>> martha: that is "the story" thursday, may 14, 2020. we will see you tomorrow at 7:00. have a great night, everybody. we will see you then. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. damaging domestic spying operations, excuse me, it catches you in the throat even saying it appeared that the misting mike domestic spying operation that obama ran for the white house against political enemies my general plan among them. today the fallout from the scandal and an update for you about that, but first tonight commit has been close to three weeks since the state of georgia began to gradually loosen its coronavirus lockdown. starting late april, hair salons, bowling alleys, barbershops and gyms to reopen. three days later restaurant and

theaters followed. hospitals once again allowed to perform all needed surgeries. they could stop pretending that coronavirus was the only medical problem that patience faced. it is not. and something especially radical about what georgia did, but you wouldn't know that if you are watching television that week. the decision was described there is the most reckless, public health decisions since 9 out of 10 family doctors endorsed camel cigarettes. untold millions would die because georgia was reopening. the state of georgia would be flattened by a tidal wave of corpses. it was that dangerous. even stacy abrams took a break from campaigning for vice to vice president to offer her assessment. >> we honestly don't understand the mayors of the cities who expressed deep concerns. as our scientists commit makes no sense dumb accents and it puts more georgians at risk. >> tucker: she seems to know what she's talking about. you should know stacy a stacy

abrams is delusional and she announced she was the governor of georgia one step from claiming napoleon. now abrams imagined a public health experts, best of humor and nod and look interested. not a scientist either in come at a male feminist but still a strong view on epidemiology. he was so upset by people in georgia might go outside without permission that he suddenly found himself arguing that everybody must obey the trump administration. if that sounds insane to you, you are not alone, and for the record, georgia does not meet the white house guidelines commit doesn't have a 14 day trajectory of cases. it has tested 90,000 people of a population of 10 million. mayors in georgia are describing the governor's decision as reckless, dangerous, and illogical. we went the voice of overpriced brooklyn. we must do what the white house

tells us, he screams on msnbc! that is how dangerous it was. mark this day, wrote one long time washington reported because two and three weeks from now, the georgia death toll is blood on governor bryan kim's hands. well if it happens, we did, in fact, marked that day april 25th 2020 when the reopening's began, and that day, georgia had 650 new cases of coronavirus. yesterday which was 18 days later, georgia had a total of 555 cases of coronavirus. infections and death in georgia have been declining since early april and that's where they began to reopen it. there is still sick people in the state and some of them will die, but as of tonight, george's numbers, the actual numbers are no worse than the national average. and that tells us a lot. we should be thrilled by this news because if america can begin to return to normal,

stolen rights from the population, may be treat citizens like adults once again, and not court medical disasters. you would think our leadership would be racing to the podium to share this great news, but of course they are not. just the opposite, in fact they are doubling down on authoritarians. they enjoyed being in control of your life. they do not plan to relinquish the power they receive from this pandemic anytime soon, if ever. the city of los angeles to extend its lockdown through the end of july. citizens there will have to wear a mask at all times, even when they are outside where the risk of transmission is minimal. he did not explain the science behind these commands, and told the city, sure, for the virus, like we will never go back to normal. and the mayor did not mention that it is possible, in fact likely there will never be a cure for the coronavirus. whatever. most didn't ask questions about it but quickly endorsed the

whole thing. >> there are a lot of people in los angeles county sagan, three more months. i can't survive this. it is a small business come i can't survive this as someone out of work. >> of course i agree with the decisions that the people on the grounds in particular venue and location. so yes, it is inconvenient, but it is even more inconvenient if you are going to be infected or worse. >> tucker: yeah, it is inconvenient, yeah, it is inconvenient but not as inconvenient as being infected with a deadly disease says lucy. a good talking point, by the wife a 26-year-old staffer wrote it, but a factual matter, it is wrong. for the overwhelming majority of americans, the lockdowns are far worse than getting sick with the coronavirus. if you are under 60, the odds of dying from this are few of one and 1,000 probably less than one in 10,000 and the odds are

