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the coronavirus didn't attack tonight other state like it did new york but we've responded like it did. i understand why. mitigation works ban we flattened the curve. most states did great, buff some didn't. they got hammers. 8 million people in a densely populated city. crowded buildings and streets. packed high rises. big elderly populations. jfk airport with international fliements landing all day -- flights landing all day and elderly with preexisting conditions. it's a perfect storm for the virus. but the new york media can't understand why the rest of america isn't ready to shelter in place for months and months and months. the numbers explain it. america has 50,000 coronavirus

fatalities. new york has over 20o,00 -- hasr 20,000 of those a stalts. temperature new york and new jersey have over half of the fatalities. five of the deadliest states are in the northeast. some of these states have death tolls in the single digits. form a number of reasons they are in fantastic shape. new york has a quarter million cases. that's nearly half of all the cases in the country basically surrounding one city. and look at at other states. a few hundred cases. these states want to get back to work and they should safely. people need to work to eat. but the selfish new york media, they don't understand that.

and they wag their finger at us. >> people are suffering from cabin' fever. i can't think of any disease worse than that. >> those people are complaining because they don't have haircuts? >> people are getting restless. especially people who aren't too bright. they want to die and they are taking us down with them. >> what is it they are trying to channel. a neoconfederacy. >> is it health? is it the economy or the election moved. >> you want to call yourself protesters leave your guns home. these are terrorists. jesse: this is why they are called the elite media. they are out of stuff with the entire country. the country doesn't have a death wish. international airport today must leave the house to live. the media will get paid staying

home and will their friends. but america doesn't get paid to stay home. they can't understand why nashville, tennessee would start opening up. nashville has two dozen deaths. new york has over 20,000. people there need to get back to work safely. sue sides, alcoholism. child abiewms calls. they are all you have. bankruptcies are skyrocketing. 30 million people lost their jobs. they are losing their family business. if you keep things? closed much longer there won't be any business to welcome workers back. and the new york governor andrew co-more was asked about the' -- andrew cuomo was asked about the urge to work. >> if you want to work? go take a job as an essential

worker. take a job as an essential worker. >> people of aren't hiring. >> people are hiring. you can get a job as an essential work. so you can go to work as an essential work and you won't kill anyone. jesse: new york got rocked by this virus. he was begging for ventilators and he got them. he was begging for beds and he god them. but he was forcing nursing homes to stake coronavirus pay -- to take coronavirus patients. and the nursing home population was decimated. the governor is working very hard, but he made a lot of mistakes. he's treated like a god in the media. check this quote out. america's governor. okay. the golden governor.

really? he drew a tough hands. but the guy isn't golden. then there is bill deblasio who is telling everybody to wear a mask. then two days later strolls around without one. in march the state told everybody don't go to the gym. what does he do? of course, he goes to the gym. and look at george stephanopoulos. he has coronavirus. we hope he gets better. but, george, walking around with his mask off. i'm tired of these new york no it alls and hypocrites lecturing states that have the virus under control and lecturing americans who need to leave their house for a paycheck. we all came together after 9/11. and we should be doing it again now. america has flattened the curve,

the task force says. the worst is behind us as long as we stay vigilant. we'll be able to open up slowly and safely in phases. in to states they started stop dip their tows in the water. -- their toes in the water. i spoke stop dr. deborah birx. the president says memorial day which is in a mop, we will have turned the corner on this virus and will be in a much, much better plays? is that your after he sum shun. >> we believe the hospitalization and the icu need and the number of people who have succumbed to this disease will be dramatically decreased about it end of may. now we are expanding more and more testing. our testing was prioritized to

people who needed it for decision make. people in the hospital, people who were sick, front line nurses and first responders. as we expand into the greater community with much less symptoms, we'll see additional case. but we've believe they are cases circulating the community butted in the asymptomatic or mild state that we want to understand. jesse: how costly was it that the chinese government wasn't open and honest with us in the very beginning? it must have been what, a month? two months that we lost because of the chinese? >> i think there are legitimate questions about what the epidemic looked like in china. i still can't tell you that. all we have been sold are the limited numbers of cases and the limited mortality which doesn't

match any other expansive epidemic for this virus. we need to understand were they genetically unique or was there a lack of transparency in reporting. jesse: a very diplomaticcance and i appreciate your honesty. some criticism from the media is the president was too slow in confronting this virus. do you agree on this or not? >> i arrived on the scene on the 2nd of march. and every piece of data we got to him he looks at, he talks through, and asks questions. he asks questions that show he understands the data. public health charts are have much like economic charts. he has a strong foundation in

