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>> thank you, please disseminated to the scientific community immediately. >> tucker: i would hope they would be on it. thank you. we are out of time. we will be back. 8:00 p.m. tomorrow, the show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness and groupthink. shawn had to be standing by live from new york. >> sean: tucker, thank you. buckle up, we have a lot of ground to cover. multiple breaking stories tonight and coming up, we have a very serious message for china's hostile dictatorship. also there are lies, their month long cover-up is now causing death and destruction and carnage all over the world, and now hurting this country and other countries. some, by the way, also tonight will cover these people in the media mob unwittingly doing the bidding of china, spreading propaganda and of course blaming trump and fox news for murder. even yours truly. for the spread of all of this. these comments are so insane, inappropriate, over-the-top come out of line, we will call out the mob's despicable coverage.
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first and i, like every night, we want to start with facts that will help you and your family stay safe and secure without the fear, hysteria, and panic that others are peddling. clearly, the u.s. response to this pandemic is unlike anything we have ever witnessed or ever seen. today, the president invoked what is known as the defense production act. this is a move that will massively ramp up the production and the distribution of very important medical supplies. ventilators, respirators. this will include 500 million new and 95 masks. the president also dispatched earlier today two navy hospital ships. one to the east coast, one to the west coast. the pentagon is now preparing mobile medical units to be deployed all over the country as they are needed, if they are needed. meanwhile, america's brilliant medical researchers, scientists, doctors, health care workers, they have been working around the clock as usual. not just on a vaccine, but also treatments that will mitigate or
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even prevent the contraction of the virus, or the effects of the virus if you do get it. hours ago, the president gave us a little preview of what we can expect tomorrow. this is getting interesting. take a look. >> tomorrow we are having what i think will be a very interesting news conference. and i think you know what that's all about. so we'll see. the fda, they've been working very, very hard and i appreciate what they're doing, and i think we have some very interesting things that will be brought up tomorrow at the news conference. it will be set up around 11:00 or so. we look forward to seeing you tomorrow. >> sean: some pretty exciting news, medical 18 is here tonight. we are going to examine what the possibilities are here. there are now multiple antiviral medications being studied. many being tested. one was previously used against ebola. one antimalarial medication developed decades ago showing a lot of promise. it has been used in the course
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of this particular coronavirus outbreak, and of course we do expect in the short term that the confirmed cases will dramatically increase. we are going to prepare you for that. but again, if we all follow the rules laid out by the president's task force, they're not that difficult, were going to be helping every american, especially the most vulnerable. the elderly, with underlying medical conditions, compromised immune systems. in the meantime, we look forward to the coming announcement from the president and the fda tomorrow. without a doubt come over the greatest country on earth. got to remember that. we will get through this. we've been through tough times and we always prevail. as the president we did tonight, strong, united, we will prevail. he posted this message to the american people. let's take a look. >> i want to thank all americans for pulling together, doing what they have to do, it's been incredible, inspirational, all over the world they are watching. of course, you've heard it a thousand times. wash your hands, good hygiene,
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all of that. but social distancing, keep away. it's going to have no place to go. i just want to thank you. as president, i want to thank you for the incredible job you're all doing. the spirit of our country like never before, we really have pulled together as a unit, we've pulled together as a country. we will prevail together. we love the usa. >> sean: this is an all hands on deck moment and were seeing the greatness of the american people on display every day. at every level. once we beat back the virus, china must be held accountable. there hostile government cares more about optics than the lives of not only their own citizens, but the world community. this massive cover-up and the critical early stages of this disease, frankly unforgivable. it is an indisputable fact that china lied. people all over the world are suffering and dying as a result of these lies. axios really put together what is a comprehensive timeline that you need to see. we will start on december the tenth, 2019. last year, that is 1 of 1 of the
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first known coronavirus patients becomes ill. then on the 27th, wuhan health officials determined a new type of coronavirus was spreading. three days later on social media, top director at the wuhan central hospital tried to warn the public about this dangerous new disease and how it was spreading from person to person. she was subsequently reprimanded and censored. then on january 1st, 8 other doctors who posted information about the disease online were called in for questioning, also censored. january 7th, the president of china became directly involved in the response. january 11th, the wuhan health commission insisted there were no new cases, which we now know is a blatant lie. january 14th, world health organization at this late date to eating chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human to human transmission of the virus. really? three days later china hosted its annual lunar new year
