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around, goes around. ♪ for bundling made easy, go to geico.com ♪ ♪ gerry: white house trade adviser peter navarrock question on china, we've talked a lot about that. there are more measures in place, the administration just announced another measure against huawei. you want to stop companies, essentially, from doing further efforts to stop companies doing business that might if work with huawei. are you basically, is the administration going to go beyond that in term it is of huawei, and is this in any way, is this tied to this issue of the coronavirus, or is this about concerns about huawei and its general role in the global economy? >> this has nothing to do with the coronavirus, this is all about huawei. this is an ongoing effort from president donald j. trump that started at the very beginning of this administration based on the simple set of facts with huawei. it's an arm of the chinese military, its software can put viruses into systems around the world and compromise those systems. its hardware can do the very same, and the idea of having our communications system, particularly 5g which is

peter navarro said china hid behind the world health organization while sending people to infect othernavarro echoes mike pompeo who accused china of a cover-up. the head of the world health organization confirms he will quit early. ofwill step down at the end august after attacks by the trump administration about anti-u.s. bias. washington said the w.h.o. -- the wto has allowed china to get away with unfair trade practices for years. hong kong leader carrie lam admitted for -- admitted her government mishandled chinese protests. a new report says there is room for improvement and carrie lam doesn't expect protests to die down anytime soon. global news 24 hours a day on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am karina mitchell. this is bloomberg. itsy: india has extended nationwide lockdown while easing restrictions in certain sectors to boost the economy. countries laying out plans to ease further. let's go to yvonne man. spotountry is still a hot in the region. yvonne: the lockdown measures have been extende

let's get started. ♪ >>> i just told you about peter navarro's impressions on the coronavirus could delivero the united states. he's the director of trade and manufacturing policy and he joins me from the north lawn of the white house. peter, welcome. >> good morning, fareed, how are you? >> very well. let me begin by agreeing with you. you say that china lied about the virus. and i think there's evidence, clearly, that initially there was a cover-up, whether at a local level or a national level is unclear, but certainly the wuhan and hubei officials misled people. by january 30th here's what we know. we know that china had, by its actions, demonstrated they thought this was incredibly serious. they had locked down the entire city of wuhan, 11 million people. the w.h.o. had declared a global health emergency, there were confirmed u.s. cases of covid, and most importantly you had written a memo to the president, to the coronavirus task force outlining why you thought this was a pandemic. i want viewers to see and i want to quote from that memo because it seems to be very relevant. you said s

lou: thank you very much, peter navarro. up next -- he really did, he had quite a sunday.hink something less than a perfect friday. sleepy joe biden in trouble once again for new comments about a key voting bloc. also more on the new internal e review of the fbi's case against general michael flynn. we're going to take two seconds of this broadcast tonight to talk about the deep state's efforts to overthrow president trump. joining us is the president of judicial watch, tom fitton. stay with us, we'll be right back. things will get really interesting now. ♪ ♪ sure. okay... okay! safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! he's here. he's right here. - hi! - hi. hey! - that's totally him. - it's him! that's totally the guy. safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today. confident financial plans, calming financial plans, complete financial plans. they're all possible with a cfp® profess

we understand from peter navarro that he was saying things like china was sending airline passengerso spread covid-19. mark: that was some very aggressive comments over the weekend. mostly balanced. it has become inured to the idea of strong rhetoric and it is whether or not there are concrete measures imposed. it is also whether china responds and escalates. the u.s. might threaten a lot, impose very minor measures in the market can stomach that. i think there is more focused on how china responds rather than u.s. measures. tom: good morning. i want to talk about the markets and about interest rates and what they show right now. there is this tip from liquidity to solvency whether it is a developing economy, em economies and such. what do you observe when rates move now? mark: there are two things. talk in the market is which is correct, equity markets or bond markets? equity markets are saying we might actually get a rebound or something close to that. i would disagree with this whole diversions if both equities and bonds are priced the exact same way and they are disconnected from

