redfield. he's director of the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention which has its headquarters in atlanta. more than 30 years he's been involved with clinical research related to chronic human viral infections, infectious diseases, especially hiv. he was the founding director of the department of retroviral research within the u.s. military's hiv research program. he spent 20 years with the u.s. army medical corp. third, admiral brett, assistant secretary for health at the u.s. department of health and human services. that puts him in charge of public health policy recommendations. he's taken on the responsibility for coordinating testing and focused on the increaseing number of tests that we can do with existing technology. his federal service includes a variety of activities with our defense department and advanced research. throughout reduction he was part of the blue ribbon panel to reform the u.s. veteran's health system. finally, we'll hear from dr. stephen hahn. he's commissio

redfield. dr. redfield, we have authorized in this committee and appropriated out of congress multiple times over the last few decades money for biova biosurveillance and you talked about it. in the past four years from fy16 to fy20, with the cares act it's over a billion dollars in biosurveillance. we've seen the product go out and use data available to track the product and spread of coronavirus around the world. why has cdc not contracted with private sector technology companies to try to use their tools for biosurveillance? >> senator, thank you for the question. this is a critical question and also comes into one of the core capabilities. i talked about data analytics and data modernization which we are privy to the additional funding congress has given. i can tell you this is under critical review now. we do have contracts with some of the private sector groups now to try to make the type of availability of data that we've seen with florida available in all of our jurisdictions across the

redfield. dr. redfield, the current testitest ing protocols at the white house presents a model for other essential work places. >> i'm sorry, senator, you broke up at the beginning of your question. if you could just say it again. i'm sorry. >> yes, dr. redfield, do you think that the testing protocols currently in place in the white house present a model for other essential work places. >> well, thank you for the question. i think one of the important things you bring up is the essential worker guidance the cdc put out and i think it was originally modeled on health care workers where there was significant shortages. >> i'm asking if you think the white house protocol testing are a model for other essential work places. >> i would say i think each work place has to define their own approach how to operationalize. >> had some considerable comment on the fact osha has not stood up an enforceable mandatory temporary standard for workers in all sorts of work settings. that aside, would you say that t

redfield. >> thank you senator. i had the privilege of working with her and you have a very good protocol in trying to keep alaska safe by isolation over a period of time when you come in. we work with the state to meet your challenging testing requireme requirement, about four times of what you have done to date collectively to provide that support. this is a comprehensive strategy that you do have. again the mitigation given the circumstances and the face masks and hygiene, we understand fully of the challenges of the fishery environment and remote. all of this have to come together with the testing and tracing and mitigation and the hygiene factors to try to keep your community safe and we really understand culturally that many of your communities were annihilated in the 1918 by influenza pandemic. that memory is still very sharp and hurtful to many of the citizens. we want to do our best to assure them that we are giving all the protection that we can. >> let me turn to dr. redfield because this relates to conta

redfield made clear. he said if you sleep on what's happening in brazil basically, you do it at your own peril. this virus has moved to the southern hemisphere. there is a major crisis in brazil right now. they just had their highest spike in the number of new cases and deaths. dr. redfield said, we've seen evidence that the concerns it would go south in the southern hemisphere like flu are coming true and you see what's happening in brazil now. when the southern hemisphere is over, i suspect it will reground itself, he says, in the north. in other words, this isn't going away. it's not gone now. given what it's doing in brazil right now, they're in fall and winter, we can expect it to do the same thing here in a few months. >> absolutely true. we know not only should we be worried about the fall, but we absolutely need to worry about later in the summer. what we've been doing with social distancing is just keeping the virus at bay and helping the health care workers to get the hospitals in a situation to

robert redfield. another source says redfield who privately dismissed concerns about his job security last week is now concerned he may have a target on his back. behind closed doors, sources tell cnn trump privately criticized the cdc at a senate lunch with republican senators. the president denied that reporting. >> do you think robert redfield is doing a good job? >> i do. it's fake news. >> you didn't complain about him to the cdc. >> not at all. >> reporter: in president trump's visit later today, there is the concern about the potential of the president not wearing a mask inside this plant. overall, the president's previous complaint on voter mail fraud, it is pretty rare. in fact, we looked at five states where mail balloting is the primary form of voting. those are states like washington, oregon, colorado, utah and hawaii. none of them had any voter fraud scandals, john. >> very important to note that, omar. thank you very much for being there for us. appreciate it. joining us now, dr. ali kan