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banquet. guess where? in the city of wuhan, where tens of thousands of people got together for a potluck supper. it wasn't until january 20 that china admitted the disease can . the first person we know had corona in america arrived on january 21st, 10 days later, the president's travel ban, the single best decision made to date by any country. he gave us time, saved countless thousands of americans from contracting the virus, and likely many deaths. by the way, at that point it was too late. covid-19 had already spread to south korea. a day later, the first case confirmed here. that's the 21st. i'm just talking about. probably already multiple cases in italy, which we now have discovered had direct flights from wuhan, that province, and a large chinese population working in their textile industry. for weeks, china could have sounded the alarm. instead, they lied, they tried to cover it up, and they had massive public celebrations at
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the epicenter of this disease. now china's government, there spreading basis conspiracy theories blaming the u.s. military for the spread of the disease. there are even proliferating and insane talking point using the word china or wuhan virus to describe the wuhan virus is racist. and of course many social justice warriors in the media mob, not particularly concerned that much about health. no, they want political correctness, even at a time like this. unwittingly echoing what is a chinese propaganda talking point. take a look. >> china and others have criticized you for using the phrase "chinese virus." how do you go about that? are you going to continue to use that phrase? it creates a stick man. >> why do you keep calling this the chinese virus? there are reports of dozens of incidents of bias against chinese americans in this country beard why do you keep using this? >> because it comes from china. >> you do have people in the
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asian american community whose lives are at risks and for the president to call it a chinese virus, foreign virus, that is just not -- it's so dangerous and not a good thing to do. >> this is a virus that came fromhe territory of china, but came from bats. this is a bat virus, not a china virus. it doesn't speak chinese. >> sean: today, the president had a clear message for those who seem more worried about identity politics than actual truth. take a look. >> why do you keep using this? >> because it comes from china. >> it sounds racist. >> it is not racist, not at all. it comes from china, that's why. it comes from china. it's accurate. please, john. i have great love for all of the people from our country, but as you know, china tried to say at one point, maybe they've stopped now, it was caused by american soldiers. that can't happen, it's not going to happen, not as long as
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i'm president. it comes from china. >> sean: times of uncertainty, facts do matter. this virus did start in china, the wuhan province, and it's not the first disease to be named after a location. for example, ebola. that's named after a river in africa. and there's the spanish flu, and then the middle eastern respiratory system known as -- and we can go on and on. at the facts are clear. the chinese government tried to cover it up. they kicked out also called americans -- i don't really trust fake news. the wall street post, "wall street journal," i do want them there. now because of china's actions thousands around the world are dead, millions others are suffering, and china must be held accountable. here with a lot more on this, secretary of state mike pompeo. mr. secretary, great to see. thank you for being with us. you actually brought in chinese representatives to your office on this very topic of blaming the u.s. military and other issues. can you bring us inside that
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conversation? >> thank you for having me on tonight. we did in fact call the chinese ambassador and i spoke to my counterpart in china a couple days back. this disinformation campaign, which began when we began to call out this risk that was created not only for the chinese people but now people all across the world, where the chinese government knew about this risk, had identified it, they were the first to know and they wasted valuable days at the front and, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to leave we want to go to places like italy, that is now suffering so badly. they tried to suppress this information. we talked about the means by which they did it. instead of trying to do the work to suppress the virus, which is what the world demanded, the chinese communist party didn't get it right and put countless lives at risk as a result of that. >> sean: mr. secretary, do you believe now that the information, which could be valuable to the rest of the world -- we can get information that would be helpful at this point. you believe that information is accurate that they are sending
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over now? >> this is one of the most important questions. we have had an incredibly difficult time getting professional medical people in. you will recall early on, we offered to have america's finest experts to travel there and assist them, since the world health organization. we weren't permitted in. these are the kinds of things that the chinese communist party has done that up with the world in the world's people at risk. they haven't been sufficiently transparent and the risk you find if we don't get this right, if we don't get to the bottom of this, is this could be something that is repeatable. maybe not in this form, maybe not on this way, but transparency matters. that is why when we see them forcing journalists out, when we see people talking about this, people no longer having access to the internet, no longer able to speak openly and freely, those risks, those questions. as america's most senior diplomat, we have an obligation to make sure we try and get this information from the chinese
