Governor Mario Cuomo On Hannity!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right, glad you whether Sean Hannity show right down our
toll free telephone number. You want to be a part
of this extravaganza, eight hundred and ninety four one, Sean,
if you want to join us. I got a lot
of different packs in front of me that we're gonna
get to. Let me say this, The governor of the
State of New York, Andrew Cuomo, will be on the
program today. New York. Now, the state of New York

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has forty percent of all US coronavirus virus cases. And
unlike other people like you know, Quid pro quote doctor Joe,
who just can't stop himself from politicizing, there's like the
mob in the media. There has actually working great with
the president, and you know what, it's helping a lot
of people, and it's all hands on deck. As you know,

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as he said, nobody, nobody saw this ever becoming what
we now see it becoming. Everybody's adapting, everybody's adjusting. And
we would just watched the Biden campaign trying to raise
money and saying one false thing about Donald Trump after
another that gets debunked one after another. If I had time,
I have ax to grind with the mob and the media.
We had to create a timeline and put it on

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Hannity dot Com because of the lies about me. But
that's who they are, that's what they do. I've got.
Let me start with some good news if I can,
And well, maybe I should start with the numbers. And
one other thing. All these people talking about, oh, the
coronavirus and if you say wuhan, it's it's horrible, it's racist. Okay,

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West Nile virus, let's get this out of the way.
Named after West Nile District of Uganda, in other words,
where it came from. We have one named after the
Let's see, for example, there's one called guinea worm that's
off the coast of West Africa. That was in the
sixteen hundreds. Rocky Mountain spotted fever, remember that. Okay, you

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have that. And all of these different diseases come and
they have names Limes. You may not even realize this.
You know, I was named after a large outbreak of
the disease in lime and old lime in Connecticut. That's
why it's called that. You know, you have you know,
I could just keep going on. Mayors for example, that's

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from the location in Central Africa. Then you have Marburg
virus disease. Well, that was named after Marburg, Germany in
nineteen sixty seven. Heck, I guess you could say German
measles in that case and go on from there, or
the Spanish flu or Japanese encephalitis. So I mean, it
just is, you know, and then you can always count

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on a medium mob. Jimmy Kimmel calls Trump a racist.
He does a home video just useless, absolutely useless to everybody.
But anyway, it's it is what it is. And frankly,
the Chinese have done the world no favors here because
they purposely lied and they misrepresented what the truth was

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going on on the ground, and it hurt the entire world.
When we could have nipped this in above this new
study out of Great Britain, we could have gotten ninety
five sent reduction right from the get go and mitigated
all of this, had, in fact China not try to
cover up what was going on there but invite the

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world community and scientists. I had Mike Pompeo on TV
this week say yeah, of course we'd help a rand
today for crying out loud, because it's good for the
world not to have a spread of a virus like this,
So anyway, we can get into all of that later,
but we also have our medical A team is going
to come in. We're gonna look at how people are

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perceiving the mobilization efforts. I gotta tell you a couple
of things. There's one good thing that I want to
start with some good news, and there's no good news
in the sense that, all right, we'll all have to
deal with this. Our lives are upended temporarily. It's never fun.
Totally get it. I have friends of mine in a
restaurant business. I'm talking to them every day, and I

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am trying to look I'm even buying like extra food
from restaurants just to try and help my friends in
the business out. Because you can have either draw up
and pick up service or they're delivering now more than ever.
Oh I got to give a shout out. Oh did
you see Uber eats has taken away any percentage they get.
I mean, it's amazing so that people can have food
delivered to their house safely. We're going to learn a

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lot from all this. What has really coming into coming
to be very clear to me, is this is now
we're in the midst of a major shift in dealing
with pandemics and all the rules of being rewritten, all
of them travel bands. I don't think there's any doubt
that saved tens of thousands of Americans from getting this

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disease ten days after the first known coronavirus case January
twenty first, January thirty first travel band quarantine. That will
be the norm. Whether Joe Biden wants to call it
xenophobic and hysterical and fearmongering, it was the right thing
to do, and thank god it was done at the time.
Drive up testing, Wow, that takes a lot of the

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heat off of the hospital system. That's going to be
the norm moving forward. A new paradigm, public private partnerships. Yeah,
that is going to be the norm moving forward. Lifting
FDA rules. That will be the norm moving forward. And
as I watch all of these things unfolding before our

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eyes here and I look at our medical researchers and
our scientists and our doctors and our nurses and our
medical support teams, and our military and some governors that
I don't even like or agree with, and other leaders,
real leaders, and what they're doing, and I'm like, I'm like, Wow,

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very cool, because this is the best of America. When
I see Walmart and wal Greens and Target and lab
Corps in quest and them stepping up, and the evil
pharmaceutical industries, how often have I said, I never understood
the demonization of Walmart. I don't understand the demonization of
pharmaceutical companies either. I don't understand it. Now, look at

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what these companies have done. I hope we remember these
things because they're doing it for the country. When the
auto industry said to the President, I guess it was
yesterday or the day before that, Hey, if you need
more ventilators, we'll open up our plans and make them
for you. We'll do whatever you want. We could turn
it around one, two three. It's amazing. You see, you know, stories,
small stories of American people that they're going out, they

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have an elderly neighbor that shouldn't leave the house. They're
calling them up and say, hey, can I get to
some groceries? What do you need? And sometimes they got
to go to two, three, four places that to get
it done. But they're getting it done. The President got
on the phone with the nation's grocers this week to
make sure that the shelves are going to be filled
and America's grocers are stepping up. We do have to
help the trucking industry because they're all lifeline to all

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of our supplies. And these guys can't even stop at
a truck stop in some places that I am told
that is being rectified, and it's like all hands on deck.
Neighbor helping neighbor, and people helping each other out, and
we're gonna get through this. The biggest the other big
thing that I think is now emerged. We have never
scientifically broken down the sequence of a virus. It used

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to take years. We did it in a month, month
and a half. Well, that we now have the first
first a task going on for vaccine, first trial, first
trial is what they call it now. The President's announcement
yesterday about I don't know about any of you. I
had never heard of chlora quint and anti malaria drug
drug till yesterday. Now I know more about chloroquin than

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I thought i'd ever know all my life. And by
the way, pay attention to this. Anything that I am discovering,
I will share with you as soon as I know it.
And I went through it well, I actually talked about
it the day before is when I was reading, but
then when the President announced it, now I'm really digging
into it. So I've only known I've never heard of
chloroquin before these two days, and now I know about it.
Now I've read about it, and also doctors are telling

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me that if you have chloroquin with zomax, the results
are amazing. Then we have convalescent plasma, which is what
they've discovered is is somebody that had corona and they
build antibodies to corona, and then you take the blood
plasma out after they have gotten better, and that's an

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important number. And they're showing people that are in really
bad shape showing drastic turnarounds in twenty four hours. That's huge.
That's what our that's how great our medical researchers are.
Then you have Ramdzevie, an RNA inhibitor was used for ebola,
and Sara's great promise there on the good news front

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in terms of progress we are making, Congressman Mark Greene said,
there are three international studies China, Australia, France, all of
them showing that chlora quinn with arrhythmomiacin is a hundred
percent effective in treating corona. In as little as six days. Now. Okay,
now I was watching this on Shannon Bream Show last night,

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the old reliable malaria drug claricquin. Now you're thinking, okay,
we're gonna run out of chloroquin. Well, I have more
good news. Two companies now are ramping up production of chloroquin.
I think we probably have enough zithromax. If not, they'll
increase the supplies for that too. And after the President's
comments about it, and I had just been getting wind

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of this that there was going to be some FDA
changing the FDA rules, that's huge too. That's a new
paradigm anyway. So we have two facilities pharmaceutical companies my Land.
They've restarted their production of hydroxy chloroquin sulfate tablets. They
also make it intravenously and it seems to work even faster.

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That's how much I'm reading in terms of literature. And
that's in West Virginia. They expect to be in a
position to start supplying tablets by mid April, produce fifty
million of them. Teva Pharmaceutical Industries they're now going to
produce additional chloroquin sulfate tablets after the announcement they donated
six million bublits to hospitals all across the country. How

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amazing are they? Thank you? What amazing people. That's the
best of America right there. Walmart, they've announced plans to
hire one hundred and fifty thousand new workers. It was
in the New York Post they said that it would
hire one hundred and fifty thousand hourly workers in the US,
citing a jump in shoppers because of what's going on now.

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Amazon dot Com not exactly the biggest fan of who's
the guy that owns Amazon Bezos? You know whatever, good
for him. Anyway, they're gonna they announced they're gonna hire
one hundred thousand warehouse and delivery work drivers in the US.
That's awesome. I think that's great news, even Congress, And
I'm really pissed off at a few people. And I'm

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gonna be very honest, I I it's I want to
burst a blood vessel over these people. I want answers.
We have calls into Senator Burr's office, Kelly Loffler's office,
Diane Feinstein's office, in James Enhoff office about them selling
their stocks after they had learned privately behind closed doors,

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that this might be coming, this might happen, et cetera,
et cetera. Are people kidding me? I mean, Diane Feinstein, really,
she's selling up to a million dollars a stock, her
husband up to five million dollars in half four hundred thousand.
I'm looking at that. I mean, maybe there's good answers.
I don't know. I don't want to jump on the
but it doesn't look like it. You know, in half,

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I guess one hundred and fifty and shares of Wyndham
Hotels and Resorts, which lost two thirds of its value.
I mean, people are just so stupid and so selfish.
I mean, if they did that, I don't even have
words to describe it. And by the way, half the
medium mob just despicable. Joe Biden, I mean, I got
a list of crap that this idiot's been saying and doing.

