Ron Klain

Yes. I mean obviously there is sadly a family history of racism in the Trump world.

The fact that he's turned a blind eye to the impacts of COVID on African-Americans right now in this country.

We lost over 1,000. So there's, there's no reason why it should be different here than there, and yet, it's vastly different.

We can't get numb to that loss. I thought the vice president was quite articulate and powerful on that point last night.

Joe Biden issued warnings about this in January. Well, few others were speaking about it. He issued warnings about it in February. He laid out a comprehensive plan in March months ago, and has updated it periodically during the campaign.

Donald Trump has proven that he cannot manage a pandemic, now he can't even manage the mail.

The idea that his embarrassment is the reason that the nation doesn't hear as much, on a daily basis, from important scientists is stunning to me.

It is stunning, Anderson. I think it also goes back to something Kaitlan mentioned a minute ago, which is that as the White House has departed farther and farther from science...

People weren't going to believe that when they hear that from the scientists. The more the President muzzles the scientists, the more people feel that they aren't being told the truth...

We're going to see two kinds of divisions be exacerbated here.

God bless, you know, grocery store employees, and delivery people, whether it's delivering food, or FedEx or, you know, packages, UPS, I mean it is people who do not have, you know, have to put food on the table, and have to go out, and…

The President can encourage crowds. He can rile people up. But if states are going to reopen without testing, they're reopening blind.

The President of the United States has the authority, under the Defense Production Act, to order the manufacture of these things.

But what the President is basically saying is, you know, we're - you know, basically, we're going to go forward this way without really knowing what we're sending people into.

The second division we're going to see now is this division we're seeing between Red states and Blue states, the beaches at Jacksonville being open and, you know, different behaviors, different choices by governors, not based on different…

This is not a negotiation about good to have, nice to have. If someone needs a ventilator, they need it right now.

The best way to get our economy back to work is to beat this disease.

I think the problem is that we need President Trump to do his job so all of us can go do ours.

Public officials at all levels of government need to take steps against discrimination.

I think the decision to bring in private labs is a positive decision. It certainly increases the capacity, but that is only going to deal with people who are in a diagnostic or clinical setting.

Five years ago I wrote a piece where I said that Congress should amend the Stafford Act to add epidemics as a disaster for the purpose of the Stafford Act.

I think that we could have made a decision to adopt the testing protocols and kits used in other countries that have allowed them to ramp up very quickly.

Congress has to continue to do its own work on the coronavirus.

I think, on the competence side, the Government has to provide the leadership and the funding to deliver this response.

Science and medical expertise must guide them, not politics.