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tably guarding the good. draw the line with the roundup sure shot wand. roundup brand. trusted for over 40 years. >> martha: that is "the story" of this tuesday april the 28th, 2020. we will see you back here tomorrow. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson" tonight. last time on the show we play do nearly an hour long video from two physicians in california. likely many of you had already seen it, the video has had more than 5 million views on youtube. in their presentation the two doctors presented a flurry of data pointing to what we are currently learning but this virus and how it spreads. sthey cited pages of government statistics and then interpreted them in light of their own long clinical experience as doctors. at one point they noted that the newly adjusted death rate in california which is much lower than anyone expected it to be on wthe asked if government
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officials there should change their policies based on this new science. we have seen 1,227 deaths in the state of california with a possible incidence or prevalence of 4.7 million. that means we have a 0.03 chance of dying from covid-19 in this state of california. 0.03 chance of dying from covid in the state of california. does not necessitate sheltering in place? does that necessitate shutting down medical systems? does not necessitate people being out of work? >> tucker: is a whatever your view of the mask quarantine, the questions you just heard are valid questions and in fact, critical questions. we should all be asking are those questions. including and especially our
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policymakers. but as pointed out in the video, that dissent of any kind is no longer tolerated in this country. the sole science is under attack. even in hospitals. dr. erickson described physicians as related to the coronavirus. whether they believe that to be true or not. >> e.r. doctors now come my friends that i talked to say, it's interesting. when i'm writing up my death report i'm being pressured to add covid. why is that? why are we being pressured to add covid to maybe increase thee numbers and make it look a little bit worse than it is? i think so. >> tucker: is a what you just heard from what dr. erickson described is called lying. and it lying has no place in science ever. it's scary to think it takes place in a large scale in hospitals. he says it does. viewers of ericsson's video were shocked and transfixed by this. he forwarded the videos to friends and who forwarded on to their friends and suddenly millions of people spent the
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last six weeks on a diet of tiger king and stnternet memes were watching sober minded medical researchers reading from charts of statistics. it's hard to recall a science video taking off like this one a data. -- did. not everyone was impressed by it, some criticized the doctors policy conclusions and of course, that's fair. decent people have differentcy opinions. we are not entirely sure with the perfect response to this pandemic is, there is no objective answer at the moment. at best we can plot along withs open minds in good faith. more informed debate is exactly what we need to make wise decisions going forward. unfortunately for all of us informed debate is exactly what the authorities don't want to.in they unquestioned obedience so they are cracking down on free expression. last night, the doctors video the one that you just saw was pulled off of youtube. it wasn't an accident, youtubebe admitted doing it. they cited a the violation of community guidelines and didn't apologize.
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looking back when all of this is finally over, and it wille be, this is what youtube gestated as a turning point in the way we live in this country, a sharp break with 250 years of law and custom. the two doctors' a video is produced by a local television channel and it was in fact a mainstream news story. the video was not pornographic and didn't violate copyright or a incite violence, the only justification for taking it down was to the two physicians on screen had reached different conclusions for the people currently in charge. it was a form of dissent from orthodoxy. youtube and its parent company google have now officially banned it dissent. the ceo of youtube admitted that openly. >> then we talked about removing information was problematic. of course, anything that is
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medically ununsubstantiated, like take vitamin c, take turmeric, that will cure you, those are things that are violations of our policy. anything that would go against world health organization recommendations would be a violation of our policy. >> you are not just putting the truth next to a lie, you are putting the lie down. that's a pretty aggressive reproach. >> tucker: we are removing "anything that would go against world health organization recommendations, it would now be taken off the internet. consider that for a minute. as a matter of science, it's ludicrous. like everyone else involved in global pandemic policy, the w.h.o. has been wrong. in its recommendations. a lot of peoplee have. in january, w.h.o. told us that coronavirus could not spread from person-to-person. in march they told us that face masks didn'tea work. those are lies and they were welcome on google's platforms. doctors who were treating patience with the virus may well
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have just been banned. so no. this is not about science. censorship never is about science, it's about power. big technology companies are using this tragedy to increase their power over the population. just today, facebook removed any events page for a political protest in michigan.k governor gretchen whitmer who runs the state was no doubt pleased to see it, grossly mismanaging an entire estate is a lot easier when citizens are not allowed to complain about it.mi and now they are not. last week facebook founder mark zuckerberg explained the protests like these are no longer protected political speech, they are "misinformation" >> when you organize these despite social distancing guidelines, if somebody tried to organize something like that, that'sst harmful misinformation. >> would you classify that as harmful misinformation and take that down.
