have a good night, everyone. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you may have seen clips of it, dr. anthony fauci testified before congress today to explain how much longer masked quarantines must last and what other sacrifices the rest of us need to make in order to fight the war on coronavirus. dr. fauci has never been elected to anything that you would neven know it, many of our leaders believe his every word is tantamount to law and in fact, it has been. just how wise is a man making these laws? is he rooted in science? we will let you decide in just a minute. but first no matter how long these lock downs do go on we are starting to see the outlines of the damage they cause so far. a recent working paper released,

concludes that at least 33 million american jobs have disappeared recently. nearly 40% will be gone forever. and those jobs will never come back even once all government restrictions are lifted. now if that turns out to be true, and of course we hope it isn't, but if it is that would mean nearly 14 million americans would be languishing in long-term unemployment. for perspective, during the great recession of 2008, whose effects we feel even now, job losses peaked at 10 million. so this is an unprecedented disaster for american families. what we are livingng through. and it's compounding what was already there. thanks to a series of ugly changes, many people were stuckg in jobs with lower pay and fewer benefits than the ones they lost a decade ago. millions have no savings and are suffocating beneath the mountains of student debt and credit card debt. this was already a country with declining life expectancy and

growing equality in the middle class that was failing. and the coronavirus pandemic accelerated those trends. so our main job before anything else is to fix that damage. everything depends on fixing it. so that is the sad backdrop to the house of representatives and new 18 page coronavirus relief bill which was released today. anything our congress does at the moment must first and foremost prevent ordinary people from slipping beneath the waves. in a statement today speaker nancy pelosi assured voters that her bill will do just that. >> we can all agree that we can open our economy as quickly as we can but we must do so based on science and data. we must do so in a way thatt reaches all americans in a way that addresses the disparities that we have seen, so that we can assess the full extent of the coronavirus and defeat it.t we all know that we must put more money in the pockets of the

american people. this is not only necessary for their survival, but also a stimulus to the economy. direct payments, unemployment insurance, mortgage help and food and student loan assistance among other things are essential to relieve the fear that many families are facing. >> tucker: among other things, speaker pelosi just said. what are those things? first thing to know about this bill is that it's big, maybe the biggest piece of legislation ever proposed in u.s. history. the estimated price tag for everything in this bill is $3 trillion which is close to 90% of the nation's entire annual tax revenue. keep in mind that key comes close on the heels of the last coronavirus relief bill which cost about $2 trillion. of course our usual annual spending is there. it has not disappeared. altogether that's an awful lot of expenses and everything will dollar will have to be borrowed because there aren't any left.ll

when the smoke has cleared frome all of the spending, only china will have bailed us out. china has the strongest balance sheet in the world. at that point, it will be there vassels. we spent all day reading pelosi's bill to find out. too few have done that, we did. here's what we found. first and most glaringly relink the last thing we need is more illegal low-wage of what labor from abroad. but this goes out of the way to supply illegal immigrants with billions of taxpayer dollars. according to house democrats, illegal immigrants must have a right to have the $1200 checks that american citizens received in the last bill. they also received the same direct payments as american gtizens going forward. so in effect it's a huge payoff,

the most cherished constituency of a group that is not even allowed to be here. and then it goes on from there. and then the bill contains an amnesty provision for the duration of the coronavirus crisis. that's something we would like to see extended a very long time, all illegal immigrants employed in so-called essential services would be shielded from deportation. their employer would be shielded, too. people who hire illegal aliens liwould not be prosecuted. don't be fooled, this is not protecting t physicians that are critical for us. current essential workers as they are defined in this bill is in fact an enormous category that spans almost every part of the american economy. it includes employees in food services, laundry, waste management, child care, agriculture and restaurants. as well as any retail worker in america who works at a location that sells food or beverages. this is a blanket amnesty for virtually every illegal alien

who has already taken an american job and once the amnesty is granted it will never be taken away. thbet on that, no matter what they tell you. anyone who lives in washington can confirm that. once passed, it's not going away. at that point there will be no bomore debate about illegal immigration and the issue will be settled permanently. democrats will win every presidential election for the rest of your life, the rest of your children's lives and that's the point ofn' this. but the bill keeps going from there. the bill would extend current guest worker visas and the democrats could call this bill the heroes act. they are telling you it will help health care h workers. as of tonight thousands of american health care workers arw being furloughed from their jobs or fired entirely. this bill remarkably orders dhs to expedite visa processing for foreigners who want to come to the u.s. and work in health care.

