as we say, set your dvr, never miss the report. brian kilmeade is in for lara tonight as we say good night from new york. ♪ >> brian: hi, everyone, i'm brian kilmeade. i'm lucky enough to be in for laura ingraham. a special edition of "th "the ingraham angle." president trump saying the decision when to reopen the economy is the biggest one he'll ever have to make and he hopes to god he's right. mark cuban is here on what the white house should be doing to get americans back to work safely, and the administration says we are nearing the peak of the corona virus outbreak. hud secretary ben carson joins me talking about the medical hurdles as well as the housing hurdles. plus ken cuccinelli response to the lesson

left sent insane demand toemptyn facilities, the same crazies who said mike huckabee tells us why he show by the needs them all. how can americans keep the faith without being able to go to church. is that indeed possible? raymond arroyo has been scrambled for this friday night edition. plus we've got to her when the deals what he needs in order to save the jobs of tens of thousands of his employees. and it's all on the docket with the shut down due to the pandemic. and laura has part three of his sit down with attorney general bill barr which has been absolutely outstanding. so first, more on the coronavirus and our response to it, let's bring in the man who does it all, fox's chief breaking his correspondent located safely on the west coast where it's always sunny. trace, what's up?

how's it's going in california? >> brian, breaking tonight, the people behind the university of washington ihme model, which is not always been correct, but cited numerous times by the trump administration, told fox news moments ago they believe the worst is now behind us. in other words, their modeling shows we've hit the peak in the number of deaths will now begin to go down. going on to say we need to start looking toward recovery and how to bring our economy back. meantime, their remains of a great deal of focus on the number of cases and deaths, but when we talk about flattening the curve, it's all about the percentage of increase in the number of cases, so take a look at this. from april 62 the seventh, we had a 9% increase in cases across the country. from the seventh to the eighth, it dropped 8.5%, then to 8.1% the next day, and today we are now down to 7.8%. that is exactly the right direction. listen now to dr. deborah birx. >> we are starting to level on the log or a mythic phase like

italy did about a week ago. this gives us great heart that not only in specific places, but we are starting to see that change. >> and when you look at new york, the percentage of increase in cases have gone up and down the past four days, the number of new deaths in new york continues to be higher than the day before. but a key to barometer in flattening the curve is the number admitted to hospitals and hospitals and icus. and for new york, there is now encouraging use. watch. >> a change in the nicu admissions is actually a negative number for the first time since we started this intee journey. >> finally we want to point out some potential hot spots in coming days which include delaware, maryland, pennsylvania, and rhode island. president trump president trump will announce an opening our country council. the president says he's not doing anything until he knows that our country is healthy.

brian? >> brian: trace, with all this positive news coming out of california, are you surprised they are still keeping los angeles shut down at least until the middle of may? >> may 15th is now but we are hearing, brian, bottom line is they are showing the new models but don't give us any kind of context or perspective they get the information they are feeding the models, so you have one health official saying that icu and hospitalizations will go up the next 3-4 weeks and you have another in the very same department saying they are going to go down. it's very confusing to the people in california as to what to believe and when. we have very little context about what information is being inputted into those models, brian. >> brian: i think overall california has they got on it quick and you guys have been pretty strict about it. it seems to be paying off at the numbers are telling the truth. thanks so much, appreciate it.

meanwhile joining us right now is ben carson, secretary of housing of urban development and a brain surgeon. we've got the medical, we've got the practical. first off, dr. carson, your thoughts of the president needing this council on tuesday that'll be both medical as well as economic how to open up this country again. your thought about that? >> well, i'm very glad that he's putting some emphasis on that because what is so important is that we bridge this gap appropriately. if the gap gets too wide, then it becomes a mammoth task to try to regain the momentum that we have with the economy. so that is why it's necessary i think to poor a lot of dollars, this comes from somebody who is a fiscal hawk, i don't like to spend money. but recognizing it is necessary in order to maintain that infrastructure so we can get this to work and we've got the

