historian joan waugh and gary gallagher ask the question, what caused the civil war? american history tv tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> next on reel america, a united autoworkers film promoting president frank lynn roosevelt's campaign for a fourth term. the 13-minute animated film is directed by academy award winner chuck jones who helped create bugs bunny and other characters for warner brothers. in 1966 produced and director "how the grinch stole christmas." ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hey, joe, joe. >> yeah, sam. >> take a look at today's timetable. only one of these trains can get through to washington. 44 is a single track, you know. >> yeah, but, sam, aren't the american people on board the win the war special? >> well, followed by a few wreckers. >> do you see that switch, joe? you've got to sidetrack. >> i'm just the guy that can do it, sam. >> look, joe, you can, if you don't fall asleep at the switch like you did in november of 1942. >> i see. >> don't worry about me. he'll have to knock me out. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ dream awaken to me ♪ waiting for me >> rise! all

james gallagher, thank you so much.ted by number ten downing st to explain the worsening of boris johnson's condition. on 26 march, it was announced that the prime minister had tested positive for coronavirus. on sunday, he was admitted to max one “— on sunday, he was admitted to max one —— one after his symptoms persisted for ten days. this evening he was announced to have been moved to intensive care after his symptoms worsened. speaking to chris mason in westminster, i just spoke to james gallagher, i'm now speaking to you. you can see how these two subjects now intertwine and almost become the same — the health of the prime minister and the health of the country. indeed so. on a personal level and political level, therefore a national level, as we were discussing this time last night shortly after the prime minister had been admitted to st. thomas as hospital, by definition, the occupier of that role personifies the country. the elected leader of the country. the elected leader of the country, test at the moment wit

gary gallagher and joan waugh. individually and as a team, they are interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and their engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, great sophistication and great style. as your biographical pacts enumerate, they have individually and together enriched and enlived the literature over the years. gary gallagher is the john now the third professor emeritus in the professor of civil war at the university of virginia and you're all familiar, i know with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. he's also like me and many others in this room, an oh fish gnaw doe, but more an expert on civil war themed films but his passion has inspired a terrific 2008 book causes won lost and forgotten. how hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. he's the coed or the of with liz who just published new perspectives on the union war. joan

gary gallagher is the professor and history of the american civil war emeritus at the university of virginia and founding director of our at the university of virginia. gary was about to retire and number of years ago, i have been writing every introduction for him over the last few years. i want to take this opportunity to apologize to gary for trying to show him the door and kick him out of the state. [laughter] i am very happy to have been wrong in my assumption gary's retirement would mean farewell. i am very pleased that, in his retirement, he remains a fixture in the commonwealth. as i think everybody knows, and appreciates, gary's contributions to civil war studies are varied beyond his own scholarship which is writing

trace gallagher, we will have more on that in a little bit. after the state of new york, no state in the country has been hit harder by this virus than the state of new jersey. as of today, new jersey has more than 71,000 cases of it. more than 31 people have died so far. since the 21st of march, all residents of the state have been under stay-at-home order and that has had a big, predictable economic effect. m in the past month, 577,000 new jerseyans have filed for unemployment.. phil murphy is the governor and he says the shutdown will

gallagher. but i remember in graduate school, i had bud robinson as one of my advisors and bud was known for a the love things but bud had a way with history and he talked to me and other students at one point about the civil war in particular being like anon onion that you will continually peel. he was very insightful about that. he said one thing about that onion, the more you peel it the biggest it gets. as i get older and more i read more i find out just how ignorant i am. i'm one of those people as a child grew up near the crater in petersville and thought if i go there i'd know everything there is to know about civil war. unfortunately that's incorrect. my question is this, as the we peel this onion, it's disturbing to me as i get older how narrow minded some people are about the subject of the civil war. it's such an intriguing subject as most people here will attest to. but one things that a concern to me is how do we as historians, as individuals encourage people to do more in-depth stu