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>> tucker: harmful misinformation, that is a phrase or anyone who has watched the regimes in any country. it's not how mark zuckerberg expresses political opinion he doesn't like. that's the only reason we have. suddenly our media are not concerned about freedom of speech. supporters applaud our overlords. as they punish us for disagreeing. you just saw it from that clip from cnn. that happens every day. our media are no longer challenging power, they are colluding with power and that may be so why there is so little critical coverage of the massive expansion of our surveillance currently in process. in the name of fighting coronavirus, tech companies are now following you through your cell phone and they are watching you from above with drones. they sound like paranoid fantasies but they are not. it is happening as we speak. needless to say our politicians approve of this.
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>> how do you feel about the drones? >> at this point we need to save lives and it's really important that in public spaces people are abiding by the directives. >> tucker: yeah, we've got to do it. so what do we have here, big companies partnering with the government to spy on you without your knowledge. americans locked in their homes, banned from going to church and placated with such lives like weed and beer. anyone who steps up his silence. political demonstrations are illegal. organizers are arrested and only opinions approved by leaders, many of them unelected, are allowed on information platforms. does that sound familiar? it sounds a lot like china. of all the many ironies of this moment, so many of them bitter, the hardest to swallow as this one.o as we fight this virus we are far more like the country that's bonded. -- spawned it. we are becoming more like china. it's horrifying at it tells us
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everything that our class enthusiastically brings us. over the weekend, atlanta magazine published an article and this was calling for an end to freedom of speech in america. their model for an ideal system, the totalitarian government of china. "in the debate over freedom versus control of the internet, china was largely correct and the u.s. was wrong. neyou ought to read the whole thing, truly you should. it's a future. we could quote from it from the rest of the show but we will give you just one more. "significant monitoring of speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet. governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with the society'smu norms i and values. and they seek to protest, and freedom of contest never
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endangers the public. it only threatens powerful. it hinders their ability to dictate election results and to loop the economy. to make policies based on whim for their own gain. at no wonder our leaders have done such a poor job protecting us from china. they are on the same team. dave rubin is the author of the fantastic new book, don't bring this book. it came out today. thanks for coming on tonight. >> thinks tucker, good to be with you. >> tucker: good to have you. do you notice that the norms and standards to quote the atlantic, of american life, seems to have changed overnight? and all live a sudden, we are being told we must accept things that are completely unimaginable two months ago. >> i didn't know we were going to be on a sci-fi show, but we
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are entering an authoritarian future because as i said before, authoritarians love authoritarians and we are s all confused and all balked at -- locked at home. the only way we can communicate with each other is through their pipes, and they are actually finally saying to us, this is who we are.ir they arthe atlantic is outlandi. the bigger issue here is that i the youtube twitter facebook component of it. we are now saying to them or they are saying to us, we will tell you what's true. if you dare with what we say is true then we are going to boo you. of course, the other part of this, it will only be one side that gets [boos] here. is twitter and youtube running around and taking away the russian collusion videos up over the last few years?
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i'm pretty sure msnbc has a youtube channel. that was pushing live. and misinformation and propaganda. so we need to debate these things. these doctors that showed the video of wood by channelng be deleted. in my not allowed to talk about that? is that not what science and open inquiry is really about when you test theories and you find out what actually is true? as you pointed out, and this is the most important part, it's not as if the w.h.o. was infallible. they were literally just a few weeks ago telling us not to wear masks. now by the law come i tried to go to cbs and i wasn't going to wear a mask but run in and out buand they say by law you have o wear a mask. it's a stranglehold on truth that the rest of us have to bow to. unless they force us to and unfortunately, big tech has us more than ever because we are trapped at home and it's the
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only way we can communicate. >> tucker: is so no one in science has a monopoly on the truth. that's a rejection that there is a monopoly on truth, it's an endless search for what we can prove. this has nothing to do with it. you introduce it as a hypothetical, and i'm not sure it is hypothetical. my question is very simple. how long before they come for you? just saw a book "don't burn this book." they are sincere questions. s >> at some level i don't want to think of it, and i finish this book back in july. i'm very proud that the ideas i present "don't burn this book" are more relevant now because i talk about big tech. and i talk about fake news and all of the things that we are constantly talking about. am i worried? everyone should be worried.