best business minds involved on that but it needs to be tempered with science, with facts, we can't let it be all business, we can't let it be all facts. you have to really temper these things together as sort of an art as well as a science. >> brian: i want to hear what the president said today with his council meeting a little bit early today. he talked about his decision process and what's at stake with other countries, what they are doing. let's take a listen. >> the u.k. tried it. the herd approach, okay. they tried it. and you saw what happened in u.k., and set them back a lot. other countries have tried it. sweden is suffering greatly. if we went with the herd, as they say, we would've had potentially -- you see the charts. nobody knows. nobody will ever know, fortunately, but we could've lost 2 million people. we could've lost 1 million

people. >> he's talking about the briefing and all the different things you can do like the u.k., sweden, sweden basically didn't shutdown anything, they took the people most vulnerable and asked them basically to shelter at home like we are doing as a country and i think the jury is out on that. but do you want to close the book on herd immunity, not going to work with this virus? >> it's probably not going to work in this particular environment that we have in the united states. recognizing environments are different in many parts of the world where you have a lot more homogeneity in the communities you are dealing with. there is no one-size-fits-all and that's will like a vitally important that we be willing to take a look at all the information every day which is exactly what the task force do does, and they seek wisdom from lots of different sources, and are willing to be flexible and to make changes based on what's going on. and that really is the key.

>> brian: you want to be safe and you want to keep everybody alive, potentially 60,000 in august down from 84,000 on monday, you are the president, you feel that. at the same time you feel the pain americans are going through. the ones you talk to, they can't pay the rent, barely making it before this pandemic hit america and hit 180 plus countries. where does a doctor like you stand on something like this? >> well, i feel tremendously for those who are hurting and particularly for the homeless. one of the things i'm thinking about, we've been given a fair amount of extra money through the cares act. working with the governor 's in the various states and with the local organizations, let's find a permanent solution for homelessness. let's not just do patch work

because we have an emergency here. that'll be a tremendous silver lining in all of this if we can do that. this is the way i've instructed all of our different offices at hud to be thinking about things as we go about coming up with the various rules of how we are going to be doing things. it really requires a whole different government approach, realizing there are going to be a whole lot of people hurting, but against federal, state, and local if we are willing to work together and can bridge this gap, people don't have to lose their homes. recognizing that homeownership is the main mechanism of wealth accumulation in this country. the average homeowner has a net worth of $200,000, that's a 44 difference. you know, without being unreasonable, we need to find ways to get people into

homeownership, making sure we don't do what was done the last time it happened and because people not only to lose their home but to lose their credit and their future possibility. >> brian: so perfect for this job because you know what it's like to grow up and wonder where that money is coming from in a single-parent family. at the same time you know what it's like to be a world-famous surgeon and not worry where the next meal is coming from. and experience the upper class of society, work your way up so you can have empathy and understand there's a way out. a lot of minorities are more affected than others about with this pandemic. i want you to hear an exchange between the surgeon general and one of the reporters in the briefing, jerome adams. let's listen. >> wash her hands more often than you ever dreamed possible. avoid alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. call your friends and family. do it for your granddaddy. do it for your big momma.

do it for your pop pop. we need you to understand especially in communities of color, we need you to step up and help stop the spread. >> some people online upset by that language and the idea you are saying that behaviors might be leading to these high death rates. >> brian: are you offended by that language? >> well, of course not. i am one of those people who really emphasizes what is the thing that makes us unique or makes us different. is it our skin color, our hair texture, the width of our nose? no, it's our brain. we really need to concentrate on that. why this disease impacts the black community and the hispanic community more, it really goes with some of the underlying disease processes that have been found for various reasons and

what we can do to eliminate some of those, the crowding in places, the work environment, all these things have a part to play. when this is over, that's what we need to be concentrating on so the next time there is a big epidemic, we don't have the same problem. >> brian: dr. carson, thanks so much. have a happy easter. >> thank you, brian. you do the same. >> brian: meanwhile with more than 63 americans out of work amid the coronavirus outbreak, president trump trying to make what he says is the biggest decision of his life. >> i want to get it out open as soon as we can. i'm going to have to make a decision and i only hope to god that it's the right decision. but i would say without question it's the biggest decision i've ever had to make. >> brian: joining me right now

is mark cuban, owner of the dallas mavericks. one of the stars of "shark tank." what should be the criteria when the president makes the biggest decision in his life? >> i think he needs more information. you can't just use the death rates and the number of people who are ill or sick or anything. you've got to go out and start talking to businesses about what they see on the other side. i would do a survey, i would send something out the companies, when we open up fully, do you anticipate hiring the same number of people, hiring more, or retaining the rest. i would send out the same type of survey to employees and say do you anticipate going back to the job he left, the job you were fired from, or do you anticipate going to a completely different job, or do you anticipate not going after a job at all, don't want to go to work? we need more information or some indication what somethings are going to be like after this reset.

