>> martha: that is "the story" of wednesday the 29th, 2020, but as always, "the story" continues and we will see you back here tomorrow night. a musica♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." "what is our goal, get him to lie so we can prosecute or get him fired?" those are from handwritten notes of a senior fbi official plotting with others to frame and potentially prosecute general michael flynn. we told you earlier this week, and that smoking gun it is here. but first we want to begin with an update on the state of this country. on saturday, president barack obama went

golfing at the robert trent jones country club. obama was driven to the course about 40 miles from his home. here's a picture of it from politico. if you look you can see obama is clearly enjoying himself and obviously, why wouldn't he be. it's beautiful out on the links. and noticed there aren't many people around, because both virginia and washington, d.c., are still under quarantine. they have all been marked at home but but for him golfing at his country club was an essential activity. two days later after this picture was taken, the beleaguered residents of washington, d.c., began to receive a public service announcement on their phones. the message had been recorded at the request of the d.c. government by barack obama's wife. here's what the message said. >> remember, we urge you to stay

home except if you need a central health care, food or supplies, or to go to her essential job. >> tucker: it's stay home, except essential health care, essential food, essential jobs. that is michelle obama's message to you. it did it occur to her that those standards are going to apply to her family and that's why she didn't mention essential trips to the country club? the fact that the rules apply to them doesn't seem to occur to anyone in power at the moment. just a few weeks ago the, lori lightfoot, the mayor of chicago was caught getting her hair done at the time the city of chicago had close salons to mere civilians. her excuse "i'm the public face of the city" i am a national media and i'm out in the public eye. in other words, i'm far more important than you are, shut up. across the country our leaders are making a mockery of the

quarantines they so enthusiastically enforced. they had no intention of abiding by the restrictions that they imposed on the citizens, our quarantines are not achieving with the politicians claimed they would achieve, not even close. huge numbers of people have been infected anyway and far fewer of them are dying than we expected. our political leaders pretend as if none of this is happening. he and she commands people to remain in their homes except for occasional grocery shopping. mills prohibited bars, restaurants, summer camps and some state parks from opening and made it illegal for hotels to book guests, even for a future stays. she canceled every summer festival in the state and she told every church to keep its doors locked. she said many of them will go

defunct forever. those restrictions are all necessary, she explained, thanks to the extreme and unusual peril that the state of maine faces. >> i want to be clear. we are not out of the woods yet and likely will not be for some time. >> tucker: not out of the words yet. those are bracing words. sounds like something winston churchill might have said during the blitz. the very moment she spoke, a grand total of 33 people were being treated in main hospitals for the coronavirus. 33 people out of a population of more than 1.3 million people. over the full course of the entire epidemic, just 51 people

in the state of maine have died from the coronavirus. meanwhile, and there is always a flip side, likely because of the lockdowns that mills ordered, more than 10% of maine's population population is now unemployed. all over the state, businesses are failing. oxford predicts that maine will be harder and longer in these lockdowns than any other state in the country. it's not, it's vandalism. >> people who now are staying apart so that someday we can all be together again. thanks governor, we appreciate your kindness in allowing them. so how long will it be until we can be together again? mills, who is clearly deeply enjoying her new found power

didn't specify how long. there is "no timeline for that. things will not be normal soon" she warned. so we are wondering where exactly janet mills has a power to invent a new normal for 1.3 million people, to remake human society in whatever form she chooses. mills did not explain that either. instead at the governor read a selection from a 31-year-old novelist called veronica roth she said, gritting your teeth through pain as part of the "slow walk to a better life." deep thoughts from janet mills, that's what mills is promising. but was the latest epidemiology science, that was last month. it's now about "a better life." people in power abuse their power and that may be the lesson here. the arrival of the terrifying

new virus from china gave our leader more power than anyone in the history of this country. six weeks ago america was something reasonably and in perfect democracy. back then, andrew cuomo was considered a ligation possibly corrupt regional leader but suddenly everything is changed. now it's an oligarchy managed by bureaucrats and of tech moguls. our leaders are making decisions that will affect your family forever with virtually no oversight or accountability and of course, they love it. we shouldn't be surprised if they don't wanted to end. jeff bezos for example has made billions of dollars since the lockdown began. how shocked are you that his personal newspaper, "the washington post," is arguing with the highest possible volumes of that the lockdowns must continue? not very shocked. they all feel that way. this the best thing that ever happened.

