know what would happen. the chinese government would win. you would lose. sound familiar? it's like that for a lot of things these days unfortunately. that's it for rest tonight, have a great evening. hopefully with the ones you love safe inside. sean hannity takes over an hour from new york. >> sean: social distancing, me and tucker, good to see you, thank you. now tonight, it is clearer than ever we are living through a transformational time. the world will never be the same, events of the last month are having a substantial and unprecedented impacts on our economy and our culture and our way of life. but we are making progress for now and in the future as well because the books are being completely rewritten on how we address pandemics. that includes travel bands, public-private partnerships, telemedicine, drive-through testing, antibody testing, bypassing fda rules, allowing the choice, and that means off label prescriptions and so much

more. tonight, there is reason to be optimistic and reason to be helpful. dr. deborah birx will be joining us in just a minute. we are inching closer and closer to eating this virus, to restarting the single most powerful economic engine in human history, and solving what is a serious public health pandemic. this is the president from earlier tonight, let's take a look. >> we are going to have a rough week, rough more than a week. but there is tremendous light at the end of that tunnel. has said it last night, there's tremendous light at the end of the tunnel, so many things happening with therapeutics, with vaccines, with things that we really want, they are all working so hard in this. >> sean: i want to make one thing clear as we begin, we will get through this, the united states of america and as we do, we need to also remember that the cure cannot be worse than the crisis itself. we cannot put paralyzing panic

and over practical precautions above americans working. now what does that mean? it means getting this country back to work doing what we do best as soon as safely as possible. means doing everything we can do to find treatments and a cure and like i've said, the idea of an economic task force seems like the right path to me, bringing steve moran businessmen and women who understand wall street and main street, also tonight, we have big developments on hydroxychloroquine. dr. oz is here with that, also dr. birx. i have an important message for the governor of new york andrew cuomo. earlier today, he announced that the state may have hit a plateau because new data now shows that new hospitalization saw a sharp drop in just the last four days. by the way, we also know that predictions of models didn't live up to what they told us it would be. a significantly. that's good. stock surging on the news that

the outbreak may be closer to a peak and so we have never before witnessed a health care mobilization effort like the one we are witnessing now across the nation. the president has changed the rules on how we will ever fight pandemics here and worldwide. wrinkly, andrew cuomo and all new yorkers in the country should be thanking the preside president. because while andrew cuomo wasn't listening to his own health care task force, that strongly recommended and saying you will need this, we can predict this is going to happen, and he did nothing and complaining the president was taking action delivering all the needed aid to new york and in the country. donald trump came to the rescue of new york state and did what cuomo should have been preparing for or de blasio should have been preparing for a period of 2 million surgical mask, hundreds of thousands of face shields and thousands and thousands of ventilators, over 5,000 to new york alone and also

building new hospitals in addition to the emergency hospital at the javits center which is the largest hospital now in the country, originally not built for covid-19, now they are taking in covid-19 patients. that the president has also staffed of the entire javits center with his personnel. in our great that hospital for new york and for the governor who was ill-prepared. we have the usns comfort in new york harbor which will now treat covid-19 patients as well. the lack of state and new york city preparations is shocking. after 9/11 after the first trade center bombing, numerous terror threats knowing that new york state, new york city in particular has the highest concentration of people in the smallest geographical area making new york city the most vulnerable to any pandemic as cuomo's own health care task force warned them about in november of 2015 in detail. you let me tell you something

about new york city, it has been an epic fail on all levels of new york government. state and city, a disaster. there is no excuse after 9/11, no excuse after being warned by a task force, and you had years to fix the problems. new york needs to know while the president was working was working around the clock to make available millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine, all talk no action governor cuomo was putting up dangerous barriers between patients and doctors. today finally, governor cuomo was asked about the drug, here's what he said earlier today. >> we've allowed usage of the hydroxychloroquine with the azithromycin pack in hospitals at their discretion. we had a 14 day limit on how much you could buy. because so many people were trying to buy it.

