matt gaetz himself, we know nothing of that situation. but i do think this is matt gaetz of the wearing the gas mask on the floor to vote for the money appropriated to help deal with the coronavirus, $8 billion. this is donald trump who has repeatedly dismissed it and said, it might get worse but it might not. if you watched any of his press conference on friday night after touring the cdc, some things he said, he called jay inslee, governor of washington state, a snake. he referenced that he knows a lot about this and everyone he talks to says, how do you know so much. it's a "laugh to keep from crying" situation in some ways because some things he's saying, it's not just not presidential. it's concerning that this is the person who is in charge. i know mike pence is head of the task force, but the president is still the president, who is in charge of the way we're responding. he is focused on the political end of it. there are political consequences, the economy, the dow went down 2,000 points. the more important thing is, as we hear fr

congressman matt gaetz, let's start with you. just before the show started, speaker pelosi said that in congress they are close to an agreement on the bill but apparently the vote was postponed. what do we know? >> hopefully, the agreement that our leadership is talking about does not include just a plus up in every democrat wish list budget item. i don't think we necessarily have to enhance the snap program to be able to ensure that we have testing resources and medical resources in the hands of those frontline medical professionals. we are not borderless europe, we are not informationless china. we should use the tools we have in our country, use the facts that the president has been

they are jenna ellis, steve moore, matt gaetz. i want to start with you, people are worried, confused and there is a die very zen -- i didgence between the free world, also too often unhelpful, over dramatizing. >> the thinnest of vin ears separates us from chaos. >> number of people who will be diagnosed with coronavirus will explode, cause chaos, will cause pandemonium. steve: yet every single person i spoken to in real world, including doctors, academics and business people, they talk about the massive overreaction, it is insane. common refrain. now i don't agree with that, but i understand why you might be thinking that. it because there is something missing in what we're told by our public health officials, they have told us most people are not at serious risk from coronavirus, anyone can get it and spread it so far, only a small number end up sick enough to be hospitalized. >> for the most part, the people who get in trouble and tragically would die from this are people who are elderly and/or underlying conditions. because o

congressman matt gaetz flew with the president today on air force one. and rode with him in the presidential limousine. gaetz sparked outcry when he made light of the virus by showing up in on capitol hill in a gas mask. but since then, one of his constituents has died and he himself is now under quarantine. earlier today, the white house press secretary said the president is not personally worried about getting coronavirus. >> the president of the united states, as we all know, is quite a hand washer. he uses hand sanitizer all the time. so he's not concerned about this at all. >> reporter: from elsewhere in the trump administration today, a stark warning. >> make no mistake, this is a very serious health problem. nobody is trying to minimize that. it is a very serious public health threat to the people of the united states. >> reporter: but less than ten minutes later on twitter, the president himself sent a very different message comparing the coronavirus to the common flu, which he noted killed about 37,000 people last year. and he said, with the flu,

steve: welcome back, and welcome back matt gaetzs, you have done something really great on campaign finance. tell us what is it. >> washington is a corrupt place, i am only republican returning to congress, who refusing to take any donations from federal political action committees, federal pack donation process, which exchanges money for access and favors, renders public service what should be noblist of profession, close to oldest prefegprefession, we should note turning tricks. steve: this paks, political action committees, what is that really mean? you are not taking them. >> regularly members of congress, come together and accept checks from corporations that pool money of employees with specific interest of

here's congressman matt gaetz today. exiting the presidential limo. the beast, as they call it, and boarding air for force one with the president. gaetz learned, after takeoff, that he had been in contact with the infected person at cpac. he then, reportedly, quarantined himself. sitting in a section of the plane alone. though, you've got to wonder whether a doctor would call that quarantine. just sitting in a different section of the same plane with the president on board. and sources telling cnn that gaetz spent the weekend with president trump at mar-a-lago. including being the president's guest at an intimate dinner with the president of brazil. yes. that is the same matt gaetz, remember, we talked about it last week. showed you the pictures. he wore a gas mask on the house floor last week. and in between then and now, lost a constituent to the virus. right before that dinner, the president said this about whether he was concerned that the virus was getting close to the white house. >> i'm not concerned at all. no, i'm not. >> another congressman w

