get a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. back here on sunday night. ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." friday is here solc before we begin the last hour of the week we would like to wish you a happy weekend with the ones you love. family is a refuge from chaos, a blessing and that's something to be grateful for. now to what's happening in our country, last week we interviewed a long time partner at the consulting firm mckinsey and company called peter walker. like so many in finance and consulting, he spent a lot of his career doing business in china. we know along the way, walker internalized a lot of the attitudes of china's

tatotalitarian government. during our interview, we asked him what he thought of china's lockdowns, here's what he said. credible reports suggest that chinese authorities locked people in their apartments and left them to die, they snatched people off the street and threw them in police vans, that's the quarantine you think they deserve high praise for, why? >> i think if you just look at the results, i know there's always going to be questions about exactly whatt the numbers are, but i think the harsh action that they took given the scale of china and the number of big cities was exactly what they needed to do to be able to prevent the outbreak from going any further, and the reality is the outbreak hasn't gone much beyond wuhan. >> tucker: the secret police kidnapping citizens off the street, authorities locking people in their apartments fromo the outside, that's for results.

all of that was "exactly what they needed to do." this isf the view of one of america's most prominent business leaders, later in our interview, he suggested american icauthorities could've done the same thing in new york. here is the striking thing. nobody seemed to notice that he said it, he didn't find himself on the front page of "the new york times," no one in american business denounced him. he went home to bed and that was it. totalitarianism does not shock us anymore. maybe that's because all of a sudden it's all around us. you may have seen this tape already, two armed officers arrived at a family's home in wisconsin, someone reported the mother to police for arranging a playdate for her daughter, that's now a crime. here's what happened next. >> are you aware that we are in a in a stay-at-home order right

now? you're aware of that? i don't need to explain that to you? >> why are you here? >> because your daughter is going to play at other people's home -- stop having your kid go to other people's home. >> are we done here? >> the middle initial of your last name. >> i haven't done anything wrong. >> we got it. that will be documented too that you're uncooperative. >> tucker: you're uncooperative, that will be documented. notice the tone they strike with this mother, they are standing on her property uninvited hectoring her about the so-called crime of allowing her daughter to play outside the house. they aren't apologizing for this, they aren't embarrassed to be carrying out an order that has no basis in science, they are self-confident. they treat her with contempt like a peasant and later the sheriff's department posted an account of what happened on their facebook page. in it they referred to that

mother's mobile home six times. she was in a mobile home, just a peasant, shut up and obey, who cares what she thinks? they believe they have the right to do that. the question is where w did they get that right? that's a good question, a question we are strongly discouraged from asking. the short answer is governors have told them they could come in the state of maine, governor janet mills now has the power to suspend any law she doesn't like. she can seize any state resource she feels like seizing, she can force any citizen or all citizens from their home. she can do all of this for as long as she wants as long as she believes maine is in a state of emergency. there is virtually nothing that janet mills can't now do. many governors now have these powers. on monday governor pritzker did

his best to explain why his word is now law in the state, it has to be law, otherwise thousands would die. >> the stay-at-home order has prevented tens of thousands of illnesses and thousands of deaths. history will remember those who put politics aside to come together to keep people safe. it will also remember those who so blindly devoted to ideology and the pursuit of personal celebrity that they made an enemy of science and of reason. >> tucker: in three sentences, governor pritzker framed himself as a leader of historic stature, those who doubt his decrees are enemies of science and reason, enemies of civilization itself. enemies of the state. two days later on wednesday, it emerged that his own wife who has her own state employees was one of these people.