>> sean: trace gallagher, thank you for that report.ven more troubling, development surrounding china as white house advisor pete navarro reveals that china has been caught cornering the market for key medical supplies and actually profiteering during the outbreak and not only that, drones being deployed to surveilled americans amid lockdown orders actually come from a company with ties to the chinese government. i wonder if hunter is making money off that too. interesting question, right? i was previously suspected and spying on u.s. citizens. the news is g.o.p. lawmakers like senator tom cotton, senator crenshaw, they are calling it beijing's lies. they introduce a bill that would allowha americans to hold china accountable for their virus response failures. of course, the democrats, and their allies, state run tv, media mob, continue to spend for china and attacked president trump. shocker. here for reaction, senator tom cotton, and congressman dan crenshaw.n congressman, you haven't been on for a while. let me ask you about your sui

chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher picks it up from there. >> hi, shannon, you can give it a wait and in many cases they're not kidding. the price of oil being as low as negative $40 a barrel lowest price of her and some u.s. oil comedies are paying someone to take it away instead of shutting it down production. that's because shutting down and building more storage is actually more expensive than paying to get rid of it. with the oil literally and figuratively in the tank,

sean. >> sean: trace gallagher, thank you for that report.roubling develop his tonight surrounding china as white house advisor peter navarro reveals that china has been caught cornering the market four team medical surprise. not only that, drones being deployed to surveilled americans amid lockdown orders actually come from a company with ties to the chinese government. while matt, i wonder if they're making money off of that too. interesting question, right? i was previously suspected by the way, of spying on u.s. citizens. g.o.p. lawmakers like senator tom cotton, congressman crenshaw, they are calling out beijing lies, deceit. they have introduced a bill that would allow americans to hold china accountable for their virus response failures and of course, the democrats, their allies, state run tv, media mob, they continue to spend for china, shocker. here with reaction, senator tom cotton. congressman dan crenshaw, also of "the new york times" best seller fortitude. good to see you both. congressman, you haven't been on in a while, let me

pete: navy seal chief eddie gallagher, has two bronze stars. to name a few.hief gallagher found not guilty after being charged with mistreating an isis terrorist during combat operation, his 19 years in service, and 8 tours resulted in dozens of terrorists, killed or cop -- captured. pete: we discuss the big issues, high stake raid, culture of our most elite military hop people teams, and have thank you so much. >> thank you. pete: what a fantastic group, i really have been looking forward to this, it happens guys like you, special operators, these are all special operators here, navy seals, well represented. we have army rangers and green berets, guys like you have been a mara part of missions hike the that killed al-baghdadi, i would be remiss if we did not take the audience in the room as a plan for an operation like this. we start with you, what do you think and prepare? >> i wasn't there for this, but i was on one that went into pakistan be we thought that chae was dying were pretty high, i know they went in there, going in fighting. it is one of those s

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sean. >> sean: trace gallagher with that report, thank you. when we come back on my tom cotton response. how do we deal with china going forward? also a report, repulsive behavior from democrats in the united states congress. unbelievable. they want to investigate the president again if you can believe it. hopeful news from dr. oz, he will break it here straight ahead. ♪ do you have concerns about mild memory loss related to aging? prevagen is the number one pharmacist-recommended memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. ♪ >> sean: in other news tonight, as americans are coming together, the vast majority, to combat the spread of coronavirus, your course of the usual suspects, the media mob, nancy pelosi, do-nothing democrats. they continue to use the serious public health crisis sadly for politics, to advance an agenda, which is always against donald trump. weeks after the presidents china travel ban, pelosi, she was urging san francisco residents late into februa

gallagher. but i remember in graduate school, i had bud robertson. and he was one of my advisers. and bud was known for a lot of things, but bud had a way with history, and he talked to me, and some other students at one point, about the war in particular. being like an continually peel. he was very insightful about that. he said one thing about that onion, the more you peel it, the bigger it know, never finish pe that onion. if you do your due diligence. and as i get older and the more i read, the more i find out how ignore anti-a igno igno igno ignore -- ignorant i am. fortunately, you i found out that wasn't correct. my question for you is this. as we peel this onion and it's disturbing to me as i get older how narrow-minded some people are about the subject of the civil war. it's such an intriguing subject as most people here will attest to. but one thing that is concerning to me is how do we as historians, as individuals encourage people to do more indepth studies of the black experience in the civil war? and i'm not talking about just in the north, but in the south. and the

