for those who were born to ride, there's progressive. that's "the story" on friday the 13th, 2020. we will see you monday. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." back inst january when we first reported on this show about what we described them as a serious viral outbreak that appeared to be rising from the city called wuhan in eastern china -- at the time, the outbreak sounded ominous andd potentially important but stills very far away. less than two months later, it's officially a national emergency in the united states, thehe president announced that a press conference in the rose garden. >> to unleash the full power of the federal government, i'm officially declaring a national emergency. >> tucker: he explained

measures designed to check the spread of the virus and help the country recover and whether the economicsi disruption it's causing. the state of emergency declaration frees up to $50 billion to battle the pandemic. regulations governing the length of hospital stays, most visits to nursing homes will be suspended. the president also announced a freeze on interest payments on student loans. he said the government will purchase billions of barons of oil from the strategic petroleum reserve, we are going to fill it to the top. in response to an adequate testing around the country, something that's gotten quite a bit of attention, he announced an initiative to open driveua through testing facilities. >> the goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and be swabbed without having to leave your car. >> tucker: we will have more on the problems with testing for the virus in a minute.e.

if the president's announcement seemed to calm markets, after dropping ten points yesterday, it rose by more than 9% with most of the gains coming after the president spoke. across america, regular life is alll but suspended as you know well. sporting events, concerts, and place are being canceled, so our religious a ceremonies. the mormon church stopped all services worldwide. there are about 2200 confirmed coronavirus cases in the united states and 48 deaths. those are not huge numbers in a country with 320 million but there is reason to believe this could be the beginning of something bigger.r. in italy, another 250 people died just today, the worst day yet. in spain's, dozens of dieting. governments are starting to take dramatic measures, remembering the value of having borders. denmark, poland, and the czech republic have close themselves off to outsiders and art likely to be the last country to do that. in iran which could be the country hit hardest of all, the

military has been called up to clear the streets. we were joined by dr. brendan carr who was the chairman of emergency medicine, his analysis was so clear and so informative that we are happy topy have him back tonight. he joins us now, thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks for having me back at. >> tucker: we received quite a bit of email about your appearance last night and so we assembled of the basic questions from our viewers and i wonder ii you would mind going through ana answering them, i think that might be helpful. i'm going to start with a viewer called beverly holiday price, explain the exact symptoms and when someone ought to seek emergency medical care. >> this is a hard one. the exact symptoms are fever, cough, shortness of breath, and a lot of other things. if the worrisome ones are fever, cough, shortness of breath but people have minor symptoms, 80 plus percent of folks have very minor symptoms. the second part is when do you need to seek care? the best rule of thumb is that

it's a lot like the flu, it feels a lot like the flu. you get a little bit sick, you wait and see what direction you go, you take some medicine to see if you can feel better, as you're not getting better, you reach out to a trusted source, you talk to someone over telemedicine or primary care doctor, if you can talk to them, best not to go expose yourself to other folks. if you're not getting better, that's when you go to the hospital. >> tucker: you say shortness of breath, one of the thing that causes shortness of breath is anxiety, a lot of people are anxious and i'm wondering if they are sick with this. is there some way to tell if you're shortness of breath as a medical problem? >> the answer is no end wouldn't it be nice if it were? one of the things we think about is what we can do to keep ourselves safe, people worry a lot about their chronic medical problems because they are being told this is for older adults and they have the biggest challenge with this. it's important right now more than ever to be thoughtful aboun

your rest, immune system, about taking care of yourself. it's hard to tell if it's your anxiety making you short of breath or if it's sickness but it comes with the other things. it comes with fevers and cough and feeling pretty terrible like you feel when you have the flu. >> tucker: unmistakable, probably. marcia jones wrote in to ask this. my husband has copd, should he not go to work? re>> we are all watching as many mass gatherings get closed and we are spending a lot of time talking about flattening the curve is what the public health people say. there is a spike coming of folks that have this disease and one of the ways to decrease how many people have the disease is to not spend aot whole a lot of tie near each other, sharing germs with each other. not going to work is a pretty rational decision for someone who has an underlying medical problem but it's pretty rational

