Name: Vice President Joe Biden Questions Trump's COVID Response
Uploaded: 2020-04-23T03:21:22.000Z
Duration: 14 min 14 s
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OUR FIRST GUEST IS THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED

STATES AND PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR

A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE HURTING VERY BADLY, BUT WE'RE

WE'RE HERE, IN THE BASEMENT OF MY HOME, WHICH IS TURNED INTO A

I GET TO ZOOM AND TALK WITH MY GRANDKIDS AND SON AND DAUGHTER.

THIS WAS NEVER THE CIRCUMSTANCES WITH WHICH I THOUGHT WE WOULD

BUT I'M JUST GLAD I'M NOT IN YOUR CAR BECAUSE I CAN'T SING

>> James: WELL MAYBE WE'LL FIND OUT ONE DAY.

I TELL YOU, MY DAD, WHEN HE WAS A KID USED TO HAVE A BAND, AND

HE PLAYED THE CAR NET AND SAXOPHONE, HE COULD SING AND

DANCE, AND HE SAID, JOEY, I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU CAME FROM,

YOU HAVE NO LIP, YOU CAN'T PLAY A READ INSTRUMENT, CAN'T CARRY A

TUNE IN A BARREL, HAVE TWO LEFT FEET, BUT I LOVE YOU ANYWAY.

>> James: MY DAD IS ALSO A CLARINET AND SAXOPHONE PLAYER.

>> James: YEAH, BUT I HAVE NO MUSICAL ABILITY WITH ANY

I REALLY WANT TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT THIS, VICE PRESIDENT,

BECAUSE BACK ON JANUARY 27, YOU WROTE AN OP-ED PIECE IN

"USA TODAY" WHERE YOU SAID I AM CONCERNED WE ARE UNPREPARED FOR

WHAT WAS IT THAT ALARMED YOU ABOUT THIS VIRUS QUITE SO EARLY,

>> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT ALARMED ME WAS THAT WORD CAME

OUT OF -- THAT THE FIRST CASE IN KOREA -- IN SOUTH KOREA AND THE

IT WAS CLEAR TO ME FROM WHEN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

TRANSITIONED FROM US TO THEM THAT THEY HAD NO INTEREST IN

WE WARNED THEM ABOUT THEM, WE WERE CONCERNED THERE WOULD BE

FUTURE PANDEMICS, WE HAD SET UP AN OFFICE WITHIN THE WHITE HOUSE

THEY JUST DISREGARDED ALL OF IT, AND IT WAS CLEAR TO ME BY THAT

TIME THE PRESIDENT HAD NO SENSE, NO SENSE OF SCIENCE, NO SENSE OF

AND I JUST REALLY --T IT REALLY WORRIED ME THAT HE WAS BOTH

UNQUALIFIED AND INCOMPETENT TO DEAL WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

IT'S NOT ANYTHING HE'S EVER DEALT WITH OR HAD ANY

>> James: IF YOU WERE IN OFFICE RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD YOU

HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY AND WHAT WOULD YOU THE BE DOING

>> WELL, FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.

THIS PRESIDENT SAYS I HAVE NO RESPONSIBILITY, IT'S NOT MY

WELL WHO IN THE HELL IS IT IF IT'S NOT THE PRESIDENT OF THE

AND I WOULD BE ACCOUNTABLE AND I WOULD BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT WHAT

LOOK, IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE FIRST THING I -- AND I SUGGESTED

THIS A WHILE AGO -- WE SHOULD HAVE A SUPPLY COMMANDER, LIKE A

MILITARY PERSON WHO, IN A WAR, HAS CHARGE OF ALL TO HAVE ASSETS

WELL, WE HAVE SOLDIERS IN THIS WAR, THEY'RE FIRST RESPONDERS,

THEY'RE DOCTORS, PEOPLE WHO ARE ON THE FRONT LINES, THEY'RE

NURSES, THEY'RE ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ARE STACKING GROCERY

SHELVES, ALL THESE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE, NUMBER ONE.

NUMBER TWO, I ARGUE THAT HE SHOULD USE WHAT THEY CALL THE

CREATE THE DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT THAT HE WOULD BE ABLE TO SAY

LIKE HE FINALLY DID WITH GENERAL MOTORS, I HAVE THE AUTHORITY

UNDER THIS ACT TO MAKE SURE YOU MAKE VENTILATORS FOR PEOPLE IN

HE SHOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME THING FOR THE INGREDIENTS NEEDED

FOR TESTING, FOR GLOVES, FOR MASKS, FOR GOWNS, AND I WOULD

HAVE ESTABLISHED -- IF I WERE IN CONGRESS, I WOULD HAVE MOVED TO

ESTABLISH WHAT THEY CALL A PANDEMIC TESTING BOARD, LIKE

F.D.R. DID THE WAR PRODUCTION BOARD, TO MAKE SURE WE GOT ALL

THIS DONE, AN OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR ObamaCare.

PEOPLE ARE SCARED TO DEATH, AND HE'S TRYING TO GET RID OF THE

ONLY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM WE HAVE OUT THERE OTHER THAN MEDICARE,

MEDICAID, AND, I MEAN, FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE INSURANCE.

WE HAVE TO COLLECT HARD DATA ON THE DISPROPORTION TO MINORITIES,

I WOULD BE DOING THAT AND MOST ANYONE ELSE WOULD BE DOING THAT.

>> BECAUSE HE DOESN'T WANT TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.

I THINK HE'S IN A SITUATION WHERE -- IF YOU LISTEN TO HIS

IT'S NOT ABOUT US OR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.

HE TALKS ACT THE GOVERNORS SHOULD THANK HIM FOR WHAT HE'S

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