♪ yo >> tucker: a good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." the sad news is, and you know this already come more than 22 million people filed for unemployment benefits recently since our government began implementing mass quarantines and shutting down the economy in state after state. according to pew as of right now, 43% of all americans have seen their hours cut, their pay cut or lost their jobs entirely. that means a huge chunk of the country is wondering how to pay the bills. some have run out of money entirely and they are hungry. w lines at food banks are the longest in nearly a hundred years since the depression. so whatever you think of our uniquely generous immigration policy, maybe you support it, it's pretty clear that right now is literally the last moment that unemployedpo americans shos

have to be undercut by foreign nationals as they look for desperately needed jobs. it's obvious and the president knows it well. last night without warning he tweeted this. "in light of the attack from the invisible enemy as well asng needing to protect the jobs of our great american citizens i will be signing an executive order temporarily suspending immigration intoin the united states." and that seems to come out of nowhere. americans have been consistently demanding this and it's measurable. i knew absalom's poll found a remarkable 79% of american adults support the temporary suspension of all immigration into the country for the duration of this pandemic. a harvard harris poll found that 83% of adults want a moratorium on immigration from mexico. and these are not new sentiments. they have been around a long time. another harvard poll from two

years ago found that 81% of voters wanted legal immigration cut to below itslar current lev. of about 1 million people a year. 63% wanted that number cut by half at least, and in a country is divided as ours is right now this is as close to a consensus as you are ever going to find about anything ever. if our democracy is real and we are hoping it is, our leaders cannot continue to ignore what the public wants. in this case there's no question the president has the authority to do what he has done. current federal law explicitly authorizes the president, any l president to suspend immigratn into the country whenever he deems it detrimental to the people of the united states. the people who wrote that were very clear why they did it. during hearings at the time they explicitly pointed to epidemics and mass employment as the kind of crises that would justify cutting off immigration. sound familiar? of course it does. to most people, that makes out her sense. why in the middle of a disaster would you make things worse? why would you hurt your own people when they are already

hurting? even in europe that's very obvious to leaders, many european countries have closed their borders during this ester -- disaster and now making do with their own indigenous labor force. and yet some people in this country still oppose the idea. who are these people and why did they oppose it? people who have beenen pampered and enriched by waves of low wage and migration are against it. politicians whose hopes for power rest on changes in this population oppose it, too.. they would rather see americans unemployed. anyone whose livelihood depends on selling of the country is apt to be very threatened byan it. former secretary of state madeleine albright is squarely in that category. she spent the last 20 years bowing before and profiting from the government of communist china. she lobbied for this disastrous commission into the world trade organization 20 years ago. o she's now appalled by the notn of cutting immigration during the worst unemployment crisis of our lifetimes. is she just explained on msnbc that's immoral. >> how do you feel about the president's messaging on

immigration? >> i'm stunned. i do think that the statue of liberty is weeping. it's un-american. >> tucker: got that? it's un-american to act in the economic interest of america. that is madeleine albright's position. but she seemed coherent as she said it. and baidoa work is technically unemployed himself, erupted in a primal scream. he said "who do you think is working on the farms and feedlots and packing plants at a time we are struggling to feed ourselves. who is in the kitchen, who is picking and preparing and serving the food we eat and cleaning up afterwards? honestly, those are all very good questions if you are an 18th century french marquis. as a country falls apart around him, his first and main concerna is preserving america's sacred

task system. the native-born working on farms and kitchens and factories? it's unnatural, unthinkable, it's wrong. we must have a compliant underclass. we must. who will iron the sheets? you can just imagine sitting alone in his study for writing about the coming peasant rebellion. but it turns out he needn't have worried. just before airtime the president announced the substance of his executive order, and it's possible this will change. so we are just going on what we heard from the podium. but it's this. the new moratorium will last for 60 days at which point it will be extended or not bene extende. the band will apply to w only individuals seeking permanent residency in this country. in other words people who like the united states enough to stay permanently and would like green cards to be able to do it legally. g but the band will not apply to those entering the united states on a temporary basis and that means this will not affect guest workers. that's an awful lot of exceptions. every year the government hands

out 80,000 nonagricultural guest worker visas, and hundreds of thousands of aqua worker visas. the purpose of this title wave of immigration has nothing to do with what advocates of immigration claim immigration is for. these visas do not improve american society in any way. we have no moral obligation to give them, no mention of guest workers on statue of liberty. there's only one point in handing out hundreds of thousands of these visas to foreign nationals and itsly duplicate big business.es -- to placate big business. employers always and everywhere want to hire workers for less, in this case less than americans make in these visas let them do it. they continue to do it at a time when more than 22 million americans have just filed for unemployment. you may have just lost your job but you will be happy to know that accenture can still import i.t. workers from asia who will work for less than he wants me to.

