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forty-four ways, so here's that exchange at the Capitol yesterday that Mike mentioned before the break. Republican Senator John Kennedy grilled Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolfe about the US response to the

coronavirus

outbreak, with Kennedy baffled by Wolf's lack of details on how many are you anticipating again? We are working with HHS to determine how many, until we anticipate the number will increase. I don't have an exact figure for you, although you have an estimate. Someone is someone who models and you have some way of guessing. again HHS through its medical professionals, but you are the head of Homeland Security, sir, and your job is to keep us safe.

You can't tell us how many of your models anticipate there will be no senators again. I would transfer him to Health and Human Services for Then you should check that we will, since they had a bone. The security of the earth is how it is transmitted in different ways, so tell me what they are again from human to human, it is what we have. I'm just saying Neama, now what's the mortality. rate so far nation I believe it around the world around the world I think it is less than two percent how much less than two percent I will give you an exact figure you are asking me a series of medical questions that master question HHS Secretary of Homeland Security and you're supposed to keep us safe, yes sir, and you need to know the answers to these questions and okay, I'm not scared at all, this is and by the way, speaking of shaking up the markets, you've got Donald Trump mad. with four people in his administration preparing.

The Americans tell you the truth, you have Donald Trump saying there is nothing to worry about here, move on like the Chinese, yes when it all goes away in April we will be fine, you have Donald Trump hiring well, first of all, firing . almost every competent person in his administration and they hire acting secretary after acting secretary, these P Oh, they are political fools who are loyal to Donald Trump, but that's all they have since it's the Richard model Grinnell, oh, he doesn't know anything. about in the community Intel failed at his last job my wait a minute acromion might have committed a crime but he will be loyal to us I'm telling you, I'm telling you, this is about to get real with a to many Trump supporters saying Well, they like how he speaks his mind and is cleaning up Washington, no, he's actually making Washington not only swampier, but he's also making Washington stupider.

Mike with people who don't know what he does when there is a pandemic. It could happen if a pandemic hits with deaths from incompetence and it doesn't matter if it's killing people in blue states or red states, the pandemic spreads across an entire country and Donald Trump is only worried about the stock market crashing. Donald Trump's incompetence and him covering it up and saying everything is fine, move on, move on, will only cause more panic in the market if you just read the news about this epidemic globally, it is enough to obviously worry and scare you, also in the stories and in other stories where you realize that a purge was going on within the Trump administration to the point where people who are skilled at what they have been doing for years in various departments are now being pushed out of their jobs because they are not loyal to Donald Trump and in the case of the economy, I think he had it a few days ago with Larry Kudlow.

No, they are not blindly loyal to Donald Trump, they are being purged for that and in this case they could be purged because We are telling the truth and Donald Trump is not because there are a lot of people who say, well, surely the

president

has someone loyal to him, yes, but if telling the truth is a sign of disloyalty, Donald Trump sees it as a sign of disloyalty. and where China, that's where we are, for example, the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Joe McGuire, said we don't like bad news, we don't like the truth, larry cudlow, I think a few days ago he indicated what is happening with the stock market.

It was a good time to buy cheap, that was his response. I think that's what many of you said: you are dealing with a different type of administration than what we are used to and I think if this works, George W Bush or Barack Obama would be in a different place, remember in the Ebola crisis, Obama , who didn't even come close here, a bull that Obama immediately named Obama and naked, R, Ron Klain is an extremely capable guy, the entire administration came together and a crisis occurred that was panicked or averted and they can trust that with this, by the way, Donald Trump is also trying to cut the CDC budget, which I think at this point we probably all appreciate that it should be increased, not cut, so this is a great example for people say the government shouldn't do anything.

This is when people want the government to do something. This is what you know foods say. I mean, you can go down the list with food security, water security, air security, all of that. But look, I wonder. Last night I spoke to the business leader who has a global business and he told me you know this could change the landscape of the global economy depending on how far it expands. He said there are huge freighters floating around. in the water in china are the production lines not the chain of supply lines they are breaking this could start a recession he actually thought a recession was going to start from this and he and he said this could change the way the world operates depending on how bad this is because China could become a ghost city.

Well, look, one thing that needs to be understood is that this is very different from the SAR, the world is a different place than it was when we had SARS, the world is very far away. more integrated place global trade is much more integrated supply lines are much more important to production around the world China is a huge source of demand and yes if this continues it could have negative GDP in the first quarter of this anus. For all the obvious reasons, if this continues it could well affect the world's economy very substantially and that is why the stock market is reacting in addition to the feeling that there is no one really in charge here and the

president

has kind of a daily habit of lying, I mean, they're tracked by the Washington Post and Trump supporters who think okay, he says what he thinks, it doesn't matter if he lies, they'll care if he's lying or not about this and we .

We won't know if he's telling the truth and if all the scientists have been fired, we're in a bad place for this, this could, actually, Corrine could be out of control, someone, I don't know who, we'll see what happens. He says I don't know who can bring the presidents here because he doesn't listen to anyone around him anymore, but if anyone could, he would have to tell Mr. President, the more you try to squash the reality of the possibility of a pandemic sweeping the world and reaching the United States, the more it hurts the stock market, since that's all you care about, you need to be transparent, this is great, this It's a great example Mike of how authoritarian states who think they can take advantage of the information we think they can take advantage of the truth they think like in this case Donald Trump anger people with another truth how in the end they hurt their own cause if China had been simple from the beginning if they had talked honestly about this from the beginning act aggressively against this this crisis would not be where it is now and now we have Donald Trump coming home trying to copy China's worst traits from the early stages of this crisis, already You know, Steve mentioned Ron Klain, a very competent guy who worked in the Obama administration and the Ebola crisis, which was handled almost perfectly when it arose, it's not a stretch to think that the way this is going with us he just showed the clip of , you know, a member of the Trump administration with no answers, it's not a stretch to think that this election could revolve around the issue of competence, the Trump administration so far has been incompetent on so many different levels, but when you're incompetent when it's a threat to people's health when you wonder if your four year old could get the corona virus what would be my effects what would be the percentages for your survival is there a survival when people start worrying about the competition to deal with? with a national health issue, this could change something, by the way, I think it's starting right now, you have John Kennedy, a guy who faithfully followed Donald Trump for the last few months, understanding that wait a second, that's well, a lot of people in the state of Louisiana, if we don't get ahead of ourselves, any other administration would have formed a task force and met every day, that would be a czar or someone in charge of this that the public would be aware of, the president would already be on national television, not under the helicopter blades whirring, making crazy comments, but he would have appeared on television, he would have said this is what we are doing, you know this is difficult, but we are fighting it and I think everything that would have made a difference not only for the stock market, but for public trust and leadership, okay, it's still ahead, money isn't everything, but in politics that sure can make a difference.

Steve Rattner takes a look at the 2020 money race and Bloomberg and Steyr, as well as how the Democratic candidates are faring. Before South Carolina and Super Tuesday

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