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communist party so we can help our medical professionals here in the united states get this right and save lives for americans and people all across the world. >> sean: mr. secretary, we've known each other for many years. if my memory serves me well i think you graduated one in your class at harvard. i'm not sure, i'm pretty sure you were right up there. if the chinese said to you early on and said, hey, we have a problem. how quickly would you have acted to mobilize america's best, greatest medical researchers, scientists, dr. faucis of the world, to immediately assist them in whatever problems they were have? >> i didn't quite graduated first in my class. i was a good enough student. >> sean: one or two, i know it's up there. >> [laughs] we would've responded immediately. all of the experts, from the government of the private sector wanted access to all of the information about the structure of this virus, all of the
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information that would've permitted us not only to start on mitigation and cures and vaccines, but also it allowed us to identify the way that the virus spreads and to begin to take the action that could've kept this virus in a place where unfortunately we have not been able to keep it so far. >> sean: let me ask you, i read comments you made about the irradiance. you know i'm not a big fan of iran, or russia, or china. but putting that aside, it would be helpful if we could help them. want to ask you about that and i keep hearing about these americans on a mission trip that are locked down in peru and i believe your office has been active in trying to get them home safely. >> let me take the second one first. the state department is doing everything we can to protect american citizens all across the world. we know students that are in peru. some other travelers that are there as well. other countries too that have shut down their airports, we are working to try to solve problems for each of those american
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citizens, and we've just learned about them over the last couple of days, but know that president trump has made clear that we are going to do everything we can to get every american home safely. as for iran, the same true for north korea, these are countries that we have deep differences with. we are working diligently to create better conditions for their people and part of that is making sure were available to provide humanitarian assistance when we can. we've offered t to the north koreans as well as to the iranian people. humanitarian assistance, and we've offered to facilitate humanitarian assistance coming into those countries from u.n. organizations and other countries as well. we will keep doing that, it's the right thing to do in a time of crisis. >> sean: mr. secretary, mike pompeo, thank you for being with us. important issues. we appreciate the time. we did rebuild europe, we be back the forces of fascism, and i'll tease them , imperial japan, communism, yol islamism, we lead the world and we help advance the human condition peer that is who we
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are and what we do. now here to explain how the navy is dispatching hospital ships, our own trace gallagher. >> the schiphol had to new york harbor. the uss mercy off the coast of san diego will be used to help folks on the west coast peer president trump says both ships will be ready by next week. these are the largest hospital ships in the world. each one has 1,000 hospital beds but they won't be used to treat coronavirus patients, at least not in the beginning. instead they will be used to help trauma patients were normal hospitals fill up. andrew cuomo says hospitals being at capacity is inevitable. he points out that new york has 53,000 hospital beds and 53,000 icu beds but in 45 days in a worst-case scenario there could be 110,000 people hospitalized with 370,000 needing icu. we should note -- 37, rather. we should note, at records island, we are learning that both an inmate and a corrections
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officer have tested positive for coronavirus. this facility holds thousands of inmates and finally we should know, westchester county, the man that is called patient zero, the 50-year-old lawyer linked to the spread of the virus which led to that containment zone is now out of his medically induced, and he said to be recovering. >> sean: you've been great anchoring as well, i watched you the other night as well. joining us now, bill hemmer with the latest coronavirus facts, figures. again, we want truth, information, facts without fear. what do you got? >> good evening to you. a lot of numbers have been showing you this global math, 9:04 east coast time. this is where we are based on agajohns hopkins man. this is an impressive number here. 83,000 were covered so far. we want that number to go much higher. a moment ago you mentioned
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italy. there was a stunning headline that came out of italy today. at the moment they're dealing with about 36,000 cases. they've had nearly 3,000 people die so far in the headline from italy today, they have the highest death rate in a single day to date. more than 470 italians lost their lives there today. on this map over here, i want to show you where we are tonight in the united states. as in about five hours ago, this is our number of cases. a 7,374. just watch that number. i will take you back and show you where we were two weeks ago, at 129. again, tonight, more than 7,000. new york state has the most. 2480 cases. washington state, about 1,000. california, 718 after that. again, two weeks ago, new york was at six. tonight we are at more than 2400. you hear the medical officials tell you that you want to be like south korea. the south korean model and now, unfortunately, like the italian model.