gotan that? american health care workers laid off and now they could be replaced by foreigners willing to work for less.h we don't have to guess if that will happen, it's happened throughout american industries. under this bill it would happen to our health care systems as well. sorry, unemployed americans, better get used to drawing a government check. that's your future. then there is a long section in this legislation about drugs, the bill is strongly in favor of drugs probably because when you are high you are less likely to think or worry about what else is in the bill. the bill mentions cannabis 68 times. it orders for the federal government to produce an annual report, expanding access to financial services for minority owned and cannabis owned majority businesses. democrats would like to see more drug sales and minority neighborhoods. that is in this bill. keep in mind, these are the

people calling you a racist. and to be clear, they still think you are. it says diversity 28 times, ordering all federal agencies to the greatest extent possible to hold deposits in minorityib ownd banks. okay, fine. but what is the pandemic and our response to it have to do with race politics? stupid question. in the democratic party will party, everything has to do with race politics all the time. it's a primary way they get and keep power. race politics is the onlyitay program they have with more crime and increased censorship. that also contains prison break provision. it's like a "saturday night live" sketch. this bill would order the release of every federal prisoner who has asthma, diabetes or is over 50 years of age, unless the bureau of prisons affirmatively proves the inmate in question is proven to commit violence against a specific person.th not in general, against a specific person.

here is the censorship part. it's part of a growing and ominous theme in that direction, the theme will prevent you from saying or believing what you like. this bill directs millions of dollars to the national science foundation to study the coronavirus "misinformation" we shouldn't be allowed. in other words shut up and stop disagree with our announcements. that's not allowed. to take another hit on your dad the pen and submit. that's a message that it sends. but for the favored few, the democratic party's donor class, the bill is far more gentle. in fact, it's a payday. this bill would repeal the cap on state and local tax deductions. that would help almost exclusively high income neighborhoods in overtaxed blue states. why is thatel significant? that's a beating heart of the democratic electorate. this is a payoff to them. amazingly, you can't make this up. this bill, the heroes act would also help a very different kind of hero.

it would make lobbying shops in washington, d.c., a hero. who wrote this thing? probably not scientists. lobbyists and ideologues wrote it, the same people who control the democratic party. the same people who won't badly want to control this country. chief washington correspondent at the hill newspaper, happy to have him on tonight. this is one of those documents that as he t read through it, yr eyes wide in anything, this cannot be real. maybe their only advantage is that nobody does read it. >> that's exactly right, tucker, if you tasked me with putting together a purity plan for elite democrats who only pander to their constituency of rich people in blue states, illegal immigrants, criminals, and the cannabis industry, is still could not have put something together that looks like this. they are going to take out

$3 trillion in taxpayer money every single dollar of that should be appropriated to the american citizens and businesses with the government forced to go out of work. and we need to remember this. how speaker nancy pelosi had an opportunity. members of her caucus were pushing for that type of legislation to be included in the package. and they explicitly rejected it in favor of bailing out the bylobbyist industry, in favor of finding things on environmental racism and justice. diversity and inclusion. female minority -- expanding access in order to put drugs on the streets in america. it literally cannot be made up. and of course, as you mention, enriching the blue state hollywood and wall street liberals were financing this party and vice president joe biden's campaign. >> tucker: you are not being quite fair, put yourself in this position. let's say you are living innd washington on a $10,000 a month