on two separate occasions others dislike to you and dislike your program so much that they elected a casino owner from reality television instead. what if that happened to you? you would probably be pretty stunned by it and bitter. then one day you wake up and the country is in chaos, normal life it has been suspended. this is a perfect opportunity, and you would seize that opportunity. and she has. >> every form of health care should continue to be available including reproductive health care and gets us to universal health care. this would be a terrible crisis to waste. as the old saying goes. >> tucker: universal health care. those are the required responses to the will hand in coronavirus declares hillary clinton. every politician on all sides has a in the and ideological wish list that under normal

circumstances are kept in check by voters. as a group, voters instinctively distrust ideology for good reason. nobody is keeping those ideas in check now and no one cares what voters think now. it's time to govern without limits. watch disgrace to mayor bill de blasio explained that as a matter of public health or something we need a more "inclusion and equity." >> this city was written off more times than i can count and this city came back stronger every time time. an immediate action that the government needs to take and build out as part of the bigger vision. it's a task force on racial inclusion and equity. focusing on the disparities we are seeing already, making sure that we are addressing structural racism that is obviously present in the reality is we are facing with this disease. >> tucker: it's of this pandemic is really about structural racism, that's what

bill de blasio was telling us. i bet she didn't know that, she assumed it was a virus, remember? how confused are you? it doesn't matter because bill de blasio doesn't care what you think. like all of our leaders from now on, he plans to be. from a medical standpoint or epidemiological standpoint how would you assess our countries -- our political leaders response to this. >> i think you can understand why they did it because it seemed very scary and we had very distressing pictures like in china and new york. but i think the question is, what do we do next? now that we got ourselves into this position should we continue with it? the information we got, it isn't anywhere near as scary as it first appeared to be.

it when that is true, it does cause nasty infections but where the original death rate was thought to be around 3.4%, it's not going to be 17-34 times le less. and 80% of us are going to catch it at any one time. it looks like that's probably going to be near the 15% mark. so you know, the scary pictures that we saw from some of these places probably were more to do with specific facts than the virus itself. and what we will do now is question whether prolonging the lockdown is a sensible response to what is known is a bigger threat than we originally thought it was. >> tucker: do you think prolonging the lockdown, but do you think that's an appropriate response from anybody genealogical standpoint?

it's not as bad as they thought it was. you have to be sure that your cure is, and whereas covid-19 is clearly causing illness and death, it's mainly causing that in groups of people who actually already have quite serious life-threatening conditions and age isn't on their side often. not to say anyone's life isn't important but the question is, should we be taking the livelihood and affecting the lives of education and well-being of the large majority of the population, and maybe affect people who aren't going to be affected by the disease. that seems to me the swedish

model of carrying on reasonably normally but with social responsibility and trying to isolate ourselves from this virus, it's a sensible model. the thing is there's no signs of lockdown. they will be equally -- it isn't the spread at all. sometimes you breathe in and breathe out, you will breathe out 10 million virus particles. they will stop the spread. thank you for your perspective tonight. you are hearing political leaders say that coronavirus proves that we need a brand-new approach to health care. what many of them are not saying is that our response to the

coronavirus has completely scrambled our current health care system. workers have been furloughed, and by workers i mean doctors and nurses. hospitals have gone broke. not enough attention has been paid to what is happening now for our frontline medical workers. dr. brandon carr knows a lot about them, he is professor and chair of emergency medicine at mount sinai health system and he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. give us a picture of where health care system is right now if you would. >> thanks for having me right now. that environment is a little bit different than the rest of the u.s. as most folks know we were hit really hard over the last month with lots of sick folks and moderately ill folks as well. where we are now is past our peak and at sort of a stalled plateau on the way down. not as many people coming in to emergency departments who are critically ill but, still some.

