unknownvalorbook.com , dana perino is going to join me to discuss the book for februar. we'll see you back here tomorrow >> tucker: the judge in the roger stone case attacked this show by name in court today. first, the city of san francisco just declared a state of emergency in response to coronavirus. you'll remember for a month, western leaders told us the virus was under control and unlikely to cause serious problems for any one in our hemisphere. none of that was true but saying it is less painful of thinking the theology of globalism. they went with it. in china, an aggressively

nationalist country that if anything else doesn't hate itself, authorities acted with force with military great discipline, they shut down the city of wuhan. the rest of the world watched this happen in real time. but yet assured themselves that everything was fine. it wasn't fine. we know that now. at least 35 countries have confirmed cases of coronavirus as of tonight. last friday, italy reported six.midday today, they had 283. by tonight, that number had risen to 322. that is a steep trajectory. 11 people have died in italy and parts of the country is shutting down. iran has 15 death and 95 days. one of those infected is the country's own health minister. he later appeared on an a rainian news program to re-assure that everything was

under control and coughed on the women interviewing him. today the centers for disease control and prevention confirmed a generalized outbreak is inevitable here. it's not a question of if this will happen but when. officials warned americans for severe disruptions to their lives. >> included dividing students in smaller groups or a severe pandemic closing schools and using internet-based schooling to continue education. for adults, businesses can replace the person meetings with video or telephone conferences and increased tele working options. on a larger scale, communities could have to cancel mass gatherings. disruption to every day life could be severe. people are concerned about the situation. i would say rightfully so. i'm concerned about the situation. cdc is concerned about the

situation. >> tucker: so what will a coronavirus pandemic mean for this country? you predict with precision. here's one forecast from the atlantic. it's tiled "you're likely to get the coronavirus." the article describes a harvard epidemiology. they say -- >> tucker: not all of them will become ill, many he says will be asymptomatic or feel no worse than like with a cold. 70% of the world's population is a big number. they say it's 4. -- 5.4 billion people. currently the coronavirus appears to kill about 2% of the people who have it. so let's be generous for a

moment and imagine that asymptomatic care remembers are not detected and the real death rate is .5%. even under that scenario, there would be 27 million deaths from coronavirus globally. in this country, more than a million would die. according to the atlantic, many experts fear this may not be a one-off epidemic. cold and flu season could become cold, flu and coronavirus season for the foreseeable future. will that happen? obviously we're praying it doesn't. but we know one thing. right now as of tonight, america is not ready for this or for any major epidemic thank to the cdc's flood roll-out, fewer are even prepared to monitor coronavirus. the economy is not prepared either. the dow jones fell close to 900 points today. that's on top of yesterday's 1,000 point drop.

if that continues, it's not good. as of tonight, a total of 14 americans infected with coronavirus are under strict quarantine in omaha. we sent dr. marc siegel to learn about what is happening and he joins us tonight. dr. siegel, what it is like there? >> we have two across the street in the containment unit and two hospitalized here. they're being carefully watched. as you said, one more is coming in. i have a great privilege to be joined by nurse shelly sweethelm, the director of bio preparedness and runs this quarantine. how are these patients doing? >> they're doing well. very stable. we're doing our best to get them -- whatever they need to be comfortable. and working through all the issues that they have with lost luggage and other things. it's all going well. >> are they going to get better?

