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"The View" addressed who they think Vice President Joe Biden should pick if he ultimately becomes the official Democratic nominee. According to the co-hosts, it must be a woman.

But if Biden picks a woman, Meghan McCain thinks Trump will go tit-for-tat andfire Vice President Mike Pence.

"I still think, though, if he chooses a woman, Trump is going to kick Pence out and put in Nikki Haley," she said. "Because I think they're going to go toe-for-toe. Like you want to identity politics me, I'll identity politics you. I think they're gangster."

Co-host Joy Behar said that the president's luck is changing right now and given Pence's more-stable leadership on coronavirus, Trump might falter. Others think that Trump has named Pence as the head of the coronavirus task force because if it goes awry he can throw the vice president under the bus.

"I don't know if the party would like that, to take Pence out," said Behar.

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"I think they would. They need the win," McCain replied.

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According to reports, Mike Pence has been meeting in secret with right wing media personalities to get their opinions on how the White House should spin the crisis. This is further proof that the White House does not care about the safety of the American people, they only care about their image and their chances of reelection. Ring of Fires Farron Cousins explains whats happening.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

According to a new report from the Daily Beast, Mike Pence has been meeting with right wing personalities, media hosts and influencers on social media to try to help massage the message a little bit about the Trump administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic. Now, heres the weird thing about this. This wasnt an afterthought. This wasnt, okay, well now its been a couple of weeks. We need to go out there and start meeting with these people. Get the word out. Mike Pence started meeting with these folks the day after Donald Trump appointed him to head up the coronavirus task force. The very first thing he did was go out there and reach out to right wing media folks and right wing social media folks and say, how can we spin this? How can we make us look better? Thats whats happening here. Now, according to the Daily Beast, this actually began even before that at CPAC.

There was a little meeting that they all attended where they talked about how to massage the message, how to kind of whitewash things, how to make things really look so much better than they are. And then again, once Pence was appointed, first thing he does, he goes out, he holds the meeting, a meeting the next day. Then the next day holds another meeting with these folks and essentially they exchange talking points, explained to the White House how they have a massive PR crisis on their hands and how they could fix it. Some of the folks who have attended these meetings, according to Daily Beast, Fox news fixture and prolific MAGA tweeter, Dan Bongino, former Trump advisor and current war room 2020 podcast host, Jason Miller, Newsmax TV host and Trumps former press secretary Sean Spicer, former White House official and Sinclair must run commentator Boris Epshteyn, Sinclair anchor and ex Fox news host Eric Bolling and former representative Jack Kingston from Georgia who is also a Trump surrogate.

They also met with multiple MAGA folks who have massive Twitter followings or massive YouTube followings trying to get them to go out there and spread the good word about how awesome the Trump administration is doing in handling this crisis. And folks, if you had any doubt that the Trump administration doesnt care about human beings, this should have gone ahead and confirmed that no, they dont care about human beings. All they care about is the PR, the public relations side of this. They dont want people to lose faith in Donald Trump. Even though people left and right are losing faith in Donald Trump. They dont trust him. They dont think hes doing a good job with this. They dont think he can do a good job with this and thats what the White House wants to fix. They dont want to necessarily stop the spread of the pandemic. That, that doesnt seem to be the big concern there.

Its just, wow, I dont want people to think Im a moron and thats what theyre concerned about. Thats what theyre actually out there working on. In fact, Mike Pences chief of staff, Marc Short, actually defended these meetings. So he admitted that they happened. This is not, you know, a conspiracy. Theres, these meetings are actually happening. But anyway, Short goes out there and tells the media outlets that, well, you know, were doing this because we just want to get the word out to as many people as possible, as fast as possible. You know, its not, its not white washing. Its not propaganda. Its just because like if we need them to tweet something out, theyre going to go out and do it. So that helps get information out to the public. Thats a lie. That is an absolute lie because let me tell you how a lot of these right wing media personalities operate on Twitter, and I know this from experience because if you ever say one thing critical about them, or even if youve never spoken to them at all or tweeted about them or mentioned them on Twitter, theyre going to block you.

I know that because Im blocked by Dan Bongino and I had never, before I was blocked, ever said a word about Dan Bongino on social media, in a video here, or even in my private life, had never uttered his name only to find out on a block. So how does that work if Dan Bongino is part of the rapid response team yet I cant see what he has to say? So Im just screwed because hes got a grudge against me for some reason? Same thing with all of these other little weasels out there on social media, but this isnt about spreading important messages about testing centers. This is about white washing the Trump administrations ridiculous response to this pandemic. Its about making people think that theyre not as inept as they actually are and luckily, since this has been going on since February, the public isnt buying it. They know that weve got two morons, Beavis and Butthead in Pence and Trump running this whole thing. Theyre not happy about it and they know its not working. So no amount of right-wing propaganda at this point, as they watch this virus spread, is going to convince them otherwise.