lots and lots of folks who are ill and still in the icus and in the hospitals are recovering from their disease. >> tucker: we had one of our producers go over to quest diagnostics to get tested. and it's baffling to those of us who don't work in medicine to see in the middle of a pandemic hospitals and labs short of staff because people have been told not to work. what is that? >> that one surprises me. the lab where we are doing the testing is a critical resource but all in all the amount of health care that is being used in the u.s. right now, certain certainly, and i think of this into different ways. i think about scheduled care and the people that are waiting and

an operation to replace the hip, and that seems important and urgent. as a whole sort of a separate universe of unscheduled care, the type of stuff that we mostly see in the emergency department where people are ill or injured or coming into seek advice to sort out whether or not what they have is something that requires an intervention. >> tucker: doctor, thank you so much. shortly before we came on air tonight a remarkable new document was released. it was handwritten by someone, apparently a senior official within the fbi and it reveals that the prosecution of michael flynn was a political set up from the very beginning. it reveals it in language much

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♪ >> tucker: this is not fox news alert. at stunning revelations. at that you often hear on television but tonight's justified. chief breaking news correspondent trace gallagher has details. >> we just got four pages of unsealed documents and sidney powell says 11 more pages are coming and they are. we are talking about emails and

hand written that appear to show that senior fbi members were determined to prosecute michael flynn regardless of what they found. for context of the interview between the fbi and flynn happened at the white house back in january of 2017. to what knowledgeable sources now tell tucker carlson tonight that going into the interview who was then the assistant, what is our goal. truths, admission, where we can get the lie or prosecute him and get him fired. they commit to breaking the logan act which is the law which is almost never used which bans citizens from negotiating with foreign countries. remember disgraced fbi or agent peter strzok was in the interview and documents show that his lover emailed him on

how to conduct the flynn interview. we should note these documents were released by a district judge but attorney general bill barr compelled their release and there are more coming. tucker? >> tucker: shocking. trace gallagher, shocker. dana, thanks so much for coming on. what do you make of this? >> this is a case in a story that's been out there for so long, i think senator chuck grassley tonight has asked the judge to unseal the case, and it's time for everybody to just get some clarity out for what all was going on.

i believe we asked the u.s. attorney in missouri to take a look at this case and it's all starting to unravel for the fbi, it would look like. so you have questionable judgment. i'm not going to say you should treat any citizen differently but if you are going to go after someone who many people consider a war hero, and someone who is working for the president of the united states, then you don't do it like -- and a half fast manner. that is something where you would want to make sure that everything is absolutely by the book. it is locked down and it does not look like that happened here at all. i am thinking that the judge of looking at this is going to say i'm not going to withdraw the plea because michael flynn did. and i'd they did think that the judge might vacate the case, and ask them and said, do you want to read try the case?

i've been in d.c. most of my life, and in and around government. my family works for the government. the idea that our top law enforcement agency would set someone up like this, so boldly. do we get him to lie? i find that really shocking. the person who should be prosecuted as the person who decided to do this. what does this mean if they can do this to the national security advisor? what chance do the rest of us have if we somehow get crossways with the fbi? >> and that is why you have such skepticism of government. that person if he wants to come out and explain, it goes deeper into the obama administration and, that was let go by the obama administration in 2015.