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i will show you why that is here on this graph behind me. this yellow line is italy. it's going not due north but pretty close to it. the blue line is south korea. you see how that levels off here? we are the green line down here just coming off the baseline and trending toward the marker in south korea. again, you want to be near that blue line and that is the reason why you see this all hands on deck across the country. back to you. we will see where it is tomorrow. >> sean: bill hemmer, we do expect a dramatic increase as the testing continues. hopefully in the weeks we will see leveling off in a dramatic decrease, as we have seen in other countries. bill, thank you. as the president calls for a unified response to this ongoing pandemic, it's business as usual, sadly, for many in the media mob. but predictable. actually one conspiracy tv, ms dnc, state run television for democratic socialists. a legal analyst suggesting that president trump was guilty of negligent homicide because of
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his coronavirus response. oh, you mean the first case in america, january 21st? he called for the band january 31st, 10 days later. he was called a xena pub and fearmongering by quid pro quo dr. joe. this is beyond a disgrace. msnbc news, are you proud of yourself? joy reeves, pretty despicable comments on her show. not by her, by a guest, suggesting that children of trump supporters are a threat to your children. and fox news kills people, for decades, for a long time. fake news cnn actually blaming the president for nationwide toilet paper hoarding. reuters article reporting a fake story that the president sought a monopoly on coronavirus vaccine. others blaming fox news for the coronavirus. one commentator, oh, joe lockhart, former presidential press secretary tweeting, "when this is all over we will properly examine what was done right and what was done wrong. i hope we can have an honest national conversation about the
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toxic effects of fox news." by the way, we have printed what we said on tv and radio. it's all up on hannity.com. take a look. they were to saying the same things. they were politicizing it. the hysteria, the lies, just like the last three years. never ending, nonstop. sad but true. take a look. speak of the greatest impediment to responsibly addressing this n ego. >> there been a lot of people giving false information out there, including president trump, and including a lot of conservative bobbins and a lot of people on a different channel talking about how this is just like the flu. >> fox news has been getting people killed for years. their programming is to vilify, stir hatred and paranoia, and if it's a pandemic as a backdrop, then they're going to do it. >> more people are sick in america tonight because donald trump's president. more people are dead and dying in america tonight because donald trump is president.
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>> sean: we've been getting people killed for years, i had no idea i was doing that. you know what, if it wasn't so serious, it was pretty sick and you could probably laugh at. nothing to laugh at here. by the way, this program has always taken the coronavirus seriously and we have never called the virus hoax. we call what they're doing, trying to bludgeon the president outcome of their politicizing of this virus, predictable, despicable, repulsive, all of the above. john nulty, media lied about the president's comments on ventilators, the media lied about the fake news about a nationwide curfew, they lied about trump shutting down the cdc's pandemic department and i could go on and on peered all the lies they've told in the last three years accumulated. one of the ever going to say they're sorry customer change, admit they are wrong? [laughter] we were right on this program, the ig report proved us right. they were pushing russia, russia, russian, three days later, nothing. ukraine, ukraine, but they ignore quid pro quo joe in zero experience hunter.
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yeah, you're not getting a billion dollars unless you fire the prosecutor unless you hire my zero experience -- never touch that. hillary, pfizer, premeditated fraud abuse, nothing. the were fermenting political hysteria for political gain peered we will continue to call them out. hannity.com, the timeline is there, all the appropriate tape and we have all the new tape coming. by the way, we praised the president's bold move. a single one biggest thing that was done to protect the american people here. january 21st, the first person identified with coronavirus in america. ten days later, january 31st, the president travel ban ban from china followed by the quarantine. we rightly praised that decision. we will never be able to calculate that decision and how many americans in fact were in many ways saved from contracting the virus. we praised all of that.