but both collins and matt gaetz had been in proximity to president trump in recent days. a collins greeting the president in atlanta on friday for a tour of the cdc. matt gaetz today flying with the president aboard air force one. >> it wasn't until congressman gaetz was actually aboard air force one that he discovered that he had been in proximity to that individual at the conference. that's when he sat by himself in an unoccupied section of the aircraft. will hear from the president and just a little while this evening. on wednesday, he plans to have wall street executives to see if he can talk them off the ledge and stop the bleeding in the markets. >> bret: john roberts, thank you. they are now more than 550 confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. encompassing at least 36 states and the district of columbia. the death toll now stands at 26. this outbreak has been particularly hard on the cruise ship industry and obviously on passengers who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. correspondent jonathan terry reports tonight from atlanta. >> the grand prin

congressman matt gaetz exposed the hypocrisy, and the latest on the coronavirus in the u.s. when we return. ♪ i want to rock! (rock!) ♪ i want to rock! (rock!) ♪ i want to rock! (rock!) ♪ i want to rock! (rock!) ♪ rock! (rock) ♪ rock! (rock) ♪ rock! (rock) ♪ i want to... (chris rock) who'd you expect? (sylvester stallone) i don't know...me? (vo) ♪ i want to rock! ♪ rock! (rock) ♪ rock! (rock) ♪ i want to rock! >> raymond: democrats love to portray themselves as the party of love and tolerance, but are they? we just showed you how chuck schumer threatened to sitting supreme court justices, unfold schumer wasn't making a physical threat others in his party have openly threatened violence against the president. >> donald trump is a guy who you understand, my testosterone sometimes makes me feel like i want to punch him. >> i think he needs to go back and punch him in the face. >> raymond: aren't they lovely? joining me now are congressman matt gaetz and lee zeldin, congressman selden does that sound like a party of love and tolerance to you? >> not at all, i am thinking of stev

, mocked a picture of himself with a full blown gas mask and over the weekend one of matt gaetz's constituents from florida died of coronavirus. and today matt gaetz road with president trump and the entourage and the secret service and everybody else, all on air force one, from florida back to washington, d.c. after getting off air force one, in which he accompanied the president, as of tonight, that same congressman, matt gaetz, is himself in quarantine, awaiting the results of his own coronavirus test. lucky guy he was able to get one. he was tested and he is now being garn teened after the congressman was, quarantined after the congressman was advised he had direct face to face contact with someone who attended a political conference last week, a person who is now known to have had the virus. at that conservative conference, it is commonly called cpac, you might remember, at that conference, that was where then white house chief of staff mick mulvaney belittled and derided concerns about coronavirus. remember he called coronavirus at cpac just the latest hoax. the latest hoax

the matt gaetz issue, the matt shlap issue, the cpac conference attendee who has tested positive. and he certainly did not do what his former homeland security advisor tom bossert did in an op-ed this afternoon. he said this is like a fire that threatens to burn out of control. he proposed very aggressive interventions, including long school closures in affected communities. we didn't hear anything like that from the president tonight. and, in fact, you had vice president pence echoing kellyanne conway in that byte you just played a moment ago, again, flattering the president's response. praising him for what he had done so far. not really signaling a fuel pivot to a different frame of mind in the administration on this crisis. >> okay. let's talk more about what you said. you mentioned the financial part of it. the president left the briefing pretty quickly after proposing this payroll tax cut. hourly wage relief. do we know if congress will go along with these plans? >> it is not clear at all that they will. first of all, house democrats have ruled out the payroll tax cut as not