the federal government increases the supply to new york which they say they're going to do, then we could lift the 14 day limit. anecdotally, you'll get suggestions that it has been effective, but we don't have any official data yet the hospital. >> sean: yes, he is providing you the hydroxychloroquine just like he provided you all the masts and all the ventilators and building the hospitals and now staffing the hospitals because you didn't listen to your task force. calling on the governor of new york to immediately lift the pharmacy ban on getting this drug. in other words, pharmacies because of an executive order, they can no longer fulfill of prescription for hydroxychloroquine if a patient and a doctor think that they need it. i wrote an op-ed this weekend for foxnews.com. this should be a decision between the doctors and the patients, not governor cuomo or conrad de blasio. and as dr. oz will explain in

moments, this is not anecdotal anymore. we are now beyond that point in spite of what the mob and the media tell you. countries all over the world are seeing positive signs including in france and china and turkey and india and israel and many other countries in between. a 73% of patients in spain have been using it. let me be clear, this is something to take when prescribed by a doctor. i am not dr. hannity. there are risks, side effects include headache, dizziness, stomach pain, rash, and you should always make an informed decision with your doctor. this is about science, this is about being a medical doctor and it shouldn't be about politics. the federal government has tens of millions of doses and has made millions of doses available even more this weekend to the new york governor. i say it again, let the people of new york and their doctors decide, not you. and when you're getting it for free. i get it, i understand, we all

want long-term trials but at the same time, as dr. oz has been saying, you go to battle with the army we have. we don't have time in the middle of a pandemic to have a two year clinical trial. hold on, virus. we need a clinical trial. that doesn't work that way. doctors all around the world are using it. we have more new incredible data, probably the single most knowledgeable expert in the country on this. i'm going to get to that in a minute. remember, governor cuomo failed to act on multiple fronts. this is the difference between talk and action. the president built the hospitals in the ventilators on the mass than the gloves and the gowns and everything that they didn't prepare for new york, but andrew cuomo was going all the way back november 2015, what would happen if we had an influenza pandemic in new york and how he would need to act boldly, and they had an obligation ethically and otherwise to save the lives of new yorkers by acting now.

this is a foreseeable problem as that study cited. came to ventilators shortage, they addressed it explicitly. in november 2015, new york health department report read "during a severe influenza pandemic, there is likely to be a projected shortfall of 15,783 ventilators during the peak week demand. a shortfall of nearly 16,000 ventilators. i saw this weekend, he put up one of his power points that said requested to purchase, 17,000 ventilators because he didn't request them at the time. he requested them three weeks ago. where was the response from the governor when his own health care task force told him he needed to do it? where was his urgency after such an explicit warning that new yorkers would die? governor cuomo refused to act and he did nothing. he didn't listen. get this, the cost to purchase

the needed ventilators was only 0.4% of his 2015-16 budget. an to those who might want to criticize sean hannity, let me say this. i am in ground zero right now. born and raised here, lived all around the country but my family lives here. thousands of new york cases on long island where i still live. people i know fighting for their lives in hospitals right around here. and i can't go visit after reading that report, in every new yorker needs to be furious, they need to be held accountable. we need one to investigate why cuomo failed to act after that dire warning. why he prepared nothing. why did bill de blasio prepare nothing. after seeing him put up a wall between doctors and patients, i am apoplectic. and everything reported five years ago is now happening, this is that week they were talking about. we witnessed from the governor

and the mayor dereliction of duty. january 24th, he was saying the rest of new yorkers are low. february 7th claiming catching the flu right now is a much greater risk than anything. the fact is, cuomo was warned over and over again and he was wrong over and over again. now we turn to my facts without fear segment tonight. according to johns hopkins, the u.s. has never reported over 10,000 deaths from coronavirus with the infections of over 350,000. remember, that pandemic at 60.8 million americans that contracted that virus and that pandemic, hundreds of thousands hospitalized, and 17,000 people sadly died there. the worst hit areas including new york right now, detroit and new orleans. president trump announced at tonight's briefing that fema has distributed 11.7 million n95 respirators.

