Quick Take: Beyond the Pandemic
The Michael Steele Podcast
Two Squared Media
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, it's Michael Steele here and now I know you're waiting for the next big |
| 0:11.7 | episode of the Michael Steele Podcast but in the meantime, give a listen to this Michael |
| 0:16.6 | Steele Podcast Quick Take where Tom Winter, a state rep for the great state of Montana |
| 0:23.9 | representing the only congressional district in the state. |
| 0:26.4 | The only thing is that you've got that Montana power and also candidate for the United States |
| 0:33.1 | Congress. |
| 0:35.4 | How do you go about preventing a future breakdown of this system knowing what we know now, |
| 0:42.8 | but more importantly, knowing what we knew then, we've had what two or three presidents |
| 0:50.0 | speak openly about America's capacity and its capability to handle a virus like this. |
| 1:01.5 | George Bush talked about it, Barack Obama talked about it and yet here we are 20 some years |
| 1:10.3 | later having to confront the very thing that we were told could happen and we seem |
| 1:17.3 | wholly ill equipped to handle it. |
| 1:19.7 | The president fires and shuts down the office that deals with pandemics and these type |
| 1:32.2 | of situations because Obama fully staffed and funded it so well we don't need that. |
| 1:41.9 | That was his thing. |
| 1:42.9 | Let's get rid of that. |
| 1:44.0 | But now here we are. |
| 1:46.4 | You're looking to be in the Congress this time next year. |
| 1:52.0 | This issue will still be on the table I believe this time next year. |
| 1:56.5 | Why? |
| 1:57.5 | Because a vaccine is not going to be available for 12 to 16 months from now. |
| 2:03.4 | So what do you see as a new voice in the United States Congress that needs to grab people's |
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