March 6, 2020 • 8 mins
Tom discusses the need for strong leadership as we deal with the Corona Virus’ arrival in the United States.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I heard radio presents Tom Broke now here. This what
a week this has been. Is my old colleague, the
late lamented Tim Russers. I missed him every day. He
used to say on these occasions, Tombo, this is big.
We have a national health emergency and a Democratic presidential
(00:21):
race that is now royal by an upset. Joe Biden
has gone from really worst to first, now the number
one choice of most of the Democratic Party leaders. He
seemed not to have a chance at all until Super
Tuesday came along, and now we know that he's the
guy that if they're going to have any kind of
(00:42):
a chance in the fall, he'll have to be the
candidate for the Democrats. Bernie is on an attack mode
as a result. Senator Centators, as we all know, has
a very far left idea about what the country needs.
He does have a dedicated group of overs, but when
you put it in the wider universe, he simply cannot
(01:04):
win against Donald Trump. No matter what the polls are
saying right now, the small number of them that we have. Coronavirus,
which is rocketing around the world, is the most serious
health care issue in my memory, dating back to polio.
It is reminiscent of that time. It is global, and
(01:24):
it is tenacious, and it will not be solved easily.
The president seems to think if we do just a
few smart things, it will be over by the springtime.
Almost all the experts in the field say, we don't
know when it will be over or how we can
bring it to an end. It will take at least
a year. We're just at the beginning. So the leader
(01:46):
of the United States is ill informed and seemed not
inclined to listen to the people who know best about
how we have to approach this. I think we need
a bipartisan approach. Here's an idea. John Kerry and George Porsch,
the two men who ran against each other for President
of the United States, can be the coach heirs of
(02:06):
the approach to take on this not just national but
international health threat. They can run its task force, organizing
the best people not just in the United States but
around the world to deal with it, to have regular
reports and what's true and what's not, what we ought
to be thinking about, what we ought to be doing,
to work together internationally to find a way through all
(02:29):
of us. I went to something similar to this at
NBC when we have the answers attack, and I can
tell you that in a heartbeat, there's more misinformation than
there is reliable information. That was a very threatening attack
on us, obviously, but nothing to compare with what we're
going through right now. We had a lot of confusion
(02:51):
and no clearing house at the beginning. The fact of
the matter is there is still too little that we
now know about. When it comes to answer, the President
should just shut up and let the experts do the
talking politics. Democrats are now moving to the center, and
that's probably in their best interests come the fall. At
(03:12):
the same time, Joe Biden has risen from the ashes
to be a real threat, but he also has an
obligation to be a statesman, to pull his party together,
not to just constantly be on the attack. Bernie in
the meantime, as I said earlier, has been desperate and
irresponsible in his itsacks, and he'll pay a price for that,
is my guess. We have to move from the hard
(03:35):
left to the sensible middle if the Democrats are going
to have a place in this country's future. As for
the Republicans, they have to do something as well. They
have to have the courage to speak out when the
President is plainly wrong in some of his judgments, and
also the information that he's determined to convey to the
American people that is also dead wrong. This is all
(03:57):
playing into the broad class area of policy. Sooner or
later we'll have the UFO. The unforeseen will occur, and
we're going through that right now. The Republicans have to
step up and say to the president, Mr President, let's
leave it to the experts. We're here to help, but
we're going to require the help of our colleagues across
(04:18):
the aisle as well. At the same time, and I
continue to I continue to emphasize this, we're not paying
up attention to the fact that we're still at war
in the Middle East. This administration is trying to do
something to curve out the beginning of a peace plan,
but we've got a long way to go before we
(04:39):
have any kind of a deal. We need to have
more of a public discussion on both sides, Republican and democratic.
Like Chuck Schumer was out of line with his attacks
on the U. S. Supreme Court, he had it coming
when Chief Justice Roberts let him know that it all
happened all of us, the health care, complete change in
(04:59):
our American politics on the Democratic side, what was going
on in the Middle East now the attack on the court.
This all happened in less than three weeks. It tells
you the kind of world in which we are now living.
Bernie is now the Democrats target on their side. Bloomberg
learned the limits of money when it comes to being
(05:21):
a presidential candidate. The markets have been royal by this
healthcare threat. The speed of developments are breathtaking. At first,
people didn't believe what they were hearing. Now they know
that we are in in an international crisis and the
speed of change cannot be measured by the old standards alone.