for all of us to be really thoughtful about how much time we spend in places where we don't have to become aware we can transmit germs to each oth other. i work in ats hospital, we set o seats apart from each other. we move all of our education and all of our meetings the video. it's a safe, prudent thing to do if you have an underlying medical problem, all the better reason to do it. >> tucker: here's a question, are there any home remedies available apart from washing your hands? >> home remedies are hard, keeping your home safe is really important however. making sure if you have someone there who is infected, keep them isolated to a room. going into that room only when they are wearing a mask so they aren't coughing stuff into the air is a really good idea. wiping down areas that are common areas with a virus can set and you can touch it with your hand and touch your mouth or touch your eye is a really

good idea. over-the-counter disinfectants work, it's a lot like flu. it's pretty easy to kill with the regular stuff, we just have to be thoughtful about making sure that we don't breathe in somebody else'sn air, spend a lt of time in the room with them, especially if you are in my line of work, we worry a lot. i put someone to sleepe and puta breathing tube into them and i get mucus in all kinds of things that are coming up into the air. that's a high risk thing, it's a much less high risk thing to be in a house with someone who is controlling their cough, coughing into their washing theirwa hands. >> tucker: interesting.re thanks so much, i appreciate your coming on tonight. obviously we appreciate everything the doctor just told us and we believe it. you should always consult your own doctor if you are feeling sick. onntact a professional directly, do not rely purely on what you

see on television. it's true. one reason america is scrambled to contain this pandemic is our initial testing for the virus is badly insufficient. in south korea, the coronavirus appears to be under control tonight essentially. a major reason why is the south korean government has been testing tens of thousands of people every day for weeks, many weeks. contrast that to this country. doctors and nurses have struggled to get test even for patients who are showing coronavirus symptoms, patients who have traveled to infected areas or people who have been in direct contact with confirmed cases of coronavirus -- it's not a guess, we know couple people personally who should get tests but cannot get them as of now, you may know some too. one emergency room doctor told "the new york times" we are basically rationing testing supplies. "testing capacity remains inadequate." it's not clear how many people have been tested nationwide and

therefore how many have been infected, we don't know. yesterday, director anthony fauci bluntly summed up exactly where we are. g >> the system is not really geared to what we need right now. what you are asking for. that is a failing. let's admit it. g the idea of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it, we aren't set up for that. do i think we should be? yes. but we are not. >> tucker: how exactly did thist happen, why was the richet most advanced country on the f planet not prepared? we'll get you three guesses but you got the first time -- government incompetence. the world health organization has had a coronavirus test for quite some time but our cdc tried to create their own test and denied state public health labs to create public tests of their own. tthen the cdc failed to deliver

its test in time. they delayed the release of testing kits fearful of sending out flawed equipment, then after long delays, the kids didn't work correctlytw anyway. twoav weeks ago, new york city still did not have any way to test for coronavirus, the kits they received from cdc turned out to be unreliable. because of all of this and it's incompetence, earlier thisar moh most coronavirus tests had to br sent to the cdc in atlanta for confirmation, that created a devastating bottleneck for results, a bottleneck that may have killed people. the seattle flu study was barred by government regulators from doing their own coronavirus testing, finally they decided to ignore the feds and do ithe anyway, we are glad they did because they promptly discovered the first community spread underway here in the united states. shortly after they found that, regulators ordered them to stop testing. that's insanity. actually the trump administration seems to have partly reversed these errors.