5.3 million face shields, 4.4 million surgical gowns, 22.6 million gloves, they now have available 29 million doses of hydroxychloroquine. they have now over 10,000 ventilators that they are distributing to states on a per need basis, states like california, washington, oregon all announcing that they are actually sending hundreds of ventilators from the federal stockpile to other states with the virus. these dates both led by democratic governors including washington as well. they are to believ to be applau. we are learning the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has been moved to an intensive care unit has his symptoms sadly worsen. our prayers are with him. our allies and friends in the u.k. and anyone that has contracted this virus. there is also reason tonight to be hopeful because tonight, the key coronavirus model which is a

model that you saw in the white house briefing room with the coronavirus task force has just drastically been shifted and changed and reduced in terms of their projected deaths from just a few days ago. remember, they were predicting over 250,000 people dead. they said if there was no travel ban, no quarantine, no mitigation efforts, 2.2 million americans could have died. they are now down below 100,000. that is more than 150,000 deaths they were predicting just days ago. last week again predicting the possibility of 250,000 americans dying. that's not all. the model now predicts 140,000 hospitalizations at its peak, that's a decline of 121,000, almost half of what was expected from their model. here to explain more as our own trace gallagher. a release, thank goodness, why were they so wrong? >> it's important because the model estimates are key in this

whole scenario not only because they are cited by the white house but also used by states in hospitals across the country to set policy. but the more data we get, the more models tend to lower their estimates. we are talking about the university of washington's institute for health metrics and evaluation predicting more than 93,000 americans would die from covid-19. that estimate now below 82,000 with a lower range below 50,000 and there are numerous scientists who believe those numbers are still way too high. the university of washington also analyze the impact on hospitals and has now significantly dialed back the expected need for overall hospital beds, icu beds, and ventilators. the bottom line here is fewer people will die because we were people will get critically ill. and we should note the university of washington model still predicts that april 16th will be the apex for covid-19 deaths in the united states in april 15th will be the peak day

for use of hospital beds. bottom line, we are getting there. >> sean: some good news them about every life that is lost is tragic. every infection is to be taken seriously. these are huge developments, huge trends in the right direction. the fact should give every american hope especially as we continue to move ahead on potentially life-saving treatments. now look at this and the exclusive letter obtained by dr. oz, he will join us in a second, highly respected los angeles-based rheumatologist who he trusts when you see his credentials, unbelievable. sent a letter to the fda explaining "hydroxychloroquine is a very safe drug. has been given to tens of millions of individuals in the world since its approval in 1955, that is 65 years ago. has not been associated with any deaths in the recommended dose of 42 years of practice, no

patient of mine that took over the largest lupus practice in the country has ever been hospitalized for a complication. dr. wallace added "rheumatologists did not obtain ekgs before prescribing and never had a problem. no treatment guidelines suggest obtaining it. also look at this, hydroxychloroquine has rated the most effective therapy by doctors for coronavirus and according to a new survey and in michigan, doctors are seeing success. out of los angeles, you have a doctor -- california did a great job. got to give gavin newsom credit, his handling is far superior to what they did in new york. he is saying promising results in prescribing hydroxychloroquine in combination with zinc, patient severely ill with the virus told abc seven los angeles of every

patient i've prescribed it to they were basically symptom-free. also breaking tonight, a michigan state representative, a democrat is crediting hydroxychloroquine and the bold efforts for saving her life after her battle with coronavirus. glad you're doing well, congresswoman for i guess state rep. here's the question. let's let doctors and patients decide. to give our medical professionals all the tools they need to succeed. access to potentially life-saving drugs and supplies and equipment, of course, they were people in the democratic party, the mob and the media that continue to smear the president in sick and ugly and twisted ways. look at one far left ohio state lawmaker who is actually claiming the president is touting hydroxychloroquine is a crime against humanity tweeting "i am making a referral for crimes against humanity tomorrow. today's press conference with the last straw. i know the need for prosecution referral when i see one.

