>> this is for just the week ending april 11th. we have distributed or directed the distribution of 5.3 -- ♪ one that good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." quite a day in the news in washington, the president wrapped up his portion of the news conference a short time ago, it is still in progress. we will monitor the coronavirus task force briefing. the reaction to the president from the press corps covering him remarkable today. will have that in just a minute. also dr. marc siegel joins us to demonstrate something many have been hoping for four weeks now, the new rapid abbott coronavirus test. you will take this test on himself and we will see the results straight ahead. a lot of debate about what the test looks like, what it's like

to get one and we will find out. but first, things are moving so fast in the country right now that it's often hard to see what's really happening. so it's important to pause and compare our past assumptions against what we know is actually happening. he might remember that a month ago has the country began to lock down, we were told mass quarantines were necessary not for a specific reason. in the lockdowns were designed to "flatten the curve." coronavirus patients were likely to overwhelm our hospitals completely. would break our system and leave the entire country without adequate health care. so flattening of meant slowing rate of transmission of the virus in order to prevent that disaster from happening. leaders in our media class were very clear about this. on march 9th, fox.com told us that is, "a disastrous inundation of hospitals can likely be averted with protective measures we are now seeing more of.

working from home, self-quarantine, self isolation, avoiding crowds to keep the virus from spreading fast. more than two weeks later, that was still the consensus on marc" told us the same thing. "slowing and spreading out the tidal wave of cases will save lives. flattening the curve keep society going." that seemed like a sensible argument and made sense, but we were wrong. for reasons that still are not clear, the models that are authorities used to make key public policy decisions which already have the effects of a lockdown factored into them, those models turned out to be wildly inaccurate. they massively overstated the number of patients who need a hospital bed. in some cases, they were off by nearly a full order of magnitude. that was great news for the country and an unexpected blessing in the middle of an unfolding disaster but it was also a moment to rethink the policies we had based on those models some of the ones that were wrong. we never did.

instead, our leaders pulled a bait and switch. without ever acknowledging the change, they said the real point of quarantine was to defeat the virus itself. "the washington post" announced that flatten the curve had become crushed the curve, "we should not end social distancing and reopen the economy until we know the infection rate is nearly zero." nearly zero. so when will that be exactly? the answer is nobody knows. possibly the rest of your life. dr. anthony fauci announced last week that shaking hands with other people, and ancient and deeply ingrained custom that's been ubiquitous with the request may have to end forever. >> i don't think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you. not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease, it probably would decrease the incidence of influenza dramatically in this country. >> tucker: so banning

handshakes, that's a big move. only a terrified nation would even consider something that radical. how afraid of this pandemic should you be? that's a central question right now and it defines what we should put up with. one way to consider answering that begins with a look at mortality rates. at death tolls tend to be the most accurate numbers and social science because whether or not a person is alive generally is not a subjective question. so let's start with the numbers from new york city where the epidemic has hit the hardest so far and most people think is a pretty complete numbers. as of yesterday at 5:00 p.m., a total of 6,182 people had died of coronavirus in new york. that's a big number, more than twice the total killed in the world trade center on 9/11. any will look carefully at the charred of more than 6,000 fatalities, a total of only 128 had no no no underlying health conditions when they arrived at the hospital. new york is specific about what

those conditions include. his diabetes, lung disease, hypertension, asthma, kidney disease, gastrointestinal, and liver disease. so the longer you look at these numbers, the more consequential those underlying conditions appear to be. relatively few young and early middle-age new yorkers have died so far of the coronavirus, a total of just 222. that's between the ages of 18 and 44. of this group, only 26 of them had no identifiable underlying health conditions. the rested. almost ten times as many elderly people died as a coronavirus so far, a total of 2,114 new yorkers over the age of 75. yet of that group of very older people, only 25 of them had no underlying conditions. in other words, underlying health conditions appear to be one thing that the oldest and the youngest victims had in common. maybe the only thing. interesting. we should be clear, these

