academy. that's going to be something to look forward to. have a great weekend, everybody. see you back here on monday night. "the story" continues. tucker carlson coming up. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if you've been watching you know the president has been continuing during his daily press briefing. we are going to listen until he's done. in all fairness, world health couldn't get in, and that is why i wish they would take a different stance. they took a very pathetic stance and a week stance, but they said they couldn't get in, but ultimately they got in, much sooner than everybody, but they didn't report what was happening. they didn't report what was happening inside of china. now, i'm not happy with china. >> reporter: i wanted to ask dr. fauci, can you address these

suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow man-made, possibly came out of a laboratory in china? one of the prospects of that? >> there was a study recently that we can make available to you that a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there, the sequences of bats as they evolved, and the mutation that it took to get to the point they were at now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human. so, the paper will be available. i don't have the authorization right now that we can make that available to you. >> reporter: on the protests that we've seen -- people wanting the economies to open, does that concern you, though, as a health expert? when you see folks congregate,

and are you worried that that's encouraged? >> well, i'm looking at it from a public health standpoint. i certainly understand the frustration of people but my main role in the task force is to make recommendations to protect the health and the safety of the american people and i hope that people understand that that is the reason we are doing what we are doing and hopefully that will put an end to this. >> president trump: i will say this, i'm very, very satisfied to the decisions. listening to - experts, listenig to my gut, the feeling of the vice president, and really many others when we put it all together. i'm very -- look, if we didn't do what we did at the time we could've lost more than 2 million people. i really believe that. i could show you charts of other people that gave it a shot and they are not doing well. and i would show it to you right now. i don't want to embarrass anybody. but they gave that a shot.

it's an automatic. i mean, everybody would say, let's do that, until they sit down and start thinking, and we could've lost more than 2 million people. it could've been much more than that, by the way. we have one that says from 1.6 to 2.2, but it really could've been more than that. but i look at one in particular, one country in particular that is using the herd mentality. not working out very well. now, with all of that being said, we have to get back to work. we will be crossing lines very soon. in many cases, in some cases we are well on the way down and in other cases we are right on the top man heading down. we are heading in the right direction. i saw some numbers from new jersey, he's having a very tough time. he's doing a great job, the governor. governor phil murphy. he starting to get some really good science. looking at the new york numbers,

they've been devastated, obviously, but some really good things are starting to happen. so if we would've done something different -- -, first of all itwould've not. he would've had people, they would've been furious at you and me and everybody -- it would not of been sustainable. because you look at some of the hospitals as an example. a certain hospital right near where i grew up in queens, and you had body bags all over the floor of that hospital. you know the one i'm talking about. all over the floor of the hospital. now multiply that times 12 or 15 because that's the type of numbers you're talking about. 12 or 15. and it would not have been -- there would've been an insurrection. nobody would've understood that, whereas right now, nobody can be blamed. and there is no blame. we are all in a situation that was caused, that should have been solved long ago. it could've been solved are

probably very easily. look, this is a tough enemy, but probably very easily if a certain country did what they should've done, and we are just starting to learn those facts. but what we did was the right thing. what we did was the right thing. with that being said, we want to get back and we are going to be opening up states to being opened by very capable people. it is also a point of sale, as they say in a different business. it's the point to be able to look at where the testing is taking place. were going to help them, tremendous tests over the last little while and we're going to work with the states and we are going to help them, but they know every inch of land in their states. i watched the governor of arkansas, you saw that, i thought he was terrific, i watched the governor of oklahoma over the weekend, he was being interviewed, it was terrific. they've done it tight and they were very strong, and they were very tired. they have more beds than they needed and that's a good thing.