>> they are. >> tell me about versus ebola. how does this contagion look? >> ebola was not as infection. this is more like influenza in how it spreads thus respiratory droplets. the potential is more contagious. >> you feel here in the u.s. we're better prepared? >> i think the u.s. has done a nice job in working through preparedness in the last year. but long ways to go. >> she has to go now to the transport to bring the other patient in. meantime, we'll have more from the medical center tomorrow. we also want to dulles airport and looked how the virus is slipping in to the united states. take a look. this is the main terminal at

dulles international airport. >> our borders are no guarantee that the virus won't find its way here. >> we met up with deputy secretary of homeland security at customs. ken is a key member of the president's coronavirus task force. >> the president has made it very clear to us whatever we need to do to stay ahead of this and keep america safe, he's told us to do. >> despite several hundred cases of coronavirus, flights continue to come in from tokyo. in fact, one is in customs. >> we have some lines of folks coming in internationally. this is all international here. customs, border protection. they're looking at your travel history, asking you different questions than they did a month or two ago. we're looking backwards through travel records that we have in addition to your passport to identify whether or not you've been to a risky area. wuhan china, now all of mainland

china that way. >> travelers that were in wuhan face a two-week quarantine. a passenger that shows signs of illness gets screenings by the cdc. even with those measures, there's too many moving parts and the virus is too elusive to be stopped entirely. >> what we're trying to do is slow down the virus getting here and reduce the impact when it does get here. >> we still have very few coronavirus test kits around. we don't know how much of the virus there is. we still don't know how contagious it is. we don't know how deadly it is. one thing we do know, people are continuing to come to the united states, many of whom are traveling from countries where coronavirus is spreading. >> with cases burgeoning in japan and in south korea, some in iran, how are you going to change the process here? >> there's a difference in japan and korea.

korea and japan are friendly states. we have military forces in those countries. these are countries, first-world country, outstanding healthcare systems and yet the speed of virus spread is very high. >> tucker, back to you in new york. >> tucker: dr. marc siegel in omaha. thanks for that. at a time like, this it would be nice to have an effective world health organization, one led by serious capable professionals. that might be invaluable for containing coronavirus. we don't have that. instead, the who is a corrupt mess from top to bottom. the current director general was previously the health minister of ethiopia. politically he was a member of the people's liberation front, a marxist ruling party. after taking control of the world health organization, he

tried to appoint robert mugabhi as an international good will ambassador for public health, if you can believe that. he delivered a speech praising zimbabwe as a country that places universal health coverage at the center of their policies to provide health care to all. now, that's lunatic. but bad politics aside, tedros has endangered human lives, which is a weird resume point for a man running a world health organization. as health minister in ethiopia, on three separate occasions, he covered up cholera outbreaks. tedros said that they were rashes of a cute watery diarrhea. according to media reports, ethiopian officials pressured aid agencies to cover up the truth and hide the number of people affected. as soon as the disease spread, it was obvious it was cholera

and identify it as such. if tedros told the truth at the time, lives could have been saved. this is the man running the world health organization at the beginnings of a global epidemic. when the coronavirus first broke out in china, china refused to get help to assess it. to this day it seems like china is lying about the number of infections and the number of deaths. despite this, tedros has praised the communist chinese party for transparency. it's orwellian. your tax dollars are paying for it. the u.s. gives hundreds of millions a year to the who. it amounts to a huge percentage of their budget. how do they spend the money? every year 200 million of the world health organization budget goes to travel for bureaucrats and staff. they fly business class using fraudulent pretext to do so when it's otherwise forbidden. other aid agencies, like doctors without borders or our own cdc ban officials from doing that because it's wasteful.

this is the organization the world is looking to for guidance as it battles a pandemic that could cleveland millions. jeff steyer joins us. thanks for coming on. >> good to be here. >> how did this man who seems not just unqualified but seems to have the kind of background that would make him exactly the wrong person to run the world health organization? how did he get this job? >> that's correct. even though u.s. taxpayers cover half the bill for the who, $2 billion a year budget, we have very little say over what they do. they have elections. different countries are voted to support him. there's a corruption at the who before. but people like myself are sounding the alarm bells. this guy was a number 3 official in a marxist regime of ethiopia.