redfield. >> here to provide you with an update on the navy's process. on march 12th, secretary azar requested i lead the covid-19 testing effort within hhs, including oversight and coordination of the fda and cdc with regard to testing. since then, the nation has performed more than 9 million covid-19 tests, a number far greater than any other country and double the per capita tests performed to date in south korea. we implemented a phased approach to meet testing needs during mitigation and now during phase one reopening of america. beginning march 20th, we pioneered 41 community-based drive-through testing sites in locations prioritized by the cdc. these sites have been profound success, testing over 167,000 high-risk individuals and demonstrating our prototype that is being duplicated multifold in nearly every state. next, the administration leverage trusted retailers, including cvs, rite aid, walgreens, and health mart now providing testing at 240 locations in 33 states. 69% of which are i

redfield. he's director of the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention which has its headquarters in atlanta. more than 30 years he's been involved with clinical research related to chronic human viral infections, infectious diseases, especially hiv. he was the founding director of the department of retroviral research within the u.s. military's hiv research program. he spent 20 years with the u.s. army medical corp. third, admiral brett, assistant secretary for health at the u.s. department of health and human services. that puts him in charge of public health policy recommendations. he's taken on the responsibility for coordinating testing and focused on the increaseing number of tests that we can do with existing technology. his federal service includes a variety of activities with our defense department and advanced research. throughout reduction he was part of the blue ribbon panel to reform the u.s. veteran's health system. finally, we'll hear from dr. stephen hahn. he's commissio

redfield? dr. redfield: good morning. our nation is confronting the most serious public health crisis in more than a century, yet we are not defenseless. we have powerful tools to fight this enemy. we have tried and true effective public health interventions, such as early case identification, isolation, and contact tracing, combined with important mitigation strategies, including social distancing, frequent handwashing, and face coverings. these tools have end will continue to slow the spread of covid-19. provide a brief overview of some of the cdc's ongoing work. cdc has been working 20 47 to combat the pandemic. cdc's emergency operation center is supporting state, tribal, local, and territorial public health partners in building core data andies for analytics, as well as conducting health system surveillance. community mitigation teams are providing guidance on infection control, and laboratory experts are performing testing to better defined the extent of a symptomatic populations. as they reopen, they will require v

redfield, han and fouchy. they're simply saying they came into contact with somebody who worked at the white house who tested positive. it would be a natchical conclugsz to believe that person was katy miller. she has become one of the spokes people for that task force in her role as vice president mike pence's press secretary. as the rest of the country begins to open up, even the white house, which has perhaps the strictest protocol for testing, including daily tests for anyone come nothing to contact with the president, we are seeing the virus present, even here. >> our own jake tapper had a chance to speak to dr. fauci. we're grateful to jake. he sent us all a note. telling cnn, it was determined he was, what he calls low risk for the white house. a staffer who tested positive for the coronavirus. who got in close proximity to the individual. he's not necessarily doing a full quarantine but what he call as modified quarantine. he also tells jake that this modified quarantine means he'll stay at home, telew

robert redfield. and redfield has become concerned that he may have a target on his back, a separate source tells cnn. as the white house looks for others to blame, fairly or not, for the fact that the u.s. has around a third of the world's coronavirus deaths with only 5% of the world's population. right now, the u.s. has surpassed 92,000 deaths from coronavirus and there are new allegations from unnamed cdc officials that some of these deaths could have been prevented but that the white house has been driven by politics and not science. six cdc sources telling cnn that their agency's efforts to mount a coordinated response to the novel coronavirus have been hindered by the white house, one cdc official telling cnn, quote, we've been muzzled. we should note the cdc officials saying this to cnn are doing this during a week when white house officials have been publicly blaming the organization for botching the original creation and rollout of a test for the novel coronavirus. is it possible they're both