numbers could change. we still know so little about this disease despite the impression that the people in charge off and give you. just today, a study emerged showing that cigarette smokers were for some reason less likely to die, much less likely to die of coronavirus. didn't think we'd be reporting that on the air but we are learning new and unexpected things every day. does seem like we can conclude with some specificity who is at risk of dying from this disease and the answer is people with serious underlying health conditions, especially elderly people. according to analysis by a former "new york times" reporter, it seems likely that more people over the age of 100 have died of this virus than people under 30. so in the face of that evidence, and it's fairly constant across countries, why don't we let science drive policy and proceed with that in mind. instead of locking down the entire country, why not spend our time and our money working to protect those we know are

vulnerable? that's how rational countries behave in the face of risk. in fact, it's normally how this country behaves. hundreds of thousands of women get breast cancer every year, 42,000 of them die from it. you unfortunately know some. based on those numbers, doctors recommend that women over 40 you get breast cancer screenings. as it turns out, women are not the only victims of breast cancer. this year, 2600 men will get breast cancer, an estimated 520 that will die from it. that's not an insignificant number. according to the latest cdc figures available on their web site tonight, that number is more than twice the total of coronavirus debts for all americans under the age of 45 as of april 11th. yet we still don't screen all men for breast cancer and we're not going to. not because we don't care about them or grieve their deaths. we do, but because overall breast cancer is not statistically significant threat to men. at the same time, many other things are. lung cancer is, prostate cancer

risk, heart diseases. so instead we focus on mitigating those. it's a question of balancing risk with cost and you have to do it if you're going to solve any problem. we screened all men for breast cancer, we would have fewer resources to screen all women for breast cancer in women are the ones dying from the disease in large numbers. does that make sense? does that sound rational? it probably does. and yet what if you said that out loud and a brigade of 27-year-old narcissists on twitter began screaming at you that you don't care about male breast cancer victims. you've got their blood on your hands, you want them to die because you're a servant of wall street. what would happen if that started? we probably stopped talking. in an environment like that, clear thinking would be impossible. and that's where we are now. that's how we've arrived at where we are tonight. tens of millions of americans forced from their jobs by government decree.

taking their livelihoods, we have ensured that some unknown but probably significant number of them will die. they will die from suicide, die from alcohol abuse or drug ods for heart disease. mass unemployment kills people. that is beyond dispute. the median age of american employees is 42. at the risk to healthy 42-year-old's from this virus is extremely low. at far lower than dying from suicide, alcohol, drug ods, or heart disease. so why not spare those people and let them work? why are? if you're going to quarantine people, why wouldn't you quarantine those who are at greatest risk especially if you have some good sense of who they are, and we do. we balance imperatives and public health all the time. the death rate from the smallpox vaccine historically has been about one in every million vaccinations. we consider that acceptable, and it is. it's considerably higher than

the death rate from coronavirus in this country for people under 45. to be clear, we are not arguing against the smallpox vaccine, it's one of the reasons life expectancy has risen so high. but there is a point, an obvious one, a crisis like this requires rational decision-making and so far, our leaders are clearly not capable of rational decision-making. that's bad. justin haskins is editorial director at the heartland institute and he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. so give us some broader view of the economic damage, which is another way of saying the damage to people and their family that has occurred so far? >> we are looking at 16 million people unemployed. and plus one in ten working americans and most economists saying it could be as high as 20 million or more by the end of this month. we are talking about depression

levels and that is not even really the most serious part of that, believe it or not. the long-term damage that we are doing by spending trillions and trillions of dollars that we don't have that we are just printing is going to have a massive impact on the economy not just this year or next year, but to potentially five years down the road or even longer we are going to be creating huge economic bubbles that will eventually pop because the fed doesn't know what to do. all they're doing is printing money. congress doesn't know what to do. what they should do is pretty obvious. it's imposed sensible solutions to these issues. don't treat des moines, iowa, like you would treat new york city. that seems like a pretty sensible way to deal with this issue. a lot of americans can in fact go back to work and if they can go back to work, if they are not facing significant risks, than they should. they don't go back to work soon, we are completely screwed.