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Is one lie after another. Link this to our website,
the American Spectator. You know, he's getting fifty. They're running
they're trying to raise money off Corona. You have superpacks
running ads against Corona, you know, distorting the President's point
of view by falsely editing Donald Trump's words. Even the
Washington Post gave him four pinocchios for that. You know,

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all the things that he's been saying that the Trump
administration betrayed the public, and the World Health Organization offered
testing kits now fake news. That wasn't true. It wasn't
true at all. And then, you know, before the debate,
Biden another false claim the administration had his now debunked
cutting our investment in global health. They were woefully unprepared. Yet, no,

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that's not true either, because what it turns out is
there were no funding cuts to the nih CDC. There
were increases. Why don't you just tell the truth? You know,
the Biden goes on attacking the president day in and
day out. You can see the guy is out there
hanging out there every day and he's trying to change
every rule that has ever been written. And there are

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people I'll never thought I'd say these words. Gavin Newsom
is working with the President and they working well together.
Governor Cuomo, same thing, and good for all of them.
Right now, it's about the health and the safety and
security American people. We can go back to the election
when this is all done, and we can go back to,
you know, beating up Panity and beating up the mob,

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I mean, they're despicable, and the bludgeoning of Trump. And
we would put a timeline of the things I said,
just to correct the record. If if I had time,
I would get into more detail, but it's not the time.
Let you roll along Sean Hannity Show eight hundred nine
for one show, and let me give you some numbers,
and I will urge you to just take it what
it's worth and expect that the numbers are going to

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go up exponentially in the next few weeks. And then
the hope is the plateau and then the decline, which
we've seen in South Korea and China and Japan and
other countries. Two hundred and sixty seven thousand, nine hundred
and twenty cases worldwide as of now world wide eleven thousand,
one hundred and eighty seven deaths. The percentage of those

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contracting and fully recovered are about one in three. Most
are in the process of recovering active but not fully
recovered yet. But again, you know, it wasn't really until
I guess late last week that we saw that one
video that it is. Now we are learning it can
impact younger people and the CDC put out yesterday that

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it can impact younger people, so that this is not
just what they originally told us, which was it's only
impacting old people. Now, if you're in an elderly home
or a nursing home, that's the worst place, you know,
that's where it's most active, and that's where the most
amount of deaths are occurring. But I am sure that
you know. The one thing that we're seeing though, this
is where you know, we have to give props to

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all these medical professionals. The chloroquin especially when that is
accompanied by rithmacin and and convalescent plasma and these other things.
They're showing amazing progress. I'll explain wh back quick breaking
all right, twenty five ounce at the top of the hour,
eight hundred and nine four one sewn if you want
to be a part of the program. So I'm giving
you the latest numbers, which is worldwide, two hundred and

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sixty seven thousand, nine hundred twenty eleven, one hundred and
eighty seven deaths, a full third fully recovered. Expected that
the vast overwhelming majority will recover. And I just has
to be some perspective with these numbers, because numbers are scary.
And if you're just looking, oh my gosh, we went
up x percent today, what more testing is happening. That's
the whole idea of this fifteen day period. And when

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you look at for example, there were go back to
two thousand and nine and ten h one n one,
we had sixty point eight million Americans that contracted that
that was a worldwide pandemic. We had in a year
twelve thousand and what do we have four hundred and
sixty seven hundred sixty nine Americans die, hundreds of Americans

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were hospitalized as a result. And so wait, even you're
seeing in China, South Korea, is this dramatic increase than
a precipitous drop off. The big freason that Italy and
Europe has had a bigger problem is they had direct
flights from Wuham Province into Italy direct and apparently there's

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like one hundred thousand people to go back and forth
in the textile industry and the correlating industries associated with this,
so that that is part of the reason they have
had the greater struggle here. Obviously, you know we're looking
at this in the United States, and this is what
makes this travel band so key. This is what We're
not overloading the hospital systems thanks to the public private

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partnership in the and now we're beginning to put out
drive up testing. I think that's important. The FDA rule changes,
that is important, and I think as we go further,
we can see that all these you know, American companies
are just rising to the occasion in ways we've never
seen before. Again, the chloroquin. I first I was getting

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word from some of my sources FDA looking into different things,
and then I googled it and I found chloroquin. Two
days ago, I read it on air with one study
in consultation with Stanford Medical School e C. And I'm like, wow,
but we're now seeing and this is Congressman Mark Green
He's pointing out but again this is preliminary, but it

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certainly is the hope that I think Americans should have. Rightly, so,
international studies China, Australia, France that chloroquin with zithromyasin is
one hundred percent effective in treating corona, and especially if
it's not even in pill form, but if it is
an IV it's even working better. Then. Of course, I've
been discussing a great detail after yesterday the convalescent plasma.

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Those that get CORONA and they get well, and you
take their blood plasma and it has the antibodies for
corona and those that are even very sick, the early
signs are that once they get an IV that dramatic
shifts and changes are helping those that are even the sickest.
On the economic side, we have all these companies now

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saying that in the pharmaceutical industry, Hey, we're upping our
production of chloroquinn. You're gonna to name, You're gonna be familiar,
so get used to it. We have Amazon, dot Com, Walmart,
and other companies now announced they're gonna be hiring hundreds
of thousands of people. How cool is that. That's awesome,
Doctor Fauci, A member. Took years to get the virus

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sequences in the past, while we already have within months,
a coronavirus trial has begun in the US. That is
really positive update for everybody. And they have volunteers in
the experimental test program. That's that's an update as well.
I know there's been shortages of purell. We now know
distilleries around America, but purell has to be for it

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to work. Sixty percent alcohol now we have distilleries. They're
now making their own hand sanitizers and giving it away
for free. That's how great Americans are. Unbelievable. Johns Hopkins
researchers saying that the antibodies that are recovered this is
an update to the plasma issue that I've been telling
you about. But the vaccine being tested in Seattle isn't

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the only potential treatment. Johns Hopkins has been reviving a
century old blood derived treatment for use in the US
and the hopes of slowing the spread and helping to
get people well. And that's using the antibodies from the
blood plasma or the serum of people that are recovered.

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That is now happening. South Korea's outbreak has finally turned
the corner and abating, according to news reports that I
read earlier today in Reuters, among them that the new infections,
the recovery cases, new infections on hank let me read it.
South Korea recorded more COVID nineteen recovery cases on March

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sixth than new infections for the first time since it began.
And that has been now happening on a more dramatic scale.
I'm not even gonna talk about China. I'm so angry
with them. Or Australian researchers attesting two other drugs as
potential cures for the virus. All good news. University of

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Queensland Center Clinical Research. They found two different medications, both
of which are registered and available in Australia, and apparently
in their early studies have completely wiped out traces of
the disease and test tubes. Now they're going to begin,
I think, the process of human trials. In that case,
you want to know about another great American business? What

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about uber eats. When did I first ask you to
download on my phone Uber eats? Linda, what like two
months ago? I'm so stupid and behind the curve anyway,
and I've only used it like once or twice. But
they're now supporting the restaurant industry by waiving all delivery
fees for one hundred thousand restaurants. Pretty awesome. We have
Dutch and Canadian researchers reporting additional breakthrough research. This is

(20:56):
why we call it facts without Fear. We're trying to
give you information that is helpful and to keep it
in perspective. I mean, when you have pandemic, when you
have tens and thousands of Americans that die from the
flu every year. Is do we like that? Of course not.
And when you when you have information that gives some perspective,
that's important too, so that people understand, Okay, we lost

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up to five hundred and seventy five thousand people in
the last pandemic, other pandemics, we've lost a lot more.
And then you see all of this good that is
now coming to fruition, and frankly, I think we're rewriting
the entire books on pandemics going forward. Right now, you're
watching history unfold. The President is not going to order
a nationwide and corona shutdown. I know there's been a

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lot of stuff on the internet about this. President also
praising governors in Washington State, California, New York, and Florida,
the Midwest and places that are having more of a
breakout places that are not, and he said he's not
considering a now lockdown. Okay, take it from him, and

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not some dope keyboard warrior in his underwear trying to
fuel fear. Anthony Fauci said that as it relates to California,
Governor Newsom made some very important, difficult decisions for him
and Governor Cuomo did today and he'll join us at
the top of the next hour. For New York, forty
percent of the cases are in this state where I

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am right now. All the masks have been ordered, all
the ventilators are now getting in place, the Hoss Navy
Hospital ships, and now one to the east coast, one
going to the west coast. I don't think Medicare for
All is acting particularly well now. There's a lot of
questions out there. For example, what do we do if

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you think you were exposed to the virus. There's different
points of view on that I saw and read in
one particular place. According to a doctor Jean As, an
emergency physician mass General in Boston, Massachusetts General, it could
take as long as fourteen days for the symptoms to emerge.

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In other words, if you think you were exposed, you
really got to pay close attention. But even if you
got the test early on, it might not be the
accurate test. You got to go through the fourteen day
period before you would know for sure if whether you
have it, Because if all of a sudden, say you
get it on day two, the test after you think
you might have been exposed, you're gonna have to get

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it again fourteen days later. I've talked to people that
have had the test. They said, it is brutal. They
take a swab, they shove it deep into your nose,
takes a hard right turn to your eye socket, and
it hurts. I talked to one guy said, now tearing up,
it was so hard to get just you know, just
giving you facts without fear. It's not the worst thing
in our life. I should tell the story about what

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doctor Colburn did to me that one day, Lynda. I
don't think people would like that. Yeah, there's no fear there.
That was lovely what you just said. Oh no, no,
there's no fear there. No, you know the one I'm
talking about, thirteen needles, third teen and he goes, no, no, no,
he goes, that's diet, that's not blood. I'm like, oh, okay.
I don't know why some people are ignoring social distancing

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advice and not listening to the task force. I don't
even know what to say about them. There's an interesting
ape story about quarantine shaming. You know, I'm just telling
you for the interest if you're young and healthy, and
even though now we're discovering for the first time that. Yeah,
young people can now get this. We did not know
that up until this British guy comes out and says,

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we're not paying attention to this. Look here and now
the CDC is confirmed it this week. You should pay
attention to it. But if nothing else, why don't you
do it for grandma and grandpa that might be sick
underlying conditions or compromised immune systems. Do it for them anyway,
all overseas travel is obviously stopped. I'll let the psychiatrists
deal with. You know, people that emotionally are very distraught

(24:56):
fearing the virus more than anything else. You know, I
just I live a life that is you know, honestly,
I just you cannot live your life and fear, but
live your life smartly, make smart decisions, be strategic listen.
You know, if you wear gloves and a mask, guess
what if you put if you touch your nose, you

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might remind yourself, Yeah, I don't like the feel of
that glove. Stuff like that. The smart things that you
can do. Fear is not going to help you. Realistic
strategic listening, being smart, that's going to help you. I'm
hearing that truckers are gonna get the help that they need.
That is critical because they are our first responders and

(25:38):
all of our groceries and all of our medicines come
via truck. I got to give a tip of the
hat to the grocers around the country because they have
all gotten on board. They've been talking to the President
and they are They're moving heaven and earth to keep
the shelves filled. That's all good news for those Now.
I know for a lot of you, and I'm talking

(25:59):
about some of my best friends in this life that Okay,
restaurants are closed. Now I've mentioned some of my favorite
restaurants and my favorite pizza plays, Marios and everything in between,
and my favorite Chinese place. Now here's the thing. A
lot of these stores are offering service where you can
drive up, pick it up and get out and use

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it there, or they're setting up delivery services for the
first time. If you have a favorite restaurant, they may
not have the ability to contact you, contact them say hey,
you guys, are you doing pick up? Are you doing delivery?
And does that take care or mitigate all of their losses? Know,
but it can keep their doors open and keep people
working in the interim. If you normally would do that.

