gummies contain a unique botanical blend, while an optimal melatonin level means no next-day grogginess. zzzquil pure zzzs. naturally superior sleep. >> martha: that is "the story" of wednesday the 29th, 2020, but as always, "the story" continues and we will see you ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." "what isuc our goal? get him to live 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. which happened. we told you earlier this week that it did happen and the smoking gun was going to prove it happen. that smoking gun was here tonight. breaking details in just a moment. but first we want to begin with an update on the state of this country. on saturday, former present barack obama went golfing at the robert trent jones country club

in virginia. he's a member there. 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 honestly, why wouldn't he be? it's beautiful out on the links. you'll notice there are many people run. if that's because virginia and washington, d.c., are still under quarantine. everybody else is lockedas.c ate as they have been for more than a month, but not former president obama. for him, golfing at his countryb club was an essential activity. two days later, after this picture was taken, the beleaguered residents of washington, d.c., began to receive the public service announcement on their phones. the message had been recorded at the request of the d.c. government by barack obama's wife, the former first lady,y michelle obama. here's what the message said. >> remember, we urge you to stay home except if you need

essential health care, essential food or supplies, or to go to your central job. >> tucker: stay home, except for essential health care, essential food, essential jobs. that is michelle obama's message to you. it didn't seem to occur to her that those standards might also apply to her family, and that's why she didn't mention essential trips to your 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 weeksks ago, the mayr of chicago was caught getting her hair done at a time when the city of chicago had closed salons to mere a civilians. her stylist ratted her out on facebook. her excuse? "on the public face of this city. i'm on 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 have no intention of abiding by the restrictions they impose on their fellow citizens. they have no interest in any scientific development. increasingly there are many of them. the challenges the wisdom of their lockdowns. day by day, evidence accumulates that mass quarantines are not achieving what politicians claimed they would achieve. not even close. huge numbers of people have been infected anyway. far fewer of thembe are dying tn weny expected.e our political leaders meanwhile pretend as if none of this is happening. just yesterday, maine governor janet mills extended her states locked down into the future. she commanded citizens to remain in their homes except for essential activities and "occasional grocery shopping." mills were habited bars and restaurants and summer camps and some state parks from opening. she made it illegal for hotels to book guests, even for future states. she canceled every summer festival in the state.at she told every church to keep its doors locked, ensuring that many of them will go defunct and disappear forever.

and she told the people of maine to change their personal lives, including in the most intimate ways. no shaking hands, the governor ordered, with great emphasis. thanks to janet mills' decision, maine will never be the same but these restrictions are all necessary, she explained, thanks to the extreme and unusual peril that the state of maine basis. >> 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 woods yet. those are bracing words. they sell mike someone winston churchill would have said during the blitz. what exactly do these woods janet mills referred to look like? will at 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 thell full course of thisul entire epidemic, just 51 people in the state of maine have died

from the coronavirus. meanwhile, and there's a flip side, directly because of the lockdowns that mills ordered, more than 10% of maine maine's population is now unemployed. all over the state, businesses are failing. a forecast produced by oxford economics but asked that maine will be hit harder and longer bi these lockdowns than any other state in the country. so is this a proportionate response to the threat? no. it's not. it's vandalism. mills' speechwriter worked hard to make her reckless policies sound poetic. >> people who now are staying apart so that someday we can all be together again. >> tucker: someday we can be together again. well, thanks, governor, we appreciate your kindness in allowing the buried so how long will that be until we can back together again? while, mills, who is clearly deeply enjoying her new found power didn't how long. there's "no timeline for that." things will not be normal soon,

she warned. we are inventing a new normal." you may be wondering, where executives janet mills derive the power to invent a "new normal post quote for 1.3 million people? to remake human society in whatever form she chooses? mills did not explain that either. instead, the governor read a selection from a 31-year-old novelist called veronica roth. roth wrote that "gritting your teeth through pain is part of the "slow walk through life." thoughts from janet mills. a slow walk for a better life, that's what mills is promising. but wait a second, wasn't this all supposed to be about a public health emergency, science? that was last month. it's now about "a better life." people in power abuse their power. that may be the lesson here. the arrival of a terrifying newr virus from china gave our leaders more power than anyone has had in the history of this