that isn't nutty enough, conspiracy theory tv has suggested the president has secret financial interest in life-saving drugs even in the middle of a national emergency and a pandemic, they can't help themselves, take a look. >> why is the president so convinced that this is the medication that needs to be stockpiled? what is in it for him? >> this is when idiots have been exposed. >> the struggle that the president keeps pushing a lot of people would say follow the money. and there's got to be some sort of financial tie to someone somewhere that has the president pushing this repeatedly. >> this was a 9/11 level failure of the federal government. was. needs to be talked about and covered and scrutinize that way. >> sean: anyway, not even worth listening to these people

anymore. instead of rallying americans together to fight this disease, seeing the very best out of the vast majority of people but then you've the same people for the last three and a half years trying to pit republicans against democrats. i hate to tell you, this virus doesn't discriminate. trying to turn every single waking moment into a public trial against the president. is sick, but it's their playbook, flat out wrong. what we need is unity, strength, real solutions. here with reaction is dr. oz. dr. oz, you will have on your television program dr. daniel wallace. board-certified rheumatologist, cedars-sinai medical center los angeles, inherited the largest lupus practice in the united states in 1985. he currently cares for 2000 patients with lupus. the majority of these patients are taking hydroxychloroquine. he's authored 400 peer-reviewed papers, past chairman of the

lupus foundation of america and i could keep going on and on with these credentials. he points out this is in his words a very safe drug that has been given to tens of millions of individuals in the world for 65 years and 42 years of practice, no patient of mine has ever been hospitalized for any complication with this medicine, and he adds the risk of taking 400 milligrams a day following a single 600 milligrams loading dose of 30 to 60 days, he says the risk is nil. unless you have a rational and upset stomach. i'm watching people on television, and i am getting attacked and the president's getting attacked that this is dangerous. i would say this guy knows more than everyone that commenting about it and you have been talking to him and others. tell us what you learned. >> i'm very impressed by him. i did not know much about this

drug until covid-19 hit this country. i suspect that's true for almost everybody commenting on this, certainly is true of the broadcasters who are alarming americans not on purpose but because they are parroting back what they are hearing and i actually thought we were all these issues to be careful about and when i met him and i began to talk to other rheumatologist, i realize these guys are the ones prescribing it, not the heart surgeons, it is the rheumatologists giving it to 300,000 lupus patients and i initially called him to make sure we weren't hurting the lupus patients because i know they are short on these medications. as an aside, he said you guys should know that you're completely off base when you talk about side effects and i said why? because we in the business know this is not true. we have guidelines for what to do and in the guidelines we are told not to do anything about this medication. obviously a patient and a doctor going to make their own deal. there might be other medications that interfere with this one but in general, it is not nearly as

dangerous, to add to that, i had the opportunity to interview the famous infectious disease specialist, the most referenced infectious disease specialist in the world. he is the one who introduced the concept of azithromycin with hydroxychloroquine. and what he said was he just yielded to me and shared 1,000 patients, his first thousand patients had that combination. just to give you numbers real quick, seven people died out of 1,000. he can do the math and see what it should have been theoretically, it's unethical to randomize them and had 20 patients go to the icu. they had different criteria for getting admitted to the hospital. he said just a focus on side effects, the side effects were rash, trivial things. nothing serious. he does check ekgs and want to be extra careful. but the drugs have been given out a billion times but certainly for hydroxychloroquine. there is no big literature on

side effects let's focus on whether it works. we don't know that yet. >> sean: let's focus on that, we could listen to dr. wolf blitzer, but you are talking this guy did the first 80 patient study, now we have 1,000 patients going to be released in a couple of days you tell me, now is it working because every country around the world and you can explain that, is using it? >> he went down the list, he argued that he learned it from the chinese were as part of their formulary and i just want to be super clear on this. is 100% without debate we need a larger clinical trial. everyone argues this is anecdotal data. that is a dishonest representation of what's happening. there is no way you can say this is anecdotal when you have a randomized trial from china that is readily available, showing it last week, he talked about it here the show. we have a case series now of