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As far as like those people that are just jackasses,
I can't really help with them right now. You know,
these these these senators have a lot to answer for.
You know, why did you sell all your stock when
you come out of these Corona meetings. I'm sorry, doesn't
look good. And I don't care if you're a Republican
a Democrat, I just don't because that's just not the

(27:01):
right decision. One thing we'll promise on this program is
we're going to give you all of the information and
let you decide. Now. Look, a majority of small business
owners are saying Corona's gonna disrupt their business. This is
what we've got to remember as a country too. You know,
my father grew up in the Depression, as mom died
as a result of complications from his childbirth. His parents

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were dirt poor. You know, he was sent home to home,
went to fight World War Two. We've been through depressions
and world wars. We beat back fascism, communism, Nazism, imperial Japan,
radical Islamis since nine to eleven. You know, we beaten
back pandemics before, We've beaten back illnesses before. You know,
a lot of these illnesses from me a bullet of

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sars to mayors and all in between, and h one
n one. It's never fun. What I like in the
sense that is happening here is in many ways. Now
we're going to deal with this all differently moving forward,
and it's going to save lives down the road, countless millions,
probably so business owners, though, they've got to get the help.
Washington has got to focus like a laser beam and

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go through a list of every industry that is being
impacted by this. How they're going to help keep these
businesses afloat every hourly worker. You know, we don't need
to give them a pittance. They need to be able
to pay their mortgage, pay their rent, pay their car payment,
and tell their sons and daughters we have the money
for college that we put aside for you. That is,

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if we rebuild Europe, we can certainly do that. If
we save the world from evil, we can certainly do that.
That is, you know, that's good use of government if
they can get their act together and do it the
right way. The second thing is that we've got to
help small business owners. That's why I'm urging you call
your local restaurant, your favorite pizza place, your favorite Chinese place,

(28:52):
your favorite whatever place, and say, hey, you're open. If
they're open, maybe go pick it up. They deliver, say hey,
would you deliver it? If the waiter that you are
familiar with comes to your house, you might want to
consider tipping the person. California has been dealing with some
specific challenges. We're watching what's going out there very very closely.

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I don't know what to say about those people that
you can help. They just they never are gonna listen,
which is just unbelievable to me as far as the
long term prospects for the economy. Oh, by the way,
one mistake, somebody tell Netflix not to slow down because
Netflix is a lifeline. They said they didn't want the internet,
they don't want streaming to slow down. As a result,

(29:36):
I think people need it. There's MSDNC John Heilman, just
a jackass, nakedly racist Trump or whatever. I mean, it's
like Chinese, you know, communist Chinese propaganda, and they deserve
a lot of blame in this whole thing. But the
bottom line is simple. We have amazing Americans all stepping

(29:56):
up doing amazing things scientifically, medically, on the corporate level,
in every way, shape, matter of form you can hear.
You know what's the President and his task force every day.
Just listen to them and you decide for yourself if
they have all hands on deck, and you decide for yourself,
if this is a whole new paradigm shift, and you'll

(30:16):
make the ultimate decision all night, you'll bid the ultimate
jury in two and twenty eight days. As it relates
to an election, how many more beds can we get
in those hospitals, and we're working on that aggressively. At
the same time identifying new hospital beds. The Army Corps
of Engineers was with us yesterday. We had a very

(30:38):
good meeting. We're looking at sites across the state to
find existing facilities that could expeditiously be turned into healthcare facilities.
And again when I said the federal response is very welcome,
I want to thank the President. He said that he
would bring the Army Corps of Engineers here. They came
here the next day. I spoke to him last night

(30:59):
to follow up on meeting. So this is going forward aggressively.
His team has been on it. I know a team
when they're on it, and I know a team when
they're not on it. His team is on it. They've
been responsive late at night, early in the morning, and
they've thus far been doing everything that they can do.

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And I want to say thank you, and I want
to say that I appreciate it. And they will have
nothing but cooperation and partnership from the State of New York.
And we're not Democrats and we're not Republicans. We are Americans.
At the end of the day. That's who we are,
and that's who we are when we are at our best.

(31:45):
In New York a doubling every day. They fear that
supplies are going to run out in a matter of weeks.
Yesterday Mayor Bill Dublasier pulled on you to mobilize the
military to deliver urgent supplies. Yesterday he said, quote, the
fate of New York City rest in the hands of
one man. He is in New Yorker, and right now
he is the training the city comes from. I've personally

(32:07):
spoken to emergency department nurses who say that they're being
told not to wear and ninety five masks because supplies
are so low. So how do you respond to those masks?
By Mayor Blasio, I think I'm dealing with the mayor
dealing with the governor, and the governor agrees with me,
and I agree with him. So far, we've been very

(32:27):
much in sync. I guess they're not agreeing with each
other necessarily, but the relationship with New York. I love
New York. I grew up in New York, as you
probably have heard, and the relationships been very good. And
I think the government and the governor have been getting
along incredibly well with the federal government. All right. New
York State now has forty percent of coronavirus cases. The

(32:52):
Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, signing an executive order
announcing today one hundred percent of New York's workforce must
stay home, including essential excluding essential services, and that would
exclude pharmacies and grocery stores and restaurant delivery services and
so on and so forth, the Governor calling it the

(33:13):
most drastic action that we can take, and that I
believe these policies will save lives. I believe they will too,
Governor Andrew Cuomo, the great State of New York. How
are you, sir, tired? I believe it now? Well, let
me let me let me compliment you. Normally, if you
are on the show, we would be arguing about taxes
and fracking. We're not what you just said there. I've

(33:35):
been saying this virus, it doesn't discriminate, doesn't care who
it attacks, And it's one of those moments where it's
got to be all hands on deck. The President has
said good things about you, you've been saying good things
about him, and right now, until we get past this,
we don't have any time for this this, you know,
this bickering nonsense to go on. We got to save

(33:56):
American lives, right Yeah. You know what reminds me of
a family, and you can be arguing with your siblings
about you know, who went to whose party and who
did the right thing and the wrong thing, and then
something happens in the family that's real, God forbid, somebody
gets sick and all the bologney just drips away. Yeah,

(34:18):
we could argue about tracking or taxes or whatever you
want to argue about, but this is a fundamental problem
that is unifying. There's no time for planned politics. This
is all hands on deck. We have to save lives.
The nation is at war, different type of war, but

(34:38):
it is a war, and that we're all in government
public service to help people, and that is the common
unifying theme, and it's going to take us all and
nothing else matters. It's not like we are avoiding, it's
just nothing else matters. Now, what is different about this

(34:59):
this country. We've had pandemics before, you know, we had
h one n one the world lost nearly five hundred
and seventy five thousand people. We've never seen anything quite
like this. I believe it's going to be We're gonna
have a big paradigm shift when this is all said
and done, and there are things emerging. And I give
you credit in the state of New York, and I
give the president credit. I mean, the first case in

(35:21):
the United States was January twenty first. We had a
travel ban from China on January thirty first, ten days later.
To me, nobody wants to give the president credit for that.
I do. I like the drive up testing idea. I
like public private partnerships. All these all these you know,
pharmacies and big box stores and pharmaceutical companies helping FDA

(35:41):
rules are being put aside. But it's different this time. Why,
I'm not sure why you're right. I was there for
each one n one. I was there for a Bowler,
which by the way, isn't now. I was scary. Governor
Chris Christie was in New Jersey at the time. I
was working with him with the Bowl of virus. We
had a person who we quarantined right at the airport.

(36:04):
We took a beating, but that was really deadly. I
think part of it there's a fear component here Sean
that I don't know that in many ways started and
is more contagious than the virus itself. People are truly frightened, anxious.
They can't get the right information, and there's something about

(36:29):
isolating people. You're quarantined, you can't touch anyone else, so
you can't get near anyone else. It's also psychologically really
difficult to deal with. You're in your house alone, or
you're in your house with your family, you know, and
then the kids and you're locked up and you can't
move and you're limited. It's psychologically difficult, it's frightening. And

(36:55):
then the medical consequences. The information seems to change all
the time. You know, first it was a bad flu,
now it's young people can get it. Then it was
just old people, but then there are some other people
who are dying. So I think you put all of
that together in this politically charged atmosphere and it's fire

(37:18):
through dry grass. Well, there are adults emerging though, and
I would say the President and you, I mean, are
two adults. You know, you said something in your press
conference and you just mentioned it, and to me, this
is crucial. We were told originally that only if you
had underlying conditions, only if you had a compromised immune system,

(37:39):
were you at risk of dying. Now I'm looking at
twenty percent of hospitalizations or people twenty one to forty five.
When did you first hear that? Because I only I
only got wind of it like last week from a
doctor in Great Britain and then I saw the CDC
numbers this week. That was not the case before. Yeah, yeah,
And this is why the nuance starts to get confusing.

(38:00):
The mortality rate, the lethality is overwhelmingly seniors, compromised immune
system underlying youngness. That is true. Different fact. Younger people
can get sick with it and most self resolve, but
many need hospitalization for a period of time. And that

(38:23):
was the twenty percent that we talked about. But now
you get that one case where you do have a
forty year old who's the anomaly but passes away And
in this age social media, etc. Well now you have
young people dying, right, So it's it's a function of

(38:44):
we didn't We never got all the facts and all
the nuance out at one time. It evolved. Yeah, right,
yes it did, and it's still evolving, right, The information
still seems to be evolving. I almost feel like as
a watching you know, some comments early on about the
travel ban. I think we're rewriting books as we speak.

(39:06):
In terms of Okay, travel ban will be the norm,
drive up testing will be the norm, Public private partnerships
will be the norm. FDA rules shifting will be the norm.
States and the federal government now will work in cooperation.
I was very happy to see that the President responded
with this Navy ship hospital that is going to be
available in New York has forty percent of the cases. Now, yes,

(39:30):
I think we're rewriting the book. We're rewriting the book
on governmental operations. I don't know that we're not rewriting
the book on the psychology and the culture of the nation.
That's what I'm wondering about. What is the psychological impact
of all of this going to be? How safe. Were
people who ever going to feel again, you know, and

(39:53):
it's going to be a transformative situation for the country,
There's no doubt. Look you and nine to eleven was transformative, right, horrible.
You never forgot it. You never forgot it. It just
left you with almost like a PTSD. He see here
a bang and you see smoke, and boy, you go

(40:15):
right back there in a second. You drive into downtown
Manhattan to this day and you can feel it in
your chest, right, you just tingle? Uh yeah, it transformed us.
We were we were vulnerable. One moment could change your life.
One moment Mom and Dad don't come home from work

(40:38):
that day, right, for a whole young generation I lost,
dear friends, people I grew up with. Yea horrible to
me too. Let me ask Let me ask you this.
You know I love Americans. I mean when you see
all these companies like I don't know if you noticed,
the auto companies are stepping up to say they said
to the President, oh you need more ventilators, we can
build them for you. You see the pharmaceutical in this,

(41:00):
You see the big box stores, you see quests, you
see the lab corps. Two days ago is when I
first learned about chloroquin. This is the malaria drug I'm
being told, and this is actually very very interesting. Congressman
Mark Reena actually said at first that we have three
studies that find chloroquin with zithromyathin is dramatically impacting things.