destroying your life, those chances are fire to far higher than that. ask yourself how many healthy middle-age people do you know that died from this virus? maybe you know someone. though many people do you know the who are now unemployed and terrified of the future? probably a lot, and governor jay inslee not a math guy. he has not calculated possibilities like this but jay inslee believes everyone in washington state faces the real likelihood of dying from the virus and that's why he has ordered officials of the state to track who goes to restaurants and who they eat with because that is not a chinese police state tactic or anything. >> this contact tracing, obviously, if you have somebody who's become sick and they were sitting right next to a person at a restaurant, to be able to identify that person could be very valuable for their health to try to save their life. and so be put that in place. >> tucker: yeah commit is kind of weird the authorities are

taking notes on who you are havs for the public health so submit. it's not like politicians ever misuse that information or anything so sleep well. don't forget to send in a blood sample so the government can sequence your dna for public health reasons. nobody in america is enjoying all of this more than michigan governor gretchen whitmer the most mediocre people who love fascism the most that gives them the power they never dreamed they would have and indeed, don't deserve. let mayor wants this moment to last forever. she said anyone who dares to complain about it, she went on abc yesterday and dismissed any citizen who disagrees with her, needless to say, as a racist! and she promises that disobedient citizens and michigan will be punished with more severe lockdowns. >> these have been really political rallies for people with confederate flags and

symbolism, symbolism and calling for violence. racist and misogynistic and i asked that everybody who has a platform use it to call on people to observe the best practices promulgated by the sea to stop encouraging this behavior because it only makes it that much more precarious for us to try to reengage our economy, which is what everyone says they want us to be able to do. >> tucker: yeah, not only is it racist, it is dangerous to the public health. and racism. she was asked if she had evidence, proof that protesters were actually spreading the virus, and you will be surprised to learn she didn't. by the way, that question is massaged in this tip so shut up, bigot. some people in michigan are growing tired of this performance. carl menke owns a barbershop and he would like to continue to cut hair. authorities won't let him do that. they prefer to send him welfare checks instead. that is not the country wants to

live in though. >> 177. i've always worked. have never looked for handouts. i don't even know what they are. somebody to call me and say why didn't you get on food stamps? well, i don't want food stamps. i want to work. when our governor said, we will have another 28 days, i went to my knees. i can't take another 28 days. all of us as americans need to begin to take responsibility for ourselves. you know? i feel that the government is not my mother, never has been, you know, and matter of fact, this administration for the most part, i've been in business longer than they've been alive. >> tucker: gretchen whitmer was not amused by that. the governor is not my mom? misogyny, by the way, cutting here is racist. so the administration tried to shut him down with a court order because there's nothing else going on in michigan right now. a judge resisted that it was too far. so simply revoked the barbers license.

now, he is shut down for good and will be even when the lockdown is finally ended. stop whining and take your welfare check, bigot. this is insanity, obviously and at some point we will look back in shame as we consider it. politicians will always see them maximum power of power they have. that is why they went into politics to fill that empty space inside. the question is for the rest of us, why are we allowing this to happen? we are joined by senior analyst andrew napolitano, think it's much for coming on. i mean, there does seem to be a point where, the power that they are exercising is so illegitimate that people should say something about it, you know? >> yes, family people should say something about it. yesterday, the supreme court of wisconsin did when it said to the governor's people, you do not have the authority for the lockdown, only the legislature

does and the legislature told us we don't want it. and you can't write your own laws and enforce laws that you have just written. that violates the wisconsin constitution and by the way, the american constitution for the lockdown has ended. i don't expect the same thing to happen in michigan, but tucker, the definition of a free state is one where the laws are written to uphold personal liberties. the definition of a police state is one where the laws are written with her intimately or not to uphold the government ones. we are not gradually, all of a sudden in a period of six weeks going from a free state that is happening in all 50 states to a police state. and an example you cited in michigan is violative not only of michigan law intimate michigan constitution but the united states can't do my constitution as well. she can't take his livelihood away from him because he spoke out against her.