so if the point of this executive order was to protect american jobs, maybe there was another point. but if it was to protect american jobs, it failed. so how did this happen exactly? we aren't sure although we do plan to find out. but for now we can make a few educated guesses. the first is this, the president is worried about preserving american jobs. he says that frequently to people around him and he clearly means it. he ran on that issue in 2016 at a course, he one on that. unfortunately, and this seems to be key, some in his orbit are not concerned. their main worry is making donors happy, and if there is one thing donors love, it is cheap employees. and in the middle class is dying at a faster clip than ever before and this will not help them. no, this will not help them, but that's not the problem of this advisor. i don't know many of these people personally anyway. these people may not be poor but they are fashionably poor. they write songs about and raise money for mixers. they are just normal americans whose lives and futures and

families have taken a terrifying dive that they may not recover from, but whatever. some of the people with influence hanging around the white house have more profound things to worry about right now than the fate of america's dying middle-class. they are worried about whether their friends will approve of the president's latest executive order. that's their attitude and it's's that attitude that brought us where we are right now. who are we talking about? we are not naming names tonight because we haven't confirmed who they are. more to come. senator ted cruz represents the state of texas, and he joins us tonight. thank you so much for coming on. i just wonder if you agree with our perception that the president sincerely isr concernd about the number of americans who are unemployed and want to protect their jobs. he talks about a lot of these. somewhere between that desire and this executive order, somethingha happened. does not seem right to you? >> well, i know he cares about

american jobs and have spoken to him many times during this coronavirus pandemic and i think this order is a step trying to do that. i think we out to have two priorities:me protecting american lives and protecting american jobs. i think halting legal immigration for 60 days makes perfect sense in accomplishing both of those. >> tucker: here's what i don't -- and i agree with you completely, thank you for reiterating 60 days or two months. this is not forever and i think we should have an actual debate on this but for now, it's nttemporary. why, when you have the highest unemployment rate in our lifetime, really the lifetime of anyone living, would you allow companies to import i.t. workers from foreign countries to take middle class or upper middle-class jobs, that seems insane to me. >> tucker, i agree with you. i don't get make sense. we have 22 million americans who have filed for employment in the

last four weeks. the whole purpose of legal immigration is supposed to benefit the economy. when you have 22 million americans out of work they need to get the jobs. we don't need to be bringing in a million plus workers when 22 million americans are out of work. in a tight labor market, the calculus would be different. but this is a crisis and we need to get americans back to work. i think halting -- bringing in legal immigration and i say this as the son of a legal immigrant. i believe in immigration as long as it benefits jobs. but when you have a catastrophet unfolding bringing in millions of additional workers comp before the americans get hired, that doesn't make any sense. >> tucker: and you have to guess that a lot of the companies that will take advantage of this loophole are companies that are receiving taxpayer funds in the bailout, just to make it more perverse. >> i think that's right.

and it's one thing three months ago when we had exceptionally tight markets. when we had 3% unemployment with the economy booming, it was one thing to make the argument that we needed skilled workers. i'm a big believer in shifting legal immigration to a skills-based immigration system where we bring in people that can generate jobs and help the economy, i think that's the strength of our country, the people want to be there. but it's a different situation when you are in a crisis and people are being laid off in massive numbers and people need jobs, people need jobs. you know, i enjoyed your discussion of my opponent beto rourke, but his view of people in the kitchens or fields, people need jobs they are but people need jobs throughout the economy right now and i think our priority needs to be keep people safe and help americans get their jobs back. >> tucker: amen. senator ted cruz, thank you so much for joining us tonight.

