Monaco and Yan on Coronavirus
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 22 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Monaco was Barack Obama's counterterrorism and Homeland Security advisor in the White House, and headed the Justice Department's national security division. Sophia Yan is a Beijing-based correspondent for the British newspaper The Telegraph. Lisa and Sophia may not seem to have a lot in common, but these days, they are both spending a lot of time thinking about coronavirus. Monaco managed epidemic and pandemic disease events for the Obama administration, and Yan is in the middle of covering the ongoing epidemic in China. Benjamin Wittes joined Lisa (in the Jungle Studio) and Sophia (remotely from Beijing) on Thursday to talk about how the Chinese government has responded, how the Trump administration has responded, and how much worse this is likely to get before it ebbs.
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| 0:29.0 | Just to exit where I live for anything, |
| 0:35.0 | but to get my temperature checked, |
| 0:37.0 | I have to produce the equivalent of a hall pass to allow me out of the compound. |
| 0:41.0 | I have to show it when I come back in. |
| 0:43.0 | And the same thing when I go to my Oscar school, |
| 0:45.0 | going all over to malls, |
| 0:47.0 | it's just this incredible machine that has kicked into gear to do everything |
| 0:51.0 | from disinfecting, you know, putting all these little math |
| 0:53.0 | where you can disinfect the souls of your shoes to signing in when you go to the bank. |
| 0:57.0 | So that in case you turn out to have them, you know, test positive |
| 1:01.0 | and to have the virus, they can go back and trace the contact you had with all these other people. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast February 22, 2020. |
| 1:13.0 | Lisa Monaco was Barack Obama's counterterrorism |
| 1:19.0 | and Homeland Security Advisor in the White House |
| 1:22.0 | and headed the Justice Department's National Security Division. |
| 1:26.0 | Sophia Yann is a Beijing-based correspondent for the telegraph, |
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