state of minnesota, we don't have nearly enough testing. >> tucker: that really is the lesson. i hope you will come back, always happy to have you, thank you. we are out of time for tonight unfortunately. we will be back tomorrow and in the meantime, sean hannity takes over from new york. >> sean: thank you, great show. sit tight, the president of the united states will join us live coming up with an exclusive interview. first and i, major progress to report in the fight against the coronavirus. we call it facts without fear, hysteria and fearmongering, a ton of good news tonight in tough times to cover including a significant effects that give all of us hope and let's start in the outbreak epicenter which is new york and long island, new jersey, connecticut now in new york showing major signs of improvement despite really scary projections only days ago, new hospitalizations and now approximately half of what we wore last week.

a major decline for the third day in the row, they discharge from the hospital that will hopefully hold a decline. the changes daily intimations also saw perceptivenes precipit. as journalist pointed out formally of "the new york times" a fantastic day for a rough apocalypse covid-1 covid-19 hots in louisiana. they are showing signs of improvement. meanwhile, the state of arizona is actually lowered its request for ventilators in the national stockpile from 5,500 and according to revised estimates, the state will only need 1,500 icu beds and ventilators and coincidentally enough, the state

has already equipped 1500 icu beds in 1500 ventilators. facts without fear, the death toll in new york louisiana everywhere else is alarming, scary, and chilling to most people and it should be. but the cdc director is now claiming the death toll will likely be much lower than projections of just a week and a half ago. think about that for a second. first, some believe the death toll in the united states could be between 2.2 and even 4 million. make no mistake, without the travel ban, without the quarantine, without the subsequent travel bands, without the mitigation efforts, deaths and illnesses in america would be exponentially worse, even about a week ago, projections were down to 250,000 and now as of today less than 100,000. without a doubt because of the aggressive measures by the trump administration, the health of the american people, countless lives have been saved and

countless others have avoided contracting this terrific virus. the silent killer as the president calls it. the travel ban that joe biden once called xenophobic and hysterical and fearmongering who worked and of course, poor confused joe has now done a complete 180 now supporting the travel ban with china only two months in three days a little late. but who knows if he actually realizes what he's saying is red state pointed out, everything he said right now is one giant word salad, but i do digress. we now know these crucial and critical and unprecedented steps taken by the administration early followed up with the biggest mass medical mobilization in the history of this country saved incalculable numbers of lives. the book is now been rewritten on how to handle future pandemics for the united states and the entire world. that would include how the president instructed the fda to cut red tape whenever possible, get treatments to those who desperately needed in

consultation with their doctor. i'm not a doctor. according to reports we are getting from serious experts, hydroxychloroquine is now looking more and more like an important tool in treating this virus, being used all over the world. we will have an update with dr. oz coming up tonight. but first, president trump will be joining us in a moment, now asking serious questions about the world health organization and for good reason. take a look. we met we want to work into the world health organization because they really are -- they called it wrong. they called it wrong. they missed the call, they could've called it months earlier, they would've known and they should have known and they probably didn't know, so we are looking into that very carefully that we are going to put a hold on money spent to the w.h.o., going to put a very powerful hold on and we are going to see. it's a great thing if it works, but when they call every shot

wrong. >> sean: a big question for the world tonight, why was the health wing of the united nations >> sean: what ended up being nonstop chinese propaganda and what was critical early months of covid-19? for example, they tweeted "chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human to human transmission of the virus according to a report in the hill, the w.h.o. director general "turned a blind eye to what happened in wuhan province and the rest of china after meeting with president xi in january. and from the outset, defended china despite its gross mismanagement of the highly contagious disease. inspector general even suggested that president trump's travel ban to and from china was racist and according to a study from the u.k., if china told the truth early on to the world, they believed through their study, 95% of all of this carnage could've been avoided. so why was the world health

organization helping china deceive in light of the world? and why is the u.s. giving it well over 100 million taxpayer dollars every year, way more than any other country? sadly, it is not just the w.h.o. that has been caught time and time again spreading chinese propaganda while america's very own news media mob of more than at times to pass along the chinese government is insanely distorted facts and figures without any caveats. the same group of individuals that call hydroxychloroquine dangerous despite what is mountains of evidence to the contrary from actual doctors and scientists, preeminent doctors, leaders in their field we have media mob doctors reporting straight up chinese propaganda, and you can't make this up. nbc news tweeting u.s. reports 1,264 coronavirus death in over 24 hours. meanwhile in china, the pandemic

broke out not a single new coronavirus report death was reported. not a single death in the 1.4 billion people were just days ago the virus was wreaking havoc. i don't believe it. trusting the conspiracy tv news outlet nbc anymore. even worse is chuck ross pointed out, "the new york times" just published a propaganda piece from china's ambassador. the piece doesn't admit china's deadly lies take zero responsibility for the spread of covid-19 worldwide and accuses anyone who blames the chinese government of not telling the truth of being racist. china's brutal dictatorship, "the new york times," what a partnership that is. and while the media mob give china the white glove treatment, as we said many times on this program, russia, russia, mph, mph, lies, slander, this this parchment.