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administration officials are publicly feuding with each other after trump's top trade adviser, peter navarro, directly blamed the cdc for delaying coronavirus testing. >> early on in this crisis, the cdc, which really had the most trusted brand around the world, in this space, really let the country down with the testing. >> the comments regarding cdc

look at what peter navarro saying, that china was deliberately poisoning the world here.ion, does that worry become the mainstay of what market participants are looking at? strong is only a very political angle. keep in mind a lot of it will be related to the election coming up in the u.s. it is an easy message that resonates with the number of voters in the u.s. it's an easy message. could keep going and even escalate in the coming weeks and months and there will likely be one of the central ideas and themes that the current white house will push through to try and get reelected. expect anywe do not major agreement between the u.s. and china before the election, unless of course markets start correcting strongly. then you could see some push and motivation. overall, keep in mind this will remain a volatile environment with these kinds of negative headlines increasing. rishaad: we really have a situation for investors at least two perhaps look for another down like. is that something you are expect in, and if so -- if so, is it the usual solid names and solid balance shee

peter navarro -- peter navarro told abc news china hibi had the world health organization while sending- people around the world echoing mike pompeo who accused china of a cover-up. europe easing restrictions with beaches around the mediterranean beginning to open in bars and restaurants welcoming customers. at ellie's relaxing -- italy is reacting -- relaxing restrictions and spain is opening slowly. . the single market faces the deepest recession on record. ahead of the world organization confirming he will quit early, when you're before his term what expire. he said he will step down at the end of august after tenure marred by attacks by the trump administration of anti-u.s. buyers -- bias. washington says the wto has allowed china to get away with unfair trade practices for years. hong kong leader carrie lam says her government mishandled anti-china protest in recent months though the cities place watchdog insists officers have always use reasonable force. under reports as there is room for improvement in police action and carrie lam does says she does not expect protest to die down

lou: thank you very much, peter navarro. up next -- he really did, he had quite a sunday. think something less than a perfect friday. sleepy joe biden in trouble once again for new comments about a key voting bloc. also more on the new internal e review of the fbi's case against general michael flynn. we're going to take two seconds of this broadcast tonight to talk about the deep state's efforts to overthrow president trump. joining us is the president of judicial watch, tom fitton. stay with us, we'll be right back. things will get really interesting now. ♪ ♪ when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can detect suspicious activity on your account from here. and you can pay your friends back from here. so when someone asks you, "where's your bank?" you can tell them: here's my bank. or here's my bank. or, here's my bank. because if you download and use

what peter navarro is saying an admission of guilt. they didn't direct the agencies. the white house directs all of these agencies. why are they just admitting it now? they've been saying for quite some time. president trump has saying testing is not a problem, anybody who wants one can get one. i'm curious whether or not there's an admission that they had a role to play in this. i suspect they're not going to say this. >> i don't think peter navarro and saying we blew it, we blew it. he's trying to do the opposite and say they blew it and they're not us. the fact of the matter is, the cdc is us if you're the government. it's a goovernment agency. andy, i am struck, again, as we relax restrictions around the country how people are telling us about how they feel in this process. there's new polling out. this is p-37. do you think it's safe to attend gatherings of ten or more people? only 9%. only 9% think it's safe now. only 10% think it will be safe at the end of may. i think one of the reasons is that as places are reopening, people are looking at them and saying, i'

when peter navarro is attacking the cdc, peter navarro is attacking, wait for it, wait for it, donald trump. that'd be like me saying, man, did you see the segment on "morning joe" last week? that sucked. it was a failure. what a horrible segment on "morning joe" that was. i would be attacking myself. peter thnavarro said the cdc. it's all up to donald trump. he appointed redfield, did he not? i think he a i poinappointed re? >> dr. redfield. >> yes. >> thank you very much. >> i believe he did. >> thank you. you may sit down now. thank you, witness. go ahead. tell us, jonathan. give us the background on this strange and mystical organizational chart that is convoluted and circuitous from donald trump to the cdc. wait a second, it is a straight line from donald trump to the cdc. it is donald trump's cdc that failed. >> well, joe, first of all, the terrible segment on "morning joe" was more barni cle's fault. but you've sign this president never be able to accept blame here, and fingers are pointed elsewhere in the administration. what we're also seeing here is another step to try to bl

