The House Oversight Committee held a hearing today on the federal response to coronavirus. But the testimony was cut short because President Trump summoned the witnesses an "emergency meeting.” One of the members of the committee, Rep. Katie Porter, weighs in. Aired on 3/11/2020.
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Rep. Katie Porter On The Federal Response To Coronavirus | All In | MSNBC
That is one scary lady, Plz make rep katie porter a fixed setting in your goverment, seems like shes got more brains and brawn than the rest of the established goverment. And no Im not an american
@Paul Heath Try some punctuation.
Allan Horsbrugh what’s scary about her???
J Archa not sure what they meant by « scary lady » either
Allan Horsbrugh then you have no say
@Jude Fenwick he meant to say she was powerful in her presentation, she always is. If she were running against t rump she would ruin him, it would be a great thing to watch.
I share this message to everyone in the community.
I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the government, not the school district, not the mayor, each individual citizen has the chance, today to take actions that will deter the Italian situation from becoming your own country’s reality. The only way to stop this virus is to limit contagion. And the only way to limit contagion is for millions of people to change their behavior today.
If you are in Europe or the US you are weeks away from where we are today in Italy.
I can hear you now. “It’s just a flu. It only affects old people with preconditions”
There are 2 reasons why Coronavirus has brought Italy to it’s knees. First it is a flu is devastating when people get really sick they need weeks of ICU – and, second, because of how fast and effectively it spreads. There is 2 week incubation period and many who have it never show symptoms.
When Prime Minister Conte announced last night that the entire country, 60 million people, would go on lock down, the line that struck me most was “there is no more time.” Because to be clear, this national lock down, is a hail mary. What he means is that if the numbers of contagion do not start to go down, the system, Italy, will collapse.
Why? Today the ICUs in Lombardy are at capacity – more than capacity. They have begun to put ICU units in the hallways. If the numbers do not go down, the growth rate of contagion tells us that there will be thousands of people who in a matter of a week? two weeks? who will need care. What will happen when there are 100, or a 1000 people who need the hospital and only a few ICU places left?
On Monday a doctor wrote in the paper that they have begun to have to decide who lives and who dies when the patients show up in the emergency room, like what is done in war. This will only get worse.
There are a finite number of drs, nurses, medical staff and they are getting the virus. They have also been working non-stop, non-stop for days and days. What happens when the drs, nurses and medical staff are simply not able to care for the patients, when they are not there?
And finally for those who say that this is just something that happens to old people, starting yesterday the hospitals are reporting that younger and younger patients – 40, 45, 18, are coming in for treatment.
You have a chance to make a difference and stop the spread in your country. Push for the entire office to work at home today, cancel birthday parties, and other gatherings, stay home as much as you can. If you have a fever, any fever, stay home. Push for school closures, now. Anything you can do to stop the spread, because it is spreading in your communities – there is a two week incubation period – and if you do these things now you can buy your medical system time.
And for those who say it is not possible to close the schools, and do all these other things, locking down Italy was beyond anyone’s imagination a week ago.
Soon you will not have a choice, so do what you can now.
Please share.
Jose Hernandez Thank you. 🙏🏽
God bless all of you. Italy will be in my prayers.
@Mike Myr …troll!!!!!!
@Atlantic Beach troll ? the democratic party created the KKK in the 50’s to troll the black’s and have been creating decision in America ever sense NO the true trolls are the leadership of the democratic party and all their little sheeples
@meghnac78 people believing chinese number blindly while a massive censorship with people disappearing miraculously in the country occurs kinda blows my mind. China did not handle anything right. They locked up (and killed) people who first rang the alarm about the virus, thus letting it become an outbreak. Then locked down a region by threatening people, getting rid of those who happened to not like the communist party, taking phones away so people cannot show the chaos (china minus 10 milion phone subscriptions in 2 months, where are they?) and now they are trying to pin the virus on the US.oh and yes they destroyed all proofs of the investigation done on wuhan market. Beautiful china. Cares more about reputation than its people.just trying really hard to look good. It will backfire.
Some snitch ran to the oval, probobly nuñes! And said you need to shut this down the truth is getting out
Dont have a cow , man
Bingo!
Rep. Katie Porter is the real deal.
