we know we don't nearly have enough testing. >> tucker: that's really the last thing. i hope you'll come back. happy, thank you. we are out of time for tonight, unfortunately. we'll be back tomorrow. in the meantime, sean hannity takes over from new york. hey, sean. >> sean: welcome to "hannity." the president of the united states donald trump will join us live in an exclusive interview. first we have major progress reports in the fight against the coronavirus. we call it fact without fear, hysteria, fearmongering. we have a ton of good news tonight in tough times to cover including significant facts that should give all of us hope. and let's start o on the outbrek epicenter which is new york and long island, new jersey, connecticut. here are now in york showing major signs of improvement, despite really scary projections only days ago, new hospitalizations, and now approximately half of what they were last week. a major decline rate in fact for

the third day of a row, the amount of patient discharge from the hospital was significantly higher than you cases. remember, we talked about in apex, then the leveling, then hopefully if patterns hold, and decline. the change in daily interventions also saw a precipitous decline down a whopping 80% since friday. as journalist alix barrington formally of "the new york times," fantastic day for reality, terrible day for a team apocalypse. another covid-19 hot spot is in the state of louisiana. we are watching closely. they are now also showing signs of improvement and according to the governor hospitalizations are moving in the right direction. meanwhile the state of arizona has actually lowered its request for ventilators from the national stockpile from 5,000 to 500. according to revised estimates, the state will only need 1,500 icu beds and ventilators.

coincidentally, the state is a ready equipped with 1500 icu beds and 1500 ventilators. facts without fear, the death toll in new york, louisiana come everywhere else is alarming, scary, and chilling to most people, and it should be. 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, projects and wear down to 250,000. they are now as of today less than 100,000. without a doubt because of the aggressive measures of the trump administration, the help of the american people, count the lives had been saved and countless

others have avoided contracting this horrific virus, the silent killer as the president calls it. the travel ban that joe biden once called xenophobic, hysterical, fearmongering works. poor confused joe has done a complete 180. he's now supporting the travel ban with china. only two months, three days a little late. but who knows if he actually realizes what he's saying, as "red state" pointed out, everything he says is one giant word salad. but i 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 has 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 one possible.

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'll have an update with dr. oz coming up tonight. first, president trump who will be joining us in a moment, is now asking serious questions about the world health organization and for good reason. take a look. >> we want to look into 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. they should've known. and they probably didn't know. so we'll be looking into that very carefully. we'll put a hold on money spent to the w.h.o., put a very powerful hold on it and we are going to see. it's a great thing if it works, but when they call every shot wrong, that's no good.

>> sean: big question for the world tonight, why would the health wing of the united nations spewing what ended up being nonstop chinese propaganda in what were the critical early months of covid-19 for january 14th, the w.h.o. tweeted, "chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human to human transmission of the virus," according to a quote in the hill, the w.h.o. inspector general "turned a blind eye and what happened in wuhan province and the rest of china after visiting with president xi." the inspector general even suggested that president from travel ban to and from china was racist. according to a study from the u.k., if china told the truth early on in the world, they believed there study 95% of all of this carnage could have been avoided. why was the whole health

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

new coronavirus report death was reported, not a single death in the country of 1.4 billion people, were just days ago the virus was wreaking havoc. i don't believe it. anyone on earth actually trusts the conspiracy theory news outlet and bc. even worse, "the new york times" just public a propaganda piece from china's ambassador. bps does not admit china's deadly lives, takes 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. while the media mob gives china the white glove treatment, president trump, as we said many times on this program, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, mph, mph, lies, slander columbus richmond, living damaging attacks for three plus years.