sources, joining us to talk about the president's national emergency declaration is congressman matt gaetz delighted to see you now out of self-quarantine. and enjoying the florida weather. good to have you with us. >> i'm 37 years old, you don't have to worry about me. but we may have to get you down to florida and out of new york if this thing starts ripping through gotham. lou: i couldn't agree more about being important. but i think you are talking about being and and infirm. but i will take it under consideration. it's great to have you with us. it's good to see you out of the quarantine, even if self-imposed. it's quite a remarkable time. the president driving the market higher with his national emergency declaration. it was one of those things -- the president said to me, i don't know if you saw it, a signed graph of the market taking off from the moment he began that news conference. if you are a democrat in this country thinking about playing politics with the coronavirus. i would think that chart would dissuade. >> there is no doubt the president's words brought greater confidenc

line him is representative matt gaetz. he was told on air force one that he had to isolate himself because he came in contact with that person at cpac. that is exactly what happened. matt gaetz sat in a different portion of the plane. no one else was with him, isolating himself. others, representative doug collins, senator ted cruz as well as representative azar or gosar, i'm sorry, have all quarantined themselves because of the person they came in contact with at cpac there. states, ohio, new york, latest to declare emergencies related to this. the port authority director of new york, new jersey, said he tested positive. he had been visiting airports in recent days in that area there. so, liz, everyone taking this very seriously. again waiting on president trump to come into that room and lead this briefing. elizabeth: markets are on the cusp of a bear market, all three major indices down more than 7% each, s&p, nasdaq and the dow. the dow is now trading at january 2019 levels. three things hitting markets. not just coron

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, matt gaetz. etz was there for yesterday's budget vote, and he showed up for it wearing a gas mask. well, that's one way to prevent people from smelling the liquor on your breath. ( laughter ) picture wearing the gas mask. here he is surrounded by all of his friends. ( laughter ) i'd like to point out that he's the only guy who could wear a gas mask to work and still have the dumbest part of his outfit be his shoes. ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) they're like clown feet but they didn't grow. one person actually taking the coronavirus seriously is bond, james bond. ♪ ♪ ( cheering ) yesterday, the new james bond movie was postponed over coronavirus fears. turns out that when the producers of the film heard about the coronavirus, they were shaken. and stirred.la ) ironically, the film is named "no time to die." ( laughter ) it didn't help that the bond girl is named pam demic. ( laughter ) i applaud the producers for putting public health ahead of their marketing schedule, but i think they can d

sources, joining us to talk about the president's national emergency declaration is congressman matt gaetz we are delighted to see you now out of self-quarantine. and enjoying the florida weather. good to have you with us. >> i'm 37 years old, you don't have to worry about me. but we may have to get you down to florida and out of new york if this thing starts ripping through gotham. lou: i couldn't agree more about being important. but i think you are talking about being and and infirm. but i will take it under consideration. it's great to have you with us. it's good to see you out of the quarantine, even if self-imposed. it's quite a remarkable time. the president driving the market higher with his national emergency declaration. it was one of those things -- the president said to me, i don't know if you saw it, a signed graph of the market taking off from the moment he began that news conference. if you are a democrat in this country thinking about playing politics with the coronavirus. i would think that chart would dissuade. >> there is no doubt the president's words brought greater co

representative matt gaetz was on air force one with the president just a few hours ago and there is videof gaetz riding in the beast with the president to air force one. so someone who was in direct contact with a patient was also interacting with the president and his staff. so a lot going on here right now, so potentially we could start seeing that reflected in the president's tone going forward. >> that was my next question, is the president going to change the way that he is going about his reaction to this virus? he's tweeting that it's not really a big deal, comparing it to the flu even though dr. anthony fauci has said that the flu has -- >> reporter: much lower mortality rate. >> there are mitigation effects for the flu, there's treatment, it's a seasonal thing, there is a vaccine. this does not have it. >> reporter: right. when we talked to sources this weekend and, again, i think we will see what happens after the president meets with his team, but as of this weekend there was a lot of frustration among white house officials, administration officials who wanted to see a differen