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Administration Role: Counselor to the President

Also Known For: Working with anti-LGBTQ extremists

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Administration Role: Pence's far-right-hand man

Also Known For: Anti-LGBTQ beliefs, voter suppression tactics

Relationship with Pence: Former finance director and campaign manager

Administration Role: Leading pro-Pence PAC

Also Known For: Preparing Pence for a 2020 run

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Administration Role: Leading legislative affairs at the White House

Also Known For: Running the Koch brothers' political machine

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Administration Role: Pence's Chief of Staff, co-founder of Great America Committee

Also Known For: Helping elect disgraced Missouri Governor Eric Greitens

Relationship with Pence: Health care advisor in Indiana

Administration Role: Running the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Also Known For: Selling senators on repealing Obamacare

Relationship with Pence: Longtime fan and partner in anti-LGBTQ hate

Administration Role: Anti-LGBTQ advisor

Also Known For: Radical anti-LGBTQ beliefs

Relationship with Pence: Pence named Adams the Indiana State Health Commissioner

Administration Role: Surgeon General

Also Known For: Giving Pence credit where credit was not due

Relationship with Pence: Former pollster

Administration Role: Counselor to the President

Also Known For: Working with anti-LGBTQ extremists

Relationship with Pence: Longtime admirer

Administration Role: Pence's far-right-hand man

Also Known For: Anti-LGBTQ beliefs, voter suppression tactics

Relationship with Pence: Former finance director and campaign manager

Administration Role: Leading pro-Pence PAC

Also Known For: Preparing Pence for a 2020 run

Relationship with Pence: Former Chief of Staff

Administration Role: Leading legislative affairs at the White House

Also Known For: Running the Koch brothers' political machine

Relationship with Pence: Chief political strategist

Administration Role: Pence's Chief of Staff, co-founder of Great America Committee

Also Known For: Helping elect disgraced Missouri Governor Eric Greitens

Relationship with Pence: Health care advisor in Indiana

Administration Role: Running the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Also Known For: Selling senators on repealing Obamacare

Relationship with Pence: Longtime fan and partner in anti-LGBTQ hate

Administration Role: Anti-LGBTQ advisor

Also Known For: Radical anti-LGBTQ beliefs

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Led Trumps sham Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.

Wasted at least 250k of tax-payers' dollars to publicly oppose NFL players protesting police brutality and racial injustice.

Criticized Bush for signing the 1991 Civil Rights Act, calling it objectionable and a quota act.

Signed one of the nations most restrictive anti-abortion laws which was later blocked by a federal judge.

Led national fight to defund Planned Parenthood and forced the closure of many clinics in Indiana.

Cast the tie-breaking vote to strip protections for reproductive health care.

As a member of Congress, received an "A" grade and campaign endorsements from the NRA every year between 2002 and 2012.

As Governor, Pence signed several extreme gun laws supported by gun lobbyists.

Voted in favor of concealed carry reciprocity, forcing all states to accept concealed carry permits from states with weak gun laws and permit standards.

Directed state agencies to halt resettlement of Syrian refugees in Indiana.

Supported Texas lawsuit to halt President Obamas DAPA and expanded DACA programs.

Proposed self-deportation immigration bill in 2006.

Supports weakening unions through right to work laws.

Voted against Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (three times) and Paycheck Fairness Act.

Worked to cut and privatize social security and medicare.

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A member of Vice President Mike Pences security detail crashed his motorcycle Saturday in Florida while escorting the VP to a meeting about the coronavirus.

The unnamed sheriffs deputy was conscious after the crash on I-95 and was taken to a nearby hospital, according to a tweet from Bloomberg Business reporter Ryan Beene, who described the scary moment.

Pence confirmed the crash,retweeting the reporter.

We are praying for the sheriffs deputy and his family. We are grateful to everyone in the Palm Beach Sheriffs Office for all they do to keep us safe, Pence added.

Pence is on his way to meet with Princess Cruise execs in Fort Lauderdale to discuss their Grand Princess cruiseliner stranded off the coast of San Francisco with 3,500 passengers and crew on board. The boat was ordered to stay at sea after 21 on board tested positive for COVID-19.

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This is the equivalent of war. This is a big deal and people are going to die, and so you cant afford to make mistakes, said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich sent a note to Pence on Sunday praising the discipline he showed during a tough Sunday show interview about the virus, and he insists the vice presidents primary focus is on public safety. But Gingrich also conceded the tremendous political risks for Pence, whose own presidential ambitions are widely known.

If he does this well, he comes out of this as a very big national figure. If he does this badly, he comes out as a dramatically diminished figure. He knows that. His team knows that, Gingrich said.

Following an influx of cases on both coasts over the weekend, Pence took steps Monday to underscore the government's response and continue coordinating with state and local officials. The vice president led a Situation Room teleconference with governors in the afternoon, convened a meeting of the administrations coronavirus task force and cancelled plans to join Trump at a campaign rally in North Carolina.

This is the equivalent of war. This is a big deal and people are going to die, and so you cant afford to make mistakes."

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Instead, Pence stayed behind to hold a nationally televised press conference to try reassuring Americans. His appearance came just hours after it was revealed that four more Americans had died from coronavirus, raising the overall total of deaths in the country to six at the time.

