murrow and wants to be like edward r. murrow and if they could be like edward r. murrow we would be a much better country today but that's hard to do. that's why he is held up with the kind of esteem he is and deservedly so. he set an extraordinary example of courage, of professionalism, of decency, of fearlessness, if he had to say something he knew was going to offend a senator or even a president, he said it it -- because it was true, believed to its be true. when murrow left cbs and went to be the head of usia invited me to join him to be his specialist on communist affairs. i was obviously flattered but i had to say no to him and it broke my heart. i didn't -- how could i say no to murrow. that was ridiculous. ... and who we want to be. yours is a life well lived rich and full and you always seem to be looking ahead. give us your thoughts as you look back and you look around and you look ahead in april of 2021. >> let me tried to look at that for a moment. i am a very proud grandfather and i have a grandson at 15 named aaron and a granddaughter named eloise a

murrow, i'm closer to edward munster. in height and we both wear black shorts. even as a commentator, i'm way more objective than these bitter spinsters and i'll let you know what i'm talking out of my butt. cnn can't do that because it's all butt all the time. look at their lineup, it's a whole lot of crack and when i say broken, they are actually broken. the trump era caused an entire news network to fall apart like a perfectly cooked pork shoulder or a wet burrito. as you can tell, i'm hungry. [laughter] but at least i'm not thirsty like this fella. >> on the right they are all about it, why? >> the more this is about china being sneaky, the less it is about our leadership failing under trump. so the byproduct of that is fueling hate towards innocent people of asian descent. you know that that's the reason why we've had an uptick in the assaults. but it's all about the game. >> greg: oh, my god, he really is morphing into ron burgundy. i can't blame him! >> how dare you. >> greg: i know that was bad, i apologize to ron burgundy even though he's a fictitious c

murrow who went to war. walter cronkite, who went to war. but instead we got you, steve. host: since this is a worldwide pandemic, according to william, it should have participants from multiple countries. william, detroit -- linda, detroit, good morning. go ahead. caller: it's strange to me that people are talking about china,, china, china now. trump opened to businesses there. his son alone was over there to borrow money from china to build trump world. you get what you ask for. host: thanks for the call. this is from inside of "the new york times," one man believed to be the hong kong coronavirus patient, the first of january 2020, now 3.4 million people worldwide have died as a result of covid-19. ruth is joining us next from illinois. independent line, good morning. how are you today? caller: i'm fine. i just want to say that when it first started in january, what trump told woodward was not so. because dr. fauci and his team was at the podium three or four times a week, telling us all about covid. and in january about she told us that it was airborne. trump wasn't