SHE SERVED AS AN ADVISOR TO PRESIDENT OBAMA DURING THE EBOLA
EPIDEMIC AND NOW THE EDITOR L
PAGE EDITOR FOR "THE BOSTON
GLOBE."
GLOBE." WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE POINT OF
GOING THIS FAR TO THE LANGUAGE
TO THE BLOOD ON HIS HANDS
LANGUAGE THAT YOU’VE CHOSEN?
>> IT’S NOT LANGUAGE WE CHOSE
LIGHTLY AND I THANK YOU FOR
QUOTING MORE OF YATES THAN I
COULD FIT ON THE PAGE AND IN
PRINT, BUT I -- WE REALLY WERE
LOOKING AT THE FACTS, AND THE
PRESIDENT HAS BEEN TRYING TO
REVISE HISTORY AS IT HAPPENING,
AS YOU NOTED THROUGH PRESS
CONFERENCES AND MAKING
INSINUATIONS OF HOARDING AT
HOSPITALS TO EXCUSE HIS LACK OF
GETTING SUPPLIES TO STATES AND
CITIES FOR THEIR HOSPITALS AND
IT IMPORTANT AS HE TRIES TO
RECALE LATE EXKALCALIBRATE EXPEC
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DEATHS
ARE BEING CALLED A MEASURE OF
SUCCESS TO THIS ADMINISTRATION,
WE DON’T TAKE THAT FOR GRANTED
AND LOOK BACK AT TWO MONTHS AGO
WHEN THE FIRST CASE OF COVID-19
WAS IDENTIFIED IN THE U.S. AND
THE PRESIDENT SAID IT JUST ONE
GUY COMING FROM CHINA.
NO BIG DEAL.
THIS WILL AMOUNT TO NOTHING.
THE COLOSSAL FAILURE TO ACT TO
GET TESTING UNDERWAY.
IF WE CONTRAST THE WAY THE
QUITE, THE WORLD’S RICHEST
COUNTRY WITH THE MOST
SOPHISTICATED MEDICAL
SOPHISTICATED MEDICAL FACILITIES, THE WORLD’S LEADING
SCIENTIST, CONTRAST THAT WITH
THE WAY SOUTH KOREA AND GERMANY
ROLLED OUT TESTING, ISOLATED
CASES, DONE CONTRACT TRACING TO
CONTAIN THE EPIDEMIC ON THEIR
SHORES, THE QUITE FAILED TO DO
THAT AND IN EPIDEMICS, IN BAN
PANDEMICS, TIMING IS EVERYTHING.
TIMING IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
A CONTAINED OUTBREAK THAT CAN BE
CONTROLLED WITHIN WEEKS AND A
DEVASTATING AND DEADLY EPIDEMIC
LIKE THE ONE WE’RE SEEING UNFOLD
AND WE’LL CONTINUE TO SEE UNFOLD
OVER THIS COMING MONTH AND THAT
THE BECAUSE EPIDEMICS, OUTBREAKS
GROW.
GROW. IF WE HAD CONTAINED THOSE EARLY
CASES, IF WE I’VED THEMDENTIFIED
THE PRESIDENT WASN’T SO WORRIED
SEEING THE STOCK MARKET DIP, IF
HE HAD BEEN NOT TRYING TO COUNT
OR TEST THE CRUISE SHIP
PASSENGERS ABOARD THAT SHIP ON
THE PACIFIC COAST OF CALIFORNIA
BECAUSE HE DIDN’T WANT OUR
NUMBERS TO LOOK HIGH, WE MIGHT
HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CONTAIN AND
ADDRESS THIS CRISIS MUCH SOONER.
YOU CAN LOOK AT SUBSEQUENT
MISSTEPS THROUGH FEBRUARY INTO
MARCH INCLUDING HOW HE’S FAILED
TO REALLY SEIZE THE ROLE OF THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN A CRISIS
LIKE THIS WHERE THE ROLE IS
REALLY TO HELP COORDINATE AMONG
STATES AND DISTRIBUTE SUPPLIES.
INSTEAD, STATES INCLUDING
MASSACHUSETTS, WHICH BY THE WAY,
YOU KNOW A RED GOVERNOR IN A
BLUE STATE, OUR OWN GOVERNOR HAD
TROUBLE GETTING ACCESS TO THOSE
SUPPLIES, MERE FRACTIONS HAVE
ARRIVED HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS
AND THAT’S TRUE IN STATES AND
CITIES AROUND THE COUP TRINTRY.
WHAT THEY KNEAD AND THE SUPPLIES
TO PROTECT HOSPITAL WORKERS,
DOCTORS, FIRST RESPONDERS ARE
NOT BEING SUPPLIED BY THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. IN FACT, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
OUT BIT STATES AND SBID STATES A
HE STEPPED AWAY TRYING TO GET
VENTILATORS FROM STATES AND
THAT’S A CAT STAFFASTROPHIC USE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S POWER WHEN
THEY SHOULD MAKE THIS EASIER.
>> WE HAVE POLLS SHOWING TRUMP
SUPPORTING VOTERS AND FOX NEWS
VIEWERS TOOK THE CORONAVIRUS
THREAT MUCH LESSERLESS LESSLESS
IS THAT PART OF YOUR CASE THAT
IN EFFECT, MORE PEOPLE ARE SICK
TONIGHT, MORE PEOPLE ARE DYING
TONIGHT AND MORE PEOPLE ARE DEAD
TONIGHT BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP WAS
PRESIDENT AT THIS TIME?
>> ABSOLUTELY, LAWRENCE.
AND INFORMATION, SCIENTIFICALLY
VALID INFORMATION IS CRITICAL IN
OUTBREAKS.
OUTBREAKS. IT CRITICAL IN PUBLIC RESPONSE
AND HAVING THE PRESIDENT DOWN
PLAY THIS FOR WEEKS AND WEEKS,
FOR MONTHS REALLY AND HAVING FOX
NEWS BE A SORT OF MEGAPHONE FOR
THAT INFORMATION COST LIVES.
THE FLORIDA GOVERNOR TAKING SO
LONG TO CLOSE DOWN BEACHES I’M
SURE IS GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT.
I THINK WE’RE ALREADY SEEING THE
IMPACT OF VARIOUS LEADERS NOT
HAVING TAKEN SERIOUSLY THE
INFORMATION AND INDIVIDUALS
HAVING NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY THE
INFORMATION AND CONTRAST WITH
WHERE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA
GAVIN
GAVIN GAVIN NEWSOM TOOK PRESSURES TO
HELP.
HELP. THIS IS MISUSING THAT MEGAPHONE
THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS IN FACT,