We all have to pay attention to how we live
(05:44):
our daily lives. Who were in touch with how we
pay attention to daily sanitation, and make sure that we're
not taken in by people who will be trying to
take advantage of the threat that is out there. I
recently had another or experience with the American health care system.
As most of you know by now, I think I'm
a cancer victim. Unfortunately, two days after I turned eighty,
(06:07):
I decided to go for a spin on my bike
and as I mounted it, it tipped over, and I
have a practice in the lower part of my back.
So there I am, once again in the care of
the American health care system, and I'm here to tell
you it's the best in the world. But it is confusing,
and unless you have a kind of protection that I
do as a result of being a General Electric employee
(06:30):
all those years and having a good health care plan,
I think you're in the wilderness house there. You just
don't know where to turn how you can pay for
all of us. Again, my lucky life, I have those benefits,
but it's not been resolved by any means about how
we're gonna deal with health care in the future. That
is the number one concern of most Americans, and we
(06:52):
have to pay attention to it and not get hysterical.
I also live in New York City, which is very crowded,
and for the sations that I know in New York
are saying quietly to their friends and to their colleagues,
this healthcare crisis is going to come to places like
New York City. Because we're constantly in touch with each
other and circumstances that we can't always control. They have
(07:16):
great worries about once it hits New York City, it
will spread very fast. I can move on, I can
get out of the city and go to more secure places.
That's one of the advantages of being at the stage
in my life and having the financial resources to do so.
The millions of America don't have those kinds of opportunities.
(07:36):
So we're all in this together, and we'll all have
to help each other together. Listen to the experts, not
to the fear mongers. The old rules are the best.
Personal sanitation, be careful about who you're associating with, be
careful and crowded conditions, and most of all, just use
common sense and listen to the experts. This is a
(07:59):
testing time from Acca politically in terms of the healthcare
that we expect from our country and from each other,
and especially we have to pay attention to what is
going on out there and circumstances that we cannot control.
After all, coronavirus did not begin in America, but it
(08:20):
moves swiftly around the world from Asia to now here,
and primarily in Europe and Italy especially. These are difficult
times and it requires the best of us linking arms
and working together for a change and not just pointing
fingers at one another and saying it's your fault. In fact,
(08:43):
we're all on this together. It's a test for not
one party or the other. It's a test for humanity.
I'm trying Brokaw for I Heart Radio now here this
I heard radio presents Tom Broke now here. This what
a week this has been. Is my old colleague, the
late lamented Tim Russers. I missed him every day. He
used to say on these occasions, Tombo, this is big.
We have a national health emergency and a Democratic presidential
(00:21):
race that is now royal by an upset. Joe Biden
has gone from really worst to first, now the number
one choice of most of the Democratic Party leaders. He
seemed not to have a chance at all until Super
Tuesday came along, and now we know that he's the
guy that if they're going to have any kind of
(00:42):
a chance in the fall, he'll have to be the
candidate for the Democrats. Bernie is on an attack mode
as a result. Senator Centators, as we all know, has
a very far left idea about what the country needs.
He does have a dedicated group of overs, but when
you put it in the wider universe, he simply cannot
(01:04):
win against Donald Trump. No matter what the polls are
saying right now, the small number of them that we have. Coronavirus,
which is rocketing around the world, is the most serious
health care issue in my memory, dating back to polio.
It is reminiscent of that time. It is global, and
(01:24):
it is tenacious, and it will not be solved easily.
The president seems to think if we do just a
few smart things, it will be over by the springtime.