his wife apparently had violated the lock down herself. governor pritzker was asked about this, here's how he responded to. >> what is your response to people who say the stay-at-home order armed being abided by your family? your wife recently traveled to florida. >> first of all, i want to say in politics it used to be that we kept our families out of it. my official duties have nothing i' do with my family. so i'm just not going to answer that question, it's inappropriate and i find itro reprehensible that that reporter wrote a story about it. >> tucker: how dare someone cover that. asking about whether or not his own family is obeying the order that your family is morally obligated to follow is inappropriate --o indeed, the governor says it is reprehensible, how dare you? it would be very useful in moments like this to have an

media, news organizations exist to hold the powerful to account. here we have the powerful acting with no accountability at all and the news media are cheering it on. no abuse is too grotesque for them, no talking point is too stupid to repeat. reporters will do whatever they are told, they are all in. msnbc recently sent a cameratl crew to document one of the latest and mostt orwellian developments, barking drones that harangue citizens from the air. msnbc was delighted by it. >> elizabeth, new jersey, is now using drones to spread the life-saving message. >> you are not immune to this virus. >> tucker: move away from each other commands the state of new jersey, break it up. your god-given right to free assembly has been suspended indefinitely. back inside or you will face the

consequences. msnbc applauds this as if it's all completely normal. it's a life saving measure. handmaidens to the corona security state, but to their credit, at least msnbc put it on television.pu most outlets don't bother to cover story like like this. nine people were prosecuted for daring to participate in a jewish wedding in their backyard. for 250 yearsfo americans have enjoyed the unfettered right to practice their faith as they choose, now they don't. it happened overnight. christians across the country were legally prohibited from celebrating easter in their churches. how exactly is this happening? it turns out that's not clear, strangely not many people have asked. politicians have no right to do any of this. opey cannot make it illegal for people to go to religious services, the constitution of the united states expressly prohibits that, the words could

not be clearer. the first amendment explicitly prevents government from making any law that inhibits the exercise of religious faith. that's not a detail or a footnote, it's a cornerstone of our history and our legal system. millions of people, probably your ancestors, fled to this country around the world precisely because the bill of rights gave them this guarantee. in a moment it's gone. where did politicians get the authority to do this, because some elderly power drunk epidemiologist told them to do it? that's not how our system works. it can't work that way. occasionally you hear someone complain about this, some lonely civil libertarian on a slippery slope to losing our rights -- we are already there, we've slid to the bottom of that slope. our rights are gone. no one has explained how politicians arell allowed to do this, how can they override the constitution?

nobody seems to care, they are too afraid. if you think this moment is scary, consider what might come next. now that we've ceded all authority to our political leaders, what can't they do? what are the limits to their power? that's not a theoretical question, it's not an argument over philosophy or political theory, it is the most practical possible question. the answer will define where this country goes next. what can't politicians do in the name of public health? as it stands, politicians won't let people worship or work or go to school or see their aging parents, theypa placed the natin under p house arrest. that's happening today, right now. let's say we all get more afraid, what then? what couldn't they start doing? could they in turn people? you can dismiss the possibility of that if you like but remember a few months ago, most of us would've dismissed as ludicrous

the possibility that propaganda spewing drones would be hovering above. now we have some. so what's next? what can't they do? let's draw a line at some point. will o'neill is the mayor of newport beach, california, he's not obeying or at least denouncing gavin newsom's order to close the beaches, he says it's unreasonable and against science. he joins us tonight. thanks so much for coming on. as i understand it on the other coast, your governor has said "people have told me with advance science degrees that beaches in orange county should be closed and you must do it now." what's your reaction to that? >> yesterday governor gavin newsom closed 43 miles of orange county beaches not because of data but because of politics. how do i know that? here's the data: orange county has 3.2 million people who than2

states, bigger than states like nevada, mississippi, iowa, of all of those people, we have lost 50 people to this virus. that's 0.001% of our population. in our local hospital, we have 475 beds, they have never treated more than 25 people at any givenve time and yesterday they had nine people that they were treating and only 1% of their ventilators were being used. this beach closure idea to keep people safe has been tried in los angeles county. they have closed their beaches up there for over 30 days now and the results just haven't borne out. every single city that is along the coast in los angeles has a higher per capita covid rate then every open beach community in orange county. let's talk about san diego for a second, they've got over two times thewo number of people who have died because of this virus in orange county but their beaches are open. this has nothing to do with data and it has everything to do with politics and i agree, i think what our governor did it as he

