with no cure available, the kcdc decided to focus on preventing the spread of the disease. out who actually had it. so stage one of the fightback would be mass testing. but the existing tests took too long — more than 2a hours to give results. in that time, a single carrier could infect hundreds of people. the urgency was real because it was nearly the lunar new year holiday. millions would be travelling all over the country, potentially spreading the virus. as korea celebrated the lunar new year, the kcdc summoned officials from some of the country's top biotech companies to a meeting at seoul station. those who were there were shocked by what they heard. among them, sd biosensor‘s hae—joon park. the companies were told to develop faster tests. in this crisis, 2a hours was just too long. in return, the kcdc would provide anything they needed — samples, faster licensing, anything. it took only eight days for one firm to develop a test that gave results injust six hours. four other companies now collaborated and scaled up production of the six—hour tests. with test kits read

i don't know if they're tapering off now, but they're serious and sort of drab and the hid of the kcdcl hero. mature, intelligent way to give us advice compared to what you saw with the president's news conferences just weren't even about crone a after a while. >> the most obvious difference to me is not the methodology, testing, contact tracing. it's political. the south korean government is taking this seriously and led a well-mobilized effort and the u.s. government has not. >> you talk about politics having a role here. you know, people early on, when you have a pandemic, politics moves to the side. we're not seeing that from the president on down. you in that interview also said that you see in the u.s. where there's 30% of the country who think that this was a hoax or an overreaction. all of the stuff you hear on trumpist media or fox news, all of the conspiracy theories. there's none of that here. none of that. again, you said this in march. that's only exacerbated over the past few months. can you give us your perspective on the role of the media and conspiracy theories and a l

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nbc news capital hill correspondent and host of kcdc on msnbc on sunday nights casey hunt and msnbc contributor great to have you back with us. >> i'm looking at these numbers from reuters poll. so many people saying that law and order would work for donald trump, that it's going to be like 1968. here's the problem. donald trump is incumbent. this is all happening on donald trump's watch. when he, the first night started talking about shooting people, the president of the united states, calling protestors thugs. it's jetting things up. pat robertson, even pat robertson is telling him to cut it out. the pope is telling him to cut it out. republicans are telling him. some remembers to cut it out. this is not working. the biggest surprise is that i know that they're stupid, a lot of these people around the president are stupid, that's the only reason they're there because they will do whatever he tells them to do but what he didn't realize is that some of them are so stupid that they were actually congratulating themselves after donald trump started ai riot in the president's park and lafayette pa