1,000 patients, forget about the anecdotal cases because it's a little bit here and there, i'm getting a barrage of opportunities, but those are small studies. in saying it's not dangerous and it seems to be working for him as a result of the surrounding region. he's not going to do a randomized trial. i don't think it's ethical but at least acknowledge that china did a randomized trial, don't call it anecdotal. that is either deliberately misleading people or you don't understand what that word means. >> sean: so we will move past it. now it seems to be working and you interviewed doctors and patients, we have about 20 seconds left, what are they all telling you? all these doctors you talk around the world telling you? >> a doctor interview today said he thought to help them which is not sure which is the honest thing to say. he gave it to himself and he gave it to his father and there was no bigger testimonial to

whether someone thinks it makes sense, there's a reason that they try it because i don't have anything else. i am not arguing on that. a better option that safer and looks right and in the meantime, if it makes sense. >> sean: and telling the truth, there's no risk. thank you, dr. oz. appreciate it. when we come back, lindsey graham also a big announcement at the end of the program as we continue. america's mortgage company bs for veterans and active-duty service people. some of them are giving their lives right now, today, for the freedoms that we have here in this country. so for us, at newday to help those people at this point in time. it's a labor of love, it's a noble service, and that's what we're all about.

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>> sean: joining us now, a member, team doctor deborah birx is with us.

i know you've been working hard. i want to get into this issue of hydroxychloroquine in a very specific issue about off label use, compassionate use, i want to read you something if i may. this is from somebody i think he knows a lot about it, board sermocertified. his name is daniel wallace. i know he wrote the fda, and he currently cares for 2,000 patients with them a disease. he has authored over 400 peer-reviewed papers, written principle lupus test book, chairman of the lupus foundation of america and rheumatology and research foundation and many other backgrounds and what he says is hydroxychloroquine is a

very safe drug, that has been given to tens of millions of individuals in the world since its approval 65 years ago and as it has not been associated with any deaths in the recommended dose in a 42 years of practice, no patient of mine has ever been hospitalized, and he said the risk of taking 400 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine following a single 600-milligram leading dose took 30 to 60 days. he said the risk is zero except for if one has an allergic rash or an upset stomach. there are people on air telling the american people it is unsa unsafe. is that pretty definitive that it is safe? >> certainly, he would have a significant number of patients that could have been on it for a long period of time, so certainly his opinion is very important. how it's used in autoimmune disease is different than how it's used, so his insights are

very important. in i think we do a lot of drug use off label, physicians do all the time and i think that's why the president made it very clear that this is up to the physician and the patient and what the president has worked really hard on is making sure that the medication is available in pharmacies and hospitals around the united states, so they have the ability to make that choice. at the same time, there are rigorous clinical trials going on in both the w.h.o. and nih that are under development. >> sean: he has interviewed this french research who has the second study with a credible results, this time 1,000 patients, and he said we are beyond saying it's anecdotal at this point and beyond telling people it's not safe at this point is backed up by what dr. oz is saying. >> that's why the administration

has really worked to make this drug available to physicians around the united states that they can also look at that literature and decide whether to use this or not an off label use, and physicians have used off label drugs for a very long time. at the same time, there are rigorous studies on going clinical trials that will look at this drug and other drugs in its ability to actually in a clinical trial have a strong impact on the disease. >> sean: i think is our friend says, we love clinical trials. we don't have time for them, the army that you have, not the army you wish you had and we know all these countries, great britain are all using it and i guess the question i'm looking for is we have heard from patients all around the world, we have heard from representatives in the michigan area today say

thank you to president trump for off label use and i agree up with you about must be in consultation with your doctor, has to be monitored like everything else, but as somebody who has been out there 65 years and you don't have any incidents, one guy with deaths of the leading in the country, i would say it's safe, what would you do if it was you? if you were to get covid-19 in your doctor thought it would be a good option, what are your thoughts on it? >> the doctor i was going to felt like it was an important option for me, i would listen to him and his or her wisdom on what i should be taking and i think every patient to listen to their doctor. the information has really gotten out to the american people and physicians around the united states and making them aware that this is an available option. at the same time, gilead has made a compassionate use option

also so i want to applaud both the people of the physicians are working on and also the group who are making drugs available in this time of great need, and we understand it's a time of great need. being able to use off-the-shelf products that could potentially work with less side effects are minimal side effects is critical but at the same time, it's also important that as a country, we are doing the clinical research during this time, not inhibiting use of physicians from being able to use this with their patients recognizing that those two things can happen in parallel. >> sean: you been working the projections, and you came out with some pretty scary numbers and one of your briefings the other day, we are now seeing hospitalizations in new york are dramatically lower than what we're predicted for where we are right now. we are seeing icu units nowhere near where the projections were.