fauci and redfield, along with other task force members of the coronavirus are expect ed t testify.s is expected to get under way shortly. >>> we're live from capitol hill waiting for the senate health committee to get under way. doctors fauci and redfield, along with other members of the coronavirus task force team are expected to testify. this will get under way shortlyi >>

redfield. dr. fauci, he told jake tapper this evening that he was at low risk regarding contact with a white house staffer who tested positive for coronavirus but will nonetheless out of abundance of caution be undergoing a quote-unquote modified quarantine, meaning that he will be wearing a mask at all times for the next few weeks, largely working from home, perhaps going into his offices at the national institutes of health where he will largely be alone, and he does say if he is called to the white house or capitol hill he will go, but he will take every precaution necessary. dr. robert redfield offering a similar version in terms of his plans for self-quarantine for the next few weeks, saying he would wear a mask if he did need to go to the white house for example. all of this coming in the last 24 hours after katie miller, vice president pence's spokesperson t spokespers spokesperson tested positive for coronavirus. the white house has not confirmed if she was the one in contact with these thr

redfield. another source telling cnn he's worried he might have a target on his back and senior officials tell us the director's fear is not unfounded. late today the president denied it. >> do you think robert redfield is doing a good job? >> yeah, i do, i do. it's fake news, caitlan, fake news, therefore you can report it on cnn. it's perfect for cnn. >> the president has, of course, said similar things about people he then goes on to fire, but regardless whether d dr. redfield's job is safe or not, neither he nor his public health experts are front and center at such a significant moment. the last coronavirus task force briefing was on the 27th of april. that's 23 days ago. remember those briefings before the president hijacked them? they actually had a lot of good scientific value, scientific information given by dr. fauci and dr. redfield and dr. birx. so now the governors, mayors, although dr. redfield didn't show at much of those briefings, he wasn't welcome, it seems, to present as much

redfield. will be watching certain sectors, and i'm thinking there will be a direct correlation between what they say, anything in the leisure or travel sector with her that's airlines or cruise ships and deftly can se . if it's worrisome or strict, if it's optimistic we start to see the sectors move. right now i'm looking at the dow jones industrials and it's opened higher by i think 331 points. the nasdaq is up and the s&p looks to move higher. watch with one eye the testimony in both years and then of course keep another eye on those particular sectors that have been hit hard including the airlines. >> the chief investment strategy at blackrock stepped out saying, the markets have been torn to optimism. there is that balance when we look at the markets. we will be anticipating that hearing markets could be moving on anything from that. that's a piece on chinese investments, following over this outbreak, and what it means for investments here at home. they invested chinese equities to be pull

redfield? >> i think that question would best be directed to the cdc, not the nih. >> when the outbreak started, sir, we had an aggressive contact tracing program. unfortunately, as the case grows, it went beyond the capacity of mitigation. so, we lost the containment edge clearly -- >> and that was key to the economy, as well. south korea did a testing, and contact tracing, protect, serve, isolate the sick. they didn't have to do shut down, which protected their economy. finally, the last one, health care systems. would you agree with me that it helps keep people safe from serious conditions or death through covid-19 if they have access to health care? >> yes, of course. of course, that's the case. >> and south korea, 97% of the population has health insurance. the united states, before covid-19, millions didn't have it and lacked access to health care. demands of job losses in the past months threatened to take health insurance away from millions more. and president trump is doing all he can

robert redfield.nd redfield has become concerned that he may have a target on his back, a separate source tells cnn. as the white house looks for others to blame, fairly or not, for the fact that the u.s. has around a third of the

redfield? >> sir, i think that question would best be directed to the cdc and not the nih. >> when the outbreak started, sir, we had an aggressive contact tracing program but unfortunately as cases rose t. went beyond capacity of mitigation. so we lost the containment edge. >> and that was key to the economy as well. because south korea did testing, contact tracing, protect, serve, isolate the sick and they didn't have to do the shutdowns, which hurt their economy. social distancing is the third factor. and finally the last one, health care systems. would you agree with me it keeps people safe from serious conditions or death from covid-19 if they have access to health care? >> yes, of course. >> of course that's the case. in south korea 97% of the population have health insurance. in the united states before covid-19, millions didn't have it and lacked access to health care. the massive job losses in the last months threatened to take health insurance away from millions more and president trum