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wmy tech company, and i think e need digital homes. anyone that is online and you think that youtube or facebook or twitter is they are to protect you, you are product. and these things are free, they just took your soul in exchange for it. we should own our data. you should own your own data. and we need to think of rethinking everything. and there's a new world coming onto the horizon. and i think a lot of people are rethinking the way they look at the world. do you want to commute? do you want to live in the big city? do you want to be so reliant on the institutions and systems that we've always been reliant upon? so i think we have to rethink things. and you know what, this is still america for a little while and i believe in old-fashioned hard fwork, competition and ingenuiy and i think that's what we'll fix this. we will get a big battle to fight in front of us.e >> tucker: and may be -- of these companies exist because congress gave them ae carve out
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in federal legislation. and where is senator mike lee on this question? great to see you tonight, thank you very much. >> this is one of the injured ones -- thanks tucker. >> tucker: thanks, good to see you. the harvey weinstein confident is a well-known cat champion of women. today however she is ignoring tara reid and endorsing joe biden. why is she doing that? ndthat's next. but first, even though some states are opening up las vegas remains in lockdown. some footage from our friends there at fox five las vegas. ♪ friends there at fox five las vegas. ♪
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>> tucker: some things just go well together. salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, french toast and room service. hillary clinton and ignoring serious sex abuse allegations. in the 1990s hillary clinton defended her husband in the face of them. in the 2,000 she was a close confidant of harvey weinstein. her husband meanwhile flew around on jeffrey epstein's plane. in 2018 hillary clinton pivoted completely and brett kavanaugh >> tucker: some things just go well together. salt and pepper, peanut butter and jelly, french toast and room service.
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hillary clinton and ignoring serious sex abuse allegations. in the 1990s hillary clinton defended her husband in the face of them. ino. the 2,000 she was a close confidant of harvey weinstein. her husband meanwhile flew around on jeffrey epstein's plane. in 2018 hillary clinton pivoted completely and brett kavanaugh as you remember was accused and hillary clinton said his accuser had to be believed. >> look. i watched as much of her testimony as i could do. i found her very credible. i found her willingness toei sai don't remember this but i .
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>> tucker: if you were probably too transfixed by hillary clinton to notice the guy next to her, joe biden i think he fell asleep a couple of times in the middle of that. he's probably staying up late right now figuring out how shaken snatch the nomination from him. jeanine pirro joins us tonight. this is almost too easy but i have to get review of this. and now she thinks we should pause before judging? >> you know, hillary clinton
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endorsing joe biden when he's being accused of, as you say, not sexual harassment but sexual assault, it's like the kiss of death. the woman is literally a standard-bearer, of sexual predators. i was an immediate outcry of her laughing about the who a 12-year-old into a coma or her emails that were found on anthony weiner's laptop or jeffrey epstein was hanging out with weinstein when everyone in hollywood knew what was going on? this woman is a woman who does not stand for women. for her right now to endorse joe biden is really to ignore what all of the "me, to" movement should be.
