the country. a lot of them are home, a lot of them would like to be back at school. thank you for being here tonight. good to see you. >> you bet. thank you, martha. >> martha: that is "the story" up tuesday, march 24th, 2020. as always, "the story" on continuous so we will see you tomorrow night at 7:00. good night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening, and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the deadly chinese coronavirus continues to spread across this country this hour. in a moment, we will have the latest on where it is tonight and how fast it is moving. but first, the news of the day was for the most part, unfortunately, political. our hapless media turned out the usual dreary menu of palace intrigues stories. who in the west wing supports a shutdown? who doesn't? as of any of that matters or cares or even remember the names of these people ten years from now. we will not, because in the scheme of things, this is irrelevant. it matters is protecting the country. suddenly, every politician in

america is claiming a monopoly on the best course for where to must do this. when they say that, it ought to make you nervous. it can't all be right. most of them can be self-righteous, though, and they are. here is new york governor andrew cuomo, who most of the time has been incredible on the subject, but today explained that if you don't support precisely the kind of quarantine he supports, you are trying to kill his mother. >> my mother is not expendable. and your mother is not expendable. and our brothers and sisters, they are not expendable. and we are not going to accept the premise that human life is disposable. >> tucker: human life is not disposable, lectures the man who just signed a law legalizing abortion until birth. all right. take a deep breath, governor. in a moment like this, talk like that, overstatement, hyperbole, is not helpful. the last thing we need is

another dose of moral blackmail to add to the long list. we what we need instead's hones, the people on television are not helping, most just believe what they are told by sources they think they agree with and then repeat it to us. at this point, they're not even asking the most basic questions on our behalf. here is the most basic question of all, which we should ask: what is the shape of this epidemic? the truth is, we don't really know. the government isn't doing large-scale, randomized test for the population, thanks to the serial incompetence of our health establishment, we still don't have enough test to do th. this means we have no real idea how many americans have been infected so far. there is no baseline for our measurement of anything across the population of 320 million people. we can't know exactly how easily coronavirus spreads. we don't know the physical effects on the average infected person. we don't know the death rate. flat in the curve? we are not sure what the curb really is. that is not our opinion, by the way, it is elementary science. at this point, it would be very helpful for people trying to

influence policy to admit to all of this, straightforwardly, instead of attending at high volume to have some cure that will absolutely, positively work. they don't know that. they can't know that, informed guesses are the best they have. let's not lie about it you're going by the way, this is an argument against quarantines or shutdowns or whatever we're calling them, but it is a reminder to proceed with humility and honesty at all times. one thing we do know at this point is america will not be the same after this is over. some of the changes will be positive, and hopefully lasting, if you found yourself calling the people you love more often recently, you've had a taste of that. but there are also problems to fix. a lot of problems. here are three we will be following on this show, because at this point, they select the biggest threats america is likely to face once this virus passes. the first of those is a global depression. already, you are hearing twitter pundits schooled anyone who worries about the country's economic health. as if that were the same as carrying water for wall street. lives are worth more than share prices, they scream, and of course, they are right, lives

are worse worth more than share prices, but it's not about share prices. the finance moguls will be -- not much changes for poor people, either. but the middle class? the middle class could be wiped out by what we are watching right now. the service industry, middle management, small business, the independent contractors, people like those make this country work, and more important, they keep it stable. they are the ones in deepest peril tonight. the last to get to the middle class would be a tragedy for anyone. you don't want to live in an impoverished company with a thin layer of rich people at the top. that's a recipe for suffering and for never ending political suddenly, for the first time ever, it's a possibility here. we have to prevent that were our grandchildren will regret it deeply. china ultimately is responsible for this virus.

the threat extends far beyond the current. china already it's entirely possible that we could find china in charge. now, we've been headed to disasters often accelerate trends that are already in progress. everything, instead, in the very same way.