he appointed robert mungabe to be a cultural ambassador, this is a culture that goes beyond tedros and the prior director general and part of the culture. this was not the $200 million that they spend on first class air travel and hotel. it's more than they spend on aids and tuberculosis and other diseases combined. there's no oversight. a criticism of that five years ago. the associated press did a report just in 2017 and found that it was happening again. dr. tedros, his primary goal? socialized healthcare all over the world. that's his goal. we need to have faith in our public health institutions. right now the world health organization needs oversight, it has shown us time and again that it's not going to reform itself. we, u.s. taxpayers funding this corruption, need to do a better job of putting in oversight. >> tucker: i mean, that's a

shocking story. but it goes from annoying, head-shaking to really a peril to our country in the middle of a rising epidemic. a guy that denied the existence of an epidemic is coordinating this. does this have implications? >> it does. he had been praising china, dr. tedros has been praising china for transparency. that's like lance armstrong crediting the houston astros for having good sportsmanship. it's totally absurd. i have called for the u.s. to cut back funding for the who. the president has put that in his budget. now people like the mailman school of public health professor, chelsea clinton, are saying this potential outbreak is trump's fault. we need oversight of the who. we need to reform it. we need to do so, give it money with strings attached because

it's times like this that we need to have an institution that the public can trust. the who doesn't deserve it and haven't earned it and we shouldn't be finding it at the same levels. >> tucker: so we're almost out of time, jeff. but did you say chelsea clinton is a public health professor? >> yes, at columbia university. she had a piece on cnn.com yesterday blaming this administration for not being prepared. the problem is -- >> tucker: i thought she worked at a hedge fund or a documentary film maker. how did she -- how low are the standards? >> it is the columbia school of public health in manhattan. so it's pretty troubling. she got her piece placed on cnn.com. so she has an outlet. but the who doesn't want to hear from its critics. >> tucker: no, obviously not. higher education in this country is a joke. unfortunately that can have bad consequences.

jeff, great to see you. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: well, a california city is in an uproar over plans to transfer coronavirus patients there. trace gallagher has the very latest on that story. hi, trace. >> the mayor of costa mess is a said she was blindsided when the state of california informed her that dozens of coronavirus patients would be housed there. costa mesa is in orange county and hope to the fairview developmental center. they housed about 3,000 people with disabilities. today the center is almost empty and state authorities thought it would be the perfect place to send people that test positive for coronavirus. that is until the mayor, city council and local residents said, huh-uh. watch. >> i can't think of one situation that would lead us to believe that this is an appropriate location. why? why costa mesa? why not? there must be politics at all levels involved in this.

none of it makes sense. >> politics in california. who would think? so the city filed a restraining order against everyone from the state of california to the u.s. department of health and human services to block the transfer of the patients. a federal judge has ordered state officials to convene to sort this out. the state of california says the potential for transmission of the virus is "negligible" but residents are vowing to fight on. the mayor wonders why the fairview center is appropriate to house coronavirus patients when last week said it was not adequate to house the homeless. tucker? >> trace gallagher. amazing story. more on the coronavirus later this hour. how the trump administration is planning to respond. tomorrow we'll try to follow up on the idea that chelsea clinton is a public health professor weighing in on the coronavirus. the south carolina primaries are days away. one of the top two candidates, can't remember what office he's

running for and the other defends dictators. that's next. the judge in the roger stone case attacked the show today. we'll respond ahead. hi! we're glad you came in, what's on your mind?

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>> tucker: >> well, assuming civilization enduring until them, the south carolina democratic primary are is this saturday. mark your calendars. former presidential favorite joe biden has not won anything in the race so far but counting on south carolina to be his firewall. that's a cliche' the analysts use all the time, a firewall that will gave him momentum

going to super tuesday, the make or break contest. that was the plan. at this point it's not clear biden knows what office he's running for. monday he thought he was running for something else. >> where i come from, you don't get far unless you ask. my name is joe biden. i'm a democratic candidate for the united states senate. look me over. you can give me a look, okay? >> tucker: poor guy. feel guilty running that sound. it gets worse. last week he told you he was arrested in south africa for seeing nelson mandela. he said he crafted a major treaty with a world leader who has been dead almost a quarter century. >> one of the things i'm proudest of is getting passed, getting control of the paris climate accord. i'm the guy that come back after meeting with dung chow ping.