retainer to get a discount on arms sales from u.s. companies. you are a small struggling lobbyist trying to make payments on your second home. this gives you a federally backed loan. where are you not a hero who deserves that? speak of the best part of this, tucker, the association that lobbyist on behalf of associations put out a statement and they literally said, we need access to the paycheck protection program, because without us, you guys won't be able to write legislation. it's the most circular logic that possibly exist. in a way, i respect the anna c. they literally say, you have to bail us out, because we are the people that write the legislation for you. it's one of the most -- >> tucker: the lobbyist say, hey, congress, you have no idea how the government works paired without us, you are screwed? >> it is the association for association putting out the statement. explicitly, it's one of the most naked money grabs that we can

possibly see all the while -- there are literally millions of american citizens put out of work by their own government. millions of small businesses put out of work. and they are not seeing the same level of concierge sir service from nancy pelosi and the democrats that lobbyist for the cannabis industry and others are seeing right now. it's unbelievable. >> tucker: i thought my mind could not be blown more, you have proven wrong. thank you so much y for that. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: amazing. the science says conclusively that at this point children face virtually no risk from the wuhan coronavirus, but today dr. tony fauci said that it may be too risky anyway to open schools next fall. so should we question any of our reopening plans, or is it time to maybe ask a few questions about the faithfully vested in dr. tony fauci? that's next. ♪ and other money managers don't understand why.

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♪ >> tucker: dr. anthony fauci appeared on capitol hill to testify. the topic of course the debate how and when to reopen the country. dr. fauci left no doubts on how he feels about that question, opening up now after his two months ofef lockdowns is a very risky and indeed a dangerous prospect, letting americans work and learn once again could be at catastrophe. and he was not just referring to a handful of hot spots that have been hit especially hard. entire states, fauci said likely

need to remainn closed. >> i have expressed then and again is my concern that in son areas, city, states, what have you jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having theng capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently, my concern is that we will start to see little spit turn into outbreaks. >> tucker: just to be clear, fauci was not simply talking about certain workers or even all workers staying at home for the foreseeable future, he implied that schools and colleges will be able to reopen only if there is a cure for the virus or a vaccine. v he said that prospect was a bridge too far. in other words, no school until the p coronavirus has been carried. stopped. the problem is there is currently no approved vaccine

for any of the several coronavirus' out there. we stillll don't have one for sars. so that may never happen. once again, itso has never happened. fauci's recommendation was had news at every media outlet instantly. he cautions about schools, colleges reopening in the fall, says the "los angeles times." warning that reopening the u.s. to quickly could be to unavoidable suffering and death. and so predictably on with the hysteria. b6 says that children must stay home or countless people will die. that's the message. i will ask a very simple question, how does he know this exactly? is tony fauci right about the science? do we have any particular reason to think that he is right? right now there is a lot of evidence indicating that america should cautiously reopen. sweden never shut down at all and it does not appear much worse than the united states on average. many countries in europe have reopen the end they have not seen a spike in cases. the state of georgia partially

reopen the weeks to too much hysteria and finger wagging from the press and yet hospitalizations in the state of georgia are lower than ever. no one has explained why schools specifically must stay closed. there is a huge cost to that. a massive, an entire generation of young people not being educated. let's not lie to ourselves, they are not being. and as of now, very few people under 18 have been seriously hurt by the coronavirus. so when he was asked about that, fauci said, we don't know that children are "completely immune to the virus." complete immunity? mmsince when is that a requirement? children are not complete immune, in fact vulnerable to numerous diseases for dangerous than this one. the flu is far more dangerous to young people than the wuhan coronavirus, it is actually true, look it up. and yet only this virus is being used to deny young people and

education. what isio this exactly? some lawmakers are starting to ask that question because it is so obvious. there is no science on the other side. senator rand paul who is a physician, by the way, asking fauci about it during the hearings tonight. speak of the history when we look back will be of wrong prediction after wrong prediction after wrong prediction starting with ferguson inng england. so i think that we ought to have a little bit of humility and our belief that we know what is best for the economy. and as much as i respect you, dr. fauci, i don't think you are the end all. i don't think you are the one person that gets to make a decision. >> tucker: every sentence to dr. fauci must be prefaced with "as much as i respect you," required by adderall law. but a lot of wrong predictions have come out of washington on the question of the coronavirus, and quite a few a few from dr. fauci himself. we are not saying that they are attacking him, we certainly made a lot of wrong predictions on