gary gallagher and joan waugh. individually and as a team, they are superlative interpreters of the civil war era who combine military history and social and cultural history and bring to their scholarship and engagement with readers and audiences great knowledge, sophistication, and style. as your packets enumerate, they have individually and together and live into the literature over the years. gary gallagher is a professor emeritus in the history of the american civil war at the university of virginia and he is former director of the now civil war sector -- center there. you are all familiar with his major works, the confederate war, the union war, lee and his generals in war and memory. he is also, like many in this room, an aficionado, but more, an expert on civil war films, but his passion inspired a terrific 2008 book, how hollywood and popular art shape what we know about the civil war. he is the co-editor that published new perspectives on the union war. joan waugh is a professor of american history at ucl

history tv, exploring our nation's past every weekend on c-span3 peer next, civil war historian gary gallagherresses misconceptions americans have about the civil war, and outlines concepts he leaves are crucial in understanding the conflict. this talk was part of a symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. datd rich -- richmond. a look at non-smoker activist and their context in other social movements. at 8:00 p.m. and lectures in history, a professor teaches a class about law and policies regarding at 10:00 p.m. on reel america, a 1996 fema training program city in which first responders describe what happened, how the response was organized, their successes and lessons learned. what's coming up here on american history tv. our last speaker is well known to all of you, gary is the third professor in the history of the american war ammar tus at the university of virginia and of ourg director co-sponsor, center for civil war the university of virginia. knowing that gary was about to retire a number of years ago and writingt, i have been just about every introduction for him the la

>> shannon: trace gallagher, thank you. unemployed americans and small business owners are anxious to get back to work as plenty of people still getting a paycheck lecturing them about being selfish. >> you want to go to work? oh take a job as an essential worker. do tomorrow. right? you are working. you are an essential worker. go take the job. >> there is as fascinating conversation going on on your network and all the networks where we are making a distinction between essential workers and nonessential worke workers. i think there is a -- not to oversell it, but there something tricky with the language going on here. with regard to when economy, i don't think there's any such thing as a nonessential worker. >> let's take a little deeper into the divide with the director of the james madison program and american ideals and institution at princeton university. professor robert george, good to have you back. >> thank you for inviting me on. >> shannon: let's talk about the comment from governor cuomo. peter hassan tweeting,

. >> up next on the civil war, historians joan waugh and gary gallagher answer what caused the civil. they co-authored "the american war, a history of the civil war era". >> good evening. i'm harold holzer, chair of the lincoln forum. it's time for our main event. i'm happy and proud to welcome back to the forum two of my favorite people not only as friends but as colleagues in the civil war field. gary

shannon: trace gallagher, thank you. unemployed americans and small business owners anxious to get back to work as plenty of people still getting a paycheck lecture them about being selfish. >> you want to go to work, take a job as an essential worker. do it tomorrow, you will be working, you are an essential worker's ago take the job as an essential worker. >> a fascinating conversation going on on your network and all the networks, making a distinction between essential workers and nonessential workers and i think there is, not to over sell it but there's something tricky with the language here because with regard to an economy i don't think there's any such thing as a nonessential worker. >> let's dig deeper into the divide with director of the james madison program in american ideals and institutions professor robert george, good to have you back. let's talk about the comment from governor cuomo, peter hansen responded that statement by the governor saying you want to go to work to take a job as an essential worker,

trace gallagher has more on this and related stories. hey, trey spewed >> the number of total cases in the u.s. is moving closer to the 1 million mark with 916,000 confirmed cases, more than 51,000 people have died from covid-19 in the u.s. but we just told today is down fairly significantly from yesterday. this time and antibody study from miami-dade county in florida, it mirrors the study showing that about 6% of the population, or 165,000 miami-dade residents have already had coronavirus. that is 16 times the number of confirmed cases. like california and new york, it puts the fatality rate at about 0.1%. drastically lower than previous estimates. the state of georgia slowly reopening, the streets remain relatively quiet but some nonessential businesses like nail salons and barbershops have reopened. if there was a question about customers coming back, listen to this barbara. >> that's what i've been doing since 6:00 this morning, i walked in at six and i started cutting here, this is the first time i have slowed down. >> at one nail

historians joan wa and gary gallagher answer the question what caused the civil war.night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> in the late 1940s and early '50s, harding college in searcy, arkansas, produced a series of anti-communist cold war films. the animated fimds were distributed widely and seen by millions. next on "reel america," from 1949, meet king joe. this nine-minute cartoon argues that the american factory worker, joe, is the king of the workers of the world due to his higher wages, productivity, and shorter working hours. this film from the library congress collections has been made available from the national film preservation foundation. ♪

