Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss President Trump's decision to freeze funding to the World Health Organization and the need for a global response to the pandemic. Aired on 4/16/2020.
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WHO Was Late And Overly Deferential To China, But Trump Was As Well | Andrea Mitchell | MSNBC
Trump is completely and disastrously irresponsible. Congress should pass a law to fund the WHO. It should be obvious by now that anything happening around the world eventually comes back to us.
@Megadog wrong.
@J. Lo 👄Your information is incorrect!! Nancy was saying to go to China?! trump was holding rallies, saying the virus was a democratic hoax and playing golf!! Dr. Fauci always said it would affect the US!!! trump is the one who said it wouldn’t!
This is typical of Trump; First denial, then excuses, finally blame it on some one else. The maniac never admits his mistakes.
“President Barack Obama has declared a national emergency in America as swine flu deaths reached 1,000. In Britain, meanwhile, 122 people have died and cases of swine flu have more than doubled in the past seven days.
The flu, which has spread throughout much of the world and raised global alarm, has caused the deaths of more than 100 children in the US alone, and is widespread in 46 of America’s 50 states.
However, the White House said that declaring an emergency was a largely precautionary step aimed at allowing medical officials to bypass certain federal regulations in the event of a genuine disaster.
White House officials say the move was similar to precautions taken by coastal areas before a hurricane. “As a nation, we have prepared at all levels of government, and as individuals and communities, taking unprecedented steps to counter the emerging pandemic,” Obama wrote in the declaration that he signed late on Friday night.”
THE GUARDIAN
The WHO is completely and disastrously irresponsible. Congress should pass a law to de-fund the WHO. It should be obvious by now that any virus coming from China eventually comes back to us.
trump always complains about things that he himself has done . It’s called projection . Who slobbered all over Xi’s leadership in Januuary and February ? trump . Who was so slow to act that the entire White House begged him to do something in March ? trump . But trump finds similar behavior disturbing in others . LMFAO.
@SouthSide Chicago Again. Where did you get YOUR information?
@Scott Lord Fake news. What Dems called this a hoax??
You can’t even spin a good lie. You must just comment BS so you get more responses. You’re just a shill for whoever pays you.
@SouthSide Chicago _ OMG facts! Watchers of CNN are not in the least interested in facts! They just want to cry and crawl under their urine soaked beds and continue to watch their favorite FAKE NEWS.
@Blue Dog – You don’t have a clue. The MSM was playing this virus down in hopes of having as many people infected as possible. Remember Pelosi’s Chinatown party? How about the Democrat Mayor DeBlabbo in New York telling his city to go out and have a drink, or the Mayor of New Orleans not curbing the Mardi Gras festivities. If you seek the truth you will find it. People like you just want to live in ignorance.
Trump’s reasons for raising charges against the WHO which by the way may be gross negligent homicide will be the same reasons he can be charge for gross negligent homicide. It isn’t a good idea to throw rocks at someone in a glass house if you also live in a glass house.
he won’t do that for same reason he doesn’t file any of his threatened defamation suits at msm (and why he’s never _actually_ asserted executive privilege):
“discovery process” is his nemesis
he loses cases over 95% of the time if he doesn’t last-minute settle (to avoid technically losing). he settled a case in late ’90s, claimed “TOTAL VICTORY!!” and turned out (case was unsealed recently) he had “settled” by paying 100 cents on the dollar. (i.e., literally gave plaintiff every dime they asked for)
Taiwan is out of the glasshouse, and they are doing quite fine. Even tho they warned the people in the glasshouse that human-human transmission was possible. Guess what? WHO firstly rejected Taiwan for joining the WHO due to China’s influence, secondly, they ignored Taiwan’s warning and believed in China’s “LIMITED” human-human transmission. Praising China for its transparency. I think its time to get out of the glass glasshouse. The reason why other countries do not want US to cut funds because they could no longer benefit from it. They aren’t the largest contributor to WHO that’s why.
Hopefully! Crimes against humanity is one charge that hangs on Morondeathking!!!
