april 1st of 2020. they say april is the coolest month and this one looks like it's going to be pretty cool. story continues and we will see you back here tomorrow night. we will see you tomorrow morning actually when we put together at town hall, the global covid-19 pandemic. ♪ >> good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." we are beginning tonight with the the way we have the last couple of evenings or so. trace gallagher joins us now with the latest numbers on the spread of this pandemic. >> it appears the numbers have finally convinced ron desantis to issue a 30 day stay at home and mandate beginning tomorrow. the state health department now reports that covid-19 cases in florida have doubled over the past four days. there are now 7,000 plus cases statewide with 101 deaths. broward and miami-dade county has the most infection with hot

pockets emerging in the tampa and orlando areas. here is the governor. watch. >> at this point even though there are a lot of places in florida that have very low infection rates, it makes sense to make this move now. i did consult with folks in the white house and spoke with the president about it and he agreed with the approach of focusing on the hot spots. >> in the meantime the surgeon general dr. jerome adams is praising california's mitigation efforts saying "when you look at places like california that aggressively mitigated in social distance they were able to level and flatten their curves. california has a 96 cases and 207 deaths but over the past three days the state's numbers have been very steady. michigan is seeing the opposite effects of the curve getting steeper. today marks the single highest day increase in cases, pushing the total to more than 9,000 with 337 total deaths. finally, we should note that new orleans and jefferson

parishes which are in and around new orleans are now the counties with the highest number of cases per capita in the country. a hot spot to watch. >> tucker: interesting. trace gallagher, thanks so much for that. you are hearing an awful lot of statistics about disease recently. a lot are interesting and some are revealing. the most consistent headline in the news media has been this one. america has more infections in more deaths than china has. the u.s. now leads the world confirmed coronavirus cases and following a series of missteps the nation is now the epicenter of the pandemic. the paper went on to contrast the inept leadership of american leaders in the crisis namely donald trump with the swift and effective action of the chinese communist party. in other words, it may have come from china but they got it under control quickly and we haven't. that was a message. in "the new york times" you saw

pretty much the same story everywhere last weekend always with the same thing. china has us under control and we don't. so as a public relations matter this was a major win for the chinese government. that's not a small thing right now. when this pandemic finally receives the global order likely will be reset and up for grabs will be control of the world. international financial systems, trade agreements, military alliance and shipping lanes. china would like to run all of it. but at this point it's not a prize that the chinese can make by force, they have to make the case to the rest of the world and that's exactly what they are doing now. we are competent, they are saying, they are buffoons. that's the message from the chinese government. what's striking is how many in the west are helping them say it. at 10:00 a.m. on january 23rd chinese authorities locked down the city of wuhan, which was the site of course of the first coronavirus outbreak. by then it was too late.

then an estimated 5 million residents of wuhan had filled the city and in many cases they brought the disease with them. within days it was clear to anyone who is paying attention that the duplicity and the criminal incompetence of the chinese government was likely going to kill a lot of people. get the world health organization took the opposite field. the general director of w.h.o. announced that china was doing the best imaginable job fighting coronavirus. watch this. >> during my visit to beijing last week, i was so impressed in my meeting with president xi at his detailed knowledge of the outbreak and for his personal leadership, and if it weren't for china's efforts the number of cases outside of china would have been very much higher. there is no reason for measures that unnecessarily interfere with international travel. >> tucker: china is doing a

great job. the message and continued like that for weeks. the world health organization busied itself casting china as a hero of the story. if it weren't for the efforts of chinese government to come up many more would die. just six weeks later as if by magic china declared victory over the epidemic. not surprisingly the director of the world health organization was there to celebrate and to amplify the message. >> of course we have good news today. yesterday, wuhan reported no new cases for the first time since the outbreak started. wuhan provides hope for the rest of the world and even the most severe situation can be turned around. >> tucker: wuhan is the hope of the world he said and the american media seems highly impressed by this. they repeated china's message without skepticism and without independent verification.