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anyway, all of the quarantines. meanwhile, during the very same day, the president took emergency action. what did joe biden take? the policy was hysterical, fearmongering. we've got the tape to prove it. >> in moments like this, this is where incredibly our president is most needed as he explains what we should and d should not do. this is no time for donald trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia, hysterical xenophobia, and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science. >> sean: oh, fearmongering, hysteria, xenophobic. that one decision but also much time, saved us countless americans from being exposed to this. unbelievable. to date, joe still opposes the travel ban. he's not alone. february 4th, world health organization, they slam to the president's travel ban. they complained it could have the effect of increasing fear and stigma. how about keeping americans
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healthy again? remember, this is the head of the world health organization. they tweeted out chinese lies on january 14th. coronavirus can't be transmitted person-to-person. a lot of good the health organization does. they did no good. tonight, we have to ask what's going on at that organization? anyway, joining us now with ratchet all of this, fox news contributor's jason chaffetz, tammy bruce and from the hudson institute, michael pillsbury. michael, your particular expert on these things from china. what can you tell us? >> i think in recent days, the chinese have placed a new bet. they want joe biden to become president. that helps explain a lot of what they are doing. they've begun to demonize president trump. they didn't do that the first three years. they respected him, they admired him, and they made to him in the trade talks, but now this idea that president trump has botched -- words the chinese are using -- he botched the handling of the virus, this is being spread all over the world by china.
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they have a lot to hide themselves. they are very nervous about reporters coming to find out about their so-called wildlife, wet markets. that's where the virus is a shed from live animals to others. it's probably how it got started. they didn't want that to come out. so it's a surprise to me. i thought the chinese were going to stick with president trump all the way through, or at least be neutral in our election. now it looks like they're placing their bet on joe biden. >> sean: jason chaffetz, a lot of issues here. putting aside china's role in this, and we've got a lot of ground to cover here involving that. this is beyond corrupt, what they've done. they heard the entire world with their action, there lies, the propaganda. they are this whole of the media thing going on. what we've seen for three long years, and that is, oh, well, it's the trump virus. if you are feeling awful, blame trump early on. "new york times," trump's katrina. trump's chernobyl. trump's, whatever they can use to bludgeon the president.
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why is it that we've now gone through three years of this? when did these liars in the media, those with agendas that have propagandized and ripped -- wrapped them up into hysteria time and time again, only to be proven wrong time and time again. when do we get at some point some accountability from them? >> well, it can only come from the american people. i think the american people see through these lies. and it is really disgusting to think that they care more about how the president calls it a chinese virus or a wuhan virus as opposed to what the president did, because when it was not politically correct to shut down those traveling from china into the united states, the president did that. nobody can even .2 wuhan on the map in the media room that you see, the brady room, they could even point to it on the map and yet they were criticizing him.
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this is what i love about donald trump, he takes bold, decisive action. 2.2 million travelers, always prohibited us from having an entry exit program in this country and donald trump has tried to locked on the southern border, help us on the northern border and implement that travel ban. and the democrats and these media talking heads have thwarted that everything will step of the way and i think the american people will realize that. >> sean: let's talk about the political correctness, to me you've got the marburg virus named after germany in 1967. norwalk virus named after norwalk ohio. zeke a virus, japanese encephalitis, german measles, spanish flu, i could go on and on. this seems to be the major focus of people when the real focus ought to be, is every american going to do their part, the
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president's recommendations for this 15-day period and try to prevent others from contracting this customer >> everything the president has done has made it very clear. that we are on war footing and we've got people in the white house in front of the commander in chief, the leader of the free world, the main one organizing the pushback on this invisible enemy, and that is all they think about, kind of moving the chinese rhetoric, the chinese argument, and the reason the chinese are upset about this is because they must be held to account, and they know that if they can obscure this in the minds of people around the world, that maybe they will escape being held to account. the fact of the matter is very first victims of this war the chinese people. where the chinese individuals who then flew off to enjoy vacations around the world. they have been dying. we do not know how many have died in china. so they must be held accountable, even just for the nature of what's been going on in their own country regarding the spirit let alone what has been of course moved across the