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let's talk about brett kavanaugh and tara reid. tara reid accusing joe biden, and i come to this tucker as a prosecutor and a judge. i started a sex crime unit in the d.a.'s office and i know this business very well. tara reid made a name immediate outcry outcry. what that means is that it's admissible evidence and the jury is allowed to find the victim more credible if she made an outcry. tara reid to meet and outcry to mother, her brother, and her neighbor who supports joe biden when he says tara reid doesn't lie. tara reid also made an a recent outcry to the people in the senate. this happened to her when she was working for joe biden and when she made the complaint to three people about joe biden pushing her up against the wall in the senate with no one else
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around, pulling up her skirt and putting his -- i will get graphic but, sexually abusing her, they moved her away from where she had been working in the senate office to a room with no windows and all three interns and all three can attest to the fact that she was abruptly taken away as their supervisor. finally, we have documentary evidence that she worked with joe biden. we have senate records, and even though the mother passed, complained to larry king. we have that evidence in 1993 when this happened. now when it came to cavanaug ka, christine blasey ford did not know the date, time, place or year. what i mean by that is people that she said were with her when brett kavanaugh assaulted her
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said, no we weren't. this is pure unadulterated politics, supporting people who you want to be empowered to. it has nothing to do with women and protecting women in the system. >> tucker: while it has nothing to do with women, i am not much of a feminist but i would never hang around with them. good to see you tonight. >> okay. >> tucker: leaders across the country are releasing even more criminals, some of them dangerous, using coronavirus as an excuse for that. congressman matt gaetz has a bill to block that
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>> tucker: widespread testing of the population, we are told again and again, is critical. even now, there are widespread problems getting people tested efficiently for antibodies at national lab select quest diagnostics. our own executive producer saw this firsthand today. i got tested and spoke to the only nurse on duty in one of those labs. however brian kilmeade had a completely different experience when he went to get tested. what's the truth, what's happening up there and why? professor and dr. marc siegel joins us tonight to help sort through. >> tucker, what a story. we are so excited that doctors
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and patients with qwest diagnostic decided to do an antibody test. it's what we've been talking about for covid-19 all across the country, very good lab testing. we found one we started to do this test such variability, here in manhattan, many of the tech qwest diagnostics are shuttered and employees are on furlough. the one we found open, he waited outside for an hour and a half online. when he got in they had him scratch his name on a tiny piece of paper and he was told he missed his appointment, he had to be on stand standby like it was waiting for a plane. meanwhile a poor woman was taken away by a paramedic in the navy alliance. finally he gets his blood drawn by the one person there and he's waiting for his results. while this is happening, the key here is that the staff is on furlough and they are not ready for this in manhattan nor the onslaught of patience and huge
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lines. meanwhile out on long island our own fox anchor brian kilmeade has an appointment made. he goes to a qwest diagnostic lab. he is seen within 3 minutes. ask him to don the gloves and he wears a mask, the nurse drawing his blood is wearing a mask and gloves. she asked him, and have you had symptoms of covid-19 in a week? he said no. so he sighed, can sign something. his results will be back within a day or two. such variation. it was -- >> i bet he is and may i ask the obvious question? why would labs, presumably they wouldn't do it if they did not have to come before the wing employees during a pandemic? that seems to be the most misleading thing i've ever heard. >> i anticipated that question and the answer is because no one wants to go, or going outside
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and encountering similar disease in the lab so they are not getting the regular tests that i needed them to do. they order tests all day long and patient say on going there in a month. not getting the rotary comic regular cholesterol and blood test. i'm so up for the covid-19 test makes sense in theory but the labs, many of them are closed and the employees are not there. tragically. >> tucker: things they need to do to stay alive, they are not getting. that's a quote of the night in the purvis perversity of it is on spiting. good to see you tonight. going into this pandemic nobody knew what the numbers would be like. we didn't know how easy it would be transmit to me and now with more testing it has become much clearer who is actually threatened by the verisign who is not. people under 50 for example appear to b be at very little rk
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and that includes a vast majority of america's prisoners. across four american states, 3,277 inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus. 96 of them have not shown any symptoms at all. despite that, some politicians are exploiting this disaster to continue their long-standing demands that crimina criminals e even asked, because you are harassed by authorities for leaving your home. on msnbc over the weekend, nancy pelosi explains that prisoners what mike must go fr free. why? it's because of the bible. >> that i don't caucus so we are very devoted to the gospel of matthew. when i was hungry you fed me and i was homeless you showed me the way. when i was in prison you visited me.
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>> tucker: meanwhile the only person in america apparently who is going to prison is roger stone. he scheduled to go this week for the crime of having the wrong political fuse. that's true. meanwhile in congress senator cory booker has introduced a bill that would add all detention for coronavirus cases as long as it exists. he wants you to fight a virus spread by international travel by instituting de facto open borders. but it's not just about immigration or immigration offenders, deadly criminals are going free as well. in new york a man accused of rape was let go as a preventative measure. ten days later he was arrested for attempting to rate another woman. in pennsylvania too prisoners were released in the state super max prison. crime rates have gone up and in washington, d.c., that gone way
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up. they are accused of someone who will be deporting amazing you even have to -- why are you doing this? >> the problem with nancy pelosi statement as we aren't visiting the prisoners. just imagine the post coronavirus world that the left is trying to create. they want covid catch and release. they want to move cell block c into our neighborhoods and then they want americans end of the place we used to work for shutdown and another swab. instead of releasing illegal aliens into our community we should deport them to immediately.