on march 18 "bloomberg news" and i'll set chinese virus cases reached zero. the global times contrasted the chinese miracle with the american disaster. "u.s. cities such as new york are now the riskiest places in the world. for this was an irresistible story so they gleefully climbed aboard. >> is that coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc around the world the u.s. has now overtaken every other country to become the first country to report more than 100,000 confirmed cases. surpassing china and italy in the most perverse possible version of trump's signature slogan, "america first." >> tucker: got that? trump is bad. trump runs america and americas humiliation must be good. that's their video. is there ever been in media

establishment easier to control than ours? we lost our ability to think clearly years ago and it's all reflex now. whatever donald trump is for or against, they are like dogs. cook a cheeseburger and they drool. lost in this circle was the discussion of whether or not china's much touted health numbers are real. the short answer is, no. they are not real, like so much that comes out of china like vinyl handbags and official human rights reports, they are fake. the question is, how fake are they? since january the chinese media has been under tighter than usual government control which is saying something. we don't have a lot of reliable information about what's happening. we do know that totalitarian governments are far more efficient at controlling populations than unruly democracies like ours. once quarantine began in wuhan for example the reports of police blocking entire families of from their apartments in the

outside only to be discovered dead, all of them, weeks later. tactics like that will differently slow the spread of an epidemic but, by how much? use common sense for a moment. roughly 5 million people spread, fled from the city of wuhan. china allowed all of them to travel all over the world where they turn to him outbreak into a global pandemic. yet somehow china claims that none of these people traveled to the biggest cities in their country and spread the disease there. that's their position. a story in chinese state media claimed there was only one new case of coronavirus in the capital city. the infected patient came from the united states and not from china. overall the report claimed only 416 people in beijing have been infected domestically. of those 394 had been released from medical care. in other words, in a city of 22 million people there are only 22 hospital patients in beijing

who contracted the coronavirus in china, the country where it started. so literally one out of every million people. is that believable? western media outlets believed it and repeated the claim as fact. the chinese government knew better than that. the very next day china closed every movie theater in the country. this monday, two days ago authorities in shanghai shut down the two most popular tourist attractions, the shanghai tower in the pearl tower. that's not the behavior of government that believes it has tamed the outbreak. it's an expression of fear. the rest of us should be afraid, too. china is the largest country in the world. when that china distorts data sets like how many are infected or how many are dying that directly affects how every other country in the world response to the disease. we may have spent months assuming things about coronavirus that were not true. more broadly we should worry

about what comes after this. the chinese government seize this moment as a battle in the struggle for control of the world. they think in sweeping terms and that is their advantage. it could be our undoing. this is a propaganda war with historic long-term consequences and so far, we are losing badly. senator josh hawley represents misery. thank you so much for coming on. why do you think that health authorities in the west, and of course, our mindless media, uncritically accept china's health statistics and use them as a basic for decision-making here? >> you know tucker, the same people, the washington elites and wall street, they are the same people who have been telling us of this will be great for america and the world if we integrate our economy with china. it will be great if we have a global economy where we send jobs overseas. turns out they've been wrong

about all of that. it's been terrible for america and now we are living with the results so i think this is what we are finally waking up to, or the d.c. elites are waking up to the wages of the bargain that we have struck and it's time to fundamentally rethink our relationship with china and the world. it's time to start putting american workers at the front and not kowtowing any longer to the chinese government. >> tucker: we see this primarily in epidemiological terms. people in lab coats giving advice, i'm not attacking them. but how do you think china sees this moment? what are the stakes in their view? >> they clearly see it as a strategic opportunity, the same way they see everything. they want to be the central power, the dominant world power. they have a saying that there can only be one son in the sky, and they intended to be china,

to be beijing. they see this as an opportunity along the way. but here's the thing, this is also an opportunity for us. the american people have known this for decades, they have known that partnering with china is dangerous. they know that sending our supply chains overseas was wrong and now we have the opportunity to correct those mistakes. it's time that we go all in on america rather than all in on china and we will have the chance to do that now. >> tucker: i hope so. we can start by ceasing the subsidizing of the education. i know this is off topic but our colleges and universities, almost all of which are supported by taxpayers in the end, educate at a net loss. the children of the people who are trying to displace us, why are we doing that? >> we also allow those educational institutions to take money almost directly from the chinese government, these confucius institutes that are on