it seems the president ever does will satisfy them. i said they'd still want to impeach him. naturally this week, the mob and the media and they are a mob speaking with one voice, their rage continued in this spite of an national emergency. >> i want the reporters to call them out on his bias. i want them to follow up on questions. you can get a really good answer, i want you all to get up and walk out. >> we have a president who is exploiting a national crisis to move forward his own agenda, his own revenge, his own profit. the president is just going to ramble and yelled at reporters, say things that are the truth and yell at reporters when they ask important questions. >> this is a president who just cannot handle the truth. a president who has to make everything about him.

he needs to be praised at every second. what we saw was a hijacking. a hijacking of the task force press conference by a president determined to rewrite the history of his early and reprehensible the irresponsible response to this virus. >> sean: i'll have a quote on how the media handled this coming out in the next 48 hours. you can always count on one thing from the media even in the middle of a national emergency and worldwide pandemic. yes, they will not stop their engagement and never ending smear campaign in attacks against the president. it's clear they have a political agenda and sadly their hatred of the president seemingly more important than anything else in the world even at moments like this, which is why they continue to claim that a potentially life-saving treatment, hydroxychloroquine, they are telling the american people it is dangerous and it is reckless and that the president talks about it. because the president touted its benefits, they are now on a mission to seek and to destroy.

we have one of the preeminent experts now that has spoken out about it, dr. oz will explain in a moment but take a look at what's being said. >> president trump continues to push for the use of the antimalaria drug 14 despite scientific evidence of the drug effectiveness. >> that is very concerning that this is being promoted as something people should be going out and rushing to get for asking their doctors to prescribe them. >> the president was focused on the sunday once again touting the use of this drug, hydroxychloroquine which so far there is no conclusive scientific evidence showing that this drug is effective in the treatment of coronavirus. >> sean: in spite of what you've just heard, the preeminent expert on this single subject is saying just the opposite. his name, dr. daniel wallace, he is a board-certified rheumatologist practicing at cedars-sinai medical center in los angeles. took over the largest practice in the country and has over 2,000 patients he's taken care of today.

he has authored over 400 peer-reviewed papers and inherited the largest lupus practice. windows 2000 patients, the majority of which they are now getting and being treated with hydroxychloroquine. in a recent letter, states hydroxychloroquine is a very safe drug. has been given to tens of millions of individuals in the world since 1955 and as monotherapy has not been associated with any death in 45 years of practice, no patient of mine has ever been hospitalized for a complication. not a doctor, just telling you whxperts are saying and that is if you were going to consider this, talk to your own doctor. as for the media, what they're saying is contradicted by somebody that has been dispensing this drug in prescribing this drug for a long time. i guess you could trust the media people like dr. wolf blitzer or dr. humpty dumpty or

world-renowned rheumatologist with decades of experience, but you get to decide. in joining us now with much more on this is dr. oz who interviewed dr. wallace on his program today and also been following all of the different studies, said the evidence now is beyond anecdotal. 43 years he said, no safety issues whatsoever being used worldwide now. and it's used in big numbers. >> a lot of his colleagues agree with him. when i spoke to him from france emma he has now 1,000 patients on the combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. he also said the complications have been trivial, but this man was born in africa and knows this drug very well because of the malaria he has faced in his practice and he said there's been a billion doses prescribed. it's not what they worry about

but dr. wallace said what was interesting and might catch the attention of the viewer is that in their protocols, they don't ever mention complications from hydroxychloroquine because they are so uncommon. that stated, a doctor has to be involved in a nation checking out the possible issues that may come up but the issues i keep hearing our heart problems, blindness, the eye issues occurred 0% in five years, 1% of people had ten years of chronic use, talking about a week or ten days of use maximum. i don't want to create more problems for people when we have enough already. >> sean: dr. wallace also put the following in this letter. "the risk of taking 400 milligrams of hydroxychloroquine a day following a single 600 milligrams hydroxychloroquine loading dose is not the normal course of treatment that is being used around the world for covid-19. he said the risk is zero unless