there's no way around it. >> tucker: so if you are concerned about the death of the middle-class, rising poverty and joblessness and profound concentration of wealth at the top, one of the things that's made this country unstable, what's "happening now" would accelerate that, wouldn't it? >> it absolutely is accelerating that and to some extent, we can't even rollback all of the things we've already done. you are dependent on government and pumping trillions of dollars into financial markets you are never going to be able to take out without dramatically increasing interest rates which would crash the economy. so the reality is we are already going down a road that i don't know that we can turn back from. it's going to get significantly worse. >> tucker: what no one is saying is some people are getting richer than ever from this. great to see you tonight, thank you so much.

so it takes courage and wisdom to see what's happening clearly and serve your people effectively. most politicians are not capable of that. here's a case in point. march 23rd, gretchen whitmer announced it was going to be necessary to lock down her state and she explained why she was doing it. here's what she said. >> additional aggressive measures must do in our will be overwhelmed. and we currently don't even have enough beds, masks, gowns, and ventilators. we must work together to bend the curve. we must do more to curtail community spread so our health system has a fighting chance. today, i'm issuing a stay at home and stay safe executive order. >> tucker: okay. so she said we want to be fair here but a lot of people were saying last month which is we need to slow the transmission of

this so our health care system doesn't fall apart. as we just told you a moment ago, that's what the model said. in models that already factored in the lockdown. so two weeks later, what's happened? michigan's health care system has not collapsed. even in detroit who has seen one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks anywhere in the nation, many hospitals as of tonight are jus discharging more patients than they are admitting. an emergency hospital has slashed the bed count from 1,000 just 250. why? the inspected number of patients failed to arrive. that's all great news and you would think governor whitmer who is supposed to be looking out in the interest of her own people would be celebrating on television. she's doing just the opposite. she is moved aggressively to seize even more control of her state and the lives of the people who live there, so last week she banned all gatherings anywhere for any reason of any size including in people's

private homes as if she's allowed to do that. michigan residents own more than one home, she has boun banned tm from traveling between them. in detroit it's very common to have a cabin up north. you're not allowed to go there. then she kept going. not only did governor whitmer close most stores in the state, she banned the few that remained open from selling items that she deemed unnecessary. >> big box stores will also have to close areas of the store that are dedicated to things like carpet or flooring, furniture, garden centers, plant nurseries for paint. you are not buying food or medicine or other essential items, you should not be going to the store. >> tucker: so where did this come from? how did governor whitmer know that paint, buying cans of paint could be deadly? how does not buying cans of paint prevent the spread of the

coronavirus? if we played the whole clip, you would see governor whitmer didn't bother to explain because she had no clue because she didn't talk to anyone who studied it before she made the order. he is a german professor, did a lot of research on this and based on it, concluded that actually there's very little risk of spreading the coronavirus while shopping or even from touching surfaces contrary to what they told you last month. instead, he found out almost all the spread came from "people being closer together over a longer period of time. and that's the kind of behavior that a mask might mitigate, the ones they told you not to wear. and by the way, if that's true, maybe you should think twice before you force people to remain indoors with one another all day as governor whitmer has. sweden has the larger population of the state of michigan and just like michigan, its smaller cities and smaller towns.

sweden has never adopted the chinese model, the authoritarian model in order to contain coronavirus yet so far sweden has fewer cases of coronavirus and fewer deaths than the state of michigan does. does the governor of michigan know this? does she care? no. that suggests it's about science, but it's not and you know that by now. it's about power. governor whitmer wants to be the vice president. she wants to be chosen by joe biden. that's pretty clear. and she's there is no penalty for petty authoritarianism. in fact, it might make even mediocre politicians look strong and decisive. that's her bed. she is willing to destroy the people in her state in exchange. when exactly did she become deeply concerned about citizens dying and willing to do anything to prevent it? in 2018, michigan had almost 2800 deaths from overdose and