looked at photographs that were showing a mile of beach condensed into about a meter, it looked like everyone was on top of each other but he should've called me. on the mayor of newport beach and he should've asked me what we are seeing on the ground and i would've told him. our police chief, our firefs chief, or lifeguards, even our local sheriffs all set universally the vast majority of people, they were families on the beach, they were social distancing but there were people who weren't so they got to spend some time talking to our law enforcement making sure they understood what social distancing means. our governor should have fought beside us, he should've fought against this national narrative. instead the first time we heard from our governor was yesterday, last nightig when he had someone from his office tell us your beaches are closed. >> tucker: he has no problem ignoring federal immigration law. do you think you will enforce this order -- if you kept your beaches open what do you think would happen?

>> our local sheriff said he has no intention of enforcing this so thehe question at that points what will the governor do? i'll tell you, i have to say -- my dad has given some great advice, he's one of my heroes. he's a former police officer, he's a retired federal judge and i talk to them about policy a number of times and recently hea told me, if it's a close call, you always go on the side of liberty, not restrictions.er i don't think this should have goen a close call for the governor but if it was, i hope he'll take my dad's advice to heart and reverse this call. >> tucker: thanks so much for explaining that calmly and reasonably come appreciate s itj we are joined now by fox's senior judicial analyst judge andrew napolitano, a legitimate expert on the bill of rights. i'm sorry to be fixated on this one question i can't get out of my mind, is it possible in this country under our system the one

we've lived under for a politician to say i'm not obeying the constitution -- explicit rights guaranteed there and i'm going to take them away? i was i was not allowed? >> it will be allowed if the politician believes he can get away with it because the public accepts the illusion of safety rather than the idea of liberty forer which many of our wars hae been fought and many our forebears have died in order to preserve the liberties which now have beener taken away by these politicians because they think they know what's better for us than we know for ourselves. they aren't interested in choice, they're not interested in the bill of rights, they're not interested in their oath to uphold the bill of rights. the constitution guarantees free speech, free press, the right to assemble, the right to worship are only as good as the human beings in whose hands we

have placed the constitution for safekeeping. the governors in maine, new jersey, illinois, california have no regard for the constitution because they have public sentiment behind them, because they've scared the daylights out of the public and the very few people -- unlike the mayor, he's willing to do this -- are willing to stand up and say enough. >> tucker: can i ask you a question? if our politicians have no regards for the bill of rights, upon which the country is founded, then why should the rest of us have any regard for their orders? it's not their country, they don't own it, it's our country, so why are we obeying them if they are contravening our bill of rights? >> we have no obligation to obey them. governors don't write the law and don't assess punishments, only legislatures do. every single one of the 50 governors in this country has

written newew laws and assess nw punishment utterly and totally without authority to do so. even if the state legislatures in the states have authorized them to do it, that legislation would be invalid because as you have pointed out, it directly contravenes guarantees in thehe bill of rights, every one of those governors when they became governor took an oath not only to their state law and state constitutionsco but to the fedel constitution as well which includes thenc bill of rights. they have forgotten it, they have looked the other way, they are justst interested in telling people how to live because they can get away with it. it willke today take a determind minority like the mayor of newport beach pushing hard to point out how they're violating what they have been hired to do. because the majority is willing to accept this nonsense andt believes it's the law. i go into a supermarket the buy

a newspaper, the sign says it's the law you can't come in here without a mask i said to the owner, you can tell me i have to wear a mask because you own this business and if you think my not rearing a mask will harm your business, you have the right to keep me out, but there is no law that says i have to wear the mask. there is just the governor's musings and whims, that's all it is. >> tucker: i can't control myself, i've got to say shame on many of our religious leaders for following these illegitimate orders and taking orders fromfr the government, that's not what they should be doing. great to see you tonight. after two months of this many of america's small business owners had been pushed -- they don't work for the government and the private equity system is not rigged in their favor and they are desperate to get back to work. in some cases they're desperate enough to break the law.