i want to bring you an update tonight on what's happening in the state of michigan. all last week we told you about the governor there, gretchen whitmer, and what she was doing in the name of science to respond to this pandemic. she ban the sale of forbidden objects. paint, carpet, gardening supplies. she took control of the state's highways. she forbade residents from traveling to their own homes. she claimed this was rational and legal, though she never cited of course any scientific justification for all this. she says she must continue to do it however because keeping residents indoors is comparable in importance to beating nazi germany. >> president trump called this a war and it is exactly that. so let's act like it. in world war ii, there weren't people lining up the capital to protest the fact that they hadi, to drop everything they were doing and build planes or tanks were to ration food.

they rolled up their sleeves and they got to work. >> tucker: so nobody complained during the second world war. they were obedient little serfs who diddi exactly what their leaders told them to do. why can't people in michigan in 2020 do the same and why do they have to ask uncomfortable questions about what governor whitmer is doing? they should shut up and if they don't, we are going to arrest them. that's her position. she wants her citizens quiet and subservient. why? because quiet and subservient people won't interfere with what she plans to do. what shebs plenty to do?h merge the government of michigan with the state democratic party. you shouldn't be surprised. no one is mediocre as gretchen whitmer could become governor without the party brass backing her and as a governor she is returning the favor in spades. recently our government has been mounting an effort to trace the contacts of known coronavirus

cases. there are a lot of companies that could do that but only a few of them are de facto arms of the democratic party in michigan. so who do you think agretchen whitmer turned to? you don't need to guess twice. on monday michigan's health department announced a contract with a group called great lakes community engagement which is a company that describes itself in specializing outreach campaigns to engage citizens. they are lying by omission. in fact, it's a left-wing activist group linked to a man named mike cole house. he's a former occupied wall street leader who has become one of the top democratic political operatives. they collect signatures with left-wing ballot initiatives and now but murray wants them to be paid to collect information on her citizens health. to do that this group was going to use software from every action fan. that's a company that brags the leading democratic provider. the software is used by planned

parenthood, nexgen client, and and up banning abortions. she is selling lotto tickets this almost worked. banning abortions. gretchen whitmer shoveling tax dollars to political allies in the middle of a pandemic. tobut today the michigan press outlet asked her office, why are you hiring a far left-wing activist to lead a public health initiative in the middle of an emergency? wouldn't that be like the president replacing anthony fauci with steve b bannon? it would be seen as political, nothing against steve bannon but that would not be seen as a nonpart partisan move made in the name of science. would it? whitmer's office replied by canceling the contract. they were caught this time because finally someone was watching. but don't worry, they will try again. judge jeanine pirro hosts justice with judge dean.

we love to have her on the show, hey, judge what do you make of this , >> you know, i have to comment on gretchen's first comment saying, in world war ii, people went back to work and rolled up their sleeves. she sees her tone-deaf or stupid because people do want to go back to work and they do want to roll up their sleeves but she's essentially creating house arrest for them. we knew, tucker, that she was a political operative based on the fact that, you know as you said you can get an abortion but don't you dare try to go to church. you can make sure that you can get alcohol and booze but don't nttry to buy paint for your houe or grass seed. the woman is a political leftist operative and she was taking advantage until she got caughtis of the biggest pandemic that this country has ever seen and she has put a political operation behind the information. basically saying, you can collect information from people that you are tracing and getn

information from everyone saying, by the way, we know that you may have been in contact with someone that we know has covid-19. we need to know how old are you, i'll need people are in your house, what are their emails, what are their ages, and then this information is entered into a democrat database. this is the essence of a violation of public trust. it would have been paid for with taxpayer dollars and it is medical information that is supposed to protect people. this woman does not belong in office. she is corrupt, she's tone-deaf and she has no idea what the people of michigan want. every day her poll numbers go down and she think she is auditioning to be vice president with joe biden. >> tucker: i don't think she's going to get it. her behavior has been so over-the-top, so aggressively mediocre and authoritarian and stupid that i don't think even h biden would pick her.

the judge, thank you for that assessment. great to se see you tonight. >> great to see you. we have some good news in the fight against this pandemic. new at home testing kits have just been approved. dr. marc siegel will join us after the break to take a look and also tell us about a new telltale sign that you may have the coronavirus.s. here's a hint, it's in your toes. that's next. ♪ you doing okay?

