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The CDC announced yesterday that a new case of the corona virus was confirmed in Northern California and is believed to be the first case of what the agency calls community spread, meaning the patient did not have any relevant travel history or exposure. to another acquaintance. patient So far there have been at least two other cases of human-to-human transmission in the US that both involved spouses of people who had traveled to China, that development comes as President Trump held a press conference yesterday in the meeting room along with senior administration

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officials. At the briefing, the president accurately described the risk to Americans as low, but still said he is putting together a task force that will be led by Vice President Mike Pence, we have a total of 15 people and they are in the recovery process. and some have already fully recovered, we are at that very low level and we want to keep it that way. we are on the low level as they improve we take them off the list so very soon we will be with only five people and we could be with only one or two people for the next short period of time and again.

When you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days will be reduced to almost zero, that's a pretty good job we've done, mr. President, as we have been informed while the threat of a spread of the corona virus to the American

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remains low, you have directed this team to take all necessary measures to continue to ensure the

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and well-being of the American people and the The people of this country can be assured that under your leadership we will continue to bring the full resources of the federal government in coordination with our state and local partners to ensure the health and well-being and effective response to the corona virus here. in the United States of America and just the force in the last few minutes has questioned some of what officials who are working in the administration behind you have said about the risk of the crota virus and its spread.

Do you trust your health officials to give you? You have good information or you trust your own instincts. I don't think I did. They have said it could be worse and I have said it could be worse. They are all something, right? I don't think it's inevitable. I don't think so. It is inevitable, I think we are doing a very good job in terms of maintaining the borders and changing in terms of allowing people in, in terms of controlling people and also that is one of the reasons why I am here today doing spread the word so people can still know, a source familiar with the administration's efforts told NBC News that there is internal tension within the administration over how to contain

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concern about the spread of the virus, a gap that dates back to last month's decision to implement travel restrictions and mandatory restrictions.

The president's allies say he wants to make sure his team is initiating appropriate responses at the right time without creating mass panic. The report says Trump has largely focused his frustration on the Center for Disease Control after they announced an outbreak had disappeared. But it's inevitable, but

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on past epidemics said the decision to prevail over reducing the White House's national security staff and eliminating jobs tackling global pandemics would likely hamper the government's response to the virus. Here is the president's response to a question from yesterday about those budget and personnel cuts. because we can get money and we can increase if we know all the people we know, all the good people is a question I asked the doctors before some of the people we cut have not been used for many years and if we have a need and we can get them very quickly and instead of spending the money and I'm a business person, I don't like having people's hoses around when you don't need them, oh wow, not that war, it worries me a lot.

Oh yeah, so you need them now, we also have the Democrats talking about a sizable budget to move this forward, so Willie, you know, it's interesting that I saw the press conference first. He is very happy to have had a press conference in the meeting room of the Meeting Room. I thought it was something very important. Robert Gibbs said that at noon that he needed to do it. The president in the meeting room with his team behind him sends a very clear message that he is on alert. Now listen, people might say it's because they care. more about the stock market than the

coronavirus

I don't really care why it's there it's important you see that's what Robert Gibbs said once again today is not the time to bring in the White House briefing room Please bring the entire audience.

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guide the nation through the step-by-step response, what comes next and what Americans need to prepare. We need to hear it, please, and that's mostly what the president did. He gathered his team. He had the experts come. raise and state the possibility and of course we're rating on a lower scale and of course we had to listen to poor Mike Pence take a bow and talk about how great his Donald Trump was every three seconds, but again, everything that apart from The president came out, he delivered the message, yes, he was being overly optimistic, but I think there were several times during that press coma, so we said yes, it could get worse and his health officials said that for that we need to prepare to the communities and this is what the communities should do, so you know, I know, I know a lot of people were criticizing the president for what he did.

I think we would be better off this

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because he did what he did then if he hadn't gone out at all. Anees, that was me. I'm reading I thought I thought you know there's a couple of little side Barb that he threw out there brought the wall and passed yeah, but you know they also asked him about India from the beginning. Hey, how great was your trip to India? set up perfectly for him, so let's not talk about that, let's talk about the virus, so yeah, rating on the lower scale, rating on the Trump scale.

I was very pleased and, in fact, comforted that the president of the United States brought in the entire healthcare team now. and they talked to Americans about this very important situation, the president obviously earned everyone's skepticism when he starts to speak, he has told so many lies, he has protected his own interests many times before the interests of the country, but he did what they traditionally do the presidents at that time. which is not getting into the nitty-gritty of the science of the whole thing, but rather trying to relieve the country as a sense of panic begins to take over the entire world.

He said the risk is very low, so CDC officials showed up. and he said, actually, no, we don't know where this is going, Richard Haass, we have to be careful when we say the risk is low. Thanks for checking out MSNBC on YouTube and be sure to subscribe to stay up to date on the day's biggest news. stories and you can click on any of the videos around us to see more four. Morning Joe and MSNBC. Thanks so much for looking.