data in general. so being able to explain to him what's happening in the united states county by county, he likes to see the data. he wants to know what's happening at the county level, the community level, the state level and what's happening globally. he assured them we are learning from others as we move through this. we get reports daily on how other countries are handling opening up and we are tracking how the states are doing as they open up their economics. that's integrating that data every day for the president and vice president. jesse: dr. fauci said whenever you guys have gone to the president with a serious scientific recommendation, he has absorbed that and taken action. >> that's absolutely correct. jesse: we heard from the dhs say thursday sunlight, increased temperature and humidity could

have an effect on killing the virus in the air, on surfaces. and the president is spit balling and asking questions would it be possible to target the virus through a cure using certain ingredients or using sunlight. you didn't believe the president was putting anybody in danger, did you? >> he gets new information and he likes to talk that through out loud and have that dialogue. that's what dialogue he was having. i think he just saw the information at the time, immediately before the press conference and he was still digesting that information. the president has always put health and safety first. i think you can see that in the waive he was supportive of slowing the spread guidelines knowing the impact that would have on the economy and knew clearly what impact it would have on the economy. but he realized the health and safe i of americans was his

number one interest and responsibility and that's what he did first and continues to do as we begin to open up. jesse: you probably never imagined you would be doing this much television. you are doing cable, and print, you are there pave sick chicago every day doing these press briefings. do you believe the media has been fair throughout's pandemic. >> i have done medial all over the world -- i have done media all over the world because i have been working on pandemics around the globe for a number of years. i think the media is slicey and dicey how they put sentences together to create headlines. we know from millennials and other studies that some people may only read the headlines.

if there is not a graphic they are not going the look any further than that. we have to be responsible about our headlines. often the reporting may be accurate in paragraph 3, 4, and 5. but i'm not sure how many people get to paragraph 3, 4, and 5. i think the responsibility the press has is to make sure the headlines reflect what's in their piece. jesse: we want to thank you for all you are doing. and we are grateful for your service. china and america on a collision course. but will democrats unite against the communist threat? later, a. "watters' world" investigation "watters' world" investigation into china's wet

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negatively. the feeling are pretty much bipartisan. almost all republicans and most democrats agree. the trade war, human rights abuse, chinese pollution, now the coronavirus cover-up have dramatically darkened america's views. it's not with the chinese people, it's with the chinese regime. our politicians need to wake up and oppose china's quest for world domination. this is a war to be the world's sole super power. this is a war for jobs and resource. from hacking to espionage to stirring up trouble in north korea. china is taking the game very, very seriously. we need to rebuild our economy and align it away from cheap

chinese labor. i don't care as long as it's american made. look at the mess we are in now because we don't make drugs and healthcare supplies at home. imagine if a veal war starts. there are cost -- in a real war starts. we need to be strategic about the long game. we need to fight to win just like we did against the soviet union and just like we did against radical islam. we are in a propaganda war, too. and our media doesn't even realize it. here is a quote from the chinese state-run media. the covid spread is like that of a primitive society. it shouldn't have been like this if the u.s. had the slightest

science and organization. to put it bluntly, the u.s. is no match. we were willing to show understanding for that after all every system has its weaknesses. this lie went all over the world. and the cia? they are saying china was sending us text messages with fake news in them trying to scare us and divide us during the pandemic. but america can't be divide. we need to unite. it's a matter of life and death. joining me now, steve bannon who has been warning about china for almost a decade it seems. do you think america including democrats have the stomach for this fight? >> we have to have the stomach for this fight. it's a fight for freedom.

the chinese people are the innocent victims. this is about a totalitarian regime ever bit as tough as the the -- as the nazis. in your opening monologue, you talk about new york city. new york was a hot spot because of jfk and the travel coming in from china. the chinese communist party knew they had human-to-human * transmission and community spread. they hid it. the world health organization tweeted, after consultation with senior officials in the communist regime, there is no human-to-human transmission. they went around the world and vacuumed up the ppe.

and they knew they could use it as leverage against other countries. if president trump had not stopped travel on january 31. joe biden took the side of the dictators. particularly the bernie people, the labor union, the working class people particularly in the upper midwest who are old school hard-core labor democrats understand what the chinese communist party has done with the slave labor in china. this is the generations call. we have to confront this and beat it. jesse: during the cold war you had full mobilization in this country against the russians. but hollywood was on our side. you had movies against the russians. every russian was a bad guy. you had rocky and rambo.

but what i'm afraid of is these parent companies and movie houses and studios, they are too much in business with china. they wouldn't make a chinese guy the bad guy in any motion picture because they are afraid to offend them because they know they will pull the rug out of any distribution deal in that country with billions of people there. how do you have fight an even membership you are so economically entrenched with? >> it's not like in business. they are in bed. the financial community and corporate community. the movie of "red dawn" that had to be pulled before its release so as not to insult the chinese communist party. ronald reagan said we win, they lose.