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that you can use in your own home. how does it work and where do you get it? for questions like that, we we always go to the same man for answers, dr. marc siegel. hello doctor. >> tucker, it's called pixel. lab core has a test which you can do at home which now the fda has approved for emergency uset authorization which means you should be able to get it now.o here is what is great about it. lab core wasn't having technicians to the swabs for obvious reasons because they would be at risk and would need personal protective equipment. but if you have the a nasal swab that i showed on camera last week and you do it to yourself at home and they have the collection kit and then you send it to lab core, you can even mail it to lab core and then they do the test and it doesn't involve a third party who e is then put it risk. this is a tremendous step forward. at the same time this is happening, the stimulus package, coronavirus stimulus package for 500 billion that was passed by senate today and is going to be before the house later this week

includes $25 billion, 11ti billn of which go to the states to work on researching, developing and validating the very tests that we've been talking about. rapid point-of-care testing for covid-19. and at the serology or antibody test that we were talking about last night where you can vest -- campus communities to see wo has it and who doesn't have it, and what's really important here is the word research. in the cdc is going to be involved in this because we have to figure out which antibodies work, which ones really tell us that you are immune. i if you have igg, if you have the antibody it's one thing but are you immune to covid-19 and will you ever be able to get it again? that is what they will be researching. eventually we will have a standardized test sooner rather than later. the third thing i want to talk about today, you mentioned

already and it's called covid toes. for the clinicians that don't have the rapid testing, how to nswait till if if you have covid-19 or not? what we found some clues already including loss of taste, loss of smell, cough, shortness of breath and fever and fatigue. but here's a new one, if your toes are turning blue like you have frostbite, or your fingers are turning blue, it may be duee to clotting or not enough blood circulation to your toes, it may be characteristics, and dermatologists are starting to weigh in on this and say maybe here's another clue. tucker, if i see that in a patient i might be thinking covid-19 even if they don't have all the other symptoms, tucker. >> tucker: blue toes and no smell. interesting. we still have a lot to learn about this. dr. siegel, thank you for updating us every night on this. we appreciate it. >> thanks, tucker. widely used health models as you remember predicted an unprecedented flood of wuhan coronavirus cases.

they suspended so-called nonessential procedures. so far the expected title wave of patients has not yet arrived in most places, but normal w health care is still has not resumed. so what kind of effect is that having? dr. neil l trash is a well-known orthopedic surgeon in los angeles and he joins us tonight. doctor, thanks so much for coming on. so what exactly -- we hear j nonessential procedures are suspended in some places governors have made them illegal, what does that mean for you as a surgeon? >> thank you and good evening. i think first it's important to remember that this pandemic hit different parts of the country with a different force of impact and at different times. in our response to that clearly was different. so our hearts and prayers go out to the patients and our friendss and colleagues that are working on the front lines in hard-hit areas of the country. it's important to remember that the noncovid related burden of

disease and ailments that still exists. it's out there and it's growing in many cases because it's difficult to take care of things because of the necessary focus on the virus. you know, the pandemic has forced the issue of contraction of our medical system and that creates a lot of medical consequences that may not immediately become apparent. i will give you some examples. one, recently, we have a great colleague and a great surgeon whose practices involved with taking care of young women who have the gene associated with breast cancer. and has practiced often times including bilateral mastectomy is early-stage reconstruction. those procedures are elective so it's very difficult for him here to perform those as well as other places in the country. make matters worse, he called and said that about six weeks

ago he tore his rotator cuff in his shoulder and it's difficult for him to lift his arm. he is concerned that when the restrictions are lifted it will be difficult for him to go back to surgery and take care of his patients. that procedure to fix his rotator cuff is also elective. these things being curtailed, like this is affecting people's lives and livelihoods, but the other issue is that elective procedures like this, not just surgery but a lot of surgery and other elective procedures make up to 80%, and that funding goes to pay nurses and doctors and lab technicians and scientists and researchers, basically all the things that make our medical system great. with that kind of contraction that creates a problem. lastly just yesterday i was