Despite today's sad news, let's be clear: The risk to the American people of the coronavirus remains low, according to all of the experts that we're working with across the government, Pence said. This president has said we're ready for anything. But this is an all-hands-on-deck effort.

And on Tuesday, Pence will make a rare bipartisan trip to Capitol Hill to brief both Republican and Democratic senators at their weekly lunches.

Everybody needs to go into this knowing there are definitely things that will be beyond the governments or Mike Pences control, but as long as theyre being transparent with the public, with Congress and with fellow governors, I think theres much less political risk, said a former White House official.

Transparency has already become an issue since Pence took the reins of the administrations coronavirus reponse, according to critics who have accused the vice president of muzzling public health officials by requiring that they coordinate with his office prior to issuing their own statements. The New York Times reported Thursday that Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, had told others the White House had instructed him not to say anything else [about the coronavirus outbreak] without clearance. (Fauci later said at a press conference that hes never been muzzled and claimed the story contained a real misrepresentation of what happened.)

In some ways, Pence has borrowed a page from his gubernatorial playbook by attempting to control government messaging as it relates to coronavirus. As of now, Pence spokeswoman Katie Miller has been tasked with fielding internal queries related to coronavirus and coordinating messaging.

But back before Pence had the weight of the vice presidency behind him, as governor of Indiana he attempted to create a state-run news outlet that would have featured an editorial board comprised of his own communications staff. The proposed news site, which Pence unveiled at the height of Indianas HIV outbreak in 2015, was compared to the Soviet Unions Pravda and never came to fruition.

Two people familiar with the administrations plans said the vice presidents office is expected to expand its communications staff in the coming days with loaned-out staffers from several agencies who can then streamline coronavirus messaging with their regular departments. The move would build on Pences efforts to consolidate messaging after Trump spent much of last week directly contradicting top U.S. officials who warned of potentially severe disruptions as more Americans contract coronavirus.

The criticism Pence has already faced for his tightened grip on the administrations messaging is a sign of the treacherous waters hes likely to spend the next several months navigating, where every misstep is critiqued in real time and then filed away as potential ammunition if he chooses to seek higher office down the road.

In fact, Pences handling of the Indiana HIV outbreak which critics have cited in recent days amid questions over his ability to handle the coronavirus crisis illustrates how politicians can incur reputational damage if they mishandle a public health emergency. Though Trump cited the Indiana model as a positive reference point during a press conference last week, others have cast Pences approach as disastrous.

Back in 2015, then-Gov. Pence waited several months before declaring a public health emergency and authorizing a needle exchange program after local officials reported an explosive increase in HIV cases in Scott County, Ind. A 2018 study by researchers at Yale University concluded that the outbreak could have impacted fewer residents if Pence had acted more swiftly as governor. Pence said he eventually changed his mind about the needle exchange program which he initially opposed due to his belief that it contributed to drug abuse after praying about it and soliciting expert opinions.

Its the same attitude Pence has adopted as he works to tackle coronavirus, according to people close to him, who said hes eager to punch through bureaucracy. Pence has been in constant contact with governors whose states have seen one or more cases of coronavirus, describing the administrations working relationships with the states as seamless during his press conference.

Having been a governor and been through these public health crises, hes learned a lot about it and a key lesson is the importance local and state officials play, Gingrich said, adding that hes confident Pence prays about this every morning as he tackles the worsening coronavirus outbreak.

One former White House official said Pence was likely chosen to lead the administrations coronavirus task force not because of his own experience managing a public health crisis, but because hes one of the only officials inside Trumps Cabinet whom the president trusts to be an honest broker among department heads.

The official said Pence proved to Trump that he can settle disagreements and assuage skeptics after he helped shepherd the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement through Congress earlier this year. The same goes for Pences handling of the U.S. Space Force, said Gingrich, noting that the vice president took Trumps vision for the sixth armed forces branch and quickly actualized it.

"You can feel the speed and the impetus that Pence has brought to the space program on behalf of the president and so I think Trump looks at him and says, Heres a guy who gets stuff done,'" Gingrich said.

Still, success in the Trump administration doesnt always translate to job security. Last April, for example, the president went on a firing spree at the Department of Homeland Security following a string of negative news stories about his administrations efforts to curb illegal immigration even as officials inside the agency insisted they were doing as much as they could without breaking the law. Even Pence, whose loyalty has never wavered during the countless controversies of Trumps own making, was left to fend off speculation last fall that the president was preparing to dump him from his 2020 ticket after Trump began asking friends what they thought of his genteel sidekick.

These realities will hang over Pence as he enters his greatest challenge yet: rescuing the Trump presidency and the presidents shot at a second term from a viral outbreak of growing proportions. If things go south, the vice president could become a fall guy, jeopardizing not only Trumps shot at reelection but his own shot at being crowned his successor. But as the U.S. death toll rose on Monday, those close to Pence insisted politics were the last thing on the vice presidents mind.

The most important thing to Pence is the health and safety of the American people, said the former White House official. He wants to do right by the president and hes not thinking about 2024.

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