{"id":338564,"date":"2020-02-28T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=338564"},"modified":"2020-03-02T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T21:26:12","slug":"vice-president-pence-joins-rush-in-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/02\/28\/vice-president-pence-joins-rush-in-the-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Pence Joins Rush at EIB Southern Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We are happy to have with us today&#8230; You don\u2019t know. The media has been trying to find you today. Vice President Mike Pence is here with us today.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: (chuckling)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They have been out of their minds because they haven\u2019t been able to find you.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: (chuckling)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/43265\/97402\/#!\/43265\/97402\/Vice-President-Pence-Joins-Rush-at-EIB-Southern-Command\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-338618 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Rush-Pence-PLAY-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Rush-Pence-PLAY-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Rush-Pence-PLAY-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: They say you\u2019re not taking this seriously enough because they think you were at a fundraiser or some such thing.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: (chuckling)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We are very honored to have you here, sir. It\u2019s a thrill. You were in town and graciously gave us a half hour to come by here and try to straighten the American people out on the situation with coronavirus and anything else that you think the American people should know. First, welcome. You look great.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: (chuckling)<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s great to have you here. It really is.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Rush. It is great to be here. Great to see you. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/02\/07\/what-a-week-im-one-of-the-luckiest-people-alive\/\">Congratulations again on the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, what a day.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: It was a special night. Well deserved.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: (chuckling) What a day and night that was. My wife, Kathryn, and I, we will never forget what you all did for us that day and that night.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What should the American people know today about the status of the coronavirus in America and how it is being dealt with, and &#8212; as best you can tell &#8212; what the future is?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: You bet. Well, look, President Trump has no higher priority than the health and safety of the American people. That\u2019s why in the month of January, when we first learned of the coronavirus outbreak, the president took two steps that were unprecedented. No president in American history had ever done it. He suspended all travel to the United States from China by noncitizens of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Then he instituted a quarantine policy for American citizens that were coming home, that we would make sure that they were taken care of, but also receive treatment and the proper screening to determine that they were not in any jeopardy for their health, for the health of their family or their communities. We also instituted screening at about five different major airports around the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: This is in January.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: In January &#8212; and, again, the first two steps had never been done by any president. I remember I was in the Oval Office at the time that the White House task force on the coronavirus came in, and they said, &#8220;Mr. President, we have a very low risk in this country of an outbreak.&#8221; That\u2019s what they told him at the time. The risk remains low to this day. But they said, &#8220;We\u2019re recommending you take this step even though it\u2019s never been done before.&#8221; The president said without hesitating, &#8220;Do it,&#8221; and all of our health experts&#8230; I attended my first White House corona task force meeting yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>We convened at HHS. I\u2019ve been on the phone the whole way here to Florida with all of our team talking, and talking with governors around the country and members of Congress. Every single one of our health experts have said that, if the president had not taken that action in January, we would be in a very different place than we are today. As of today, we have 15 people in the United States who contracted the coronavirus here. All of them have received treatment. All of them are doing well. There\u2019s another 46 Americans that we brought back from China, from overseas. Again, all of them have received treatment, all of them are doing well.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Some of them were on the cruise ship in Yokohama?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yes, there were people from the cruise ship, and a lot of our diplomatic core in China. It\u2019s 61 people today in the United States of America and, again, it should be an encouragement to people that all those people have been treated. We have one still in the hospital, but all those people are doing well. The president has directed me to oversee this process to ensure that the full resources of the federal government are brought to bear.<\/p>\n<p>So I was on the phone this morning with Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, Senator John Thune. We\u2019re working with Congress to put together supplemental funding. Not to just make sure our agencies &#8212; HHS, CDC, Homeland Security &#8212; have the resources they need, Rush, but we\u2019re going to make sure that states and local health officials have the resources to be prepared. And I\u2019m in Florida today. I will be meeting with the Florida governor to talk about Florida\u2019s preparedness.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, it\u2019s got to be a tough job. Look at California. California has the chief doctor of UC Davis Med Center in Sacramento, and they are out hyping that they\u2019ve got the first case of this disease that didn\u2019t contract it overseas, just got it in a community basis, and they can\u2019t figure out &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now they are talking about there may be 8,400 people with it, carrying it, not knowing about it. Have you talked to Governor Newsom? &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: How do you coordinate? You have a lot of people scared. You have a lot of people trying to protect themselves politically by trying to get out in front of it as well. It\u2019s got to be a massive thing to try to coordinate this to keep the public properly informed and not panicking. But when they hear things like 8,400 cases maybe, or a case that nobody can explain in California &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338581\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; that gets them worried.