what is the plan to stop china from taking advantage of the chaos they have unleashed and we are suffering through? we ought to have a plan for that. we need to. and finally, as we do all he can to fight this pandemic, we should make sure we don't lose the most important part of our birthright as americans, and we know that is, it is the right to think and say what we believe is true. freedom of conscienc consciencee undervalued, but it underpins everything we have. what is the foundation of a tree and decent society. it is under attack by politicians, but most dangerously, it is under attack by multinational tech monopolies. at this very moment, twitter has decided to control what you are allowed to know about the coronavirus. other tech companies have done the same. twitter is leading what it is calling "misinformation" about the pandemic. some of and isn't. the actual date is a moving target. there aren't many certain facts about coronavirus, so censoring people who say unusual things probably isn't going to get you to a solution of what they're doing anyway. at the same time, twitter leaves

chinese estate propaganda untouched. every day, if you're following, a chinese government that's totally untrue. but none of these lies have been taken down by twitter. twitter is banned in china, but they are still doing china's bidding. what does that tell you? it's not a small thing. it's a trend, a collusion between big multinationals and beg authoritarian governments to make you obey. it's not paranoid to talk. it's real. and you should worry about it. not that there's time to worry about anything that is happening. at this point, everyone is transfixed by this virus. how well are we doing in this fight against a question mark we showed you a clip of andrew cuomo going way over the rails and saying things that are untrue. this was his assessment today. >> where are the ventilators?

where are the gowns? where are the ppe's? where the masks? where are they? by the way, peter navarro, well, we want to work with companies. fine. work with companies. what the act was about, the country needed materials to go to war. it is a war. well, then act like it's a war. >> tucker: peter navarro is the white house trade advisor. always good to have him on the show. he joins us tonight. you saw the governor call you out by name, so we wanted to start by giving you a chance to respond to what he said about you. >> let me first of all correct to the governor. by the way, i was able to get 4,000 ventilators to him today through fema, 2,000 in the morning, 2,000 in the afternoon. here's the thing, talker, what

i'm doing 50 yards across the way there in my office is working with a great amount of businesses, large, small, and in between to get the gloves to the masses, the goggles, the ventilators, the sanitizers, and the response from the business community has been overwhelming. i don't need the defense production to go tell them to help out. they are coming to us and we are getting this stuff done. i'm getting millions of things moved, fema planes in the air, fedex planes in the air, planes from the pentagon. we now are focused like a laser beam on combating the virus in places like new york. we are helping that city. it's unfortunate that all we get is the back of their hand. >> tucker: i mean, so you are saying that you at this point don't need to use the force of

law to make companies comply with the spirit of the law, but if they don't comply, you would be willing? >> exactly. let me explain what the two main functions are the vpa. they are to mobilize the industrial base. in this case, the public health industrial base. the other is to allocate resources. so, when you talk about mobilizing the industrial base, you can have repurposed factories like pernell ricard voluntarily agree to cross purpose sanitizers. so, today, we got the first load of hand sanitizers to the city of new york. honeywell, that would be a case of not repurposed in, expanding their production. last week, i got them going on that. they are building a new factory in smithfield rhode island. now, talke where the vpa will bd

unmercifully is in the supply chain. that means from suppliers to manufacturers or manufacturers to consumers. as things tighten, if there is a case where we need raw materials or some kind of components, we are going to go grab those with a vpa. the other thing we are going to be very aggressive about, talker, is raiding where houses where there might be millions of masks sitting there and people trying to turn them at seven times the cost. my message is fema, hhs are doing everything possible with the full power of private enterprise to deliver the goods we need both in the near term. just today, i worked with one company appeared we've got 43,000 ventilators that we are going to get through the end of the year. >> tucker: peter, thank you for that update. >> i am doing it.

>> tucker: the coronavirus might in the end be the single greatest blow to the american middle class in our lifetime. any strategy to address the virus doesn't acknowledge that will leave the country worse off than it was before. my correspondent thought a lot about this. he has spent his life thinking about work, talking to people who do it. he joins us tonight. thank so much for coming on. so, you are one of the people who immediately saw the threat, not just to the physical health of the country, but to the workforce. what do we need to do to protect people who work? >> if i think if you are looking for the silver lining in all of this, in my own foundation, our prime directive over the last ten years has been to affirmatively confront and debunk the stigmas and stereotypes and myths and

misperceptions that dissuade people from pursuing a career in the trades. when we come through the other end of this thing, the need for skilled trades people in this country, i believe, is going to be an all-time high. and that's basically good news for the middle class. if we can somehow level the playing field by the way in which we present opportunities to kids, middle-class kids in particular, i think we might see real success in not only closing the skills gap, but getting people on a path to a six-figure job that doesn't require a big giant college debt. and that's the other thing that is inextricably linked of course. it's education. you and i have talked about this before. but the amount of money that we are paying to go to a good school in 2020 is somewhere