nothing the president does will satisfy them. i said if you cure cancer, they'll still want to impeach them. the mob and the media, they are a mob, trying to speak with one voice, their race continues in spite of a national emergency. take a look. >> i want the reporters to call them out on his lying. i want the reporters to follow up on questions. and if you can't get a real good answer, the correct answer, i want you all to get up and walk out. >> here 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 yell at reporters, say things that aren't the truth, and you let reporters when they ask him questions which is what he does. then they shouldn't have the press conferences. >> 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 president determined to rewrite the history of his early and reprehensible he irresponsible response to this virus. >> sean: you can always count on one thing from the media. even in the middle of a national emergency, worldwide pandemics, yes, they will not stop their engagement in never ending smear campaigns and attacks against the president. it's clear they have a political agenda. 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 the president talks about it. because the president touted its benefits, well, they are now on a mission to seek and destroy.

well, we had one of the preeminent expert spoken out about that, dr. oz will explain in a minute. take a look at what's being said. >> trump needs to push for the use of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, despite its >> very concerning that this is being promoted as something people should be going out and rushing to get or asking their doctor to prescribe them. >> the president focusing on the sunday touting the use of this drug, hydroxychloroquine, which so far there is no conclusive scientific evidence showing that this drug is affected in the treatment of coronavirus. spewing despite what you just heard, the preeminent expert on this single subject. his name, dr. daniel wallace. he is a renowned board-certified rheumatologist. a doctor at senior sinai has over 2,000patients he's takf today. he has authored over 400

peer-reviewed papers and he inherited the largest lupus practice. by the way, those 2,000 patients, the majority of which, they are now getting and being treated with hydroxychloroquine. in a recent letter to the fda, dr. wallace states "hydroxychloroquine is a very safe drug. it has been given to tens of millions of individuals in the world since its approval 65 years ago in 1955. its monotherapy has not been associated in any depth in the recommended dose. in 42 years of practice, the patient of mine has ever been hospitalized for complication." i'm not a doctor, i'm just telling you what the experts are saying. if you want to consider this, talk to your own doctor. the media, contradicted by someone who's been dispensing this drug and prescribing this drug for a long time. i guess you can trust, i guess, the media people like dr. wolf blitzer, dr. humpty dumpty, or a

world-renowned rheumatologist with decades of experience. but you get to decide. joining us now with much more on this is dr. oz who interviewed dr. wallace on his program today and you've also been following all of the different studies. the evidence now that safety is a beyond anecdotal. 43 years, he said, no safety issues whatsoever. being used worldwide now. it's being used in big numbers. >> he's not alone. a lot of his colleagues agree with him. when i talk to the famous infectious disease specialist from france, he has now acquired a thousand patients on the combination of the hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. he also said the complications have been trivial. things like rascher's down the crashes and mild issues. knows this drug very well because malaria he' face in the practice, he says a billion doses prescribed it's not what they worry about.

dr. wallace said what was interesting to me, and it might catch the attention of the viewer, in their view protocol, they don't even mention publications complications from hydroxychloroquine because they are so in common. a doctor should be involved, they should be checking on possible issues that come up. but the issues i keep hearing, heart issues, blindness -- the eyes i issue occurred in 1%-10% and chronic use, we talk about a week, day use maximum. i don't want to create more problems with people only have enough already. >> sean: dr. wallace also put the following in this letter: the risk of taking 400 milligrams hc qi for 30 or 60 days which is not the normal course of treatment being used around the world for covid-19, he says the risk is

nil unless one has an allergic rash or upset stomach from it, maybe 5%. okay. he's been prescribing it now and 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's factual for me based on what a lot of people who have could ever articulate. but i've got to say something. i didn't call dr. wallace to talk about this. he volunteered this to me. he interrupted me when i was asking a different question and asking as a favor to please circulate the reality that the drug is not dangerous. he says we can argue and debate whether or not it's effective, but the danger is usually go away because that's not a reason to not take the medication. what i mentioned what i was calling him about, because he's got a huge practice of people

who have lupus on hydroxychloroquine, i wanted to know if any of them got covid-19. i find that it could prevent people from getting sick, lupus patients, depressed, likely sick from covid-19, but he has no patience in his practice and he is part of his experience we are looking at, we've now identified 14,000 people were like his patients. zero of those patients so far have covid-19. i do not want to over interpret that. by working together with cms, and we've got a lot of support from their leadership, the blue cross, blue shield association, i want to get to 100 million americans and confirm what the rheumatologists are observing which is it does not seem right, but the patients are not getting covid-19. maybe there is something there, because if that's true, we might consider using this after trials with doctors and nurses and