>> brian: what about responsibility to these visits orders? when i walk into a building, should i be taking a temperature of my forehead? take a nap a test to see in fact if i have the virus? if i go to lunch, which of the businesses should be prepared to do? >> the businesses should be prepared to introduce whatever scientists that we need to introduce, whatever dr. fauci and company tells us what's necessary, that's what we need to be prepared to do. there is some uncertainty, we'll really have to adjust our businesses. restaurants are going to have to realign the tables, we are going to have to think about at the american airlines center how we are going to sick people. so many different variables we have to consider, but we have to be agile. >> brian: let's talk about sports for a second good "sports illustrated" shared a quote and i want to get your thoughts. when sports are going to start again. when is it going to start, we will not sporting events with fans until we have a vaccine, not according to a phd who

wrote his dissertation on injuries in the nfl. do you agree with that? >> you know, again, i don't want to try to pretend i'm a scientist. i'm the wrong person to ask on exactly what it's going to take but there are scientists that we trust in whatever they tell us that's what the nba is going to do and i as an employer until i have absolute certainty my employees are going to be healthy going to work, i'm not going to ask them to do so. if i had to guess, i think we will play games without fans initially and as we feel more confident going back to work and going into crowds, we'll start to explore whether or not to bring fans into arenas and stadiums. >> brian: very interesting because after 9/11 we change the way we did it through the turnstiles, the distancing going to the turnstiles, have every third seat being sold. things that can happen. i imagine a guy like you will be brought in like that thought process. because there is science and the practical i own a sports team and i know this is possible.

>> no question. you'll have to talk to your customers, build up that confidence. have to dry a lot of different things and you mentioned 9/11. part of the program, we are giving money to airlines, one of the governors, what they consider doing is prebuying seeds because the government sends a spends a lot of money on commercial travel. why not partner and have federal employees do some of the testing on flying on lines. if we have competence you can travel on a plane comfortably, that's going to start to build the confidence that people can go in confined places where there is a lot of people, but that's got to be part of the program. because again it comes down to building confidence. >> brian: the president is going to name bringing america back economically and putting us to work. would you like to be on the council to be considered? >> anyway i serve my country i'm all in. if they asked me to, i'd be happy to. >> brian: that would be great. i know the president is not

allowed to do much because we are all sheltering in place so maybe he heard that and he'll call you. but one thing i notice, no matter what show you are on, radio, tv, sports, news, you are putting the country first. i have no idea how you stand politically and i think that's why people look at your track record from a look at your resume, look at your success, they've got to call your number. lastly, let's take a look at what happened with the 2.2 trillion and how it effects small business. $340 billion, do you think it's working? >> i think the program is a good program. i think the execution has suffered some. i think the banks are acting too much like banks be they are going to be forced to say, give the loans first and we'll deal with fraud and problems after the fact. it's costing us more in lost jobs and companies going out of business by holding things up and slowing down the loans than it would cost us in fraud. hopefully things would speed up and hopefully we'll look back and say it was a slow week to

start things off, but right now it's a challenge for small businesses and a lot of my companies are really concerned. >> brian: right, they can't tell you to retain labor and tell you to find your money elsewhere to pay your rent them and take care of your lease, keep your lights on and maintain your equipment. >> it's not even just about that. but tickly for companies that have investors, there are certain things called affiliate rules which the banks are saying, you know what, if you have this investor or the company you are connected with, unless you are a restaurant franchisee, you might not be able to get these loans and there is also much conflicting information on the affiliates program that companies that have taken in investors more than 50% of the company is taking in investments at some level are really freaking out, freaking out. >> brian: right. let's go down, talk to people, then get the answers. mark cuban, thanks so much. hope you get that call by tuesday. >> thanks, brian. take care.