between cataclysmic. we have $1.6 trillion of student loans on the books right now, and i think if we stay hunkered down for another few weeks or so, people are really going to become inculcated with this business of gotomeeting, and zooming, and learning online. look, this wasn't around when you and i went to school, but for the first time ever, here it is. 98% of all the known information in the world is accessible on the screen i'm looking at right now and the screen that most of your viewers are walking around with in their pockets. we might be able to revolutionize the educational system, and at the same time, we might be able to close the skills gap by making a more persuasive case for 7.3 million open positions. of course, that number is going to change somewhat dramatically. >> tucker: i really hope we will. and that is another and better, probably smarter way of looking

at it, and i'm really glad that you articulated it so well. thanks a million. >> any time. >> tucker: so, we want to take a specific look right now at where the coronavirus is merging across the country. news correspondent, trace gallagher has been tracking. hey, trace. >> hey, talker. cases are douga doubling every w days. people leaving new york city are spreading the virus. in fact, today, during the task force briefing, debra issued this morning. >> to everyone who has left new york over the last few days, because of the rate of the number of cases, you may have been exposed before you left new york, and i think like governor desantis has put out today, everybody who was in new york should be self

quarantining for the next 14 days. because she is referring to governor, desantis. on this coast, california now has more than 2300 cases with 43 fatalities. los angeles county is reporting the first covid-19 death. we do not know if the patient had an underlying condition. authorities in the san francisco bay area are closing more public parks because people are not keeping their distance. washington state has more than 2200. a big portion of those who died were living in nursing homes. we should know 147 nursing homes in 27 states have at least one case of covid-19. west virginia still has the lowest number in the country

with 20 cases so far. no fatalities there. talker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much for that. so, in the face of a projected surge in demand, is health care rationing coming this country? who decides who gets treated and who is left to die? that's next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: rationing of basically any kind is hard to imagine in this country. we've been rich for so long. it is happening in italy, though, and it possibly could happen here in the next few

weeks. professor at theological bioethics, author of resisting throwaway culture." he joins us tonight. professor, thinks a lot for coming on. so, are you concerne not just te will wind up with rationing vent we are not ready, that we do not possess the moral framework of how to go from there. >> he yelled that the administration for not giving him enough ventilators and said, you choose the 23,000 people who are going to die. that's a reality check for all of us. the hospitals, however, do know this is coming. they know it's coming and they are making their preparations right now is you and i are talking. there are probably several ethics communities done my committees trying to figure out how to do this. there want you look for state

guidance for this, and that's good news for new york. 65, or 60 and 70 as a random guideline. i would call on governor cuomo tomorrow. he's had honest pressers, informative pressers to say, will new york in fact have a protocol that refuses to use age as an arbitrary cutoff point. >> tucker: i mean, i've never heard anybody say anything like that out loud. i mean come are these the kind of deliberations that we instinctively keep secret question marks become >> we sho. i mean, here's the thing. bioethicists really disagree. the question is how. one thing we agree on, one thing we definitely agree on is whatever method you choose, you ought to be transparent about it. you ought to let the public know. that's how we need to hold the people who have power

accountable and say what is your method? are you going to be totalitarian about it? are you going to protect civil rights and say no, we are not going to discriminate on the basis of age. washington state has said there protocol is that we will actually use criteria like physical ability and cognitive function in deciding whether or not you're going to get a ventilator. with that, they rightly filed a letter of complaint with the hhs yesterday saying, we don't think we are going to get a fair shake under the civil rights law in washington state. this is something the hhs should absolutely give guidance on. we need guidance from the hhs about this. >> tucker: your cognitive state. i mean, it's not too far for asking for your s.a.t. scores before you get the ventilator. professor, thank you so much. good to see you tonight. >> can i say one more thing, tucker really quick about -- >> tucker: of course. >> i think it's important if we don't get guidance from the

government about this that local people in fact contact their local hospital and just ask them, what is your plan for this? are you going to protect the civil rights of our older and elderly people? >> tucker: you are absolutely right. it should be universally known what their criteria are. thanks so much for that. so, if you saw the show last night, you saw that dan patrick came on. he is turning 70 this week and had a very specific, and for some, challenging perspective on what priorities are to be when it comes to the coronavirus. here's part of what he said. >> let's get back to work. let's get back to living. let's be smart about it. those of us who are 70 plus. we'll will take care of ourselves, but don't sacrifice the country. don't do that. >> tucker: so, you are basically saying that this disease could take your life, but that's not the scariest thing to you. there is something that would be worse than dying. >> yeah.