country. six weeks ago america was something were assembling and imperfect democracy. we had an election on the horizon that we are sort of paying attention to. back then, andrew cuomo was considering thuggish, possibly corruptt regional leader, but suddenly everything hasas chang. now this is an oligarchy managed by bureaucrats and tech moguls. none of whom are accountable to voters. 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 they don't want it 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 highestthat the possible volume of the lockdowns must continue? not very shocked. they all feel that way. this is the best thing that has ever happened to them. it's their chance. let's say you once tried to run the country but on two separate occasions, voters rejected you. they disliked you and they disliked her program so muchha

that they elected a casino owner from reality television instead. what ifit that happened to you? you probably be pretty stunned by it and better than one day you'd wake up in the country is in chaos. normal life has been suspended. this is the perfect opportunity to impose your will on a paralyzed nation. you would seize that opportunity, and she has. >> every form of health care should continue to be available, including reproductive health care, that eventually and quickly, i hope, gets us to universal health care. this would be a terrible crisis to waste, as the old saying go goes. >> tucker: amore abortion! universal health care! those other required responses to the will hand virus, declares hillary clinton. every politician on all sides has an ideological wish list, strange unlikely ideas, that under normal circumstances are checked by voters.

voters instinctively distrust ideology, and for good reason. no one is keeping those ideas g and check now. nobody cares what voters think anymore. it's time to govern without limits. watch disgraced new york mayor bill de blasio display and that is a matter of public .health or something we need moe "inclusion and equity." speak with the city was written off more times than i can count and the city came back stronger every time. now we are going to come back stronger and fairer. the immediate actions government needs to take and build out as part of the bigger vision is a city 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 realities we are facing with this disease. >> tucker: so, this pandemic is really about structural racism. that's what bill de blasio is telling us. i bet you didn't know that. bet you assumed it was a virus.

remember?t how confused are you? it doesn't matter, because bill de blasio doesn't care what youou think. like all of our leaders, from now on he plans to do exactly what he wants, and he can. dr. john lee is retired professional of -- joins us tonight, thanks for much for coming on. from a medical standpoint, epidemiological standpoint, how would you assess our country -- our political leaders' response to this pandemic, has it been effective? >> i think we can understand why they did it, because it seemed very scary and we had very distressing pictures from places like italy and china and new york. but i think the more -- the question is what do we do next? now that we've got ourselves into this position, should we be continuing with a? the information that with god is different than it was a few weeks ago and it's clear that the virus is not anywhere near as scary as it first appeared to be. it is a nasty virus, that's

true, it is killing people. it does cause nasty infections, but where the original death rate was thought to be around 3.4%, it's not going to be somewhere between 1.2 and 1.1%, 17-34 times less. the epidemiological models were predicting nearly 80% of us were going to catch it at any one time. it looks like that possibly going to be near the 15% mark, so the scary pictures that we saw from some of these places probably were more to do with specific factors to do with those places than the virus itself. and what would got to do now is question whether prolonging the lockdown is essential to what is not a bigger threat as we thought it was. >> tucker: do you think prolonging the lockdown, which in many places it's happening, has officially been prolonged -- do you think that's an appropriate response from an epidemiological standpoint? >> well, i think it is actually, because i think not only is the

virus not as bad as we thought it was, but the lockdown is causing harm. the hypocrisy told us that a key thing is first do no harm. you've got to be sure that your cure is better -- your treatment is going to be better than thehe disease. and whereas covid is clearly causing illness and death, it's mainly i causing that in groupsf people who actually already have quite serious life-threatening conditions and also your age -- that isn't to say that everybody's life isn't important, but the question is, should we be taking their livelihoods and affecting the lives and education, well-being, of the large majority of the population, who aren't going to be affected much by this disease in order, in theory, to maybe protect somebody from what are going to be affected by this disease. it seems to me like the swedish model of carrying on a