>> tucker: exactly. >> that is what the fascist did that was fought against in world war ii. >> tucker: so our leaders governed by the consents of the governor with the rest of us. what is so interesting they expect the population to obey their word as if it were law, which it is not, but at the same time, to continue to pay taxes and abide by their licensing, schemes, et cetera. i mean come at what point or people justified in saying, if u were not going to govern legitimate maybe i don't need a license to run my barbershop? >> well, civil disobedience is probably the next step if these governors do not come to a sense of reason, tucker. because the authority that they are enacting is absolutely illegitimate. so you talk about jay inslee in washington. as we speak, he is beginning to open up restaurants. but his health inspectors will tell the owners of those restaurants, we need the name

and address of everybody that is in here. give it to us. we will take away your liquor license where we will take away your license to own the restaurant. so what do you do when you go to a restaurant and they ask you for your name and address? you have no obligation to give that to them whatsoever. you have no obligation to give them any credit information were any personal information about you and the government has no right to collect that. they will try to do it, and they will not do it by enacting legislation that was written by the representatives that were sent there, but they will do it by unaccountable, unelected health inspectors. >> tucker: that is exactly right. they will use the regulatory state to bolster their power. the least democratic means to do with pure democracy, is time, that is a theme here. judge thank you for reminding us of that. >> of course, likewise. >> tucker: when insanity returns to the country, the authorities began to manage this virus manage a bully using

science rather than politics, yesterday will likely be seen as a turning point for the better. last night a short video appeared on the internet. not produced by epidemiologist bashaw on an iphone in a kitchen by a guy who runs a sports site but in 33:37, he laid out perhaps better than anyone has the absurdity of the current lockdown strategy. here is part of it. >> what the [bleep] is going on? when did this b flatten the curve, flatten the curve, flatten the curve that we have to find a cure or somebody is going to die? find a cure? people have been mentally preparing and doing what you asked. we did exactly what you said but now you are changing the rules! >> tucker: barely 24 hours, that clip which you should look up if you haven't already, has been viewed close to 5 million times. we are happy to have david join us tonight. dave, what inspired you to do this tonight and make this video? well, if we are being honest, tucker, we are in the stock

market and it tanked, and a lot of it tanked basically on long before the senate and talking about the future in the l.a. mayor saying he was going to lock the city down. if there is not a common cure. i'm in new york city, the heart of it. i've been inside and haven't gone outside in months. and to me, new york city is kind of at corunna fatigue. like the rest of the country, but everybody is trying to do their best. inside, social distance, flatten the curve, flatten the curve. the combination of the hearings or the senate and the l.a. mayor, that to me is leftfield. i had not been hearing that. we all -- i thought that was a collective, positive vibe in the country, especially new york. we are getting close. we are getting close. we are getting closer. every update seem more positive. there were open beds before. you weren't hearing the war stories necessarily in a more pure than this comes out of

left field like we are no closer than we were two months ago it seems. and at this point, you know, i saw 17 years ago in the main just and it really shouldn't be political. it shouldn't be left, right. >> tucker: i don't think it is political. >> exactly but if you gave me the choice, a decade working almost 24-hour days, no exaggeration to turn the corner to become successful, and if coronavirus had at that moment, i was out of business. everything i worked in ten years gone, down the toilet peered at the very least and burst will make it so thank god, we are ind shape but a lot of people aren't. and at the very least, they should have the option, there is risk, find my don't know what to believe. wear a mask, don't wear a mask. and i think even dr. fauci, there is a new disease and we don't know what we are dealing with. find. give me the choice then.

let me go outside and risk potentially getting sick or do i want to ruin my business? because if it was me i would rather die from corona than having to start overworking 9:00 to 5:00 and how to find a job. how will you put money on your family's table? that was really the rent. at the very least, i feel bad for people who aren't given the choice. what is worse, losing my business, my livelihood, or the chance of getting this disease, which we honestly know so little about my feel like. we are no closer. that is what the problem is. >> tucker: so you have been attacked as some sort of science denier for putting this on the internet, fairly bitterly. but wrong. you have taken very seriously from the beginning. you have been endorsed for months. it's not like you denied the reality of the disease the disease. >> tucker, week ago i said -- i