people who are at risk for getting this infection. >> sean: this is really important because it may have prophylactic qualities. this show, and on my radio show, your website, you're 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 are looking for them. >> i want to know what happened. because it seems so rare. if i can identify these folks, understand why they contracted it, it might help us a lot. if a lot of people right in, we start finding people who got the covid-19 illness, i don't know if this the right way to go, but we are using american ingenuity. big data, deep analytics, let's use these insights we've gained as a nation to do advanced the way we do research on these ideas instead of always trying to do double-blind, randomized trials which we need to do eventually but it takes a long time to get data, we use tools

to get it to two days in patients. >> sean: you say it is safe and your studies are beyond anecdotal, two studies in france -- i do not know if i trust the chinese study, we can cite it, we can look at it. zero risk of people taking it in the doses we talk about and you do see results? speak of the risks so trivial that the rheumatologists who i trust who deal with this all the time don't think they are significant. i would never say anything is perfectly safe but we shouldn't be fretting over that. we shouldn't be arguing over whether it works. i do respect the chinese study. i know we have clashes on this issue, but the chinese are a good for this study done by reparable -- double-blind randomized travel down the trials that showed that there was improvement in patients who took hydroxychloroquine. it's not a panacea but you have to respect data. >> sean: appreciate the medical update tonight for joining us now live on the phone from the white house,

president donald trump. mr. president, i know you've been busy. i'm sure you never predicted business as part of any presidency. thank you for sending time with us. >> president trump: thank you very much, sean. >> sean: i'm going to quote this board-certified rheumatologist from cedars-sinai, dr. wallace, who i think obviously he's been prescribing this now as he pointed out, 42 years in practice. he's been the head of one of the largest lupus practices in the u.s. currently caring for 2,000 people, most taking hcq. 400 peer-reviewed papers, chairman of the lupus foundation of america, the rheumatoid foundation of america college, and so many other credentials, and he said in 42 years, and the patient of mine has ever been hospitalized for hcq. he said the risk of taking it and the doses they are talking about in terms of a risk, he said it is nil. absolutely nil. you have been hammered for

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

what we were talking about. and she asked her husband to get it. she would have never known about it. she got it. she got better. she thought she had no chance but she got better. she's been very nice about it, actually. she maybe might be a democrat but she will vote for me, maybe. she was very nice about it. things are happening. i haven't seen bad. i've not seen bad. one thing we do see is people are not going to die from it. if someone is in trouble, you take it, i think. i would. >> sean: and it's being used worldwide. i'm going to scroll a timeline of the white house, federal government, what they have done. this is just information for our audience at home. i want to go back to ten days after the first known coronavirus case. it was given a name on januar january 7th. the first known case in the u.s. was january 21. your travel ban, 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. tell us why you move that quickly because that's really not been done before. >> president trump: all you really had to do was look at what was going on in china. take a look at what was happening in wuhan and it was terrible. i don't know if they were shielding it or not, but they didn't do much in terms of feeling it because you saw the deaths, there were a lot of deaths. people coming into our country from china. i was excoriated by the fake news and by the press, by these people that are bad people. they are just bad people. they cannot love our country, i can tell you. they just excoriated -- they weren't doing it for any reason other than it was me.