yesterday an anchor on cnn shamed a barber shop owner who said he was reopening his business even if it puts them at risk personally. >> something you told my producer where you said i don't care if i get it, do you still feel that way? >> absolutely, a lot of us are going to get it, the data is that most likely we are not going t to die, we have a 99.7% chance of living. whether we contracted or not. >> let me jump in, neither of us are doctors and there's a lot of numbers being thrown out -- i have had it, it was not fun. >> tucker: the barbershop owner endured that self-righteous scolding, he joins us in just a minute. we'll be rightns back. actually -- while some states are crushing civil liberties,

others are living life slowly return to normal cautiously. a trace gallagher joins us with more on the state of reopening around the country. >> georgia is the bellwether because it's the first big state to significantly ease restrictions and so far based on averages, george's numbers on new infections are still dropping. because of test results being delayed and symptoms can take up to 14 dayss to appear, we won't know the impact of the reopening in georgia until next week but thek. early numbers provide covr for governor brian kemp's decision to lift mandates. for a week, the governor has been pilloried in traditional and social media. george's northern andge southern borders are reopening at a gradual pace in the number of new cases are also trending down. 21 other states have also loosened restrictions, all of them are taking a step-by-step approach but it's interesting but oklahoma is opening restaurants, bars, movie

theaters and places of worship and finally we should note the nba has now postponed its draft lottery and draft combine set for this month in chicago. still no word if the actual draft in late june will be postponed but there is talk of pushing the start of the season now to december. >> tucker: amazing. thanks so much for that. many in the media were thrilled at the prospect of north korea having a female leader. breaking news reports, tonight suggested that won't happen because kim jong un is actually alive. new pictures next. these days staying connected is more important than ever.

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>> tucker: for >> tucker: for more than a week now, rumors have swirled all over the internet that the north korean dictator kim jong un might be dead. at least one reporter tweeted out that he was, members of the press seemed thrilled by this not because of a murderous tyrant would be gone but because he might be replaced by his sister. this would more than make up for hillary losing. those celebrations appear to be premature, according to state media, kim just made his first public appearance in 21 days. the sources at american intelligence told the show he appears to be alive and well. is this true? what can we believe? gordon chang is author of showdown, do you believe this?

>> right now, we have the photographs. kim jong un also visited the same fertilizer plant on januaro make sure that these photos are not recycled and we haven't had a chance to do that yet. one thing we do know is that there was a serious health emergency because he missed two very important events. something occurred, we just don't know what. >> tucker: does he look different? i don't have my glasses on so i can't see the picture well but is he altered in any way, has he lost weight? is he the same kim jong un we knew? >> he's wearing the same close, he looks pretty much the same. i thought he looked a little thinner but i wasn't quite sure about that. i have to go back to some of the preapril 11th photos.

>> tucker: his train was parked outside a north koreanes resort facing the sea of japan, what do we think that was about? >> that's a great question. there are a lot of different interpretations, one of themm is the train was there because he just wanted to play around. the other was that they sent the train there to take his body back to pyongyang. if he was alive, i guess he was messing with us for a little while but clearly he has got us sort of in a tizzy right now. >> tucker: apparently the chinese government sent some sort of team into north korea, do we have any idea what that consisted of? >> people thought that it was a team to try to recover kim from botched stent surgery. i think it was also possible that because it was a chinese team and not something from

western europe that the team was there for coronavirus, because right now chinese doctors are in the lead in coronavirus recovery. perhaps that what was going on there. for someone with his underlying problems, diabetes, heart problems, gout -- covid-19 would be a near fatal disease for somebody like kim. >> tucker: gordon chang, the mystery continues. i hope you'll come back with updates. joe biden this morning finally responds to the allegations of his former staffer tara reade that he sexually assaulted her. it took place on msnbc which is a very friendly venue. even there, biden had a tough time, we'll show you what happened.