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and that's what mexico does. mexico is seeing success curbing illegal immigration because they are immediately deporting people as a consequence of coronavirus. i think we should love our country is at least as much as mexico loves theirs. >> of course. this is total really related to your love of country. what do you think the agenda here is exactly. >> this is part virtue signaling but this is the left using the coronavirus to try to have all the social engineering that they seek. they really do want a world where there are no borders, where american taxpayers have to provide for every one of the world whether they follow our laws or not. so at the republican parts in the american businesses and people, you have the left thing that they have to hold back to gain leverage for their agenda. we should just be horrified that they would use coronavirus for
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leverage, we should be frightened by the actual agenda where they are trying to in the subdivision next year. >> tucker: i don't think when anyone is living in the subdivision next to nancy pelo nancy pelosi. thanks a lot for that. it would be great. well, not all members of congress are as reasonable. one of them just attacked the show and accused us and implying we should be the next ones who are censored. will respond to that after the break.r house. it relieves stress off of me to let me know i'm doing something good for the community, not just papa john's.
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>> tucker: as the mass quarantines continue state after state, regular life is getting hard to sustain. after tonight, there are fears americans could face a critical shortage of protein. fox's matt finn has more on the story. >> it's looking increasingly like meat selections are going to dwindle in our stores and ikgoing to pay more for at least be products that meet facilities across the country have shuttered. industry leaders now acknowledge supply has rarely been so stressed. farmers might be forced to depopulate millions of animals. tyson foods recently closed its largest pork plant. in an open letter, tyson foods issuing a stark warning writing, as pork, beef, chicken plans are being forced to close, even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain. as a result, there will be supplies short in our grocery stores until we are fully able to reopen our facilities currently closed.
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a purdue university agriculture economist says ports proxying is down 30%, beef down nearly a third. the prices are some of the highest in recent history but there is some good news. pork prices in stores actually remain a bit lower this time last year and the president plans to sign an executive order deeming me facilities critical and ordering them to stay open. >> tucker: may be more critical than marijuana dispensaries. just a thought. great to see you. on last night's show and on many shows before that, we did our best to walk you through the latest numbers on how widely the coronavirus is spreading in this country but we told you what researchers are finding in state after state as more americans get tested for this disease. we learned a far higher percentage of the population has been infected with that than we thought. this new knowledge has radically changed our understanding of how deadly the coronavirus is. for example, health officials
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once estimated that a little under 1.5% of new york state have been infected with the virus.st b but antibody testing revealed a number many, many times higher than that. in fact, close than 15% have been infected. by definition, these new facts change the death rate. in new york, that rate went from 7.4%, which is devastating, to .5%, which is not. this science is welcome news. every elected official in america should be celebrating it. but many are not. some deeply resent hearing anything about this. congressman ted lieu of los angeles is one of those. after last night's show, lieu scolded us with this outrage tweet. "the average with hourly rate is over 5.6%. simply unacceptable that fox news keeps ignoring science." ignoring science. there are so many layers of irony here. the first is that ted lieu's own
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congressional district, the people he leads, has a stunningly low vaccination rate. ted lieu's voters are so distrustful of vaccine science that measles and whooping cough have come back and forth among children in hiss district. the atlantic wrote an entire piece about this a few years ago. you should look at up. the deeper irony here is that ted lieu has no idea what he is talking about. lieu it is a gap a little clown. with no trace of self-awareness, ted lieu used comically in accurate numbers to uses for "ignoring science ted lieu's are so distrusting that measles and whooping cough have come back and forth among children in this district. the atlantic wrote man die and didn't take any, he's in a yuppie little clown. he hasn't spent 5 minutes learning anything about the current research of the pandemic. with no trace of self-awareness,
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ted lieu used comically comically inaccurate numbers to attack us for "ignoring science." the current case fatality rate will be 5.6, but it is absurd as a statistical matter. if ted lieu actually believes the death rate in this country from coronavirus is 5.6%, he's even slower than he seems and that's saying a lot. more likely he knows but he is just lying. do you think people will won't be watching? so here's some actual science. just today it turns out that a new study emerge from denmark, a place that most people regard as rigorous in its record-keeping. researchers there tested every adult in the country under 70 who gave blood over an 11 day. this month. they learned what researchers