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world. but for the american people to facilitate this tells you how corrupt the left has become, and how bitter and really destructive operating with hate for years. and by the way, they've been telling the american people for years, the american media, that donald trump cannot be trusted, and now they wonder why young people aren't following certain requests and orders involved with this letter issued by the white house. you see with the media can do when it comes to the negative impact of how we are supposed to operate as a country. yes, the american people will be the ones to make a determination about who will be rewarded for their behaviors. this is donald trump's finest hour, and he will prevail. but we've really got to hunker down and rejected the people who promote this kind of awful approach and negativity. >> sean: tammy, jason, michael, thank you all. now, as the president mentioned earlier today, we expect an
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announcement, a major announcement, major news tomorrow from the president and the fda in their efforts to combat this growing pandemic. here to explain that and much more is the host of "no agenda" with larra logan beer that is on foxnation.com. facts without fear. larra logan is with us. this could possibly be a very huge development. >> thank you, yes, it could be. we will learn more from the president tomorrow. nearly 8,000 americans are infected with the coronavirus. the death toll as of today stands at 118 and all of this taking place as congress and the white house continue to move ahead on a series of aggressive aid packages which are really designed to help the american worker. health officials are continuing to work at a rapid pace to combat the virus. the pew research and development, and that is what the president said earlier today when he said there would
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be some major news coming out today. take a look. >> i have asked the fda to cut through the red tape and reduce regulatory barriers. we are looking has a very exciting things. some things that are happening are quite exciting. we are going to be doing that either later today or tomorrow, fairly early tomorrow. >> much of the virus, much of the focus has been on protecting the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions from becoming infected. what the white house is now warning about his younger healthy americans. they want them to know that they may also be at more risk than many of them think. this is what dr. deborah birx had to say at the white house briefing earlier today. >> there are concerning reports coming out of france and italy about some young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the icus. it may have been that the millennial generation, our
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largest generation, our future generation that will carry us through for the next multiple decades, there may be disproportional number of infections among that group. and so even if it's a rare occurrence, it may be seen more frequently in that group. >> those comments come as health officials continue to urge americans to avoid large groups. and practice what they call social distancing. part of the effort to stop the spread. >> sean: larra logan, thank you for that. facts without fear. joining me now, dr. peter hotels is with us along with former white housn dr. ronnie jackson and a brain surgeon in his own right, dr. peter constantino is with u. doctor, let me go to you, you've been making it very fascinating, interesting comments. i'm not a doctor and i will not play one on tv, but you keep hearing about this malaria drug
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that has shown previously with sars, corona one, they've had a lot of success with, also talking about and a ebola drug that is showing some impact and other drugs that perhaps the president will be talking about tomorrow with the fda i would assume rapidly moving forward with the process. what can you tell us customer can we put hope in this question wrecked some will say will act almost like a prophylactic to prevent people from getting it, or if they have, studies have shown it will in fact reduce the symptoms more quickly and less hospitalization time. >> i think, first of all thanks for having me. i think what you are going to see in coming months is the full horsepower of american science applied to this epidemic in the way of new vaccines, new drugs, new diagnostics, new innovative approaches. this is where america shines.
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big, audacious goals in the area of science coming out of our research universities and institutes. we've developed a vaccine we are hoping to move into clinical trials over the next few weeks. there will be several other vaccines, but vaccines are going to take a while. that is probably at least a year, year and a half away according to dr. fauci, and i think he's right. maybe longer. but there's still a lot we can do right now, and one of them is new antiviral drugs, which come of the timelines could be a lot quicker. he mentioned chloroquine, there is some promising data coming out of my colleague, who is out of southern france. and that could be potentially exciting if it holds up here there's two reasons i'm interested by it. one, the drug itself can show to inhibit virus replication in the test tube. that doesn't mean it works and the person. but it also has some anti-inflammatory effects. those two combined to make it a very intriguing drug, and there are some preliminary data.
