THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. >> THANK YOU, RACHEL.
>> THAT DOES IT FOR US TONIGHT.
WE’LL SEE YOU AGAIN TOMORROW.
GOOD EVENING.
GOOD EVENING. LAWRENCE.
LAWRENCE. >>> TO COMPARE WHAT THEY LEARN
FROM RON IN YOUR LAST 45 MINUTES
OF DISCUSSION TO WHAT THEY’VE
BEEN HEARING FROM TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS, NOT
THE MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS BUT
THE ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE STAFF
BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT RON WAS IN
THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE.
HE WAS IN A POSITION WITHOUT
MEDICAL MANY PEREXPERTISE BUT EX
HOW TO MAKE GOVERNMENT WORK, HOW
TO MAKE ARMS OF THE GOVERNMENT
WORK TOGETHER IN A CRISIS LIKE
THIS AND OF COURSE, HE DID PICK
UP A GREAT DEAL OF EXPERTISE
ABOUT THIS KIND OF SITUATION AND
ABOUT THE MEDICAL ELEMENTS OF
THIS SITUATION.
THIS SITUATION. I HAVEN’T HEARD ANYONE FROM THE
KELLYANNE CONWAYS TO THE LARRY
TO THE TRUMP APPOINTEES THAT
HAVE COMMAND OF THIS SUBJECT
THAT RON HAS IN ONE SENTENCE.
>> NOT ONLY THE LACK OF COMMAND
BUT THE OVERT PUBLICLY -- EXCUSE
ME, POLITICALLY CONVENIENT
DISINFORMATION.
DISINFORMATION. KELLYANNE CONWAY AND CUDLOW
SAYING THIS IS AIRTIGHT.
THE OVERT DISINFORMATION FROM
THE PRESIDENT ON DOWN HAS BEEN
IS ACTUALLY ONE OF SERIOUS
CHALLENGES THAT WE’VE GOT AS A
COUNTRY HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS
AND I DON’T THINK ANYBODY WAS
UNDER ILLUSIONS THEY HANDLED
THIS WELL.
THIS WELL. I DON’T THINK WE’RE SCENICAL
ENOUGH TO EXPECT THEY WOULD
HANDLE IT SO OVERTLY BADLY THEY
WOULD BE A PROBLEM WE NEED TO
FIX ALONG THE WAY.
>> THE BASKETBALL THEME THAT
WENT THROUGHOUT YOUR HOUR, IT’S
AT LEAST TWO WEEKS AGO, MAYBE
MORE AN OFFICIAL AT ONE OF THE
REALLY BIG BASKETBALL POWERS AT
THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEMS SAID TO
ME HE WAS VERY WORRIED WHAT THIS
MEANT NOT JUST FOR COLLEGE
BASKETBALL GAMES WITH 20, 25,000
PEOPLE WATCHING THEM BUT WHAT
HAPPENS IF ONE STUDENT IN THERE
IS THEN TESTED AND FOUND TO BE
ILL
ILL ILL, WHAT DO YOU DO ABOUT THE
25,000 PEOPLE IN THE ARENA.
THE NBA HAS BEEN THINKING ABOUT
IT AND IT’S SUSPENDING.
IT’S NOT NECESSARILY ENDING.
PERHAPS SUSPENDING FOR 30 DAYS.
PERHAPS THE NBA SEASON WILL
FINISH IN AUGUST THIS YEAR.
WE DON’T KNOW.
BUT THIS IS REALLY THE FIRST
REALLY BIG DECISION ABOUT
LIMITING LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE
IN ENCLOSED SPACES.
>> IT FEELS LIKE THEY HIT IT
SLAMMING INTO A WALL.
THE NBA WAS NOT EXACTLY, YOU
KNOW, ENGAGING WITH THIS
POSSIBILITY IN A WAY THAT SEEMED
PARTICULARLY OPEN MINDED BUT
THEN YOU SAW A BUNCH OF THINGS
HAPPEN IN VERY QUICK SECESSION.