>> shannon: trace gallagher, thank you for the update. it's a possible financial news tonight, a bullish day for the stop mark, stock market. the president is creating a second coronavirus task force. this one would be tasked with getting the u.s. economy back on track. kevin corke takes a story straight from there. >> it certainly welcome news in many quarters at the president is at least contemplating the creation of a second coronavirus task force. creating a plan to help the economy rebound. a rebound by the way that if the white house has its way will come much sooner than you think. >> president trump: we built the greatest economy in the world and god artificially stopped by a virus that no one thought possible. >> the president did promote the economy thanks to an historic downturn and a pandemic no one could have predicted. if you are starting to get the sense that there could be brighter days ahead and soon, you are not alone. it's a sentiment shared by wall street, optimism that sent stockists soaring in part that thanks to sig

spread on by president donald trump who wants to get the economy back up and running from miami and gallagher reports. after weeks of stay at home odors hundreds flocked to the reopened beaches in jacksonville florida the medical of this controversial move as essential activity even as a state hit more than 27000 coronavirus cases it's what authorities call a pathway back to normal life. but in other parts of the u.s. the scenes a very different across the country a small but growing protest movement is calling for restrictions to be eased from utah to wisconsin in both republican and democratic led states people are taking to the streets urging a return to normal life we are still a free country at least for now and people have to make a decision and that's their personal decision if they don't want to be 6 feet apart or 7 peter peter parker i can't i can't dictate to that to them despite declaring that individual governors are in charge president donald trump seemed to encourage the protests in a series of tweets on friday all 3 states have democratic governor has his tacit support is seen

historians joan waugh and gary gallagher answer the question, what caused the civil war.merican history tv, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> next, more about pulitzer prize winning cartoonist pat olafont. his car teen collection was acquired by the university of virginia, at an event hosted by uva, presidential scholars discuss his work from lyndon b. johnson to ronald reagan. >> welcome. we're going to have for the next 75 minutes is a kind of meeting of two cultures. one culture is represented by the people on this stage who are scholars associated with the miller center here at the university of virginia, and who study the presidency is broad, longterm in perspective, balanced, and of course, expressed in words, in t

tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much for that.rom early on in this crisis, we took the virus seriously, but we doubted that chinese-style lockdowns were a response by the chinese coronavirus. even if they worked as advertised, and you just heard there is no overwhelming evidence that they don't work as advertised, despite what politicians continue to say, mass quarantines under the best circumstances are really just a stopgap. the only way to tame a virus like this is with science. a single effective treatment would make all the difference, right away. you wouldn't have to cure every sick patient, but if you could cure a significant number of sick patients and lower the death rate, this would be a completely different country. hope would return. fear would recede. we could begin to regard this as a manageable illness as we do so many other illnesses. more than 600,000 americans died from cancer this year, that is a tragic number. you doubtless know some. but we accept it, and we live our lives briefly in the face of it in part bec

trace gallagher, thank you for that report. senator ted cruz introducing legislation to hold china accountable for their virus for their deceit, they're lying to herewith reaction, senator cruz. i am so angry at the idea that they stop all travel to and from wuhan within china but they let people in and out internationally. i'm like, that means they knew the risks and they didn't care about the rest of us! >> sean, that's exactly right. china's responsibility and culpability for this pandemic is enormous and there are three different aspects of what china has done that should be concerning. the very real possibility that this coronavirus originated in a chinese lab. we know there are a two labs in wuhan controlled by the chinese government that we arego studyig not just coronavirus is but bat coronavirus is miles from where the outbreak occurred. the question there, there are multiple state department cables from the department raising concerns about the safety and security of the labs, them not having adequate protections ando