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we will see how that moves along over the coming weeks in clinical trials. that is what i'm looking at. you mentioned some of the other antiviral drugs and also bringing on some antibodies, isolated from recovered patients and using that as a therapy. using that as prophylactics for our first responders. you're going to see a lot of things coming through, and again, this is where america is great. >> sean: dr. jackson, other antiviral drugs, for example, that were used with hiv or in this case, chloroquine, which we were talking about, a drug that was discovered many decades ago, used for malaria. others that are showing promise. what are you expecting tomorrow in terms of what possible announcement the fda will make with the president? >> i think the president has freed up a lot of money right nn of an emergency, he's freed up billions and billions of dollars that he can use to jump into the private sector so that these
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companies can go out and they can afford to find these drugs that we are looking for. i think the good news here is what the president is going to say is he got rid of a lot of those regulations and standard operating procedures that make it difficult to push drugs out. were going to focus on drugs that are already out there used for other diseases. that will really expedite things. most have already been proven safe in humans, so it's a matter of time to find ones that work and not having to prove they are safe for human consumption. so i think that's going to be a big part of it, so i think there are a lot of drugs on the horizon right now, a lot of companies are looking at it we are going to find something good come over going to find something that works. >> sean: doctor, you are a real brain surgeon. i'm not a brain surgeon, so let me ask you some of the more simple things the president's task force is asking all americans to do, you made a comment to me recently there are only a few places the virus cane human body and if we follow these simple, basic, yet
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fundamental and profound rules, it will have a profound effect. >> absolutely. dovetailing on what your previous expert said, i think it is very, very promising going forward that we don't just have one possible solution to this virus relative to controlling it and those who contracted it, but we have multiple possible solutions in the forms of drugs, antibodies, plasma therapy. so it's very important that until we get those, which i think will be coming online at a relatively short period of time compared to what it would normally take, that we do those things to try and keep each other from getting this virus. each other, not just ourselves. if you look at the human body from a practical standpoint, there is a five doorways where this virus can get and enter all located in your head. as a head neck surgeon the reality is if you keep it out of your eyes come out of your nostrils and out of your mouth, you're not going to get the virus. it doesn't come through your skin. people of had a lot of misconceptions about masks. the surgical masks to do almost. they are actually designed to
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keep bacteria from surgeons to their patients. there are very effective but not in ubiquitous supply and we need them for our health care workers. but we can do things relative to our hands our hands. >> sean: let me ask you, one thing dr. fauci said to me on a radio interview this week as never before in history have we been able to get the sequence of a virus and get to its underlying foundation as quickly as this one. it used to take years. they have done in two months. >> yeah, go ahead, i'm sorry. >> go right ahead. >> sean: somebody go. >> i was going to say, sorry. >> sean: all right, if i go we are in trouble. i'm not used to dead air. we are running out of time. listen, all of you, we have the greatest doctors in the world, the greatest medical research is, the researchers, thank you all of you for what you do every day.
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you throw yourself literally right in front of harm's way. america owes you a debt of gratitude. all right, when we come back, a lot of breaking news today. the senate passing the coronavirus response bill. we will explain how this will be helping american. also, an admonition, senator tom cotton holding not only china accountable, few in congress don't waste our money. this is not the time for your pet projects. every dollar goes to workers and businesses that are directly impacted by this disease. on a time to play games. clean bills, please beard we will hold you accountable. straight ahead. motor? nope. not motor? it's pronounced "motaur."
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♪ >> sean: as we continue, if you are an american citizen who is hurting because of coronavirus and the emergency
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through no fault of your own in any way, help is rightly on the way. the senate today passed a major house coronavirus bill. this beloved administration, they are looking at even bigger measures, including up to $1 trillion emergency aid package that would include two rounds of checks for, keyword, qualifying americans. those that deserve it need this money. this is serious money were talking about and we will be there for our fellow americans. this is something that could happen to any of us. so why is more than a billion dollars earmarked for other countries? the coronavirus supplemental bill passed earlier this month, why? this is now the time to take care of america needs, american workers, american industries. all that money doesn't mean we can let china, by the way come off the hook. joining us now with more on this, front and center on this issue, senator tom cotton. senator, first start with the money. where we spend hundreds of
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millions of dollars on international relief efforts? international committees, you know, when really the american worker needs help. industries need help. all of this should be going to them. can we pass those just to help them first? >> sean, we shouldn't be spending that money in that fashion, we should be spending it on our own people in her own businesses. one reason we are is that nancy pelosi wrote those first two bills. we're putting an end to that now. the senate is now taking a lead to pass the next legislation that will come in the days ahead. that will be focused very directly on workers who have been displaced by this terrible china virus, and on the businesses who are struggling to make ends meet and keep workers on their payrolls for the next two, for two weeks as we get through the worst of this. we are going to be working very hard in the days ahead to make sure the legislation, which will no doubt have a big price tag because of the scale, the crisis