involved in a very concerning teconversation with another gret colleague of mine. here in los angeles. she's the president of a very large medical system here in our region. she told me that the noncovid related visits to the emergency room are down by 50%. what does that mean? that disease and pathology is out there and growing, and the fear that has been is generated has damaging effect. and so people that are willing to go to the 7-eleven or grocery store or are afraid to come into the emergency room to get necessary things taken care of. it is going to be difficult for us to take care of with with the contracted society. >> tucker: i so appreciate you coming on to call our attention to another set of victims of these lockdowns who are getting

no attention whatsoever. >> tucker, can i add one thing? the solution is there. i've talked to my friends and colleagues across the country and we can solve this. we can move forward in a way that say for our patients, say for our staff. the solution is there. doctors will take care of this if given the chance and all we need is a little bit of help from our government and politicians.s >> i would say immediate help. doctor, thank you. good to see you. >> thank you, thank you. andrew cuomo would like to be president of the united states and his brother would like to be a warrior poet. a tale of two brothers, next. ♪

♪ light from america's news headquarters marianne rafferty. a second wave could be more devastating according to the director of the cdc, robert redfield. redfield telling "the washington post" the situation could become dire because it would likely coincide with the flu season impurities have federal and state officials need to prepare now and continue to stress the importance of social distancing. and a fair study showing hydroxychloroquine has no benefit to people battling covid-19 and even leads to more deaths. the malaria drug was widely

touted by president trump as a promising treatment. researchers say there were more than twice as many deaths among patients getting the drug than usual care. the analysis involved 368 patients. i'm marianne rafferty. now back to "tucker carlson tonight." >> tucker: a lot of republicans feel confident about the president's chances of reelection, there are a number of reasons for this but the main one is two words long,elnc joe biden. democrats persist on pretending he can be the president. the president will get three debates against biden and he should do fairly well, that's what republicans believe. biden appeared on cnn last week to show off his predebate skills. here's howwh b he fared. >> you know, during world war ii, roosevelt came up with the thing that was totally different that he called -- you know he called it the world war ii -- you know he had

the war production board. >> tucker: poor guy. it wasn't the first time, either. earlier in april there was this. >> we cannot let this -- we've never allowed any crisis from the civil war straight through the pandemic of 16, we have never never let our democracy take second fiddle. joe biden is where a lot of us middle age fear we are. you have to wonder at this rate will biden even be participating? by october will he be able to participate? that is absolutely an open question. there's also another question. andrew cuomo. andrew cuomo is at the white house today to collaborate with the trump administration on fighting the coronavirus. the question is, will democratsi keep joe biden as the parties standard they are all the way to november will be pushed aside

for a new candidate? the rules don't allow it but could it happen anyway? brit hume is our senior political analyst. thank you so much for coming on. every time i raise this with some in washington i get a scowl, you know that's not allowed by the rules, but then part of me thinks rules are made by people and maybe people change the rules. what do you think will happen? >> i think democrats have to be worried about biden. he did very well, i think it's fair to say, in his last debate irwith bernie sanders, it was hs best debate in ages. but those two examples that you played have illustrated he's been having a hard time keeping his thoughts together and being able to say what he needs to say. i have no doubt about what the problem is, i'm about the same age as he is and i experienced the same kind of memory problems he does. i think he's senile and i don'te think there can be much doubt about it, it's not necessarily crippling but it doesn't help.

and people come to that conclusion, they may be hesitant to put him in the white house. so i think that's kind of where it is.si i think it's donald trump's best hope, i really do. i think the republican assessment of that is correct. i think donald trump will have an uphill struggle. biden might save him by being biden.y >> tucker: a lot of democratic donors appear to agree with you. there's all this energy on the democratic side that includes most of finance and a lot of awfully rich people against trump. and yet the latest fund-raising ainumbers show biden way, way behind. what does that tell you? >> biden is a guy that everybody knows, has known for a long time and who everyone appreciates. and whom everybody is comfortable. you and i know he's a very nice guy. i've known him on a personal basis and i like him very much. and i know you have two.wn so people are comfortable with him, but he's never been really