>> live from america's news headquarters, after weeks of rumors about his failing health, kim jong un made his first public appearance in 20 days, state run media reports he attended a ceremony, the completion of a fertilizer factory. he was joined by several senior north korean officials at the event including his sister and a possible successor. questions about his health surfaced on april 15th after he missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday.

the white house is blocking dr. anthony fauci from testifying on capitol hill next week. house democrats invited the nation's top infectious disease experts to appear before a committee, it is viewed that the administration's response that fauci and others will appear before a committee on may 12th. back to "tucker carlson tonight." ♪ >> tucker: two years ago, "the washington post" won a pulitzer prize for its "deeply sourced relentlessly reported" investigation into the russian hoax. they are so purple and filled with adjectives that don't need to be there but with a topic like that, it was all that mattered. it was hard not to win a pulitzer -- trump is bad. one of the posts winning

articles ran in february of 2017. the piece in question cited unnamed officials who suggested general michael flynn was in fact a secret russian operativec the they noted the existence of an fbi investigation looking at possible contacts between trump associates and russia, sounds usvery serious. what jeff bezos' personal newspaper didn't tell you was that the so-called investigation into flynn was a sham. the fbi had cleared him completely a month before the article even ran in "the washington post." as we now learned, the investigation continued only because peter strzok demanded it for par political reasons. they pretend of the whole thing was real and extremely scary. in doing that they defamed an innocent man and badly hurt his family, they mindlessly repeated an absurd conspiracy theory that most children could've deduced was false.

because the top echelons of american life are so corrupt and so rigged, they won a pulitzer prize for doing it anyway, it tells you a lot. the flynn investigation wasn't the only sham in progress, so were the pulitzers. as you likely heard, joe biden went on msnbc this morning to deny he sexually assaulted his former staff member tara reade. in the last four years, msnbc hasan transitioned from a left-leaning news channel to a highly aggressive political operation dedicated to doing rapid response for the democratic party. if media mattersmo had a tv station, it would be msnbc. the channel has a shield relentlessly for joe biden. surprisingly into her credit this morning, mika brzezinski asked a legitimate and tough question of joe biden and she kept asking it.d, why, she wondered doesn't biden order a search of his papers at the university of delaware for any residents to tara reade?

>> to the best of my knowledge no one else is done that either. >> i'm talking about her name, not anybody else in those records. a search for that. i'm just asking why not do a search for tara reade's name in the university of delawaream records? >> who does that search? >> the university of delaware, perhaps you set up a commission that can do it? i don't know, whatever is the fairest way to create the most transparency. >> tucker: mika brezinski went after biden in a fair way, a legitimate way but she was tough enough and you wonder what this was about. this is someone who sucks up to

democratic politicians relentlessly but she is hard on biden. could it be a sign the democratic establishment has decided we can't win with thisr. guide maybe it's time to get him off the stage. no evidence of that but it's interesting. another interesting thing, bideh has already ordered a search of his papers housed in national archives are references to tara reade but refuses to order a search of his archives at the university of delaware. those papers are sealed, we can't see them and we can't even know why we can't see them because the gift agreement that biden signed withh the universiy of delaware is also sealed. it's possible he received a hefty payment for his papers, the school denies that so now we have no choice but to take their word for it because we aren't allowed to know. that seems odd, the university of delaware t is a public institution, doesn't the public have a right to know what deals te schools they fund are making with politicians? as it turns out, no, the public

