ready to take on ra? talk to your rheumatologist about rinvoq relief. rinvoq. make it your mission. we'll see you back here tomorrow >> tucker: judge in the roger stone cases attacked the he court today. it give you an update on exactly what she said and respond in just a moment, but first, the city of san francisco has just declared a state of emergency in response to coronavirus. you'll remember that for a montl western leaders told us the virus is under control and is unlikely to cause serious problem for anyone in our hemisphere. none of that was true. but saying it was less painful than rethinking the failed theology of globalism, so they went with it. meanwhile, in china, and aggressively nationalist country

that if nothing else definitely hate itself, and authorities immediately and with force with military grade discipline, they shut down the city of wuhan, home to 11 million people, the rest of the world watched this happen in real time, but yet assure themselves that everything was fine. it wasn't fine, we know that n now. at least 35 countries have confirmed cases of coronavirus as of tonight. last friday italy reported six, yet at midday today they had 283 and then by tonight come of that number had risen to 322. that is a steep trajectory, so far 11 people have died in italy and parts of the country shutting down. iran has confirmed 15 deaths, plus 95 cases of the real number believed to be higher than that. one of those infected as the countries on deputy health minister who was seen spreading profusely on monday at a press conference downplaying the outbreak. he later appeared on iranian news program to reassure the country that everything was under control and he coughed on the woman interviewingn him.

in this country there are more than 50 confirmed cases. today the centers for disease control confirmed that a generalized outbreak ism. inevitable here. "it's not a question of if this will happen, but when. officials warned americans to be ready for severe disruptions to their lives." >> include dividing students into smaller groups or any severe pandemic, closing schools and usingem internet-based schooling to continue education. for adults, businesses can replace in person meetings with video or telephone conferences increased working options. on a larger scale, communities and cities may need to modify, postpone or cancel mass gatherings. disruption to everyday life may be severe. but these are things that people need to start thinking about now. 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 exactly will it coronavirus pandemic mean for this country? well of course, you can't really say, it's impossible to predict with precision. but here's one forecast that caught our eye, it's from the atlantic. it's titled "you're likely to get the coronavirus. the piece quotes extensively the harvard epidemiologist. the article describes him as a cautious professional, the kind of person who carefully considers every word and then fax it with the data. "i think the likely outcome is the coronavirus will ultimately not be containable. the next year, 40-7% of the people on earth will be infected with coronavirus." not all of them will become ill. many, he says, will be a symptom attic or feel no worse than they do with a cold. but nevertheless, 70% of the worlds population is a big number, in fact, it's farpoint -- 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 a symptom medic carriers are not detected in the real death rate is only, say, half a percent, that would be one quarter of the current estimate. even under that scenario there would still be 27 million deaths from coronavirus globally. in this country, more than a million would die. and according to the atlantic, many experts appear ---- fear ts may not be a one-off epidemic, cold and flu season could become cold, flu, and coronavirus season for the foreseeableav t future. will that happen? obviously we are praying that ie doesn't, but we know one thing, right now as of tonight america is not ready for this or for any major epidemic. thanks to the cdc's rollout of coronavirus testing, few locations -- even monitor coronavirus and economy of course isn't prepared either. the dow jones just dropped close to 900 points today, on top of yesterday's thousand point drop. u.s. markets are down 8-9% compared to earlier this month.

if that continues, it's not good. as of tonight, a total of 14 americans infected with coronavirus are under strict quarantine at the nebraska medical center in omaha, a 15th patient is on the way at the moment. we sent dr. marc siegel there to learn more about what's happening and he joins us tonight. what is it like there? >> we have to go across the street in the bio containment unit and 12 behind me quarantined in this hospital over here. and they're being carefully watched and as you said, one more is coming in and i have a great privilege tonight to be joined by nurse shelly sweet home, who is the director of bio preparedness here at nebraska medicine and runs this quarantined guard shelly, welcome. how are these patients doing? >> they're all doing very well today, very stable, and we are our best to get them, you know, whatever they need to be comfortable and working through all the issues that they have you know with lost luggage and other things, but all of it's going really well. speak are they going to get