if it was somebody else that did it, i think he would've probably had a much different reaction. but i closed it. a lot of people didn't think that a lot of very good people didn't think i should've closed it. a lot of people in the administration felt i should enclose it. many people. most people. it turned out to save a lot of lives fortunately for her than i also closed to europe. then i closed to u.k. where boris is hopefully recuperating. hopefully he's going to get better. >> sean: by the way, for anybody that has this, we have prayers. let me ask on a personal level. i've known you for 25 years and i remember the question about how, and you know, what are you telling baron, your youngest son, 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 been tested twice >> i have

once you get it, if you are in the wrong group, if you have a medical condition, if you are older, it seems that older is certainly prime time for this plague, this horrible virus. if you are in a certain condition which is not necessarily a good condition, it's vicious. it rips your lungs apart. it's very, very -- is a very tough thing to have. you see that. you see what's going on with the hospitals in new york, in new jersey. i was watching a little while ago, it's terrible. a terrible thing. >> sean: the cure can't be worse than the problem. now, at some point but we are going to get to may 1st. reopening the country. i would imagine it might be a combination of opening it up geographically. would you consider antibody testing, temperature taking, for

example, like a small geographic area like new york city with a high population of people, obviously at greater risk. doctors are telling me it's not a matter if it will rebound, but when it will rebound. you don't want to get to a situation where you are closing down the country again and the economy, so what are you thinking about some of the best ways especially in a 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, very thoroughly and we have some great people looking at it, because we want to get this country open. we've got to get our country open again for this wasn't designed to have this. you track it in half, it's no good. 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, putting them

out, we are going through april as you know, april 30th. we are going to make a decision from there. but if you look at some of these slopes, if you would call them that, or topping areas where it's topping out, it could be very well topping. we are 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 done a terrific job but this is something we've never seen before. i think we are reaching a level that we are going to start coming down from going to start slipping down. the good thing is that the number of beds needed, i think we were right about that. i was right. my group was right. they are not needing is nearly many bands as they thought. they are not needing as many ventilators as they thought. in fact, we just saw -- i just saw on 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 is very hard because they are very expensive and they are big, they are very high-tech. but they are very hard to get. we are building thousands of them. and we have that in good shape. we almost have 10,000 in the stockpile and we have our military ready, willing and able, they will be taking them wherever the wave goes, whatever the monster goes. we'll be able to go there if we need them. so we are going to see. we are in great shape from a medicine standpoint. by the way, the hydroxychloroquine, we have millions of doses that i bought. i bought millions of doses, you know, for the country, the country bought. >> sean: 29 million. >> president trump: we have more than 29 million doses. that's a lot. others i've spoke with, prime minister modi, a lot of it comes out of india, i asked if it down that he would be okay to release it, they put a stop

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

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

>> president trump: yeah. first of all, art is great. great men from great economist. was with reagan. looks like he's 25 years old. he's aged well. >> that might make him a little younger. >> president trump: is a brilliant man and so many ways. i agreed that the payroll tax cut would be so fabulous. i think art would agree, i would like to have the payroll tax cut regardless of this problem that just arose recently. so we are looking at payroll tax cut. that would be almost immediate and it would be over a little bit of an extended period which is a good thing too. it would be very quick. we are having tremendous, with the paycheck, we are having tremendous success with this plan, bank of america, jpmorgan chase, the big banks, wells fargo, citibank today, we

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

specific challenges of a 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 if it pops up? >> president trump: well, i would love to open up with a big band. one beautiful country and reopen. it's possible, it's not affected very much, and others like new york and new jersey that have a tremendous -- in fact, louisiana, great state, incredible. they came in late because they were doing great and all of a sudden it just sprung up. you look at parts of michigan and detroit has been hit pretty hard. there are some places hit pretty hard and other places of not been hit very hard, frankly. by comparison, very little. we are looking at two concepts. we open up sections and we are 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. once it peaks, it'll start coming down and it's going to come down fast. we are way under any polls or any of the models, as they call them, they have models that were way under. 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. you know, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country, and all of a sudden they come in, sir, you're going to have to close it. we have this incredibly dangerous -- they .21917, 1918 from 75 to 100 million people were killed. that was the worst ever. it was unbelievable. if we didn't do anything with this, if we did what some people wanted to do, we could have had very tremendous numbers. that was in europe. it actually started here, believe it or not, we were affected but not nearly as bad as europe.