robert redfield is doing a very good job, but behind the scenes there are troubling signs that redfield's job may be in jeopardy. cnn's jeremy diamond has more from the white house. >> it's important to clarify this. >> reporter: questions about dr. robert redfield's future as head of the centers for disease control. with tensions raising between the center and the white house, there are informal conversations about redfield's fate. redfield who privately dismissed concerns about his job security last week is now worried he may have a target on his back after a top white house official took the in fighting public. >> 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. that did set us back. >> reporter: president trump echoing that criticism behind closed doors taking a swipe at the cdc during a lunch with senate republicans but publicly -- >> i think they worked very hard. originally they had no tests and one of the tests had a problem very early on, but that was quickly remedied. >> reporter

redfield. he's from the centers of disease presentation and control who has their offices in atlanta. for many years he's been involved in research of infectious diseases, especially hiv. he was the founding director of the department of retroviral research from the u.s. military's hiv research program. he spent 22 years with the u.s. army medical corps. third, admiral brett giwau. he is the assistant director of health and human services. that puts him as director of health directions. he's focused on testing and the increasing number of tests that we can do with existing technology. his federal service includes a variety of activities with our defense department in advanced research, threat reduction, he was part of the blue ribbon panel to reform the u.s. veterans health system. finally we'll hear from dr. stephen hahn. he's commissioner of the food and drug administration. before joining fda, he was the chief medical executive at the university of texas md anderson cancer center. he was cha

birx and redfield. now, redfield told colleagues as recently as last week that he didn't believe that this confrontation between the two of them meant that his job was at risk in any way. the two have a decades-long relationship. but over the weekend, the tide seemed to have turned. at least that's what these sources in the administration are telling us. they say that those comments made by peter navarro that blame the cdc for the testing, saying they let the country down, really were the opening of the flood gates here and that he was expressing how many within the administration actually felt towards the organization. now we are hearing again that there is some sort of conversation going around and that redfield himself has concerns that he may have a target on his back. and i should say, several administration officials did not push us away from that idea. this is the way that these things tend to go. but as we move forward, i want to note a couple of things. one, president trump was on the hill yest

redfield will self quarantine two weeks. yesterday we learned the commissioners of the food and drug administration dr. steven hawn that he would also self quarantine for the next two weeks after coming into contact with a white house official who tested positive for coronavirus but again it is not clear at this point whether there is a kind of uniform policy being directed by the white house. i did ask the white house for comment. the deputy white house press secretary judd deere declined to say whether or not there was a policy or to confirm that dr. redfield is quarantining but he did say the president's fission and white house operations are working to ensure safety at the white house and ensure that everyone is healthy and that protocol is being changed to ensure that individuals who come into contact with the president or the vice president are now being tested daily. previously most individuals were being tested on a weekly basis. that has now changed to a day by day basis. but again, we have reached out for comment t

thank you mr chairman and i may reserve 20 seconds or dr redfield as well on the strategy that's going to be employed really depends heavily on what the community spread at that time if there is almost no community spread your strategy will be different if there's high community strip spread it will also be different but yes technically we will have the ability and your chance or will have the ability we expect there to be 25 to $30000000.00 point of care test or month available it is certainly possible to test all of the students or it is much more likely that there would be a surveillance strategy done where you may test some of the students at different times to give an assurance that there is no circulation that would be done in conjunction with the c.d.c. in the local health department there's also strategies that are still needing to be validated but of pulling samples we know in some experimental labs is many as 10 or 20 samples can be pooled so essentially one test could test 20 students and finally there are some experimental proto protests that look interesting if not promisi

robert redfield pushes back claims he's in trouble. he continues to say he has the ear of the president, that he's in these white house task force meetings and he continues to be in the center of this response. really, though, there is seriously an optics gain at play here. the white house doesn't want to look bad, neither does the cdc. meanwhile, the american public is wondering when they'll get clear guidance from their federal leaders as to what to do next. >> yeah, we've been asking for it for weeks, for months. let's talk to jackie wallensky. good to have you here this morning. it's early. we're just a couple weeks into reopening around the country. there is some anecdotal evidence that reopening has led to small outbreaks, clusters, et cetera. is there any reliable, broader data at this point that shows the consequences of states reopening, many of them reopening before meeting cdc guidelines? >> good morning, jim, good morning, poppy. i think it may still even be too early. you look at the map and you say everything is open now,