if the white house announced new efforts to allow states and companies to a help. walmart and target are lending their parking lots to be drive through testingg facilities, wil it work? it couldn't be worse than what we have. the bigger question is "is it too late?" the lack of test, we don't know who has coronavirus. yesterday, the state of ohio suggested there could be hundreds of thousands of people in their state alone. other experts think the real number in ohio is lower, okay. let's say ohio has pick a number, a thousand cases, that's still far above the number that's currently being reported. if the more cases there are, the less testing actually helps anyone.. when 100,000 people have an illness, you can't meaningfully track and quarantine them. the head of colorado's testing effort saidng the time for testg is moving past us, the governor of maryland and sounded a

similar note to. >> everyone's trying to work on it but i i don't believe they cn wrap it up fast enough, that's a simple answer. we've moved on from testing to other things right now. we've moved from containment to mitigation and at some point soon, we aren't going to be into testing as much because the hospitals are overwhelmed but unable to do the tests. >> tucker: things seem to be getting better but is it too late to test? we are joined by dr. marcus eagle, happy to have him back. simple question, is it too late? it seems like things are getting better, does it matter? >> it's not too late to test bu everything we learned is correct. the sustained spread in communities and our viewers can tell that just because cases keep popping up and we can't tell where they came from. i don't know about 100,000 but there are many thousands of cases that have migh not been diagnosed. we don't have another system we

can work with -- let me explain that. our hospitals are telling patients don't come in here with a cough, severe shortness of breath and a fever, it tends to be a high fever, don't come in here -- doctors are being told, don't see these patients. we don't know what to do with them and the only thing we have isou a test except you can't actually do the test because the lab and i just found out this today, calling and calling and calling once again, all these labs -- they are going to do the tests, even if they have the equipment, they don't want to put their labic technicians in e line of fire and be subjected to possible coronavirus. there's a catch-22 here. >> tucker: i'm sorry to interrupt, what's the thing you can do. >> exactly what south korea did to. you have to have the drive through's, people dressed up in personal protective equipment like we showed in nebraska, they have to be doing it very carefully and it's got to be done on a high-volume basis. it can't be contained anymore but i'll tell you why i want it

done. i want to reassure people who edon't have it that will help to decrease the panic. >> tucker: there's also the question of spreading it to the people you love and i know people personally who are facing this right now tonight and they know they have been exposed to someone who is a confirmed case of coronavirus, they have kids, they are married, they have friends, and they don't know whether to self quarantine and it would be nice to know. you mentioned south korea, you held them up as a model, that's a country that we saved from the chinese in 1953 whose economy we rebuilt, one of the poorest countries in the world, it's not anymore. why were they able to do this and we worked? >> they have an organized system and their parts are moving better and they are to busy telling the public "we are doing it, it's in the mail, the kits are in the mail." all of that is so disturbing and you made a great point i want to emphasize, another reason i want to do the u tests, the states ad cities are still telling us we can only do the test on people

who have symptoms. i want to do it for the exact reason you said on people who don't have symptoms but may be sneezed on someone who turned out to have it or shook someone hand. they have elderly parents or a pregnant wife or someone with a high risk chronicro condition. we have to know who has this so we can protect the people most at risk, even if it is sustained throughout all i communities, i think it's a whopping amount of cases undiagnosed. we still need to know who has it. >> tucker: you're wondering what is the point of the system if we can't do that? thank youho fo for walking us th that. this country has fewer than 2500 confirmed coronavirus cases but officials in ohio believe their state might have 100,000 within the confines of ohio. how confident are they, work and they get that number, and can anything be done to stop the disease once it becomes u widespread? we will have a health official

and the government ohio after the break. >> we have a hundred thousand people at least were walkings around with a coronavirus and what the experts tell us is this number will multiply, double every six days. tax refund than you deserve?

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>> tucker: globally there are still fewere than 150,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus but thanks to a lack of testing a single american state thinks it could be closing in on thathe number just by itself. the government ohio announced based on multiple instances of communities in the state and extrapolating from those, they suspect that 1% of all of ohio

has thehe virus, the state has 11.7 million people, that adds up to hundred thousand possible cases. mike the wind is the governor along with dr. any act and the director of the ohio department of health, thanks to both for coming on. if first to you, are you confident in this number? >> it's an estimate and dr. acton can explain better than i do but we rely on people like her who's my health director but we've also had a panel of 14 doctors who we rely on to make this decision and we reached out to some other national experts. what we d do know is there's a t of people in ohio who would test positive if that test was done. dr. acton can do the science better than i can.