i mean, it was just unbelievable. that was all time bad. you have to be careful because you look at that and close to a hundred people get killed, you have to think of you know, nobody would've known it could've happened but you have to think when you see this coming in and you see what was happening in china you have to say, well, maybe this could happen here, so we have to be careful. >> sean: 2.2 trillion, 4 trillion available. money freed up from the fed for loans. some talk about 2 trillion infrastructure. i know it has a lot of people nervous. people wanting to see, well, how does this first 2.2 trillion work out, the loans work out 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 am presently surprised that it is far less severe than what was

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

dollar. when we go out for this, everybody wants to put it, you know, they want to invest in the dollar. they want to invest in our country. we are paying zero interests. we are paying, like, zero. so this would be a great time to do infrastructure. when you pay about zero interest rate, we never had anything like this but probably won't have another chance. we spent $7 trillion, now $8 trillion in the middle east. just a disgraceful decision made many years ago going into the middle east. a sad decision. you want to fix a pothole. you want to fix a pothole on the highway and they say, we don't want to do that, we want to do the money on that, but we spend $8 million and millions of people killed when you look at both sides and thousands of our soldiers, great people. we want to rebuild our country, sean. we want to reinstitute, we want

to come back and get back into our country and spend money on our country. it's time, after all of these many, many decades of wasting money all over the world, for people who never appreciated it. >> sean: you said in your press conference today you look into putting a hold of money into 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 the health, the assistance that you and sector pompeo said would've been forthcoming immediately. where are you at with the world health organization, where are you at with china because they're lying played a detrimental role not only for the u.s. but for the world? >> president trump: we signed a great trade deal with china, close to spending $250 billion.

they ripped us off left and right for years in many decades. you have the world trade organization, you have the world health and the world of trade, the world trade organization was a horror for us. china got in and from the day china got and they took advantage of world trade and especially with the united states. we 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 trade deal with china, we had no deal with china. they just did whatever they wanted. what i've done is we have a very strong deal. they are supposed to buy 250 billion -- with a b -- of our product. phase two will come. we are getting tariffs, 22% on $250 billion. we never had anything on china. china has done a great job, but we've rebuilt china because we give them so much money for so many decades. we poured money into china. and it's absolutely ridiculous

what we did. that was world trade. no world health, you have the 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, they aren't telling me, but they strongly recommended that we not close our borders, that would've been a disaster. literally they called every shot wrong. they didn't want to say where it came from. look, for many years we been funding the -- as we say, the w.h.o., the world health organization. for years, we funded them. it's probably spending at least 58 million a year, but it's much more than that because we fund the sum of the work we do, which is good work. but we are going to look at it now because every -- i think every step that they may become everything that they said was wrong. and always in favor of china.

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. there were other things too. where it came from, the extent of it, how serious it was, they never viewed it as that serious. it's one of those things -- we are the ones that is the primary funder so we are going to take a very strong look at that. >> sean: i been more critical, i guess, of governor cuomo. i've had him on my radio show. someone who was raised in long island, new york. i live in new york, i was raised in long island. i want to help people of the state. you seem to be giving them a little bit more of the past, the governor of new york. you sent the navy hospital ship, the comfort, the army corps of engineers not only built the largest hospital in the country, the javits center, not originally designed for covid-19 patients, now both the ship and

that center will in fact take covid-19 patients on. you are building hospitals in new york and new jersey, westchester, and elsewhere in louisiana and other hot spots around the country. you sent over 5,000 ventilators, all of the hydroxychloroquine you could want. but yet he was given a very strong recommendation by his trask task force to purchase 1573 ventilators. it was clear that this was a predicable event. he didn't buy any. he was at one point yelling at the federal government provided. you've done a lot for new york. i'm scrolling it on the screen. usually you are a little more political than that. i was a little surprised. >> president trump: i'm a diplomat too. now that i'm president i have to view things differently. andrew, i've known him a long