Almost all the experts in the field say, we don't
know when it will be over or how we can
bring it to an end. It will take at least
a year. We're just at the beginning. So the leader
(01:46):
of the United States is ill informed and seemed not
inclined to listen to the people who know best about
how we have to approach this. I think we need
a bipartisan approach. Here's an idea. John Kerry and George Porsch,
the two men who ran against each other for President
of the United States, can be the coach heirs of
(02:06):
the approach to take on this not just national but
international health threat. They can run its task force, organizing
the best people not just in the United States but
around the world to deal with it, to have regular
reports and what's true and what's not, what we ought
to be thinking about, what we ought to be doing,
to work together internationally to find a way through all
(02:29):
of us. I went to something similar to this at
NBC when we have the answers attack, and I can
tell you that in a heartbeat, there's more misinformation than
there is reliable information. That was a very threatening attack
on us, obviously, but nothing to compare with what we're
going through right now. We had a lot of confusion
(02:51):
and no clearing house at the beginning. The fact of
the matter is there is still too little that we
now know about. When it comes to answer, the President
should just shut up and let the experts do the
talking politics. Democrats are now moving to the center, and
that's probably in their best interests come the fall. At
(03:12):
the same time, Joe Biden has risen from the ashes
to be a real threat, but he also has an
obligation to be a statesman, to pull his party together,
not to just constantly be on the attack. Bernie in
the meantime, as I said earlier, has been desperate and
irresponsible in his itsacks, and he'll pay a price for that,
is my guess. We have to move from the hard
(03:35):
left to the sensible middle if the Democrats are going
to have a place in this country's future. As for
the Republicans, they have to do something as well. They
have to have the courage to speak out when the
President is plainly wrong in some of his judgments, and
also the information that he's determined to convey to the
American people that is also dead wrong. This is all
(03:57):
playing into the broad class area of policy. Sooner or
later we'll have the UFO. The unforeseen will occur, and
we're going through that right now. The Republicans have to
step up and say to the president, Mr President, let's
leave it to the experts. We're here to help, but
we're going to require the help of our colleagues across
(04:18):
the aisle as well. At the same time, and I
continue to I continue to emphasize this, we're not paying
up attention to the fact that we're still at war
in the Middle East. This administration is trying to do
something to curve out the beginning of a peace plan,
but we've got a long way to go before we
(04:39):
have any kind of a deal. We need to have
more of a public discussion on both sides, Republican and democratic.
Like Chuck Schumer was out of line with his attacks
on the U. S. Supreme Court, he had it coming
when Chief Justice Roberts let him know that it all
happened all of us, the health care, complete change in
(04:59):
our American politics on the Democratic side, what was going
on in the Middle East now the attack on the court.
This all happened in less than three weeks. It tells
you the kind of world in which we are now living.
Bernie is now the Democrats target on their side. Bloomberg
learned the limits of money when it comes to being
(05:21):
a presidential candidate. The markets have been royal by this
healthcare threat. The speed of developments are breathtaking. At first,
people didn't believe what they were hearing. Now they know
that we are in in an international crisis and the
speed of change cannot be measured by the old standards alone.
We all have to pay attention to how we live
(05:44):
our daily lives. Who were in touch with how we
pay attention to daily sanitation, and make sure that we're
not taken in by people who will be trying to
take advantage of the threat that is out there. I
recently had another or experience with the American health care system.
As most of you know by now, I think I'm
a cancer victim. Unfortunately, two days after I turned eighty,
(06:07):
I decided to go for a spin on my bike
and as I mounted it, it tipped over, and I
have a practice in the lower part of my back.
So there I am, once again in the care of
the American health care system, and I'm here to tell
you it's the best in the world. But it is confusing,
and unless you have a kind of protection that I
do as a result of being a General Electric employee
(06:30):
all those years and having a good health care plan,
I think you're in the wilderness house there. You just
don't know where to turn how you can pay for
all of us. Again, my lucky life, I have those benefits,
but it's not been resolved by any means about how
we're gonna deal with health care in the future. That
is the number one concern of most Americans, and we
(06:52):
have to pay attention to it and not get hysterical.
I also live in New York City, which is very crowded,
and for the sations that I know in New York
are saying quietly to their friends and to their colleagues,
this healthcare crisis is going to come to places like
New York City. Because we're constantly in touch with each
other and circumstances that we can't always control. They have
(07:16):
great worries about once it hits New York City, it
will spread very fast. I can move on, I can
get out of the city and go to more secure places.
That's one of the advantages of being at the stage
in my life and having the financial resources to do so.
The millions of America don't have those kinds of opportunities.
(07:36):
So we're all in this together, and we'll all have
to help each other together. Listen to the experts, not
to the fear mongers. The old rules are the best.
Personal sanitation, be careful about who you're associating with, be
careful and crowded conditions, and most of all, just use
common sense and listen to the experts. This is a
(07:59):
testing time from Acca politically in terms of the healthcare
that we expect from our country and from each other,
and especially we have to pay attention to what is
going on out there and circumstances that we cannot control.
After all, coronavirus did not begin in America, but it
(08:20):
moves swiftly around the world from Asia to now here,
and primarily in Europe and Italy especially. These are difficult
times and it requires the best of us linking arms
and working together for a change and not just pointing
fingers at one another and saying it's your fault. In fact,
(08:43):
we're all on this together. It's a test for not
one party or the other. It's a test for humanity.
I'm trying Brokaw for I Heart Radio now here this
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