YOU SAW TONI FAUCHI WE DON’T
BELIEVE AMERICANS SHOULD BE IN
LARGE CROWDS AND IF THAT MEANS
NBA GAMES SHOULD BE PLAYED OUT
AUDIENCES, SO BE IT.
IN SAN FRANCISCO THE MAYOR
INSTITUTE A BAN ON GATHERING OF
A SIZE THAT WOULD EXCLUDE EVENTS
LIKE AN ARENA FULL OF PEOPLE
WATCHING THE GOLDEN STATE
WARRIORS PLAY GAMES.
WE SAW THIS START TO HAPPEN IN
INDIVIDUAL LOCATIONS AND THEN IN
THIS THUNDER GAME TONIGHT IN
OKLAHOMA, IT TURNS OUT A PLAYER
FROM THE UTAH JAZZ IS PERCEIVED
TO POTENTIALLY BE POSITIVE.
THAT APPARENTLY WAS A CALAMITY
AT THE OKLAHOMA THUNDER STADIUM
OR ARENA TONIGHT IN OKLAHOMA
CITY WHEN THEY INSTITUTED AT
FIRST A 30-MINUTE DELAY.
NOBODY THERE KNEW WHAT IT WAS
FOR.
FOR. THEN THEY ANNOUNCED THE GAME
WOULD BE POSTPONED AND ONLY
AFTER THEY ANNOUNCED THE GAME
WOULD BE POSTPONED WE FOUND OUT
THE ANSWER WAS ABOUT A PLAYER
FROM THAT VISITING TEAM.
SO IT’S -- I MEAN, IT FEELS LIKE
WE’RE SORT OF STUMBLING THROUGH
THIS BUT IN THE END, WE’RE
COMING TO THE SAME CONCLUSION
ABOUT CANCELLING LARGE EVENTS
NOW.
NOW. >> RACHEL, THE IDEA OF OKAY, THE
BASKETBALL GAMES WILL BE PLAYED
WITHOUT THE AUDIENCE IN THE
ARENA, THERE’S A REAL BUSINESS
TO BE DONE THAT WAY.
THE TELEVISION SIDE OF THE
BUSINESS, THERE IS OBVIOUSLY
STILL A VERY VIABLE BUSINESS TO
BE DONE WITHOUT THE TICKET
SALES, UNLESS, UNLESS A PLAYER
CONTRACTS THE VIRUS.
WHICH IS WHERE WE ARE NOW.
I MEAN, THE AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL
CONTACT, YOU KNOW, YOUR HANDS
CAN’T TOUCH YOUR FACE.
WELL, YOU SURE CAN’T PLAY
BASKETBALL WITH OTHER PEOPLE IF
THAT’S THE CASE.
AND SO ALL THEY NEEDED WAS THAT
ONE PLAYER AND THEY JUST DID
WHAT YOU WOULD DO, THINKING
ABOUT THAT ONE PLAYER PROJECT
THAT OUT HOW LONG HAS THAT
PLAYER BEEN CARRYING THIS?
HOW MANY OTHER PLAYERS IN THE
NBA HAS HE ACTUALLY LITERALLY
TOUCHED IN JUST, SAY, THE LAST
WEEK?
WEEK? >> THOSE CALCULATIONS AS RON WAS
SAYING, NOT EVERYBODY
SYMPTOMATIC GETTING TESTED BUT
EVERYBODY THAT WAS A TRACED
CONTACT OF ANYBODY KNOWN TO HAVE
THE VIRUS WAS GETTING TESTED AND
JUST WIDE SPREAD SURVEILLANCE
TESTING WITHIN THE POPULATION TO
SEE IT IN PLACES WE DIDN’T KNOW
ABOUT, YOU COULD HAVE A
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONVERSATION ABOUT THE WORKPLACE
RISK TO NBA BASKETBALL PLAYERS
THAN OUR COUNTRY WHERE IT IS A
MYSTERY BECAUSE THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT, THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION BLEW IT JUST
ABSOLUTELY BLEW IT WHEN IT CAME
TO US HAVING TESTS SO WE’RE THE
BIGGEST INDUSTRIALIZED NATION IN
THE WORLD DEALING WITH A
SIGNIFICANT EPIDEMIC WHILE
FLYING BLIND WITH NO INFORMATION
YOU NEED TO TAKE THE FIRST STEPS
TO MAKE SURE THIS IS BROUGHT
UNDER CONTROL.