>> brian: coming up straight ahead. the left is using this pandemic in many cases to push their agenda. but their newest demand will really shock you. ken cuccinelli is here to respond. plus, we got this but what's behind joe biden's move to appease the far left. don't go away.

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♪ >> knowing that this pandemic was coming, i.c.e. was still conducting raids in sanctuary cities, >> knowing this pandemic was coming, i see it was still conducting raids in sanctuary cities, this is part of a larger political project there is no reason these jails should be filled, no reason they should be pact, we must pursue a carful agenda to really fulfill our responsibility as public servants. >> brian: let's fulfill that responsibility. aoc is not the only democrat

demanding, get this, they released thousands of legal aliens and give them benefits. here to respond as acting deputy dhs secretary ken cuccinelli. we are in a pandemic, so let everybody out, give them benefits. why not. what can go wrong? >> they could always go home and the first place. as the attorney general said on the show earlier this week, we can walk and chew gum at the same time at the department of homeland security. we will enforce all the laws on the books that includes deporting people who are here illegally. what is not a lot of discussion in the middle of covid-19 is the fact that i.c.e. dealt with, and by that i mean quarantined thousands of contagious people just last year. thousands. so the number of people who come

across the border with tuberculosis or measles or other things that are a threat to our public health is something that i.c.e. has dealt with for a long time. i think you hit it right. some people are just trying to use the current crisis -- and that is a crisis, as an excuse to accomplish their radical agenda of essentially getting rid of immigration law. >> brian: can come it's amazing what has happened. a difference a year makes. tens of thousands coming across the border cummaquid and put tens up and up in parking lots and a year later when you're allowed to enforce the border, build the wall and enforce the law, what has changed which for the central american countries are not even coming and it's mostly mexico now. and mexico is cooperating. >> mexico is cooperating a great deal. they've been a good partner for really all of 2020 and well back into 2019. that all goes back to the president's international relations. a year ago right about now,

brian, he was in a pretty heated discussion with mexico about the potential for tariffs, closing the border, and so forced down my fourth. mexico responded by being the best partner that i can ever remember them being in fighting illegal immigration. not just to our country but to their country as well. that's been a great success for the united states, a great success for mexico. right now, we have great partnership working with mexico and that's really served us very well. by the way, you mention the wall? that still being built through all of this as well. that construction continues on. >> brian: the trade deal was cut only because relations was good and there was trust between all three nations and there were some rocky roads there for a while. the president of united states weighed in on border control, as well as the coronavirus. watch. >> my opposition party wants to have open borders. this is a case where i'm very

glad that my position is i don't want to open borders, i want very strong borders. this is may be one of the learning points. we learned something about borders. >> brian: can come a final thought on this? >> he's absolutely right. that's why i referred back to the thousands of people with contagious diseases last year when we were dealing with coming over the border's. americans shouldn't forget we get through the coronavirus epidemic that we deal with other contagions coming across that border and national security isn't -- border security isn't just national security from the sense of keeping people out who aren't here illegally, but also keeping these public health threats down and out of our country. particularly for the communities in the southern part of the country where they absorb the health care costs and the burden of their health systems of that year in and year out. the trump administration is helping to fix that.

>> brian: very interesting. deputy secretary ken cuccinelli. now that joe biden is the presumptive democratic nominee, you think he would try to broaden his appeal, jog to the center. not the case. he's doing the opposite. he's going way left to court the bernie bros with plans to expand medicare, forgive student death, much more it may be even minimum wage next, let's double it put here to discuss is my company mike huckabee, fox news contributor and great host in his own right. governor, thanks so much for being here. are you surprised that joe biden is going left instead of middle, that's not the way it usually goes. >> most people go to the middle after they kind of won the primary and they realize they have to go after general election voters. joe biden doing the exact opposite. he's moving further to the left that he has ever been, further