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in the netherlands .8%. in mont massachusetts .2%. in no place where widespread testing has taken place have researchers found a death rate of over 1%, but for some reason, ted lieu is still yelping on twitter about 5.4% of all infected americans dying from the virus. it's pretty clear why he's doing this. it the question is, where is ted lieu getting these bad numbers? we don't know for sure because those are scientific stories
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written as scientifically illiterate at he is. just yesterday the hill newspaper wrote a piece entitled caseju fatality rates rise as te coronavirus runs deadly course. in the fifth paragraph the papep suggests that the death rate in connecticut is now 7.6%. that's a higher death rate of a disease that has killed hundreds of millions of people around the world. if kept reading the whole of the story in the hill you would discover that the real death rate from coronavirus might actually be lower than that, maybe. but it's not likely that ted lieu saw the headline. so the symbiosis between compliant leaders and a
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press corps continues. your response to journalists promotes bad science and that's why i -- why are we sitting by as politicians destroy their lives and families and ultimately the country? because i don't have a choice. they are truly afraid and they will put up with anything they do. he death doesn't understand much but he definitely understands that. ♪ well, new zealand, that tiny island nation has a very progressive government. he might be surprised byla the policy you have just embraced to keep the coronavirus outbreak under control. we will tell you what it is, after the break. ♪
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speed to australia and new zealand don't have very large populations. but even accounting for that, both have handled coronavirus in ways we can maybe learn from. australia has about 5 million more people than the state of new york, but while new york state has more than 20,000 deaths from coronavirus, australia doesn't even have 100 total. new zealand meanwhile has fewer than 20 deaths. probably a lot of reasons for this but here's one possible reason. in p mid-march, both of those countries entirely shut their borders to foreign arrivals. in the case of new zealand, they did so despite having a very left-wing government. interesting. brandon devine is a columnist for "the new york post" and australia's daily telegraph. thank you for coming on. tell us what they did and why they did it, if you would?
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>> hi, tucker. look, we are always told the world health organization keptep telling us the virus doesn'tus respect borders. but australia and new zealand are proof that it does. and of course it does. that's just ideology, not science. closing their borders to countries is the ultimate in social distancing. it's what countries do to social distance themselves from other countries.nd as you said in mid-march, both australia and new zealand close down their borders as a result. they escaped relatively unscathed from the pandemic. and the other thing they did was they followed donald trump's lead in early february, a couple ofof days after he stopped the flights from china, they did the same thing. that was absolutely crucial particularly for australia. that was a few days before thousands, tens of thousands of chinese students were due to fly
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back into the country after their summer break to go to school. and this prevented that from happening. so you cannot understate the importance of that decision and those governments would probably have had a lot of difficulty if they couldn't have use the excuse of donald trump and america during that, because they were being aggressively lobbied by both the tourism industry, the airlines, and especially the university sector. >> tucker: i'm glad you pointed it out. the higher education lobby has far more power than people understand them especially in cases like this. what was the domestic response to these shutdowns inside australia and t new zealand? >> people were clamoring for it and in fact there was a lot of pressure on the government for people saying, just close it down now because knowing, particularly with universities, and no waiting like 40% of the
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foreign students are from china. australia couldn't see what was going on in the rest of the w world.-- it was about to go weeks as well as new zealand behind what was going on so they had the luxuryt was to actually stop those foreign visitors from arriving and spreading the virus. it was a veryvi popular decision for the people but it was not popular with the world healthwa organization, china was angry with australians for closing the borders where there was a lot of pushback from transnational .rganizations but the lesson for that is takingg advice from the world health organization is a fatal mistake. speed to most interesting of the night. miranda, thank you. that's just amazing and he confirms a lot. good to see you. >> thank you, tucker.
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>> tucker: by the way, polling suggest that would be a popular move in this country too. we are out of time tonight. sean hannity standing by in new york for the 9:00 p.m. i had the head of the idf is israel on today, tucker. they have about 16,000 from people contracted the disease, less than 1600 people died. it's amazing. we might not have civil liberties wise constitutionally with things they did, but amazing -- we can learn from all these countries as you rightly say we need to reopen. great lessons from everybody. good show tonight. welcome to hannity. big news, multiple fronts. deep state reckoning is now in full swing. lieutenant general michael flynn may soon get the exoneration he rightly deserves. new exculpatory evidence has emerged. the saddest part of this miscarriage of justice,

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