exciting. barack obama to democrats was tremendously exciting and donald trump to his supporters was likewise very exciting. he's staggering crowds of these immense events and so forth and his supporters are deeply loyal. people are comfortable but they aren't excited about him and that may account for his fund-raising difficulties. >> tucker: so you do you think it's possible that party elders, big fund-raisers to the democratic party will say, we just want to beat the incumbent too much and i'm sorry, we will have to put someone else in there? >> while they can't do that because of the waste the system operates. this isn't like back in the day when the party elders would get together and the proverbial smoke filled room and basically pick a nominee. nowadays, you run all of these primaries and caucuses and acute light delegates, and if you get the majority of those, youse control the convention. and the party elders can have a role and they may and a very close race, if there is such a

thing, tipped thend balance one way or another because they have a say. but it's not as if they decided a nomination still has his support intact, it would be very difficult to do and it's a little hard to see how that would come about which is why i think all the talk about andrew cuomo who seems to have done the most amazing job perhaps in modern politics of presiding over the worst of this public health crisis, and yet escaping blame for it. he's coming out of this smelling like a rose, it's been quite heremarkable. >> tucker: it is unbelievable actually such a good point. brit hume, thank you so much for that. >> you bet, tucker. >> tucker: whether he can do it or not, obviously the governor andrew cuomo would like to be the president. meanwhile his brother over at cnn thinks he has risen from the dead as well. a several weeks ago he contracted coronavirus and we express sympathy for him that night, it

was totally sincere and we haven't criticized him in any way sinceco then. but then we watch him seize every chance to remind everyone watching that he was sick and in containment. >> i'm doing this show from a basement in covid containment. is this the new normal? m is this how it is going to be? >> i'm down in the basement and we are doing it super strict here, it's not easy, it's necessary. it's not what all of us want to hear. i'm sick of being in my basement, i want to get s out. >> tucker: thankfully he got better and we are happy to hear that, not kidding. but cnn, shameless cheese balls that they are celebrated by filming cuomo rising like a buff cable news lazarus from the grave and back into ordinary life. >> we had a huge day today in casa cuomo.

take a look at this. >> here is the official raising from the basement. i'm a little sweaty, just worked out, it happens. this is literally what i've been dreaming of. this is the dream, just to be back up here and doing normal things. >> tucker: one did journalist start talking about themselves so much? it's not a story, it's narcissism. and that's great enough. but that's not all. that was fake. just last week cuomo admitted getting into a fight with the bicyclist who harassed him for going outside and congregating with other people, something cnn has been vilifying ordinary people for wanting to do. >> i don't want some jack [bleep] loser fat tire biker to be able to pull over and get in my face and in my space and talk [bleep] to me. i don't want to hear it.

>> tucker: by the way, if you are the loser fat tire bicyclist, you are always welcome in the show. we would love to hear from you. that whole exchange seems unpleasant but there is a scandal beneath it. here you have a top cnn anchor who appears to have been ignoring the social distancing rules. his network has been promoting and enforcing on everyone else. it seems like he wasn't telling the truth about staying quarantined in his basement. but you can't be too mean, and his own was humiliating enough. alexandria ocasio-cortez tweets a lot and that's how you know what she really thinks. yesterday she told us what she really thinks about america's unfolding economic cleansing. we will tell you after the break. plus most americans who do have jobs are working from home, it's not an option. we will look at the truckers who have kept this country alive for the last month. that's not an overstatement. >> we will be right back.

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♪ >> tucker: when the first gulf war broke out in the summer of 1990 democrats came up with the keslogan you may remember. no blood for oil. they will be forced to do the bidding of despotic regimes in the middle east. up to and including fighting wars on their behalf. in fact there was some truth in that. democrats use that line consistently for two decades and then they stop saying it, exactly at the moment our country finally became energy independent. they never celebrated the victory, victory they claimed they hadrg wanted. instead almost overnight that began demanding that america stopped producing oil which tells you everything about thean treal motives.

ever yesterday and people who care about this were horrified to see it. that's more than 5%. but for people like alexandria ocasio-cortez, it was a cause for celebration. as a bomb dropped out of one of her most critical -- tweeted this. you absolutely love to see it. this along with record low interest rates is time for work-related mass investment in green infrastructure to save our planet. you love to see it. love to see what? blue-collar america take another kick to the face? she soon realized she had been to an associate deleted the tweet but it was too late, she was exposed for who she really is. note the cilia site about work or let investments? please. spare us sandy from suburbia.