did the same exact rant except it was about masks. in this is, a lot of people come i guess on the right, everybody wear a mask, you know why? there is a .0000, 1% chance that helps get people back to work? then we will not lose. so i've been on both sides and i'm not trying to make -- and by the way the forbes guy come i haven't seen the article. he sent me an email 5 minutes before he came on and said basically everything he said was garbage. you want to defend yourself? >> tucker: so it went there because that's how it works, sorry about that. nascar apparently is going back online on sunday, i think darlington may be. i know you are in nascar fan. do you think other professional sports will soon come back? should they? >> it sounds like they are, the hold up in baseball sounds more

about the money side of it. but the nfl come i think you know, i have my differences, and i don't know if you heard, i will spend monday night baseball with him. >> tucker: self admitting. >> roger caddell, he doesn't care about anything. he may be the guy that gets it back on the street. >> tucker: what that is probably good news. and finally, what is your plan now? you have been holed up, expressed her frustration. you think the policies are stupid, which they are. but how are you going to live going forward? >> began, the crazy thing is, walking around the city with all these signs and saying we are not coming back. but the important thing is if you go for a walk on the hudson river, like today when it is 75, at the people outside. so the policies aren't necessarily keeping people aside but keeping businesses closed. by the way, guess what, i'm

going to florida and then i'm coming back to new york and lots of people are going to do that so the whole thing will work, and regardless of how you look at it. >> tucker: a lot of people aren't coming back to new york. i don't know if they get that yet. to be her a sad thing. dave, you look great for a man who's been in quarantine. >> thank you. i still have the purple sweatpants on. >> tucker: [laughter] pretty rank at this point. >> yeah. >> tucker: yesterday we learned the obama administration is running in effect a domestic spying operation, michael flynn was one of their targets. the media received this news today in anger, not because it was an obvious abuse of power, but because you now know about it. and you're not supposed to. we will tell you what they said next. staying connected your way is easier than ever.

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♪ >> tucker: yesterday, thanks to disclosures from rick purnell, the acting head of intelligence, we learned a lot more about the corruption that spawned the russia hopes that consume three years of this country's time. we learned yesterday that 39 separate people in the obama administration requested to unmask mike flynn's identity and nsa intelligence reports. in other words, they asked to spy on him. did they have the right to do that? a lot of people were not criminal investigators or intelligence officers, they were political hacks. they were looking for ammunition to hurt a political enemy. that is the most obvious and ominous kind of abuse of power.

the kind that media exist to police. the reason we have a free press is so they can push back against powerful people abusing their power. but they didn't. today after learning that, they were mad only because these revelations make the powerful look bad. >> obama gate conspiracy theory. president obama, vice president biden and others were somehow involved in illegal effort to target flynn or something like that. it is a conspiracy theory. >> these documents don't show any political motivations. it doesn't show us that anybody who shouldn't have had access to this information was getting access to it. >> what does it say that the president has been in the office for more than three years, that he is still obsessing over president obama calling it obama gait. >> this is absolutely 100% politics and really in the current environment, giving what is going on as the country come

i think it is really disgraceful abuse of the system and unfair disparaging of the intelligence community process. >> tucker: the media in 20 years and i've never seen anything like this. we set this last night and completely sincere. if the trump administration didn't something like that with political enemies, we would never defend that, that is a solemn promise. that is totally wrong. by the way, the next by whoever that person is to occupy the oval office, how is that person going to govern the country when a group of supremely powerful, unelected officials who cannot be fired have more power than he does? how can you govern a country like that? you can't. the press should be pushing back against it. that is the first thing they should do regardless of partisan interest, but no, you're the last person. carrie cordero, a senior legal analyst telling you it was an abusive at all. not at all, you're crazy if you

think it was. to the italian and pastore president obama's chief of staff are highly political human investor samantha power to spy on the incoming national security advisor in the final weeks of the administration and then send out leaks to the press falsely suggesting he broke the law by trying to prepare for his job. yeah, no. the real abuse they are telling you, you just heard it is that the public now knows about it. the public now knows. you have no right to know. and it is an insult to the intel community that you know. that is the real crime here. this morning, cnn described this whole thing in aggressive on the screen, as they quote conspiracy theory. just to be clear, regardless of your views on russia, we know for a fact it is not a partisan talking point. it is established that the obama administration abused this process. you were not supposed to unmask