look, i'm going to do everything i can to live, but if you said are you willing to take a chance, you know, if i get sick, i will go and try to get better, but if i don't, i don't. i'm not trying to think in any kind of morbid way, tucker. i'm just saying that we've got choice here. we are going to be in a total collapse, recession, depression, collapse in our society if this goes on another several months. there won't be any jobs to come back to for some people. >> tucker: so, that was a segment was someone who had another perspective. we just thought you should hear both sides for you to comment on. a lot of people love what he had to say. we've got a huge response. a lot of people really, really hated it. we thought we would talk about a little more with one of the wisest people we know. what did you make of that? what was your view of it? >> well, i think he's essentially saying something

that is not terribly different from what the president and governor cuomo have been saying, which is this is what we are living in now, this circumstance as we try to beat this virus is not sustainable. the other collapse of the country's economy, which many think will happen if this goes on much longer, is an intolerable result. he is saying for his own part that he would be willing to take a risk of getting the disease if that's what it took to allow the economy to move forward. he said that because he is late in life, that he would be perhaps more willing then he would have been and a younger age. that seems to be a reasonable viewpoint. i guess a lot of people think that as your previous guests just suggested, that any kind of risk with anybody's life is intolerable. i think, you know, we live with the risk of seasonal influenza every year and thousands upon thousands die from it. but we do not, as has been

pointed out, shut down the economy to combat it. look, the mortality rate is high enough that it makes it alarming. it's obviously a special kind of case. but there we are. we don't shut down the economy to save every single life that's threatened by a wide-spread disease. we just don't. >> tucker: why do you think saying that, i mean, what you are saying is factually true. there is no pressure for doing that. we have faced a lot of epidemics over the years. just a stating that out loud, why do you think that enrages so many people? sincerely. >> well, i can't know that. i can't read the minds of people i don't know. but there's one thing i do suspect in all of this in terms of the reactions to it. we are living in a country in which people's reactions to nearly everything have something to do when you drill down how they feel about donald trump. to the extent that what the lieutenant government set on the

air last night is similar to the overall message to what donald trump has been saying. i think some of the reaction to it may flow from that. >> tucker: it's such a shame, because this moment isn't about donald trump. it's about us. it's about the rest of the country. [laughs] maybe we should focus on that, you know? >> think of it this way, tucker. if you are covering this coronavirus as a story in washington, probably the best single place to go for information is the daily white house briefing. now, trump says all kinds of stuff and he brags about what a great job he and his team are doing. some of the stuff he says doesn't really advance your knowledge of the virus and the affairs of his country. but the people he brings with him do and if you sit there and listen to it, you learn a lot. you learned a lot about the disease. you learn a lot about how they areing to combat it. you learn a lot about what numbers to watch. for example, i've been fixated for some days now on the death rate, because the death rate is something you can compare with

other countries. south korea is thought to have done a great job in combating the virus. so far, we seem to be doing fairly well. it does suggest that some of the things we are doing are helping. you don't get that kind of analysis, however, from the journalist covering those briefings by and large. i know john roberts does fine, but a lot of the rest of them are just looking for ways to pick up trump. it seems to me to be childish and silly. >> tucker: certainly beside the point in the current moment. great to see you. thanks. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: well, no part of the economy is getting hit harder than our restaurants. wolfgang and thomas join us to talk about how to save the industry. we will be right back. ♪ i bet you've never seen a sandwich do yoga before.

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is the largest employer in america. we employ 15.6 million people. a lot of them become a full-time, or whatsoever. over a billion dollars to the economy. i think it is so important we all have insurance. how are we going to continue with no work for so many people? you know, it's really a tragedy to have so many people out of work, not getting their money. i mean, we are trying to feed our employees in our restaurants so they can come by and get some food. we do little takeouts. but it has affected millions and millions of people. i think the insurance companies

are wrongfully denying business interruption coverage for all of our businesses. >> tucker: so, thomas keller come i think most people, when they watched restaurants shut down, didn't understand that they were watching the country's biggest private sector employert down. what is your guess about what would happen if we don't in some way bail out restaurants? >> welcome i just want to remind everybody that we think about restaurants, we think about the people in the restaurants, the people in the kitchen, people in the dining room. but we can't forget all of the gardeners, the farmers. all the people supplying the restaurants. of course, all the other people that are not inside the restaurant, but in room service and catering. it's not just restaurants. it's the entire profession which is at stake here. we need help. we are in a desperate situation where we need help immediately. the way to do that as wolfgang

pointed out, through the federal government. modifying the insurance interruption language in our policy, allowing the federal government to subsidize insurance companies so that they can then deliver to us the cash that we need to survive. >> tucker: so, wolfgang puck, that seems like a pretty straightforward solution. is it enough? if the government of that tomorrow, would you be confident the industry would survive? >> you know, if the government would do that, i think if the legislation would go through and say, we will subsidize the insurance so that we can pay all of the restaurants come i think it would be the best way and the fastest way. because, if every restaurant will go to the government, local, state, or federal, and say we need money, we would be waiting for ten years.