better? >> they are buried >> and tell me about versus ebola, which also took care of here, how does this contagion look? >> ebola was highly infectious but not as contagious in this virus that we are talking about is mores like influenza and how it spread through respiratory droplets. so i think that that -- the potential to be a lot more contagious. >> do you feel that here in the u.s. we are betterer prepared? >> i think the u.s. has done a nice job in working through preparedness in the last year, but a long ways to go. go ahead. >> she has to go and onto the transport to bring the other patient and, in the meantime, we are going to have more from the medical centere tomorrow, but we also went to the airport last night and we looked at how the virus is slipping into the united states, take ad look. ♪ >> this is the main terminal at dulles international airport were 65,000 passengers, every

day from 125 locations. >> our borders arere no guarante that the virus won't find its way here. >> we met up with deputy secretary of homeland security ken cuccinelli at customs. he's 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 currently in customs. >> we have some lines of folks who have come in internationally, this is all international here, customs border protection, they are looking air travel history, asking you different questions and maybe they did a month or two ago and we are 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. will han china, who pay province

in china, really would look now at all of mainland china that way. >> travelers who were recently there face a mandatory two week quarantine. a passenger who show signs of illness gets health screenings administered by the cdc. but even with those measures there are too many moving parts in the virus is too elusive to be stopped entirely. >> really what we're trying to do is slow down the virusan getting here and reduce the impact when it does get here. >> we still have very few for owner up coronavirus -- we don't know how much of the virus there ruis. we also still don't know exactly how contagious it is. and we don't knoww how deadly it is, but one thing we do know, people are continuing to come to the united states, many of whom are traveling from countries wheretr coronavirus is spreadin. >> with casas burgeoning in japan and south korea, some in iran, how are you going to change this process here? >> iran is an enemy state and it's hard to interact there.

korea and japan are friendly states and we have military forces in those countries. these are countries, they are first world countries, they have outstanding health care systems and yet the speed of virus spread is very high. >> tucker, back to you in new york. >> tucker: dr. marc siegel for us in omaha tonight, thanks so much 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 beating coronavirus or at least containing it, but we don't have that. instead the w.h.o. is a corrupt mass from top to bottom. at the current director general of the world health organization is a man called -- he was previously the health minister of ethiopia. politically, he was a member of the l dash marxist ethiopian political economy -- ruling ethiopia is an oppressive authoritarian state. after taking control of the world health organization, he

promptly tried to appoint the murderous dictator of zimbabwe as an international goodwill ambassador for public health, if you can believe that. he delivered a speech praising zimbabwe as "a country that places universal health coverage and health promotion at the center of its policies to provide health care to all." now, that's a lunatic, that politics aside, he has endangered human lives, which is a weird resume point for a man running the world health organization. as health minister in ethiopia, on three separate occasions he covered up cholera outbreaks in the south of the country. to downplay the outbreaks and protect ethiopia's reputation, each time he insisted they were simply rushers of "acute watery diarrhea." according to media reports, ethiopian officials plastered agencies to cover up the truth about what was happening and hide the number of people affected. soon as the disease spread to neighboring countries it was obvious that it was cholera and

identified ass such. if you told the truth of the time, which he did not, lives could have been saved. this is the man running the world health organization at the beginnings of a global epidemic. when coronavirus first broke out in china, china refused to admit international health experts into the country to assess it. to the i state seems like chinas lying about the number of infections and the number of deaths. yet despite this, he has publicly praised the communist chinese party for "transparenc "transparency." the whole thing is orwellian and by the way, your tax dollars are paying for it. he was gets hundreds of millions of dollars of year to the w.h.o., and miles to a huge percentage of the p budget. so how did they spend the money? every year about 200 million of the world health organization budget goes to travel for its bureaucrats and staff. they often fly business class, sometimes using fraudulent pretexts to do so when it's otherwise forbidden.id other aid agencies, respectable ones like doctors without borders for 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 kill lands of people.cl jeff stier is the femur fellow at the taxpayer protection lines, he has covered corruption for years, joins us tonight, thanks so much for coming on. so 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 world health organization, how did you get this job? >> even the u.s. taxpayers cover about almost half of the bill for the w.h.o., $2 billion a year, w.h.o. budget, we have very little say over what they do and they have elections. different countries are voted to support. if there's been a corruption at the w.h.o. before magali but people like myself are sounding the alarm bells to have a marxist -- the sky was -- the number three official in a marxist regime of ethiopia and as you pointed out, he went on to appoint robert of all people to be a goodwill ambassador.

