mr. morrison. > thank you, your honor. >> mr. chief judge, and may it please the court, government contractors pose an acute danger of corruption and partisan disruption of efficient government functioning. could you start with a standard review? i am particularly interested in your brief where you say that, you cite beaumont and you say our standard of review is relatively complacent. >> yes, your honor. >> how do you square that with mccutcheon? >> that is as compared to strict scrutiny. >> are you accepting then, you're not arguing we are to do something other than the standard set forth in mccutcheon? >> that's correct. it is narrowly drawn scrutiny, which the court has indicated is a lesser degree of scrutiny than strict scrutiny and to which courts defer to legislative judgments. >> in your judgment what does that leave us free to do that we could not do under strict scrutiny? in your, in this case? what does that give us the freedom to do here? >> the sourt koss nt need to assess -- the court doesn't need to assess whether

mr. morrison, let's talk a little bit about the lessons learned anthony fauci was talking about.don't know everything yet about what's happened in dallas, but what can we take away from the way that the hospital and the region and the local authorities handled this? >> well, we know from what you've just reported that there were mishaps in the systems at various points, and there's a need for a much higher vigilance and training and awareness. i don't think, in retrospect, that this is all that surprising that you have a sudden introduction as something as lethal and dangerous as this into an unexpected environment and then that you have mishaps that happen along the reporting at the desk when he first reports to the presbyterian hospital that there's mishandling of the waste material later when he shows up, that there's clumsiness in the way the family is -- that had been exposed is handled. i think these are serious lessons, and the systems will have to improve as we get additional cases, which are quite probable. >> sreenivasan: the government says they have been trying to pre