one has an allergic rash or upset stomach from it. maybe 5%. okay, he's been prescribing it now in the head of all of these rheumatoid arthritis and lupus organizations, 400 peer-reviewed studies, not a single complication, death, or hospitalization. that would seem pretty clear that the claims that it's dangerous or false. >> so i'm okay -- that is factual for me based on people who have a lot more experience in this area than me or anyone could ever articulate. but i've got to say something. i didn't call him to talk about this. he volunteered this to me and actually interrupted me when i was asking a different question and asked as a favor to please circulate the reality that the drug is not dangerous. he said we can argue and debate about whether it's an effective but that's not a reason not to take the medication. what i was calling him about because he's had such a huge practice of people with lupus

who are on a hydroxychloroquine, i wanted to know if any of them got covid-19. my issue was could to prevent people from getting sick because normally, they are immunodepressed, they'd be more likely to get sick from covid-19 but he has no patience in his practice and he is part of this experience we are looking at now running 9 million insurance records identified 14,000 people who are like these patients, they have lupus and are taking hydroxychloroquine. zero of those patients so far have covid-19. i don't want to over interpret that. working together with cms and we've gotten a lot of support from their leadership, the blue cross blue shield organization have gotten together, they are writing the numbers and i want to confirm what the rheumatologists are observing which is it doesn't seem right, but their patients aren't getting covid-19 and maybe there's something there because if that's true, we might consider using this after trials

with doctors and nurses and people who are at risk of getting this infection. >> sean: this is really important that it might have prophylactic qualities. this showing on my radio show, on your web site, you are asking people if you have lupus, if you have rheumatoid arthritis, if you are taking hydroxychloroquine and you did contract covid-19, you want to hear from those people in particular. you looking for them. >> i want to know what happened because it seems so rare. i can identify these folks and understand why they contracted it, it might help us a lot and if a lot of people writing and we start finding a lot of people got the covid-19 illness, then i'll know this is in the right way to go, but we are using american ingenuity, big data, deep analytics. let's use all these insights we've already gained as a nation to advance the way we do research on these ideas. we need to do eventually, but take a long time to give us data, that is arming positions

with two days to manage patients. >> sean: you are saying it is safe in your studies beyond anecdotal, two studies in france, i don't know if i trust the chinese study but we can side and look at it, you are saying zero risk for people taking it and the doses we are talking about and you do see results. >> the risks are so trivial that the rheumatologist to right trusts who do this all the time don't think their significant. the only difference is it's perfectly safe but we shouldn't be fretting over that. and we shouldn't be arguing over whether it works. i do respect the chinese study and i know it may have clashes on this issue but the chinese are good researchers. is done by a reputable center, double-blind randomized trial show that there was an improvement in outcomes in patients who took hydroxychloroquine. you have to respect data. >> sean: all right, thank you, appreciate the medical update tonight. joining us now live on the phone from the white house,

president donald trump. mr. president, i know you've been busy, i am sure you never predicted this as part of any presidency. thank you for spending time with us. >> thank you very much, sean. >> sean: let me stay on this issue of hydroxychloroquine and i'm going to quote this board-certified rheumatologist, dr. wallace who i think obviously he's been prescribing this now as he pointed out 42 years in practice, he's been one of the largest lupus practices in the u.s. currently caring for 2,000 people, most taking hydroxychloroquine. 400 peer-reviewed papers, chairman of the lupus foundation of america, the rheumatoid research foundation of american college, and so many other credentials. he said in 42 years, no patient of mine has ever been hospitalized for hydroxychloroquine and the risk of taking it in the there talking about in no. and he of you have been getting

hammered for saying what have you got to lose? they're saying your life. i don't know, he seems pre credible to me, sir. >> president trump: it's been taken for malaria for many years and very effective, it's a powerful medicine and a powerful drug but it's a drug for malaria, for lupus, for those two things in particular. i guess some people say arthritis too, people are okay with it. seems to be with azithromycin that really seems to be the combination that is great, but that could cause a little problem, people don't know, but it might cause a problem with the heart in which case you don't take the azithromycin for infection, but the combination and some people add zinc, but the combination has been pretty amazing. you saw the woman state representative of the democrats, state representative for michigan and detroit when she thought she was going to die and