to the left than the democratic party has ever been. this idea, one of his ideas is lowering the age in which you can get to medicare down to 60 from 65. here is the problem with that. when medicare was started in the mid 60s, average life expectancy was 60 years. now it's 79. now when people are living longer and people are retiring later, joe biden says, let's just move that back down to 60. i mean, it's the opposite of what any actuarial study would recommend for him to do. i don't know what in the world he's thinking about that. >> brian: the age of 77, you still wonder what he stands for and what he'll do. i think the president has to feel good about that. he wanted bernie sanders because he thought he was so far left that it would give the moderates no other choice than to go with him. joe biden is somewhat of a moderate liberal going away to the left to get to the bernie bros, 8% of which voted for donald trump last time. meanwhile i was shocked by this

poll even though it's a conservative poll, asking democrats who they'd nominate for president, andrew cuomo over joe biden, 6 66-44. what's your reaction to that? >> when you are talking about the difference between bernie and biden, here it is. bernie always knew what he stood for, but he was pretty clear and has been consistent in his various socialist beliefs. with biden, he doesn't even know what he stands for and can't keep it straight from day-to-day. that's a real problem for the democrats. they realize it. cuomo has been on tv every day sounding very reasonable and managing a crisis in a large state. i think democrats are saying, boy, we wish we could have that guy. the problem is unless biden drops out for reasons he would create, there is no mechanism for andrew cuomo to sweep in and become the nominee. >> brian: keep in mind, i love his briefings, very informative,

nonpartisan. i like it. but he's a guy who will jack up your taxes, offer green energy, could revitalize all of new york state if he just went with his environment a study that said it would be okay to frak emma they be positing with business like pennsylvania and ohio, but we've seen this up close and personal. finally, the president's approval or prayer ratings of 49%, that's very high in this partisan era we are in. are you surprised by that? >> not really. what the president has shown his leadership and the most remarkable thing he's proven to people, not a big surprise to many of us who know him, but he has shown he's the classic executive that surrounds himself with the really smart, good people, he listened to their advice, makes a decision, and he carries it out. he delegates to states, governors. so they can manage their own states because the federal government can only make a

decision for massachusetts that works as well for mississippi. new york and new mexico were very different. he recognizes that and he makes it happen. god bless him. that's why his numbers are high. >> exactly. opposite away his character and his governors what they always wanted, respect from washington. to me in the beginning they were jarred by it and after it while they were embracing it. governor, just mark my words, if he gets another four words, he's not going to leave you on the sidelines, he's going to drag you to washington with your daughter. that is my prediction. we'll see. >> kicking and screaming, kicking and screaming, brother. >> brian: happy easter, governor. >> happy easter. >> brian: religious leaders celebrating a good friday like none other in the air with hard hats. arroyo is here to talk about what we can learn from their example during this holiday season. that story next.

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(vo) was that a pivotal historical moment we just went stumbling past? here we are dancing in the rumbling dark so come a little closer give me something to grasp give me your beautiful, crumbling heart we're working every dread day that is given us feeling like the person people meet really isn't us like we're going to buckle underneath the trouble like any minute now the struggle's going to finish us and then we smile at all our friends even when i'm weak and i'm breaking i'll stand weeping at the train station 'cause i can see your faces there is so much peace to be found in people's faces.

i love people's faces. ♪ >> live from america's new headquarters, i am ashley strohmeyer. new york city's 911 system receiving an overwhelming number of calls. the city averaging more than 5500 and bless requests a day, more than the total call volume on september 11th. operators are so busy they are picking up a call every 15 and a half seconds. in response, the city is sending text alerts urging people to use 911 for life-threatening emergencies only. and san francisco mayor

announces a corona virus outbreak and a homeless shelter. 73 total people testing positive angering act of its asking protection, critics say to deal with the state's homeless population. i am ashley strohmeyer. now back to "the ingraham angle." for more of your headlines, had told foxnews.com had to foxnews.com. >> it cannot be at church. we've got to get our country cured. i know there are some pastors and ministers and other that wants to get together. he'll our country. let's get healed before we do this. >> what a briefing as the president was seeing, we are seeing faith leaders adapting to the covid-19 quarantine for example. for insight on how they are finding the sacred during this

difficult time and how you and your family can do the same, we have woken up and made sure he stayed up, raymond arroyo joins us. has there ever been a good friday like this that you can remember? >> no, brian. only china and parts of africa have had public expressions of faith suppressed like this. st. patrick's cathedral to date completely empty during good friday services. cardinal dolan, no one is there. millions are turning into broadcast of these religious services. at notre dame in paris, the archbishops and a few acolytes were hard hats in a very small good friday service nearly a year after fire ravaged the great cathedral. here in new orleans, i wish you could've seen this. i saw it. as you know, this was a coronavirus hot spot, a rabbi and our archbishop gregory eyman boarded a world war ii aircraft and bless the city to plead for god's mercy on those suffering from covid-19.