then, he goes to the white house and has a meeting with obama and the obama people had let it be known that there were two people that president obama warned president trump about. one was kim jong un, the other was michael flynn. none of that has ever been explained but all of this did follow but that was back in 2015. >> tucker: this is small one of the most corrupt things it i've seen in my life and the scariest. how is this not a crime? >> that might be an overreaction, right, to fire somebody without having a chance to explain themselves. but the fact that these documents are out, that is an

importance that this attorney general has made. and like i said if you are going to prosecute someone like michael flynn you better have this case locked up. the attorney general knows because he's been up around the block so many times, that he is going to look into this case, everything he does has to be by the book as well. michael flynn might deserve a lot more than that. >> tucker: it's pretty outrageous that a government employee can keep his identity secret. whoever wrote this, that identity should be public right now. we should have known about this three years ago, really. anyway, dana, great to see you tonight. thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: back when he was vice president, joe biden -- and you may not have read about it at the time -- read a policy, changed the policy that run the lives of a lot of people. they changed with the burden of proof for those accused of

sexual harassment and sexual assault. if joe biden had to be judged by the rules he put in place under title ix, it could be a different day today. we have details on that. plus as new york city crumbles, bill de blasio is sending out bizarre tweets threatening to arrest jewish people. we will tell you what he said and why. musica♪ from farms to backyards, wheels are turning. seeds are being planted. animals are getting fed. and grass is growing. and families are giving their all to the soil because no matter how uncertain things get, the land never stops. so to all those linked to the land, we say thank you. we're here for you because we all run together.

>> tucker: two weeks ago american christians were threatened with arrest if they tried to celebrate easter. lawmakers are just hostile to christianity, mayor bill de blasio singled out the city's jewish community and threatened them with mass arrest. "my message to the jewish community in all communities is simple. at the time for warnings has passed. i have instructed the nypd to proceed immediately to summon or arrest those who gather in large groups. viral photos and video showed the subways system is completely falling apart. it's essentially a moving homeless encampment. seth, thanks for coming on. someone just sent me this and i can't resist reading it on the air. this is a tweet in light of the tweet he sent about jewish new yorkers. bill de blasio sent this april . "two muslim new yorkers, we will

bring hundreds of thousands of them to the 32 sites frequented by our muslim communities. hundreds of thousands of meals, and bill de blasio's catering to those meetings because they are muslim meetings. and now he is threatening religious with arrest. >> demagogues traditionally when they are flailing around they tried to distract by pinning blame on someone else. i've been following de blasio for about ten years and i've never heard him call out once any ethnicity in anything than the most praiseworthy terms. so the fact that he is trying to pin the coronavirus outbreak on those outside watching to watch a funeral go by is pretty rich. he talked endlessly about stig

stigma, and this is unusual. the city is in tremendous stress, and as you pointed out the subways are at overflow capacity. they are so out of control of homeless people that his only solution right now are to shut the subways down at night to force them off. that's an utter failure. the city is in real streets right now and, his legacy is crumbling in front of him. >> tucker: what about normal people, and there are a lot of them in new york city who want to use a public transportation they paid for. it's not just for vagrants,

right? >> it's kind of the essence of everything that defines new york city. it's what -- it facilitates all of our business, all of our socialites and all of our commerce. and now they cried to come even though transit ridership is down 95% on the subways and crime is up. you know both on the streets and in the subway. so you've given up. and he's just flailing around and pointing fingers. every morning he gives these hour-long inspirational speeches that no one is listening to. he thinks he's fdr giving fireside chats. it is really a little crazy and it's getting strange. >> tucker: and i'm sure he smoking a ton of weed.

his ideas don't work. it's not just that he is mediocre, dumb and incompetent. great to see you. during the obama years, joe biden didn't spend all of his time attending the funerals of foreign dictators are acting as the administration's and one of the other jobs was running the administration's title nine policy. under biden's oversight though, the obama administration changed everything. they sent a letter to every one of these countries colleges and universities with a stern warning. they said schools would lose all federal funding unless they

complete the altered of the way they treated sexual assault allegations on campus. under the biden world the accused were judged under the lowest standard of evidence. they were subjected to kangaroo courts where they could not effectively use legal counsel or contest of the accusations against them. if you have kids in college, the young man found their lives and their careers totally destroyed, not to mention their reputations by accusations that were sometimes not only untrue but laughably untrue. in one case a student was expelled with an assault, for filing a false police report in the same case. that was the america that joe biden created. what would happen if joe biden had to play by the same rules he made now? he would be done. tara reid's allegations are not proven, we don't know if they are true. but far weaker claims destroyed