another 1500 suicides, more than that. unlike coronavirus, every single one of those deaths might've been preventable and as it was, felt disproportionately on the young and the middle-age. yet she didn't shut everything down, didn't consider asking them to conduct random searches, no. saying something about china which is sending all this into our country, not a word. as for suicides, if she cared, she could have taken anyone in the state into custody at any time if they were identified with a risk for self-harm but that wasn't in consideration either. at the time, joe biden didn't need a running mate and cnn wasn't watching. we are joined now by judge andrew napolitano. thanks for joining us. so you've spent the last -- the 20 years i've known you -- talking about civil liberties and how central they are to the american experience, enshrined

in our documents. i haven't heard any talk about them recently. are they still relevant? >> one of our colleagues said in a cartoon of the framers signing the constitution and in this cartoon, washington turns to madison and says let me get this straight, none of this counts of people get sick, right? sort of a humorous way of mocking what's happening today. your analysis of governor whitmer could apply to nearly all the remaining 49 governors who assume that they have the power to crush individual liberties, violate the constitution, and write laws. they don't. laws in this country are written by legislative branches, and public hearings and debates. there's a transparency so we know why she doesn't want you to buy garden hoses. they would have to be a rational basis to articulate for it but when the executive branch takes it upon itself, the role of not just enforcing the law but of

making up new ones and in the process crashes basic fundamental liberties like the right to travel and the right to worship, never mind on easter sunday but on any time you want to worship, we are witnessing the slow death, the death in slow motion of liberties because these governors, these petty tyrants will use this power again and again until some courageous federal court or an outraged public stops them. >> tucker: i'm so thankful that you pointed out it's not just governor whitmer. is governor hogan in maryland, virtually all of them. very quickly, do you think there is a mechanism for pulling them back a little bit now? >> hopefully it will be outrage stirred up by the type of reporting that you and some of our colleagues have begun to be doing it even some of our colleagues on the left have been doing some of this reporting

period of but basic human liberties are guaranteed in the constitution. they can't even be taken away by the vote of the legislature, much less the command of a governor or a mayor. these executive orders look like orders that sound like orders. they are just guidelines. they don't have that, there cannot be a criminal sanction because they are at their root just the whim of those in power intended to enhance their power, but they are not valid expressions of constitutional documents. >> tucker: thank you for reminding us of that. and q so much for joining us tonight, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: so we knew almost instant coronavirus test is being rolled out. do they work as fast as we are hearing they do? dr. marc siegel will test one live on air just ahead.

>> tucker: the pharma company abbott laboratories says it's created a new portable coronavirus test that can deliver results in minutes rather than days. so how does it work? does it work? we decided to find out live on air tonight. the associate chair of policy outside boston will be performing the test on the show's chief medical contributor dr. marc siegel. focus through what this is, how you administer it, what happens

next. >> so this is a rapid diagnostic test that will generate an accurate diagnosis within 5 minutes if the patient is positive for covid and up to 13 minutes if they are negative. and it's the only test out there that is rapid in that degree of speed. >> tucker: how do you administer it? >> so the way it works is that dr. siegel here is kind enough to be our patient for this evening and had actually complained of a bit of a cough and is thinking about going back in the words at nyu, so we thought it would be a good idea to definitively rule him out for covid and we are going to use the abbott hearing get a result within a few minutes. so the way it works is that we will swab him and put it in the

instrument and i'm just putting on my ppe here because this is a potentially infectious process, and we want adhere to all of our ppe guidelines. so the first step here is we will take a swab. okay, so the swab is all set n now. >> tucker: me i just ask you to pause there. i spoke to somebody the other day who had one of these tests where it went all the way into the back of his throat. that's not necessarily this? >> so that's one of the beauties of this instrument is actually it is validated for nasal swabs. the swab that your mentioning that goes to the back of the throat is called a

nasopharyngeal swab and that can be very uncomfortable and that's why health care providers when we perform at have to wear ppe because it can induce sneezing or coughing. >> tucker: okay, so you're going to run that test. you have some sort of answer in 10 minutes, 15 minutes? >> in about 15 minutes, we will put it in here. we will run it. how show you how it works. so the test basically we open up this chamber and we will put some reagent in the base event, we will swirl the swab around, it heats up, we move the testing device up into this top one. we close it, push the button and walk away and within 15 minutes, we will have a result for dr. siegel and he can be off on his way. the beauty of the rapid test is

