been as clever as this private company? Would an American company have said, you know they haven't asked for it yet but I'm going to get busy on this because I think there could be a billion dollar opportunity. So we're just going to start making test kits. Nobody asked us to. It's not approved by the FDA or the CDC but we're going to do it. Is that a leadership thing? Because I'm not sure that leadership is even part of the question. If South Korea got their solution because a private company acted both aggressively and early and wisely, it took a good risk management approach that was probably good for their profits as well, that has nothing to do with management. That's nothing to do with leadership. They just had a company that was pretty smart.

I think Germany had a similar situation in which they just had, I think Germany had a private company that was also big in this space. So the private company was able to do something quickly with testing. Now in the United States I don't know the full detail but I guess the CDC's kits were incomplete. It didn't have all the parts. So there was a part where the CDC fell apart. But where were our private companies? I think our private companies were probably limited by maybe FDA and CDC red tape. So if there's a criticism about the president, and there could be by the way, I just don't quite understand this issue yet. If there's an issue with President Trump's performance I would think it would be in the area of not getting rid of red tape. Maybe there was something our private companies couldn't do fast enough because maybe they were barred from doing it. Is that a thing?

So there are a lot of people will base their decision on what they believe about the president's leadership on testing and they won't know anything about what actually happened. They won't know that it was probably just private companies making good decisions in other countries. That might be it. That could be the whole story. We don't know.

Christopher Rufo is reporting th