reasonably normally, but with someyi social responsibility in trying to isolate is a sensible model. the thing is, there's no signs of lockdown. this sort of totalitarian response tof the virus and fundamentally although you could make -- you could make arm waiting suggestions that the lockdown might be -- you could make equally valid suggestions that it isn't slowing the spread at all. every time you breathe out when you've got this virus a symptomatically, you bring that 10 million virus particles. do we really think that keeping them apart from other people is going to stop the spread? spirit it doesn't seem to have done that so far at all. dr. lee, thank you for your perspective tonight, it's good to talk to you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so you're hearing political leaders say that the 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 we mean doctors and nurses, hospitals have gone broke. not enough attention has been paid to what is happening now among our front my medical workers. dr. brendan carr knows a lot about them because he is one, professor and chair of emergency medical -- joins us tonight.un thanks so much for coming on. give us a picture of where our health care system is right now, if you would. >> thanks for having me, tucker. the new york environment is a little bit different than most of the u.s. as most folks know, we were hit really, really hard over thew last month with lots of sick folks, lots of moderately ill folks as well. where we are now is past our peak and the sort a stalled plateau on the way down. not as many people coming into our emergency departments who are critically ill, but still some and lots and lots of folks

for ill and are still in the icus and in the hospitals and recovering from their disease. >> tucker: we had one of our producers yesterday go over to quest diagnostics to get tested, he believed he had beenod expos. and he was told there was only one person there because everyone else of the lab had been furloughed. 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 beenle told not to work. what is that? >> yeah, that one surprises me. the lab where we are doing the testing for covid, obviously is a critical resource. all in all though, the amount of health care it's being used in the u.s. right now, certainly in the part that i know, in new york city, has decreased relative to our normal volume. you know, i think of it into different ways, think about schedule care and the people that are waiting to have their -- and operation to

replace the hip were to remove a cancer, or a heart operation, these things are scheduled, but important and urgent and there's a whole sort of separate universe of unscheduled care, the type of stuff that we mostly see an emergency department, where people are ill or injured and are coming in to seek advice on sort of whether or not what they have is something that requires intervention. >> tucker: boy, you all have been through a lot and i appreciate your coming on again tonight, thanks so much. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: shortly before we came an airtight, remarkable new document was released. handwritten by someone, apparently a senior official within b the fbi, and it reveals that the prosecution of michael flynn was a political set up from very beginning and it reveals it in language much starker than even we expected or

predicted. it is shocking, we are not overstating theit case. details after the break. ♪

♪ >> tucker: this is a fox news alert. stunning revelations, that's a phrase you often hear on television, tonight it's justified. stunning revelations in the case of michael flynn. trace gallagher has details. hey, trace. >> we've just gotten four pages from unfilled documents and sidney powell says 11 more pages are coming and they are damning. to talk about emails and handwritten notes that appear to

show that senior fbi members were determined to prosecute michael flynn regardless of what they found. for context, the interview between the fbi and flynn happened at the white house back in january of 2017. two knowledgeable sources now told "tucker carlson tonight" that going into the interview, who was then the assistant director of the fbi's counterintelligence division wrote, quoting here, "what is our goal, truth, admission, or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get himl. fire? ththe document going to say that the goal was to get flynn, quoting, "to admit to bring the logan act mostly, the law that some us never use that bans u.s. citizens from negotiating with foreign countries. remember, disgraced former fbi agent peter strzok was also involved in that very flynn interview and the documents show at his lover, the former fbi lawyeroc lisa page, emailed himn 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, thank you. dana perino hosts the daily briefing with dana perino, we are happy to have her on tonight. thanks so much for coming on. so here you have the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world, people are literally empowered to shoot you if they deem it necessary, destroying the life of an american citizen for political reasons. i mean, just take three steps back, what you make of this? >> well, this is a case and a story that has been out there for so long that i think senator chuck grassley tonight has asked a judge to unseal the case, that it's time for everybody to at least get some clarity as to what all was going on. attorney general by compelling the release of these documents, plus he did ask -- i believe it was the u.s. attorney in