many young men on college campuses. but of course biden isn't playing by those rules. the american feminist movement may be the single most corrupt. there is nothing more corrupt than institutional feminism. look no further than senator kirsten gillibrand in new york. two years ago she wanted his life and family destroyed. he was guilty, she said, she could feel it. >> her account is credible and we believe her. we know that kavanaugh was not honest. she spoke her truth so bravely, so strongly and so honestly and we believe her. judge kavanaugh has not asked to have the fbi review of these claims. is that the action of an innocent person? it is not. to try to treat this properly

and try to confirm, confer judge kavanaugh tells women that they are once again not important and not to be believ believed. >> i believe her because she's telling the truth. >> tucker: has there ever been in the last 245 years a dumber person to serve from the united states senate? probably not. her argument was brett kavanaugh has not demanded that the fbi forensically go through his entire life? he doesn't appear to trust the fbi. finally, he she got a chance to respond. even if you haven't already seen this coming we can already guess what her response was. >> she has come forward and spoken, done investigation in several outlets. that's an investigation vice president has called for

himself and vice president biden has vehemently denied these allegations and i support vice president biden. >> tucker: has joe biden begged of the fbi to take a look at his personal life over the next 50 years? that's no longer her position. we have no idea if joe biden actually did this. we hope not, it's awful. but the point is in an american politics it doesn't matter. here's your take away. institutional feminism, the so-called feminist movement is fake. it's not about women or believing women, they don't care about women, they care about power and that's why jill the brand was friends with harvey weinstein at bill clinton that's why she's friends with joe biden now. if you call yourself a male feminist and sending of checks to the democratic party it doesn't matter how many actual women you hurt. and that's true. tammy, you are very familiar with the so-called feminist movement as it is taken from

individuals who consider themselves feminist. based in washington, the feminist movement, are you surprised by this? >> not at all. this is in part why i left it and i've been a critic for about a generation. your monologue is absently correct. they do work and it achieves the opposite of what they tell people they are doing. they are champions of women and they support men and enable men who damaged women's lives to harm women directly. and it's okay as long as you make our issues a fetish. if you demonstrate i'm going to, it is doing so much for our issues. don't complain because it will hurt the movement. this has been almost an organized framework of being able to victimize sacks traffic

with women all in the name of i am your champion. because of me i can protect you, or if you hurt me you will be hurt. this is the same dynamic. and of course, joe biden said, women should be taken seriously but, it's more than hypocrisy. the bold, the boldness of their hypocrisy. they know that they have been lying and they don't care at this point. >> tucker: yeah. wouldn't you be embarrassed if you were caught? >> you would think so. joe biden -- joe biden led the effort to lower the burden of proof and not allow people to defend themselves for even a third party to bring a complaint of sexual assault or abuse for even the victim would agree that

occurred but we saw this play out. we saw the joe biden theory play out during the cavanaugh hearing which was exactly the same thing. no due process, no fairness and that is what joe biden stood up for and it's pledged to bring back by the way american campuses. but his attitude hasn't seem to have changed. >> that hypocrisy is poison, it really is. >> thank you, tucker. we back in february, dr. marc siegel came up with a promising coronavirus treatment and it turns out the treatment may work. dr. siegel fills us in next. ♪

>> tucker: in the early days

of this pandemic we dispatched dr. marc siegel to the state of nebraska. while he was there he told us about other than it obscure a drug that were studying. >> this hospital is at the very nucleus of the american effort to defeat the disease. they just started political trials for a remdesivir, and antiviral medicine. we spoke to dr. andre kalil who is running the trials and he's optimistic. >> i think the data that we have available suggest it's promising. >> tucker: two months later that research appears to be bring some fruit. dr. marc siegel rejoined us tonight with an update. dr.? >> tucker, we have good news tonight both on the treatment front and then on the vaccine front. on the treatment front, dr. khalil turned out to be very protective because of thousand patients later at 66 centers around europe and asia, remdesivir is shown to reduce