she saw what we were talking about and she asked her husband to get it and she would have never known about it and he got it and she got better. she thought she had no chance and she got better. she's been very nice about it. i think she might be a democrat but shall vote for me maybe. she was very nice about it. so things are happening. i haven't seen bad. i have not seen bad. one thing that we do see is that people are not going to die from it. so if somebody is in trouble, you take it i think. >> sean: and it's being used worldwide. i just want to scroll up the timeline of the white house federal government and what they have done, just information for audience at home and i want to go back to ten days after the first known coronavirus case, it was given a name on january 7th, the first known case in the u.s. was january 21. your travel ban number which

joe biden called xenophobic, hysterical, and fearmongering was ten days after the first known case in america. what drew your attention immediately towards that? i don't think many people like the idea at the time. and tell us why you moved that quickly because that has not been done before. in >> president trump: what you had to do was look at what was happening in china. he took a look at what was happening in the wuhan province and it was terrible. i don't know if they were shielding it or not but they didn't do much in terms of shielding it because you saw the death. there was a lot of death and people coming into our country from china and i was excoriated by the fake news and by the press, by these people that are bad people, just bad people. they cannot love our country, i can tell you. just excoriated and they were doing it for any reason other than it was me.

it was somebody else i did it, i think you probably would've had a much different reaction. but i closed it and a lot of people didn't think i should have closed. a lot of people in the administration felt i shouldn't close it. many people, most people, and was a very early move and it turned out to save a lot of lives fortunately and then i closed also to europe and then i closed to u.k. where boris is hopefully recuperating. he's got a big problem but hopefully he is going to get better. >> sean: by the way, for anybody that has this, we have prayers. let me ask you when a personal level, i have known you for 25 years and i remember the question about how what are you telling baron, your youngest son and you said it's bad. tell us how you feel about it now, any subsequent conversations with him for the rest of your family? you've been tested twice. >> president trump: i have. once you get it, if you are in

the wrong group, if you have a medical condition, if you are older, seems older is certainly prime time for this plague, this horrible virus, but if you were in a certain condition which is not necessarily a good condition, it's a vicious what it does, it rips your lungs apart. it's a very tough thing to have come a very tough thing. you see that. you see what's going on with the hospitals in new york and new jersey i was watching a little while ago and it is terrible. terrible thing. >> sean: the cure can't be worse than the problem, now at some point, we are going to get to me first. reopening the same country. i imagine it might be a combination of opening up geographically and would you consider antibody testing temperature taking for example

like a small geographic area like new york city with the high population of people, obviously a greater risk, doctors are telling me it's not a matter if it will rebound, but when it will rebound, so you don't want to get back to a situation where you are closing down the country again and the economy, so what are you thinking about the best ways especially in the city of new york, how do you open it up but not have a massive rebound? >> president trump: we are starting to look at it very thoroughly and we have some great people looking at it because we want to get this country open. we have to get our country open again. this wasn't designed to have this. you crack it in half. it's no good. and we will be open again much sooner rather than later. and we are going to be coming up with some ideas in the very near future probably putting them out to the public, but we are going

until april as you know, apri april 30th, and we are going to make a decision from there and we are going to take a look at some of these slumps if you would call it that or topic areas where it is topping out and it could be very well topping or getting close to topping in new york and some of the rough areas, new jersey, governor of new jersey has done a terrific job. i just spoke to him. you have a lot of people have done a terrific job, but this is something we've never seen before. so i think we are reaching a level of where it's going to start coming down, where it's going to start sloping down. the good thing is the number of beds needed i think we were right about that. my group was right. not needing nearly as many beds as i thought, not needing as many ventilators as they thought. in fact, we just saw your show and a couple of other people just reported back to me that everyone is in great shape from

the standpoint of ventilators which are very hard because they were expensive and big and they are very high tech, but they are very hard to get and we are building thousands of them, and we have that in good shape. we have almost 10,000 in the stockpile and we have our military ready, they will be taking them wherever the wave goes, wherever the monster goes, will be able to go there if we need them. so we are going to see, but we are in great shape from the medicine standpoint. and by the way, the hydroxychloroquine, we have millions of doses that i bought. i bought millions of doses for the country, the country bought. we have more than 29 million doses and that's a lot and we have others i spoke with prime minister modi, a lot of that comes out of indy and i asked him if we would be okay and he was great, he was really good.