time. a hard time to getting him where he's at, thank you, you've done a great job. he's been pretty good over the last week or so. turning out i'm right because they wanted 40,000 ventilators, 40,000. they are not going to need anywhere near that. now they have plenty. if they needed some more we can bring them somewhere because we have a stockpile that we've built up and we have for emergencies. you know, we built the largest hospitals in the country in four days but we just converted the ship because there were very few other accidents, car accidents, motorcycle accidents, nothing. so i just agreed, and we are doing this for new jersey and for new york, governor murphy of new jersey has been very generous. he's been terrific and doing a great job. look, they are all doing a great job. most of the governors. i can tell you if you not doing a good job, there are few doing for jobs and we will back the people where you have a bad governor. you have some governors not doing a good job.

you see, this is where age and experience come in. rather than naming them tonight on your show, i won't bother. they are all happy with the job we are doing now, which turned out to be right. you didn't need as many beds as they thought, didn't need as many ventilators, and now you see where the state of washington and others, california, by the way, also doing a very good job. governor newsom, gavin. you know i'm a we've had a lot of coordination. i've gotten along with andrew. we are sending them, i think, far more than they ever thought. mayor de blasio, i've got to know him a little bit. we've got a very good relationship. he's working very hard. he is trying very hard. a tough thing to him in hospitals. we've sent him a lot of troops and what he wanted more than anything, he wanted the ventilators, he got them. he needed troops, he needed medical troops. and we got him a lot, doctors,

nurses, and, you know, is very tough to get, obviously. we've gotten very along well with mayor de blasio, i think we've gotten very long with andrew. 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 for. if the newspapers called and wanted a quote, they'll give you a bad quote because that's the way they are. they are political animals. this is beyond politics, what we've been going through here. the federal government, the army corps of engineers, and fema, i don't think there's anybody in the world could've done -- the hospitals we built in chicago, the hospitals that we built all over the country, we built a beauty in louisiana in four days and worked very well with john bel, john bel edwards is the governor there. we worked very well with him in louisiana. it's a surprise because it sprung up from nowhere, it came from nowhere. i think we got a really along.

i got along well with andrew cuomo, really. >> sean: let me move on. it was slightly a little over a month ago that all the coverage on use was super tuesday. what a difference a month can make. we are now 210 days away from the general election. joe biden, by the way, as of last friday, has now come on board, i would argue two months in three days a little late in terms of the travel ban, and he's been running these little podcasts on this podcast network thing, whatever he's doing. he did say at the time it was xenophobic, you are spreading hysteria and fearmongering. you had a phone call with him this week. what do you think of a sudden change of heart on the xenophobic travel ban and how did the call with him go? >> president trump: the call went really well.

he called me and we had a talk. less than 15 minutes. it was really a nice tall, friendly talk. he gave me some things he believes. 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, the xenophobic, someone called me a racist. one of the shows, one of the morning shows that do bad ratings. they called me a racist, call me a lot of things been turned out i'm right. one thing about joe biden that i respect, on friday he issued a statement saying i was right on closing the border to china. i respect the fact he was able to do that. he took the opposite view and was able to do it, i thought that was very nice. >> sean: let me move on a little further. we know about boris johnson. currently took a turn for the worse. he is getting oxygen. according to reports he's not on a ventilator. but he did take a turn for the

worse. have you spoken with him and you knew anything about his treatment? for example, we discussed hydroxychloroquine. do we know anything about what the nih is doing in great britain to help them? >> president trump: 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. then it was announced that he was positive and that was before i knew this, but then it was announced he was positive. he stayed at 10, number 10 downing street, number ten downing is one of the most incredible places. i spent a lot of time with them there. he seemed to be getting worse. then they brought him to the hospital. that's a bad sign. when they bring you to the hospital with this one, this is not having your appendix taken out. that's a bad thing. and they are giving him oxygen. but he's not on a ventilator yet, which is very good.