that's the attitude we have got to take today. that pew research jesse was shocking. i will tell you how it shocked the most. the gangsters in beijing see the american people coming together. this is the new fright for freedom to free the chinese people and break the firewall. once they get their freedom they will overthrow this dictatorship. that will lead the world into peace and prosperity, the removal of the chinese communist party. jesse: that's going to be tough to cleave the people away from the chinese communist party. we have our work cut out for us. thanks for talking about this on the radio. you have been talking about it for years. let's keep banging this drum. i think more and more people are starting to wake up. i appreciate your insight. coming up. we continue to search the origin

of the chinese coronavirus. a. "watters' world" wet market investigation next. (music)

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reporting -. "watters' world" has been reporting, the different reasons given for the virus. one was it was from bats at wuhan wet markets. but bats weren't sold at the wuhan wet markets. the communist chinese won't let our scientists into the country. either way, secretary of state mike pompeo is demanding china shut down the wet markets. beatles legend paul mccartney agrees. >> it wouldn't be so bad if you thought you would blame it on the markets. it seems sars and avian flu that afflicted us, they will say we

need to get super hygienic around here. it's a little bit medieval eating bats. jesse: joining me, someone who has been at the chinese wet markets, peter li. i am seeing here, they are slaughtering and selling eels and snakes and alligators, scorpions and dogs. why are they doing that at these markets? >> that's a good question. you mention about the bats not being sold at the wuhan market. they don't need to be sold at the market for the virus to be transferred to animals. they could be transported from south china absent to wuhan

before being transported to wuhan the animals may have already been infected by bat diseases. and they have eaten bats. so china -- jesse: you are saying before the wild life goes to the wet markets it could have been in contact with the bats who had the virus and made its way there, and some other animal could have been consumed by a chinese customer. >> exactly. we are focusing too much attention on the wet market. two pieces which are equally dangerous. wild life breeding operation breeding millions of animals, and also lark numbers of animals have to be shipped over great

distances to wuhan and other cities. so transport so the pandemic could break out. jesse: so we all understand how risky and dangerous the handling of this animal and these animals are in these markets. why don't they shut them down. why do they have to have these extremely dangerous wet markets? obviously they are at risk for virus transmission. >> that's a great question. in 2003 when sars broke out china imposed a wild life ban for two months. it was quickly lifted. therefore reasons why the ban was not imposed at that time and why the wet market [inaudible] one of the main reasons was the

chinese government fear of job loss, and the gdp, you know going down, because -- jesse: i totally understand that. but do they have to have the animals slaughters on site? they have to have them fresh? >> it accounts for only 10% of all the wild life animals sent for the market. so they slaughter the wild life animals to attract the buyers. jesse: unbelievable. it's something we are just not familiar with, but we are keeping an eye on it because of the impact it had all over the world. dr. li thank you for your expertise. up next, sleepy joe and donald trump trade blows on china. did obama's endorsement

backfire? >> they would rub my leg down be to watch the hairs come back up

[♪] jesse: the biden campaign release an attack ad against president trump saying he's soft on china. >> trump rolled over for the chinese. he took their word for it. he praised the chinese 15 times in january and february as the coronavirus spread across the world. jesse: telling truth. trump praised china in the early days because he just signed a $250 billion trade deal. he launched an investigation. and deployed warships to the

south china sea. joe is softer than my pillow on china. he let them steal our jobs, and technology. joe is dead wrong on the travel ban, left our ppe stockpiles empty. and said trump was too slow. i guess bind wouldn't have mattered if trump had told the public to shelter at home during super tuesday. or as joe says super thursday. but the best part about the ads? it backfired. democrats are calling biden's china ad racist. joining me, dan bongino. >> to make an analogy, i have been on "the five" with you.

you know what i'm talking about. to say president trump has been easy on china is like saying he has been easy on immigration. did you miss his whole campaign? remember china, how trump pronounced it. he mentioned china so much during this campaign there were jokes about it. did joe biden miss that? this ad is going nowhere. no one believes that with trump. jesse: i know. he's hapless down there in the library. to be president he didn't have to spend any money on this. he just retweeted some memes. >> he rubbed my leg down to watch the hairs come back up again. i learned about kids jumping on

my lap and i love children jumping on my lap. jesse: i think that's a brilliant ad because it gets to the heart of the issue. even obama knows joe is a joke. >> i have seen that ad 50 times now and it stills cracks me up. that's not even an official campaign. they just found that on twitter somewhere. people were tweeting. they made none of it. they did nothing. the effects aren't even that good. it's hilarious. but it went viral and it cost them nothing. good job by the trump campaign. jesse: nancy pelosi thought it would be a good idea to shoot an episode of cribs during a pandemic.