we got almost 20 nations to join. >> ping died in 1997. no wonder he was so proud to negotiate with him. not easy to know gauchate with a dead man. and bernie sanders is surging after wins in nevada and new hampshire. last night at a town hall, sanders defended his many past comments praising fidel castro. >> he initiated a major literacy program. a lot of folks in cuba at that point that were literate. teaching people to read and write is a good thing. >> the democrats that say you don't say good things about fidel castro. he destroyed freedoms in that country. he played winners and losers and put them in prison. you don't give them a pat on the back. >> truth is truth.

all right? >> tucker: can you get elected president repeated a dumb talking points of the 70s? we'll see. richard winestein is here today. >> can i pat you on the back about your coverage of the coronavirus? make a political point. if you have an administration that treats science as a joke about climate change, when you take a sharpie to a map, the whole public, when your issue is science doesn't really have faith in you. so i just want to -- >> tucker: i get it. the party that doesn't believe in sonograms is going to lecture me -- >> i'm not lecturing you. if the public doesn't have confidence in donald trump around these issues, there's a reason for it. so here's my answer on how south carolina is going. >> tucker: science. i can ask you -- interested in science? watching it be trampled.

what do you think of the gender thing. let's have this conversation some other time. you're a more moderate democrat. you're worried about bernie sanders. biden is one of your last hopes. what is he running for tonight. do you know? >> i think you can show a lot of gaffes about joe biden. you could have done the same thing decades ago. this is him. the good news for joe biden, he says don't compare me to the almighty and the alternative. he thinks an american invented the wheel that can pronounce the word anonymous or origin. that's the virtue of where a biden presidential candidacy will be relative to donald trump. is he doing well? no. >> tucker: but sincerery, you think he can govern the country? honest question. >> if you -- >> tucker: doesn't seem like he is. >> that's a fair question. he obviously knows what he's

running for. when donald trump continue say namibia, did he now there was a namibia? yeah. but i'm saying of course. if you listen to joe biden over hundreds of hours during this campaign answer questions about all of the issues that he had to deal with in the white house, yes. i absolutely think he's capable. >> tucker: so what is your plan for the bernie ascendency? you going to stay in the country? have you gamed this out yet? >> for the first time, bernie is being vetted. hillary gave him a pass. huge mistake in retrospect. all the other democrats so far have given him a pass. finally he's an unreconstructed socialist. he talked about nationalizing telecommunications and banks and he means it. like he said good things about castro, trump said good things about the head of north korea and turkey and other authoritarians.

>> half of washington is lobbying for turkey. you have no one to have lunch with as you know. >> i'm not prepared to believe that bernie sanders will be the democratic nominee. i think people will throw a fit if he gets the plurality but doesn't get the nomination. i say go. go whoever you're going to go with. we need somebody that will be a good democrat, not what you are. >> tucker: okay. i will visit you as you're being reeducated. >> please do. >> tucker: good luck. conrad sanders and odd man joe are not the only democrats running for president. not the only ones embarrassing themselves. mayor pete buttigieg is still in the race. he's trying to execute his plan to be the first lab-created president. just how article official is he? can you see the wires beneath the latex exterior? consider this. we're going to show you an obama speech from 2012 and then a buttigieg speech from last saturday and let you decide if

there's similarities between the two. watch. >> one voice can change the room. if it can change a room, it can change a city. >> we can light up a neighborhood and light up a city. >> if it change a city, it can change a state. >> if we can light up a city, we can light up this country. >> if it can change a state, it can change a nation. >> and if we light up this country, then everyone can make sure this country will shine as a beacon around the world once more. >> and if it can change the nation, it can change the world. >> tucker: tammy bruce hosts "get tammy bruce" on fox nation. that clip made me feel old. i know pete buttigieg is in his teens or whatever, but that obama clip was from 2012, which wasn't that long ago. apparently pete buttigieg thinks nobody will remember that. >> it's a little insulting that. the only unique thing about pete is his last name.