the name of an american caught up in intel surveillance unless you have a national security reason to do it, and they didn't. then they took the information and licked it to "the washington post." david is a columnist there. that is a felony. we should care, you can't crush people using classified information. and you definitely can't do it for political reasons, which they did but the press doesn't care at all. they stopped caring a long time ago. senator rand paul, to his credit, actually does care about civil liberties and we are happy to have senator paul on tonight. i don't think i'm imagining this. by the way, we have not covered mike flynn very often on this show. i never thought it was an interesting story but now i do. this is shocking. what is your take on this? >> here's the thing, took her. i think it is worse than you can imagine. the viewers need to know that basically this is an end run on the constitution. they have no warrant to listen to flynn's conversation. so what they do is, they go and

record the conversation of a foreigner come of an ambassador from russia, but they really have to get a warrant. they get a foreign surveillance warrant which doesn't require fourth amendment and i actually don't care if they do or don't on the ambassador. but they are really doing it to come around and get the american. so it could be all along that flynn was the targets, they decided to listen to as many people as possible to try to get flynn. but flynn being the target would be illegal. when they say there is no proof this was done for political purposes, what was the national security purposes? in fact, one of the reforms we should do to this is we should not let them unmask anybody without writing down and affirming what was the national security interests that cause you to unmask this person? i think absolutely it was politically motivated, and they should have to prove to us what was the national security interest. the national security advisor, the new one coming and talking

to the ambassador about policy. there is no national security interest in that. only political shenanigans because they were trying to gin up this whole security that was not going anywhere. >> tucker: there is no that they will control either chambers. the republican-led senate come are they going to do anything to get to the bottom of this before november? >> well, you know we had a chance today. we had a chance to reform fisa and i had an amendment that said fisa and never used on political campaign because the fisa court does not obey the fifth amendment. they only have the standard that is lower than the constitution that says all you will do is prove relationship to a foreign government. so they said carter page, we can do whatever we want, but that is not the constitution. so american should have the constitution to protect them, but what they did in this case is they voted down the amendment

because the deep state always wins. the deep state always wins because most republicans actually support the deep state. >> tucker: and i know you will never criticize your fellow kentucky senator but mitch mcconnell who leads the senate should be ashamed. argue where should know he is the reason a lot of things haven't happened. no one says that, you know it is true and i will not ask you to verify come anyway, thank you for coming on and i appreciate that. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: how crazy are the russian crazies about russia? so crazy that tonight, they are defending senator richard burr against insider trading charges because they think he was on their side on russia. bizarre. we have that just ahead of. ♪

>> tucker: many americans were hit hard by the stock market crash in march. march 18 was the low point. senator burr was totally fine and sold off entirely his net worth in mid-february. went to cash as they say and wall street. then he set back and said nothing has top government officials told us, everything was fine. don't worry. it looks like insider trading. he denies that and says he's brilliant at timing the market. and that's probably true. the fbi doesn't seem to believe it. yesterday, they seized his cell phone as part of an investigation. they went to his house and we look forward to of course what they find.

today he stepped down as chairman of the senate intelligence committee with this investigation. that is a welcome development that should have happened two months ago but mitch mcconnell refused to remove him. here is the weird part and remarkable part of the story. some in washington are not happy. why are they backing richard burr? well, for the same reason they abandon so many other principles and so much common sense. russia! mother and senator mark foreman said this "this investigation raises questions about bill barr, the attorney general, targeting the one powerful republican who authenticated the russian investigation." so richard burr was one of the republicans and there were a number of them that allowed this nonsense to go on for three years, so of course, he should get immunity from investigation. that is their position. insanity. and also the russians have not created it by richard burr or

the investor group that was created by the outgoing obama administration in collusion with the press and the so-called intel community and law enforcement and the fbi. a senior fellow at the hoover institution, always grateful to have him on as he is tonight. doctor, thank you so much for coming on. what do you make of this? give us the overview which you are so good at doing. >> i think for us the last four years we have been living in an invariable lies. it was based on this christopher steele dossier and it was completely fabricated. worse, he destroyed his own sources. so all the information was verifiable and it doesn't even exist. we were told that the mueller team were all-stars, the green team, and they turned out to be partisan and incompetent. they tried to fabricate at the cost of $40 million in nonexistent crime of collusion and when they couldn't do that, they tried to say that he obstructed a nonexistent crime. the word hero and all of this,