Again found someone to blame
Trump will blame anyone but himself. The governors will have to take blame for independent actions related to lifting the isolation regulations so Trump can say” the governors made those decisions, not me” What a immoral clown Trump is
@Cathy Pesek never thought of that but is the way it will play
@Father Fred In my humble opinion, USA is fast becoming a ‘negative game player’. What the world need is a ‘constructive positive player’ such as Germany, Japan & China that play the game fair and square through positive constructive way that benefit the world as a whole. More at, http://blog.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1795128
https://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=724132&fromuid=764911
@NewYorker Joe Speaking of ‘could U.S. military really bring Coronavirus to Wuhan?
https://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1905886&fromuid=761176
It will be a few years before we can have an answer. Remember,
2009 United States H1N1 swine flu which killed about 300,000 worldwide was confirmed only in 2012 by CDC.
@अचलेंद्र idiots? Really lol
Always is someone else’s fault.
ALL. THE. TIME!😠
And the brain-dead Republicans, FOX viewers, and conservative idiots will all believe it.
it’s always the orangeman’s fault;)
The WHO was slow by a couple of weeks and Trump thinks they should be fired. Trump did nothing for 3 months. What does he deserve for causing tens of thousands of American deaths needlessly?
I’d rather have a stupid leader than communists
@William H Music 2020 so, he should know about the danger from january right?
JAIL
@William H Music 2020 and then he called the virus a democratic hoax. Supposedly, another attempt to impeach him.
Trump closed the border prior to one US death, and only a few causes
…result
“Racist!”…per MSNBC and useful idiots
Yeah blame the WHO for your own failure to act. All countries got the same warning at the exact same time from the WHO.
South Korea and Taiwan have orders of magnitude less deaths per capita than the US because they sprung into action _immediately_ instead of wasting their time playing golf and calling everything a hoax. Our loser fake prez is making us all lose. 👎💩💩💩
@Angela Siegfried You know that’s what I do not understand why Trump keeps repeating that he “ban flights from China”. There were still flights from China arriving LAX in February.
@Angela Siegfried lol, you think u can just cancel all the flight that has been full book before? Do you know that the airlines can sue the government because of that?
@DG Mzg This never had to become a Pandemic. It could have been prevented without any travel bans. The key is to test, test, test. The ‘alarming level of inaction’ (in WHO’s words) let the virus to get out of control in EU and US. Nobody listened to WHO is what caused this pandemic.
Yep! So Sad!
Calm down everyone, relax, the virus is just going to go away one day like a miracle ✌️
Typical Trump. Blame others. He will use WHO’s response to blame and deflect his own lack of response off himself! Anyone surprised?
Magdalis Almodovar He has every right to place blame where it is deserved. WHO failed to do their job, dereliction of duty.
Furthermore, governors failed to secure the proper PPE and medical supplies when they were warned that they didn’t have enough.
Warnings came from the CDC back in 2015 but NY chose to spend millions on solar farms.
The Smithfield pork plant was sold to WH Group in China in 2013
Typical Democrats. Blame Trump. They will use Trump’s response to blame and deflect the WHO’s own lack of response off himself! Anyone surprised? Typical Democrat
@efs 1066 type A was mainly spread in europe and america, asia’s virus is type B. The chosen one closed the wrong direction.
@man tv AGAIN, he didn’t “close” anything. (flights from europe and china continue to this day.)
he was preposterously late if he actually wanted to close off from china. (even more ludicrously stupid/late was his schengen not-a-ban bs. that was JUST theater – someone to fake blame.)
_there are 8 strains now._ one has “drifted” enough to count as “differentiated” (meaning: possibly won’t respond to same vaccine) BUT …
w/ eight strains now – and all of them still mutating (bc that’s just what viruses do) – that’s x8 the chance for another “full differentiation”
oddly enough, even china/wuhan’s outbreak wasn’t type A. the virus _quickly_ (hours? days?) mutated to B *and **_THAT_** is what swept the city.*
not kidding: no one except the first dead guy in Wuhan on dec 17 has had type A.