sources, joining us to talk about the president's national emergency declaration is congressman matt gaetzighted to see you now out of self-quarantine. and enjoying the florida weather. good to have you with us. >> i'm 37 years old, you don't have to worry about me. but we may have to get you down to florida and out of new york if this thing starts ripping through gotham. lou: i couldn't agree more about being important. but i think you are talking about being and and infirm. but i will take it under consideration. it's great to have you with us. it's good to see you out of the quarantine, even if self-imposed. it's quite a remarkable time. the president driving the market higher with his national emergency declaration. it was one of those things -- the president said to me, i don't know if you saw it, a signed graph of the market taking off from the moment he began that news conference. if you are a democrat in this country thinking about playing politics with the coronavirus. i would think that chart would dissuade. >> there is no doubt the president's words brought greater confidence. i

congressman matt gaetz aboard air force one today also came into contact with that cpac attendee. >> nancy, it's all pretty unbelievable. i know you have new reporting on the blame game going on behind the scenes. >> yes. a number of white house officials that i talked to today -- today was just a very rough day for them, not just the ock market being down but i think that the plunge in the oil price market really also hurt them. i was told by some white house officials that that was really what prompted the idea of the need for economic stimulus today. but meanwhile behind the scenes, white house officials were really just starting to blame one another. there was frustration with the national security council for not being on top of this earlier when the coronavirus really came to light in china. people were blaming the vice president's office for the communications and messaging. there was just a ton of people pointing fingers at different factions or different groups in the white house, and that really doesn't help the strategy or messaging when the coronavirus the u.s. very quick

that's why matt gaetz and doug collins and congressman gosar decided to self-quarantine and ted cruz. there might be more. i also think as we look at the pressure on congress to come up with some kind of plan, targeted tax relief, paid sick leave, all these things that could help, worsening economic damage, i'm actually in favor of them -- if not quarantining themselves not coming back to washington and spreading more germs around. >> it would be helpful for them to get a package together, the underreported story here last week is that when they team up with that $8.3 billion emergency package, it came together quickly, strong bipartisan support. i think that's an indication that whatever they need to do it's something that could happen more quickly than we would think. congress is coming up on a recess anyway, and as a former member i don't know how many hands i shook and how many hugs and all of that stuff, it's really pretty intense and if you already have a couple of members who have been exposed no need to expose all 435 of them. >>> with joe biden's super tuesday surge lifting h

ted cruz of texas, paul goss or, representative matt gaetz of florida and mark meadows who is the newncoming chief of staff. they all had contact with a man from new jersey at the recent cpac conference and he tested positive for coronavirus. doug collins shook hands with the president and was with him on friday in georgia. matt gaetz was the president will make with the president in florida and flew back on air force one and mark meadows was here for a white house meeting sometime at the beginning of last week. he has not been here to the white house since the president named him as the new chief of staff. the president was asked this morning why he has not gotten tested yet for the coronavirus and here's what the president said. >> president trump: i don't think it's a big deal. i would do it, i don't feel there is any reason. i feel extremely good, i feel very good. but i guess it's not a big deal to get tested and it's something i would do. but again, spoke to the white house doctor, terrific and talented guy. he said there is no reason t too it. and if there where you people woul

senator ted cruz of texas, congressman doug collins of georgia, paul gosar of arizona, and matt gaetzf florida, who thought it was amusing to tweet a photo of himself voting for coronavirus funding wearing a gas mask. gaetz was on a flight with president trump this afternoon, whose advisers are telling him to stop minimizing the coronavirus. >> reporter: the number of coronavirus cases in the united states is skyrocketing but some close to the president worry he's not taking it seriously enough. in dozens of tweets today trump dismissed concerns about the spread and blamed the news media for the plunging stock market. some advisers fear he's underplaying the potential danger with comments like this, comparing it with the common flu which experts say is predictable and well-known while the coronavirus is not. but as trump downplays the impact of the outbreak his top health official insists they're taking it seriously. >> make no mistake, this is a very serious health problem. nobody is trying to minimize that. >> reporter: the president spent his weekend conducting business as usual. i