campuses all across the country, directly subsidized by beijing. you might ask why do american campuses allow these chinese government outposts on their own campuses, and the reason is they get paid to, it's lucrative. we got to stop this cozy dealing with beijing on our campuses, with our international trade from our financial institution and our multinational corporations. it's time to actually put the american worker and american families in american interests first. it's time to put them at the front. that's why i say, we are going to have an opportunity now and we need to not miss it, to invest in this country and go all in on this country and i hope that will be our focus. this pandemic should make clear to us that it's an urgent, urgent need going forward. >> tucker: i think you are exactly right. thank you for your clarity and i marveled that there are people working against those schools which are so clearly positive. thank you, great to see you.

>> tucker: for tens of millions of americans, rent is due today. many americans will be able to pay. what are we doing to protect them? plus more footage from new york city. ♪ you doing okay?

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april. for tens of millions of americans rent is due today but even before coronavirus, a lot of households were living paycheck to paycheck and now those paychecks are gone. what are different states doing to keep those people in their homes they sing their to pay? rick asked to look at what's happening. >> hey tucker. with so many americans out of work and so many of them losing income the first of the month can bring hard choices. pay the rent or buy food or make a child support payment or handle some of the critical expense. by some estimates, roughly 40% of new yorkers won't make rent payments this month and don't have to worry about getting kicked out of their homes. the governor here has issued a 90 day moratorium on evictions, one of a dozen states banning or partially limiting evictions during the coronavirus outbreak. some states have barred evictions for the duration of emergency declarations and some require proof that the tenant is afflicted by the virus or lost

their job because of it. in new york city almost five and half million people rent their homes and many landlords say if they don't collect rent they may have to sell their properties or risk bankruptcy because they have their own bills to pay. it's a financial mess that could get a whole lot worse. >> tucker: that's for sure. it's a mess because people are out of cash and people are out of cash because they don't have jobs. more than 3 million americans filed for unemployment benefits the last week of march which mark think quadrupled the previous record in the country. in a matter of months, jobless figures like that could look small by comparison. goldman sachs estimates later this year and america's unemployment rate could hit 15% which could be the highest figure since the 1930s and that's almost 25 million people at work. goldman's estimate isn't even the highest one. according to the st. louis branch of the federal reserve bank loan employment could peek as high as 32% which is

37 million people out of work. in case you were wondering, that's worse than the worst year of the great depression. at some point coronavirus will be gone but we could live with the crushing unemployment numbers for far longer and that's a disaster for people, individuals and families but it's also a threat to the stability of our country. nothing beats a nation more volatile than the huge numbers of people who don't have jobs and that's always true. so we need to do whatever we can to prevent that from happening. here's the amazing thing. the federal government is doing its best tonight to make it much worse. today on april 1st the department of homeland security released 20,000 new h2b visas for seasonal workers to come into america and take jobs like landscaping, food processing and resorts. another 15,000 visas will become available next month in may. these are bonus visas by the way. by law, the united states only has to offer 66,000 visas per

year but homeland security secretary chad wolf has used his discretionary powers to add 35,000 extra visas. so that's a total of 100,000 workers coming to this country to take jobs during the single biggest unemployment crisis in a century. it's demented. yet it gets worse than that. yesterday dhs notified 85,000 new winners of the h1b visa lottery and they can begin filling out applications for jobs in the october. that is just when unemployment could be reaching its peak and when coronavirus could come back as the weather cools. it allows them to hire foreigners and it's a fraud of course, well-documented fraud. in practice the visas are used to import tens of thousands of tech visas from india so the silicon valley can profit from a cheaper workforce. the big winners in this scheme are companies like apple, google

and ibm which take in of h1b workers every year. american workers are ordered to train their foreign replacements and fired once they are no longer useful. this has been going on for a long time and it's always been disgusting but now it's a threat to our country and that's not an overstatement. in a year were tens of millions of americans could be looking for work our government is importing more than 150,000 workers from abroad. that's without counting thousands of h to a agricultural workers who will be coming as well. the president needs to stop this from happening and he can. if president obama was able to ignore existing limit immigration law and create dhaka, which he did, it's possible for our president to protect the nation. in american law gives him explicitly that's right. this is from section 1182f title viii in the u.s. code.