they put a stop because they wanted for india, but there's a lot of good things coming from that, a lot of people looking at it and saying -- i don't hear bad stories. i hear good stories. and i don't hear anything where it's causing death so it's not like something -- we are doing vaccines, johnson & johnson and others and are doing very well but they have to test that because when you inoculate, when you give millions of shots to people for a vaccine, it's got to be safe. but this is something spent on the market for many years, decades actually and it has worked very well and everything gets done and they are finding that people like in the malaria countries that it doesn't seem those countries have been hit because the people take it. you have countries that have massive malaria problems and they take the hydroxychloroquine, and they don't seem to be having the problem with the virus that all

of the countries are having. in 182 countries as of this moment. think of that, 182 countries are fighting this plague, it's incredible. >> sean: let me go back to the economy for just a minute here, you've been saying it repeatedly in every one of your task force briefings and answering questions from the press that you want to get the country moving, built not to be moving like this. i know there's been talk of an economic task force. a big fan of yours supported the idea of a payroll tax, wasn't as much in support of the relief package. would you consider an economic task force and would you consider geographically opening up certain sections of the country and heavily concentrated areas like new york city, would it be some type of antibody, temperature taking test without violating america's privacy concerns?

>> president trump: first of all, gives great, great man, great economist, looks like he's 25 years old but he's not, little older than that. he has aged well. >> sean: that might make him a little younger. >> president trump: he's a great guy and he is a brilliant man and so many ways and i agree that the payroll tax cut would be fabulous. i think i like to have the payroll tax cut regardless of this problem that just arose recently. so we are looking at payroll tax and that would be almost immediate and it would be a little bit of an extended period which is a good thing and it would be very quick. tremendous success with this plan, bank of america, jpmorgan chase, the big banks,

wells fargo and citibank today, hundreds of thousands of applications are being processed and many community banks, hundreds and hundreds of community banks all over the country are doing this where the loan goes out, it goes out to the small business, but under one condition, they have to pay their people. they have to be able to keep their people on the payroll otherwise it's a real tough loan, but they have to do that. it's been incredible how so far -- i hate to say flawlessly in three days but it's way ahead of schedule and in fact will probably increase that because the money is going to be spent much sooner than we thought and that's a good thing, not a bad thing. the banks have been incredible. the small business administration. >> sean: on the reopening of the country, are you looking more at something geographically oriented? are you looking at for the very

specific challenges of the high concentration of people in a small geographic area, how do we open them and open them safely again so rebounds don't happen and how to quickly deal with the rebound or a hot spot it pops up? >> president trump: i'd love to open with a big bang, one beautiful country, but it's very possible. there are some areas that are not affected very much in other areas like new york and new jersey that have a tremendous impact. louisiana, great state and it's incredible. they came in late because they were doing great and then all of a sudden, it just sprung up. in a look at parts of michigan and detroit has been hit very hard so there are some places hit very hard in other places that have not been hit very hard frankly by comparison, very little. so we are looking at two concepts, we are looking at the concept we open up sections and also looking at the concept where you open up everything. i think new york is getting

ready if not already, but getting ready to peak and once it peaks, it will stop coming down and it's going to come down fast. and the models as they call them, they have models and we are way under and we hope to keep it that way in terms of death. one model was if we did nothing, a big step was to close the country. we have the greatest economy in the history of our country and then all of a sudden, they say you're going to have to close it. we have this incredibly dangerous -- they point to 1917 and 1918 where 75 to 100 million people were killed. that was the worst ever, it was unbelievable. but if we didn't do anything with this, if we did what some people wanted to do, we could have very tremendous numbers. that was in europe. actually started here believe it or not. we were affected but not nearly

as bad as europe. just was unbelievable. that was your all-time bad, so you have to be careful because he look at that and close to 100 people get killed, you have to think that nobody would've thought it couldn't happen and then you have to think when you see this coming in and you see what was happening in china and maybe this can happen here, so we have to be careful. >> sean: 2.2 trillion, 4 trillion available, money is freed up from the fed for loans, there is some talk about 2 trillion infrastructure. i know it has a lot of people nervous people saying how does this first 2.2 trillion workout first? it seems like the mitigation efforts have been successful as you just pointed out, more than enough hospital beds, more than enough ventilators in new york from what was being predicted a week ago, i know for me as a new yorker, i'm pleasantly surprised that it is far less

severe than was being predicted. >> president trump: i think a lot of that is because of the fact that the american people have been incredible. they did do the social distance and they kept away, kept their distance, they really stayed at home for the most part and i really think they did much better than anybody would've thought possible. i know some of these models were surprised by how incredible the people acted because you're not going to catch it if you stay away and they were really impressed. as far as the economy is concerned, we have a chance to really open big and really open and catch where we were because we do have tremendous stimulus and the dollar is very strong. our currency is very strong. the strongest in the world by far, also the biggest in the world by many times. is the only currency, the euro is peanuts compared to the dollar.