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mike gallagher, the congressman from wisconsin. thank you for joining us today. will stay in touch. and joe biden hauling in a whole lot of campaign cash in march, nearly $50 million making it his best month of fund-raising today. peter doocy is live in arlington, virginia. this had to be welcome news for the biden campaign. >> definitely. especially now that joe biden is saying it is not as satisfying for him when the whole point of campaigning is connecting with people through a webcam but being stuck behind a computer screen is not hurting his fund-raising. $46 million is his best month of the cycle and it's more than the trump campaign made in march, but there are two big caveats. cash on hand, casted 70 million dollar and has been aided by the rnc which is raised hundreds of millions of dollars for trump during his first term all while the dnc was having to stay neutral as they whittled down a two dozen person field. now the presumptive nominee is looking for a running mate. michigan governor gretchen whitmer just told "the washington post" she has not yet b

trace gallagher with the presidents get tough approach with the w.h.o. good evening, trey's. >> good evening, shannon. this is a blow to the world health organization has the united states single largest donor and planning to give $893 million during the current two-year funding period. but the president trump said "political correctness for life-savinlife-saving measures. and the evidence coming out of wuhan. and for its decision to oppose travel restrictions from china. watch. >> look at the rest of the world. look at parts of europe. other nations and regions who follow w.h.o. guidelines and kept their borders open to china. many countries said "we are going to listen to the w.h.o." and they have problems the likes of which they cannot believe. >> the president went on to say world health officials ignored credible information in december of last year that the virus could be transmitted from human to human. but former secretary of state under bill clinton, madeleine albright who is also an investor to the united nations which oversees the world health

let davei will gallagher here from the jet propulsion laboratory in california talk about this, but this is an amazing capability built by scientists and engineers out in california at the jet propulsion laboratory. dave, i will let you talk about it. dave: this is a great news story in the midst of this pandemic. when we started to stay-at-home about four weeks ago, one of our engineers just could not stand the idea of sitting back and doing nothing with the spreading coronavirus, and came up with a design. very rapidly, we built the team, which did a lot of the work remotely, working from home. and in just over four weeks, have developed a covid-19 ventilator. it is unique in many ways. at jpl, we build spacecraft. we don't build medical products, and the innovation and creativity of the men and women of jpl, it is incredible. so this thing has about 80 parts. a normal icu ventilator has an order of magnitude higher than that. these parts are not in the ventilator supply chain. they are regular parts, so we will not be by building be interrupting the supply chain for icu ventilators. m

here to explain more, chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher. what kind of market is that? i don't understand. >> it's a wet market. they sell meat, fresh, produce and exotic animal some of which are killed on site to ensure freshness. the daily mail recording that while the country still finding covid-19 one of its reporters witnessed thousands of people at one of these wet markets in southwest china. quoting here "the markets have gone back to operating in exactly the same way as they did before coronavirus. the only difference is that security guards tried to stop anyone taking pictures which would never have happened before." today on "fox & friends," senator lindsey graham said these markets need to shut down immediately and he offered this morning. watch. >> i am going to write out letter to the chinese ambassador saying if you don't shut those wet markets down, our trading relationship is going to change. >> we are also learning china was not including asymptomatic people in its national tally of coronavirus cases, which is at least 1500

>> shannon: trace gallagher on the west coast, thank you.ew cautions from the food and drug administration tonight about the serious and potentially life-threatening heart rhythm problems reported with the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for covid-19. the fda says the drugs should only be used in this context, with doctor supervision, in hospitals or clinical trials. a big legal win for the trump administration on the immigration front. temporary for now, ken cuccinelli, acting dhs deputy secretary, joins us live next. ♪ my time is thin, but so is my lawn. it's been worn down to ugly, thin grass! now, there's scotts thick'r lawn. the revolutionary 3-in-1 solution for weak lawns. with a soil improver to strengthen roots. seed to fill in gaps. and fertilizer to feed. the result, up to a 50% thick'r lawn after just one application. ♪ ♪ get everything you need for spring at scotts.com order today. i wanted more from my copd medicine that's why i've got the power of 1, 2, 3 medicines with trelegy. the only fda-approved once-daily 3-in-1

. >> and i'll leapt dave gallagher here from the jet propulsion laboratory in california talk about this but this is an amazing commablet built by scientists and engineers in california. daye, i'll let you talk about it. >> mr. president, this is a great news story in the midst of in pandemic. when we started stay at home about four weeks ago, one of our engineers could not stands the idea of sitting back and doing nothing with the sfremmedsing coronavirus and came up with a design. very rapidly we built the team, which did a plot of the work reemotelly working from home and in just over four weeks have developed a covid-19 ventilator. it's unique in this ways. in j.p.l. we build space craft, not medical products and the innovation and creativity of the men and women, it's incredible. so this thing has about 80 parts. a normal i.c.u. ventilator has an order manage any dude higher than that. these parts are not in the ventilator supply chain. they're kind of regular parts so by building these we will not interrupt the supply chain for i.c.u. ventilators. most importantly, covid-19 patient