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our country faces will be focused directly on all the affected workers and their families and businesses in this country. >> sean: these are restaurant workers, these are people that literally live paycheck to paycheck. they need the right amount of money going directly to them so they can pay their mortgages, pay their rent, pay their car payments, keep their kids in school when they get back to school. very, very important. that we have big industries like the airline industry. this is not a fault of theirs. and the cruise line industry, restaurant industry all across the country is now suffering as a result of this. are you confident that those folks will get those money? >> that is right, sean. today we learned that the big three automakers are shutting down all of their production in the united states as well. unfortunately, as the scale of this challenge grows, i don't think we're going to see any unaffected industries. every industry is going to be affected. we've got to make sure we do is
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make sure businesses get access to cash they need to keep workers on their payroll, then get back on their feet on the back end of this crisis. in the meantime, those workers have the ability to put food on their table at the end of the week and pay the bills at the end of the month. >> sean: very quickly, strong comments on china in the 20 seconds we have left. >> china unleashed displayed on the world and china has to be held accountable. that is why i'm introducing legislation that will say we will no longer buy our basic pharmaceuticals from china. there will be a total ban on buying for va, medicare, medicaid and so forth and we will have incentives for manufacturers to start making the medicines right here in america once again. it's too great of a threat to letter health rest on chinese drugs. >> sean: senator, this is so crucial what you are fighting here. let's make it here, let's incentivize companies to manufacture here going forward. very important. thank you for your work, senator. thanks for being with us. during a time our nation should be coming together, many on the
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♪ >> sean: amid the coronavirus pandemic, some on the left using the crisis as an opportunity to bash the entire trump family. congresswoman ilhan omar facing criticism after she took to twir bashing ivank ivanka trump your congressman matt gaetz with us. so we're going to go through this 15-day period as a country, were doing it because we really don't want older people, mass meta-people get this virus, the going to be around the people that would die fo from this vir.
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those with underlying conditions and compromised immune systems. play games, have fun with it, have a good weekend and have a family dinner. really? we are going to criticize that? are we that demented in our thinking and political in our thinking? >> i don't think we are but when you look at some of the things congresswoman ilhan omar has said, you have to really question what their motive is and whether or not they are actually being productive. we are in this all together as americans, and they do have big platforms to do a lot of good instead of being angry and vitriolic towards people that they clearly hate, they coe holding, i don't know, the chinese communist party of china accountable for what they've done for the rest of the world. they could be tweeting about the good things people are doing, upholding people's spirits, but instead they're going after these petty attacks and doing things that are unproductive with the platforms that they have. for ilhan omar especially to be doing this as a member of congress, who should be working on this, maybe her efforts
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should be geared toward something else that is productive and helpful for the country, not just the leftist because that fuels their anger towards the trump a administration and members of their family. to be on congressman gaetz, you actually went to the quarantine. which, by the way, might be good in the end for you because i know you so well, keep you out of trouble for a few days. >> take the phone away. >> sean: exactly, no swiping left, no swiping right. you got to watch out for this poor guy. in all seriousness, i heard some horrible things said about you at the time, wishing horrible things on you. >> yeah, the cour coronavirus it a wedge issue and i would like to extend my heart to my colleague who just got diagnosed with coronavirus and i certainly hope he has a rapid recovery. if i were ilhan omar, i certainly wouldn't be making comments about other people destroying families. but if you check the scorecard you can see that the president's policies actually resulted in reduced human trafficking on the border because we actually got
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tough. that is not worth responding to. what certainly is is what senator cotton said about the relief package coming to congress and my hope is that we don't report companies that are owned in part by china or chinese companies. some of these hospitality and casino with other companies have chinese ownership and our taxpayers shouldn't go to bail out china. >> in hollywood does as well, don't forget the chinese influence in that town. >> sean: absolutely. we are glad matt is healthy, we are. watch out, everybody else. just kidding. when we come back, this is insane. we've got all these spring breakers. they are not taking coronavirus seriously. i have a message for them, next. (howling wind) avoid sick people... and touching your face. there are everyday actions to help prevent the spread
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going to let it stop me from partying. we've been waiting for miami spring break for a while, about two months we've had this planned. two or three months. whatever happens, happens. >> sean: here's the problem: i know you are excited, spring break, you want to have fun. i want you to have fun. it isn't about them. it is about everyone else. all right, by the way, we are out of time. we are late by ten seconds, so rare for me. i'm so sorry! i apologize. it is so wrong for me. >> laura: hannity, looking at the spring breakers, first of all, i never did that. i never went on spring break. i sound really boring. did you ever go on anything like that? or were you working the road crew? a painter? what were you, a roofer, garbageman? you are blue-collar, that is why i love you. you never went down there to panama beach. >> sean: i paid for every college course i took, paid every penny, and works full