howard: joining us now to analyze the coverage, gayle trotter, or host of right in d.c.: the gayle trotterw, susan ferrechio with the washington examiner, and joe joe trippi, the veteran democratic strategist. gayle, what's your reaction to news coverage saying the president is undermined by past credibility problems and is deliberately downplaying the magnitude of this threat? >> he was initially criticizing for blocking travel from china, and now there was criticism of him jumping in, and now there's criticism of him underplague it. of course the coronavirus is a serious matter, but we're seeing the convergence of two things with the media. the one is the media's tendency to hype any sort of danger, and the second tendency is the very left-leaning media's effort to pin all blame on the trump administration. howard: susan, any president, obviously, has to strike a balance when there's a threat and not scaring people. trump says that nancy pelosi's trying to start a panic, there's been a lot of aha, he's politicizing this. in truth, aren't both sides doing that? >> it's hard to say who sta