redfield and the cdc. but behind the scenes they've become the latest scapegoat for this crisis as the former acting cdc director how worrying is that for you? >> well, what really worries me, wolf, is if public health is viewed as the enemy of getting the economy up and running. public health is the road map. it's the road map to getting the economy up and running. it's the road map for workers going to work feeling safe that their risk of being exposed has been reduced. it's the road map for the general public being comfortable going into stores and malls and restaurants. if you set it up that it's the enemy of the economy then as we move forward and people aren't doing the things that cdc and states recommend we may get people out to work quickly where we're going to see a rise in cases and we're going to meet a worse situation than we currently are. >> very interesting. sanjay, we do know there are some pacific reopening guidelines just been released by the cdc, the 60-page document. for example, they

>> reporter: there certainly are, wolf, questions about redfield's future as head of a critical agency in this fight against the coronavirus pandemic, a senior administration official telling our colleague kristen holmes that there have been conversations about the fate of the cdc director. last week we were told that the white house had confidence in the cdc's director. we know there have been tensions for week now between the cdc and the white house. amidst all of that we heard the preside president, we were told that behind closed doors, wolf, that he criticized the cdc in a lunch with republican senators. publicly, wolf, we're not seeing the president attack the cdc director, but we're seeing him attack many, many others. in fact, wolf, it seems like this is part of a pattern by the president to divert and distract from this pandemic. in particular, wolf, we're seeing the president level a series of conspiracy theories both against his predecessor remember former president obama, and today new accusations by the president, false accusations against the states of michigan and nevada

redfield and the cdc on this matter, and all the work they've been doing over the past, what seems now, like a long period of time. today, i'm identifying houses of worship, churches, synagogue, and mosques, as essential places that provide essential services. some governors have deemed liquor stores and abortion clinics as essential but have left out churches and other houses of worship. it's not right. so i'm correcting this injustice and calling houses of worship essential. i call upon governors to allow

redfield. we have authorized in this committee and appropriated out of congress multiple times over the last few decades money for virus surveillance. from fy 16 to fy 20, $23 million a year. the c.a.r.e.s. act is over a billion in bio surveillance. we've seen the private sector go out and use data available to track the progress and spread of coronavirus around the world. why is cdc not contracted with private sector technology companies to try to use their tools for bio surveillance? >> senator, thank you for the question. this is a critical issue, as you know, and also comes into one of the core capabilities i talked about, data analytics and modernization which we're appreciative of the additional funding congress has given. this is under critical review. we do have contracts with some of the private sector groups now to try to make the type of availability of date that we've seen in florida available in all of our jurisdictions across the country. we're in the process of making that happen

robert redfield. he said the models predict deaths of 100,000 by june 1. these are mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters. these are real people. how do we wrap our head around this enormous loss of life since early march? >> it gives me a pit in my stomach when i saw those modeling numbers come out. how do you wrap your head around it? i don't know. as somebody who has worked in a hospital. sadly, i know people who have died of this disease. people hear these numbers and they are just numbers. they don't know of any who has this disease. these are jarring numbers. when the first pause went into effect for the country back in the middle of march, some 80 people had died and now we are talking 1700,000 the month.0,000 by the end of >> doctor, how much more does that mean the death toll could rise nothing this virus is not going away and could get worse later in the year in the fall and winter? >> wolf, thanks for having me on. the 100,000 number is stunning and catastrophic and tells us how deadly this virus is. this is 100,000 after

redfield.not tried to accommodate trump -- he would have been forced to go back to his job as an amish stock photo model. this is what happens if you don't play loose with the facts we learned yesterday that team trump demoted the doctor in charge of finding a vaccine for the virus. dr. rick bright was "involuntarily transferred" from his post, because he raised orange flags about the presidents' claim that an untested drug hydroxychloroquine could help treat the virus. early testing seems to indicate that it does not. dr. bright spoke up about this, and now he is gone. i'm not sure what's more depressing, that our president demoted a doctor who was trying to prevent americans from trying an ineffective drug that could kill us, or that we're not even remotely surprised this happened. but the president only wants the best people. this headline does a good job of summing it all up. "former labradoodle breeder was tapped to lead u.s. pandemic task force." that's for real. they hired a guy who bred