tucker because there were different types of legal teams and we have ty cobb and chantel ridiculed with lawyers and they are small -- smarter if i can use that green team in every corner. sidney powell came out of nowhere and she's no ivy league randy but she's done a good job. and wasn't the harvard law adam schiff that told the truth? it was the ex-dairy farmers that was ridiculed by devon noonan. and all of a sudden a guy named rick and bill barr who had written off that were courageo courageous. and i think as we look over this entire fiasco, the whole myth the left is custodian of civil liberty. it has been a half-century since frank church selected the committee and investigated the cia and the fbi. but this group of progressives, this group has cheered on every abuse of the cia, the dia, james clapper, james comey,

john brennan, and we've got to get rid of the idea that there is an independent media or that a media exist. they fuse with this progressive agenda. we have these people go under oath, clapper, call me, mccabe and say one thing and then go out to cnn and msnbc and contradict themselves because there was no penalty for perju perjury. >> tucker: those networks are paying these people as "contributors." they literally work there a lot of them. >> they were working there to help their own case while they were under suspicion, they were going out and testifying when in danger to perjury to one thing and then sing another when they were underpaid and satisfied an audience and get ratings. one final thing, tucker come i think the problem is that share enormity and iconic representation of the administration could be so culpable. what do you do when cia, fbi, dia announces they are culpable and done something we've never

seen in our lifetime? it is almost unbearable truth that we cannot even fathom. the extent of the magnitude is so great and barack obama lorded over this entire thing is just incomprehensible. it staggers the imagination. >> tucker: it does. it must be fixed because there is no governing a country under this system. because democracy is meaningless if elected leaders don't have control. obviously. victor hansen, you never disappoint and i appreciated. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> tucker: throughout the country, politicians are imposing ridiculous requirements from healthy citizens, much of don't have any basis in science. alice garrison has been almost alone for the last couple of months and the press chronically. he joins us after the break. coming up. ♪

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♪ >> tucker: it looks like for healthy americans, no restriction is too burdensome as long as it is done in the name of public health. yet strangely, the leaders don't seem to care much about those who actually are at severe risk from the coronavirus. in pennsylvania and new york, they ordered nursing homes to accept infected patients and thousands died. that is not on the front page of "the new york times" every day. is that? he is the author of the book "tell your children" and he has done what journal is supposed to do, buried himself in the facts, press the powerful to account for their decision. he is now the host of fox nation 101 covid country on fox nation and we are happy to have him join us tonight. alex, thank you for coming on. why isn't this, so the premise

of all of this, we care so deeply about protecting the population and this we will shut down the entire country but given that, why aren't they apologetic over what happened in nursing homes? >> that is a media question, i'm not as interested in media questions as interested what to do going forward. >> tucker: okay. >> it seems at last, new york state and governor cuomo are finally taking the right action to try to protect some people in nursing homes. they are doing it two months and 5,000 deaths late but now at least talking about not letting people have covid be discharged into nursing homes. they could do other things, for example florida, which has had any few nursing homes per capita and overall, florida, the governor of florida did not allow covid patients in nursing homes in the beginning and actually florida has been aggressive about testing people in nursing homes, trying to make sure homes don't have infection. another thing you can do in

nursing homes as you can prevent people from visiting, but there is a cost of the people inside of the homes when you do that. and so everything is a balance, but clearly, the governors of new york, massachusetts, pennsylvania have a lot to answer for nobody is asking. >> tucker: so it sounds like in new york by your description that science is taking a primary position in nursing homes going forward to. do you see the same impulse to work and other restrictions? are they following for science to keep these letdowns in place? >> no, that is a much bigger question and answer seems to be no. really the number one place or two number one and number two place, very, very slow walk of schools reopening and hence, in the fall and in a meaningful way which is incredible and just terrible. you know, and a lot of europe now come elementary schools are already reopened.