has no right to know what the university of delaware is doing with its money. biden cut his deal with the board of trustees. you won't be too shocked to learn that the head of that board as a long-time credit cara salesman called john cochran, he is the former ceo of mbna. he spent his senate career as a beautiful water carrier for the high interest credit card business even as so many of his constituents drowned in debt and cochran appears to be a key reason why joe biden did that. he regularly sent biden money over the years, he gave joe biden's son a lucrative job. at one point he even bought his home in wilmington for what was clearly an above market price. by the way, he's not alone. according to reporting at fox news, at least seven other board members have also contributed to joe biden's political campaign and now they're protecting him when he needs it. even by the standards of a small state, that looks like

corruption. this show has filed an open records request for the university of delaware to findav out more, we have a right to -- i'll tell you what we find. in theea meantime emily larson s a political reporter for the "washington examiner," she interviewed tara reade. as a reporter, what was your take away from that conversation, what did you conclude? >> i talked to her on a couple of occasions, most recently on monday of this week and she was very clear in that interview that she did not want her story to be. politicized, that's something that she is very worrieds about. id she's not trying to play up one side, she's just trying to be heard and find the right avenues for doing so, she's handling all of her media requests herself. she's a little bit overwhelmed right now but another thing that she has said -- >> tucker: may i stop you there quick? i don't of the answer to this. she's not a conservative -- is

she still a democrat? >> she told me she doesn't consider herself a democrat anymore and does not consider herself a republican, she's going to sit out of this presidential election, e she's t going to vote for either party and she told me that she does not see herself participating in any national election anymore. she plans to vote and some of her local elections but this whole process and how she has been treated has turned her off to voting for the democratic party at the national level. >> tucker: i think that's totally fair. this is gotten almost no coverage, has she been attacked? >> she told me that she has received threats, she haste received threatening messages and emails and notes on twitter, she is active on twitter, she has received many threats and she's concerned about this and

concerned about where they're coming from. that's something we are looking into as well. one of the other things that she is clear that she wants to do anything she can to come forward forward. she filed a police report in part to protect herself from these threats so there's a paper trail thattr police can use to pattern.e was a it's also a signal she is willing to do anything it takes, i think that seriousness from her as being matched from joe biden and what you saw today where he is trying to find the records, he says her complaints are not in his records. >> tucker: it doesn't sound like this is going away, thank you for that. what a story.

at the start of the hour we told you about the owner of a california barbershop who plans to defy his estates shut down. he joins us next. (music)

>> tucker: at the top of the hour we told you that the california business owner was getting grilled on cnn yesterday after he dared to say he planned to reopen his barbershop even if he was punished for it, he was lectured by someone with a guaranteed income, some airhead. now he's saying he's already received a cease and desist order from the state of california but he's continuing forward. he joins us tonight.

thanks so much for coming on. you received a cease and desist order from the state of california, what's your reaction to that? >> it's actually from the city, the cops came in here today and gave us a cease and desist ord order. >> tucker: are you going to abide by it? >> definitely i'm not. i'm going to continue working, i'm going to stay open, my barbers are going to continue to work and serve our community. >> tucker: what did you think? i'm not just saying this because cnn is another channel but i was really struck by the pompous lecture you receivedth from onef the anchors yesterday, someone who will not be out of work when you are out of work, how did you feel about that? >> overall, she differently had like she was a somehow better than me tone.

at her job, her hair looked amazing and she's not in the same boat as i am. maybe we are all in the same storm but we are definitely not in the same boat. i have barbers who are living day-to-day doing undercover garage cuts -- here in california, we follow a lot of sanitary regulations. >> tucker: yeah, we're not all in the same boat, that's absolutely right. do you think the authorities there will try to prevent you from operating tomorrow and do you expect customers? >> we are fully booked, we have a full staff and we are fully booked. everyone is still coming. everyone is beinger extra geners and we are doing really well. we are happy to be back serving our community, we are happy to be back serving first responders