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Right. I spoke to Governor Newsom yesterday. Very good conversation. You know, as the president said at that press conference, Rush: We\u2019re all in this together. The president said to me, &#8220;This is an all-hands-on-deck effort,&#8221; and I talked to Governor Newsom, because, frankly, California has been a great partner with HHS and CDC. They have worked very closely with us already, as we\u2019ve repatriated Americans. We\u2019re working very, very closely on the patient that was identified. And I think, obviously, there\u2019s concern about this.<\/p>\n<p>But I want to assure the American people that we\u2019re going to make sure that, for our part, we set politics aside on this, and we work the problem. I, frankly, have been very encouraged, not only in my conversation with Governor Newsom, with the Democrat leadership of the House and Senate, with Governor Cuomo of New York. We are all going to come together as Americans and deal with this issue and put the health and safety of the American people first.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is always going to have a political reflexive response to things. But we\u2019re going to tune that out. We\u2019re going to work the problem. We\u2019re going to make sure that we have the resources necessary. But I want your listeners to know, as we sit here today, the threat of the coronavirus spreading in the United States of America remains low. With that being said, the president said &#8212; out of an abundance of caution &#8212; we\u2019re going to continue to take very, very strong measures and to put the health and safety of the American people first.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, I\u2019m asking these next series of questions. I don\u2019t want to pretend to be something I\u2019m not. I\u2019m for you guys. I want you to succeed because this needs success! I mean, this problem needs to be dealt with successfully, hopefully as apolitically as possible. The virus doesn\u2019t know whether it\u2019s infecting a Republican or a Democrat, a woman, a man, or anything. And until we get a better handle on it, we want competent people working on this.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I saw the press conference with the president. I thought this was very, very important for people that don\u2019t know him. He was being asked about the &#8220;inevitability&#8221; of this, and he said, &#8220;I don\u2019t believe the worst is inevitable.&#8221; President Trump is a problem solver. He has been all of his life in business.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You have, too, as governor of Indiana. The portrayal of you all as incompetent and in over your heads is also political, and I want to ask you how you deal with that, how you\u2019re reacting to it, because there is public relations to this as well as the substance of what you\u2019re dealing with. You\u2019re being hit because you supposedly botched something in Indiana that you didn\u2019t botch.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: (chuckling) No.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: So, how do you respond to people who are making criticisms like this? Because, remember: Everybody that I know wants you to succeed with this because we\u2019re talking about the health of the American people and ultimately the world.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, we\u2019re going to stay focused on the American people and on their health and safety. The president made it very clear in that press conference &#8212; he\u2019s made it very clear to our team &#8212; that we\u2019re going to bring all the resources of the American people together around this. But he told me&#8230; He told me to call Speaker Nancy Pelosi and call Senator Chuck Schumer, and I did that, and we had very productive conversations. We\u2019re already beginning to work on what they call a supplemental bill, and the president has made it clear that while we submitted an initial proposal, we\u2019re very open to working with Democrats and Republicans in Congress to make sure we have all the support that we need.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What will the money be used for?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s a tendency of Washington to throw money at things &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8212; and say, &#8220;Solution at hand.&#8221; But how is it going to be allocated?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: The most important thing your listeners ought to know is that, because of the action the president took last month, the threat remains low, but we\u2019re ready for whatever may come. And part of the resource issue in working with the Congress right now is to make sure that our agencies have the funding to be able to address anything that may come.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re also looking at issues about medical supplies and what the president may be able to &#8212; may decide to exercise authority to make sure that we have additional supplies in the event of a broader outbreak. During my years in the state of Indiana, we actually had two instances of infectious diseases breaking out when I was governor. Number one is Indiana was where the very first MERS case emerged in the country. Fortunately, there were only two.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: MERS is a devastating infection.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Yes, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome. We had SARS. We had MERS, which is much more lethal than the coronavirus we\u2019re talking about today. I remember when I learned as governor that we had the first MERS case, we went straight to work. We deployed our local health officials. We deployed our health department. We brought in the CDC. We took every effort, working with local law enforcement, to find out who that person had been in contact with. I\u2019m glad to report that person was treated, recovered, and there was no further infection in the community.<\/p>\n<p>A year later, we learned in a very small town that there was an outbreak of the HIV\/AIDS virus and it was all being &#8212; it was all being transmitted through people sharing needles, intravenous drug use. Well, again, we went straight to work. We deployed health resources in the region, law enforcement. We sought to deal with it from a law enforcement standpoint, but we engaged the CDC, and they came in and said to us that, in this one instance, I ought to declare a state health emergency. And for a short period of time allow for making a needle exchange available so people would no longer be sharing needles to transmit.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I will tell you, needle exchange was illegal in the state of Indiana at the time. I don\u2019t support needle exchange as a way of dealing with drug abuse, but, as governor, I made the hard call. I said, &#8220;Look, we have a health emergency in the state of Indiana,&#8221; and so I signed an executive order. We dealt with the issue. We ended the spread of the disease. Everyone received treatment, and the community has completely recovered and I\u2019m proud of it.