the show. but we are not in chargead of t. entire country. so it is worth walking through a few of them just for the sake of the aforementioned humility that senator paul was talking about. today for example, fauci speaking about how happy he is seeing americans go about their lives while wearing masks. >> was some sort of mask covering, i think for the time being should be a very regular part of how we prevent the spread of infection. and in fact, the more and more as you hpr go outside where i'm sitting in washington, d.c., you can see many people out there with masks on, which gives me some degree of comfort that people are taking this very seriously. >> tucker: yes, they are following fauci's orders and he is pleased. he did not expect to have this much power at the age of 79. but it was just two months ago that he was in the course of high officials who lecturing the rest of us that actually wearing a mask was pointless, may be worse than pointless and people

should not do it. >> right now in the united states, people should not be walking around with masks. >> you are sure of it? because people are listening closely. >> right now, there is no reason to be walking around with ang mask. when you are in the middlee of n outbreak wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better, and it might even block a droplet, but it is not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. >> tucker: i know this will be painful for some people and they don't want to doubt. this is like learning that your religion is fake, but this religion is fake. it should not be a religion in the first place, it is supposed to be science. you are supposed to admit when you are wrong. you are supposed to be totally transparent about your reasoning. but they are not. and fauci is in that category. back in early january, tony fauci was telling the rest of us, don't worry about coronavirus. >> bottom line, we don't have to

worry about this one, right? we go you know, obviously -- >> tucker: that is a lot of different positions. it was just last month that dr. fauci told the rest of us it was totally fine to have sex with strangers you meet on the internet. on dating apps, hay, he is old, but he is cool. but almost simultaneously he said that nobody should ever shake hands again just to be safe. >> i don't think that we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you. not only would it be good to prevent coronavirus disease, but

ooprobably decreasing the influenza dramatically in this country. >> tucker: this is just buffoon level stuff at that point, and we are not doing this to mock the guy, but, you know, i mean, anybody who talks as much as anthony fauci does on television is going to say some stupid things. the point is, is this the guy in whom you want to invest all of your trust? is this the guy you want to short chart the future of the country? maybe not. this is a very serious matter, the decisions we are making right now. tony fauci has not been elected to anything. he has had the same job for nearly 40 years. that means the majority of american voters did not even indirectly pick him for the role he has now. this is not the result of any democratic process at work at all. in the last four months, fauci has become one of the most powerful people in the world.

and some particularly the media and to the democratic establishment are claiming to give dr. fauci even more power. why? some people seem to think that he should be dictator for the duration.e of the crisis. that is insanity. fauci like every other human being is flawed. he says things that are wise, he says things that are profoundly silly. he is not and no one is the one person that should be in charge when it comes to making long term health recommendations, this guy, fauci may be more off-base than your regular epidemiologist. byplenty of doctors think it is time for most, even all of the country to cautiously reopen. and they have a voice, they deserve one. but in the end, no appointed doctor should make the call on what our federal policy is, the elected leaders for that, because we are supposed to be in charge of the country, because it is a democracy, remember,

nbc, cnn? the founder and ceo of american majority joins us tonight. why, and i don't want to single him out, who has not been the longest of the many leaders we have been mismanaged by, but he has often been wrong as people are, why are we here in calls to just obey him unquestioningly? >> this is just bizarre, tucker, the whole record, i'm not sure what he has been right about and i'm not sure why we are actually listening to him based off of his record over the last few months into him saying what the future should look like. it feels like, and i have to be honest about that that he is making things up as he goes. think about it, tucker, he and dr. birx walked in the imperial college model to trump and saidr you have to shut down based on the model which we know is deeply flawed, the software that every paper and every decision that was made off of that should be retracted or rejected. then they walked in the murrayke