(41:22):
The other one that I'm really putting a lot of
hope and promising is a convalescent plasma where somebody that
had corona, they recovered from corona, they have the antibodies
for corona. Then that plasma is then taken out of
and donated by that person and then used for very
sick people and through an IV they're seeing phenomenal results.

(41:45):
Another one is ramdisaviere and RNA inhibitor used for ebola
and sars. As you look at this information, what is
your take on it? Well, the President called me just
before I saw the Presidents person conference this morning. Also,
he just called me before I got on with you

(42:05):
on the chloroquin, and I said, look is I will
I will try it immediately. I agree. I have people
who are in very bad shape. Let's try it. It's
a drug that's been around, we know that the side
effects are limited, and I'm with the President on the expression,
you know, what do you have to lose? And at

(42:27):
one point, what do you have to lose? So I said,
as soon as we can get it, we'll try it.
The antibodies. I think we're working on a test here
in New York to try to find the antibodies. Not
just to boast of the immune system, but I want
to I believe, Sean, that this disease was here sooner

(42:48):
many more people had it self resolved, and that's what
the antibodies will show also, right, because if you test
someone and they have the antibodies, it means they had
the virus. I think that can even slow down the panic.
If we can say, look, we just with testing people
and it turns out Andrew Cuomo had it. Didn't even

(43:09):
know we had it, he just already had the flu.
I think that would be helpful because I'll tell you,
you know, I'm in New York and it's a different
uh tempo and rhythm. But the panic and the fear,
I'm glad you're addressing this. It's just as bad. You know,
we lose tens of thousands of Americans to the flu
every year, and I in other words, we lost in

(43:32):
a year with you or around h one n when
in a year we lost twelve thousand, four hundred and
sixty nine Americans only, and we had hundreds of thousands hospitalized.
I'm glad if we're going to learn from this and
save lives now and in the future, I'm all on board.
And by the way, I want to pledge to you,
if anything I could do for you in New York
with my TV or radio show, you you have it.

(43:53):
It's at your disposal. Um. By the way, I want
to tell our affiliates across the Sean Hannity Network, we're
staying with Governor Andrew Cuomo, who's with us. And I
think that you know, we use these words in an anthem,
the Land of the Free and the Home of the brave.
We are a country and you know this that we're

(44:15):
the country that beat back the forces of fascism and
Nazism and communism and imperial Japan. My dad fought in
World War Two. We have beaten back depressions, we have
beaten other pandemics, and you know, this is a moment
where I believe this country is going to again save

(44:37):
the world. As I look at what these new clorquin
plasma dissevere promises. I'm very hopeful. I put a lot
of faith in our medical community. Oh look, I believe
nobody steps up the way we step up. You know,
we can be terrible around the kitchen table to ourselves.

(44:58):
By the way, who is throwing food? You're a because
by the way, I'm still mad at your brother for
leaving Fox News. I'm just saying, but go ahead, yeah,
no Christmas throwing the food. But of course, because he
has no aim, don't tell me he hit your poor mother.
Oh my gosh with the food here. Oh this is
for Andrew. Whoop. Sorry mom. You know. No, we can

(45:21):
be tougher on the table, but somebody who walks through
that front door you better watch out right. Exactly, boy,
we grew up in the same household we did. Let
me ask you specifically about New York and as a side,
one of my best friends in this row, we pleased
all the governor to get rid of alternate side of
the stream parking. I have to go out every other
day and you're telling us to stay in and I
have to go park my car. The people outside of

(45:43):
New York will not understand that. But what what specifically
I thought this was the bold move on your part.
I think it's the right move. I think it's been
a I will give Gavin Newsom credit. I'm not a
big fan of his politically, but I think he's done
a good job and he's also worked hand in hand
with the President. It's not up time for politics. I

(46:03):
actually tweeted out, I'm sorry, I said on this radio
show on March ninth, because people are accusing me of
not taking it seriously. I actually said, this disease is
not discriminate. It doesn't care what party you're in. This
is all hands on deck. I said that, you know,
very early on and often, and how do we now
get along with each other? For this part we'll get
back to the politics and you know, arguing later. Yeah, no, look,

(46:28):
we just nothing else is important. You know That's how
I feel, showing nothing else is important. This is all important.
And this is to go back to my metaphor. Yeah,
we sit around the table, we argue, we like to,
we enjoy it, but somebody came through the front door.
It happens to be a disease, but it's a disease

(46:48):
that threatens our family. And now from the table together,
what is considered essential business for New York. Essential business
are the functions that we need to run society. Right.
So you need food, you need grocery stores, you need pharmacies,
you need public transit because the nurse has to get

(47:10):
to the hospital. And remember this is all about bolstering
that the healthcare system, because it's all about managing the
volume coming into the healthcare system. So telecommunications, you're going
to be home, you're using work from home. Okay, now
I have data. I need more data. Telecommunications, phone system, ambulance,

(47:31):
God forbid, somebody get sick. So it's the essential functions
that society needs. Okay, So let me let's talk about
like going. We've talked a lot about the testing centers,
and the President has been talking about that every day.
We've talked a lot about Okay, do we have enough breastpirators?
Are we going to have all of the ventilators that

(47:52):
we need. Then we've got to talk about, okay, worst
case scenario, hospital overflow. And I've been asking and I
was told that there are preparations in the works, and
maybe you've discussed us with the president. Uh, do we
have medical triage capability packing C one thirties with all
the necessary equipment the medical tense supplies I vs. The gloves,

(48:15):
the mass, the gowns, the medicines, the generators, the heaters, fuel, blankets, cots, food, water.
Do you feel we're moving quick enough on that front
to prepare for a worst case that is the scramble? Now,
I don't as a state. It's uh not what I
do the it's not it. I don't have a workforce.
I don't have a military, right. Uh, that's the federal government.

(48:38):
You have, Sean Hannity, there's a military. You're you're good
military by mouth military, I mean, who still get up?
And that is the greatest tramo. I'm gonna make that
a promo. Go ahead. Not guys like us oh Man
to talk and tell people what they should do nowadays.

(48:58):
Uh that that that is a federal That's where the
federal government can really step up and help. Okay, I
know they're doing it. Um now when you are dealing
with the White House, let's talk about how it's working.
Tell me how it's called. There's a telephone. He calls me,
I call him, he takes the call. I take the call.

(49:21):
Was like over in four seconds, right, Yeah, but see
the tit for tat you know the tit for tat. Uh.
It's the politics of the day and it is what
it is. Uh. And look, even you can say between
you and myself, yeah, we can argue, but we come
from the same place and we believe in the same things,

(49:43):
and we had the same experiences growing up. The President
is from Queens, New York. I'm from Queens, New York.
And it's not just a New York thing. We're all Americans. Yes,
we can argue about tracking, but you know what, at
the end of the day, Uh, there is situations that
surmount tracking, right, and when it comes to one of

(50:06):
those situations, we are in lock step. And that's the
way we are as Americans, right, and we always have been.
We haven't had a situation that has brought us together lately,
but this one does you see so much good coming
out of Americans. The medical community, are corporations, are pharmaceuticals,

(50:26):
are box stores. As I've been saying, let me ask
you specifically. So much has been made over the travel
band and the President got the crappie out of him
over that. To me, it was the single best decision
that the country could have had made at that time.
It was ten days after the first diagnosed case in
the States, right call from your perspective, look, I think

(50:49):
you'll see more travel health related travel bands as we
go forward. When you say rewriting the book, I think
that's going to be one of the lessons we learned.
We saw the disease progressing in China. You know, now
somebody's going to get on a plane and land at
in New York or in California. It's just a matter

(51:11):
of time. What the travel bands can do for you
from a disease prevention point of view is it buys
you time. You can't stop it, but it buys you time.
And we understand now how important time is because you
need to prepare, and you need to prepare differently. Every
pitch is different. You know, I would used to be

(51:33):
in the federal government. I've done emergency floods, hurricanes, disaster,
Superstorm Sandy. Each one's a little different. This one we
need ventilators. Whoever heard of an emergency that could require
hundreds of thousands of ventilators? Right they're being made, Thank god,

(51:54):
I mean, everybody identified it. Now do you have to
go or do you want to stay? It's up to you.
I can, but you have to decide now I'll stay
where am I going to go? Okay, Stations, No. In
other words, I want to have this discussion. I want
it to be positive for stations. Along with Sean Hannity
Show Network, we're going to stay with the governor. Andrew

(52:15):
Cuomo's with US governor of the great State of New York,
and they now have forty percent of all cases in
the United States. So we will not be taking our
usual break at this time. Let me ask you specifically.
I love our police department. I love all our love
our police officers. We know what our police officers can do.

(52:35):
And if we forget think back to nine to eleven
and our first responders and our firemen and EMT guys.
We now have thirty five NYPD officers infected by this.
Do you do you what specifically do we do for
those that are essential workers as you identify today that
they themselves are getting sick? And I would also add

(52:55):
to that the first responders in the hospitals and the
medical teams out there that are in the front lines
of us. You want to talk about America and bravery,
You're right on the corporate side, but you know where
I see it every day. I see the nurses at
the drive through testing centers who walk up to a car,

(53:16):
they open the window and they swab the inside the
throat of a person who believes they have the virus.
The police officer who's walking into apartments every day, sean
doesn't know what they're walking into. And on top of it,
you put this virus situation and they show up for work.