missouri to take a look at this case and this is all starting to unravel for the fbi. it would look like, right? c have questionable judgment. plus, i'm not going to say that you should treat any citizen differently, but if you're going to go after someone who many people consider a war hero and somebody who is working for the president of the united states, then you don't do it like anna -- i was going to say i half assed manner if you're allowed to sit on television. that's where you have to make sure everything is by the book, it is locked down and it does not look like that happened here at all. i am thinking that the judge is looking at this, going to say i'm not going to withdraw the plea, because michaelo flynn did make the plea that he made, but i do think that the judge might vacate the case, kick it back to the justice department, and ask them, okay, did you want to retry this case, do you want try again to prosecute and i don't

what the answer will be, but that is a likely scenario. >> tucker: look, i've been in d.c. most of my life and in and around government and my family worked for the government. the idea that our top law enforcement agency would set someone up like this so boldly, do we get them to life so we can prosecute? i find that really shocking. the person who should be prosecuted as the person who decided to do this. i a mean, what does this mean if they can do this to the national security advisor? what chance do the rest of us r have if we somehow get crossways with the fbi? >> and that is why you have such get skepticism of government. the person who wrote the note, that person, will come out in the play next, explain himself, if there is an excellent nation we will see that but there's also something else that goes deeper back into the obama administration. michael flynn, remember, is let go by the obama administration in 2015. then the week after the president is elected in 2016, he

goes to the white house, he has a meeting with obama at the obama people have let it be known that there were two people that president obama warned president trumpde about. one was kim jong un, the other was michael flynn. and none of that has ever been explained, but all of this did follow that meeting. and that scenario back in 2015. >> tucker: this is just one of the most corrupt things i've ever seen in my life and one of the scariest.in i mean, why wouldn't the attorney general tonight grabbed the guy who t did this and have charges filed against him? how is this not a crime? >> well, i think -- i think that might be an overreaction, right? to fire somebody and not letting them have a chance to explain themselves.dyxp the fact that these documents are, that is an important step that this attorney general has made and i think again, as ipo said, if you're going to prosecute some of it flynn, you

better have that case locked up, when the attorney general knows, he's been around the block so many times, that if he's going to got on this path, to look into this case, that everything he does has to be by the book ah well because the transparency is what we all deserve fair and michael flynn might deserve a lot more than that. >> tucker: it's pretty outrageous that a government employee can keep his identity secret. he doesn't own the document, we do. he works for us. bill priestap, or whoever that is, whoever wrote this, that identity should be public right now. we should have known about this three years ago, really. it's shocking. dana, great to see you tonight, thank you. >> thank you. >> tucker: so back when he was the vice president, joe biden, and you may not have read about it at the time, ran a policy, changed a policy, that ruined the lives of a lot of people. they changed the burden of proof for those accused of

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>> lie from america's news headquarters, i'm actually still mild. next berm of the drug offering a ray of hope in the race to find a coronavirus treatment, scientists say trials show it can speed the recovery of covid-19 patients, dr. anthony fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert says the drug can block the virus and will know meet the standard of care. stocks surging on the news with the dow gaining more than 530 points and los angeles becomes the first major u.s. city to put tests to everybody. eric garcetti says people can even be tested if there symptom-free. people can sign up online, for appointments starting immediately. elder priority will still be given to people with symptoms, the symptoms are fever, cough, shortness of breath. i'm ashley strohmeyer, now back to tucker carlson tonight. >> tucker: two weeks ago, american christians weree

threatened with arrest if they try to celebrate easter. the lawmakers aren't just hostile to christianity. yesterday new york mayor bill de blasio singled out the city's jewish community and threatened them with mass arrest. here it is. "my message to the jewish community at all communities is this simple. the time for warnings has pass passed. i've instructed the nypd to proceed immediately to someone or even arrest those who gather in large groups. while, de blasio threatens jewish people in new york in the name of health, the viral photos and videos show the citiesys subway system is completely falling apart. it's essentially a moving homeless encampment. seth baron's associate or at city journal, lives in new york, joins us tonight, thanks for coming on. someone just sent me this i can't resist reading on the t a. this is a tweet in light of the tweet he sent about jewish new yorkers. bill de blasio sent this april y new yorkers beginning their celebration who need meals, we will bring hundreds of thousands of them to more than 32 sites