redfield is concerned that this could come back to the united states. this comes after the world health organization reported the largest single day increase in virus cases since the pandemic began. global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million. >> president trump meanwhile travels to michigan today after falsely claiming that michigan and nevada were sending absentee ballots to all voters. he threatened to withhold federal relief funding from those states. both are battleground states and all they did was send out politics for absentee ballots. michigan's attorney general will join us in a few minutes. remember, the president himself has voted by mail-in ballot. for some reason he does not want anyone else to. >> joining us now, dr. sanjay gupta, and william hassletine, founder of the university's cancer and hiv /aids research department. sanjay, i'll start with you. dr. redfield is talking about the fall and the possibility of this next wave or a new bump. i want to make one thing clear. it is not gone now. we had 15 00 new deaths yesterday. 20,000 cas

robert redfield and dr. stephen hahn are now in self-quarantine after coming into contact with an infected white house staffer. our weren't correspondent jeremy diamond is joining us right now. jeremy, we just learned new information about tuesday's senate hearing where drs. fauci, redfield and hahn, they're also scheduled to testify. >> that's right, wolf. initially what we were hearing is that dr. redfield, the head of the cdc and dr. hahn, the head of the food and drug administration were going to be testifying remotely while dr. fauci was going to attend in person and wear a mask. but now senator lamar alexander, the chairman of the senate health committee announcing today that all of those three doctors as well as dr. brett giroir who is leading the testing effort for this administration, they will be testifying remotely by video on tuesday focused on the coronavirus response. so this news of course after doctors redfield, hahn and fauci all announced they're going into quarantine for the next two weeks

redfield and dr. redfield, georgians are wondering how we got here today. 1400 deaths, a third of georgia's workforce out of work. i'm incredibly concerned about the coverup and misinformation coming from china and their efforts to suppress life-saving information at the outset of this outbreak. as we continue to reopen our economy safely, we have to take steps to ensure that another outbreak cannot take hold of the world in this way. i understand cdc has worked with the chinese cdc on global health security for decades. can you comments on t on the led timing of the information that you received and relied upon from your chinese counterparts as this virus emerged? >> thank you very much, senator. and i want to echo how important global health is security is as a national security priority for this nation. and we'll need to be able to respond to that as long as we are a nation. cdc has had relationships with various countries around the world. we have offices in over 45 countries right now. and one of

redfield, and that's not new. we have seen this sort of vocal criticism from people within the cdc, questioning whether or not he's the right man for the job. no one questions him whether or not he's personally a likable man, they're asking if he's the right man for this moment. sources i spoke to that are closer to dr. redfield pushed back on that, those allegations, those claims saying dr. redfield remains approximate to the response, he's been in -- nearly every single task force meeting and he has a voice at the table. really, though, it is this back and forth that we have seen play out with the white house. the fact is as elizabeth cohen just laid out, president trump did take this virus seriously enough. the cdc tried to emphasize just how critical it was for national response. and right now that back and forth is playing out in the public eye. jim and poppy? >> certainly is. nick, thanks for the reporting. let's talk about all of these developments overnight with dr. richard besser, former acting director o

and they had redfield put the statement out today, whether redfield actually wrote the statement or itse, that's anyone's guess. >> yamiche, we say the white house press secretary step up to the podium, lead a briefing for the first time. you had an exchange with her i want to play. take a listen. >> in 2015 the president said some mexicans were criminals, you said that language was racist. to you still believe that today? >> for the first four weeks of the election, i was watching cnn and i was naively believing some of the headlines that i saw on cnn. >> i'm not asking for headlines. >> i'm actually not going to read the headlines. >> i wonder if you've gotten any further response to that question. >> i haven't gotten any further response to that question right now but what is clear is the current white house press secretary, she had real problems when it came to the president's language, when it came to him describing some mexican immigrants raised i immigrants racists and criminals. she said it was racist and hateful. we all know what happened after that. the president kept up that