this is a culture of corruption ate the w.h.o. that goes beyond him, goes beyond the prior director general, it's part of the culture. this was not -- you pointed out the $200 million a year they spend on first class air travel and hotels, that's more than they spend on aids, tuberculosis, and other diseases combined and there's no oversight. there was a criticism of that five years ago, the associated press did a report just in 2017 and found that it was happening again and dr. -- his primary goal? socialized health care all over the world, that's his goal. we need to have faith in our public health institutions, but right now the world health organization needs oversight, it has shown us time and again it's not going to reform itself we come a u.s. were funding this corruption need to do a better job of putting in some oversig oversight. ov>> tucker: i mean, that's a

shocking story, but it goes from annoying, kind of headshaking to really a peril to our country in the middle of a rising epidemic, so a guy who denied the existence, try to cover up the existence of an epidemic is coordinating the world responds to this epidemic, a threatening one. does this have implications? >> it does. as you pointed out, he had been praising china, he 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 w.h.o. and the president has put that in his budget and now people like the school of public health professor chelsea clinton are seeing this potential outbreak is trump's fault. we need oversight of the w.h.o. we need to reform it, but we need to dodo so. we need to give it money with

strings attached because it's times like this that we need to have an institution that the public can trust in the w.h.o. doesn't deserve it and they haven't earned it and we shouldn't be funding it at the same level. >> tucker: so we are almost out of time, jeff, but did you just say chelsea clinton is a -- >> at columbia university. she had a piece on cnn.com just yesterday blaming this administration for not being prepared. the problem is -- >> tucker: what i thought you worked atle hedge fund or documt our phone maker, i didn't know she had had a job. how lower the standards? >> it is the columbia school of public health here in manhattan, so it's pretty troubling. she got her piece placed on cnn.com, so at least she has an outlet, but the w.h.o. doesn't want to hear from its critics. >> tucker: obviously not. if the higher education in this country is a joke and unfortunately that can have a really bad consequences, i hope we're not going to see them now.

great to see you, thank you. >> good to see you. >> tucker: at california state at opera tonight over plans to transfer coronavirus patients there. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has the latest on my story. >> she was blindsided when the state of california informed her that dozens of coronavirus patients would soon be housed there. costa mesa is in orange county and is home to about 100,000 people. it is also home to the fairview developmental center, a once-owned facility that housed about 3,000 adults with develop mental disabilities. today the center is almost empty and state authorities thought it would be thest perfect place to send people who test positive for coronavirus. that is until the mayor, city council and local residents said -- 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 now? >> i think there must be politics at all levels involved

in this because none of it makes sense. >> politics in california, who would think? 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 is not ordered city and state officials to convene on friday to sort this whole thing out. the state of california says potential forio transmission of the virus is "negligible" but residents are bowing to fight on. at the mayor wonders why the fairview center is suddenly appropriate to house coronavirus patients when just last week the state senate was not adequate to house the homeless. tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher. amazing story. more on the coronavirus later this hour and how the trump administration is planning to respond. tomorrow we're going to try and follow up on the edge of the chelsea clinton is a public health professor, weighing in on the coronavirus, that ought to worry you. but the south, the primaries just days away, one of the top two candidates, can't remember what office he is running for

and the other defense dictators, that's next. and then the judge in the roger stone case attacked the show today. we t will respond to her claims just ahead. sickle ♪

♪ >> tucker: well, assuming civilization indoors until then, the south carolina democratic primary will be held this saturday, mark your calendars. joe biden still has not wonna anything, counting on south carolina to be his firewall. a cliche that the democratic and republican political analyst to use all the time. a firewall that would give the momentum going into

super tuesday to make or break conte contest. at least that was the plan. this plan is not even clear it's not a fan -- biden office he's running for. on monday he seemed to think he was running for something else. >> where i come from, you don't get bored unless you ask. my name is joe biden and i'm a democratic candidate for united states senate. look me over, you like what you see, [inaudible] give me a look though, okay? >> tucker: poor guy. so guilty even running that's on but it gets even worse. last week biden told her he was arrested in south africa for trying to see nelson mandela. under apartheid. now he's saying he crafted a major treaty with the world leader who has been dead almost a quarter century. >> one of the things i'm proudest of is getting past, getting moved, getting controlled of the paris climate of corporate on the guy that came back after meeting with deng xiaoping and making the case that if china was going if we put pressure on him.