models from the university of washington, also deeply flawed. we also know that anybody in any business, if they had walked this into their boss multiple bad intelligence that ended up damaging severely damaging the company, they would be fired and then they would be ostracized. and here we have dr. fauci in front of the senate lecturing us on what he thinks the future should look like. i think we should question the entire premise of these experts somehow being infallible. but i have to tell you, tucker, the devastating result is the end of progressivism where we had an unelected educated elite who empowered with the belief in scientism was somehow going to lead us to utopia, and now we are finding this golden calf of the administrator of state is ringing hollow. and fauci to be very blunt is the face of the failed administrative -- you have to question the entire premise. >> tucker: the chief buffoon of their professional spread for the essence of science is asking

questions, you are supposed to relentlessly question what you think you know. how in the name of science are they asking us to shut up and stop asking questions? >> it is being presented as though it is foolproof evidence instead of, hey, this is what we think might be happening and it should be taken into account. and i have to tell you that he is in a role where he should advise the president, he is not the decision-maker. i think that president trump needs to send them back to his office and shut the door and say, very nice, thank you for your thoughts, we are moving on. >> tucker: it's time to take control, that's>> what i would say. great to see you. thank you so much. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: michael flynn's life, his family's life was completely destroyed because intelligence officials unmasked his identity on a perfectly legal phone call. now the names of those who did that could be revealed, and my god, they should be. fox's ed henry has the very latest on this. this group just ahead.

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>> tucker: at the very end of his presidential administration, barack obama ordered jim comey and his j goons at the fbi to investigate incoming national security advisor michael flynn. why? because flynn dared to have a phone conversation with the russian ambassador, the famous kislyak. how did obama know that that phone call took place?

because mike flynn's identity had been improperly unmasked by someone. who did that? soon we may know who did that. and henry, author of "saving colleen" that you can preorder now, and you should. >> we first broke the news about ric grenell bringing secret intelligence and a satchel over to thend justice department. breaking tonight we finally know what was in that bag. we are learning it's one of several batches of intelligence being the castle may explain why former obama intel officials like john brennan were lashing out and could inform what is coming up next. grenell, the exclusive video that i mentioned last week, then bringing a list of what we know was in that bag, which obama officials went after michael flynn and on the mast him. that could be illegal, because normally the names of u.s. citizens that get picked up onre wiretaps are blacked out for privacy. in the case of general flynn,

his name was originally redacted in the intel because he was swept up in the intel of a non-u.s. citizen. so when obama officials unmasked that flynn was the one on the other line during the presidential transition and we could out to newspapers, it could be illegal, because leaking unclassified information or using it for a political game is against federal law. armed with that information, fbi agents as you noted under directionou of jim comey questin him at the white house january 24th, 2017, a few days after president trump's inaugural. a significant, and told tonight that grenell has declassifiedll the names of obama officials who declassified the name between election day and inauguration 2017. critical peer mask, and the final days, president obama had the early january 17 meeting with people like comey, and president obama himself reveales

on the wiretaps. and on inaugural day, susan rice wrote that odd email saying that 15 days earlier president obama said do all of these investigations by the book. attorney general bill barr has decided to probe was not done br the book. he moved to drop the charges, the spokesperson confirmed topock that prosecutor john dorm is now looking at the unmasking issue among others wondering whether they will be prosecutions. anti-classifying five other batches of intel, waiting if the justice department will not classify it, we are waiting for grenell to get the names. but pork or five other batches of intel and i'm told that they could get sticky for john brennan in particular because of some of the other intel. >> tucker: do you have a sense of what other intelligence could be going public? >> another pivotal moment from january 2017. the u.s. intel committee came out with that statement and assessment declaring that russia meddled in the 2016 election and

most importantly, the intel claimed that russia interfered because they wanted donald trump to win. that followed the narrative of the steele dossier. it turns out that the cia chief also had intel saying actually russia wanted hillary clinton to win, because she was a known quantity and had been secretary of state, and vladimir putin's team thought she was more malleable, while donald trump was unpredictable. the former chief of staff a at e national security council has written a story at foxnews.com that brennan suppressed some of the intel that suggested russia went to clinton to win. i separately have an intelligent source that confirmed that that information is one of the four thor five other batches of intel that grenell is to classifying. that basically john brennan, the cia chief held back. there are some intel saying that putin wants trump to win, and others that may be more serious suggesting that russia wanted hillary clinton's win. rather than balancing all of