>> tucker: i'm sorry, go ahea ahead. it is plain to us in a way that we can understand how you got to this. >> we don't know the exact number, we really haven't been able to test, we don't have the exact model that will tell us. but what we did no end there was some confusion in my remarks partly because i'm tired but what we did know is we assume community spread already because we weren't able to test until this monday, we had our first case. we look around at the models that exist and it turned out that some of the best people, people who actually created the flattening curve that we are all talking about, those are people we consulted with two really understand the model. we looked at what was happening

in italy, two weeks ago there were only nine cases and now we have folks struggling to get a ventilator. it's a matter of life or death, we look to my colleagues in washington who said too me on au phone call, we wish we could have taken steps sooner. we took that to heart, we've looked at the modeling and sure enough the second we started testing, we headed cases. it was really the trigger. when you have those cases that aren't linked to another case or travel and now within the end of the week, we had 13 this afternoon, we expect many more this evening and persons under investigations in the couple hundredss. >> tucker: it's reassuring, are you ready forri this? it's the state's health

infrastructure ready treat that many people? >> we've taken dramatic action, close the schools, we've closed casinos, we've done a lot of other things to really try to get that curve down. the whole issue here as the experts explain it to me, it's here, it's going to continue to expand. a lot of people are going to gee it but what you want to do is spread this out because of its bikes like it did in italy, our health care system not just in ohio but across this country is not going to be able to handle it. you have doctors and people making life-and-death decisions about who to give a ventilator too, that we can't have. we had to take action. the experts that we talked to said it may seem right to wait another two weeks but if youe wait another two weeks, you waited two weeks too long. >> tucker: i wish there were

more people with that attitude. i think clearly you did the right thing. thanks for joining us, thanks for explaining that to us. you've heard a lot about the struggles the country has had getting testing up and running, the number of cases in this country has led to a much higher currently reported. that means a surge of hospital w cases may be underway. italy is at this moment the best model for what could happen, it happened in the north of italy the most developed parts -- equipment shortages have resulted in triage and death. there are some people doctors cannot treat, there are too many people. will this country have enough beds and enough ventilators for sick people when they show up for treatment? seema verma is administrator and went on martha maccallum's show and was asked that question, do we have enough? here's the exchange.

>> can you reassure that there is not a shortage of ventilators or icy units? >> that's why the president has taken such bold and decisive action. we aren't waiting for this to get worse, we aren't waiting for this to be a crisis in our health care systems and that's why the medication strategies that he announced last night limiting travel from europe, not allowing matt, we've given travel advisories on cruise ships, that's why we are taking all of this action, we don't want to put stress on the health care system. >>e that's not a direct answero the question. >> tucker: seema verma joins usor tonight, thanks so much for coming on. iha watched that exchange and i must be honest with you i was really troubled by it because you were asked a direct question by martha maccallum, do we have enough ventilators in icy units and you appear to intentionally not answer it. i'm going to ask you that question and hope that we will be reassured by the answer -- di we have enough ventilators to treat the surge of cases?

>> we have a stockpile of ventilators. right now today, we are able to address people who need ventilators. our strategy is to not make the situation worse but there is a stockpile of ventilators, the president talked about ventilators today and said we are going to purchase more to make sure we have backup supplier. the idea is we don't want to get in a situation where we have shortages which is why we are taking that aggressive mitigation action. there is a strategic stockpile that has medical supplies which includes ventilators. the president talked about that today about getting more. >> tucker: that seems wise, you never want to be a in a position where you run out of anything. canne you put some meat on those bones and give us a sense of how many ventilators are in place, how many do you think we will o need? >> it's a good question.it in terms of numbers we are still assessing and working with hospitals to understand what