"one of the president finds that the entry of any aliens or any class of aliens in the united states would be detrimental to the interest in the united states he may make a proclamation to suspend the entry of all aliens or class of aliens as immigrants were nonimmigrants or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem appropriate." it's very clear. the supreme court just affirmed this law and so it's real. that was levied to protect americans from terrorism but now we are facing an immeasurably greater priceless than dumb academic crisis than terrorism. he could fracture our society, erode our rights, shatter our institutions, it could transform this country into a poor country. that could happen. preventing that from happening is the most important test this president or any president in our lifetime will face. the time to placate corporate interest looking for low wages

on, and all costs has passed, we need to stop this. coronavirus has hit cruise ships really hard and many of them are still afloat. some are headed to florida ports. will the pastors be allowed off? plus, will seattle avoid enforcing questionable laws? the police are telling people to call 911 if someone says something bigoted. that's just ahead.

>> tucker: at the governor of florida ron desantis has ordered his residents to stay inside but now several cruise ships with sick passengers are headed for florida ports. what happens next? matt finn is live on that for us tonight. >> these two ships are scheduled to arrive at port everglades tomorrow with at least four dead people and a lot of sick passengers and there are at least four children under the age of 12 on board. a short while ago holland america released new details on what it anticipates will happen with the more than 1200 passengers on the two ships, part of the carnival corporation. holland america says that secured local treatment for ten passengers that need immediate care. 45 passengers with corona patent symptoms will stay isolated on board. guess fit for travel will go to from ships to chartered flights with limited contact and extra caution but these plans so far have not been formally approved by the broward county commissioners and a final plan

is expected soon. initially governor desantis was reluctant to let the ships dock but president trump said he would do with what was for humanity. the trip originated in argentina and bound for chile and some foreign passengers are trying to get back to countries that have closed borders. >> tucker: amazing story. matt finn, thanks for that. i wanted to update you on a story we did last time. we spoke with an arlington shop owner whose employee had been imprisoned for defending the shop from burglars who showed up in the middle of the night. >> when the police came we thought we were in the right. three masked men at 4:30 a.m. on a sunday morning. so i was watching the huns up across the street with boxers on and a tank top and cold weather, 40 degrees. the cops treated us like we were the ones that because the harm.

this is very sad for america today. to be an american citizen, standing up for your rights and i can't believe it, he's been in jail for three days already. >> tucker: so the man who is arrested is still behind bars away from his children. he fainted today in court because he has diabetes but we were told that the judge was indifferent to this because he lacks medical records proving he has diabetes and he still being denied bail. the prosecutor responsible for all of this is an elected democrat. we checked her website and on it she condemns cash bail and says it's cruel to the poor. she also vows to treat illegal immigrants mercifully. but he did the one thing that you are not allowed to do which is defend yourself so he rots in jail tonight at the height of the coronavirus pandemic with diabetes and a way of from his

children. so that's the update. in king county washington where seattle is, more than 600 inmates have been released from county jails. the pretext is to contain coronavirus. they also say they are not booking criminals for things like shoplifting and property damage and even one officer quoted smoking meth at a bus stop. police chief carmen best as ordering residents to call 911 immediately if they think someone has said something racist. >> washington state is no place for hate. we will document and investigate every reported hate crime, even racist name-calling should be reported to police. we take this information very seriously. if you aren't sure if a hate crime occurred, call 911. we are here to help and we will respond to investigate.