he got almost 200 nations to join. >> tucker: deng xiaoping died in 1997, no wonder biden is so proud of negotiating the treaty with them, not easy to negotiate with a dead man. you just watch the candidate who thinks he's going to win back south carolina but he does have a arrival on saturday. bernie sanders. he's searching in south carolina after his winds in nevada and new hampshire. last night at the town hall at cnn sanders defended his many past comments praising fidel castro. >> he initiated a major literacy program. a lot of folks in cuba at that point who were illiterate. i think teaching people to read and write is a good thing. >> for the democrats who say you don't say good things about fidel castro, he destroyed freedoms in that country, he played -- picks winners and losers and kill them and put them in person forever, you don't give them about on the back for t anything. >> truth is truth.

all right? >> tucker: can you get elected president repeating the single dumbest talking point of the 1970s? we will find out. richard goodstein is a lawyer at a former advisor to the clintons, joins us tonight. how's your primary season going, richard? >> can i just do one thing, i want to pat on the back about your coverage on coronavirus and make a political point, which is notheac to be needlessly criticf donald trump, which is, 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. you're going to lecture me about science. [laughs] that's hilarious. >> if the public doesn't have confidence in donald trump are on the issues, there's a reason for it. so here's my answer on -- >> tucker: wait a minute, hold on. science. i am interested in science.

and watching it be trampled -- what you think of the whole genderer thing? lets have this conversation -- let me ask you, you're a more moderate democrat and you're worried about their bernie sanders. you are for klobuchar or michael bennet, probably no biden is one of your last hopes. how do you think joe biden is doing and what is he running for tonight, do you know? >> so i think -- you could show a lot of gaps about joe biden, you could have done the same thing with covered him decades ago. this is him. the good news for joe biden as he says this don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative and he would be running against somebody will think that frederick douglass has a great future, who thinks that an american invented the wheel who cannot pronounce the word anonymous or origin, so that's the virtue of where it biden presidential candidacy will be relative to donald trump. is he doing well? no. >> tucker: but sincerely, do you think he's capable of governing the country, honest question. >> i think if you listen to --uc >> tucker: it doesn't seem like he is. >> i think that's a fair

contract on my question. he knows what he's running for. when donald trump couldn't say namibia but he said maybe, i think he kind of knew that there was a namibia, yeah. i'm just saying of course i think if you listen to joe biden over hundreds of hours during this campaign answer questions about all the issues that he had to deal with in the white house, yes, i absolutely think is quite capable. >> tucker: so what's your plan for the bernie ascendancy or? are you going to stay in the country? >> -- >> tucker: switzerland? have you gained this out yet? >> for the first time bernie is being vetted. hillary gave him a pass, huge mistake i think in retrospect. and that frankly all the other democrats have given him a pass. finally he is an unreconstructed socialist. he's talked about nationalizing telecommunications and the banks an end he means it. again, just like he said good things about castro, trump has good things about the head of north korea and turkey and other authoritarians. i'm not quite prepared to throw

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

you decide if there were any similarities between the two, watch. >> one voice can change the world. and if i can change a room, it can change a city. might of a neighborhood, then we can light up a city. >> if it can change a city, it can change a state. >> if we can line up the city we can light up the country. >> if we can change the state, it can change the nation. >> and if we light up this country, than everybody can make sure this country will shine as a beacon around the world once more. >> and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. >> tucker: tammy bruce host get tammy bruce on fox nation, she joins us tonight. great to see you. so that clip made me feel old because 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 no one's going to a member that? >> it's a little insulting, isn't it? but more insulting might be -- the only unique thing about pete at this point is his lastth nam, but to be changes to obama, that

he'll have everything wrapped up perfectly. >> tucker: ! >> what else can he do now? but it's not just that. it's tweets that were similar with that speech, he was tweeting the same, but it's also the cadence. it's not even just plagiarizing the words. it was the rhythm of the delivery and evenm some of the gestures, the way that he held his face. this is a guy who wants to be president who doesn't even have the confidence to be himself. this is a man who apparently has no confidence in his own ideas or his own rhetoric or his own ability to inspire people. the only good thing here is that after obama campaigned with platitudes like that, he actually got into the white house and failed. at this point we can have the guy failbe before he gets real power. so we can have this do over and that's fine with me. it can also be like when you're dating someone and s maybe you'e thinking about marrying them and then you see on america's most wanted that he's really an escaped prisoner from a year ago and you find that out before you get married. that's one of the other