just tell mike eyman knows what this virus is about, recovering from it a few days ago. >> i saw footage of the pope at the vatican earlier today. he looked all alone at saint peter's basilica. how do you handle it? >> it was creepy watching it. normally, brian, thousands would be packed into the coliseum for the way of the cross in rome, but not this year. it was haunting, these images. the pope dealt with it fine, he went through the motions of the liturgy. i've covered these events at room for years and it feels like palm sunday every time because there is packs and crowds of people. but as i watch this year i kept thinking, this is like the first good friday. jesus was abandoned with only one apostle and his mother standing by. all others were sheltered behind locked doors, which sounds awfully familiar. we are all in that place now. we feel alone, frightened. there is hope. resurrection is coming.

it just might take a little longer than we'd like, brian. >> brian: do you have recommendations for family sheltering together this holiday season and if so, what is it? >> idea. we've all been watching movies. i bet you been watching a few with the family during quarantine. there are some films i think we return to this time of year. the ten commandments is one. the other is the passion of the, mel gibson's masterpiece. it's streaming on fox nation. i was on the set for the passion when they were shooting at rome years ago and i was very familiar with the creative evolution of the movie. jim caviezel did an interview with me for fox nation or he takes us behind-the-scenes to reveal the powerful and painful moments of that shoot. this is a moment of when he was carrying the cross and separated his shoulder and it led to a very moving moment. >> i came in and pulled the cross while i was going in this direction and dislocated my shoulder. i went down, i went down.

the cross, sped up the camera, but it actually hit, struck my head and buried my head in the sand and i've been through my tongue. in the tapes, you'll see streams of blood coming down from my lip. that's actually my own blood. >> that got in the movie as well? >> that got in. this time, the shoulder is out. i was trying everything i had to get my arm over it, and it looked like it's the most extraordinary take because it looks like i'm cherishing our cross, which is our faith, and hugging it in the most beautiful way. >> the message here, brian, at times pain can push it beyond ourselves and produce lasting things that we never expected and maybe that's the lesson we need to hear on good friday. a great way to watch it, go to fox nation and watch the film as well.

>> brian: yeah, he's great. he's fantastic. and everything that he's in, always talked about that movie being the turning point in his career. ray, do the best you can to have a happy easter. >> i shall try. you as well, brian. >> brian: the passion of the meanwhile, up next, an exclusive interview with billionaire businessman, restaurant tour, houston rockets owner film and tellmike how is he getting by in this time? not easy.

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♪ >> brian: >> brian: the pandemic has affected everyone. all of you watching, all of your friends, all of your families, all of your neighbors.

i can argue that may that maybe no one has been effective as holistically as my next guest. he has 600 properties in 30 30 states, owner of the houston rockets tilman fertitta. when the world shut down, tilman tilman, so did your businesses from the casinos, to the restaurants, to the rockets. how are you holding up? >> how my holding up? i'm holding up pretty dang good, but i've got 45,000 employees out there that we've had to furlough that so chairman is lee unfortunate that we've got to get back to work as soon as we can. these on employment numbers of 16 million, there is no telling what it's going to be next week is what's so sad about this whole crisis. >> brian: how hard was that decision to lay off your employees? >> you know, brian, i remember the '87 crisis, 2000, 2008. something you realize it is you are doing your people a favor if

you get them furloughed first because they are the first on the unemployment line after the severance you give them. it's a trick that i've learned many years ago and that's why so many people are having a hard time now that it's just unimaginable, we've all had to do little layoffs over the years, but to have to basically shut down the whole company. when you think about the amusement parks, aquariums, restaurants all over the world, basketball team, casinos all over, and nothing is open? it's like a sci-fi movie that you would ever believe. >> brian: because you are on the forbes list, because of yourself made success story, it panned out. but who would ever predicted a once in a generation pandemic? it's time for you to get cash and give us an idea of how much cash is going out the window and how much you need to sustain it?