>> tucker: congressman adam smith represents washington and parts of seattle. so happy to have them with us. i've reportedly hear democrats say the phrase chinese coronavirus is racist and i've heard that several thousand times. if i lived in seattle and heard someone use that phrase would i be encouraged to call 911 to report it? >> the most important thing we can do right now tucker is a deal with the virus comprehensively. what i'm concerned about is to get us back to work. right now we don't have the testing regime and i think we can do this as a country but the partisan back-and-forth is not going to get us there. >> tucker: right i agree. >> right now we are socially distancing. as you reported in florida they have now issued a stay at home order and they are doing the social distancing because of the threat of the virus. what i hope that you and other leaders at fox news and the trump administration focus on is marshaling the power of this country to get the testing

regime that we need to get the production of ppe and all of that. >> tucker: i get it, i do this every night but with respect i want to ask what's happening in our district right now. >> what is happening in my district right now is people are locked down. >> tucker: i want to ask you a specific question. so people are stuck at home, society is fraying. they are letting criminals out of jail and society is fraying and how does that help? it's not a personal question. >> it doesn't help, but will is more important in my view is how we respond to the virus. i want to get pass this back-and-forth partisanship, i want to marshal the resources in this country to confront the problem. we started to do some things right but the only way we get back to work or get back to school or rescue the economy and

protect health is by comprehensively manufacturing all of the health care equipment that we need so we can handle whatever surge comes and crucially with the testing going forward. we have not ramped up to the production of testing, to test people not just for whether or not they have the disease but for whether or not they have the disease. >> tucker: it you know i couldn't agree more but -- >> abbott labs have been coming out and that is so crucial. we don't get it. i watched the first part of your show but collectively as a country we don't right now get it and it is the most important thing we are facing. >> tucker: i got it, i understand that. but we are also not getting it -- okay. i agree with you. there are also 320 million americans in this country and a lot of them are sitting at home and they don't want to see their neighborhoods, it's not a macro question, it's a micro question.

they don't want to see their neighborhoods fall apart. why are they taking this opportunity to release criminals back into the community and preventing people from defending themselves? in your state, you can't go to a gun store. what is that? that's partisan behavior. >> well what that is, you can't go to any store right now except to pick up food. i don't think that's partisan behavior. i don't agree with every decision that has been made, right or left, liberal cities, red cities are blue cities but what i want to focus on is how we can come together to confront the problem and focus on that immediate threat. >> tucker: i am with you there. >> that is the real threat. decisions are being made about who -- if it makes you feel better tucker, we still incarcerate more people on a per capita basis than just about any other place in the world. so we are not falling behind on locking people up.

>> tucker: that's not a measure that tells me anything. it's what you incarcerate them for. >> tucker: unfortunately we are out of time and i, i agree on that. i push that message every day. >> i hope you continue and deliver that message to the president because the president needs to hear it. >> tucker: thank you congressman, good to see you. just ahead we will talk to dr. siegel on new potential cure is to treat coronavirus. but first, some are asking this question, when will these lockdowns come to an end? are they extending beyond their usefulness? these are fair questions that aren't being asked enough and that we will ask them after the break.

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>> tucker: well, the governor of new york andrew cuomo is getting off a lot of positive press and rising approval ratings and suddenly, people are talking about him displacing joe biting as the democratic nominee all for his handling of the coronavirus epidemic in new york. press down a little bit and it's hard to say exactly why new york's death toll is higher than anywhere else. cuomo hasn't done a ton other than ordering stores to close and people to stay home and he did a fine job of that. meanwhile the state hospitals are crowded and short on supplies even before this crisis hit. he may look good though by comparison, simply because he is not new york mayor bill de blasio who looks appalling, even worse than you thought. even three weeks ago when an epidemic was clearly on its way, he was telling new yorkers to act totally normal, it's fine. >> we have 25 cases as of this morning and we care deeply about each of those individuals but against the backdrop of