benefits. sad perhaps for the pete supporters, but i think this is also what's insulting, about te% support of black -- he mayt believe that if a cop is an african-american who was well regarded by the black community's here in america that he can somehow trick them into voting for him. i think that americans, regardless of our skin color,ss deserve a little bit more respect for that, a little bit more regard that everyone, regardless of our complexion, wants to hear real solutions about real issues on policy. and i this is where he's really dropping the ball to say the least. >> tucker: it is kind of the end of the road for identity politics. is running on who he is rather than what he would do or what he believes, but he's really going to have to for this to work convince people that he's a biracial community organizer. i don't think he can pull that off. >> i don't think he can so he wants to run about being who he is a site man but wants to run about being and some don't someone else.

that's really breaking the barrier when it comes to identity politics, isn't it? >> tucker: i'm glad you're as insulting as i was. tammy bruce, great to see you tonight, thank you. the judge in the roger stone case, and open partisan, lashed out at this program today by name. we will tell you what she said and we will respond to it after the break. ♪ 5g will change business in america. t-mobile has the first and only, nationwide 5g network. and with it, you can shape the future. we've invested 30 billion dollars and built our new 5g network for businesses like yours. while some 5g signals only go a few blocks, t-mobile 5g goes for miles. no other 5g signal goes farther or is more reliable in business. tomorrow is in your hands. partner with t-mobile for business today.

>> tucker: last week on the >> tucker: last week on the show we cover the sentencing of roger stone who is perhaps the

most undeserving of all the many casualties of the russia collusion hysteria. stone received more than three years in prison, he will be over 70 when he gets out. officially his crime was lying about emails. emails that were themselves entirely, harmless. from the first day, stone's -- transparent political hitch r. wanted him imprisoned because for 40 years it was donald trump's closest political advisor. amy berman jackson is the federal judge who oversaw the barack obama.d by she is an openly partisan democrat, has made no attempt to hide that. jackson love the foreman of the jury to lie about her political background which in a normal caramel of law would have disqualified her immediately but jackson let her stay and then defended her. then jackson herself lied about the case. she claimed that stone have been prosecuted because he "covered up for the president "when in fact the charges against roger stone had nothing to do hithout. amy berman jackson is a disgrace to the judiciary. it's frightening that in a country like ours she has power, and she does. we said that on the show last

week. today during a hearing, jackson attacked us. and once again she lied as she did it. she actually accused her 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 publisher name, including "the new york times," "the washington post" and cnn, all of which of course jackson approves of because they are on her side. then jackson accused the show of "harassing the jurors, even encouraging violence against them. that is insane. of course we did no such thing. finally, jackson called her criticism of her "antithetical to our system of justice." which proves that not only is amy berman jackson corrupt, dishonest and authoritarian, and she is definitely all of those things,ru she also has no sensef self-awareness whatsoever. jeanine pirro host justice with judge dineen and she joins us tonight. so much for coming on. can you imagine a federal judge in the middle of a very seriousn

proceeding the question at hand was does roger stone deserve in a trial because of the partisanship of the foreman of the jury, in the middle of that, lashing out with political attacks against the tv show -- went after the president by name, what does that say about her? >> you know, i sat as a judge in criminal felony cases as well. this is federal. but i'm stunned at her behavior. number one, any judge or concerns herself with the media or the press needs to get a thick skin or at least where a few robes to make it look like she has thick skin. all right? she should notsh be worried abot you or anyone else. she's got a job and she needs to stay in her lane. but everything that you've said about her is accurate and right on point. she is a judge who 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, she's

mad at the president. if she wants to have a hearing on whether or not there was jury bias in private because she doesn't want anyone intimidating the jury. here's the bottomin line. the foreperson herself outed herself. we know that she is an anti-trump person. she has posted many things about donald trump, about russia, about roger stone at least once and she is a partisan. she ran for congress. this is the kind of stuff that we seek to find out in a voir dire. this judge should be outraged that anyone other than that juror. and the fact that she decided that she wouldn't recuse herself when she has already prejudged the issue by saying this jury acted with integrity and intelligence, how do you know, judge? have you spoken to that juror? do you know what was posted? to know how she answer the question? what do you know about her background? did she want to s get on that jury? and everything in my gut tells me she wanted to get on that