(53:39):
No one's calling in saying you know, I can't. I'm sorry.
I mean, that's brave. And I put out an order
two days ago. Every police officer should have a mask.
I mean, that's the minimum we can do for them
and anyone who gets sick because of this. Like post
nine to eleven, I'm going to advocate shape for total

(54:02):
benefits and support. It seems like if we can rebuild
Europe and save the world from all these evils that
I mentioned earlier, I can tell you that I have
many friends I don't know if you know about. My
mom was a prison guard Naso County Jail, worked double
shifts for twenty five years. My dad was a probation
officer Queens, New York interestingly, and worked as a waiter

(54:23):
on the weekends and all of my friends that work
in restaurants right now, they're all dying. I mean, they're
all scared. They're worried about whether or not they can
pay their rent, their mortgage, a car payment, tell their
kids whether they have to pull them out of college
or not. And one thing that the President had said,
and I want this to be bipartisan, is that we're
going to get help to them. Within two weeks, money

(54:45):
is going to start flowing, identifying those businesses that are
directly impacted by That would include the restaurant business, That
would include big cruise line industries, and the airline industries
just decimated over this. I don't think it's a matter
of the money as much as I just want to
make sure that every dime Washington spends are going to

(55:06):
our fellow Americans that need it, the right people, the
small businesses. Also, you're exactly right, And look, I understand
the corporate support and that's important for the economy, but
the human toll here, Sean is unbelievable. I mean, just
imagine families, like so many in this state and so
many others, you're just about making it. You're breaking your

(55:28):
rear end to make it, and then you're just laid
off and the bills keep coming. You know, it doesn't
stop the bills. I said, here in New York, we're
going to do three months of no mortgage foreclosures, and
we'll do mandatory mortgage restructuring where the payments will get
added to the end of the mortgage. I said, no

(55:49):
commercial or residential evictions for three months because this is
just devastating to so many families. So the federal legislation
putting some money in their pockets so they can buy
food and they can get by. I mean, that's a
no brainer. I want to go back to what we
were discussing earlier in terms of nobody saw this in

(56:12):
this way. When did you first begin to think? Because
I actually said something on January twenty eighth because everybody
I know is a medicine that doesn't work at restaurants,
and I got when that asymptomatic people, And this is
January twenty eighth. I put it up on my website
when I said it are now walking around. They have

(56:33):
no idea they have it, and it's also airborne. We
learned very early. And then the next I had doctor
Fauci on February tenth, and I was talking to him
about asymptomatic. Is that different than say the flu or
these other pandemics. And at what point did you realize
this is a little different look. I think as soon

(56:53):
as for me, a bell went off as soon as
we had a case here related to China, right, because
you knew what it did in China. We understood that,
we saw the how it communicated, we saw the lethality rate.
So as soon as we knew we had a case

(57:14):
here like China, I mean, unless you believed that there
was some immune system differential between Asians and Americans, I
knew we were in for what China was in for.
Did you see this top British study that came out
just this week. It came from a top British university.

(57:35):
Ninety five of all these coronavirus cases could have been
prevented if China didn't engage in this cover up, if
China would have just reached out to the world community.
I asked Mike Pompeio on TV this week. I said,
if you had gotten a call early on from the
Chinese government, your counterpart, and they were asking for medical assistance,
what would you have said? He said, we're offering a

(57:56):
rand help now, because it's a matter of the safety
and security people around the world. I think one of
the reasons things got so out of control in Italy
is a lot of the textile industry goes back and forth.
They had direct flights from Wuhan Province straight into Italy
and that's where obviously the virus came from. Yeah, look,
there's no doubt China sneezes, we catch your cold. Right.

(58:20):
The world's got very small and that's in our lifetime really,
and if China had asked for help, it's in our
best interest. It wouldn't have been gratuitous because self interest
it's going to come here. The only question has when
and better we fix it and solve it there. Let

(58:41):
me ask you this, and I'm gonna let you go.
I know you got a lot of work to do,
all of these people around the country. What is your
advice to people? What do they need to do. I'm
trying to urge people. You always going to have people
that are never going to listen. Okay, we can't stop that.
I guess you can legally, but you really can't. But
your advice to people in terms of where you think

(59:04):
this is going, how well, you believe this fifteen day
task force recommendation, social distancing and all this other stuff
that we've never heard of before. Where do you think
we're gonna end up with this? What you're hearing, what
you're reading, what I'm reading. What I'm hearing is we're
gonna have with the new testing, We're gonna have dramatic
increases in instances reported, and then hopefully four or five

(59:28):
weeks we'll see a leveling off and then hopefully a
precipitous decline. I put a lot of hope in this
Clara Quinn and rhythmomiacin, and the tests are showing it
and this convalescent plasma, and I put a lot of
hope in our medical community. And I think the fact
that the FDA rules were lifted are gonna hopefully play

(59:48):
a big role in stopping this and getting us back
to a normal life. Yeah, I think I'm an optimist.
I think I'm hopeful about the drugs. And that's why
we'll try it here in New York as soon as
we get it. I cannot stress how this virus communicates.

(01:00:11):
They estimate four or five times as communicable as the flu.
The virus may live on a surface for two or
three days, okay, and the airborne nature of it. You
look at the way it's moving through New York, especially
in New York City, it's the density. That distancing is

(01:00:33):
real fancy word social distancing. Stay out of a sneeze range,
call range. Be careful where you put down your hand
two days before a person could have touched that area
and then you pick up that virus. That's why it's
so contagious. Yes, at the end of the day, it
will be The people who die will be predominantly people

(01:00:55):
who may have died from a very bad flu. Because
remember in the old days, everybody died of pneumonia. What
did he die if he died of pneumonia but he
had a heart attack, He died of pneumonia, but he
had lung cancer. This is pneumonia, and the elderly, the
compromised immune system. This will kill a large number, larger

(01:01:18):
than the normal flu. A multiple four or five six
times the multiple would be my guess, and I would
tell people take it seriously. You know, it's easy to
be complacent when it's not in your community. This will
be in your community and it is that bad. And

(01:01:38):
take the precautions and take them early. Sean, thank you
for having me governor, appreciate your time. By the way, yeah,
I to promise me. Well this is all done, can't
you come on and we can argue about taxes. My
taxes are too high. I'm kidding, you've been You've been
doing a great your taxes. You I cut your taxes tats,

(01:01:59):
and you're killing me. You are killing me. Listen. I
just gives a fact that you can't live with because
you can't just lower today I took office. Here's what
I will pledge to you though. Here here, here's what
I'll pledge to you. When this is all over, I

(01:02:19):
will I will promise you. We're gonna argue about all
those things. But in the meantime, anything I can do
for you or our state, you count me. You if
you need money, call me, I'll give you money. Thank you, Sean,
Thank you very much, God Boss. Eight hundred and nine
for one Sean told free telephone number. You want to
be a part of the program. Uh, look, I know
a lot of Hannity. What are you doing? No, this

(01:02:40):
is let's get everybody well first. Then we can start
fighting later. And by the way, Linda what day did
I say? How long ago have I been saying that?
February March. Well, I mean to be honest with you, Sean,
we just pulled a few. But you've been saying it
so much that I just pulled a few. I'm sure
every day I could listen and pull something. Um And
it's just, you know, I do believe that. I do, however,

(01:03:01):
have a new nickname for you. And I'd like the
bank of an a Cuomo for this military mouth. I mean,
that was literally the highlight of the whole interview for me.
I'll take it. I admit I have a big, fat mouth,
and that's how I make my living. Fat military mouth,
you know again. And I also there's got to be

(01:03:21):
some perspective. We lose tens of thousand with the flu,
We lost estimates as high as five hundred and seventy
five thousand people with the last pandemic, and the h
one n one that pandemic, let me tell you, Ebola
was a real scare. I love the fact that it's
all hands on deck with everything in terms of you know,
our FDA, you know all these decisions that we made,

(01:03:43):
and you know, I mean, there's the first Democrat that
I ever heard say, yeah, the travel bank brought us
a ton of time. Uh, that is you know what honesty,
and so anybody that is you know, and then you listen.
I have the list of Joe Biden politicizing and including
his raisers and these superpacks and all those other crap.
It's just bologna. Our medical team is here, doctor Mark

(01:04:05):
Siegel and doctor Josh humber Atlas, MD, Wichita, Kansas and
doctor Segel part of our medical a team. NYU, how
are you, sir? Well Sean, I am sorry for the delay,
but I was washing my hands and I heard that Governor.
I got so nervous. I was washing my hands and
I made sure to wash my fingertips. Because this virus,
I'll tell you a secret about it. It has a

(01:04:26):
lipophilic coat, which means soap kills it. Soap actually kills it.
So let's go for that soap. Okay, I'm looking at
two days ago. Were before two days ago, if you
would have asked me what chloroquinn is, I would have said, huh,
I had no idea. Now I've been reading and this
congressman came out with this study which is amazing. He said,
look the studies now three international studies China, Australia, France,

(01:04:49):
and they all find chloroquin with zithromyacin is dramatically effective
in treating corona. What are you finding. It's actually hydrox chloroquine,
which is a cousin of chloroquin, which is also known
as plaqueintal. It's used as a as a malaria drug,
but it also is used to treat arthritis. And I

(01:05:10):
think the anecdotal evidence in the study, the small studies
that have been done are good, show very effectiveness. But
I like the interaction between Tony Faucci and the President today.
I really like that because Tony said, look, this isn't
scientifically proven. We don't have a double blinded study, and
as a scientist, I'm not going to call this proof.
The President said, I have a good feeling about it,

(01:05:33):
and you know, he's a man of a big heart.
He has a good feeling about it. And Fauci said,
you know, he defended him. He said, feelings matter. In
other words, having a good feeling about something matters. So
we don't have the proof, but it looks good in
the evidence we've seen, and you know, it's it's very
well tolerated people travel with it, why when they go
to malaria zones. So I have a positive feeling about

(01:05:54):
it too, But I agree with Fauci that we have
to also take into account we don't have a big
science on it yet. We don't have big science or
our doctor number or what we call combles. Some plasma
that is showing in tremendous progress, which by the way,
I mean apparently we'd used it a lot in the past,
but then we got away from it somewhat, which is
that those that had corona and they recover fully and

(01:06:16):
their plasma is built up antibodies, and you extract it
and you put it into an IV for somebody that
has corona that's not doing well. In the early studies
are showing that it's very effective. Who's chewing what are
you a chewing doctor? Rumber? Go ahead, no, no, no,
thanks for having me on, and we're bringing some some

(01:06:38):
perspective to the issue. I think the goal is, yes,
we want sound science, but at the same time, we
asked and it's analogous to a wartime effort where this
is all hands on deck and let's be using the
best information we have as its evolving and Yeah, it's
exciting to probably pull some of this back if these

(01:07:01):
medicines work, because right now I think the clinic treatment
is worse than the disease. And well, let me let
me we got to get a new line for doctor number.
But doctor seagull, why is it that early on everything
showed oh this we had to we had to protect ourselves,
so we would protect the vulnerable, meaning those were pre

(01:07:21):
existing conditions, those with compromised immune systems. And now only
in the last I first took note of this last
week I am a British doctor said hey, no, this
is impacting younger people. And now the CDC numbers came
out I saw this week and I'm like, what twenty
percent of hospitalizations or kids twenty one to four, young

(01:07:42):
people forty four? Yeah, I have a theory on that.
And and by the way to the other quickly on
the other point, well, you agree with me though that
that was earlier. We change. It's a change, And let
me tell you why. I think it's what's happening. I
think a lot of younger people in the United States
are not taking proper precautions and so be of that,
they're not the ones that are doing the social distancing

(01:08:02):
and the washing of the hands, and by the way,
to the Governor's point, let's disinfect surfaces and instead of
worrying about what's on that surface, let's disinfect it with
CHLOROQ wipes. We're doing all of that, and so that's
why the curve is changing, because younger people are not
taking precautions. If there's more and more and more young cases,
you're going to see the hospitalizations inevitably, even though it
still remains shown that the people most at risk or

