Are asking for. Thats a failing. It is a failing. If i hear of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it. We are not set up for that. Do i think we should be . Yes. But we are not. Lou last night we reported the cdc is telling us 11,000 specimens have been tested for the wuhan virus whether in a cdc lab or u. S. Health laboratory. The cdc has not yet updated that number reporting the last tests were conducted by the u. S. Public health labs last tuesday. Ed the inability to test for the virus rocking the heartland in ohio. That states top 8 official says they have only three kits to test for the virus allowing them to only test for 1,200. We know just the fact of Community Spread says at least 1 at the very least, 1 of our population is carrying this virus in ohio today. We have 11. 7 million people. So the math is over 100,000. That gives you a sense of how this virus spreads and its spreading quickly. Lou there are a lot of other issues to concern you including todays Market Reaction to it all. The markets plummeted. The dow plunging almost 10 and suffering its worst loss since 1987. The nasdaq down 9 . The s p down 10 . The markets have lost almost 3 trillion on the day. Well be taking up wall streets recent losses later on the broadcast and organizing the sum total of it all over the past couple weeks. We want you to meet a man who has been warning for decades what a Global Pandemic could do for the world. Author of the 2017 book, deadliest enemy, our war against killer germs. Doctor, its great to have you with us. This is a lot for us to assimilate what has suddenly beset us in the form of the wuhan virus. And the reality is we are all coming to grips with it at the same time it seems. Your thoughts about where we are as a nation right now, as a people threatened by this virus. First of all i think unfortunately we are approaching this like we are trying to get through a minneapolis blizzard. We are looking two and three days out. We need to look at this as a coronavirus winter in the first weeks. Well be dealing with this for the months to come but well get through it. If we start planning now well get through it better than we are now. Lou how long is this winter in your judgment . Are you comfortable with an estimate about its duration . I think right now we have to assume it could easily be the next few months at the very least. I think the best estimates we do have suggests between 2060 percent of the u. S. Population could become infected and thats true for the world. Its not going to happen overnight. Every day we know we have something coming at us and well take it on and get through it. Lou thats about little cal leadership and family leadership, the way we conduct ourselves as individuals. Americans have a long extradition of resilience. Your thoughts about the tone of the country right now as you sense it. I think right now our job and people like myself, we are not here to scare people out of their wits, but we have to scare them into their wits. How do we protect those we love who may be older. Have underlying disease. I believe this is not a partisan issue. It shouldnt be. It shouldnt even be a nationalist issue. If martians were attacking us we could get together as the world and fight it off. This is a virus attacking all of us and we have to get together as a world to deal with this issue. Lou i couldnt agree with you more. Today a couple people seeking help from President Trump doing exactly that. Responds in a hyper partisan fashion, and doing so in blazing ignorance. And well call them out for that just as well keep track of testing kits and the ways in which people would avoid, if nets, their own quarantine. This is a time as you said i would like the expression. Scaring people into their wits. We would like to keep our wits about us and getting it right. Lou is it your sense there is a point pat which well know how soon well have an effective vaccine and you used the word pollyannaish. How much of that is hope over substance to talk about it in less than a year . How much of it is hope over substance to talk about an antiviral that will be extremely effective against the corona wuhan virus. My dear friends and colleague dr. Tony fauci has been on your show a number of times talking about this issue. We can make a vaccine overnight. But we have to show that it works and its safe. Its like the iowa farer who wants to harvest his corn after a month so he plants twice as much corn. It doesnt work that way. It will take well over a year, year and a half before i can manage vaccines into the populations at least two years. This means we have to get through this. There are studies looking at effectiveness and safety of certain drugs. And then we have to manufacture them. But that could be coming sooner. Lou dr. Ian lipkin was here last night and he shared an idea that was communicated to him by one of his friends in china talking about the use of plasma and antibodies from patients who have successfully overcome the virus and using that to bring other people to health. Your thoughts about that