UNDER CONTROL. ABSOLUTELY UNCONSCIONABLE.
ABSOLUTELY UNCONSCIONABLE. >> THERE IS ONE MORE THING
BEFORE YOU GO AND THIS DEVELOPED
DURING YOUR HOUR, ONE OF THE
BREAKING NEWS ELEMENTS OF YOUR
HOUR.
HOUR. THE PRESIDENT’S TEN MINUTES WAS
A COMPLETE CONTRADICTION OF
EVERYTHING THE PRESIDENT HAD
SAID PUBLICLY ABOUT THIS PRIOR
TO HIS TEN MINUTES TONIGHT.
>> YEAH.
>> YEAH. >> WHEN HE WAS TELLING PEOPLE
NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.
I THINK AMERICA TONIGHT HAS A
SYMBOL, COUPLE OF BIG SYMBOLS
ABOUT WHAT THERE IS TO WORRY
ABOUT WITH THE NBA SUSPENDING
BECAUSE OF A PLAYER AND THAT
NEWS OF TOM AND RITA HANKS IN
AUSTRALIA.
AUSTRALIA. TOM HANKS TWEETING OUT TONIGHT A
VERY UPBEAT STATEMENT BY TOM
HANKS ABOUT HIM, HIMSELF BEING
INFECTED WITH THE CORONAVIRUS
AND HIS WIFE RITA AND OF COURSE,
TOM HANKS IS GOING TO PUT A VERY
BRAVE FACE ON THIS, WHICH HE HAS
DONE AND I HOPE ALL OF THE
POSITIVE FEELING THAT HE CONVEYS
IN HIS TEXT -- IN HIS TWEET HOW
THIS IS GOING IS TRUE.
I’M SURE IT IS.
BUT THAT’S A REAL FACE NOW.
TOM AND RITA HANKS IS A REAL
THING, A REAL FACT FOR AMERICANS
TO CONSIDER IF IT CAN HAPPEN TO
THEM, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE
AUSTIN TOIN
AUSTIN TOIN AUSTRALIA, IT CAN ABSOLUTELY
HAPPEN TO ANYONE.
I THINK THAT’S THE REALITY NOW
THROUGH TOM HANKS THAT A LOT OF
PEOPLE MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD
WITHOUT TOM HANKS ANNOUNCEMENT
ABOUT THIS.
ABOUT THIS. >> FOR THAT TO BE HAPPENING
WHILE PL HANKMR. HANKS AND HIS W
IN AUSTRALIA WHICH IS WHERE THEY
ARE DIAGNOSED WHICH IS KEY TO
LEARNING THIS, THAT’S WHY THEY
WERE ABLE TO GET DIAGNOSED
BECAUSE THEY WERE IN AUSTRALIA
AND NOT HERE.
WHO KNOWS HOW THEY COULD GET
ACCESS TO A TEST HERE.
THE PRESIDENT TONIGHT ISSUED A
TRAVEL BAN FROM EUROPE AS THE
WAY HE’S GOING TO TRY TO ADDRESS
CORONAVIRUS IN THIS COUNTRY
BECAUSE HE KNOWS HOW TO DO
TRAVEL BANS.
TRAVEL BANS. I MEAN, HOW ABOUT AUSTRALIA?
THAT’S WHERE TOM HANKS AND HIS
WIFE APPEAR TO HAVE IT.
THIS DART BOARD APPROACH, THIS
BLIND THROWING DARTS THAT HE’S
DOING IN TERMS OF TRYING TO MAKE
IT SEEM LIKE HE’S GOT SOME
RATIONAL RESPONSE HERE,
COUNTRIES FROM EUROPE WILL BE
RESTRICTED IN TERMS OF TRAVEL
FROM THE UNITED STATES STARTING
ON FRIDAY AND WE’RE EXCLUDEING
THE U.K. WHERE THE HEALTH
MINISTER TESTED POSITIVE, IT’S