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

hydroxychloroquine. you've read about it, you've read about it. but there were two other things out there, very, very high level. they've shown very good promise. we've had 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 come in with really, you know, potential cures, okay? this is not a vaccine. we have vaccine, johnson & johnson, getting close to a vaccine, but it takes a while to test it, as you can imagine. i've set people up with doctors in london, 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, 50% below the predictions of even a week ago. the icu beds needed in new york at the epicenter, 60% below what they had. some had been predicting. the death rate, even that has dramatically lowered that it was a week ago. the american people obvious is no there is basically been a shutdown in the economy, but essential services obviously continuing. i know they would be assuming second quarter unemployment numbers, gdp numbers are going to look as asterisk, but you've been expressing complete confidence that it bounces back. do you believe that bounce back is the third quarter, in other words july, august, september? >> i think the bounce back, i hope it's going to be a fairly

large. don't forget, we are giving great stimulus here with the small businesses. 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 large airplane -- look at boeing for an example. billing for the first time ever had some problems. this is before. then you had the virus, but boeing is a great company with tremendous potential, with tremendous job capabilities, the number of people. boeing a year ago before the first accident and the second accident, boeing was probably the greatest company anywhere in the world, made up almost a point of gdp, they were the greatest company. i think they were the greatest company anywhere in the world. they were massive. they were doing a good job. they were, like, flawless. then of course we had this problem.

people aren't exactly looking to buy airplanes right now. but they will be soon. we are going to do that and if it's necessary i, we are going to say the airlines and save other companies. we are working with the energy companies right now because you have energy companies where the oil and gas, it's gone to the floor. no one has ever seen anything like that. we have an unbelievably massive energy business that we don't want to lose jobs there. now it's gone up a little bit. i've had talk with president putin, the talks with crown the prince of saudi arabia, 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 balance as opposed to a slower bounce, but the other ways are going to be successful and i think because of the stimulus it has a chance to be even more successf. 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 wanting changes in voting regulations and laws and changes in immigration laws, and the kennedy center, the national endowment for the arts, national endowment for the humanities. they got a lot of that, which delayed needed aid money to workers, small businesses, hospitals, and large corporations. in the middle of you deciding the travel ban that you caught a lot of names about, they were busy in the middle of their impeachment of you. how is your relationship with the likes of nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, at this point? hasn't been particular got the last three years. i think that's a fair characterization. >> president trump: i would say not bad. it's not a bad characterization, absolutely.

look, it was a phony impeachment, a phony deal from day one. didn't get one republican in the house. we had a vote of 197-0, zero, three democrats came over to our side, actually. it was just a phony hoax. it should've never been allowed to, ever. that should've never been allowed. the senate was great. mitch mcconnell and all the senators were great. the republicans really stood together like they never had stood before. but it was a disgrace like they could get away with a thing like this where they took it to that level over something that where there was nothing done wrong. they know it and everybody knows it. they laugh at it. they don't laugh anymore because what it did do is it actually had the effect of raising my poll numbers because the public knew it was a hoax. that was bad. and that was really at the same time that this was going on. and despite that, we made great decisions. we closed up the country. we closed up the borders. we did a lot of things that had

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

time. i know you been doing these press conferences for the last 20 seconds i have, is your relationship a little bit better with the media, it hasn't been great for 20 seconds. >> president trump: it has not been good. 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 ace shame it's a shame. >> sean: i know i share this with the american people. we want the american people healthy. we want this economy growing as fast as possible. thank you, sir. we appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> sean: will have more "hannity" after this break.

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interview, the head of the president's task force, vice president mike pence will be here. 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 your heart not be troubled. laura ingraham, how are you? >> laura: hannity, great to see you. listening to the president on your show, it just reinforces this idea that he's someone who will work with anyone. these people have insulted him, they've accused him of all manner of wrongdoing, collusion. >> sean: i think he was nicer than you and i tonight. >> laura: it's amazing. i'm going to talk about some of that tonight. but he'll work with anyone because he wants america to heal. his critics won't give him that. but that's okay. i think the people see it. i like that. i like the fact that he's very optimistic and that's what we want