but almost ten actual workers were suffering, you clap your hands on left of them. -- and laughed at them. go back to westchester, you entitled. america has only avoided collapse, not an exaggeration, because of one group. millions of truck drivers who are continuing to keep this economic engine running and it stores full and are bringing goods to your house. we recently talked to one of those drivers. >> i've been doing this 32 years, i don't know what else i would i do other than keep goin. >> make truck driver around -- ron round. as the nation around them grounds to a hold, america's truck drivers kept moving. >> this is our work from home. foreground, that mate starting every day at 5:00 a.m. and running halls between bangor, maine, and various pulp mills around the state. when we met him he was on a

second run to a canadian border. high winds and heavy rain weren't enough to slow him downo >> that is 4 bales, roughly 60,000 pounds. this being one of the vast majority of americans freight moves by truck and with most americans at home, that freight still must move and that means drivers can't shut down. >> people call, do you have any toilet paper? no. when is the truck coming? well, tomorrow. can you imagine what people do if the answer was, the truck ain't coming? people would go into a it would be safe to go shopping. ridiculous frenzy. >> tucker: it but it's not like that's usual for the truckers, the virus has made it very hard to stay on the road. >> the drivers are out here trying to get this country going and it's almost like different entities are o working against . >> tucker: state-levelal shutdowns in particular have been a problem for truckers. >> you go by a rest area at night, and they are closed down. what are we supposed to do now?

>> tucker: with restaurants closed in drive-through is not an option, many talkers have to find newpo ways to eat. these drivers aren't going to have sit down meals. they are stocking up and carrying food with them if they can. steve linick no matter how tough things get it, he has no plan to stop talking. >> as long as there's work to be kee done. >> tucker: amazing. those are heroes, no exaggeration. instead of telling the truth about the coronavirus, china is spreading lies about this country. saying we did it. what can be done to punish this behavior? we will talk to a state official who is suing the chinese government, 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.

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him hi speed to the leadership of mainland china lied about this virus from the beginning. they virtually guaranteed it would spread across the world and devastate the global economy, all of which have been. will they pay any price for that? eric schmidt is the attorney general for the state of missouri, the first state to sue china over the wuhan coronavirus. thank you so much for coming on tonight. >> thank you. >> tucker: tell us about this suit you have filed. >> what's been made in recent weeks, the representation, the concealment by the chinese government of the origins of the submissions virus that's

impacted the entire globe. no part of the world has been spared by the coronavirus and the fact is the chinese government mr. presented it, they were aware of the human human contact, hid that, punished and concealed the evidence from whistle-blowers, ands the impact has been devastating. loss of life here in missouri, nearly 6,000 cases, nearly 200 deaths, people not allowed to see folks in nursing homes or funerals. the economic impact, disruption, people living paycheck to paycheck have lost their jobs. our state legislator goes in next week like a lot of states to try to craft a state budget out of the circumstances. i felt it was incumbent of me as the state's legal officer to prosecute that case to the chinese government. they are responsible for this and the response billy lies directly at their feet >> tucker: have you had any pushback's or disagreements on this? >> we flow very confident on the

case and we brought claims of negligence, the hoarding of pbe is one of our there are exceptions. there is exception for commercial activity and the fact they were running the virology lab, the fact they were running hospital systems, the fact they were hoarding ppe, we think it fit squarely in the exception which was why we brought the case. >> tucker: sure. othernt countries have been sued successfully. hydroxychloroquine for example iran for example. when will you find out when this case goes forward? >> we filed in the eastern district of federal cover down the court,holding those rer the worldwide pandemic, and we look forward to them answering the complaint.sw it's i been very specific, or complaint, the factual

allegations, the legal claims are very merited. >> tucker: there are a lot of specifics out there. thanks so much for telling us tonight. appreciate it. we are out of time. our hour is done. but sean hannity takes over from new york now. >> sean: you gave me ten seconds. you didn't take the three seconds back. if you wanted it that bad, i give it to you. tucker, great show. >> tucker: i was desperate. >> sean: busy tonight on "hannity." the president tonight once again taking bold action to secure the american people. it's sad. when you really stop and think, this is about lives, isn't it? our fellow americans, you wouldn't know it from the media, democrats. the one guy that was ahead of the curve as it relates to china, travel ban, the need to secure america's borders, is now taking another important measure to protect w