but i've seen some very, very good things. i think you're going to have some very positive events taking place over a very short period of time. i think with that, we will see you tomorrow but really, this has been a situation where a lot of great people have been involved in a lot of great decisions have been made. thank you all very much. [reporter questions] >> tucker: the president, you saw, just wrapping up his portion of the daily coronavirus press briefing. good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." if you were just watching that, kind of an amazing exchange right on the stage they are just life. a reporter in the room asked, what do you make of the president, of reports that this virus emerged from a lab in wuhan? people are saying that. at that point dr. anthony fauci took the microphone and pointeda study he said was forthcoming that proves the virus was not genetically engineered. what do you notice about that answer? at the first thing you notice is

it doesn't answer the question that was asked. the question is not "was it genetically engineered?" the question is, did it come somehow from the lab? and he didn't answer that. instead, he effectively misled. not clear why he did that. we brought you fresh reporting last night on the question of where the deadly coronavirus came from. tonight, we have more. we spent much of the day speaking to highly informed officials in the u.s. government as well as season specialists on china, and here's the picture that emerged from those conversations. first, many in the intelligence world with experience in china suspected right away that the story the chinese government was telling about this virus was almost certainly alive here the first indication of that was the torrent of obvious nonsense coming from official sources in beijing. initially, chinese sources, you may remember this, claimed the buyers had jumped from an obscure scaly animal that was sold in the wuhan wet market, but that explanation didn't make any sense.

when markets are seafood markets. pangolins are mammals. so, for that matter, our bats. so in the face of skepticism, the chinese authorities blamed italian personnel who had been near wuhan the year before for an international sporting event. the italians must have brought the virus to china, the chinese said. when the italian government complained about the outcome of the chinese shifted the blame to the u.s. military. the american armed services must have infected wuhan, the chinese had. while they were saying this behind-the-scenes chinese officials were working frantically to destroy relevant evidence of where it actually came from. doctors and journalists in wuhan who raised him comfortable questions about the virus disappeared. some of them may have been murdered. at one point in january, scientists in shanghai sequence to the dna from the virus. the information they gathered from that could've been crucial to researchers around the world who were trying to understand the virus and develop vaccines against it. in other words, the rest of us. but the chinese government

ordered that viral sample destroyed in the lab notes from that shredded. the scientists themselves were disciplined for daring to conduct this research, and their lab was shut down. the chinese government then quarantined the entire city of wuhan, up to 5 million people fled. but apparently, relatively few of them were allowed to travel to beijing, the chinese capital. instead, they flew to western cities around the world. now, the most in the united states, reactions to a crisis like this seem grotesque, really unimaginable. but to mandarin speakers who follow china carefully and have for a long time, these are highly familiar moves. the first reflex of the chinese government is always to lie in order to hide failure and avoid embarrassment. in 2003, for example, the chinese government lied about the initial outbreak of sars, another coronavirus. in july 2112 passenger trains traveling in opposite directions it smashed into each other at high speed outside a chinese city. they collided on a railroad bridge.

four calls derailed and tumbled below. within hours authorities arrived and pushed the passenger cars into a pit and began covering them with dirt. by some accounts there were still survivors at that time come inside the passenger cars. in their initial statements they said that a lightning strike caused the crash. then later they said it was the shouting is the cost of the crash. the media ignore the crash entirely except for "positive news" or that's, news issued by authorities. this was the template for china's official response to the wuhan virus. from the early days of the outbreak, chinese diplomats around the world insisted there was no chance whatsoever the virus had come from a lab. they sometimes insisted that even when no one had asked them, as if they were reading from a script. it soon became very obvious what was going on. english-language academic journalists had raised for years questions about the safety standards in wuhan bio research labs. an article in "nature" from 2017

noted that "some scientists outside china worry about pathogens escaping from the facility." classified state department a year later than voiced at the same. chinese scientists themselves talked about working with extremely dangerous pathogens in wuhan. as of today, says someone in a position to know, there is "almost unanimous agreement in the american intelligence gathering agencies that the virus currently destroy much of the world emerged from a lab in wuhan." almost unanimous. that is a phrase almost never used to describe any conclusion coming out of the intel community. government officials in this country have believed that for some time now. they've been unable to interest our media or our epidemiologists in writing about it. in recent weeks analysts from the cia, the nsa and others have reached staff at "the new york times" about the origins of this virus, but the newspaper has still not reported their findings. at the same time, and this may be directly related, china has

been waging an unremitting propaganda war on the subject. chinese officials have tried to squelch all conversations about who might be responsible for this pandemic by inflaming the political sensitivities and race guilds of american elites. watch this clip from early last month as a spokesperson for the chinese foreign ministry tries to dictate how american press outlets describe the virus. >> social media say this coronavirus is a china virus. this is extremely irresponsible, and we firmly oppose that. >> tucker: among the many ironies and what you just heard, even now, even today, the disease is widely referred to in china as the wuhan virus. our news outlets, meanwhile, almost always call it covid-19. that term does not translate to chinese. back in january under influence from chinese leaders who were anxious to deflect responsibility for it.