that they can be used in multiple ways. at my particular hospital, we use it for inpatients and for inpatients coming into the emergency room who need to be quickly assessed whether they have the infection are not so they can be placed in the particular area of the hospital, it is invaluable in that sense and it concerns ppe. we know who we have to be cautious about. >> tucker: it makes total sense and we will be back in just a minute to find out what happens, thank you. appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: as of right now, our political leaders are using what are turning out to be enormously disruptive shutdowns, 20 million people out of work as the only strategy to halt the spread of coronavirus. dr. robert epstein's research of the american institute for behavioral research and technology thinks he may have come across a better way to do that and he joins us tonight. thanks a lot for coming on.

what would be a wiser way to save american lives? >> right now, we are self isolating 334 million people. in the vast majority of them say 330 million at least are not carriers. so the solution to this problem which i first published back in march 25th and i just published again in a news source that you helped us found, "the daily caller," that solution is to test everyone, to take a fast test like the one that you just described, put it into a small disposable test device like those home pregnancy test they have at the dollar store, and manufacture them by the hundreds of millions which we have the ability to do, the chinese have the ability to do. get everyone in the country to self test and then the carriers need to isolate. once the carriers self isolate,

we can reopen the economy the next day literally because it's the carriers who should be isolated, not the elderly people, not the entire population. it's the carriers. and we have the technological and the industrial capability to make that happen. >> tucker: that is such a sensible solution but it's a little stunning you're the first person i've heard mention it. why has this not occurred to anyone until right now? >> i might've been the first, but just a few days ago, the heritage foundation released a report, very high-level report, very good people on the community with recommendations for what to do regarding the coronavirus pandemic and their number one recommendation was test everyone. so someone has to be first. so maybe i was and maybe i

wasn't but the point is it's kind of obvious. if you want to read the article i just published in "the daily caller," go to killthevirusnow.com and when you implement this plan and the carriers are isolated in about two to three weeks, the virus is dead. because our immune systems or their immune systems have killed it off. so one big advantage of this plan is, you actually kill the virus in the entire economy quickly and safely if you are paranoid, if you are worried, you have these self-test devices and buckets outside of restaurants and theaters, people test positive, obviously you send them home. we also use them extensively in our course of entry. >> tucker: it's not complicated, and i'm glad you set it on the show. great to see you again,

thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so joe biden has been accused of sexual assault. we have no idea if that allegation is credible. we do know it is far more credible than anything ever leveraged against brett kavanaugh, but it's being ignored for some reason. why is that? will tell you after the break. also awaiting dr. marks equals personal coronavirus test result. we will have that in just a moment.

as we work to get through these times together, you may not be thinking about blood donation, but blood is needed to save the lives of people who are sick with a range of illnesses. it's easy and safe to give. if you are in good health,

please donate. we need heroes now. visit red cross blood dot org to schedule an appointment.

when that >> tucker: for weeks now, we focused on the coronavirus pandemic. only one other dominated the show and that was the brett kavanaugh confirmation battle. as you may remember in their efforts to stop his assent to the supreme court, they spent weeks trying to destroy his life, his family his wife and they did it based on virtually no evidence. every day you would tune in and seven channel usually msnbc or cnn would be airing some lunatic claim like this one. >> i've never heard of a guy who was a one time sexual assault her. i grew up with guys like this. he is from around this area. amazes me that we have an administration that out of the millions of people that are qualified, they consistently find men who beat abuse and sexually assault women. >> tucker: imagine calling someone a on tv with no evidence whatsoever.

and if the evidence is seriously discredited day after day after day, you keep doing it. they don't care what the truth is. it's even more obvious now just how cynical and disingenuous all of that was. former joe biden aide tara reid claims that joe biden sexually assaulted her. not said something naughty to her, but actually sexually assaulted her. did he do that? we have no idea. and before i believe it, i want to hear his side and way all the evidence. the interesting thing is the press is using a completely different standard. instead of choosing to believe all women, they've essentially ignored this woman's claims were showed profound skepticism. what is this? senior editor at "the federalist," author of justice on trial, the kavanaugh confirmation, the perfect person to assess what we are watching now. thanks a lot for coming on tonight. what are we watching now? >> it is so beyond clear that