meanwhile, you have members of congress, matt gaetz, of florida, going around the house floor in a gasausing lots of confidence to erupt around the nation. is there something they could be doing differently other than everything? >> well, i did find this afternoon's press conference actually somewhat reassuring. there were a lot of points made by vice president pence, tony fouchy, debbie burks and others that were reassuring in terms of what they were highlighting in moving forward. so there was clearly a recognition that the screening protocols and the dissemination of test kits was a problem. they are addressing that. i don't think it's happening fast enough, but at the same time it is happening finally. they did note nursing homes did need to be a priority here. there was also clearly an effort to address safety for travelers with a meeting with the airlines and also addressing how do we keep people who are working, how do they stay home if they need to stay home. how do we address school children. i think there are some gaps, however. i think if somebody wants to stay home from wor

another congressman matt gaetz flew with the president on air force one yesterday and even rode in the presidential limo with trump. despite those potential exposures, the white house says the president has not been tested because he has neither the prolonged close contact with any known confirmed covid 19 patients nor does he have any symptoms. and as for the grand princess, a florida couple still on board is suing the cruise line for $1 million. accusing officials of knowing that two previous passengers were infected and showing symptoms and not doing enough to stop what is happening now. alisyn. >> thanks, jason. we will speak to some of the folks on board how they're holding up this morning thank you very much. >>> stocks pointing upwards after yesterday's market meltdown. what you need to know next. ♪ we see you trying and the effort is for real ♪ ♪ don't forget you could just show her how you feel. ♪ make the moment mean more. ♪ jared. i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. they are both very much hand in hand. so you should r

. >>> congress and matt gaetz, a republican from florida is receiving criticism for choice to wear amask on the house floor. it happened on wednesday, during a vote on an emergency funding bill to fight the spread of novel coronavirus. gates did back that bill. he said he just didn't feel good about it but two days later, he put out this statement, "i'm extremely saddened to learn of the first fatality in our district from coronavirus. a northwest floridian residing in santa rosa county. our prayers are with his family and loved ones during this difficult time." gates didn't explain exactly why he was wearing the mask. while he did, one of his constituents was battling the virus, ultimately losing his life, which has brought on this criticism. democratic congressman bobby rush of illinois said "this san absolute tragedy. it's also deeply saddening that when presented with an opportunity to lead, representative matt gaetz chose to make a cheap joke about an epidemic that would ultimately claim the life of one of his constituents. my prayers are with the victim's family." >>> a lockdow

meanwhile, president trump has not been tested for the virus despite traveling with matt gaetz. he had been in contact with an individual who had contracted the virus. >> i feel very good. but i guess it's not a big deal to get tested and it's something that i would do. >> trump added that his doctor says he sees no reason for him to be tested. >>> the spring invitational baseball tournament has been canceled, and it's one of the most popular events due to the spread of the coronavirus. the organizers had planned to hold it in koshien stadium without spectators but they canceled all the games on wednesday. it's the first time the tournament has been suspended since world war ii when it was stopped for five years. meanwhile, tokyo disneylandd an disnsney sea are too remainin c until early april. they were to be closed until march 15th. oriental land decided to continue to close it after the government called for large scale events to be closed for the next ten days or so. >>> the japan lawmakers have passed a state of emergency. there was a diet committee and they emphasized the

he's had close contact with members of congress who were exposed to the disease, like congressman matt gaetz who rode with him on air force one yesterday, before he tested negative. >> i spoke to the white house doctor. he said he sees no reason to do it. there are no symptoms, no anything. >> reporter: the president also claimed the country's economic pain due to the virus was overblown. >> it will go away. just stay calm. it will go away. >> reporter: and though the markets finished up almost 5% following yesterday's nosedive, the administration is pushing several measures to bolster the economy, including paid sick leave, loans to small businesses and a payroll tax cut. but both republicans and democrats said that was unlikely to pass. >> you know what doesn't help stop the spread of the coronavirus? more corporate tax cuts. >> reporter: the virus' impact on the travel industry is also a major concern. airlines are slashing flights and freezing hiring, while cruise ship companies are being forced to scale back. >> you really have to keep the economy from being locked down when it comes to