we've seen in katrina how long it took to get money from the federal government to the people in need. we really need it now. we cannot wait a month. there are many people out there, many workers who are very loyal to their jobs. there are farmers out there. you know how many farmers are out there in california, for example, you name them. they are picking strawberries every day, because they don't know where to put them. so, it's really not only on us, the whole economy, the whole food business is in trouble, i believe if the government does not help us. >> tucker: the food system. i don't think people know that half of all calories people consume come from restaurants, not just grocery stores. so, finally, thomas keller, your restaurant employees, what are they doing right now? just out of work, all of them customers to go there out of

works. work. we have had to furlough, lay off 95% of them. want to make sure that they have health benefits going forward. we are not sure how long that can last. we want to make sure that they are protected in case that could happen. this could go on indefinitely. we don't really know how long this could go on. what can we do as restaurant chefs? we can help feed our communities. that's one thing we are doing in our small town. we have a small kitchen that we operate out of. we are feeding our staff, giving them free meals. of course, the community. we are really concerned about our team, our staff, making sure that they have a job to come back to. and that's the most important thing, that the restaurants survive so that our team can come back and go back to work. >> tucker: the government has got to support these people in some way. we are out of time. i'm really grateful you came on tonight and explained that. i think most people may not have

known that. thank you. so, a man in arizona died after eating aquarium cleaner. somehow come over at cnn and at "the new york times," we will tell you how they made that connection. ♪ as we turn more inside,

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♪ >> tucker: sad story from arizona. a man died. they apparently tried to self medicate against the coronavirus after taking clerk an chloroquie

phosphate at home. nobody suggested they did this. it doesn't matter. a game changer. that is how president trump describes that antimalarial drug. it is now 1 of 69 drugs being investigated as potential treatment against the coronavirus. the problem. it has not yet been approved. in arizona, one man has died after an apparent attempt to self medicate with that drug. >> tucker: so, cnn never mentioned that it was in fact a different drug and that man ate fish tank cleaner. they didn't tell their viewers that. that's not journalism. it's wine. others are no better all suggested it was the president's fault that the guy eight aquarium cleaner. again, different drug with a similar name. fox medical contributor for the show and to the whole channel. we are always happy to have him

on. good to see you, doctor. so, without getting into the politics, which would strike me as a tool of destruction, is there news on hydroxychloroquine tonight question works because there must be a reason to be hopeful about it, because it's being used all over the world. it's being used at the university of washington medical center. new york state has also ordered a ton of hydroxychloroquine, which is different than what this man took. that was chloroquine phosphate, which is an aquarium cleaner. you had, tucker, the head of the fda on, who said something brilliant. i put on my clinician hat, he said. meaning, i'm a doctor. i'm looking across the table at a patient. i am saying, what are your symptoms? what are your risks? how severe? what do i think is going to happen to? and then come i know that i have

this drug available that may not be fda approved for that reason. use things off label all the time and it may have nothing else to offer him. i may know that this drug has been used safely. i'm talking about hydroxychloroquine now, has been used safely on many, many people. here's the other thing i know, tucker. i know that i am not going to give it to someone with heart arrhythmia. that is something i know is a doctor. president trump never said doctors should it be in the loop here. >> tucker: so we need a medical treatment for this pandemic. here is a promising avenue. no one is saying it's a panacea- if that's really sick. it's really the wrong approach. it's wrong. >> i complete agree with you. why would hospitals be giving it to sick patients if it wasn't so promising?