we have a strong powerful dollars when we go out for this, everyone wants to put it -- they want to invest in the dollar. they want to invest in our country. so we are paying zero interest, paying zero's of this would be a great time to do infrastructure when you're paying just about zero interest rate. we never had anything like this and probably won't have another chance but we spent 7 trillion, now almost $8 trillion in the middle east for just a disgraceful decision that was made many years ago going to the middle east, a sad decision, and you want to fix a pothole, you want to fix up awful on a highway and they say we don't want to do that and spend the money, millions of people if you look at both sides, thousands of our soldiers and great people and then we don't want to do our own infrastructure. we want to rebuild our country,

we want to reinstitute, we want to come back and get back into our country and spend money in our country after all of these many decades of wasting money all over the world for people that never appreciated it. >> sean: you said in your press conference today are looking to put a hold on money sent to the world health organization. we are the number one contributor, no shock there. also, this study out of great britain. 95% of this could have been prevented had china opened themselves up to 30 healthy assistance that i know you and secretary pompeo's i would have been forthcoming immediately. where are you at with the world health organization, where are you at with china because they are lying played a detrimental role not only for the u.s. before the world? >> president trump: so we just signed a great trade deal with china that supposed to be spending close to $250 billion.

we never had a trade deal, they ripped us left and right for years and years and decades and the world trade organization, world health in the world trade appeared the world trade organization was a horror for us because china got in and from the day they got in, they took advantage of world trade and especially with the united states and we've never had a president that did anything about it or an administration or anybody. we had no trade deal. a lot of people think we had a bad deal with china. they just did whatever they wanted. and what i've done is we have a very strong deal of my hundred $50 billion worth of our product, that's phase one. a phase will, regaining tariffs on the 25% on $250 billion. we never had anything -- china has done a great job, but we've rebuilt china because we gave them so much money for so many decades. we poured money into china and

it is absolutely ridiculous what we did. and that was world trade. world health, very china centric as i say, very basically everything was very positive for china. don't close your borders, they told me they strongly recommended and not telling me, but they strongly recommended that we not close our borders are that would've been a disaster, would've been a total disaster and literally, they called every shot wrong. they didn't want to say where it came from. we spend in for many years we've been funding the world health organization. and for years, we find them and it is probably spending at least 58 million a year but it's much more than that because we fund some of the work they do which is some good work. we're going to look at it now because i think every step that they made, everything that they said was wrong and always in

favor of china. and keep it open, don't close the borders. i didn't listen to them, and i did what i wanted to do, and it was a good move, but there were other things, where it came from, the extent of it, how serious it was, they never viewed it as that serious. so it's one of those things where we are the one that is the primary funder so we are going to take a very strong look at that. >> sean: i've been more critical of governor cuomo, i've had them on my radio show and somebody that was raised in long island, new york, i live in long island and i want to help the people of the state and at different times, was extraordinarily critical and seem to be willing to give him more of a pass being the governor of new york. he was at the navy hospital ship, they not only built the largest hospital in the country, the javits center wasn't originally designed for covid-19 patients.

now they will take covid-19 patients on and building hospitals in new york and new jersey and westchester than elsewhere, louisiana and other hot spots around the country. and send over 5,000 ventilators, all of the hydroxychloroquine that they could want. but yet, he was given a very strong recommendation by his task force to purchase 15,783 ventilators and was clear this is a predictable event. when an influenza pandemic occurs, this is your shortfall and he didn't by any and he was at one point yelling at the federal government to provide it. done a lot for new york and i'm scrolling it on the screen. usually, you're a little more political than that, i was a little surprised. >> president trump: i'm a diplomat too. since i've become president, after view things a little bit differently. i've known him a long time. i he has a hard time getting the

words out. thank you, you did a great job, but he's been pretty good over the last week or so, turning out i'm right because they wanted 40,000 ventilators. 40,000 other not going to need anywhere near that and we said that and now they have plenty and if they needed some more, we can bring them some more because we have a stockpile we built up and that we have for emergencies but we built the largest hospital in the country in four days. we just converted the ship because they were very few other because people aren't driving cars. no car accidents, motorcycle accidents, nothing. so we are doing this for new jersey and for new york, new york. governor murphy has been very generous. he's been terrific and he's doing a great job. they are all doing a good job, i can tell you a few that aren't doing a good job, a few that are doing a poor job and we will back the people where you have a bad governor. and you have some governors that are not doing a good job.