once they succeeded in removing any hint of origin for the name of the virus, the chinese launched a campaign to tar anyone who mentioned wuhan is a dangerous racist. "racism is not the right tool to cover your own incompetence" lecture to chinese state media when president trump refer to the wuhan virus. american media. at that line almost precisely, as no doubt chinese expected they would. speak of the president referred to the coronavirus as a "foreign virus." i think it's going to smack -- coming across to a lot of americans as smacking of xenophobia. >> xenophobic wartime trump where he thinks the only path and i was to declare public enemy number one in somewhat racist terms. to speak at the xenophobia and the racism in the outbreak is such a common thing and it is incredibly dangerous. it is problematic and it is scary, and i just really want to call that out. >> reporter: why do you keep calling this the chinese virus?

why do you keep saying that's? a lot of people say it's racist. >> it's not racist at all. not at all. it comes from china, that's why. >> tucker: fools. but not a major victory for the chinese government. media outlets are relatively easy to corrupt, given the relatively low level sophistication of the people who work there. the chinese government have bolder aims than that. the chinese instructed their employees and assets in the united states to exert influence on elected officials. for example, according to an official, "beijing has instructed diplomats at the consulate and sympathies go to work with local officials and members of congress to push back against anyone who gets too far out on blaming china for this." that is what they are doing, apparently it's working. here's connecticut senator chris murphy on cnn earlier this week. speak of the reason we are in the crisis we are in today is not because of anything china did. it's not because of anything the w.h.o. did. it's because of what this president did.

>> tucker: it's not because anything china did. other members of congress voiced similar views, often in eerily similar language. barbara lee of california, long considered a strongly pro-china boys tweeted this to the president, "diseases don't have nationalities. china isn't to blame for you fumbling this crisis." on march 12, congresswoman of los angeles wrote this "china didn't unleash anything peer to virus spread as viruses do. blaming china and insisting on calling this the wuhan virus, even though every medical expert said not to come is putting people's lives in danger. stop politicizing this and put people first. it just week before judy chu wrote that, a man who runs the chinese consulate in los angeles met with the los angeles mayor about the american response to coronavirus. he tweeted about it that day. he said this, "looking forward to working closely with the city of los angeles to address this common public health challenge

and develop closer ties between our cities and peoples." now, we have no idea what they talked about in that meeting that day, it would be interesting to know. we reached out today to a number of california lawmakers with a history of closeness to china, including dianne feinstein who once employed a chinese spy come in to see if they have spoken to chinese officials recently. none of them responded to our calls. but it's not just happening in california. according to a study and a story reported by national review, the head of the state senate wisconsin recently received multiple emails from the consulate general in chicago. she asked him to propose a resolution praising china for its handling of the wuhan virus outbreak. at the entire story of how the government of china successfully shaped our understanding of this pandemic of the virus, as well as our response to it, may take years to tell. in fact, it may never fully be told at all. we promise to do our best on the show. but it is clear how china sees this pandemic. china doesn't see this simply or

even primarily as a public health disaster in which thousands are dying. china sees this as part of a larger geopolitical struggle for control of the world. most americans still don't perceive that or understand the profound gravity of the stakes involved, but how could they? our leaders have lied to us about it for years. a democrat and former cia officer, we are happy to have h. brian, thanks so much for coming on. it is striking to me and it's a matter of public record that the chinese government is attempting to leverage its relations with our elected officials to control how we talk about a virus they unleashed on the world. how do you feel when you hear that? >> how can anybody not feel outraged? we all know, we've all lived in a country for the past 30 years that has been sold out to the chinese government. your promise in the late 1990s that china goes into the wto and we will all benefit. that didn't take place beard we

watched our intellectual property be stolen for three years and now we've watched some of our elected leaders and i'm sorry to say many on my side of the aisle, capitulate to the chinese government again. here we are, 30 years and we've learned nothing. so i'm outraged. it makes me incredibly angry. >> tucker: it seems like a pretty straightforward question. we reached out to senator feinstein and a number of elected officials today and asked, have you had contact recently with a number of china officials? and not a single one responded. what do you think we should infer from that? >> i think they are nervous. they're a ton of people, either because of their idiots or they have some degree of knowledge of relationships behind the scenes with the chinese government -- some of them in fact could be chinese agents, their actual intelligent service, god forbid. they are nervous and they know that if nothing else, the party has, solely for the past three months, doubled down on their

