YouSaid · the spoken record

Gayle Smith

lines on the record
60
first
2020-05-07
most recent
2020-05-07
sittings or episodes
1
sources
podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

  1. “I think what it looks like, I mean, if you go back to Ebola and you will remember this, the Security Council was used regularly. It's an instrument that is there. We are a powerful member. It's as good as its members make it. The president hosted a summit during Ebola with the then Secretary General of the United Nations. He sat in the oval and called almost every leader on the planet to ask them to join in the international response and then to say, uh-huh, and how many dollars are you going to put on the table and win? And so it's a combination of mobilizing. It's using the international architecture we have and it's leveraging the change we need to see in the face of a global threat. I am struck right now by the fact that as you say everybody is thinking about this all over the world and we've not seen that kind of global leadership yet of all the world leaders coming together.”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And I think there's this notion out there that this notion of interdependence is like an opinion or a point of view or a political stance. It's a fact. I mean, if you look at, for example, global supply chains and the entire world's scrambling to get enough PPE, we're all very connected. And I think it's important to think like a virus, right? This virus doesn't need a passport. It can go anywhere. It will go anywhere. And the fact of the matter is, I think for many of us, our global role is a matter of values and leadership. And I think we earn and receive a whole lot for that in being regarded as a world leader. But it's also enlightened self-interest. None of us are going to be safe unless all of us are safe. So we have an absolute interest in making sure that this global pandemic warrants a global response and is brought under control globally, not just in one country or one state.”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “It had a job even during the off days. I mean, if there wasn't a pandemic part of the purpose there was to move forward this agenda of making sure that countries were building their capacity to prevent, detect, and respond. Because we knew then, and we know now, there are going to be global health threats like the one we're seeing today. So how do we build the architecture we need so that when this happens again, the world is better prepared?”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Keep an eye out to map the viral universe to look for outbreaks, to ensure cooperation, and to make sure that then if we saw a threat, we could act very quickly across the entire federal government. Frankly, I think it would have made a huge difference because I think it would have been a unified voice sounding the alarm early on. And it was also designed to be a place, and David, you know how the NSC works. It coordinates the agencies of the federal government. So it could have served as the focal point to kick things into action very, very quickly.”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Coming out of the Ebola epidemic, which was 14 months of 24-7 duty on fighting that epidemic all the way up to the level of the president who was involved every single day. Looking at that, looking at what happened with H1N1, and remember there was also Zika, there was MERS, there was a constant drumbeat of these potential threats. We realized that we had huge capabilities across the US government. We needed to have a playbook and there needed to be a place in the National Security Council that was the designated hitter.”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Well, we'll never know that for certain, but programs like Predict and what the Centers for Disease Control does, which is post scientists. Over the world to ensure that there's that level of collaboration that allows us to get ahead of these things makes a huge difference because part of what serves us in advance of a pandemic or during a pandemic is that scientists are cooperating, sharing data, sharing the genomic data, sharing everything we've got as quickly as possible. It also provides for training. China's got quite an experience. There have been a number of flues and viruses that have affected that country in Asia. They remember SARS very well. And so working with them to make sure that we're sharing information, that we're providing training where possible, I think is a very important thing, frankly, with any country around the world.”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “able to prevent, detect, and respond to viruses like the coronavirus, so that we don't have to do this again, because I'm pretty sure nobody wants to do a repeat of what we're living through right now.”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Political campaign, but Well, it's an advocacy campaign. The overarching frame is that this is a global pandemic and we need a global response. And what we're seeing all over the world is the same thing we're seeing in the United States, which is that this pandemic strikes the hardest at the people who have the least resources with which to withstand it. So we're focused on Africa, making sure there's a robust response, making sure that vaccines are made available to people all over the world when they become available because it's not going to work just to vaccinate some of us in select countries, to make sure that we're tackling the economic burden that's being felt in low-income countries just the same and even harder than what we're feeling in the United States or in Europe. And finally, to build on something David that we worked on in the White House, which is this notion of global health security, how do we make sure that every country on the planet is”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “So our campaigns, and this will make sense too, David, think about a political campaign without any politicians, right? So we're running an advocacy campaign”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I'm doing fine. I have a home, I have a job, and fortunately I'm really busy because we're running a big campaign on this pandemic”

    2020-05-07 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 384 — Gayle Smith · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source