frequented by our muslim communities. unders of thousands of meals to 32 sites suggests large groups of people congregating and bill de blasio's catering those meetings because their muslim meetings. now he's threatening religious jews with the rest. >> look, demagogues traditionally, when they're flailing around, they try to distract by pinning blame on someone else. i've been following de blasio for about ten years. never once heard him call outou any community or any ethnicity in anything but the most favorable, like praiseworthy terms. so the fact that he's trying to pin, you know, his feelings regarding the coronavirus outbreak on hasidic jews were gathering outside to watch a funeral go by, it seems pretty rich. this is the same guy who talked endlessly about stigma, racial

equity, inclusion, so this is unusual. but you know,w tucker, de blasio is spiraling down. the city is in tremendous stress. as you pointed out, the subways are effectively and overflow capacity for the homeless shelter system. his thinking -- he's so out of control, the subways are so out of control with homeless people that his only solution right now is to shut the subways down at night to force them off. that's an utter failure. the city is in real, real straits right now and de blasio's 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 the public transportation they pay for? i mean, even andrew cuomo is not exact the mr. good government. he pointed out, people have the right to take the subway. it's not just for vagrants, right? >> yet. i mean, it's kind of the essence

of everything that defines new york city. it's what facilitates all of our business, all of our social life, all of our commerce, and he's given it overll to vagrants into criminals. they lit 1500 criminal, serious criminals at rikers island, so concerned that they might get sick, and now crime, even though transit, ridership is down like 95% of the subways, crime is up. both on the streets and in the subways. he'sin given up and he's just flailing around and pointing fingers at every morning gives these long, long, hour-long inspirational speeches that no one is listening to. fdr getting firesidehe chats. it's really -- it's really a little crazy. i mean, it's getting strange. >> tucker: sure he smoking a ton of weed. his ideas don't work, that's the

problem, it's not just that he's mediocre, dumb and incompetent, it's that the ideas about. it's great to see it in a gray >> yes, thank you. >> tucker: they are bad. well, 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 emissary to ukraine, where his son was getting rich in a do-nothing job, one of his other jobs was running the administration title ix policy. before the obama administration most colleagues handled the dash the way you probably want them handled if you were accused of doing something awful. offenses were narrowly defined as they are in court, rather than broadly and the allegations required to meet a higher burden of proof, as they should put it under biden's oversight, the obama administration changed everything. he sent a letter to every one of these country's more than 4,000 colleges and universities with a stern warning. they said that schools will lose all federal funding unless they completely alter the way they

treated sexual assault allegations on campus.re under the biden role, the accused were charged under the lowest standard of evidence. if they were subjected to kangaroo courts where they could not effectively use legal counsel or contest -- if you have kids in college, you know this is true, young men found their lives and their careers not to mention the reputations. accusations that were sometimes -- at least one case, a student was expelled from college over an assault even as police were criminally charging his accuser from filing a false police report in the same case. that was the america that joe biden created. what would happen if joe biden have to play by the same rules he made now? well, he would be done. her allegations are not proven,i 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, and never would.en why isn't he forced to? because the american feminist movement may be the single most corrupt movement in the world. it's more corrupt than the government of equatorial guinea, it's more corrupt than the world health organization. there's nothing more corrupt than institutional feminism. and if you want proof, look no further than tenant dumb like senator kirsten gillibrand ofr new york. sheha had wanted brett kavanaugs family and life destroyed. he was guilty, she said she could feel it. >> her account is credible and i believe her. we know that judge kavanaugh was not honest when he came to the senate judiciary committee. she spoke her truth so bravely, so strongly, so honestly and we believed her. judge kavanaugh has not asked to have the fbi review these claims. is that the reaction of an innocent person? it is not. to refuse to treat this properly and to try to confirm judge kavanaugh at any cost

tells women that once again they are not important and they are not to be believed. i believe her. because she's telling the truth. >> tucker: has there ever been in the last 235 euros a dumber person to45 serve in 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. therefore, he must be guilty, no trial needed. yesterday, she got her chance to respond to the allegation, credible allegations, that tara reade is made against joe biden. even if you haven't already seen this, we bet you can guess what her response was. >> she has come forward, she has spoken, and they've done an c investigation in several outle outlets. those investigations, vice president biden has called for himself. vice president biden has vehemently denied these