then there is congressman matt gaetz of florida. today, he rode with the president aboard the presidential limo, as well as air force one. gaetz was also a dinner guest of the president saturday evening, spending the weekend with president trump at mar-a-lago. now, gaetz had previously appeared to mock coronavirus prevention. he appeared last week in a gas mask and he tweeted out a photo of himself in that same gas mask while in his office. by the way, all of that happened before this weekend when a constituent of his dieled from the coronavirus. today, his office responded to the gas mask controversy, quote, congressman gaez expected covid-19 to impact congress given the frequency of travel and human contact and demonstrated his concern last week on the house floor. he demonstrated it all right. interestingly, president trump attended the same cpac conference as the four congressmen who have self-quarantined. that was february 29th, finine days ago. president trump said, quote, everything is under control, unquote. and he said it tw

matt gaetz, we mentioned him in the monologue, he's one of your colleagues he's a republican.he did with matching shoes. >> seth: with the matching shoes. [ light laughter ] yeah, i feel like nobody -- nobody's ever worn that mask has worn those shoes [ laughter ] >> no. no >> seth: that's a real first >> i will say, i have days in congress where i feel like wearing a mask like that >> seth: yeah. just not for, like, corona or anything, just for the - >> no, no, just the debates. >> seth: yeah. >> the toxicity. >> seth: yeah. is it helpful when somebody goes through an important vote like that wearing a gas mask? >> no, of course it's not helpful. [ laughter ] we -- we're not here to incite panic. >> seth: yeah. >> seth: i will say, he doesn't look panicked. he's just fully texting. >> yeah, he doesn't. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> i do want to ask representative gaetz how often he washes his hands. >> seth: yeah. [ laughter ] that would be a good question, because then you don't need the gas mask if you just do that basic stuff. one of the things that, you know, a lot of pe

coronavirus crisis hits close to home on capitol hill at least four republican lawmakers, ted cruz, matt gaetz, paul gosar, and doug collins now choosing to self-quarantine after unknowingly interacting with an infected person at the conservative political action conference last month. collins seen shaking hands with president trump on friday. gaetz seen traveling with the president today. >> i have not been tested for the coronavirus. >> has the president been tested. >> let me make sure to get ian answer i don't know the answer to the question >> reporter: the outbreak sparkin anxiety among lawmakers. nbc's kasie hunt >> reporter: members of congress are increasingly anxious about coronavirus and there is growing pressure on leaders to take steps to protect lawmakers. but house speaker nancy pelosi says tonight there are no about coronavirus and pelosi says tonight there are no plans to change the schedule or close the capitol. >> reporter: in the meantime, white house lawmakers say president trump's persistent ways to minimize the outbreak. at odds with trump administration health officials

but matt gaetz deserves some digging into. wore a gas mask on the house floor during the vote to combat the coronavirus. the stunt seemed less funny two days later when one of his constituents died. gaetz was on air force one when he found out he had come into contact with the coronavirus carrier. he already spent much of the weekend at mar-a-lago, glad handing with the president and his family. the white house says trump has not been tested, but this is thankfully one case where trump's hand sanitizer habits should come in very handy. we hope everyone at the white house and congress remains safe. president's predilection for clean hands doesn't always extent to his state of mind. while the stock market was in free fall, he was tweeting about obama, fake news, the deep state and the democratic primary. he claimed democrats are trying to smear bernie with russia, russia, russia, railed against very bad sick people in our government, people he says who do not love our country, he threw out this nonsense, the obama/biden administ