and in the other big issue, masks. this idea we will trade, we will reduce restrictions on businesses but in turn, everybody in los angeles county, for example, have to wear a mask when they go outside. this is absurd. it is absurd on the number of levels. there is very, very little evidence that it is whether or not a mask. second of all, ac/dc journal i'm sorry, in february came out so four months ago, which means, predated the coronavirus crisis about influenza and masks and it said basically that mass don't help influenza or don't reduce transmission at all. so no, there is no science behind this. >> tucker: yeah, but you will still get yelled at and arrested if you don't have one. a documentary streaming right now on fox nation. and if i worth looking at. thanks for coming on tonight come appreciated. >> thanks tucker.

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stiff. a lot of restaurants are thinking of using mannequins and blowup dolls, g rated, mind you. one restaurant owner is planning on placing his dolls in 1940s outfits. and i in the not too may be maxwell smart, the restaurants are considering using plexiglas two separate tables and people, which is already being done in europe. and one florida restaurant was way ahead of the curve, telling tucker almost a month ago that he was already planning to rip out and reconfigure booths. watch. >> making them a lot more functional for what we think is in the future. we are taking booths out, taking carpet out, putting in new flooring, new boots. >> we can also look forward to many as being disposable and restaurant employees wearing masks. trade magazines predict restaurants with patios are

about to become very popular. tucker. the three as if we need more evidence america has gone insane. trace gallagher, thank you very much. consistently we have turned to podcast host and all-around wise man adam corolla for wisdom. we are happy to have him back tonight. adam corolla, thank you for joining us. how was in los angeles. how are you feeling about this response to coronavirus? >> well, our governor gavin newsom just tacked on three more months to her sentence for good behavior, which is interesting. he said that until we have a vaccine, california won't be back to normal, but california hasn't been normal for 25 years. >> tucker: good point, noted. are you remaining normal, and are you going to stay? you're californian, you've been in l.a. all your life. are you going to stay there? >> i'm going to stay until my

kids get out of high school but then i'm seriously thinking about moving, and if anyone wants to know where the answer is anywhere. but i am going to go to houston into a a couple of shows at the houston improv, and we are going to raise some money and give it to the houston food bank over there. i'm going to do some live podcast over there and some stand up over there coming up on the 21st through the 23rd of this month. >> tucker: you're a regular on the comedy store in los angeles, can you work their customers are you going to get comedy restarted in l.a.? >> if i tunnel in and climb into the bottom of the stage i could get up on stage, but that's not going to open for a long time. meanwhile, houston is open, so mohammed is going to go to the mountain in this case. >> tucker: so you've got an entire state, the big estate in the country with no jokes whatsoever. what's that like?

>> i wish it was a joke. i mean, it's sad. people really love comedy, they really love going out and seeing it live. yeah, you can watch netflix and you can watch hbo, but you can also watch recordings of the pretenders and youtube. going out and seeing live shows is great, and evidently, they've got it figured out in houston. i think they're going to do their social distancing. i think they're going to do the rooms at about half capacity. i'm used to playing to a half-full room anyway, so it should be fine. >> tucker: [laughs] that's pretty funny. maybe they should just let people decide for themselves what they want. adam corolla, thanks so much. >> that would be a novelty. >> tucker: that would be amazing if you are in houston or nearby, go see adam corolla life. anyone who's done i can tell you, well worth it. that's about it for us tonight. we are completely out of time. have a happy night with the ones you love. that's the upside in all of th

this. by the way, tomorrow, which is of course friday, the end of the week, we're going to be bringing you the very latest. we think there's more information on the mike flynn story coming out so we will bring that to you tomorrow, but in the meantime, the great sean hannity standing by for us in new york. >> sean: great advice, be with the ones you love. although you might be getting sick and tired of some of them here. perfectly normal, that's okay. all right, tucker, great show, thank you. buckle up, the news comes fast and furious. a lot of breaking news at this hour. democrats determine they want to lock this country down until election day and they want a forest full on socialism on the country, whether you want it or not. for them, this is no longer about, well, bending the curve, dropping the curve, stopping the spread. instead, they are, like they have for three plus years, they use everything, even a national emergency has a political weapon