absolutely. >> tucker: thank you. the commissioner of the federal trade commission. he recently warned about three threats besides the coronavirus itself that he says are putting the economy at risk and small businesses at risk of and stiction. he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so, give us the quick rundown. i love what you wrote, because there were things that most people, including me had thought of. >> small businesses should be the base of the economy, but for decades, they've been in trouble. i'm worried that this crisis can wipe them out to extinction if we don't do anything about it. what we are hearing on the ground is that there are lawyers running lawsuit mills working for some of these lenders who are flooding the courts with action in order to extract cash from struggling small businesses. they are using the fine print

terms just to get away with it. at the same thing we saw in the last crisis and its predatory lending connected to big finance and we have to stop it. >> tucker: absolutely. it's not surprising that lawyers are doing it. a business totally incapable. >> one of the things we have to look out for is powerful firms and multinational monopolies who are going to exploit the situation. i mean, we are already hearing from so many sellers who depend on amazon and they feel they are going to go broke because they've been cut off after amazon's new policy. we are hearing from other companies who are openly saying they are just going to not pay their small suppliers. so, this is a way that many of these large firms are going to be able to caught off smaller firms, essentially enable to make them more dependent on them and to squeeze them even harder.

and we are going to see this whether it's manufacturing. we are going to see it in reta retail. and it's a big worry for regional economy. >> tucker: so, it's another way in which current trends are being accelerated. and the third threat. >> i mean, i'm really worried about vulture investors. many of these vulture investors, especially in private equity, they have a strategy. they sit on the sidelines and they scoop up small businesses. they integrate them, and then what are they going to do? they might load them up with debt. they might fire the workers. and guess what. that's just going to create another giant that they can flip what happens to all of the people and the communities who control those businesses? they are out of luck. and so this crisis could exacerbate trends that we are already seeing. i think we are also noticing

cracks in our economy that we have to fix. >> tucker: it's all very smart. i hope you will come back as this progresses. great to see you tonight. thank you. well, congress is planning and has been trying to bail out companies to help the economy. could some of that money end up enriching chinese investors? it's hard to believe it could happen, but he's got a plan to stop it. he'he joins us after the break. musical music of memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. and even though tables are empty at the moment... now you can be there for them. while the doors may be closed, the kitchens are open for delivery.

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>> chinese business has penetrated big parts of the u.s. economy, they control much of it and many american companies now have chinese ownership. matt gaetz represents florida and is worried that the bailout will wind up enriching the chinese and helping the chinese government. this tell us -- thanks for coming tonight. tell us what your concern is and how you plan to address it. >> radisson hotel's, amc movie theaters, even the waldorf-astoria in new york are controlled by china in essence and i think we ought to restore every american worker and american small business before borrowing money from china so that we can then give it to china to then pay china back with interest after the chinese virus. seems like a foolish thing that a great nation would never do. i've introduced legislation to block bailouts to corporations controlled by china. it is so obvious i can't believe it's not the law already. >> they only show pandemic on

the world and we send them tax dollars. why would that be a controversial thing to propose. >> china has a lot of influence on the companies that seek chinese investment also have that influence but this is a time we can actually put america first. the needs of our people in our businesses. this should be the easiest time in the world to make sure we are making reinvestment in the american economy and that we are not the world's fools by borrowing money from a country in the bond market recycling it back to them and then charging the next generation of americans interest on that money. we cannot do that, congress should include my no china act and the ultimate relief package. >> already received medicaid funding and at no risk of going under.

is this real, for one thing? what can republicans do about it? >> there is a never ending list of these virtues signaling items that the left is trying to put into this bill. they use the coronavirus as an opportunity to see through our vision of the country. can we just for a moment take a pause and try to socially engineer america and actually get resources in the hands of desperate americans who are worried about how to buy food and clothing for their children? >> last question, 15 seconds, senator richard burr knew about the coronavirus and saved his own portfolio instead. is he going to stay in the senate do you think? >> richard burr is a disgrace. he should be removed as the intelligence chairman immediately as a result of this conduct and as republicans in the trump era, we have an obligation to say we do not want corrupt acts to be associated with our tribe and republicans need to start stepping up and

speaking out because what richard burr did in the senate stock sell-off is not something that we want our brand associated with. >> god bless you for saying that, i wish more people had the clarity to say that. great to see you, thank you so much. we will be back tomorrow, have a great night with the ones you love. sean hannity right now. >> sean: welcome to hannity, we begin tonight fox news alert breaking at this hour, still awaiting the vote in the u.s. senate as a massive coronavirus stimulus package now weighs in the balance, congress will resume at any minute and we have reports that some senators who were quarantined may be showing up tonight and hazmat gear. we will be watching for that time. and by the way, soon to be arguments public. let's see if we can get it done. we are the american people, we are the home of the brave, land of the free. this is important. has written, the bill is scary.