peter navarro suggests china sent airline passengers to spread coronavirus.won't take new orders from huawei amid u.s. restrictions. global stocks rise amid gradual reopening's. jay powell says economic recovery could take until 2021. the bank of england says it is examining negative rates. emirates is considering slashing around 30,000 jobs. that's a bloomberg exclusive. later today, we speak to ryanair ceo as he ramps up a legal battle with rivals. nejra: welcome to "bloomberg daybreak: europe." you wonder what might be driving risk sentiment as we saw weekly loss for equities last week. it is not like we've had a slew of good news over the weekend. u.s.-china tensions, japan in recession, goldman talking about the worst recession ever potentially for india and then you add in the comments from paolo about how slow the recovery could be. -- powell about how slow the recovery could be. manus: i think it is selective hearing. the 60 minutes interview where he talks about this could take until 2021, but don't bet against it. we've got more ammunition. we are n

white house trade advisor peter navarro joins me.ant to start with a comment made by former president obama at a commencement speech where he knocked the folks in charge basically saying the government officials in charge respond something coronavirus show total incompetence and they obviously don't know what they are doing. a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. what say you in response to that? >> was that today or was that a political ad? i want to congratulate the former president on his new job as press secretary for the candidate locked in the basement. good job. we'll be happy to see you on the trail. 8 years of obama-bind was a kumbaya of incompetence. 50,000 factories disappeared to china. the american workers, it was always let them eeg rugala. donald j. trump got 500,000 manufacturing jobs back. here is the challenge. i have got two challenges. the dog that didn't bark in that speech was no mention of the role of china in this pandemic. i'll start counting the days that we don't hear from joe biden and barac

we begin with the response this morning from president trump's top advisers during this crisis, peter navarro. mr. navarro, thank you for joining us this morning. president obama continued this in his second commencement address last night. suggesting that peopthis things screwed up. your response. >> i'm glad mr. obama has a new job as joe biden's press secretary. i note for the record in his speech that i read there was no mention of manufacturing, no mention of china, as far as i'm concerned, his administration was a kumbaya of incompetence in which we saw millions of manufacturing jobs go off to china. his new normal was a flatline in terms of wage growth. i'm happy to report that this president, donald j. trump, in 3 1/2 years built the most beautiful economy in modern history and the chinese did take that down in about 30 days, but we are in the process right now of rebuilding that and this president, donald j. trump, is the one who has the skills to do. because you know what, george, we're going to do -- we're going to back to the future. buy america, innovate. what i do mean by that -

peter navarro first broke that news on this program weeks ago. joining me right now is the white house director of trade policy once again, peter navarro. peter it's good to see you this morning thanks very much for joining us. >> good morning, maria. maria: we'll get back to the breaking news on general flynn but we want to cover china. give us a status check in terms of where we are today and what we know about the coronavirus and its origin. >> well you might get called up to testify, maria because you've done the best job really in the media of chronicling this. we know that patients in china it was about mid-november in wuhan, we know that ground zero had the p 4 weapons lab where the virus likely came from for the next two months, we know that china hid the virus from the world behind the shield of the world health organization, and as they did that, they sent gleaning passenger jets from china not into the rest of china from wuhan but the places like new york and milan seeding the world with what would become a pandemic as they did that we

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. >> my guests this morning, defense production coordinator peter navarro and dr. tom inglesby of johns hopkins university. >> plus, partisan pandemic. antigovernment protests across the country. while in wisconsin, the state's conservative supreme court overturned the democratic governor's stay-at-home order. >> i don't think the risk presents any higher than me going to the grocery store. >> also, all those conspiracy claims. >> another agenda. >> it's not just a virus. >> how and why so many baseless conspiracy ideas are spreading during this crisis. i'll talk to nbc news national security analyst chris watts. joining me for insight and analysis are peter alexander, anna palmer, senior washington correspondent for politico, and yamiche alcindor, white house correspondent for pbs newshour. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press" and our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. with the number of conf

