CNN "The Situation Room" - Interview with Andy Beshear

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Joining us now, the Governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear.

Governor Beshear, thanks so much for spending a few moments with us.

Let me get your reaction to this top official who had been working on finding a coronavirus vaccine, a federal agency -- heading this federal agency, says he was pushed out for urging caution on the drug hydroxychloroquine, the drug that the president has touted as a supposed miracle cure.

How concerned are you that experts like Dr. Bright, for example, are being sidelined by the administration?

GOV. ANDY BESHEAR (D-KY): Well, Wolf, thanks for having me.

And let me start by saying what I say to Kentuckians every day, and that's that we will get through this and we will get through it together.

And the way we get through it is to make sure that we listen to the experts, we follow the science and, now that we are this far into it, we make sure we don't frustrate the sacrifices that so many Kentuckians and Americans have made.

We're at a place in Kentucky where we have flattened this curve. What it looks like right now is that we won't suffer nearly the loss that this virus truly threatened.

And now that we have made that sacrifice, now that we have flattened the curve, yes, we're going to take steps to work on reopening our economy, but we're going to do it in a smart, measured and gradual way, and I hope in every aspect, when we are looking at how we address this coronavirus.

It's OK that we have disagreements at different times. But we ought to certainly be listening to those that are in the public health sphere, that are working on these vaccines. We ought to make sure that we are led with knowledge and with -- and with science.

BLITZER: All right, so, hold on a moment, Governor, because Robert Redfield, the head of the CDC, is speaking.

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