redfield.e's director of the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention which has its headquarters in atlanta. more than 30 years, he's been involved with clinical research related to chronic human viral infections and infections, diseases, especially hiv. he was the founding director of the department of viral research program. he spent 20 years with the u.s. army medical corps. third, admiral brett grior. that puts him in charge of development of public health. he's taken on the responsibility for coordinating testing and focused on the increasing number of tests that we can do with existing technology. his federal service includes a variety of activities with our defense department in advanced research, threat reduction. he was part of the blue ribbon panel to reform the u.s. veterans health system. and we'll hear from dr. stephen hahn. he's commissioner of the food and drug administration. before joining the fda, he was the chief medical executive of the university of texas md anderson

redfield. dr. redfield, georgians are wondering how we got here today. 1400 deaths, a third of georgia's workforce out of work. i am incredibly concerned about the cover-up and the misinformation coming from china, and their efforts to suppress life-saving information at the outset of this outbreak. as we continue to reopen our economy safely, we have to take steps to ensure that another outbreak cannot take hold of the world in this way. i understand cdc has worked with the chinese cdc on global health security for decades. can you comment on the level and the timing of the information that you received and relied upon from your chinese counterparts, as this virus emerged? >> well, thank you very much, senator. i want to echo how important global health security is, as a national security priority for this nation. we are going to need to be able to be able to respond to that as a nation. cdc has had a relationship with these countries around the world. we have offices in over 45 countries right no

>>another source said that redfield who privately dismissed concerns about his job security last week. it's now worry that he may have a target on his back after a top white house official took the infighting public. >>early on in this crisis. the cdc which which really had the most trusted brand around the world. in this space. really what let the country with with the testing next it set us back. >>well the question mark over redfield comes as the cdc released 60 pages of detailed reopening guidelines without a word from the white house. it's a common virus is putting a spotlight on inequality as many americans under the stay at home orders. they rely on the internet and you know for working for school another services, some communities are at a disadvantage washington dc correspondent joe khaleel reports. >>the pandemic is forcing americans to move online for work school even doctors visits but many people don't have the reliable internet service that requires all buses are actually running down. >>in kern county my district. but not to the students. but the mobile hotspots that so

redfield as well.trategy that is going to be employed really depends on what is the community spread at that time. if there is no community spread, the strategy will be different. if there is high community spread, it will be different. technically, we will have the ability and your chancellor will have the ability. we expect there to be 25 million to 30 million point of care tests available. it is possible to test all of the students or it is much more likely that there would be a surveillance strategy done where you test some students at different times to give assurance there is no circulation. that would be done in conjunction with the cdc and local health department. there is a strategy that needs to be developed. we know 10 or 20 samples can be pulled from labs. one test can test 20 students. finally, there are experimental approaches that look interesting if not promising. for example, waste water from the entire dorm or campus could be tested to determine where there is coronavirus in that sewa

robert redfield. i understand the president was just asked if he plans to replace him. >> that's right, wolf. the president was asked. he was asked that question quite directly. he shot back with an emphatic no as he was walking away to the next part of his tour at that ford manufacturing facility. wolf, that came as we know that we reported repeatedly over the last several days on the tensions between the white house and the cdc, but beyond those tension, we seen it in public view with top white house official peter no czar ro criticizing him on sunday. we reported the president was criticizing at a lunch on tuesday. the president insisting he believes john redfield is doing a good joshlt. dr. redfield, we should note, trying to put aside any of those questions. he's done a number of interviews perhaps showing he is still there, still working, certainly fought headed out the door. certainly something that will continue to monitor. >> wolf, certainly with. thank you very much. let's continue the discu

redfield, dr dr. hahn and now dr. fauci in some form of self-quarantine because they may have been in contact with two white house officials, who have now been confirmed they have coronavirus. >> this illustrates how common this virus is becoming and how everyone is at risk of being exposed to this virus. i want to know what the exposure was of these individuals. how much did contact did they have with this person? it sounds like dr. fauci has a modified quarantine. i'd like to know what the coon tact was because there may have been other individuals who had that coon tact as well and there may be more people who have to go through this quarantine. >> i suspect deborah birx and addiction azhar might have too do the same. what do you say, doctor, should more members go into some form of self-quarantine from a medical perspective? >> it's unclear how many and what kind of task foorce. we hope that the task foorz wou -- force would be making the ryeig decisions. the big picture question is presumably the person who expos