if he changes that to obama, he will have it wrapped up perfectly. it's not just that, the tweets that were similar with that speech. he was tweeting the same. but the cadence. it's not even just plagiarizing the words. it's the rhythm of the delivery and the gestures, the way he held his face. this is a guy that wants to be president that doesn't have the confidence to be himself. this is a man is he has no confidence in his own ideas or rhetoric or abilities to inspire people. this is -- the only good thing here is that after obama campaigned like that, he got to the white house and failed. at this point we can have the guy fail before he gets real power. so we can have this do-over and that's fine with me. can also be like when you're dating someone and maybe you're thinking about marrying them and you see on america's most wanted he's an escaped prisoner from a year ago and you find that out before you get married.

that's one of the other benefits. it's sad for the pete supporters but also insulting, he has about 10% of black support in south carolina. he may believe here that if he caught these african americans, well-regarded by the black communities here in america, that he can somehow trick them into voting for him. i think that americans regardless of our skin color should get more respect for that, more regard that everyone regardless of our complexion wants solutions about policy. this is where he's really dropping the ball to say the least. >> tucker: it is the end of the road for identity politics. he's running on what he is rather than what he believes. he has to convince people that he's a biracial organizer. >> yeah, he wants to run as being someone else. it's really breaking the barrier when it comes to identity

politics, isn't it? >> tucker: i agree. i'm glad you're as insulted as was. thanks, tammy. >> thank you. >> tucker: the judge in the roger stone case, an open partisan, lashed out at this program today by name. we'll tell you what she said and we'll respond to it after the break. in america we all count. no matter where we call home, how we worship, or who we love. and the 2020 census is how that great promise is kept. because this is the count that informs where hundreds of billions in funding will go each year for things like education, healthcare, and programs that touch us all. shape your future. start here. learn more at 2020census.gov

>> tucker: last week on the show, we covered the sentencing of roger stone, who is the most undeserving of all the

casualties of the russian collusion hysteria. he received more than three years in prison. he will be over 70 when he gets out. officially, his crime was lying about e-mails. in his first days, he was a transparency political hit job. washington wanted him in prison. because for 40 years, he was trump's closest political adviser. amy jackson was a judge appointed by obama. she's an openly partisan democrat. she's made no point about hiding that. jackson let the foreman stay and defended her. jackson herself lied about the case. she claimed that stone was prosecutored because he covered up for the president when the charges had nothing to do that. amy berman jackson is a disgray to the judiciary. it's frightening that she has power and she does. we said that last week.

today during a hearing, jackson attacked us. again she lied as she did it. jackson accused the show of invading the privacy of the foreman of the jury. when in fact, the juror herself has spoken publicly and revealed her own identity. many media outlets published her name including "new york times," cnn and the washington, all of which jackson approves of because they're on her side. then she accused the show hoff harassing jurors and encouraging violence against them. that's insane. we did no such thing. jackson said that we're antithetical to our system. not only is she corrupt and authoritarian, she has no sense of self-awareness whatsoever. jeanine pirro joins us tonight. judge, thanks for coming on. can you imagine a federal judge

in the middle of a serious proceeding, like does stone deserve a new trial, in the middle of this lashing out with political attacks against a tv show, she went after the president by name. what does that say about her? >> tucker, i sat as a judge in criminal felony cases as well. this is federal. i'm stunned at her behavior. any judge that concerns herself with the media or the press needs to get a thick skin or wear a few robes. she should not be worried about you or anyone else. she's got a job and she needs to stay in her lane. everything you said about her is accurate and right on point. she is a judge that should be outraged that a foreperson on a jury that convicted a man on seven counts may have lied to her. may have exhibited such jury bias that it would demand a new trial.