8.6 million people and for the vast majority of new yorkers life is going on pretty normally and we want to encourage that. if you are under 50 and healthy which is most new yorkers, there's very little threat. this is easy if you were to get it basically acts like a common cold or flu and transmission is not that easy. >> tucker: so funny. msnbc was telling us just today that everybody knew it was a threat in january. seth baron is an associate editor at city journal. so bill de blasio kirk clearly wasn't convinced it was a problem and he wasn't thinking about it. what was he thinking about, do we have any idea? >> well he's definitely been preparing for a emergency but the emergency has been the rising coastal waters. he's been singularly focused on climate change of the last few we years.

he is banned plastic bags and tried to ban glass skyscrapers and big oil. but what's funny is that both mayor de blasio and -- >> tucker: can i pause you there? if there temperature had risen say 20 degrees and a year and the hudson river had submerge central park, what he have been prepared for that? >> know he was thinking in terms of 75 or 100 years, you know after he was out of office. but the mayor and the governor for years have been urging new yorkers to prepare themselves for a major emergency. they have said, get a survival kit and get a go bag together because the government won't be there if there is a major emergency. among the things they told us to prepare to have on hand were face masks and hand sanitizer. now i think it's great that the government is admitting that they are not really going to be

there necessarily, but it makes you wonder why weren't they stocking face masks? they were cheap. >> tucker: because you had your own. thanks for that. great to see you tonight and good luck in new york. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: a lot of the country has been shut down for close to three weeks and the economic damage has been unprecedented. it's getting worse and that's inevitable. top officials don't seem to be thinking about how this will end and so they are trying to look tough by announcing longer and longer restrictions. everyone wants to be andrew cuomo. in virginia, clan robes a black face the governor everyone to stay home until june 10th. some officials are also talking about lockdowns into the fall or even next year. that's not only excessive but insane and also impossible. so why are they talking about it? dana perino, thanks so much for

coming on. i think everyone is for decisive leadership and everyone is prepared to make sacrifices in the service of saving the country, i think that's true. but why would they be talking about lockdowns and next year? that does not inspire confiden confidence. >> it doesn't, for sure. two weeks ago we were under a different impression and now we have a different situation today and you have just shown that even mayor de blasio said the virus was very hard to spread and now we know that's not true. a lot of our political leadership is having to make decisions based on information that is incomplete. so i think we can all agree that they are doing their best. but every plan is really good until the first shot is fired. we saw that first shot of course, while there have been many first shots, simultaneous ones. the health care system is getting overwhelmed and i think that everyone understands the need for us that are healthy people to stay that way to try

to prevent a problem for those nurses and doctors and emts et cetera. the second child that was fired was the economic one. when you have that many people filing for unemployment, and we will see more that tomorrow. i did a story on "the daily briefing" today about the food banks across america and it's really overwhelming, what people will have to do. what i would recommend is that the president taken the idea of the pencil lead task force and add a separate one made up of other people including from the private sector for them to be able to think ahead about how to start getting back to normal. how do we start opening up businesses? the president and vice president are so focused on the major and immediate crisis at hand, there should be another group advising them that could look a little bit further ahead for all of us.

>> tucker: it seems like there is an awful lot of social pressure to not say anything like that out loud and that is what concerns me. it's that herd of thinking that takes place. you did, and i'm grateful you did because it's rational and putting america's interests first. it's great to see you. >> tucker: they are thinking that, exactly. a lot of us have spent the last three weeks pretty much idle but one woman washington has lost a charitable effort to feed first responders. it's an interesting way to do it because it helps a lot of different people. she joins us to explain after the break. but first, one famous physicians that he may have found a cure for coronavirus and we will run that one by dr. siegel in just a moment. ♪ at papa john's, we want you to know that from our