they have no altered their projections that they had and are now projecting hit might be a below 100,000 deaths where it could've been a week and a half ago, 250,000, why do you think that is? >> i think it really shows two things. one, the american people are following the presidential guidelines, social distancing, not gathering in groups trying to keep going out to an absolute minimum. getting drive through and carry out and delivery services and really protecting all americans. we know this is a very transmittable virus and having all americans put together in this moment. it is really inspirational and i think we are really beginning to see the impact of the sacrifice that americans have made for each other and we are in a call to action for this next 26 days or 25 days to really ensure that we are doing everything we can to stop the spread of this

virus. we can do it as a nation and the evidence is beginning to come in front of all models are adjusted as new data comes in from italy, from spain, and from our experience in new york and washington state and california. really seeing how california and washington state have really worked to flatten their curve and how we can do that state-by-state, community by community, family by family. >> sean: we do have another factor, america has to get up and running. there seems to be a conflict between those that want the economy back up and running, the cure can't be worse than the original problem versus doctors where i guess if we had social distancing, nobody would get sick, so we have to balance that. it's hard. >> i think what's really important and what makes this epidemic and what makes it a pandemic is when you outstrip your ability of hospitals to respond, and you can see that

that's happening in new jersey, it's really happening in new york, happening in louisiana and chicago and detroit and we don't ever want to see that as americans. these pandemics that come on really high level, high transmission with a large number of people requiring hospitalization, we need to ensure that our hospital system can cope with this and i think that's what the president is focused on is providing an opportunity where we can be in a different place because of the great work of the american people in our hospitals and our hospital workers are not overrun with a seriously ill because they are very devoted to taking care of them. >> sean: thank you for all your doing. i know you work night and day for the health of the american people, we appreciate it. when we come back on the world health organization director facing growing calls to resign tonight. a senator lindsey graham weighs in, and then you won't believe ridiculous political comments by

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>> sean: tonight, growing calls for the world health organization director to resign after he and the w.h.o. director facing calls for his resignation. why? 's failure to oversee the coronavirus response and frankly disseminating propaganda from china. joining is now with reaction, senator lindsey graham. do you support marsha blackburn's idea that china should forgive u.s. loans and bear some of the costs for the rest of the world? >> make sense to me. it were up to me, the whole world should send china the bill for the pandemic. this is the third pandemic to

come out of china and these wet markets where they have bats and monkeys with the virus intermingled with the food supply. i think china paid big time. here's a question for 2020, who do you want to take on china? trump or joe biden? i don't think that will be a hard decision for most people. >> sean: saying the cure can't be worse than the problem. an unprecedented 2.2 trillion in relief, americans through no fault of their own, we talked about this at length, we've got to protect them. up to 4 trillion also available from the fed and loans, now they're talking about 2 trillion infrastructure. did we not learn they are not so shallow ready? >> without a different president. you didn't even get a t-shirt. this president knows shovel ready when he sees it. i think the trump strategy and policy regarding the virus is

working, driving down the curve every day. the president jumped ahead of everybody pretty much in the world to stop travel from china and eventually europe, so i think we're going to be well below 100,000, every death is terrible but i think the president and his team have done a really good job working with governors on the public to drive down the curve and when it comes to what you do next, we need to look at china from top to bottom, get our medical supply chain back and if we do that bill, and he is to stimulate the economy, not the government. we doubled the size of the department of education and the obama stimulus package, that's not going to happen with the trump stimulus package. >> sean: what about the conflict between medical experts that will tell you social distancing should continue through june? if that's the case, there's only so much this economy can take. we already know the third quarter gdp is not going to be good. we know the unemployment numbers are astronomical so we've got to get americans back to work.