recovery time which is crucial, reducing from 14-11 days which shows its decreasing viral replication in the body. but these are hospitalized patients and they have lung problems and are responding it looks like in a majority of the cases to remdesivir. so dr. khalil was predictive here, and it was a kind of research we looked for in the kind of studies we looked for. we now have a new arrow in our quiver. when it comes to vaccines tonight, we also have some good news because, you know what? we are at an unprecedented place with vaccines. vaccines usually take years to produce but we have new technology now. we have genetic-based vaccines that we have never used before. we understand viruses better. and pfizer partnering with a company in germany has started to do clinical trials in germany

and is about to start in the united states and they announced today that they may very well try to ramp up production to give this to health care worke workers. if it works, in the fall. at the same time oxford university is already given to mike giving their vaccine of a slightly older technology, over 6,000 people in the next month. they, too, are saying, front line people and people at high risk, they may be able to ramp up production for use in the fall. it's not definite but it's something that never would have been possible before now. they have made major league advances in terms of treatment, we've never seen and antiviral treatment hauled out this fast and studied this fast, now effective, and vaccines on the horizon much closer than we ever thought possible. tucker? >> tucker>> tucker: that's amaz. effective treatment, that's really what's missing right now. this seems like great news. doctor, thank you very much for that report. >> great news, thank you, tuck

tucker. so many businesses in this country are failing right now. but in the state of california billions of taxpayer dollars are going to enrich a chinese company, thanks to governor gavin newsom. we got details on that for you just ahead. ♪

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everybody wanted them. less good is the way that he has decided to get those masks. they signed a $1 billion deal with an auto company to import 200 million masks from most of the details, they been kept secret. we can do the math on this. $5 a mask. all of that is going to make china richer, almost all of it. warren buffett is a big investor in dy d. melissa francis hosts the show "after the bell" on fox business. melissa, this doesn't sound like a straight up deal to me. >> no. of this story is so bad i want to apologize and advance for even telling you about it because it's just horrible. it starts with this company as you said, the largest electric

car maker in china. march 31st they have a horrible quarter, they announced profits are down 42%. it's a disaster. two weeks later, a lifeline from california, a billion dollars from the state of california to make electric cars? no, they will make masks which is not their business. they will turn their factories, we don't know how. they will turn their factories around to make masks. there were other american auto manufacturers saying they were going to do the same thing, but these guys said they could make 5 million masks a day. guess what? that is more than 3m, who is the largest maker of this mask. they make about 3 million a day. this car company who hasn't done it before is going to make even more than them. gavin newsom says, yes! where can i sign up? they wire the money, we know that much from reports out of california. what we don't know if they

received any masks yet or not. we don't know. one of the other really bad parts as you mentioned is that this company is going out of business. you think, are they getting a discount if they will buy 200 masks? are they getting the going out of business deal? no! they will pay $5 a mask. i understand this is at a time when a lot of people want to masks, but this company makes cars! what are you going to pay them a premium and you don't even know if they can do it. they had another deal with california to make electric buses. they hired a thousand people in california and the governor said before they are a great partner on the environment, that didn't go so well and they got a lot of violations at the plant where they were making them. they're doing that in shenzhen. gavin newsom says he cares about outcomes, we will see how this one turns out. speak to you are right, melissa.

i wish i hadn't heard that story but i'm glad you told it. something is going on. thank you. before we go tonight, happy anniversary to two of our favorite members of our group, dan and deb have been mad marrid for 40 years. sean hannity now. >> sean: happy anniversary to your staff and thank you. welcome to "hannity" it, we begin with a fox news alert. a district court judge just unsealed a trope of documents that completely and totally exonerate lieutenant general michael flynn. these records contain handwritten notes and emails from the fbi, and they prove beyond any shadow of any doubt that general flynn was completely set up by corrupt agents who targeted him with a clear perjury trap. they were after him. lieutenant general flynn has been and is an innocent man.