i am a member of pastor ralph west's church, for example, and we have been doing online streaming for the last two-plus weeks. same thing for most of our churches. i had a press conference with many of our black pastors, for example, just this past week. all standing together encouraging people to go online. >> all right. thank you for being with us. houston mayor sylvester turner. thank you very much. >> thanks. >>> now for analysis. let's bring in tara, a democratic strategist, and joe watkins, a former white house aide under george h.w. bush. tara, you heard dr. fauci in the first block. dr. fauci was, i think, dealing with in a forthright manner, yes, he is not denying there is the obvious with the data. there is a race gap in terms of the impact of coronavirus and they've got to deal with it and, yes, there are societal things that predated this administration, but this administration is going to have to deal with it because the lights are on it. many of us have been talking about this for decades. but here it is, and it has to be solved. do you think this is the moment that the

the war, ralph discovered his vocation as an entrepreneur and recognized as the father of goldfish crackers. [laughter] throughout his career in the private sector, he also became one of west michigan's lead philanthropists. i will say later and brian will it is more than the fact that also his name is on buildings. ,a lot more. his grandson has spent most of his adult life in west michigan. he works with oasis senior advisors he is the , where he is the organization's senior advisor and serves on the hauenstein center's cabinet. brian's daughter, lily, is also in the audience, a recent graduate of the hauenstein center cook leadership academy and she is soon going to be taking a job in tokyo. congratulations, by the way. on a personal note, two things. one of the highlights of my life -- of my time at the hauenstein center is when i introduced them over lunch and to listen to them share stories of their different wartime perspectives. two people who in a previous era might have regarded themselves as enemies, but now met as friends. it was a beautiful event. finally i want to say that, in , life, we often seek one thing and find another. to me ralph became more than the ,