*_but type B … yowza._*
bc B became C, D, E, F, G, and H as it crossed continents
[this seems long but (I hope) it’s easy to understand bc you’re right: *YES, THE MUTATIONS ARE A HUGE **_POTENTIAL_** PROBLEM* ]
most of EU’s infection is from a virus _TWO_ mutations away from B. meaning B mutated (2nd version) … then mutated again (3rd version).
that third version is what is mostly in EU
(hope that makes sense)
so most of EU is “Bx2” (type B and then 2 mutations)
NY is mostly from that EU strain (roughly 95%) – *_BUT_* vast majority are mutated from EU (so _three mutations_ away from B).
so NY (and NJ) is “Bx3” (type B and then 3 mutations)
Washington state was mostly B – but eventually mutated to become two distinct (VERY distinct from EU’s and NY’s mutations) strains now …
but they’re MUCH closer to the original B
(and distinct from EU and NY mutations)
middle of the country is a mishmash of EU’s x2 mutation + NY’s x3 + Washington states’s two distinct x1 or x2 strains
not kidding: no one except the first dead guy in Wuhan on dec 17 has had type A.
*_type B … yowza._*
I’m thinking that 500 Billion is burning a hole in Trump’s pocket and defunding W.H.O. is a diversion.
@efs 1066 Trump has already spent 133 million golfing on the taxpayers dime and charging the secret service for golf carts and other crap.
@Jeff Matthews Trump has already spent 133 million golfing on the taxpayers dime and charging the secret service for golf carts and other crap.
Zero doubt. That is why he wants Mnuchin to have free reign with no oversight. Pelosi gets raked over the coals for trying to ensure oversight is there.
@three monkeys he just complained -AGAIN – tonight that Doral was closed. (and also said he let go every worker)
he _so_ wants that money.
efs 1066 Of cooooouuurrrssee
*Poor triggered MAGAtrash. I simply LOVE your sweaty desperation and impotent rage! Makes me laugh!*
We will enjoy your tears in November. Dementia Joe doesn’t stand a chance. It must be nice to live in a fantasy world, believing in the reality that you create in your own head.
Weird paste and post
Poor triggered communist democrat. I simply LOVE your sweaty desperation and impotent rage! Makes me laugh!
Please read! WHO:URGENT HEALTH CHALLENGES FOR NEXT DECADE
Josephus S Trumphorse may win , his cult members are still happy. They can’t see anything wrong here. Trumpsky is not responsible. It’s all Al Gores fault .
Did the WHO call it a hoax? did they?
yeah but did they even at least try to learn the truth? they just shut up and did what china told them. WHO is sh!t and so are the people who defend its misdoings
@Bedur Bbes pity that u still believe in whatever the chosen one said. it’s a hoax, it’s only a flu, u better believe it.
No trump did
@Bob Dobbolina trump and trump supporters
@man tv I’d rather have a stupid leader than Communists
January 2020
National Center for Medical Intelligence:
” Mr. President, we’re receiving credible reports of an unknown virus that is taking root in China, and has the possibility of turning into a pandemic. We highly urge you to study these reports. Our analysts concluded it could be a cataclysmic event.”
Trump: “I can’t be bothered with catalytic events right now. I’m way too busy. I’ve got golf balls to hit, tweets to send, rallies to attend, bloviations to make, lies to spread, and Fox shows to watch.”
😂😅😂 David stop it…🤣😅
Narcissistic child-like President, we are dealing with- Narcissist trait: does not take the blame, its always someone else’s fault, gets angry when backed up in a corner ( trumps response to reports), lies about everything, no empathy. This orange clown should have never been president. AMERICA WAKE THE F UP or we will be ruined. #worstpresidentever
I am not so much surprised that he downplayed the covid19 early on, because I heard his supporters voice the same opinions. He has always been self destructive, and that brings down everything around him, and it is evident.
Trump is a pouty baby
Three simple facts for the Republicans:
– Jan 30, the WHO declares an International Health Emergency
– Mar 13, Trump declares a National Emergency.
– Trump kept his promise and he made the USA the Greatest again with 675,000 infections and 35,000 deaths.
@Bảo Thạch Trương so instead of arguing saying there was no health emergency in january, you could of just looked it up and seen that you were wrong, but thats why anything you say has no weight, your just trying to argue lol
@mike hunt wrong , I live in China buddy , check out my latest channels videos if you dont believe, the only lock down is the Russian / China border as too many imported cases spiked from people trying to return.