allegations and i support vice president biden. >> tucker: has joe biden bagged the fbi to take a close look at his personal life over the past 50 years? he hasn't? you must be guilty. that's no longer position. why? because political circumstances have changed. we want to be clear, we have no idea if joe biden actually do this, we hope not, it's awful. it. but in american politics, it doesn't matter. here's your take away. institutional feminism, the so-called feminist movement, is fake. it was never about women or believing women. they do believe women, they don't care about women. they care about power. and that's why she was friends with harvey weinstein and bill clinton. that's why she's friends with joe biden now. if you call yourself a male feminist and send out checks to the democratic party, it doesn't matter how many actual women --y that's true. tammy bruce hopes to hosts "get to members" on fox nation and she joins us tonight. you're very familiar with the so-called from this movement,

different from individuals who consider themselves feminists but the basic washington feminist movement, you spent time in it. are you surprised by this? >> not at all. this is in part why a lefty. i've been a critic now for about a generation. your monologue is absolutely correct. and it's not just that there incompetent. that they do work that achieves the opposite of what they tell people they're doing. t so they are the champions of women and then they support men and enable men who damage women's lives, who harm women directly but it's okay as long as you make our issues a fetish. if you demonstrate, oh, i'm going to fight for the violence against women act, that becomes your protection and the argument always than his, and we saw this with weinstein, we saw it with bill clinton, oh, my gosh, he's doing so much for our issue, don't complain, because it will hurt the movement. this has been almost an organized framework of being able to victimize women, traffic women, all in the name of "i am

your champion, i am a helper." which is also what abusers do, is that because of me, i can protect you, or if you hurt me, you will be hurt. this is the same dynamic. joe biden of course -- look, i said during kavanaugh, women should be taken seriously. but this, again, it's about the hypocrisy more than even hypocrisy, but the dash the bold -- the boldness of the hypocrisy. they know that they've been lying they don't care at this point. >> tucker: yeah.d i mean, wouldn't you be embarrassed if you are caught? >> you'd think so. yeah. you'd think so. joe biden -- joe biden led the effort for campuses to lower the burden of proof, to not allow people to be able to defend themselves. for even a third party to bring a complaint of assault when even a supposed victim would disagree that that has occurred, but we saw this play out.

we saw the joe biden theory play out during the kavanaugh hearings. that was exactly the same thing. no due process, no fairness, and that is what joe biden stood up for and has pledged to bring back, by the way, to american campuses. so his attitude hasn't seemed to have changed. >> tucker: boy, i mean, we are all hypocrites on some level but this level of hypocrisy is poison. it really is.s tammy bruce, great to see you. >> it is, thank you, tucker. >> tucker: way back in february, dr. marc siegel told us about a promising coronavirus treatment. now the data are in and it turns out the actually work.nt dr. siegel fills us in next. ♪

♪ >> tucker: in the early days of this pandemic, we dispatched fox magical contributed

marc siegel to nebraska. while he was there he told us about a them have an obscure drug that researchers were then studying. >> this hospital is at the very nucleus of the american effort to defeat the disease. they just started clinical trials for remdesivir, and antiviral medication. we spoke to dr. andre kalil, who was running the trials and he's optimistic. >> i think the data that we have available suggests it's promising. >> tucker: well, two months later, that research appears to be bearing some fruit. dr. marc siegel rejoins us tonight with an update. dr. period >> tucker, we have good news tonight. both on the treatment front you just heard, i'll tell you more and then on the vaccine front. on the treatment front, dr. kalil turned out to be very productive because of thousand patients later, at 68 centers around theer united states, europe, and asia, remdesivir has been shown to decrease recovery time, which is crucial in s fighting a virus.