but no, she's mad at you, mad at the president. she wants to have a hearing on whether or not the jury bias many private because she doesn't want anyone intimidating the jury. here's the bottom line. the juror foreperson outed herself. we know she's an anti trump person. she posted many things about donald trump, about russia, about roger stone at least once and she's a partisan. she ran for congress, this is the kind of stuff that we seek to find out in a vior dire. the fact that she wouldn't recuse herself when she's prejudged the issue by saying this jury acted with integrity and intelligence, how do you know, judge? have you spoken to the juror? do you know what was posted? do you know how she answered the question? what do you know about her background? did she want to get on that jury? everything in my gut tells me she wanted to get on the jury

and denied doing anything that was partisan. shame on the judge. >> tucker: shame on her. she should be impeach. she's corrupt, out of control and muzzled roger stone. he's not allowed on the show. she threatened to send him to prison and being attacked daily by cnn. how can a happen? >> we have never heard of anything like this. never heard of a defendant who has been convicted an sentenced and told he can't talk. his lawyers can't talk. we'll put them in jail. she's a partisan. she's the one that put paul manafort in solitary confinement when everybody know me in the legal community, why is he in solitary confinement? she's a partisan. everything, including her refusal to recuse herself, not having a hearing about that. criticizing you when she should be worried about the fact that she's a juror foreperson out there saying i am upset that the

attorney general decided that this sentence should be less. the sentence, miss hart, has nothing to do with you. you decide the facts. this judge is on the wrong side of justice in this case. she's aligned herself with someone that may have disrupted justice in a courtroom and she's prejudged it and taken the side of that person. it's wrong. >> tucker: terrifying that someone like that is on a federal bench. roger stone needs a pardon. let's get pasted this. judge janine, thanks to see you. >> great to see you. bye. >> tucker: well with brutal housing costs, what's the priority of lawmakers in san francisco? encouraging the intentional sped of the hiv virus. we're not joking. details after the break.

>> tucker: washington state isn't as screwed up as the state of california. it's beautiful. a lot of nice people there. but lawmakers in washington are trying to keep up with their southern neighbor. the state house approved a bill that if passed would down grade the intentional transmission of hiv from a felony to a misdemeanor. jason, thanks for being here. the world here is "intentional." that's the word. so they're saying if you do it, if you infect someone with a disease for which there's no cure on purpose, it's a misdemeanor? >> it will be when this bill passes. this bill will pass. all of the democrats in the house said yesterday. last night there was a committee hearing in the senate where the democrats said yes. it's likely going to be passed. so intentionality is the key here. they're not talking about someone with hiv and doesn't know about it and gives it to a sexual partner. they're talking about knowing

your status and choosing to lee about it so the person you're engaging sexual intercourse in or not telling them. the state that talks about affirmative consent when it comes to hiv infection, all of a sudden they're saying it's not that important. the reason they're behind this is what is most troubling. they're arguing treating hiv is a negative, criminalizing hiv that you're stigmatizing people with hiv. it's ludicrous. we're stigmatizing people that choose to inspect someone else with hiv. they say science and medicine. you can take a pill and you'll be okay. it's not that big of a deal to have hiv. that's their argument. there's truth to the point of medicine and how it's no longer the death sentence it was. tell that to someone whose life has been completely impacted,

having to take the pill a day, assuming that they can afford the medication over their lifetime. when you look at the studies that suggest -- depending when you get it and how long you live, you're doing $500,000 to $1 million over your lifetime just on hiv medication. it's not like -- >> tucker: you're living -- even at the level of principle, it's insane. that one illness has been politicized. so it's hard to see clearly. but intentionally transmitting any illness to another person on purpose, wouldn't that be a crime? can they hear themselves talk when they say this kind of thing? >> they try not to make it that we can hear them talk. that's the problem. this bill was snuck in there. not a lot of people are paying attention to it until we caught wind of it and talked about it and people started to complain about it. i spoke to a senator that told me that he had already pledged his support of this particular bill but didn't actually read it or know what was inside it. so now people know what's in the