Respect to Katie Porter. She’s an excellent example of a true public servant: Sharp, savvy, and highly skilled at understanding and communicating about complex public policy issues. Go Katie!
prometheus5700 you can run for office in your state of residence I believe. USA is 1 country, it doesn’t matter what state you come from only where you reside….
prometheus5700
Her constituents voted for her in an election.
Agreed!
@prometheus5700 She moved?
@Karen Byrd I would absolutely vote for her for president!
Feel free to get Porter on any time she’s available. She knows how to stay focused and sees through most bad science. ♡
Only reason I showed up here.
Katie Porter is a patriot.
n: a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors.
@Mike Myr will you just clam up you stupid moron?
@MyrnaMinkoff sorry WRONG the KKK was started by the dems in the 50’s that is a fact and the republican fought for black equality the civil war was republic against the democrat over equality of every American ,the dems have always been about using race and race baiting to get power they lie and are cons
@MyrnaMinkoff vice a versa just another lie and con
@MyrnaMinkoff if you knew anything about history you would know the civil war really had nothing to do with slavery ,but more to the point of England the dems and France the republic ,how England wanted to create division in the 13 colonies and how the France government thought it would be better if those 13 colonies remains independent so to help the France win their war with England THAT IS THE TRUE STORY ABOUT THE Civil WAR IN CONCLUSION dems = England desire to rule over America and the republic = true sovereignty of the America’s and freedom for France… You ignorant sheeple learn The truth instead of following these wannabees rulers parasites they are
Nothing to do with patriot… she is a dicent human… we are all humans no matter where we live !
I hope some day Katie Porter runs for president.
I was going to post the same thing. She’s great. And, she won in a conservative Orange County district.
DAVID ESPARZA I Agree!
Shed get my vote.
She’s really really good
Can she still enter the 2020 race? Pretty please?
Professional integrity the job and people before politics thats Katie Porter .
@prometheus5700 tRump is a corrupt depraved liar who has no foresight. He got rid of Obama’s Pandemic Response team and made other cuts that we are paying heavily for now.
@prometheus5700 Please tell us where you heard her blame Trump during this? Stop lying and start caring about your fellow Americans.
And refused WHO tests(which I am sure cost lives) to wait for tests from two of his contributors who own labs.
prometheus5700
Trump spent the last 2 months rallying telling people the Coronavirus is a Democrat hoax. Yea fu** outta here with your Trump bull*hit
@prometheus5700 did you even listen to what she was talking about in the hearing
I digress — I’ve always been quite impressed with Porter’s grasp of situations in various congressional hearings. She may be our first female president.
Trump-think: “Less testing = less cases.”
What a stable genius – LOL.
I swear to God that is exactly what was in his mind. Just what he was thinking when he didn’t want the passengers on the cruise ship to disembark. And he said so outloud for Christ’s sake.!
That’s the best false narrative I’ve heard for a while
@Moderate American says someone who believes the biggest liar ever. 16,000 and counting.
@Linda Scott – did you read any of those? Lol. The first 100 on the list are false narratives and don’t have any truth to them. They are lies. Don’t you think they would put their best first in the list? Lol
let’s not kid ourselves, that ’emergency’ meeting was called to intimidate the people being questioned into not giving full/honest answers.
Immediately and glaringly obvious, wasn’t it!
LOL
You and Hayes are so full of crap. How do you know? Has it ever occurred to you that you should take personal responsibility for knowing ther difference between the Truth and propaganda. Leftists have been creating false narratives like this for decades and have been proven lies almost immediately.
I absolutely love Katie Porter, PORTER FOR PRESIDENT!
What about homeless people on the streets??
I’d really like to see Rep. Katie Porter run for president. I think she’d win.
Porter does her research, is always prepared to make her point, and she doesn’t let people hide behind empty answers. I’d enjoy watching her take apart Conway or any of Trump’s other paid liars.
Ms. Porter is a BOSS
lol everyone saying it can’t be done. She did it. She got him to say yes
Trump is working with the private labs, so that these corporations can make maximum profits.
Perfectly nailed it on the head. Once families are healthy the market will respond and recover. People first.
Katie Porter is amazing. Her defense of the working class is admirable. I love her.