pro-china rhetoric. and the u.s. intelligence committee in collecting this information, not only the information we know through the cia and nsa and others, but also reaching out to our allies like the australians, koreans and japanese, if we know with a high degree of confidence that the chinese in fact released this virus, accidentally or otherwise, and caused this pandemic, and yet the democratic party and its leaders have been supportive of the regime, parroting their talking points? we see not only a geo-political fallout around the country, but what is the political fallout? especially in 2020 as the november election happens. so that is why i suspect you're not hearing much. we've a lot of very nervous folks i in the democratic party. >> tucker: i suspect that's right. you always forget there is an election going on as well. brian dean wright, think you for that. good to see you tonight. >> you bet. >> tucker: the country is desperately focused on protecting the population from this virus. a vaccine will do more than any other measure to do that. who exactly is working on that

vexing? we found one of the people in charge of building that vaccine and protecting this country and we learned a very interesting things about that person. we are going to tell you what they are after the break. but first, a failed anti-ebola drug may turn out to be a successful treatment for the virus. our own dr. siegel explains that next.

♪ >> tucker: a drug called hydroxychloroquine got an awful lot of attention in the past month as a potential therapy for coronavirus. now another drug is also showing promising results. dr. marc siegel is a fox medical contributor and a professor and

a practicing physician. he joins us tonight to tell us. hey, doctor. >> tucker, last night i talk to you about the devastating effects this virus can have on the body. now a lot of research is going on, a race against time to try to prevent the virus from spreading, from propagating, and also from causing that inflammatory response that i talked about. one drug that has been looked at very seriously and emerging from clinical trials, you just mentioned, glend, the drug is sg some promise. i've been talking to dr. dan sterman, the head of medicine and he's also in charge of two trials at nyu and they are struggling to beat the race against time with all the science they have. let's watch dr. sterman. >> we currently conducting a number of very important clinical trials. some of these trials involve

novel antiviral drugs. a very potent antiviral drug developed for ebola. other important interventions, the role of hydroxychloroquine, convalescent plasma, and many other agents that we believe may be involved in the pathophysiology of covid-19. >> tucker, when we emerge from the clinical trials and we hear it from several sources that it's promising, though real question is going to be when to give it, how early to give it. because you have to give it before all these devastating effects like blood clotting, inflammation, all the things that are jeopardizing the patient's life occurred. that is the arm in medicine. right now we are dealing with the science of medicine and what we are dealing with here, dr. sturman by the way actually recovered from covid-19 himself and then went back to the fight. that is what's happening. scientists on the front line, fighting this, figuring out in

real time figuring out how to treat it. several others, anti-inflammatory agents, blood thinners, hydroxychloroquine, we are going to find a way to really ameliorate the symptoms here and we are going to beat this thing, tucker. >> tucker: how far are we from applying this? very quickly, you get sick of me wind up in the hospital, are you likely to be treated with this? >> this is clinical trials all across the country so it's very likely appear in a major medical center, this is something that very well may be tried. it's going to be emerging from clinical trials very soon. i think it a matter of weeks, maybe a month we're going to see it available for use. this or something like it. this is a very potent drug, remdesivir, and i think it's very promising to decrease severe symptoms and very threatening cases. we've heard this from dr. khalil in nebraska is conducting all these studies for remdesivir we will see the clinical trials

soon. very promising drug. >> tucker: dr. siegel, night after night your updates have been fantastic. we appreciate it. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: so often you hear politicians say the government should never get between a patient and that patient's doctor, but in the state of michigan governor gretchen whitmer has banned a huge swath of medical procedures in her state. but she hasn't banned abortion. planned parenthood is open for business. why is that? vance joins us and asked talk about it.