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>> tucker: at one doctor featured in a popular netflix documentary claims he has found a working cure for coronavirus. marc siegel has more on that and other potential developers from today. hey, doctor. >> hi, tucker. back in january netflix released a documentary called pandemic on one of the scientists they featured, and immunologist bio engineer from san francisco, jacob glenville has now gone on since that film to be working on an antibody, several antibodies that he took from the other

coronavirus, sars, from 2003 and has reengineered these antibodies so they literally attacked the virus by blocking its entry into the cell. what virus? this virus, covid-19. blocking the entry of this virus into the human cell. he's got it to the point now where he's handing over to army research in the army research laboratories are going to test it and see how effective it is and from there, go on to human trials. very interesting. it has been used in the past using targeted antibodies to go after a virus. it may not be a cure but it can certainly decrease symptoms. in another ironic story, a british tobacco company -- and i want to tell you, tobacco is a plant that we used to grow vaccines and proteins that we then used to challenge the immune system to create an antibody. a tobacco plant is now being injected with a protein from this coronavirus to see if they

can develop a vaccine. so not only are they making tobacco that puts our lungs at risk for this virus but they are also working on a vaccine against the virus. the third piece of news tonight that's very interesting as harvard has been looking at the symptoms that we see from covid-19 and they have discovered something that we've been talking about recently which is the sense of smell. it's called anosmia. when you lose your sense of smell it's called anosmia and it's because the virus seems to attack the skin inside the nose. it gives you the sense of a loss of sense of smell and taste. it's a characteristic finding that if i see it, people come in with a little bit different symptoms, may be cough or fever or shortness of breath, or maybe not, but if they have that loss of sense of smell i think this could be covid-19. it's very helpful diagnostically. >> tucker: so it's a significant marker for the illness, people at home should

know that. dr. siegel, thank you for all of that. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: this pandemic is crushing restaurants in the united states. independent restaurants especially. meanwhile, doctors and nurses are putting in long hours at great risk to fight the disease. elaina slunk and saw an opportunity in this disaster and she founded a charity called "feed the fight." it buys take-out meals from restaurants and delivers to health care workers at hospitals. what a great idea this is elayna, thanks for coming on tonight. tell us how this works and how it has been working? >> thanks, tucker, for having me. it we are completely community funded and we use the money to purchase meals to our local restaurants and deliver them to our local hospitals and it serves a dual purpose of's supporting our local restaurants and keeping them in business while also showing love and support to our health care workers who really need it right

now. >> tucker: i love that. so you are helping one group that's trying to save the country and another group that i think all of us kind of love, restaurants, who are being really hurt by this. what has the response been? >> it has been insane. i started two weeks ago with one email that i sent a couple dozen people and we started with lunch for 30 on the first day. by the end of the week we had done 700 meals and to date, we have purchased over 4,000 meals and we are still growing. the response has been anywhere -- go ahead. >> tucker: i love the fact that there is no apparatus, unlike so many charities and we don't know where the money goes. it goes to doctors and nurses. >> absolutely. there is no gift too small or too big, we had some very generous donations.

today we had a wonderful donation from a 12-year-old boy. it was his birthday and he got a $100 check from his grandparents and he said he wanted to send it to feed the fight. >> tucker: i love that. nurses must be grateful when a box of doughnuts or lunch shows up. >> was even great also, these amazing restaurants in this area, they are walking into the break room and there are some seriously good meals waiting for them. they have been blown away and they just said that they can feel the virtual hug from all of us so it has meant a lot to everybody. it gives everybody something to be able to do in a socially distant way. >> tucker: that's exactly right. a lena tompkins, someone who has not wasted her time indoors at all. we are putting a link to that on our facebook page for those who want to get involved. ask for coming out tonight. >> thanks for coming on. to calu

love, check in with them. have a healthy and happy evening. sean hannity is standing by in new york city to take over the next hour. he will do that now. >> sean: great advice, hold those we love. national emergency, national pandemic, invisible enemy. great point, thanks, tucker, good show. as always, welcome to hannity. we start with straight news, the good, the bad, the scary, the ugly things that you and your family need to know. what is happening in washington, information medically that could protect you and your family. a ton of information out there today. we call facts without fear, we begin once again with an important message from the president as he gave his coronavirus his coronavirus task force opening statement today. >> as i said yesterday, difficult days are ahead for our nation. we are going to have a couple of weeks, starting pretty much now, but especially a few days from now that are going to be