idea. Actually im high on that. I have been part of a group having those discussions right now. Originating out of a group stat Johns Hopkins university. I think that surely holds promise. The challenge is trying to get the blood samples and the amount of blood you need to make this kind of product. What we may be able to do is in the laboratory make these antibodies that were in the plasma. But that will not benefit all thats because of the sheer number of people who will be infected but it surely could help some, absolutely. Lou i would like to get your sense of how the administration is doing. You mentioned Anthony Fauci for whom i have the highest regard. We are all learning, but Public Health agencies have this squarely on their backs and are being held to a higher standard and hyper criticism in some cases. Your thoughts about how well they are doing and what they might need to do more of. First of all, i think we have to acknowledge that the situation for testing has been tear blin fortunate terribly unfortunate. We have to do a review of why that happened so it never happens again. And we need to stick with the Public Health message. One of the things i have been concerned about is we said for far too long that the risk is very low. Thats like telling somebody standing on the beach when there is a hurricane three days offshore that everything will be fine. We need to tell people what we can do about it. How are we going to protect our healthcare systems. That part of our Public Health message needs to be clearly well articulated. Lou are you uncomfortable with what seems to be an early reflex to defer to the World Health Organization on this . It seemed as if there was a to me a deferral, some sort of subjecof subject subsecvianc. Would we invite the chinese to help us if we had an outbreak in larks los angeles . I dont think we would. I think that changed as we have extensive information coming from china with u. S. Health and Human Services agents going to china. At the same time i would say that in terms of on a worldwide basis we need to have much more information sharing and the last thing we need to do, and i know this will run counter to many, its far too late to close borders. We predicted months before this Current Situation that the kind of border closings, airport screening, this virus would still leak in. We need to concentrate on what we can do with the virus in this country now and stop it. Thats scene important message, every country has to do the same. Lou i would agree with you up to a point. And that point would be that we dont take responsibility for our own sovereignty and our own government. Whether its the local level, the state or federal level. To bring in the w. H. O. Tuvment n. Agencies is w. H. O. U. N. Agencies probably not a panacea. In this country we would share information with them. But we have the capability to be our own Public Health system all by itself. Lou amen, doctor. Dr. Michael olster. Joe biden condemned the trump administrations response while providing a plan of his own. It is a plan that is a little familiar. See if you dont think this sounds a little like what President Trump and his administration have already been doing . The former Vice President called for privates laboratory tests, loans for small business, no copays for testing, fasttracking vaccines. Following the advice of the centers for disease control. The leftwing media dutifully carried his speech as if his ideas were his own and brandnew. Without pointing out that the president is doing just that. Take a throints president. The sba will begin providing economic loans. I met with the leaders of the Health Insurance industry who agreed to waive paul copayments for coronavirus payments signed into law and 8. 3 billion funding bill to help the cdc and other Government Agencies fight the virus and support vaccines critical for you. To follow the guidelines of your federal officials. Lou and the leftwing media neglecting to point out the panic bind sparked the last time he talked about a pandemic. Here is what he said in 2009 about the swine flu contagion. I would tell members of my family and i have. I wouldnt go anywhere in confined places right now. A confined aircraft when one person sneezes it goes through the aircraft. Thats me. If i had another form of transportation, i wouldnt suggest they ride the subway. Lou the Obama Administration had to apologize for any alarm he may have caused. Sit took six months for president obama to declare a National Emergency that ultimately killed 12,000 americans and infected 60 million more. The Biden Campaign wants secret service protection. Perhaps he might consider the best way to not need that secret service is to quit calling voters shores asses. D. E. A. Agents doing what you will be proud of what they have done and what the president ordered as they went through the streets cracking down on one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world. Arresting hundreds. Collecting huge amounts of drugs and cash. We take it up with jaeson jones. He joins us next. Please stay with us. Im your 70lb st. Bernard puppy, and my lack of impulse control, is about to become your problem. Ahh no, come on. I saw you eating poop earlier. Hey my focus is on the road, and thats saving me cash with drivewise. Whos the dummy now . Whoof whoof so get allstate where good drivers save 40 for avoiding mayhem, like me. 