"the new york times," cnn, msnbc and many other media outlets oh justice brett kavanaugh their deepest apologies for how they handled allegations against him. as you know, there was no evidence in support of these allegations. in one case, the major claim, there is no evidence she ever met brett kavanaugh, much less than any assault of the type that she described happen. they were four witnesses all strongly refuted or had no recollection that what she claimed happened, didn't have any memory of a location or how she got to be a vendor how she got home, what year it happened. there were so many problems with her story then when she made her claim, "the washington post" and many other media outlets did their very, very best to make it seem like her allegations had more to them than they did and they continue to do that day after day and week after week in an attempt to destroy not just brett kavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court, but to

destroy his life, destroy his family, his reputation and you compare that with the joe biden situation where the woman making the accusations nobody denies that she worked for him. nobody denies that she told people at the time of the alleged event and how that story is being rolled out is to ignore it for 19 days and to do their very best not to lay out in sympathetic fashion her version of events but to work so hard to debunk and go against the story. i believe as to you that joe biden and all people accused of sexual assault deserve due process and important not just for alleged perpetrators but also for alleged victims. that's a very important thing. the media seem to see the importance of that and joe biden's case but they never saw that and did so much in the opposite extreme with brett kavanaugh. >> tucker: they are such liars, such water carriers, not even ideologues, they're too dumb to have ideas.

they take their orders and they all follow like the robots they are. little ants marching around. you have seen more of that than most people can live to tell the tale. thanks for joining us tonight. so if all has gone according to plan, dr. siegel's coronavirus test results should be available when we returned from the break and of course, we will show you what the doctor found. a plus, china's dictatorship is literally banning any investigation into where the coronavirus came from. why is that, exactly? we will tell you after the break at papa john's, we want you to know that from our

450-degree oven, to box, to you, it's our policy that your pizza is never touched once it comes out of the oven. and we're taking extra steps, like no contact delivery, to ensure it.

you can't always stop for a fingerstick.betes with the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you don't have to. with a painless, one-second scan you can check your glucose with a smart phone or reader

so you can stay in the moment. no matter where you are or what you're doing. ask your doctor for a prescription for the freestyle libre 14 day system. you can do it without fingersticks. learn more at freestylelibre.us. >> tucker: we disagree with bill maher an awful lot but he

did something that took some courage, he spoke plainly about where the coronavirus came from. >> we are barely four into this pandemic, and the wet markets in china, the ones where exotic animals are sold and consumed are already starting to reopen so when someone says what if people hear chinese virus and blame china? the answer is we should blame china. we can't afford the luxury anymore of nonjudging this towards our country with habits that kill millions of people everywhere. >> tucker: so everything you just heard is factually true, so naturally "the daily beast" which is run by the dumbest and worst people in the world summed it up this way, "bill maher goes on despicably racist rant against china over coronavirus." china, the most racist country

in the world. china the country where the communist party has now imposed tight new restrictions on any research and to have exactly coronavirus began. so in effect, our media are freely choosing to follow the directives of the chinese communist party. don't ask any questions that might make china look bad otherwise you are racist. that said, wet markets may not be the actual origin of the coronavirus. the wet market is not where it came from. in it was funded in part from $83.7 million grant from the u.s. government. heard anything more perverse than that today? probably not. gordon chang is the author of "the coming collapse of china." thank you so much for coming on. and so china has banned or tightly restricted further research into the origins of this global pandemic. why would they do something like

that do you think? >> i think because beijing is very worried about how this disease started because there is growing evidence as you point out that this was an accidental release from either the wuhan institute of virology which is a biosafety lab or an institution which is 20 miles down the road so i think they really want to make sure that people do not understand where this comes from and by the way, they have done a lot of work over the last several months to make sure that the foreign community doesn't get the opportunity to study the origins of this outbreak in wuhan. >> tucker: do you think that's one of the reasons that early samples of the virus were destroyed on orders from the chinese government? >> i'm sure that was the case. happened on january 3rd when china's national health commission ordered the authorities in wuhan to destroy samples. this occurred on a number of other occasions we understand, and we've seen right now over