(01:08:24):
the elderly and people with chronic conditions at risk when
we talk about risk, and again, I still think people
have to have some perspective here for a lot of people.
And look, numbers mean something, and I'm going through the
numbers every day. The current numbers are we've had two
hundred and sixty seven thousand, nine and twenty coronavirus cases worldwide. Now,

(01:08:45):
as again, I want to go back to another pandemic,
H one N one. You're an expert on H one
N one. It was at sixty point eight million Americans
got H one N one correct. Yeah, And you know
what's interesting about H one N one that we didn't
get to say on your television show, because you're such
a master on both mediums. That's shorter form. Let me
tell you, it's one of those situations where sixty million

(01:09:06):
people were infected, but in the end it wasn't as
deadly as we expected it was. It was milder. And
that's a lesson for now. We don't know what's going
to happen here. Well, you know what we do know.
If you do the math, and we've had eleven thousand,
one hundred and eighty seven deaths worldwide, we're up to
two hundred and twelve in the United States. We now

(01:09:27):
have fully recovered fully one third of those, and we
expect the vast majority are going to be fine, meaning
ninety eight nine percent of people correct that even get
it I'm talking about Yeah, yes, yes, it's more contagious
than the flu. People when they recover, the vast majority recover.
The people were concerned about are the ones that end

(01:09:48):
up on ventilators because with the pneumonia, that's a problem,
but that's a smaller percentage. You're right, Well, for most people,
this is mild, and I actually think that there's people,
many thousands out there that could have them mild case
that we don't even know about. Well, that's why more
testing is going to dramatically increase the numbers. And but
also we're going to see a simultaneous decline and quote

(01:10:09):
the mortality rate of this again a doctor number two
hundred and sixty seven, nine hundred and twenty cases identified worldwide,
eleven thousand, one hundred and eighty seven deaths. We have
in the United States a little over seven thousand now
identified cases. We expect those numbers are going to go
up dramatically. There's more testing. How long do you see

(01:10:31):
before we see what South Korea has seen, in Japan
has seen, in China has seen where it levels off
and then boom it drops. No more new cases. We're
hoping soon because you know, I think you know that
right now the treatment is worse than the disease. When
you consider in Kansas at least, unemployment just shot up
six hundred percent, eleven thousand filings for assistance this week alone,

(01:10:56):
and we only have as of today thirty five cases
in one death in the state. So you know, put
it in context that this is a manageable thing. The
scientific community, the medical community, they're doing amazing work by
getting on top of this quickly. The government's at least
helping by getting out of the way for certain things,

(01:11:17):
but then at the same time, I think they're complicating
it by getting in the way of other things. And
now people's panic. Had to talk at least two patients
down from large anxiety attacks, one that was suicidal, because
the fear of a system wide shutdown is worse than
the fear of the disease. When you consider in perspective

(01:11:39):
that eighty people have died on average from the flu
every day for the last five months, and we haven't
seen numbers like that, And why is this so different?
Why is the world changed so dramatically when we know
these numbers are real in terms of five whatever thousand
worldwide people die in the last pandemic, tens of thousands

(01:12:00):
die from the flu. What is different here? I think
we've politicized it to some degree. But I also think,
like with the swine flu, we called it the swine
flu to start with before renameing H one in one,
and so I think people just naturally took that as Okay,
this is a new flu, a worse flu. But I
understand the flu. If we would have called the Corona flu,

(01:12:21):
I think we would have been able to keep this
in perspectives had a corona component to it. It did, Yeah,
we know the family of coronaviruses. This is a new
piece to it. But it's not doing anything that we
don't expect viruses to do. It's it's not suddenly changing
into a brand new thing. It's it's not causing you
tumors or seizures or something just radical for a respiratory virus.

(01:12:46):
And every year we handle a very serious respiratory virus
for five months out of the year. That changes in
type every year, and we adapt to that. We live
our lives. We you know, probably don't practice the best
infectious disease precautions when people you know are having symptoms
and still travel to you know, for holidays and whatnot.

(01:13:08):
So I think we'll learn better how to focus on that.
But I do feel like we swung so far, you know,
I personally, professionally. The argument what we can never do,
We'll never know if we did too much, and sure
perfections the head of a needle, not doing too much
or too little, but doing too little sure is wrong,

(01:13:29):
but racking the economy. One of my patients is a
small business owner and had to let go all seventeen employees.
So seventeen people lost their jobs and we've only had
one death in the state of Kansas, three out of run.
But how quickly do you do you believe it'll be
a leveling off, because I know the numbers will be
scary for the next few weeks, Doctor Ski, Doctor Siegel,

(01:13:50):
I think it's I think it. We use China as
a model, which is hard to do. We don't know
South Korea. Use them, Yeah, South Korea. If we can
do what they did, we're going to start to see
a level off in a couple of weeks. I really
do think we could see it in mid April, leveling
off if we really really become vigilant and get and
teach our children by the way, that we're courageous, that
this is America. One last thing, Sean. We don't lose

(01:14:12):
wars here, we win them. So we're going to beat
this virus. People need to remember that. All right, Thank
you both, appreciate it. Eight hundred and nine for one,
Sean Tolfree telephone number. When we come back to we're
gonna look at this from a perspective of okay, so
much more to examine as it relates to Okay, how
are people viewing the response? Well, early numbers show very favorably.

(01:14:33):
And I think it's obvious if you just watch these
press conferences, you can see it's all hands on deck
and as it should be, as it evolved, as the
governor said, and as our doctor said. We'll continue going
up next our final news round up and information overload hours.
Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive
spin on things maybe giving Americans a false right now? Well,

(01:14:56):
I don't think so. I think that I think it's
got no not yet a pretty drug on any social
love a portion. Um. Look, it may work and it
may not work. And I agree with the doctor what
he said, may work, may not work. I feel good
about its toil. It is just a feeling. You know.
I'm a smart guy. I feel good about him and

(01:15:17):
looking to see you're gonna see soon enough. I have
a feeling you may And I'm not being overly optimistic
or pessimistic. I sure, as he'll think, we already give
it a try. I mean, there's been some interesting things
happened and some good, very good things. Let's see what happens.
We have nothing to lose. You know the expression, what
the hell do you have to lose? Okay, so what

(01:15:39):
do you think? Follow up? John heard that were scared, though,
I guess you'll be two hundred dead, fourteen thousand yours
set millions as you witness who are scared right now?
What do you say to Americans who are watching you
right now, who are scared? I say that you're a
terrible reporter. That's what I say. Just say, you know,

(01:16:00):
for the probe hundred I this administration inherited an obsolete,
broken old system that wasn't meant for this. We discarded
that system and we now have a new system that
can do millions of people as you need them. But

(01:16:21):
we had to get rid of a broken old system
that didn't work. It worked only on a very limited basis.
And we're very proud of what we've done. It's incredible
what we've done, and this system will now serve for
the future for future problems. Hopefully you don't have a
problem like this, but something will come up. We have
now a great system and it's almost fully in gear,

(01:16:44):
but it's able to test millions of people. But we
inherited a broken old Frankly, a terrible system. We fixed it,
and we've done a great job, and we haven't been
given to that. We deserved that, I can tell you.
But the one that really deserves the credit of the

(01:17:05):
American people because they are doing things that nobody thought
they would do. What they're doing is incredible. All right.
There is just a sampling of the medium mop you know,
it's it is. It's just unbelievable. They know one speed
and it's bludgeon Trump, you know, I mean, Linda, We
have posted on Hannity dot com, for example, what we

(01:17:26):
have been saying about, Yeah, this is scary this virus
since January twenty eighth, and we've been saying, have we
been talking about those weaponizing a virus and bludgeoning the
president and trying to turn it into quote, their hoax. Yes,
we've been very specific. It's very unfortunate that we had that.
We had doctor Fauci on February tenth. I said on
January twenty eighth, asymptomatic people are spreading this thing, and

(01:17:51):
apparently it is going wide and fast quickly because we
just noticed the data that was even before the travel ban.
So we put it all up there and then all
these media outlets. When you even give them the information,
they'll say Hannity said, it's a hoax, and I said,
people are trying to bludge in the president with it.
For them, it's their new oh, the new one. And

(01:18:11):
it is just it's shameful. It's shameful, and it's sad
because if they took as much effort into just reporting
what was happening, doing the facts, not fear methodology that
we've been talking about here, we would have so many
more people armed with information instead of panic. And it's
really very Yesterday was the biggest. Well, we've had a
couple of big days here. One is the president. We've

(01:18:35):
first case of corona identified in the States January twenty first,
ten days later, the travel band and then the quarantine,
then expanding the travel ban. Democrats were impeaching the president.
You want to play politics, I'll go there. We could
do that too. Then of course the President bringing in
all these people from private industry and then announcing they
were doing it behind closed doors, outside of the purview
of the media and the American people because they had

(01:18:57):
to pull it together. And then we have drive up.
Now they're getting those sites as quickly as possible set up,
and many of them have now been set up. Not
enough yet, yes, but that's gonna take time, but they're
getting it done. Then yesterday we have the announcement about
the chloroquin I won't go through the scientific studies again,
and ran dissevere and convalescent plasma, blood plasma, and all

(01:19:22):
of this stuff is happening all at once, and trying
to keep supplies open and the President talking with the
grocery chains this weekend, you know what, and watching like
the car companies. We'll make ventilators. What do you need?
Then you see all these other industries, Yeah, you can
use our stuff. We'll get it together. We'll do whatever
you want. I mean, it's been you've seen the best
of people, but not the mob. I mean, I'm not

(01:19:43):
even gonna talk about I just had to post it
on Hannity dot com. I'm not wasting my precious showtime
talking about their stupidity. So Sean, just for our listeners
really quickly before we get to our awesome panel of guests.
You can find it on Sean's Twitter. It's tinned to
the topic, gives you a timeline of when we talked
about it, what we said, and the experts we spoke to.
It has cars. It's not about me. No, no, but

(01:20:04):
let me just tell them it's there. So look for yourself,
don't listen to the mainstream. Deal with this when this
crisis is over. Let's put it that way, doctor Fauci.
For example, coronavirus vaccine trial has begun. That's great news.
You have a lot of other positive updates that you
know we're getting, and this chloric quin study is massive.
You had this guy Rogano that was on with Laura

(01:20:24):
the other night reporting that chlora Quinn's successful and fighting advirus.
My advice is, if you think you or somebody you
know hazard or might be at risk of it, you know,
try and get chloroquin, which was an anti malaria drug.
I would urge everyone that thinks they needed to go
get it. That's my advice. Anything I know, I'm going
to share with you. Then you get the worst of people,

(01:20:44):
these these these idiotic senators, now four of them selling
their stocks as they are getting information and not sharing
it with us. Okay, we found out yesterday about chloroquinn.
I'm sharing it with you. And by the way, chlora
Quinn with Ziromax is the perfect combination. That's what I
see for myself, and I'm sharing it with you as