joining us, white house trade advisor peter navarro. peter, we see a 12% drop in georgia of new cases in the last two weeks. 15% drop in florida, now they're talking about never opening los angeles until there is a cure? if they want to do that i guess they're going to have to bear the brunt of the cost of that but can't we learn from the states that did well or the states that flopped and fell on their face? >> california is my home state. i think it's going to become a red state with that kind of leadership. the reality is if we don't open this economy back up, we are not going to have an economy. and here's the other reality that the medical doctors haven't been telling you. the outcome of the china virus kills directly, but if we keep our economy shut down, were not only going to lose trillions of dollars of wealth and economic activity, that china virus shock to the economy kills as well. suicides, drug abuse, depression. and guess what, all those people who couldn't go to the hospital during this lockdown to get procedures for thei

adalja, we heard peter navarro critical of the cdc. it's acknowledged that the testing was screwed up at the beginning. there does seem to be a concerted effort now by the white house to blame the cdc for failures and treat the cdc as if it's a foreign entity, disconnected completely from the administration. saying this administration has shown time and time again it has a problem with science. we're giving them science and they don't seem to want it. how do you see this brewing feud? >> definitely have been problems with the early stages of this pandemic and what happened at the cdc with testing and the testing protocols. we have to realize the cdc is the best cadre of experts in the world. when the cdc is not leading the response, we're all suffering. to attack the cdc, part of your administration is not what we want to do. we want them fortified and strengthened and emboldened. we want them speaking to the public during ebola and the h 1 h1n1. that's when they get the confidence back. the people who are the experts are guiding the r

peter navarro most recently leveraged a quite shocking claim against the regime which is that part ofthe reason that they lied about the real numbers coming out of wuhan during the earliest days of the outbreak was because communist party officials there wanted to buy time in order to stockpile and hoard or ppe and key medical equipment. whether it was to use in their own hospitals or to sell at increased prices around the nation remains to be seen. but looking into that next as we're moving forward the next front of the investigation. lou: right. and that part of peter navarro's charge against the chinese documented by the trade numbers, imports and exports of gowns, masks, gloves over the course of january and february of this year. it's utterly indies pilot bl empirical evidence precisely what he charged. the motive, however, for why they destroyed specimens of the virus and why they cleansed the virology laboratories in wuhan, that is quite obvious and has a far more sinister motivation, or i think, straightforwardly. at least in my inference. gillian turner, as always, great work

at the same time peter navarro, at the same time joe biden wrote his op-ed and warning, peter navarroide the white house was issuing a similar warning inside the white house to the president that up to 500,000 souls could be lost. we will see what the number ends up being after this fall. but you go into february and donald trump said it's 15 people. only 15 people were doing a great job. soon it will be down to zero. then march the president told reporters he wasn't worried at all. they were doing a great job and things were going to end up fine. of course in april the president with the finest doctors in the world, the finest research universities in the world, the brightest minds in the world that he could have access to, the president instead was asking dr. birx to look into injecting disinfectants into patients' bodies, talked about hydroxychloroquine. also, of course, talked about the fact that this fall the virus probably wouldn't come back. david ignatius, the present was corrected by dr. fauci in real time. the fda had to put out warnings. the va put out studies. this preside

do you agree with peter navarro?ld the focus be on what's already passed, the current stimulus packages, or is it another one, another huge one needed right now? >> well, it's not nearly enough, what we've done so far, because the degree and scope of this unemployment crisis, this economic crisis, and the pandemic all together, wolf, are much, much larger than anybody anticipated, obviously. anything that we have actually experienced in the entire post-war era. and so, for what had been a $20 trillion economy, we have got to do much, much more than we're doing right now. >> how would you rate the effectiveness of what already has passed the house and the senate, signed into law by the president, the stimulus package -- it's what, about $3 trillion. is the money going to the right people? >> by and large, yes, but the problem is, a lot of banks and a lot of big corporations are raking off too much of that money. the money ought to be going directly to people who need it, to the working class, the middle class, the poo

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reporter: cheryl, no secret at all where peter navarro where china threat and where they stand on world stage. that is remarkable statement when you consider about it, navarro was there, north lawn of the white house, top advisors, certainly top trade advisors he made the case china should pay up for its handling of covid-19. watch here. >> i strongly believe, and i think the american people strongly believe that china inflicted trillions of dollars of damage on this country and there should be some form of compensatory damages. frosts me disneyland in shanghai is opening this morning while my own disneyland, in my homeland of orange county, in anaheim where disneyland was born is still shut because of the chinese communist party. reporter: navarro also took issue with what he described as the quote, unquote, pity party that took place on the sunday morning talk shows as some of the president's top economic advisors warn that the unemployment figures could get worse and reach great depression levels. one of those guests, the treasury secretary steve mnuchin who also made the case that t