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>> tucker: one group of victims in this pandemic who, for some reason, have been all but ignored out the many americans who badly need medical and dental procedures right now but can't get them thanks to lockdown. you never see these people on television. most are suffering in silence. we've all been told we must sacrifice for the sake of the country but is there a good reason these people are suffering? what exactly is the logic here because my consider what's happening in michigan. on march 21st, governor gretchen whitmer executed an executive order prohibiting all doctors and intensivistdentists in the statm performing nonessential procedures. joint replacements are nonessential now so they are now banned. if you ever had a hip or ankle or knee that stopped functioning or know anyone who has come you understand what this means. people don't get joint replacements lightly. every joint replacement is essential by definition.

this isn't botox. when joints go bad, bone grinds on bone. people can't walk. they went up in wheelchairs, which frequently leads to a cascade of health disasters. immobility kills people. it happens all the time. tough luck, says gretchen whitmer. scheduled joint replacements are now illegal in the state of michigan. performing one is a criminal act. is there a valid behind this order? no, there is not, and we know that conclusively because governor whitmer has included nt included elective abortion and her band. in other words, people who can't walk are not allowed treatment but planned parenthood is open for business. the other day, governor whitmer was asked about this transparency. here's what she said. >> we stop elective surgeries here in michigan and some people have tried to say that that type of a procedure is considered the same, and that's ridiculous.

you know, a woman's health care, her whole future, her ability to decide if and when she starts a family is not an election. it is fundamental to her life. it is life-sustaining. and it's something that government should not be getting in the middle of. >> tucker: did you follow that? abortion is essential. it is "life-sustaining." abortion is not something the government can "get in the middle of." abortion isn't something like rescuing crippled people from rotting in wheelchairs. that, by contrast, would be considered nonessential. joint replacements are in fact one medical procedure the government is happy to get in the middle of pure joint replacements aren't a matter of conscience, something women should decide in close consultation with their physicians. just the opposite. gretchen whitmer will punish you for attempting to perform one kid that is her stated position. gretchen whitmer is a ghoul. she is a dangerous ideologue who

knows nothing about science and doesn't care to learn. gretchen whitmer deems elective abortion essential because the abortion lobby has bankrolled her political career. she is encouraging liquor and lotto ticket sales in her tax because syntax on the poorest people in her state fund of the government. she knows her her political pup opponents are. these are not decisions rooted in epidemiology or science. they are partisan political decisions everyone. and she's not the only governor making them right now. katie mance is an author enjoins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. i think you and i agree, i know you do because we talk a lot, that this is a very serious illness that we should be afraid of and take firm steps to protect the population from, so i think we can start there. are you concerned, however, by the way that some politicians have interpreted that mandate that politics are getting

involved. they've banned procedures like joint replacements but allow abortions. what does that tell us? >> tells us a couple things. it's pretty sad that things favor like abortion and the abortion lobby is deemed essential care about things like heart surgeries, joint replacements are not deemed essential surgeries. obviously, that means a lot of people frankly are suffering. and they are suffering in a context where most hospitals outside of new york city are not overrun, so you have a lot of needless human suffering. that is really, really terrible. but the second piece of this is, like you said, this is a serious problem but if you think it is a serious problem, then leaders need to be trusted in order to be followed, they actually have to be acting in good faith. so if you look at the things you are not allowed to do in michigan right now like buy tomato seed at home depot, like go fishing with a motorboat, and

you compare that to the things you are allowed to do in michigan like get an abortion. if i'm a person living in michigan right now, i wonder if those restrictions are about public health or if they are about who has the political line to the governor. i think unfortunately for some of these issues, we know the answer. >> tucker: so, the broader point you're making is that this degrades the public's trust in the authorities, and in a time of crisis, that is a dangerous thing. >> that's exactly right. you know, if you want people to follow the social distancing guidelines you have to have leaders who are trustworthy on the one hand, and you have to make it is easy to follow those orders as possible. you know, i like to grow tomatoes in my backyard, tucker. and if i lived in michigan it would be much harder to do that because of the orders that governor whitmer has enforced all across the state. but if you think about this just from the perspective of the average person, you are stuck at home, you're trying to be a good