their needs are. right now we haven't had hospitals saying we need more ventilators. that could change rapidly, we are i trying to make sure we sty in communication with hospitals, with health care facilities so we can understand what their needs are. the emergency declaration was actually very important today because what that said is we want every hospital to launch their disaster preparedness plan and get ready for this. get the entire health care system ready. we are trying to avoid shortages but the idea here is to avoid that type of situation. >> tucker: pardon my ignorance if this is widely known but i didn't know we had a stockpile of emergency equipment. where is it capped and are there a lot of ventilators sitting in storage somewhere? >> most of that is handled by the department of health and

human services, our emergency response folks. they have a system in place.t this is not unusual, if you think about our response in the hurricane in florida and texas, that whole system washi responding, that was going to help us to respond to this as well. some of the things they can do, they can set up temporary h hospitals. you can have overflow, you can have situationsge where people need to discharge folks from the hospital, there's no place to put them so they can have temporary facilities. those p are the things we have n place. right now at this moment, our focus is on ensuring we have an adequate supply and really hitting hard on the mitigation strategy. what you just talked about, what we heard from the governor in ohio with these projections, we could potentially have a majorid impact on the health care system. the other thing we did today -- >> tucker: i was thinking major impact, we all pray this

wouldn't happen but something like what happens in italy were to happen here on an american a scale, that would be an absolute disaster. i'm going to end on this one question and i hate t to fixaten the ventilator think i'm i couldn't get that extend out of my mind last night. you are confident that if we had huge uptick in the need for that specific piece of equipment that we could get new ventilators into icu units quickly. >> i don't want to make drastic predictions because this situation is changing every single day and based on the information we have, we know that we have to be aggressive. thathat is what today's declaran was all about. the president allowed cmf to give a lot more flexibility to health care system, so that we can provide across state lines and we don't have limits so we can move people around within the hospital so they can provide care for them. to allow more telemedicine. some of the h things, it's not just about having supplies, it's

also about making sure they have the flexibility on the front lines. those are some of the actions wy are taking to make sure the health care system is prepared. >> tucker: we are definitely counting on you, thanks for doing that,t, thanks for comingn tonight. the stock market seemed a little calmer after the president's remarks in the rose garden but one doctor continues to warn that we may not be ready for what may be coming. he will give us his estimate on what we could see in the coming days just ahead. plus america's massive homeless population has always been a threat to public health, a grave threat in some places. how much greater is that risk in the age of a pandemic, that's just ahead. and, for a limited time only, now you can get two lines for just $55, including unlimited talk, text and data. plus no annual service contracts. only at t-mobile.

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9,000 in thehe stockpile. put together, do you think that's enough for what we are likely to see in the coming weeks? >> let me make a comment that i've never made a public interview before, i have served in the last five presidential administrations, this most recently as the science envoy for the state department and the trump administration i served two republican governors, two democratic governors, one independent governor, i'm not a partisan guy. i'm a private to public health army and i have to say having heard that conversation you just had scares me terribly. that was one of the most incompetent and absolutely incoherent responses to what is going onpo right now and i takeo assurance from what i just heard that somebody is in charge in hhs right now with this issue. we are terribly underprepared for the number of ventilators, the circuits, the pieces that connect you to the ventilators,

we don't have nearly enough respirators in terms of protective masks, we aren't at all -- and to continue to maintain that we are i think is really, really very disturbing. >> tucker: that is unequivocal what you just said. >> this is a fox news alert, the house just moments ago gave final approval to hr 6201, the families first coronavirus response act. that boat coming after a long day of negotiation, the president declaring the coronavirus pandemic and national emergency. congressional correspondent chad program is live with us, it's taken hours and hours, what do we know about this bill and the vote? >> the boat is underway right now, they haven't quite crossed the threshold to pass this, under normal circumstances they would need 218, the number is

much higher than that. the reason is because this is what we call a suspension bill, they suspend the rules in order to get the bill to the floor in a more expeditious process but the exchange for that is that you need a two-thirds vote. right now the house has a 400 total members, two-thirds is up to 87, they are a little bit shy of that, just about ten votes. as soon as they get that, this will pass. it's not in doubt that it would pass, once they got that series of tweets from president trump tonight, that gave republican congressmen cover to vote yes, that's why the only nat knows ae republican conservatives, tom mcclintock from northern california, jason smith a republican from missouri, ralph norman, that's some of the republicans were voting against this. this will pass tonight but the senate is not going to take this up probably until monday. the senate is out of session,

