Juliette Kayyem

It is so disconcerting that even Members of Congress don't show up that day and some even show up armed.

The world saw us on our knees given the response we had. We were viewed as weak and not resilient.

This is also similar to what we saw in Brazil and the United Kingdom. Two leaders who were COVID deniers who ended up getting sick.

I often say, you know, a crisis hits a country as it is, not as we want it to be.

This is going to show itself, it's going to expose the inequalities for this country as well as for many of us be a sort of type of adaptive recovery.

I have come to believe, and I think the governors and mayors and the private sector and university presidents and everyone else has come to believe, that the president has run out of tricks, that he basically -- his anger is because he…

The President's sort of under the mistaken belief that he's relevant to the task at hand.

We need strong situational awareness. We need a strong center that actually knows what the needs are, across the 50 states, and who needs what, when.

The virus may be new. But disaster management is not.

The idea that we will have too much stuff is so enraging because I see these doctors every night on your show and throughout the day demanding, begging for PPE and other materials they need, patients who are going to need extra care.

To not discuss means is actually the political choice. I'm not politicizing this.

It is horrible that the world is this way. But we also have to empower our kids to protect themselves and to be safe.