like we always have and we are going to continue to do it. do i expect the city to come and cite me? absolutely, they have said that they going to. there is no plan in place, so it's going to be the state and the city. >> tucker: i can't resist asking you, they are trying to prevent you from working, as the city paying your mortgage while you're not working? are they helping you eat? >> absolutely not. what else they aren't doing as they aren't going to thee building owners that we lease our space from, they aren't going to the water department of their own city, i just paid my city business license and they didn't waive that for me either. it seems like there is little to no sympathy, everyone is following suit with whatever the governor decides day-to-day. they have had 45 days to get

things back in order to build up immunity's and they are still talking about us being fac face 4 before people can make a livingg again. >> tucker: it's very confusing to me that so many americans are continuing to pay their taxes after how they've been treated by the government. good luck tomorrow, great to see you. after the break, if you're watching last nightft you saw a main restaurant owner came on this show and said he was defying the governor of his estate and opening up today no matter what. so what happened? we'll tell you after the break. dr. siegel was on the front lines of fighting coronavirus, what did he find out?

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>> we spoke to a barber saying he's willing to defy his town to reopen his business. that town, even as they are strangling him, is still collecting fees for licensing, of course. we spoke to a man named rick savage, restaurant owner outside of bethel, maine. he said he was going to define maine governor janet mills by reopening his business today. >> we had enough of it. we are encouraging all businesses to open up. we should have never been shut down in the first place. we havepe to get business goingr

we are going to lose a third of our restaurants.ry we are advocating for everybody. not justt for my restaurant. it's time to go back to work. >> tucker: today, savage did it. he reopened his restaurant. flooded with grateful adults who know the risk and decided to go eat at his place. authorities working for janet mills probably revoked his business and liquor licenses. trying to destroy his business. since janet mills has made it illegal for savage to support his own family, he has a plan. it's the only one left. you can read more about it on the tucker carlson tonight show facebook page. only four countries have had more deaths from the wuhan coronavirus than new york city. butn even in new york it appears the worst may be over. fox dr. conservator marc siegel is also a professor at nyu. we sent them to take a look at the hospital's coronavirus ward and report back what he saw tonight.

hey, doctor. >> hi, tucker. things look like they are starting to look better. notot completely out of the woos yet for the javits center hospital closed after treating 1100 patients. my own hospital is sending more and more patients home. they are also transferring patients to the orthopedic hospital which has repurposed itselfel to a covid recovery hospital. it has multiple covid awards where orthopedists are working with medical personnel and nurse practitioners around the clock, taking care of covid-19 patients. it's not always predicable what's going to happen as they try to get patients off of oxygen and treat blood clots. i spent several hours over the weekend and i was amazed with what i saw and heard, and 93-year-old woman. they said she s was going to be fine and all of a sudden in the middle of the night, this is an unpredictable virus. she suddenly turned blue, her oxygen went to the ground. they thought she was not going to make it. they put her on a prone position on her side. she recovered, went home three

days later. unpredictable. it requires constant care. this hospital is clearly onta te front lines of the final stages of recovery for placement and stabilization. ii want to end by talking about one physician. i will show his picture. his name is dr. adam carr. he's a geriatrician, well deducted, tucker, that i've known for many years. they are at the age of 60 on the front lines caring for people, getting them off oxygen, working tirelessly, putting his health and life on the line! i couldn't figure out why. and then suddenly i realized why. he is a deeply religious man, tucker. he's there doing god's work. tucker? >> i love that. amen to that we beat up on a lot of religious people but the most religious people i know are. thank you for that. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: that's it for us tonight. we hope you have a great and very well-deserved weekend.

if there's one upside of being locked inside with the ones you love, it's that we love them. sean hannity takes over for the next hour. we will see you monday. ♪ >> sean: welcome to this busy friday news night. joe biden once said, and i quote, "when a woman alleges sexual assault, assume she's telling the truth." biden has done a complete 180. we will call out the rampant hypocrisy coming up and a new allegation as we come on the air this friday night. big news on the door him-barr probe. also tonight, how is it even possible, the colossal epic fail of new york city and state, the worst case of coronavirus.