the last seven or eight days new controls on scientific research. every paper on the origins of it now must be approved in beijing before they are published and that's a real indication has chinese scientists fear that this is going to be political controls on their research. >> tucker: so given that, given that the data coming out of china or to some extent are weighted by political considerations, what do you make of our health authorities really using that data and quoting them when they explain their policies to us. does that make sense? when we look at the data from china, new infections, transmissibility and all the rest of it, they thought this was no worse than sars and so they thought they did not need to take certain precautions. as it turned out, when dr. birx

and others saw what was happening in spain and italy, they realize that the data from china was seriously flawed, it underestimated the number of cases and that's when i think there probably was a fair amount of panic in the white house about what had happened because we had in fact not taken precautions because of what china told us. >> tucker: i would think that the many people in our country who collaborated with china over the years would be nervous watching this because people are starting to figure out what exactly is happening to us. gordon chang, great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: we've got a fox news alert for you. dr. siegel's coronavirus test results are back. we don't know what they are. we are joined now by our chief medical correspondent who is back to tell us with the mask off. you're smiling. >> tucker, that's a good sign. it's negative. and i want to tell everyone out there who was worried they were in contact with people with

covid-19, this is the way the future has to be. i feel great. i have been worried for a week not wanting to cough and public, not wanting anyone to know about it. this means i can go back to social distancing and not think so much about social quarantining which is what i would've had to do if i were positive. dr. redfield from the cdc who i spoke to today feels the swab i did is just as accurate as the more invasive swab and the admiral of the hhs said the same thing. the other test i'm doing tonight is i'm having my blood drawn so that he can check me for antibodies and then i can see whether i'm immune or on the road to being immune if i had it already. that's the future here. we've got to know did i have it in my getting over it? can i get back to society? if i have that information on everyone and look how long it has taken not even the length of the show and i know i'm negati negative. that will help us recover. >> tucker: it is a

prerequisite to recovery. i know ten people who would like that test. very quickly, how long until those ten people can get it? >> let's hope within the next few weeks. we are told it will be rolled out very quickly. we can only do for an hour on this but we have 18,000 of them in the country. we need 200,000 as soon as possible or test just like it for rapid test results. a point of care. >> tucker: amazing. abbott laboratories, good for them. great to see you tonight, thank you. >> very relieved, thank you, tucker. >> tucker: during his press conference today, reminded the press how they initially covered coronavirus. cnn did not want to be reminded of that and completely flipped out. i'll show you what happened ne next. and spray...

and spray. well, we used to. with new ortho home defense max indoor insect barrier, one simple application kills and prevents bugs in your home for up to a year without odors, stains or fuss. it's the modern way to keep bugs away. new ortho, home defense max. get everything you need for spring at ortho.com order today!

>> tucker: today's presidential press briefing, the president was asked why did you downplay the coronavirus initially? he responded by playing back the clip showing that the press did the same. cnn has a tenuous claim on being a news outlet at the best of times but at the end of today's briefing, they were like a women's studies professor. in between angry trump turns briefing at a propaganda session

and uses task force briefing to try to rewrite history and coronavirus, those are totally real, by the way. imagine the rage of the 24-year-olds in the booth writing that was. he is so bad, bad orange man. hilarious bread that's it for us tonight. see you tomorrow, hannity is next. >> sean: blind psychotic rage. thank you, tucker. major signs of progress thank god in the fight against covid-19. the president's bold actions are working tonight and what the mob and the media will never tell you is this, the chinese, european travel ban, the quarantines, they saved this country, your fellow countrymen and women untold amounts of suffering. a massive of federal supplies, every state is getting everything that they need in record time. thousands of ventilators have been distributed and we have 10,000 still plus to spare. we need them, godfrey vid we do.