jury and denied doing anything that was partisan. shame on the judge. >> tucker: shame on that -- she should be impeached. she's corrupt, she's out of control, she has also muzzled roger stone, taken with his first amendment right.. he's not allowed on the show, she has threatened to send him to prison if he defends himself, meanwhile his being attacked daily by cnn. how can that happen in this country? i don't understand. >> would never heard of anything like this, we've never heard of a defendant who has been convicted and sentenced and then told he can't talk. his lawyers can't talk, we will put him in jail. she has a partisan, she is the onert who put paul manafort in solitary confinement when everybody i know in the legal community -- why is he in solitary confinement? she is a partisan. everything that she has done, including her refusal to recuse herself, not even having a hearing about that, criticizing you when she should be worried about the fact that she is the juror for person who's out there saying "i am upset that the

decided thatral this should be less" -- the sentence has nothing to do with you. you decide the facts and this judge is on the wrong side of justice in this case. she has aligned herself with someone who may have disrupted justice in a courtroom. and she has prejudged it and taken thed side of that person. it's wrong. it's wrong. >> tucker: someone like that sets on the federal bench. roger stone is a pardon, let's get past this. judge jeanine, great to see you tonight. >> good to see you. >> tucker: a while, with brutal housing cost and a severe epidemic of homelessness, seattle has become san francisco with worse weather. so what's the priority of lawmakers there? of course, encouraging the intentional spread of the hiv virus. we are not joking, by the way. we've got details after the break. ♪ will take you down in the dump. after several denials, when i went to aspen dental, they gave me a free exam, free x-rays.

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♪ >> tucker: washington state is in quite a screwed up as the state of california, it's beautiful in a lot of parts. a lot of nice people there but lawmakers in washington i'm trying their best to keep up with our southernng neighbor. statehouse just approve the bill but if passed would downgrade the intentional's mission -- radio host joins us tonight, for coming on. the word here is intentional i think, that's the essential word. so there saying that if you do it -- if you infect someone with the disease for which there is no cure on purpose, that's a misdemeanor? >> it will be when this bill passes, and this bill is going to pass. all of the democrats in the house said yes. last night there was a committee hearing in the senate while the democratshe have said yes again. it's likely going to be passed in the coming days. intentionality is the key here. do not talk about someone who has hiv, doesn't know about

it -- there talk about knowing your status and either choosing to live by your status to the person you're engaging with or just not telling them. of course the reason why you wouldn't tell someone is the fear that they're not going to give you any consent. so the state that talks about affirmative consent when it comes to hiv infection, all of a sudden there saying it's not that important. the reason that they get behind this is what's most troubling to me. so they argue that by treating hiv as a negative, by quote gunquote criminalizing hiv that your stigmatizing people who are living with hiv. that's a ludicrous argument. we are stigmatizing people who choose to infect someone else with hiv. they say, well, science and medicine is so much different now that you can take a one-a-day pill and you're basically going to be okay. it's not that big of a deal to have hiv. that's the argument, which of course, there is certainly truth to the point of medicine and how it's no longer the death sentence it once was, but tell that to someone whose wife has been completely impacted having

to take that pill a day assuming they can afford the medication over their lifetime because when you look at the studies and suggested -- depending on whenes you get it and how long you live, you're doing 500,000 to a million dollars your lifetime distant hiv medications. so it's not like you're living -- >> tucker: but that's not -- even at the level of principle it's like completely insane. that one illness has been politicized. 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 actually not to make it so that we can hear them talk. that's the problem. this bill was kind of snuck in there. not a lot of people are paying attention to it until we just got wind of it and we talk about it on the show and then all of a sudden people started to complain about it and i spoke to a senator who told me that he had already pledged his support of this particular bill, but didn't actually read it or know what was inside oft it.