. >> next, on the civil war, historian gary gallagher addresses the misconceptions americans have about the civil war and outlines four concepts he believes are crucial in understanding the conflict. this talk is part of a symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. >> our last speaker is well known to to all of you, gary gallagher, he is the the third professor in history of the american civil war eme trchlt itus and the founding director of our co-sponsor, the center for civil war studies at the university of virginia. and knowing that gary was about to retire a number of years ago and move west, i've been writing just about every introduction for him over the last few years as if it were the last time we were going to see him in richmond. i want to take this opportunity now to apologize to gary for trying to show him the door and kick him out of the state every time he speaks here. i'm very happy to have been wrong in my assumption that gary's retirement would mean farewell and very pleased that in his retirement gary remains a fixture in the commonwealth. as i think every

next on the silver war gary gallagher addressed misconceptions american have for the civil war and outlines what he believes is crucial in understanding the topic this symposium was held in the library of virginia in richmond. >> our last speaker is well known to all of you, gary gallagher, now the third professor in the history of the american civil war emirates at the university of virginia and the founding director of our cosponsor john l mal iii studies at university of virginia. and knowing is that gary was about to retire number of years ago and move west i've been writing about every introduction for him in the last few years as if it were the last time we'd see him in richmond, i apologize to gary to frying to kick him out of the state every time he speaks. i'm very happy to have been wrong in my assumption that gary's retirement meant farewell and very surprised he remains a fixture in the commonwealth. i'm sure everyone knows gary's contributions to the field of study are many and varied including writing more than 30 books and hundreds of artic thes and reviews -- articles and re

thank you vicki young and charlotte gallagher.ly expressed their concern for the prime minister, and sent their best wishes. speaking from the white house, president donald trump said everyone was hoping for a speedy recovery. president donald trump said everyone was hoping for a speedy recoverylj also was hoping for a speedy recovery.” also want to send good wishes to a friend of mine, friend of our nation, prime minister boris johnson. we very saddened to hear that he was taken into intensive ca re that he was taken into intensive care this afternoon. a little while ago. and americans are all praying for his recovery, he's been a really good friend, he's been really something very special, strong, resolute, doesn't quit, doesn't give up. and there have been messages of support for the prior minister across europe. the french president emmanuel macron said he was sending his support to the british people at this difficult moment and the german chancellor angela merkel wished borisjohnson much strength and a speedy recovery. for t

covert 1000 has passed its peak but experts are warning that moving too fast could be disastrous and gallagher is in florida with that story. after weeks of stay at home hundreds flocked to the reopened beaches in jacksonville florida the medical of this controversial move is essential activity even as a state it more than 27000 coronavirus cases it's what authorities call a pathway back to normal life. but in other parts of the u.s. the scenes are very. different across the country a small but growing protest movement is calling for restrictions to be eased from utah to wisconsin in both republican and democratic led states people are taking to the streets urging a return to normal life we are still a free country at least for now and people have to make a decision and that's their personal decision if they don't want to be 6 feet apart or 7 peter peter parker i can't i can't dictate to that to them despite declaring that individual governess are in charge president donald trump seemed to encourage the protests in a series of tweets on friday all 3 states have democratic governor as his tacit

cnn's diane gallagher is joining me now. how much of an impact is this going to have on the nation's food supply? >> i think it depends anderson and what we are going to see over the next couple of weeks here of the trend across the country of these types of plants shutting down due to the virus continuing. sobering statement from the ceo of smithfield. he says the closure of this facility combined with a growing list of other protein plant is pushing our country close to the edge in terms of our meat supply. that particular plant in south dakota, 130 million servings of pork were processed there per week. it is a large plant. it is not the only one dealing with this . in iowa, four meat processing plans have shuttered there and colorado and jbs packaging plant is closed down for cleaning at least 50 workers became sick. they expect when testing is to be finished between 200 to 400 workers will likely test positive for the coronavirus. two of the employees there have died and that's the flip side of this. there is concerns o

