you are playing is so critical. somewhatelf compromised as an older adult, but you are a caregiver for someone who is of significant age. i will try to package what i considered to be an answer. first of all, take ca

we provide oversight over federal programs and spending. we cover the entire federal government, including agencies that have primary responsibilities for bio defense. we have been looking at this from numerous angles so at the highest level, the federal wide by defense planning and strategy that i talked about. even within the individual agencies, what with the department of homeland security do? what would hhs do? what would the u.s. department of agriculture? -- agriculture do? host: what was it about the coronavirus that beat the defense strategy? nearly half a million americans have been diagnosed with it. guest: that is a good question. it beat -- the strategy was developed as a day-to-day coordination plant. we wanted to see this to have happened about 10-15 years ago when we were first calling for the strategy and for the agencies and the white house to get serious about working together and planning to identify the gaps. not just the gaps but doing to create resources where the gaps exist. that strategy was just implemented once th

i think we are having discussions with all of the nation's governors and the federal government about how to set up a better system and improve that. we've got to figure out how to best allocate some of these limited resources, and this overwhelming demand. the bottom line is there just are not enough to go around for what everybody desperately needs. we've got to figure out the best way to fix a really bad situation. host: how would you fix that after the pandemic is over? guest: i think in the future, we've got to be better prepared both at the federal and state level, and our individual hospital systems and hospital levels. i don't want to monday morning quarterback and take a look at what went wrong 10 years ago or last year or last month or last week, i just want to focus right now on what we can all do together to do the best job we can for today and next week into two weeks from now, so we can make sure we don't lose so many folks in america. after this is over with, we've got to look at what happens when this thing comes back again in the fall, or when we have another pandemic