she is up there with some fancy ice cream. watch this one. >> we have some other chocolates here. we just got it restocked, the ice cream. jesse: i would just fire my strategist. say, hey, not a good idea. >> we hear all the time about what a brilliant political tactician nancy pelosi is. this seriously may be one of the worst political ads for nancy pelosi i have ever seen. even meghan mccain who is not a big fan of trump all the time. this one is the kill shot. who told nancy pelosi this was a good idea. americans are trying to feed their kids. it's one thing to live in a bubble like pelosi, it's another thing to advertise it and show how out of touch you are. it costs consider her freezer

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jesse: america made a significant scientific discovery. bill. brianbrian has been in the labse virus. he broke the news sat the task force briefing. >> the strike observation is the powerful effect that sunlight appears to have on surfaces and the air. we have seen similar effects with heat and humidity as well. jesse: brian was very blunt. going in the sun doesn't cure

the virus. "the washington post" reporter phil rucker spun it this way. this guy tells the' president it's dangerous to share science with america. >> after the presentation we saw with the heat and humidity, is it dangerous for you to make people think they will be safe going out from the sun and the heat since so many people are dying in florida and singapore. >> the new headline. trump asks people to go outside, it's dangerous. here we go. i hope people enjoy the sun. >> you are the president. people tuning into these briefings want guidance and want to know what to do. >> i am the president and you are fake news. i will say nicely. i know you well. because i know the guy. i see what he writes. are you ready? are you ready?

just a suggestion. from a brilliant lab by a very, very smart, perhaps brilliant man. he's talking about sun, he's talking about heat. and he see the numbers. so that's it. jesse: he's not there to report the news. he's there to skew it. but he's angry and tried to and talk the science -- he tried to sabotage the science to hurt the president. you can't trust a guy like rucker. look at this foul creature. he could use some sunlight. another wicked partisan poked their head out of the ground this week. a member of the squad. >> iiana presley accused the president of the united states of being a war criminal.

watch. >> the virus does not discriminate by race, income or immigration status and neither should our relief efforts. this is unprecedented. it's being felt by everyone, and the relief should be felt by everyone. what's happening with the administration is akin to war crimes. criminal negligence, science denials. sluggish response. jesse: she says trump was slow. trump locked down america on march 15. her state massachusetts came off trump. two weeks after he came down. 10 states locked down before her state. now sadly massachusetts is top five in cases and fatalities. just a week before the lockdown pressley held a big rally.

there she is not social distancing. the rally wasn't warning us about the virus either. it was about abortion. we checked the record and pressley didn't say much of a people about the virus in january, february and march. and she didn't say a word about china potter when she said calling it the chinese virus was racist. if she had her way millions of americans would be dead because she sponsored a bill in the house banning trump from issuing travel bans. so millions of people in wuhan would have flown directly to america and the president couldn't have stopped it. if anybody is guilty of war crimes, it's your friends, the chinese communists. aoc wants americans to boycott

going back to work. >> we have this discussion about going back and re-opening. i think a lot of people should just say no we are not going back to that. we are not going back to working 70-hour weeks just so we can put food on the table and not feel any semblance of security in our lives. jesse: the congresswoman is boycotting the economic recovery of america. many americans aren't getting paid. they need to work to eat. other americans are getting paid not to work. now they know what it's like to be a member of congress. but that's not what they want to do. i'm not shocked aoc is against jobs. she cheered when amazon canceled jobs in new york and cheered when energy workers lost their jobs. the green new deal pays people

not to have a job. we are living the green new deal now. no air california, people getting fade not to work and we just cut the energy industry and emissions. we lost 30 million jobs and reduced emissions by 6%. this is the real cost of aoc's green new deal. if we keep going this way we'll hit the temperature target of the paris climate accord. destroying civilization so thoroughly that the world temperature only rises 1.5 degrees celsius. it costs everything. literally. up next. last call. finding dental insurance plans can be confusing,

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[♪] for tonight's last call, we have sad news to share. the father of our senior producer jessica unfortunately lost his battle with coronavirus earlier this week. michael was a family man. loved spending time with his grandson alex. he was known for being a quiet man who was always there for jessica. and her brother warren. michael was the son of the american legion, the american legion post 170. he had an impact on so many people's lives we are sure he's going to be missed. our hearts go out to you, jessica, and your entire family. may your father rest in peace.

that's all for tonight. be sure to follow me on facebook, instagram and judgjudge jeanine is next. remember i'm watters and this is my world. judge jeanine: welcome to "justice." i'm judge jeanine pirro. thanks for being with us. take a look at this lineup. kellyanne conway, lindsey graham, kevin mccarthy, former u.s. acting attorney general matt whitaker and from the state of georgia where everyone is debating the governor's re-opening plan, republican congressman doug collins. they will all join me. it's a potent lineup. but first let's do my open. congress' approval rating was just 20% when this