state like many is struggling to get cash into the hands of those that need it most and then the gallagher joins us now live from miami and see we forget that when people lose their jobs in the u.s. they also lose their access to health care so this is something of a double blow at this time how are people coping there. well i think we need to put this in perspective before the pandemic was announced before the coronavirus made it to the united states 27000000 americans were without any health insurance at all it's also important to know that many people that work in the service industry and hospitality depending on the employer they work for don't even get health insurance now if you are laid off as many people have been over the past few days there are some options medicaid of course is one and there's another system of government program called cobra but you have to pay for all of those medical insurance programs and we're already seeing some stories of people going into hospitals without medical insurance getting kovan $1000.00 in getting hit with bills of up to $3035000.00 on top of a

trace gallagher, shocker. dana, thanks so much for coming on. what do you make of this?this is a case in a story that's been out there for so long, i think senator chuck grassley tonight has asked the judge to unseal the case, and it's time for everybody to just get some clarity out for what all was going on. i believe we asked the u.s. attorney in missouri to take a look at this case and it's all starting to unravel for the fbi, it would look like. so you have questionable judgment. i'm not going to say you should treat any citizen differently but if you are going to go after someone who many people consider a war hero, and someone who is working for the president of the united states, then you don't do it like -- and a half fast manner. that is something where you would want to make sure that everything is absolutely by the book. it is locked down and it does not look like that happened here at all. i am thinking that the judge of looking at this is going to say i'm not going to withdraw the plea because michael flynn did. and i'd they did think that the judge might va

cnn's diahann gallagher has more on the reasons why. >> reporter: why this virus does not discriminate big city. a quarter of the deaths come from this small community here, and medical workers who went through six months worth of ppes in less than a week, they think they've been able to trap the outbreak to the most communal experience. two funerals that happened, one at the end of february and the other at the beginning of march, as it silently spread throughout their community and now all hands on deck. they have testing going on here. they are working around the clock in the hospital, just like all over the rest of the country, the hospital ceo tells me that they've still not seen that curbed yet and anderson, the worst is still yet to come, they believe. >> dianne gallagher, thank you. in the midst of it, dr. lamont smith, a critical care doctor. dr. smith, you actually retired, you live in jacksonville, florida, but when the call went out for people to retire, doctors and other medical professionals, you drove all the way to albany to help out. what made you come? >> i still have

>> professor gallagher made the point that this is a local issue. there's one point it's definitely not a local issue, and that's in our united states capital, where each state has two statues. let me review the list. harold: we know them all. >> jefferson davis, stevens, wade hampton -- harold: let me turn your comment into the question. >> i want to ask. does anybody know of another country that puts statues of traders in the capital? and since this is a national spot, even though the state send the two statues, should there be a national effort to get these statues capital? they are right near lincoln's spot, and a new room that has been dedicated to the memory of abraham lincoln and statuary hall, outside the door is jefferson davis. >> the reason i was cutting you off, and apologies, is there is a piece of legislation introduced. i want to phrase it in something that is grounded in reality. cory booker has introduced a bill to order the removal of all confederate statues from the u.s. capitol. so we can frame it in terms of the actual -- not th

trace gallagher starts with the president's get tough approach with the who. >> reporter: the blow to the world health organization considering the united states is the single largest donor and was planning to give $893 million during the 2-year funding period but donald trump says the who put life-saving measures, going on to criticize the organization for failing to investigate the audience -- evidence coming out of wuhan and its decision to oppose travel restrictions from china. >> look at the rest of the world, parts of europe, other nations and regions, keeping borders open to china, many were listed to the who and have problems the likes of which a cannot believe. >> reporter: the president went on to say world health officials ignored credible information in december of last year that the virus can be transmitted from human to human, but madeleine albright was also ambassador to the united nations which oversees the world health organization, said pulling all the funding is a bad idea. >> we need to figure out what we need to pay but it is a real mistake because you have no inf

brian gallagher now reports. >>> amel murray has endured a lot of pain. on february 29th hundreds of family and friends came to the small city of albany to say good-bye to andrew mitchell, the man she loved for several years. after several hours of crying and hugging each other, murray started feeling sick. >> that night my mother went to bed. she had a fever. we didn't know it at the time. >> reporter: the 75-year-old was presumably one of the first in albany to be exposed to the coronavirus. she was hospitalized but not immediately tested. other members of their family, their friends who attended the funeral began to get sick too and since then several have died. >> i knew things -- i knew things were going to be bad but until it hits you that's when you're like, whoa, it's here and now. >> a typical viewer tipped them off. a second trip to the hospital confirmed murray was one of them. from there the cases jumped. >> two the first day, six the next day, it was eight the next day and it just began to cascade from that point. >> reporter: so far more tha

chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher is on the case tonight. >> despite being protested and widely criticized for her severe stay-at-home restrictions michigan democratic governor gretchen witmer responded by repeatedly saying she has thick skin and can take the heat. now the heat is being turned up, the michigan state senate which has a gop majority has approved a pair of bills aimed at limiting the governor asked, the first would repeal the emergency powers of the governor act, the second would limit the number of days a governor can declare a state of emergency cutting it from 28 days to 14 but whitner reemphasizes her authority, says the bills don't stand a chance. >> i'm going to reiterate i'm not going to sign any bill that takes authority away from me or any future governor. >> with the michigan legislature doesn't appear to be flinching either. along with approving bills limiting her power today state lawmakers created a joint legislative committee to respond to the governor's coronavirus mandates quoting the legislature is the voice of the people and the people

trace gallagher is on the case. >> are now ashore in guam. an additional 1700 sailors will join them in the coming days, and the number of men and women testing positive on board the roosevelt has jumped to 93, with at least 86 other sailors showing symptoms of the virus. the ship's captain roa blunt letter which was leaked to "the san francisco chronicle" asking most of the ship's 5,000 member crew be taken off the carrier. the letter went on to ask it that sailors be moved from communal facilities in guam to individual housing to better comply with cdc guidelines. acting secretary says the ship needs the crew. >> this ship has weapons on it, it has munitions on it, it has expensive aircraft, it has a nuclear power plant, it requires a certain number of people to maintain safety and security of the ship. >> the navy is now in the process of testing all those on board, and is working with the government of guam to use empty hotel rooms to isolate tailors. their speculations that they would face punishment for sending the letter, but the navy

. >>> cnn's dianne gallagher now with the meatpacki -- >> president donald trump says his latest moveould save the food supply chain but is it being done at the workers expense? >> they're all gung ho. >> using the defense production act to compel meat-processing plants to stay open. at least 22 plants have shut down at some point in the past two months. >> they are big companies but they're now being treated fairly. they're thrilled and that whole bottleneck is broken up. >> now, trump says he is protecting the plants. >> who needs protection are actually the workers, not the plants. >> according to the united food and commercial workers union, at least 20 meatpacking and processing workers have died. more than 6,500 have been direct limb pact ly impacted by the virus and they are overwhelmingly black and brown. according to data from a 2016 government accountability office report and the new american economy, almost 30% of the food proetsi proe processing workforce is a foreign-born, noncitizen. roughly half of meat processing and packaging workers are immigrants. the disparity of w

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diane gallagher has the story. >> reporter: roughly 5% of all u.s.ork production happens here, at the smithfield plant in sioux falls, south dakota. that is until this week. the plant is closed indefinitely. the state's governor recommended it shut down this weekend av nearly 250 of its workers tested positive for the virus. in a sobering statement the company's ceo pointing out that large plants shutting down are, quote, pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of our meat supply. it is impossible to keep our grocery stores stocked if our plants are not running. experts caution there's not an emergency yet but -- >> the question is whether or not you're going to have more and more plants with sick workers and basically the decision to shut down the production facilities. >> reporter: still, it's not just south dakota. there's a possible cluster in tennessee and in colorado a plant in greely is temporarily closed after two workers died from the virus and at least 50 tested positive for the virus according to the union. in iowa and pe

trace gallagher has the story for us tonight for my west coast newsroom.>> martha it's impossible to know how devastating covid-19 is, after gathering blood samples and testing for number one how many americans have had the virus and number two, how common are a some dramatic cases and number three what's the immunity level for those who have recovered from coronavirus. to get the information, cdc is initially taking blood samples from people in hot spots like new york as well as random samples from around the country, and finally samples from specific populations like health care workers to see how widely the virus spreads. the information can then be used to help states and the federal government to set policy during future covid-19 outbreaks and then give us guidance on how to proceed during this outbreak. governor andrew cuomo explains. >> this test of the blood to determine whether or not you have the antibodies, which means you had the virus and resolve the virus, that's why you would have the antibodies for the virus. that would mean you are no long