how do you balance that? >> what you do is you don't want to reignite the disease. testing is the key, plenty of people who have had this and don't even know it, built up antibodies and can go back to work. and so flatten the curve, then we'll start doing testing and will start putting people back to work that will not spike the illness. we want to bump up the economy without creating a spike in the disease. we can do that. we follow the president's leadership here, were going to bend this curve dramatically, going to reopen the economy sooner rather than most people think. >> sean: you can open it earlier because they're going to have results in 5 minutes then starting at 50,000 things to abbott and it's going to be much more than that. >> absolutely. here's the question for the country, president trump rebuilt one broken economy. he's going to do it again. this is about how to regulate china and how to get china to change, trump has done more with china in three years in any

president in my lifetime. it's about building a broken economy, who would you pick? trump for a biden? trump has a record of rebuilding a broken economy. he did it once and he can do it twice. getting back to work really depends on testing and testing is coming online in a big-time way. i see a light at the end of the tunnel. god bless all our doctors and nurses but help is on the way here. >> sean: biggest medical mobilization in our country by far, unprecedented. thank you. when we come back, hillary clinton and others, the insanity of the left, sad and predictable but even shocking for me straight ahead.

>> sean: hillary clinton today posting a bizarre tweet about the president. read "let's be clear, trump does not have the power to cancel or postpone the november election." okay, never claimed he did. meanwhile, crazy joe biden suggesting there may need to be a "virtual convention" this summer. president trump announced today that he spoke to the former vp on the phone i had a very pleasant conversation. here with reaction, fox news contributor and former arkansas governor of mike huckabee and fox news contributor ari fleischer. good to see you both. i just want to know, did joe know what day of the week it was and what said he was in when he made the call? i'm just saying, it's pretty embarrassing now. he is doing these video podcasts and forgets he is on camera and goes over here and starts talking to that camera that doesn't exist. >> and he looks down at his notes a lot. routine questions he asked to gaze down at what he supposed to

say. i thought the president was actually quite gracious the way he described a phone call. i thought it was also pretty wise of the president the way he just slipped it into his opening remarks at the news conference tonight and then went on to bigger and better things, more important things to talk about. but for people who think that the president doesn't have a gracious side to him for that you only counter punches, the president was different today in his demeanor and his remarks, he was kind. >> sean: you wrote a column which at a time like this was nice to see. is he being presidential now? wrote a column saying to bear in trump, that was a big moment for him. >> it was a real turning point for the president when he was asked what do you say to your family, and he talked about how bad it is, it was that starkness, that frankness that i

was looking for. the key now is to be realistic and stay realistic. tell the american people how it is. and that will make everything he says that's reassuring more credible. >> sean: how has he handled the so far? >> is handled at the way a good executive does, he has delegated, surrounded himself with smart people, the single most important thing a credit the president for his delegating authority to make decisions out to the governors and people who are closest to those being governed. he has given them the assets and resources they need and look at who's complementing for that. gavin newsom of california, andrew cuomo of new york, no fans of president trump, but they are fans of the leadership

style that he has exhibited. >> sean: can you believe how ill-prepared governor cuomo was? they recommended 16,000 ventilators for the foreseeable predictable pandemic like this. he didn't buy any of them. trump built his hospitals and is sending the hydroxychloroquine, not even staffing the largest hospital in the country in the javits center javits center. >> i'm a little surprised by it because during my tenure, we used to have tabletop expert exercises and this is when he was the head of hhs and something that was thought about often. so you would've thought that he would have been better prepared but on the other hand, it's probably not something that maybe he spent every waking moment. i bet he will from now on. >> sean: they said in black-and-white, you're going to need it. trump has basically done at all for him but he takes credit. thank you both, big announcement

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>> sean: big programming announcement. the president, donald trump will be with us tomorrow night life, don't miss that interview. we hope you'd will join us. always fair and balanced, let your no heart not be troubled, laura ingraham. your coverage has been amazing. >> laura: back at you, hannity. it's amazing, it seems like there are some people out there that won't take yes for an answer when we have some promising therapies when it looks like and a lot of people they are working and having a good effect. maybe not a panacea or the be-all and all but a real help to get people out of hospitals sooner. and then they say, no we can't do that until we have like a triple blind random controlled study. >> sean: we all want that. i don't know if you heard at the beginning of the shows