that out in the assessment, they put out in that assessment and set the narrative that russia wanted trump to win. thisan could be a bombshell. the people on the inside are telling me, there are a lot of critics saying that this is hype and there is nothing here. they say there is a whole lot more coming. >> tucker: i knew that was alive. that's when they said 17 intel agencies can conclude. i have been in d.c. a long time. we don't have 17 intel agency is paired one of them was the coast guard. >> everybody agrees on something. >> tucker: that is such a smart point. nobody agrees on anything. and they should not should not. >> you and i do sometimes. >> tucker: the creepy intel agencies. ed henry, thank you so much for that. we will be watching weekdays 9:00-12:00 eastern. and following up on that remarkable story. a lot of the stuff turns out to be fraudulent. they were lying about a lot. last week's house transcripts revealed at the russia hoax was not just built on deception, but

again on lies. will there be consequences for the people who lied? in many cases under oath, jim comey, peter strzok, jim clapper and them anymore. charlie hurt has been thinking about this. opinion editor at "the washington times," and happy to have him on tonight. charlie, i have been operating under the assumption that no one will ever be punished for perjury. that only roger stone will go to prison for that. do you think there is a chance? >> you and me both. i have been around washington long enough to realize that very rarely do these people ever pay a price for things. but i have to say that i think attorney general bill barr is a different animal. he is a different p creature. he is not somebody that in particular cares about who is in power and who is not in power. he has respect for politics. he has respect for people who have been elected to office and elected to come to washington to represent peoplend back home. but he is a to the law is what he cares about.

and we are seeing that right now. and as much as i want to see these people go to jail. the fact that he is exposing them and exposing people like james clapper and jim comey for their conspiracy to entrap somebody. a political enemy inin order to pay -- to punish him in an election. the fact that he is exposing these people and allowing this exposure to happen is such a massive step in the right direction. and i have to tell you, one of the most disturbing things about the whole thing is obviously we are realizing that the obama administration knew that mike flynn did not do anything wrong. they went after him anyway. but that list of options that was written down by b bill priestap, head of counterintelligence for the fbi that included a range of things of what we want out of this guy. do we want him to do this? and one of the things, do we

just want to get him fired? that's right there reveals -- chillingly reveals what they are after. not upholding the rule of law, but punishing political opponents. and that is exactly what they did. that's exactly what they did when they unmasked flynn's identity and leaked it to the press. and we can debate about whether this was illegal or not. it was illegal. and it was a massive injustice. whatever. general flynn is a fine man. you may not like him, whatever. that's not the point here. the point is that you have an out of control department of justice going after punishing political enemies in this company. and that is so completely unacceptable. >> tucker: and ten seconds, mitch mcconnell controls the senate controlled by republicans. so why is into bill priestap and

every one of these people. i'm not calling him to go to jail, but we need a reckoning could we need somebody to be honest and get it out there. where is the republican control, where's mitch mcconnell? what is he doing exactly? >> it's alarming and underscores just how much both parties are terrified of president trump. and until republicans in washington realize that they are next if they don't stop this now, they are next. the only person in washington

who is fighting for the truth is bill barr. and thank god he is there. and thank god donald trump put them there. >> tucker: amen. and keep her coming on tonight. great to see you. >> thank you, tucker. >> shannon: new reports world health organization took orders directly from china. as bad as you think it is, it is always worse. stunning details right ahead. ♪

♪ >> tucker: a new report saying corruption at the world health organization may be more m shocking then we even imagine. setting german intelligence sources, saying that on january 21st, the director of the world health organization received a call from xi jinping who runs china. urging him to conceal use of person-to-person transmission of the coronavirus and to delay a warning that a global pandemic was coming. if true it's hard to even know how to respond to this. dr. marc siegel, a fox news medical contributor joins us to assess it. what do you make of this? >> i will tell you how to respond to this, you never heard this doctor say the word villain before, did you?