mitch mcconnell sent his members home because he didn't know if the house could actually pass the bill. when i asked him and he said one of the house does pass something he said we would take a look at it. the senate comes back on monday evening and they have another bill that is teed up, something they have to approve, pfizer -- that died the other night. possibly on monday night, they would take up this bill and get it to the president's desk. they have crossed that threshold, they have more than two-thirds. the vote is still open but we can say this vote has the votes to pass. >> want to touch on some breaking news come again overnight, we have a minute left. it turns out apparently a second dinner guest during that brazilian official visits tested positive for covid-19, sharing the table with the president -- do you know anything more about that? >> we got a statement from the white house tonight and the attending physician for president trump indicating this

person who sat next to the president at mar-a-lago did not exhibit any symptoms of covid-19 until this morning. he has since tested as a positive test, they are taking precautions with the president. he did sit near him at the table but they are indicating the exposure was still low and they are monitoring the president's health. in that statement, they indicated they did not think there was any reason to quarantine the president. >> with 30 seconds left, for the little guy sitting at home right now, what does this bill mean to him or her? >> the main thing is unemployment insurance, unpaid leave, if you are self-employed, you can take a sick off otherwise you would take a hit in the wallet. those are going to be the key things in this bill as we go forward and they are probably going to have to pass two or three other major bills in the coming weeks and months and we do not know the cost of this

bill that's on the house floor right now. >> we are going to come back to you as soon as we learn more information about this, thanks so much for standing by. if we are watching this vote happened live for you, the bill apparently guarantees free coronavirus testing, it secures paid emergency leave, enhances unemployment insurance, strengthens food security initiatives, and increases federal medicaid funding to states. we are following that breaking news, a second dinner guest during the brazilian visit tested positive for covid-19. this guest was sitting next to the president, at least sharing a table with the president, we are told right now by the white house press secretary the president at this point is not showing any symptoms but they are continuing to closely monitor and care for the president and we'll update everyone as soon as more information becomes available.

that is breaking as well right now, we are going to have much more from chad as soon as we learn more from capitol hill, we are going to send you back to our regular programming, tucker carlson tonight.

>> tucker: we're really only a few days into a national awareness of coronavirus >> tucker: we are only a few days into a national awareness of coronavirus. all cruise lines out of america canceled as of tonight. airlines are slashing not just thee cost of flight but the number of flights in the air and in some cases by 40%. across the country, basic supplies are hard toto find. melissa francis the cohost of outnumbered, she joins us tonight.

we do this for a living, give us a reading right now. >> it's going through a shot, people are trying to figure out what to do. it's so lumpy, hammering some industries. other places you can't even get in the door. you take the airlines, they were totally empty, people weren't getting on planes. they cut back on flights, i talked to a couple people whot were flying, delta they showed the fog and they were doing to their seats which it would be nice if they did that all the time, maybe we can keep that in place going forward --s, the airlines are definitely going to get hammered. the government is aware of that, they know we need an airlinele industry. i'm more worried about the little guy. that's the one that breaks my heart. i was out, there were amazing o

food trucks on the street, a lot of them have been on tv shows, this is a small business, one guy or gal who had a dream and there's a picture up there, usually there's about 30 or 40 people deep. it was 70 degrees outside, it was sunny and gorgeous. i decided to go out and look and see if my favorite one was there, a food truck that is awesome, the best chicken in the world. i wanted to look and see if it was out there and there was nobody there. nintendo had a line around the block, they had a new game out, they are fighting over toilet paper and costco. this is the line, hundreds of people around the block, just down the street from where the food trucks were, these people were waiting to get into the nintendo store. i don't know if they think they're going to be locked up for a long time and they want the new game or if they don't care about being in a small