. >> let me play for you this sound bite from peter navarro, the white house trade adviser and what head to say about the cdc a few days ago. >> early on in this crisis the cdc, which really had the most trusted brand around the world, in this space really let the country down with the testing. not only did they keep the testing within the bureaucracy, they had a bad test. that did set us back. >> i want to get your reaction to that. the health and human services secretary alex azar later called those comments inaccurate and inappropriate. what does that say to you, you have members of the administration albeit at different levels making those comments like peter navarro saying the cdc let the country down? >> well, first of all, it's troubling, because really leadership and accountability at all levels come from the top, so it is troubling to see cabinet officials kind of duelling words and sparring with each other, and it just raises, eamon, the kind of -- we've got very smart scientists and public health career officials inside the cdc, and it's raising a lot of questions about how

is peter navarro's criticism valid? >> i think we have to remember that the cdc is one of the best public health organizations in the world. and certainly has been the leader in the united states for decades and decades. virologists, laboratorians really the best at cdc and i'd say that cdc is absolutely doing its best to support the response in the united states under these circumstances. >> so their guidelines, we should trust them. >> their guidelines have been put out. they've put out a great deal of really solid material that's available on the website. and it's highly valued. not just in the u.s. but by public health professionals around the world. >> we did get some positive news on a vaccine from moderna, a smaller laboratory, just this morning. a small human trial showed that people developed antibodies in really high numbers. where are we in terms of a vaccine, and are you optimistic that we could see something by the end of the year? >> the moderna announcement was very -- a very positive move forward. so in

adalja, let me ask you also about something that the trade adviser, peter navarro, who is running the defense production task force as well -- this is what he had to say about the risks, the medical risks, talking to chuck todd yesterday, of the shutdown versus the virus. as far as i know, his background is in economics and trade economi economics, more specifically not in medicine. take a look at this. >> women haven't been getting mammograms or cervical examinations for cancer. we haven't been able to do other procedures for the heart or the kidneys, and that's going to kill people as well. so, if you contrast like this complete lockdown, where some of the people in the medical community want to just run and hide until the virus is extinguished, that's going to not only take a huge toll on the american economy, it's going to kill many more people than the virus, that china virus ever would. >> that comment to chuck todd on "meet the press" really struck me. it's going to kill many more people than the virus itself. 91,000 people are now dead, americans are now dead. and he's talking

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. >>> the cdc is firing back after peter navarro's comment.ten. >> early on in this crisis, the cdc had the most trusted brand around the world really let the country down with the testing because not only did they keep the testing within the bureaucracy, they had a bad test. that did set us back. >> this criticism led to outrage. one said it is not just the cdc firing back. health and human services alex azar hit peter navarro as well. >> well the comment regarding cdc are inaccurate and inappropria inappropriate. the cdc has had one error which was in scaling up the manufacturing of the test that they can develop. there was a contamination that did not affect the accuracy of the test led to inconclusive results. they fixed it within weeks and got it out. >> more than a dozen staffs and professors written a leader calling the cdc to lead the effort writing this. "if we were to win the battle of covid-19, we need the cdc's scientific independence and unstifled voice." thanks for being with us doctor. >> thank you, brianna. you want the cdc's a

delivery from cvs. >> martha: a new call for covid-19 retaliation coming from white house advisor peter navarro today. navarro joins the growing chorus of those who want china to be held accountable for its handling of will became a global pandemic. watch this. >> i think the american people strongly believe that china inflicted trillions of dollars of damage on this country and there should be some form of compensatory damages. i think there's a lot of discussion on capitol hill about that. >> martha: that as channels officials saber rattle towards taiwan, one saying that calls for unification by forests are growing -- reunification by force. joining me as joseph wu, the minister of foreign affairs. mr. wu, thank you very much for joining me tonight and good morning to you in taiwan. i wanted to get your reaction to this. in the south china morning post. "china tries to calm nationalist fever as calls for the invasion of taiwan grow." what do you say to that, sir? >> and our dealing with china, china has always tried to unify their own way. unify with taiwan by peaceful means if possible. but