bill and it's on them. it's a morally reprehensible position to take that you're okay with lessening a crime of a monster who chooses to give someone hiv. and to conflate that -- >> tucker: so isn't it intentionally infecting someone with a disease, why is that different from bio warfare? >> they see a victim class, this is being pushed by social justice democrats that see people living with hiv as victims in need of protection. i generally agree. we have to have compassion for people with hiv but we should not extend that compassion or understanding to criminals, to go from a felony to a misdemeanor. keep this in mind, in washington state, particularly western washington, they don't prosecute misdemeanors. someone there do this intentionally and won't be punished at all because democrats want to protect a

larger group. it's ludicrous. >> tucker: i'm for protecting people, too. i'm for protecting anybody from crazy people that would infect a disease. whatever. thanks, jason. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: major coronavirus outbreak in this country is now inevitable. how is the trump administration working to fight this? a member of the administration joins us to answer that after the break.

>> tucker: coronavirus is coming to this country on a large scale. we're not certain when but it is coming. san francisco has no cases yet reported. the mayor declared a state of emergency there. coronavirus is a major test for our government. what is the response to the virus? could the virus drive this country into a recession and what exactly is the administration doing to respond to all of it? peter navarro is one of the point men on coronavirus. he's the trade adviser. thanks for coming on. if you could sum up, you agree it's a grave concern. the cdc confirmed that today. what is the response to it? >> so, tucker, there's a four-part strategy that we're

but suing in trump time which is to say is as quickly as possible. you start with a personal protective equipment. the masks and the gloves, the tyvec suits that public healthcare needs. tomorrow hhfp is securing half a billion face masks along. second, the treatment options. we have three balls in the air on that. we have one drug used intravaccine usually. we're trying to develop oral anti-virals in a very rapid time. there's something called monoclotal anti-bodies that build up the immune season. so the next thing which is the magic bullet, the vaccine development. we have already set out a plan to develop a vaccine in less than half the time that it

usually takes with the combination of private sector efficiencies and regulatory streamline. finally, and importantly, there's point of care diagnostics , if someone has a symptoms, you have to go to the hospital and get a sample and test it. so we're trying to get hand held devices so workers in the field can get instant results. the president has been working on this since he pulled down the planes from china on january 29. we're focused like a laser beam on this to keep the public secure. we're hoping for the best, preparing for the worst and doing it all on trump time. >> tucker: interesting. are you confident that the administration has a sense of how many people might be infected in the u.s.? >> yes, i am. the problem is what is going on in the rest of the world and how

these vectors will impact us. but you know, the issue here is to be ready, be prepared. the important things, tucker, contrasting this with the china situation, if it comes here, what you want to do is stretch out the amount of time where people get contagious and infected. that will give our healthcare system the ability to process that. what is going on in china now is horrific. there's triage, so that if you have anything but the coronavirus, heart attack, broken leg, whatever, you don't get care and you die. we don't want that to happen here. >> tucker: no, we don't. thanks, peter. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: good to see you. as we go, a picture on the screen, it's the birthday of our executive producer justin wells. we can't tell you how old he is because we don't know. he's the best producener all of television. we're grateful to have him.

happy birthday. that's it for us. tune in every night at 8:00, the show that is the sworn enemy of smugness and group think. sean hannity takes over. >> sean: excuse me. you don't have the single best producer. i do. happy birthday to justin. sorry, justin. you're number 2 in my book. i know tucker makes you number 1. that's all right. thank you. welcome to "hannity." breaking news. in what is pivotal, crucial to our constitution and that is a quest for equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws. it involves julian assange versus hillary clinton and the great injustice and the roger stone case. the stone case a travesty of justice. an insane judge in that particular case. we'll have reaction and analysis to the latest news from the