space. between that and the grocery stores where aisles are packed, some people are doing great and some people are going to go out of business, it's crazy. >> tucker: not that worried about the credit card companies are the way dispensaries but it's bad if you worry about th that. from the early days of this crisis, the left was distracted by the need to call it racism whenever anyone calls the chinese coronavirus what it is. that's not the only politicized part of the response to the disease, currently the hyde amendment bars the federal funds from paying for abortion but when the coronavirus package being worked out tonight in congress, democrats fought toha include a possible loophole in that loft. as the nation is fighting a pandemic, they are worried about abortions. this virus does not kill children, they wanted to fixre that. a deal has been worked out apparently but did the process need to take this long? chris bedford has been following

it since day one, he joins us tonight .s. in the interest of fairness because you always want to beo fair, both sides use crises to push their pre-existing political agendas. do you think it's fair to say the democratic party attempted to use this bill to promote abortion? >> they are much better at using crises to their advantage than the republicans and yes, the reporter who broke this, gave nancy pelosi's office hours to respond to the accusation from the white house that the hyde amendment and trying to put abortions in here was holding this up and was a source of holding up the deal with steve mnuchin and the white house. when time is of the essence. i can't imagine exactly how getting the public and getting people and a nation that is supposed to be united to pay for other people's abortions would

possibly save anybody from this disease or anyone in this country. not only that, she is always crowing about being a catholic. to draw people into this abortion thing, it's gravely troubling especially when we are supposed to be coming together as a country to solve this. >> tucker: it's shocking and i appreciate your confirming that. great to see you. we've got a fox news alert, the president has tweeter tweeted hs support. "i fully support hr 60201 which will be voted on in the house this evening. it will follow my direction for free coronavirus tests, i've directed the secretary of the treasury and the secretary of labor to issue regulations to provide flexibility so that in no way will small business be hurt. i encourage all republicans and democrats to come together and vote yes, i will always put the

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remarkable week in the history of this country. things have moved so fast, coronavirus as a story has been building for months. it is not new. eemost people in the media were not paying attention, they were worrying about impeachment and russia. but we noticed. in january, thisot show investigated the media for its single-minded focus on the impeachment of the president. the final outcome was not even in doubt. the world is changing incredibly fast out there, and it is fascinating and ominous and recovering. by and large, the media are ignoring it. why are they doing that? consider the stories they are downplaying in favor of protracted government searing whose ending we already know. for starters, at this very moment, a serious viral outbreak is spreading across china in the world's biggest country. in just a matter of weeks, this new strain of coronavirus has generated almost as many new cases as sars did. remember sars? by any objective standard, that is the biggest story of the day, may be of the moment. a potential pandemic rising from

asia. and then, the primary set. the world was focused on the iowa caucuses. on that night, when they were caucusing voting in iowa. it was still clear a much bigger story was looming in asia. >> we have a much more from iowa in this hour tonight, that is not the only thing going on in the world this evening. china's coronavirus keeps running, and are alarming signs, genuinely alarming signs, that that country's government is hiding just how bad things are in that country. you should be concerned. there is more troubling undercover footage out of china, we have that for yourn next. >> sean: it was very clear that coronavirus was going to disrupt your life in a big way this week. march madness was canceled, travel might be sharply curtailed, you might be told to work from home. some accused of of sucking up to the liberal media. but it wasn't an exaggeration,

in the end it took just four days to prove that all of this was totally real. in fact, they were conservative estimates. it isn't going away, we will cover it honestly. we promise. see you monday. >> sean: we begin this night with a fox news alert, we are witnessing what will be a massive paradigm shift in the future of disease controlss and prevention. a bold precedent is being set, the world will once again benefit greatly from america'sen leadership. the federal government, state governments, private businesses, top hospitals all coming together. under the president's leadership to stem the tide of the coronavirus. the announcement came earlier today in the rose garden, thena president declared a national emergency bringing up up to $50 billion in new funding. that will beng crucial in a