it decreased recovery time from 14 to 11 days. that shows its decreasing viral replication in the body looks like. it also decreased death rate. something else we are excited about. these are hospital patients, very sick, they have lung problems and they are responding, it looks like, majority of cases to remdesivir. when it's used earlier, we might even see more dramatic results. so the doctor was predictive here. this is the kind of research that we look for, this is the kind of studies we look for, expensive. we now have a new arrow in our quiver. when it comes to vaccines tonight, we also have some good newse because, you know what, we are at an unprecedented place with vaccines. vaccines usually take years to produce, but we have new technologies now. we have genetic-based vaccines we never used before. we understand viruses better and partnering with a company in germany has started to do clinical trials come 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 workers. if it works, in the fall. at the same time,am oxford university is already giving their vaccine of a slightly older technology to 6,000 people over the next month. they too are saying front-line people, people at high risk, we 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. we've made major advancements in treatment. with never -- in this fast, this effective and vaccines on the horizon much closer than we ever thought possible, tucker. >> tucker: it's amazing. effective treatments, just seems like greatness. g doctor, thank you very much for that report. because great news, thank you, tucker.ew >> tucker: so many businesses in this country are failing

right now. m some have already failed. but in the state of california, billions of taxpayer dollars are going to enrich a chinese company, thanks to governor gavin newsom. we've got details on that story just ahead. ♪ [anthony] hey mama, what's up? [mama] i'm confused. confused about what, everything ok? yeah, i only see one price on my phone bill. that doesn't sound confusing mama. you're on t-mobile, taxes and fees are included. oh come on, there's always extra fees! not on t-mobile mama. why can't all my bills be like this? i don't know mama. bye mama, love you. anthony? umph! at t-mobile, taxes and fees are included. and right now, when you switch your family, get 4 lines of unlimited for just $35 a line.

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♪ >> tucker: governor gavin newsom of california wants n95 masks for his state and good for him. everybody wants them.

less good is the way newsom has decidedd to get those masks. california's government signed a $1 billion deal with a chinese auto company to import 200 million masks from mainlandp china. most of the details of the deal had been kept secret from the public. shouldn't be. but they are. we can do the math on this. that's five dollars a mask. all of that will make china richer. almost all of it. billionaire and democratic donor warren buffett is a big invest investor. she joins us tonight. this doesn't sound like a straight up deal to me. >> no. this story is so bad i want to apologize in advance for even telling you about it because it's just horrible. it starts with this company, as you said, they are the largest

electric car maker in china. call they had a horrible quarter, the announced profits e down 22%. it's a disaster. two weeks later, a lifeline from california. they are going to get a billion dollars from the state of california s to make electric cars, you ask? they arere going to make mask. which is not their business and they haven't done but they are going to turn their factories, don't know how they will turn their factories around to make masks. there were other american auto manufacturers who say they would do the same thing but these guys said that theyin could make 5 million masks a day. guess what? that's more than three, who was the largest maker of these masks, who sets the standard, they make about 3 million a day. this car company who hasn'tt doe before is going to make even more than them. gavin newsom says, yes, sign me up. where can i sign up? on the dotted line for the wire the money, we know that much with reports out of california. what we don't know is if they've

received any masks yet. we don't know. one of the other really bad parts that we've mentioned is this company is going out of business. are they getting a bulk discount? they are going to buy 200 million masks? are they getting be going out of business deal? no! they are going to pay $5 a mask. i understand this is at a timend when lots of people want masks, but this company doesn't do that. they make cars! t why 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.ri they hired about a thousand people inth california and the governor said before they are a great partner on the environme environment. well. those buses didn't go so well and they got a lot of violations with thehe plant where they were making them. that's not where they make the masks anyway, they are doing that in gin gin. governor newsom says he cares about outcomes? let's see how this turns out. >> tucker: you are right, melissa.

i am glad you told us. something is going on. great to see you. thank you. we go tonight, happy anniversary to two of our favorite members of our crew. dan and deb hunting have been married for 42 years. wonderful people. have a great night. "hannity" now. >> sean: happy anniversary to your staff and thank you, tucker. busy news night. we begin with a fox news alert. a u.s. district court judge just unsealed a trove of documents that completely and totally exonerate lieutenant general etelmichael flynn. now 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 ay clear perjury trap. they were after him. lieutenant general flynn has been a