we begin tonight with white house trade advisor peter navarro who joins us from the white house. great to have you with us. given what you are seeing, do you believe that the bottom has been reached? >> without question. remember that we stopped the car, we put the brakes on and did that to save lives. we did learned a lot through that experience and this economy is blossoming back up, and we think you will see the next few months a lot of good things happening. my focus is on making sure a lot of the new jobs that get creative are the ones in manufacturing because those are the ones that ultimately propel us through this crisis. >> martha: i do want to talk to about that because it's something that is so much on the minds of americans who have watched too much of our manufacturing go to china and given the situation that is underway, that means a rethink. but i want to pop up this consumer confidence number which was a surprise to the upside. then you have today the u.s. stock market performing very well in the neighborhood of 25,000. there are some folks who will look at that e

it was interesting listening on sunday to senior white house official peter navarro laying blame on the and singling it out for criticism. it's extraordinary to do that to the nation's main disease expert during a pandemic. and, you know, we're seeing the cdc which is a world-renowned body also sidelined in many ways, its advice on reopening buried. it's not being allowed to speak directly to the public. do you worry about politics overriding science? >> absolutely. absolutely. when you hear navarro talk, he starts talking -- and it's very discouraging because you can tell there's an agenda. and part of the agenda is just the way he speaks is blaming china, the china virus, this and that. and politics -- you know, the cdc is the world organization that other countries look to. i see, things haven't been perfect. but we need other countries to trust us because this is going to be a worldwide sort of team effort to try to get a vaccine and a cure. listen, in the old days, the buck stops at the white house. and we can start sharing blame all over the place. you know, did the white house no

and let me tell you too, peter navarro was a gentleman, acted in good faith. he was concerned about the mask supply. so was i. and that's what we talked about. no cronyism. if you want to take that fema contract away from me please do. i can make a lot more money selling those masks somewhere else. i got a pure heart, sir, i do. >> trump's advisors and close people, see him at the press conference, several of those people are not trump supporters either but the president picked them because they're the best in the business because i think that's good. >> that was the farthest from -- i tried to talk myself out of that that's probably why mr. navarro said i was difficult to work with. i don't know. >> the gentleman's time has expired. it's a pleasure to recognize the gentleman from new mexico, mr. lujan, for his five minutes of questioning. mr. lujan: thank you, madam chair. mr. bowen, thank you for being with us. as you outlined in your testimony you have been raising the alarm about the national security risk from the loss of domestic mask production for some

you heard peter navarro there.lain what the motive is on china's side of this because first they downplayed the virus. they make anybody who rang the whistle on it quiet down. then they cornered the market for ppe and then as senator tom cotton told me a couple weeks ago, once they saw the severeity of the virus and how it would impact china and its economy, they made the decision to unleash it to the world, because they didn't want china's economy to contract 20% while the rest of the world to contract 2%. what's the motive? >> well, it's a horrible thing as you just described it. their motives have got to be bad. there's nothing good about this. they should have had only one motive and that is to advise the world of the danger of this disease, this virus. i think peter navarro is just fabulous. he said it's profiteering, that's certainly one thing that happened. and secretary of state pompeo also has been fabulous. as early as december, the five eyes intelligence report about five allies, english speaking allies,

then they came out and said, no, no, don't listen to peter navarro. let's find out how the agency fits within the government. >> i think they work very hard. remember, they've been here for many years. they don't work for me, they work for the country. i will say originally they had no test, and one of the tests had a problem very early on, but that was quickly remedied and now we have the best tests anywhere in the world. i give ourselves a lot of that credit. >> they don't work for me, they work for the country. i guess that's literally true because it was there before him and will be here after him, however long he serves as president. but when you hear language like that from the president, what does it tell you? >> what i would like to see is a daily conversation with the cdc in terms of what they're learning, what they're doing, what we can do as a nation to open our economy in a way that is safe and based on the best public health science. i'm very concerned when i see public health put out as the enemy of getting people back to work when, in f