(01:21:05):
we get it in real time. Didn't hear about it
till yesterday. Anyway, We're not really doing polsters in the
traditional sense that we do posters, but we brought our
posters in John McLaughlin, Matt Towery, Scott Rasmussen and you know,
high marks for the president in terms of Scott and
Rasmussen will start with you. And there's handling of all
of this, and we have what we have other polls

(01:21:27):
out there new fifty five percent of Americans approved the
president's handling of it, in spite of the media and
some other polls. But you know it's I think really
the measure right now isn't about polling for politics. It's
about are we getting the job done? Did the American
people feel in your polls that the job is getting
done well? We did a poll for one American News

(01:21:49):
Eighty nine percent of American voters said that they approved
of the China travel ban. Eighty four percent approved of
the European travel ban. And you know, we never get
eighty percent plus on whether it's reigning outside or not.
So those are phenomenal numbers. The ABC poll that came
out today is showing a fifty five percent of approve
of the way the president is handling this job. What

(01:22:11):
we see right now, bluntly is they recognize this as
a novel situation. I tend to think of what Franklin
Roosevelt talked about during the depression. What the country is
demanding is experimentation, bold, persistent experimentation, and if something works, great,
If it doesn't, we'll try something else. And you know, ultimately,

(01:22:31):
this is about getting results. It's not about if we're
not going to be talking about the different demographic groups
and who they're going to vote for right now. It's
about how people are responding to this concern. And look,
nine out of ten Americans are following the story closely
eight out of ten have concern, but most of them
aren't panicked about it. At this point in time. All

(01:22:51):
of the data shows people are getting the message and
beginning to respond. Your take, Matt Powering, Well, let me
start by saying this. Go back and listen to the tape. Sean,
you were talking about this before most people were. I
remember one day saying to you that we were talking
about impeachment and in fact this virus could actually overwhelm

(01:23:11):
the impeachment proceedings. They would be fiddling while Rome burns.
So I think all that's nonsense. We were on it,
Everyone was on it early. The second thing I want
to note is is that the president is truly now
becoming a wartime president. That is not just the cliche
and the fact that the ABC News poll begins to
follow an echo what Scott. His poll tells us that

(01:23:34):
the American people are putting aside politics at the time
being to say the president's doing a good job. By
the way the media does. I looked at that ABC poll.
Their headline is not that the president has fifty five
percent approval rating of his handling. No, it's that four
one excuse me, three and four Americans bee like it's
affecting them personally, So that's their headline. They vary the
approval rating for the president down below. I think the

(01:23:55):
president's doing everything he can. He literally has reinvented the
wheel and matter of a few weeks, yes, is there
more that can be done, It will be done. I
feel like the president's doing it incrementally. We talked about
that last time. But I think overall, this president is
in the ends, are going to find that he'll be
a stronger president in the eyes of more Americans when
this thing is finally through and we get to the

(01:24:17):
light at the end of the tunnel. John McLaughlin, I
gotta amplify what Scott said, because the amazing part about
here is you have the vast majority of public opinion
in his published poll where they're saying they're in favor
of the travel bands. And we're not talking small numbers.
We're talking like four or five Americans. And that you know,

(01:24:39):
since then, since Scott took his poll, this week has
been action where there we know this strongly in favor
of the free testing and this requiring the screening and
the shutting down the board. Is that everything he's doing.
That's why this ABC News poll, which I normally hate
because it's adults, it's not all it's a small sample.
It's like hundred and last month they had us a

(01:25:02):
minus eleven forty three approved. There was a response to
the coronavirus fifty four disapproved. Now it's a plus twelve
fifty five forty three. It's a plus twenty three. For
them to show that kind of motion, you've got a
three pound dimension going on here where overwhelmingly Americans support
this president's policies. They now support his coronavirus what he's

(01:25:24):
doing on a day to day basis, and they took
that Paul in the last two days when he announced
that they're going to mail checks to people that make
under one hundred thousand dollars twelve hundred dollars per person
five hundred dollars per child to get the economy gone,
because they're more afraid of what the economic impact is
right now for more Americans than the short term of

(01:25:47):
thinking that they might get the disease. So that kind
of movement in public opinion, then as his policies succeed,
which he has public opinion, the army of public opinion
in the United States on his favor, that kind of
opinion moves to his job and coronavirus. Then it will
move to his overall job approval, and then America will
be stronger better for it because it has transformed this

(01:26:09):
president the way nine to eleven transformed w as a
wartime president. Listen, and it's one of these things. Well,
you know, I talked off the record of some reporter.
I was mentioning, well, Okay, well, you are talking about
people in the media, and I said, let me ask you,
this is Trump virus. If you're feeling awful, is that
appropriate to you? Is it appropriate when the President says, hey,

(01:26:32):
when he's on a call with governors, Hey, if you
guys think you can get it faster, get it and
we'll have your back. New York Times, you're on your own.
That's how they characterize. I mean, I watched this coverage
and I don't want to spend a lot of time
on it, but I mean it is so obnoxious because again,
weaponizing a virus that is not going to discriminate Republican, Democrat, conservative, liberal,

(01:26:53):
They'll impact anybody. Scott Rasmuss absolutely. And again, now I
think it's important to recognize when we talk about the
concerned people throughout the country, Republicans, Democrats, young, old are
paying attention to this, and they are concerned. By and large.
They give most of the political actors, not just the president,
but people throughout the economy, governors and also private businesses

(01:27:15):
good marks. The one exception to that is the media.
In our one American news fall, half of the voters
said that the media has overhyped the problem and created
a panic. They've been even worse than that. But stay
right there with our posters, with us eight hundred nine
four one sean, all right, as we continue with our posters,

(01:27:36):
John mclatham, Matt Towery, and Scott Rasmuss and guys, thank
you for staying with us and John moving forward, I
think that the most important thing for people to understand
is that this country has been through a lot. We've
been through depression. My parents grew up in depression. My
grandparents had no money. Both my parents grew up poor.
We've been through my father fault in World War Two.
We beat back fascism, Nazism, and imperial Japan, communism, radical Islam,

(01:28:00):
nine to eleven, you name it. We've we've taken the hits.
But America also has had pandemics. And my guess is
we're going to lead the way out of this like
we always do. Absolutely. And you and I both know
the president personally, and we've known him for years. And
the president what people don't know about him, or what
they forget is everybody knows he wrote Art of the Deal,
and he's a successful you know, he's a successful billionaire

(01:28:24):
that developed an empire. But he almost went broke, and
he was in bankruptcy, and he was a billion dollars
in debt. And his most important book was the one
The Art of the Comeback, where he said he'd lost
focused and then when he was focused, he brought it
all back and was bigger and stronger. And you can
see that personal determination and quality in him right now,

(01:28:44):
where he's bringing America back and he's getting things done.
I don't think anyone else would get done. And whether
it's working for the vaccine or working for the treatments
and doing the things to shut this country down to
protect it while keep in the economy going, I think
only he's capable of doing that. Right now, we have
twenty five seconds each Matt Tower and then Scott Well,

(01:29:08):
I think the president, if I want to talk about
what he's done in the finance world, in the economy
very quickly. This president has moved with lightning speed along
with the Fed to do things behind the scenes we
haven't even most people don't even understand. We still got
to show up the credit markets. That's the next problem
we're going to have, but we're going to see in
the end will be economically stronger down the road because

(01:29:29):
of what Donald Trump did in the last two weeks unbelievable,
Scott last work today. Well, look the fact that we're
in a place where the president is getting such good
reviews despite the media coverage, speaks Volumes. I think the
thing to keep in mind for everybody, and a lot
of Republicans tend to be overconfident about the situation. Can
to keep in mind is that this is an ongoing situation.

(01:29:51):
So what the President did today or last week is
good getting us to this point. Got to keep doing it.
And that's where you're going to see a lot of
a lot of ongoing discussion, a lot of changes because
this situation is not a one time thing. A Republicans
right now tend to believe the economy will bounce back quickly.
Democrats don't. But the reality is people are uncertain, and

(01:30:13):
they're scared, and they want to see ongoing action. Yeah,
well said all of you appreciate at eight hundred ninety
four one, Sean, you want to be a part of
the program, all right, These Navy ships that hospital ships
that are one on each coast. We're going to check
in with a former CIA station chief who was once
submission manager for the Navy ship Mercy out of Alameda, California.

(01:30:34):
We'll check in with him, and we're going to get
your calls in next half hour. We have an amazing
lineup Hannity tonight, nine Eastern quick break, right back, we'll
continue all right twenty five now to the top of
the hour. For those of you that didn't here, don't know,
there are two US Navy hospital ships. One is now
going to the East Coast of New York outside of

(01:30:55):
New York and the East Coast and on the West
coast in California, and there are amazing facilities. And I
think if things got dramatically worse than what we anticipate
at some point, knowing we're going to bail out the
cruise lines, it might be worthy of consideration to start
preparing perhaps one or two, or three or four of
those ships. They're massive. I'm not the big I don't

(01:31:16):
really love those cruise ships. I'm not a big cruiser person.
I like wide open spaces, as the song goes, but
they really do incredible work. And the Navy's floating hospital,
the USNS Comfort sent to New York after nine to eleven.
Now it's going to lend a hand once again, this
time again outside of New York. It has a thousand beds,

(01:31:38):
twelve fully equipped operating rooms, and up to twelve hundred doctors,
nurses and medical specialists. And you know, they've convert converted
the Supertanker. It's emblazoned with a giant red cross, and
it is now undergoing maintenance and its home in Norfolk
and is expected to treat you know, patients if they're

(01:32:00):
is in fact some overcrowding in hospitals anyway, Scott Ulinger
with us. He's a guest on this program. Former CIA
Stations chief, but he sailed six years in the Merchant
Marines and was the mission manager for the USNS Mercy
out of Alameda, California. Very familiar with these ships, Scott.
I just wanted to get a little insight. I mean,

(01:32:21):
these sound remarkable to me. They really, they really are.
And actually it's the foresight of the Reagan administration that
these ships exist, because these were built during the Reagan
years as part of the sixth Internship Navy as we
were responding to the Soviet Union. Yeah, yeah, tell us
what's inside and how important can that play a role

(01:32:44):
if there's overcrowding in hospitals. Right. Well, you know these
ships are hospital ships. They're manned by civilian mariners, although
they'll have nay, they'll have Navy doctors and nurses on board.
And both ships are not um we'd say active to
they're kept on a reduced operational status in case of
a crisis like this one. So they have skeleton crews

(01:33:06):
only to do essential maintenance and they sit around waiting
for a crisis. And they have responded to a lot
of crisises in the past. They were sent The Mercy
was sent to the Philippines to deal with some disasters there,
and the Comfort has been to Africa several times. And
you talked about nine to eleven. So these ships have
really proven their worth and in the foresight of the