citizen who is following these guidelines but the government is making it harder for you to do very basic, natural things you would want to do while "social distancing,," but you would like to be doing those things and you would like to be stuck at home actually enjoying your life and not just watching netflix or getting an abortion, which are w of the only things you can apparently do in michigan right now. >> tucker: there's a kind of component of the novel "brave new world" where an authoritarian government dopes of the population on a drug called soma so they don't notice how completely bare in their lives are, and you've got to kind of wonder, government after government is pushing us towards getting loaded and playing lotto. maybe this kind of a soma element in play here, or am i being paranoid? >> i don't think you are being paranoid, tucker, because if we are going to have people follow these orders they need to be reasonable and they need to be connected to public health. if you are a person trying to

follow the rules, you're not going to follow stupid rules, your going to follow rules that have nothing to do with following the coronavirus. at the end of the day there's no rational public health justification for telling people they can't buy tomato seeds on the one hand but they can't buy marijuana on the other but they can get an abortion. and i think our leaders need to think about not just whether these orders make moral sense, that is of course a very important question, but do they govern in a way that make it easier for people to follow the social distancing guidelines. and if they don't, then what is the purpose of this whole thing? if we are actually making it harder for good, honest citizens to follow the rules we are trying to get them to follow? >> tucker: that's right. they are devaluing their own legitimacy. it's dangerous over time, i would say. very smart. j.d., thanks for coming on tonight. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: a promising new study out of stanford university offers additional evidence that this virus may be more common

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♪ >> tucker: a few days ago we had a genuinely interesting interview with the stanford university professor who was researching whether the coronavirus may be far more common whe than we initially assumed. the result of that study have just come out. fox news correspondent trace gallagher has that story for us. hi, trace. speak of the studies trying to give us better information on how many people have covid-19 which would give us a r

denominator, a number which could tell us how many people have immunity to the virus and the mortality rate, meaning the present of people who die. and as one of the authors of the story told tucker this week i'm of the death rate is crucial. watch. >> if it's three in 100 you act differently than it's one in 1,000. so i'm hoping to get back, when we get some numbers in place we will be able to swell the fear that is out there. >> so to get more accurate numbers, doctor and other researchers focused on northern california santa clara county, one of the first places where community spread was detected. they tested 3300 volunteers and found that anywhere from 2.5% to 4.2% tested positive for covid-19 antibodies. in round numbers, that means of santa clara county's 2 million people, between 48 and 81,000 may have had the virus. if true, that would make the infection rate of 50 to 85 times higher than we currently

believe. in a hot spot like new york, that means more than 11 million people infected and more than 3 million in new jersey. although nobody is saying santa clara county is representative of the entire u.s. population and nobody knows if having had the virus means you are immune for a year, ten years, or life, but the researchers acknowledged that at the very least, this study tells us a lot more americans than we thought have been infected and gone undetected. tucker. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much. >> yep. >> tucker: every medical advance helps, we hope. they are all worth knowing about because really right now our main weapons against this pandemic are repurposed old medicines and extreme social distancing measures. measures that have wrecked the economy. so, if we could develop a safe, effective vaccine against this virus we might be able to get back to normal. developing a vaccine may be the single most important project going on in science right now. if we could get it quickly and

avoid future shutdowns, that would save trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, maybe tens of thousands of lives. so, who is in charge of this all-important operation? an immunologist with the vaccine research center, a division of the national institute of allergies and infectious diseases, center run by dr. anthony fauci. corban has been described to the press as the country's lead scientist for coronavirus vaccine research. back in january, "the new york times" characterized her as the sign typically for the coronavirus team at the vaccine research center. there is evidence that corbett is qualified for the job. her research career has focused on developing vaccines for different coronaviruses including sars. that's good. but there are worrying signs about corbett's commitment to scientific inquiry and rational thought. corbett has been an active presence on twitter. she's tweeted at least 17 times just today. on twitter, corbett has endorsed

bizarre theories come and we are not over stating that, that the virus is being used to murder black americans intentionally. "some have gone as far as to call it. i plead the fifth." now right now, african-americans are dying higher raised of coronavirus. the surgeon general, who is african-american, said last week that may be because african-americans suffer more from obesity, diabetes and other ailments that may increase their risk. corbett apparently disagrees with this. for her, white racism is the only explanation for the death rate. after suggesting that black americans avoid alcohol, corbett retweeted another users thread saying "dr. adams, check your privilege. stop spreading harmful fallacies that support white supremacy." corbett then responded herself, saying, "black people are not dying more because of their behaviors. that is just a cop-out to adjust accountability." she didn't say who was accountable appeared to be clear, she is not an intern for

