You listening to Carmody Central Ambassador Rice, welcome to the daily social distancing, show it's to be with you. Thanks, indifferent, wage and being with one another, and during this time I've. I've realise this also very different way for us to mourn the passing of people that we admired or can about, most recently, Jean Louis, when you look at his legs, in his life and what we need to continue doing today. How far do you think we are? on continuing their journey in that and creating that good trouble ass, he called it well. I hope that job losses Legacy will be to give us all a kick in the pants and remind us that we can be much better than we are especially than we are today. He had said war in such humanity and such courage and he never never quit fighting. He knew

then he was leaving us at a moment when we were being sorely tested when there's possibility of us finally reckoning, as he tried all his life with our start racial injustices and our deep seated inequalities better, not only racial but socio economic, but itself A moment where were struggling with a pandemic that is disproportionately affecting low income, people and people of color immigrants. And in we have leadership that literally, could care less? You were the national security adviser to President Obama. You are part of the pandemic response team. You are part of the people who have talked with protecting America from a situation. Just like this. What plans

you haven't place that the Trump Administration did or didn't use or what should have been done. As somebody who was on a taskforce design just to do this, we understood as the frankly prior administrations that pandemics are inevitable the date it's hard to predict exactly when they'll come, but we know it we'll common they ve come repeatedly since nineteen eighteen, in fact, we had under the Obama administration two thousand and nine. What was known the Swine flu Pandemic, which what was quite consequential. So we understood this could happen. So we were prepared. We left the incoming tromp administration with briefing papers and of sixty nine page play book, which I like to call him

mix for dummies. It was here all the questions and considerations you should run through. If and when you faced this kind of crisis we hadn't tabletop exercise with the entire incoming trunk cabinet. I'm going over my cabinet and we sat down in one of the scenarios we ran for them turned out to be preshent. It was of such a novel, Sars, like virus emerging cannon and all that seem to be for not because a couple years into office present Trump dismantled the office that I set up on global health security. They trash that playbook wars duck in some drawer and some sharp than never pulled it out for two months January February and part of March. He really denied the reality of this wise meal

Did it to the seashore claims that it will go away? It was no big deal and then, by that time, It was already well embedded in our country and closing down the flights from China when flights from Europe were too little too late, and he says that save hundreds of millions of lives what its cost his mishandling- and this has already cost one hundred and forty thousand lies in its going to tragedy, will be many more. It seems like Amerika. A few countries with a country doesn't have a rule about wearing mosques, whereas overseas you get like the UK get South Africa in so many countries really gone hey we don't care about. Your prayers Opinions on this just like wearing clothes, you have to wear a mosque for now and it's as simple as that. Do you think federal government should have more of a global message in and around mosques around lost, absolutely its give us if we allow small pieces of cotton to being here, this increase

clean, divisive thing we online wearing shorts and pants and public. Why do we have to mine wearing mass in public if going to protect ourselves and our loved ones in those in our community. It Donald Trump had from early on said, look out. I recognise that it may be a little bit uncomfortable or inconvenience, but when you're out in public do as I do, where a mask, keep your loved ones and yourself say, keep your city say: it'll make a huge difference. It will enable us to ban this curve, keep it down and get our business is back and been running people back to their jobs, kids back to their schools. The I dont think would have had this political reaction to the extent that we have today. How do you view the situation in Portland right now, because that that has thrown many Americans of kilter you, no federal office is coming in and unlocked cause in unmarked uniforms grabbing people of this.

Reach, throwing them intervenes, apprehending them. People feeling like it feels less like a like a free country. And more like an authoritarian regime. You know for some of the people who, on the ground there when you look at. Happening. I mean there's always a balance between federal response and letting the states handle it or the cities themselves, How do you view what's happening in Portland right now? Do you think that it's it's a require the use of force or or federal assistance, or do you think that something has gone off the rails? Now it's an abuse of power by president drop in its purely politically motivated abuse of power. Sang in the polls. He thinks the only way to rally is based is racism. We want order sending rebel forces out on the streets without markings without insignia, probably in without legal authority, to do so and he's round?

people, as if we were now in Belarus or something it's ridiculous, and yet it has nothing to do with their stated mandate of protecting federal buildings and installations. There now out, literally beating the crap out of peaceful protestors and trying to incite more violence, so that they have an excuse to use more horse, but here is now pushing the envelope in Portland and threatening to do enough Where am, I think, Americans need to be? hi alert? This is an abuse of power, its corruption, its autocracy, our own shores there's no denying that your name has come up repeatedly in and around the conversation of vice president Would you want to serve in the binding? restriction. Would you want to serve as a Vp Walter

what I want is for Joe Biden to be elected the next programme, the United States. I want us to win the Senate and keep the house so that we have the opportunity to put our country back on course and to unite the country are entered you win. The damage has been done, but also to take this opportunity and move forward to improve health care, improve education, deal with our underline disparities, and if I can help in any way whether its at the highest levels or some other way to be part of helping him get elected end to govern. If and when he does, then that's what I want to do And if that's not what he chooses for me, that's fine as well. I will do everything I can, regardless because of all that we ve just about so much is at stake. We have got to move this country in a different and better direct

and so I'll do anything I can, whether it's the modern day equivalent of licking envelopes or its impact or side while, as you say, I hope America gets back on track I hope that people find a way to deep politicize those little pieces of cotton, and hopefully your words will become prescient when wish, which have again in a few months, ambassador. Thank you so much for joining us on the danish social distancing. Show thanks jabber great beware yes, daily show the criminal hears it wants. The daily show reignited spent eleven ten central one, Tommy Central and calmly simple watch full episodes. Videos at the daily show that not all of us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and subscribe to the daily show on Youtube or exclusive powers in him. This has been a comedy central podcast.