<\/p>\n<p>The state of Indiana went on to change the law following what I had done, but, in both of those instances, what I learned, Rush, was the value of partnerships when you\u2019re dealing with a health issue. I think it might be the main reason why President Trump asked me to do this. I think by putting me over the administration\u2019s response to the coronavirus, the president wanted to signal the priority that he\u2019s placed on this.<\/p>\n<p>But he talked to me about my practical experience as a governor, because a lot of people are aware the CDC is involved, HHS is involved, Homeland Security is involved, and we\u2019ve managed the quarantines. But, honestly, what I learned as governor, it\u2019s your state health department, it\u2019s your local health care providers that are at the tip of the spear in the spread of infectious disease. And so, as we work with Congress on making resources available, we\u2019re going to make just as sure that not just that federal agencies have the resources, but, as I told several governors today, we are going to make sure that our state and local health care providers have the resources and the support that they are going to need to deal with whatever may come. But we\u2019re ready today, and we\u2019re going to make sure that we\u2019re ready going forward.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We are with Vice President Mike Pence for the half hour. We\u2019ll take a brief, obscene profit break and be back and resume shortly. Don\u2019t go anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, from the EIB Southern Command. And we are happily with the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pence, who is running the task force for President Trump on the coronavirus. Two things about this very quickly &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thanks, Rush.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Pardon me?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-RUSH-3-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re welcome. The whistleblower. There is a whistleblower asserting that the administration people, HHS people, were not properly protected when some of the infected people arrived.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Right.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You guys have been really plagued by some whistleblowers. What\u2019s the status of this?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, look, I spoke to the secretary of HHS this morning. We\u2019re initiating a full-scale investigation into the allegation that our personnel were not provided sufficient protective gear. Look, our first priority is to take care of Americans that may have been impacted by the coronavirus, but right after that is taking care of our health care providers.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll get to the bottom of it. I was assured of that today by Secretary Azar and also there will be &#8212; I got his commitment. I don\u2019t want any retaliation against anybody. We need all the facts. What we\u2019re going to do in this process &#8212; and I\u2019m 36 hours into it. I have to tell you, just as President Trump said, that I think our team, beginning with the president\u2019s decisions last month, I think our team has done a very strong job leaning into this effort on the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019re going to follow the facts. We\u2019re going to follow the science. We\u2019re going to tune out the politics and keep reaching out to people across the spectrum. I have to tell you, my conversations with many of the officials that I mentioned to you in the Democratic party, I get that sense. I think this is a real moment where we have an opportunity to really come together and work this issue on behalf of the American people. And that\u2019s going to continue to be our focus.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I got up today doing show prep and I see this headline leading to a story that you\u2019ve got a gag order, that the president has put a gag order on, say, Tony Fauci and Dr. Schuchat and all the people that were there with you at the press conference, that nobody is allowed to talk about this unless it\u2019s cleared through him or you. That just doesn\u2019t sound like &#8212; I know you &#8212; is it true? You\u2019ve got a gag order on these people?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: No, it\u2019s not. And I was told Dr. Fauci testified at a briefing in Congress today that there was no gag order, and there is not. What we want to make sure is happening is that with so many different agencies involved that we\u2019re providing that information in a consistent and systematic way. We\u2019re going to give the American people the facts. We\u2019re going to follow what the scientific community is recommending on this. And we\u2019re going to let the health care experts lead.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m bringing back from Africa an extraordinary expert in infectious diseases. She has run our AIDS Africa program over there. She will be my right arm at the White House for this coronavirus response. She\u2019s highly respected on both sides of the aisle, but we\u2019re going to make sure the American people have all the facts on this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/APP-022820-Mike-Pence-IN-STUDIO-4-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I will tell you, Rush, from what I\u2019ve seen in the first 36 hours &#8212; and I\u2019m going to be meeting today with Governor DeSantis and his health officials before I leave Florida. I\u2019m going to be talking to more governors and more members of Congress on the way back. I really do believe that we would not be where we are but for the decisive action that President Trump took in January and because of the team that he assembled in the White House coronavirus task force. Now, that has us where we are today &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: And the risk remains low.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: The risk remains low.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What does that mean, infectious risk spread to people or the seriousness of the disease itself?<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: The seriousness of the disease. You know the numbers. It\u2019s depending on who you talk to, it\u2019s a 1% to 2% mortality rate. But the risk of the disease spreading in the United States remains low, but I want your listeners to know we\u2019re ready for anything. We\u2019re working with everybody. We\u2019re going to meet this challenge with President Trump\u2019s leadership, with all the full resources of the federal government, and I know with the prayers of millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Our hearts go out to the families of those that have suffered infection. Our hearts go out to people around the world who have witnessed loss of life, particularly in China. And here in America we\u2019re going to put the health and safety of America first. I\u2019m grateful to be able to come on your program to speak to so many people across the country.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n<p>THE VICE PRESIDENT: And let me assure you, I\u2019m grateful for their prayers.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Thank you. They work, Mr. Vice President. Trust me, they work. 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