alexandria ocasio-cortez. this is one of our top coronavirus vaccine researchers and she is agreeing that helpful medical advice is a fallacy that supports white supremacy. to be clear, this is not about politics. it is not about who corbett voted for, it is not about her opinions about american society and it doesn't mean she is a bad researcher. but presumably we would want our vaccine team to worry solely about merit, viability and outcome. matters of science, not about people's skin colors. not about some weird race theory. but corbett disagrees with that. in a twitter argument last week corbett said that merit is defined by prejudices. another user asked if she meant by that we automatically ignore white men, this was corbett's response. "white men are not to be dismissed, but the systems have made their ancestors curated art." in other words, if corbett decides a system was built by

white men, that means by definition it can't be trusted. must be ignored or destroyed. once again, this is the person running in ih's coronavirus vaccine efforts. she has received glowing profiles from nbc, cnn, "people" among other outlets, not one of which thought that her history of spouting lunatic conspiracy theories online was worth mentioning, and so they didn't mention it. mother what she believes, no matter what she says on twitter, we hope, we pray that her work is successful because it's important, but none of what you just heard was science or even related to science, and it's not how scientists ought to think. it's not rigorous, it's not rational, it's not sane. it's bigotry. if nih is regarding people who think merit is prejudice and white male systems need to be dismissed out of hand regardless of whether they work or not, then nih is not going to be useful scientific body much longer because it's lunacy.

just a few minutes before we went on the air tonight a senior official reached out to say that ethics officials have begun an investigation into this and are taking it seriously. we will tell you what happens. even as go free over coronavirus and in places around the country they are going free, the left wing judge has decided to order roger stone to prison in the next few weeks. roger stone joins us next. and spray... 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!

>> michael cohen just got out of jail, and a legend, one person on his weighted jail, maybe only one in america is roger stone. two weeks will be sentenced for his useful adult life, his crime supporting donald trump, how does he feel about that? thanks so much for coming on. i'll just get right to it, i'm a little bit confused by why, with all the pardons going around, everyone i've ever met who has been pardoned, you haven't been by a white house that has done a lot to push terminal justice reform and put a lot of bad people out of jail in the name of humanitarian concerns. you're not in that car to gori, white do you think >> i was hopeful that the motion for a mistrial in my place was based on flagrant and blatant and even egregious jury misconduct it would've won me a new trial. the u.s. supreme court has been

clear that all defendants are entitled to a jury that is impartial and indifferent, but in this case, it is undisputed both , they attacked both me and president trump in 2019's social media postings, lied about that during jury selection, and then later deleted her facebook page to cover her trails. in this case, legal authorities, judge andrew napolitano, and professor john turley have both said i should be entitled to a new trial. but that is not the case. so at this point, the judges ordered me to surrender in two weeks, and it 67 years old with some underlying health problems, including a history of asthma, i believe with the

coronavirus, it is essentially a death sentence. >> of course it is, they've already destroyed your life, the most corrupt criminal justice proceeding i've ever seen. bob dylan should be writing a song about you. yet you can get a pardon, because your crime was worse than rating someone, you supporting trump. are you bitter >> i'm not. i'm glad after 16 months of being gagged, to finally, at least be able to defend myself. i wasn't prosecuted because i was covering anything up for the president. i was prosecuted because i refused to bear false witness against the president. i refused to dissemble, as the prosecutors wanted to, about numerous phone calls between myself and candidate trump in 2016. so at this juncture, i am praying for justice. i am praying for mercy, i'm going to be honest with you,

it's in god's hands. after meeting and praying with reverend franklin graham, some months ago, i have reacquainted myself with my catholic faith, my christian faith, but i'm hoping for the very best. >> welcome to hannity, this friday night what happened to roger stone is a travesty. that needs to be thrown out, like yesterday. breaking now is a come on, 9:00 in the east, 6:00 in the west coast. we can confirm fox news can confirm a full-scale federal investigation into the origins of covid-19 is now underway. that means investigators are now focused on a biological testing lab in wuhan china, that's the province where according to our own bret baier and his exclusive reporting, patient zero apparently contracted that virus from a bat. officials do not at this time believe the outbreak was linked to any kind of