>> my cash burn today -- and this is what people don't understand is that we all pay today yesterday's bills with today's money. when it just got shut down in a 48 hour period, you still have a tale of payroll and severance, that was $100 million for me. because my payroll is a billion five per year, you still have a problem, my cash burn a day is still $2 million a day, which is unfathomable that burned up, that's why we've got to stay liquid. it'll take me through the end of the year. but we've got to get all these people back to work, brian. we've got to do it in a safe w way. the president has done a great job when he shut china down and all the leaders from all the states and counties and cities,

when they set down a city in houston, i thought it was premature. but they were 100% right and we've got to do this to the end of this month and we got to start opening up in may. not only from the financial side but the mental health side is huge. i've talked to some of the people that say, hey, i just want to come back to work. i'll do anything, i've got to get out of my house. we are all struggling. we are all struggling. >> brian: bloomberg is reporting that you have actually looked for a loan and you taken a loan at a rate of 15% interest. is that true? >> yeah. it was 12% because there is such demand. and it was with mine personally in debt, it's so interesting to show you how the world change? two months ago, i bought a couple of hundred million dollars at 3%. and here it is now a few weeks

later and i met 12%. it was $300 million, but you had to have the insurance because not the experts, not the politicians, not any of us, brian, has any idea how long this is going to last. what scares me and made me do it as could get through most of the year was when you study the spanish flu, which is kind of unbelievable because it didn't start in spain, they are the only country that would acknowledge it and that's why it's the spanish flu, but they had started out what we did in the spring, but then it came back so strong that they went through the fall, then they had a little peek again in the spring. so the one thing that we've got to find a way to do is to have the antiviral and vaccination so this thing cannot come back or it will ruin the economy. once we are back and we've got to stay back, and it still going

to take a few years for it to come back. >> brian: i will tell you an hour ago bill hemmer talk to one of the modelers from washington state and they said the day is worst is over and we see the numbers go down in the epicenter of new york with hospital admissions and icus as well as intubations. having said that, tilman, you need people in your hotel come up people in your restaurants. are you prepared to do something incrementally with cleanliness, sanitation obviously, and social spacing, to do something incrementally to begin to stand up some of your businesses and everybody else's? >> absolutely, brian. a great question. we are already arming masks, gloves, so many sanitation's. in the casinos from nevada to louisiana to mississippi to atlantic city, to the golden nugget. but even like in new york

because we know how everybody is going to be scared, i have so many concepts in new york that we are going to do whatever we can do to show the cleanliness. you aren't going to have anything that anybody else can touch. there's not going to be a salt pepper shaker on the table. every table will be wiped down. masks, everything that will do. >> brian: unconvinced with it if you look at your success timeline from everything you put your mind to you achieving your get through this again and that's where the competence come from. tilman fertitta, thanks so much. speak up thank you so much, brian. >> brian: great to see you. in moments, laura's last part with their exclusive interview with attorney general bill barr. don't move.

>> brian: as promised, here's more of laura's interview with bill barr. >> i've heard from friends, their moms, dads, elderly, very afraid during this coronavirus crisis. they have been contacted by robocalls, mail solicitations. being encouraged to give away their life savings to protect themselves against coronavirus. a lot of fraud going on out there. what are we going to do to protect them from that? >> very early we set up a fraud task force. we had all 93 districts in the department of justice with a

lead prosecutor heading in that area. we set up a main task force, justice department that has a hotline where people can call in some of the information is on the justice department website, it's a very good website that tells people what's going on, and we've been prosecuting people. >> what are typical scams like? >> to get your 1,000 or 2,000 check government, put in your credit card information, banking information, and so forth. we have a new kit, send in money. >> has anybody been charged yet? >> we've been charging people. and we made a lot of progress on robocalls. in fact, i think we have taken out to companies in the united states that are responsible for almost half the rubble because in the united states. >> brian: that's all we have for tonight. that was a great series.

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