but this is where age and experience comes in rather than naming them, i won't bother. and they are all happy with the job that we are doing now. we try to do that right. he don't need as many beds as you thought, certainly didn't need as many ventilators and now you see where the state of washington and others, california also doing a very good job, governor newsom, so we've had a lot of coordination. i have gotten along very well with andrew, we are sending them far more than they ever thought. i didn't know mayor de blasio, have a very good relationship. he is working very hard, trying very hard and it's a tough thing. we've sent him a lot of troops and what he wanted more than anything, he wanted the ventilators, but he needed troops. he needed medical troops and we got him a lot, doctors, nurses,

and it's very tough to get obviously and so we've gotten along very well with mayor de blasio. i think we've gotten along very well with andrew, and most of the governors, a couple i could tell you wouldn't matter what you did, you could give them ten times more than they asked and if the newspapers called and wanted a quote, they give you a bad quote because that's the way they are. they are political animals and this is beyond politics what we've been going through here. but the federal government, the army corps of engineers and fema, i don't think there's anybody in the world, the hospitals that we built in chicago, the hospitals that we built all over the country, we built the beauty in four days and worked very well with john bell, john bel edwards is the governor there, worked very well and that was a surprise because it sprung up from nowhere, just came from nowhere. so i think we've gotten along

very well with andrew cuomo. >> sean: let me move on. was really just slightly a little over a month ago that all the coverage on news with super tuesday. what a difference a month can make. now if we are 210 days away from a general election as of last friday is now on board, i would argue two months in three days a little late in terms of the travel ban, and he has been running these little podcasts of his on his podcast network, but he did say at the time it was xenophobic, it was hysteria, spreading hysteria and fearmongering and had a phone call this week. how did the call with him go?

>> president trump: he called me and we had a talk that lasted 15 minutes but it was really a nice talk, a very friendly talk and he gave me some things that he believes, and i thought the call was very nice. we agreed we wouldn't talk about what we discussed, but i thought it was nice. he did call me separately from the call, but xenophobic and somebody called me racist, one of the shows, one of those morning shows that do bad ratings and they call me racist and a lot of things, it turned out that i'm right. one thing was joe biden that i respect on a friday, he issued a statement that he thought i was right on closing the border to china, so i respect the fact that he was able to do that. he took the opposite view and then he was able to do that so i thought that was very nice. >> sean: let me move on further. we know about boris johnson currently took a little bit of a turn for the worse, he is getting oxygen pen according to reports he is not on a ventilator but he did take a

turn for the worse. have you spoken with him and you know anything about his treatment? for example, discussed hydroxychloroquine. do we know anything about what the nih is doing there in great britain to help him? >> president trump: so what happened is he called me at the beginning of his ordeal, so maybe ten days ago or so and we talked and he didn't sound good at all, and then it was announced that he was positive. that was before i knew this but it was announced that he was positive and he stayed at ten downing street, number ten downing is one of the most incredible places, spent a lot of time with him there, and all of a sudden, he seemed to be getting worse and then they brought him to the hospital. that's a bad sign. when they bring it to the hospital with this one, this is not having your appendix taken out. it's a bad thing. and they're giving him oxygen, but he is not on a ventilator

yet, which is very good because that's tough. the ventilator stuff is tough when you go on that, it is not a good thing. so as of this moment, he is not supposedly. as far as the treatment is concerned, i actually have four companies that are high-tech. these are brilliant people. he look at ebola, you look at aids, you look at some of the things that they've done, these are the companies that have really done it, and they have some very good potential cures for what we are talking about, for the virus we are talking about, the coronavirus. and i actually have two of them which are really current and have something that works now. we have them contact his doctors at the hospital in london, and they're talking right now. different then

hydroxychloroquine, and you read about it. there were two other things out there, very high-level and they've shown very good promise, so we have them talking to the doctors to see whether or not it would work. so all i am is a matchmaker. i see results, i see great technicians, great people, with the potential cures, this is not a vaccine, others are getting close on a vaccine but it takes a while to test it, we are setting people up with his doctors in london and these are people that are amazingly accomplished people that have found the answer to other things that were equally as tough. >> sean: let me go back to the economy for a second because we see these better numbers in new york. i gave them at the top,

dramatically lower numbers of intubation. 80% less than what was predict predicted. we see hospital bed use compared to what was predicted 60% below the predictions of even a week ago and icu beds needed in new york and the epicenter, 60% below what they had, some had been predicting. at the death rate even that is dramatically lower than it was a week ago. the american people obviously know there's basically been a shutdown of the economy but essential services obviously continuing. i know they would be assuming that second quarter unemployment numbers, gdp numbers are going to look disastrous, but you have been expressing complete confidence that it bounces back. do you believe that that bounce back is the third quarter? in other words, july, august, september? >> president trump: i think the bounce back -- i hope it's