florida republican congress member matt gaetz announced via twitter monday he will self-quarantine after learning he had contact with an attendee action conference, or cpac, who has been diagnosed with coronavirus. gaetz reportedly received the news while aboard air force one with president trump. just last week, gaetz appeared to mock the coronavirus outbreak, showing up in congress wearing a gas mask as the house passed emergency funding to combat the disease. on saturday, he announced a resident of his district had died from the disease. he is the latest republican lawmaker to self-quarantine after attending cpac last month. georgia congressmember doug collins is also in self-quarantine. collins joined trump on his visit to the centers for disease control last week and shook trump's hand. the white house has president trump has not taken a coronavirus test. meanwhile, wall street suffered its worst day in more than a decade monday, bringing losses in recent weeks to more than $5 trillion in stock market wealth. an oil price war between saudi arabia and russia further compounded the st

and representative matt gaetz, who rode in the president's car just yesterday.ormer house speaker paul ryan. welcome both. to you first, brendan, there are a number of traditions on the hill. the president said to the pool just earlier today he would be going to the regular republican senate lunch today. obviously pitching for whatever stimulus package they agreed on, if they agreed on something, after some resistance from mitch mcconnell. he also needs the speaker of the house to get anything passed. he's already said he will not be going to the traditional house speaker's st. patrick day's lunch. i can't think of anything less partisan than the speakers lunch for st. patrick's day. >> which says so much about the challenges we have going on. the st. patrick's lunch is a great opportunity for everybody to get together and be nice to each other for about an hour. the president was clearly unwilling to do that. we have a situation where we're walking into a public health crisis that could have major economic consequences and the president and speaker of the house

congressman matt gaetz, who wore a gas mask on the house floor just last week, drawing

doug collins and matt gaetz decided to self—isolate after being exposed to someone diagnosed with thetz travelled with the president on air force one on monday. as the international community struggles to contain the spread of coronavirus, the world health organisation has praised china for its response, suggesting it's a model for others to follow. but inside china, there's anger over the way the authorities have handled the outbreak, with censorship being stepped up, the very approach that experts say helped to accelerate the spread in the first place. our correspondent john sudworth reports. in this message, a medic complains about the quality of protective equipment. the video has now been blocked on the chinese internet. this one has been taken down too, a daughter crying out for her dead mother. ever since china silenced dr li wenliang who tried to warn about the dangers of the virus and later died from it, the censorship has been increasing. but the world health organization insists it is not its place to criticise. we are epidemiologists, not litigators. we know that the count

gaetz made fun of the coronavirus response last week when he wore a biohazard mask on the house floor. mattlapp who oversaw the conservative convention is also in self-quarantine. his wife, mercedes, was expected to be part of a women for trump bus tour with the president's daughter-in-law. the tour has now been delayed even as the president has yet to curtail his own campaign travel. >> o'donnell: and paula joins us from the white house. paula, as you mention, the president hasn't curtailed his own campaign schedule, but has anything changed at the white house complex itself? >> reporter: well, cbs news has learned that the white house is discouraging foreign officials from visiting, instead trying to get them to do meetings over the phone or via teleconference. a short time ago the president brief reporters at the white house. but he did not take questions. he promised to return tomorrow to brief us on possible economic relief for those impacted by the virus. norah? >> o'donnell: all right, paula, thank you. we want to turn to the other big story today. all of italy is going on lockdown.

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doug collins and matt gaetz decided to self—isolate after being exposed to someone diagnosed with the gaetz travelled with the president on air force one on monday. as the international community struggles to contain the spread of coronavirus, the world health organisation has praised china for its response, suggesting it's a model for others to follow. but inside china, there's anger over the way the authorities have handled the outbreak. censorship is being stepped up, an approach that experts say helped to accelerate the spread in the first place. our correspondent john sudworth reports. in this video, a medic complains about the quality of protective equipment the video has now been blocked. this one has now been blocked. this one has been taken down to, a daughter crying out for her dead mother. ever since china silenced doctor li wenliang who tried to warn about the dangers of the virus and later died from it, the stenches that has been increasing. but the world health organization insist it is not its place to criticise. we are epidemiologist, not litigators. we know that the c