i wonder about that phone call from chairman xi to tedros who calls himself a doctor, but the first nonphysician in the world health organization to run it. but on january 23, he was saying this was a regional problem only covid-19 coronavirus law, while we were saying it was a worldwide problem. on january 28th, tedros said, china is being so cooperative, so transparent, so serious about this, right? then on february 3rd, tedros said that we should go on with international travel and trade. why restrict out? after already restricting travel, tedros said why restrict travel? then on february 5th, he said, this is just a spark. it may unite into a fire, but just a spark when covid-19 was spreading all around the world.

and then on march 7th, after many of us were calling this a pandemic for weeks, tedros said still not a pandemic. well, today is may 12th, tucker. on may 12, i have seen wildly contagious beyond our wildest dreams, the worst that dr. redfield has seen in his lifetime. i've seen blood clots we were not told about. inflammation in the lungs and every organ in the body. we do not know that the heart was involved in the kidneys and it causes strokes and blood clots. we did not know that children were involved in the children could get sick. we are learningd that over the last few days. and i'm sitting here thinking, i have a question for you, dr. tedros, how many tens of thousands of people have died in the united states and around the world because you said that this was a regional problem only and did not warn us, which was your job? >> tucker: that is remarkable. i can't resist telling oursi viewers you don't have a

teleprompter and recited that timeline from memory. it's an amazing outline of deception and a deadly consequence. doctor, thank you for that. we will continue reporting on the story, because it is just very important among other things. thanks a lot. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: in california, prisoners who were infected with the wuhan coronavirus are being released. now prisoners are doing exactly what you would expect them to do upon being released. we will tell you what that is after the break. lockdowns could continue with baseball soon coming back, some good news for you tonight. we will return. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: the state of georgia has been cautiously reopening fory weeks now and so far, this is inconclusive yet, things seem much better than the hysterics on twitter predicted. but in los angeles, a city that never relatively speaking had a severe run a virus, the lockdown has been extended to the end of july. what is the scientific basis for doing that? that's still not clearly explained, likely because there isn't one. millions of people have little risk from coronavirus, meanwhile, will be hurt by this. we know this for certain. but we do have and we are happy to end the show tonight on good news. baseball may be back.om

major league baseball unveiled a plan to return in early july before los angeles. the downsides are games willow e held in empty stadiums without fans but of the plan is approved, the country will be a little closer to normal and normal is what we want. right now, every step back towards what we were is a welcome step. in california, inmates are trying to use the coronavirus to get out of jail free. trace gallagher has the latest on that. >> tucker, this happen at a correction facility north down my 40 miles of los angeles where inmates have tested positive for coronavirus. there was an effort to track the origin and the spread of the virus which prompted prison authorities to go back and review surveillance tapes and, sure enough, they found images of what appeared to be inmates w trying to infect themselves with covid-19. in one video, an inmate for the contender with hot water and within a minute three of their share of. others put the water and

therefore had to appear they had a fever. other videos show them sharing cups and bottles, even sipping a mat that had already been worn. sheriff alex tilling and webb us said as a direct result, all 21 men tested positive. >> there was some mistaken belief that if they tested positive there'd be a way to force our hand and somehow release more inmates out of our jail environment. that's not going to happen. >> although the jails in los angeles county typically house about 17,000 inmates and because of covid-19, there are now fewer than 12,000. so the virus is getting some sprung. >> tucker: trace gallagher, thanks so much, trace. there's a lot of bad news out there this week.ri we feel guilty bringing it to you but keep in mind there is good news out there. usually it's sitting right next to you. other people.

they are always the best thing about being alive so enjoy them if you can. that's it for us tonight. have a healthy and happy nightba and we will be back tomorrow. in the meantime, the great sean hannity takes over at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> sean: i feel great! great show as always. thank you very much. yes, on the family issue appeared welcome to "hannity." buckle up. we have a lot of issues as a country we need to address. the charge to open this country safety, will lead the charge against a blue state bailout that's nothing fraud and abuse and his corruption but we'll leave the charge to hold the deedeep state accountable. we begin with this fox news alert. judge emmet sullivan indifferently postpone any ruling in the case against lieutenant general michael flynn. this is an outrage.

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