(01:33:26):
Reagan administration, you know, more than twenty five years ago. No,
it's actually amazing, and I guess it was a great
honor for you to be able to serve on something
like that. You know, one of the things you see
the best of times, worst of times. You see industry
now this public private partnership. I mean every big company.
That's why when people demonize Walmart and the pharmaceutical industry,

(01:33:49):
broad sweeping generalizations. Yeah, I think we can can say hey,
thanks guys the auto industry. You know what, Hey, gm Ford,
all these guys they're gonna they're gonna make ventilators for
if we did us and the guys like you, Scott
are amazing. Also, I want to say thank you for
all you do. Thank you. The what's interesting is that
Max Booge, you know, our favorite miscreant defector from the

(01:34:13):
Republican Party, has been really critical of this administration because
of the supposed lack of readiness of the hospital ships
another example. That's another example of the Democrats using a
crisis to further their aims. And in fact what you
really saw was a lot of naval vessels as well

(01:34:35):
as a lot of Air Force aircraft have seen shortfalls
and maintenance. But it was really due to the to
the previous administrations of both Bush and Obama, because if
the emphasis on the wars in Afghanistan, a lot of
essential maintenance for the military was deferred. So these ships
are not exactly ready, but they're working as fast as

(01:34:56):
possible and it'll probably be in New York City if requested,
and probably about too weeks. All right, Thanks for the update, Scott,
Ellen eight hundred ninety four one, Sean Tolfree telephone number.
You want to be a part of the program. All right,
let's get to a lot of calls here, Mike and Tennessee.
Real quick calls will speed through them at the speed
of life. How are you glad you called sir? Hey, Sean,

(01:35:17):
just real quick. So I'm a Chuck Driver twenty two
years retired military. Just wanted to say, in reference to
the media, my father worked for one of the major
news networks for over forty years, and he told me
a long time ago, the news is a business. But
here's my biggest thing. I am absolutely furious with the
media from this standpoint. They owe the American people a

(01:35:40):
huge apology. As far as I'm concerned. They are failing
in their professional, ethical and moral duties right now as Americans.
First off, but the second, if they're going to claim
to be a journalist and be the guardians of our constitution,
then they need to be supporting the president with everything,
doing nothing but getting facts out perfectly real quick. YEA.

(01:36:01):
By the way, I want to say two things number
when you're a trucker. I actually tweeted this out today
because we other trucker called the show earlier in the
week and he said, Hey, they're closing down the truck
stops and we can't even we can't even buy food.
He's and I said, well, what about drive up like
McDonald's and stuff. If they have an area to park,
he said, then I'm leaving them open. I'm like, hold
on a second, I tweeted out today, You guys, truckers

(01:36:23):
are our lifeline. Everything we're gonna eat is going to
come from you. All our medicines are going to come
through you do. You're the lifeline to the economy in
first response, to be honest, So we got to keep
the roads clear and the rest stops open and make
sure that you guys were able to at least order
ahead to whatever truck stop you usually use and have
food waiting for you if you want to pick it up.

(01:36:45):
Um that a lot of restaurants now are literally having
drop off service. You want, drive up, you buy your food,
you get out. Um so that that's crue. That is
actually happening. I can tell you that I talked to
another truck of f random on today Pennsylvania, which actually
did close all the rest areas. They are saying they

(01:37:07):
are going to open them back up again, thanks them
in part to you know, factual reporting again coming back
and saying exactly what I was just talking about. People
need to hear facts as to what's going on, not
personal opinions, not personal bias right now, because the reason
why there is so much fear in this country is
because of the lack of factual communication and the key people.

(01:37:31):
The way the founder set it up is I'm understanding it. Okay,
that's what the reason why the First Amendment says freedom
of the press. They were looking for the press to
be the people to say, hey, this is what's going on,
and then let the people decide. Okay, Yeah, I gotta
get some other calls in here, but let me say
thanks for all you do and I appreciate it, and yeah,

(01:37:53):
it's like I literally, if it wasn't such an important time,
I'd be unloading on the why is it telling about?
But now they know the truth, and I'm putting them
on notice, all of them, because I'm not going to
take this really am not but I have to focus
on what's important prioritize here. It's not about me, It's
about the country. Shay is in Georgia. Shay, how are
you glad you called Hope? Things well down there, I'm

(01:38:15):
doing great things. Hey, it's funny because I'm listening to
this guy talk to you, and I know you don't
promote panic. I know you're not that kind of guy.
And I'm just calling you because I live in a
small town in North Georgia, and we started out with
a couple of cases that they were pretty sure came
from a really big church in our small town. And

(01:38:37):
since then they went from two to nine to nineteen two.
Now today, I think yesterday with twenty six and now
I think we have forty. Well, I went to town
yesterday driving around, and I was floored, floored at the
people that I see out eating at the restaurants. That
gym any tumpet, well, there's a gym here. It was

(01:39:00):
the two major coffee chains. Their places were packed. These
people are not taking it serious. And we are a
We're an outbreak little town because we have two exits.
All of our businesses are on two exits, and so
I mean everybody goes to the same places. Well, my husband, yeah,
he went to the steakhouse last night and got take

(01:39:22):
out because we loved those people. But you know they
they told us, because they know us so well, that
they had people on quarantine at home that had been exposed.
And this is let me, let me slow you down
a little bit. Look, there's never gonna be a fully
cooperative group of people where a lot of people, but
I will tell you the vast overwhelming majority of Americans
get it. You know, these these dopey kids down in

(01:39:45):
spring Break, the no no, no minutes only spring Breaker,
you know, koomboo. You know. Look, you're gonna have those people,
but that's been put to rest. Um, do what you
can do for yourself. One thing that I will say
to anybody, and it's that's how I approach my own life,
is that I don't panic. I like when when everything

(01:40:05):
starts to spin, I tend to go in. And by
going in, I mean I try to get still. I
try to think through things strategically and strategically. What the
President and what is task Force are recommending are these
are good plans in place. What they're discovering in terms
of convalescent plasma, chloroquin uh rem dissevere and other things

(01:40:27):
are very very promising, very promising. H Yeah, there's a
lot of news out there that's not good on the economy, especially.
We are going to have a lot of work to do,
and we've got to help all these businesses that are
now suffering, and we will. You know, we rebuilt Europe,
We're gon we're gonna help every American. The one good
thing of news I could say is, Okay, Congress is

(01:40:48):
now doing the right thing. And Congress now is they're
going from one bill to the next bill to the
next bill. And nobody saw this coming. Everyone's adapting. This
is new. And you know that's why I'm not spending
a lot of time on this program to settle scores,
which I really would like to. But it's not. It's
not about me. It's about let's get the information to
the American people. Let's get this behind us. Let's learn

(01:41:11):
the lessons we can learn new paradigms of change. Travel
bands will be the norm, drive up testing will be
the norm. U medical face timing with your doctor will
be the norm. Public private partnerships will be the norm.
That this is now all being created as we go
on the fly. And but that shows how great this

(01:41:32):
country is watching big companies step up the way they're
stepping up it's inspiring to me. Well, you know the automakers,
the grocery chains, the you know all these you know,
lab Quest, lab Corps, Walmarts, CBS, Pharmacy, They're all coming
together and we are now creating a better America as

(01:41:54):
a result of it. Now, for you, you can't control
everybody else in life. I can't control the media lying. Okay,
I accept it as part of my life. But the
reality is, do everything you can do to protect your family.
Pay attention for me. I'm paying very close attention health
wise to Chlora Quinn and Zythromax. As I get the

(01:42:15):
information that I think is interesting and as grabs my attention,
I'm passing it right onto you, my audience, because I
love my audience, and there is nothing that I won't
hear that I won't share. These people that are involved
in Insiders, you know, that took inside information and started
selling off their stocks, and I want it discussed me.
I don't care if you're a Republican a Democrat, but

(01:42:36):
you know what, I don't even have that much time
to criticize them today. So my advice is just we
are you know, these are not words I've been saying
this the land of the free, in the home of
the brave. This is a moment where we're free, and
freedom will find the answers. We're brave, we're stoic. I
all I have to do is look at the lives

(01:42:58):
of my grandparents that aim to this country with nothing.
Both my parents that grew up dirt poor. My father
poor bed sties, his mother, my grandmother, died his complications
from his childbirth. He was He was shuffled from home
to home to home most of his life. Then he
fought in World War Two and it was a big

(01:43:19):
deal to get a fifty by one hundred lot to
raise his kids. And we've gotten through depressions, We've gotten
through world wars. We had to save the world from
evil numerous times. We read both Europe fascism, Nazism, communism,
you know, imperial Japan, not radical Islamism. Where the United

(01:43:39):
States the best medical people in the world, the best researchers,
the best doctors, the best scientists, the quick the speed
at which they are acting blows me away that they've
been able to sequence this what used to take years
for a virus, we now have first trial testing going

(01:44:02):
on now. It's amazing, so Um, look, I know things
are frightening to people, but I'm just saying to this
audience that you have an ability to make good decisions
for yourself, make those decisions for those Americans that really
are going to need our help. We've got to make
sure these people in Washington we will hold them accountable

(01:44:25):
because that money needs to go to workers, that money
needs to go to small business, that money needs to
go to industry. I'm a I'm a conservative. I don't
believe in waste of money. Every dollar I want past
and going directly to people as expeditiously, meaning like in
the next two weeks for sure, as possible. And it's
getting done, and there'll be a series of bills as
we you know, we're gonna we're gonna find holes in

(01:44:46):
legislation that that doesn't cover everybody, but then we have
the ability to fix that, cover up that hole, deal
with this new problem. So and we're gonna have more
medical advancement too, and I look forward to that. So
I no one gets scary. Look, it's all new. We've
never done a lot of this before. It's new to everybody,
and I just think that if everybody just listens very

(01:45:09):
closely to the fundamentals and the basics, and you take
care of your family, and government will do their job
because we're gonna make sure they get this right. For
those that need our help, we'll spend the money and
we'll recover eventually. It's gonna take time, but we will
do it. But let's give a lot of credit where
credit is due. I've seen a lot of good out here,

(01:45:29):
and I'm really proud of a lot of Americans and
what they have done in all this. They've been amazing.
They deserve credit. Anyway, anything I know on this program
that I find interesting in any capacity, I'm going to
pass on to you. That includes those that needs help.
Once we get the information, how you get the help,
We're gonna pass it on. All right. That's gonna wrap
things up with today, full handedy tonight, full coverage of

(01:45:51):
the latest on the coronavirus, the advice of the President's
task Force, is it being followed, the long term economic impact.
We'll check in with Larry Cudlow. China does not get
off the hook here, It's despicable. We'll have the latest medically,
and we will have the very latest in terms of
medicine and all you need to know nine Eastern Hannity

(01:46:12):
Fox will see you then, have a great weekend. We
will get through this tonight at nine. We'll see you
then back here on Monday,

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