going to be fairly large. don't forget, we are giving great stimulus here with the small businesses and we are going to save the large businesses very easily. we have the funding to save the large businesses. we have 2.2 trillion, but we have another $4 trillion that we can use. we are going to save the airplane -- if you look at boeing as an example, boeing for the first time ever had some problems. and then you had the virus, you get hit by the virus. but boeing is a great company with tremendous potential and tremendous job capabilities with their number of people. in boeing a year ago before the accident, the first accident, boeing was probably the greatest company anywhere in the world, made up almost the point of gdp, i think they were the greatest company anywhere in the world. nobody knew how big they were, massive, and they were doing a good job. they were flawless and then they have the problem and of course we had this problem when people

aren't exactly looking to buy airplanes right now but they will be soon and we are going to do that and we are going to if it's necessary for them, and we are going to save the airlines and we are going to save other companies. we are working with the energy companies right now because you have energy companies where oil and gas has gone to the floor. nobody's ever seen anything like that which is good for our drivers by the way and also good for the airlines getting started because we have an unbelievable massive energy business that we don't want to lose jobs they are. it's gone up a little bit and i've had talks with president boudin, talks with the crown prince from saudi arabia and i think it's going to work out. i think it's all going to work out. i would like to see a strong opening, a strong bounds as opposed to a slow bounce but one way or the other, going to be very successful and because of the stimulus, it has a chance to be even more successful as much as this doesn't even sound

right, i think it has a chance to be even more successful than it was before we got hit by the virus. >> sean: let me go to washington, you saw the hold up, democrats morning changes in voting regulations and laws and changes in immigration laws and the kennedy center and the national endowment for the arts and the national endowment for the humanities and they got a lot of that which delayed aid needed to workers, small businesses, hospitals, and large corporations. in the middle of you deciding the travel ban that he recalled a lot of names about, they were busy in the middle of the impeachment of you, how is your relationship with the likes of nancy pelosi, chuck schumer at this point hasn't been particularly good the last three years. >> president trump: i would say not bad. i would say it's not a bad

characterization, it was a phony impeachment, a phony deal from day one. i didn't get one republican in the house, we have a vote of 197 to zero and three democrats came to our side so it was just a phony hoax and it should have never been allowed. and then the senate was great, mitch mcconnell and all the senators were great. it was a disgrace that they could get away with it before they took it to that level over something where there was nothing done wrong and they know and everybody knows it and they laugh at it. they don't laugh anymore because actually had the the effect of raising my phone number is because the public knows a hoax. that was bad and at the same time that this was going on, and despite that, we made great decisions and we closed out the country, we closed up the

borders, we did a lot of things that had to be done. you would have been talking about a number of lives that would've been horrible. would have been unacceptable. just would have been unacceptable. but with the money in the stimulus, we did much better. we cut a lot out of, but they asked for a lot of things that we would never have approved. a lot was cut out but we still had some. now what is happening is they are looking for more money for the small businesses in and we are both together and i could even be unanimous. hits become very successful. that could be unanimous and then we'll be looking at infrastructure and some other things, shoring up some of the states that had problems before this ever started. will be looking at phase four as they call it and we will see how that goes. but i think we have a chance to be stronger than we were even before because of all the stimulus that we are putting into the economy. when meg mr. president, you've been very generous with your

time is always and i know you've been doing these long conferences, and the last 20 seconds i have, is your relationship any better with the media? hasn't been great. >> president trump: hasn't been very good. i think if we had an honest media, our country would be the greatest beneficiary. the media has been -- the lame stream media has been extremely dishonest and it's a shame, it's very sad. >> sean: i know i shared this with the american people, we want you to succeed, we want the american people healthy, want this economy up as fast as possible. appreciate your time. more hannity right after this break.

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he is the head of the president's task force, vice president mike pence will be here. we'll get all the crucial updates in the battle against covid-19. as always, thank you for tuning in, we always seek the truth, we are not the media mob, let not your heart be troubled. or ingram, how are you? >> laura: it's great to see you. i have to say, this name to the president tonight on your show, it just reinforced this idea that he's someone who will work with anyone. these people have insulted him. they accused him of all manner of wrongdoing, collusion. >> sean: i think he's nicer than your eye tonight. >> laura: it's amazing tonight but he will work with anyone because he wants america to heal. his critics won't give them that but that's okay because i think people see it. i like that. i like the fact that he's very optimistic and that's what we want. wean