so now people know what's in this bill and it's on them. it's a morally reprehensible positionally to take that you ae okay with lessening a crime of a monster who chooses to give someone hiv. and to conflate that -- >> tucker: so isn't -- or any disease. isn't intentionally infecting someone with a disease -- why is that different from biowarfare? since her question. why is that different? >> from their perspective, they see a victim class. this is being pushed by social justice democrats who see people living with hiv as victims that are in need of protection. and i generally agree that we obviously have to have compassion for themre but who wh hiv. but we should not extend that compassion or understanding to criminals. to go from a felony to a misdemeanor -- and keep this in mind. in washington state, particularly westernn washingto, they don't prosecute misdemeanors, so there's someone who's going to do this intentionally and are not going to be punished at all. all because democrats want to protect a larger group.

it's absolutely ludicrous. >> tucker: i'm for protecting people's also.o. including people with hiv. i'm for protecting everybody from crazy people who wouldm intentionally infect them with a disease -- whatever. lunacy, hard to believe it's real. apparently it is, jason, thanks so much. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: major coronavirus outbreak in this country is now inevitable. that's the finding of the cdc today. so how do we respond? how was the turn of administration working to fight this? a member -- a key member -- of the administration joins us to answer that question after the break. ♪

♪ >> tucker: coronavirus is coming to this country on a large-scale. we are not sure when, but the consensus among scientists is it is coming. san francisco has no cases yet, but san francisco has declared a state of emergency for it. 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 this? peter navarro is one of the point man in the administration on coronavirus. he is the white house trade advisor, and he joins us now for answers. peter, thanks so much for coming on. if you could sum up -- i assume you agree this is a great concern. the cdc confirmed that today. what is the response to it? >> so, tucker, there is a four part strategy we are pursuing in

trump time, which is to say as quickly as possible. you start with a personal protective equipment. this iss the masks and gloves, the suits, things like that, public health care workers need. we are making sure we can secure those supplies tomorrow. hhs is going out with an rfp to secure a half a billion face masks alone. the second thing is the treatment options. we have three balls in the air on that. there is a drug called runtime severe, administered intravenously. we are trying to secure theci dosage for that. trying to develop oral antivirals in a very rapid time, and there is something called monoclonal antibodies, which helped build the immune system. hhs is working on that. then, the next thing, which is the magic bullet, that is the vaccine development. we have already setwe out a plan to develop a vaccine in less than half i the time it usually

takes with a combination of private-sector efficiencies and regulatory streamlining. and finally, and importantly, there is point-of-care diagnostics. the problem, tucker, that we have now is if somebody had symptoms, they had to go to the hospital, take a sample, send it to a lab come and wait 48 hours for that. what we are trying to do is adapt existing handheld devices to the coronavirus so that workers out in the field can get instant results. tucker, the president is working on this from the day that he pulled down the planes from china, i think it was january 29th, and we are focused like a laser beam on this. to keep the public secure, we are hoping for the best, preparing for the worst, and we're 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 united states? >> yes, i am. the problem is what is going on

in the rest of the world and how these vectors are going to impacte us. the issue here is to be ready, be prepared. the important thing, tucker, contrasting this with the china situation, if it comes here, what you want to do is stretch out theet amount of time where people get contagious and infected. that will give our health care system the ability to process that. what is going on in china and i horrific. there is triage so if you have anything but the coronavirus, heart attack, broken leg,e. whatever, you don't get care, and you die. we don't want that to happen here. >> tucker: no, we don't. peter navarro, thank you so much. >> tucker, thank you. >> tucker: good to see you. as we go tonight, a picture on the screen is not the birthday of our executive producer.ex we can't tell you how old he is, because we don't know, but we know heca is the single best producer in all of television. he has put on the show since the first day and we are grateful to have him. he is the one on the other side.

happy birthday. that is it for us tonight. tuning every night, 8:00, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink. a lot going on tonight. sean hannity takes over from here. >> sean: excuse me, you do not have the single best producer and television, i do. >> tucker: yes, we do. >> sean: he is listening right now. happy birthday to justin, but sorry, you are number two in my book. i know tucker thinks her number one, that's all right. thank you, tucker. welcome to "hannity" tonight. big breaking news and what is pivotal, crucial to ourha constitution, and that is a quest for equal justice of the law, equal application of our laws. it involves numerous issues. julian assange versus hillary clinton, and the great injustice in the roger stone case. in the stone case, a travesty of justice. we have all of the detai tonight, and an insane judge in that particular case. plus, we will have reaction and analysis to the very latest news from the