redfield, he's a friend, a colleague. he has worked in hiv for many years. i've known him for a long time. i think he's a very capable individual, he's trying to do his best but simply, he's not being allowed to do his best. there's also incredible career people with the united states public health service and all the way from dr. ann shuka, many people in the cdc that are simply terrific and the best in their business. not only nationally but recognized internationally. and let them do what needs to be done to get out of the epidemic will be critical. if we don't respect the science or what comes out of cdc and don't implement it, we're not going to be in a good position and i think we as citizens, need to be wondering because these are our best people. >> and one of the things, one of the hold-ups, actually, finally, i want to ask you about positive results we've seen for this vaccine. one of the vaccines having been tested on monkeys. johnson & johnson urging caution but i wonder, if you are optimistic or if you're sort of reserving your chance to be opti

publicly tonight the president said this about redfield. >> i think he's done a very good job. i think -- i think that my whole team has done a very good job. cdc has done i think a really good job. >> this comes after the cdc quietly and finally released much-delayed guidelines on reopening last night. here they are. finally got them. just hours before the last state in the country partially reopened. so, it is 60 pages. it details schools, businesses, how they can reopen. all kinds of links to every single document that they have. the thing about this is, as you go through it, it's detailed, but talk about too late. a delay of weeks from this. it's not much different than what was in the original draft that was shelved weeks ago when states were beginning to reopen. it would have been helpful there but now it's been the wild west on reopening. officials tell cnn they did try to act earlier but they've been muzzled, their response has been hindered by a white house putting politics ahead of science whchlt americans need information from a trusted source, the organization that

robert redfield.also hear some off-screen barking. >> we have seen the private sector go out and used datata progress to track the and spread of coronavirus around the world. why is the cdc not contracted with private sector technology companies to try to use t their totools for bibio surveillalanc? >> this is under critical review now. we do have contracts with some of the pririvate secr grgroups w to t try to makake the type o of availalability of data that wewe have seen with f florida availie in a all of our jurisdictions across the country. anand in the process of mamaking ththat happen. >> am hopeful we w won't just tk about surveillance, we will actually execute it and that of a believable amount of money that we provided for you t that they will show some benefit to the american people. redfieldhere you have being questioned by burr. naomi klein is our gueuest for the arkham senior respondent at the intercept. if you can talk about what he's asking about surveillance, also just as we came to t

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anthony fauci and cdc director robert redfield.y got some disturbing news. >> they gave us a pretty detailed outline of what they felt was happening with this virus. we knew this was going to be a serious crisis. >> it was exactly the opposite of what president trump was saying publicly. >> looks like by april, you know, in theory when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. >> the president's cdc director contradicted him later that week in an interview with dr. sanjay gupta. >> i think this virus is probably with us beyond this season, or beyond this year, and i think eventually the virus will find a foothold. >> a very small number of people in the country right now with it. it's like around 12. many of them are getting better. some are fully recovered already. so we're in very good shape. >> he was still of the view that you could stop flights, build walls, and keep coronavirus from coming to the united states. >> the chances of that were near zero, partly because it was now more than two weeks since the cdc test ha

anthony fauci, director redfield, and stephen hahn will quarantine, after two staffers tested positive for the virus last week. we have a team of reports and analysts following the latest. we'll begin with the reopening of america. that means maybe a beach day for those who live near the north carolina coast. there are several beaches open there. some beaches open in maryland. virginia beach, that one remains closed with high hopes for an official reopening date before the memorial day weekend. and we have been showing you this map of states in green, most of them, in fact, loosening restrictions and opening businesses and public spaces, but look at this tweet from the atlanta's covid tracking project. it's a reminder that while the number of new cases is trending downward for new york and new jersey, that number is certainly rising for other states. let's go to corey coffin joining me from central park. first, i cannot believe it snowed there yesterday. no evidence of that right now. that's not what we're talking about despite that newsworthy fact. governors, now are governors around