@mike hunt again, source? No source, no argument. You lost. Period.
@Bảo Thạch Trương i provided a source to the january declaration of a health emergency so i guess you just trollin
@No clowning around gaming Im not wrong when i say wuhan has gone back under lockdown multiple times. They may have a good handle on it now but that still doesnt excuse the fact they kept reporting life as usual and its getting better then going back under lockdown quietly. It happened first with their movie theatres, started to re open and then had to go back under lockdown
Whatever punishment the WHO gets should be the same punishment Trump gets. He thinks we’re all as stupid as his supporters.
The news is not pointing the problem with trump response but,. What about the origin (why not blame the country that hide the information).
GFY
What????????????
“The right to travel is a part of the liberty of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment.”
[Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116, 125 (1958)]
“The right to travel, to go from place to place as the means of transportation permit, is a natural right subject to the rights of others and to reasonable regulation under law. A restraint imposed by the Government of the United States upon this liberty, therefore, must conform with the provision of the Fifth Amendment that ‘No person shall be * * * deprived of * * * liberty * * * without due process of law’.”
[Schactman v. Dulles, 96 App DC 287, 225 F.2d 938, at 941]
Depriving one of the basic human rights that are given to us in the constitution can only be done if there is probable cause to do so and only after a period of due process.
@M.A. M.R. 🤣🤣🤣
Ask trump. He would like to do it for ebony..after chewing a box of tic tac
Trump’s indifference and ignorance is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, and it appears that he’s not finished.
@Gary M 🤣
China’s indifference and ignorance is directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, and it appears that they’re not finished.
@David J Hahahahaha. True
Scott Lord lying as a game show host.
You poor brainwashed serf.
Get your news from multiple sources.
I really don’t get this accusation. The WHO has no authority to enter a sovereign nation to confirm anything, and MUST rely on the member nation to be both cooperative and accurate with the information they give them. This is a stupid blame game that a lot of otherwise intelligent people are getting on board with. Even with different flavours, a lot of Kool-aid drinkers.
Oh, and the facts show the WHO acted quite responsibly, unlike some iDjT’s
@Every Word Is A Made-Up Word Apparently the American Communists never heard the clip (or maybe they did???) of the WHO spokesperson talking to a Chinese media person, and you can hear the Chinese authoritarian in the background yelling at them, and the interview was ended.
@Gary Oakham Now now, if you start talking about how Medicare-for-all will simply guarantee checks to the rich hospitals, and eliminate competition, you’re going to cause a Communist revolt on YouTube.
@Max DC Let’s see, that Guidance was not to shut down travel, that it was not capable of human to human transmission, and that Chinese Propaganda was more important than trying to get science and facts.
@magicfox Just imagine, Obama allowed IRS targeting and FBI/CIA targeting of political opponents…. imagine the concept that the hospitals will be completely controlled by government, that if you’re a political opponent and have an issue, they will just “whisk” the support measures away when you need it, and you just die quietly….. if they can falsify and forge evidence that the president of the USA is a Russian Spy paid by Putin, imagine a lowly citizen that just had a heart attack…. “What’s your political voting record? Oh really, not good with the President? You get a bed, but these life support systems will accidentally not work….”
@DLANOD PMURT SI RUOY TNEDISERP ,
Now, there is proof of what an illiterate moron you are.
Get your dog to teach you how to use a search engine, stupid.
Until then, go play on a busy highway.
Crush the Republican Party 2020!
🍊 2020
@Walter Godsoe hope you enjoy 4 more years
Like an ANVIL on 🐜👈ANTS !!!💅😒💅😒💅💯💯.
@tech4year Like an ANVIL on 🐜👈ANTS the Democrats will be crushed!!!💅😒💅😒💅💯💯.
With who? BIDEN? Ahahahahaha!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What? He tried cutting funding to the CDC? OMG
You mr. President are using the World Health as a scapegoat to cover your inadequacy to respond to this very real crisis
wrong
What about Taiwan and Japan?