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They work unilaterally with all agencies across the country. This was a big operation. To take down the kind of numbers you just mentioned. It gives credence to how big these cartels have become. And trying to get them designated as foreign terrorist operations. This one cartel with 600 people arrested. Those are incredible numbers. Lou 600plus Mexican Cartel arrests. Do we have that full screen . Do we . I guess we just have to be patient, jason. 33,000 pounds of meth and 20 million i mentioned. The drugs are getting even more significant at a type when that border at a time when that border we have more activity from the Mexican National guard and mexican military. And the u. S. With all of our resources, it seems drugs are getting through despite everything that we are doing. They are, lou. When they just knocked down 15,000 kilograms of methamphetamine. That gives you some insight. If we look into mexico. The administrator yesterday as he gave it announcements on the indictments and the arrest numbers they took down on this operation. He talked about that this one cartel is operating over 100 methamphetamine labs in mexico. To put that in perspective. One super labs in mexico can produce 7 tons of methamphetamines in three days. Thats massive. Now take that and realize this one cartel is in 42 countries around the world. We have done fantastic work, the men and would even of law enforcement. I praise them. This is a violent and dangerous cartel. They have gone through multiple levels of training that our officers went after. The impact of this in the long game will be minimal. This is just having to be honest about how volatile they have become and how dynamic they are and how open our border is. Within 710 days of these cells will be replaced by citizens from mexico working with the cartels and getting back up to speed. We have seen this countless times. When we had the officer killed in mexico sabata. And i remember thinking at that time we are going to crush them. We went after them all over the world and they were back up and running in no time. You have to go after them in mexico. Lou when you say we have learned. I know who you are primarily talking about, law enforcement. But a lot of mayors havent learned, the politicians havent learned. Locally in the swamp and d. C. The Democratic Party is fully aligned with the cartels. They are making it possible for those borders to remain wide open to all of these drugs and violence. As you say, they havent got the stomach to designate the cartels as what they are. That is, terrorist organizations. Do you think that will change soon . I hope so. I thank you for allowing us to have this conversation because not people are. If we talk about the leadership. They are operating in 22 states of the 32 in mexico. They are so powerful in 015 they shot down a military helicopter with rpgs as they were copping in after it. They are operating as a parallel government in mexico. If we are going to see longterm strategic success we have to go after them in mexico. After them in mexico. Lou jaeson jones, thank you for do you recall, not long ago we would walk on the sidewalk all around the wind blows we would only hold on to let go blow a kiss into the sun we need someone to lean on blow a kiss into the sun all we needed somebody to lean on all we need is someone to lean on i need all the breaks, that i can get. At liberty butchumal cut. Liberty biberty cut. Well dub it. Liberty mutual customizes your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need. Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. But when i started seeing things, i didnt know what was happening. So i kept it in. He started believing things that werent true. I knew something was wrong. But i didnt say a word. During the course of their disease around 50 of people with parkinsons may experience hallucinations or delusions. But now, doctors are prescribing nuplazid. The only fda approved medicine. Proven to significantly reduce hallucinations and delusions related to parkinsons. Dont take nuplazid if you are allergic to its ingredients. Nuplazid can increase the risk of death in elderly people with dementiarelated psychosis and is not for treating symptoms unrelated to parkinsons disease. Nuplazid can cause changes in heart rhythm and should not be taken if you have certain abnormal heart rhythms or take other drugs that are known to cause changes in heart rhythm. Tell your doctor about any changes in medicines youre taking. The most common side effects are swelling of the arms and legs and confusion. We spoke up and it made all the difference. Ask your parkinsons specialist about nuplazid. Lou joining us, dr. Michael pillsbury, the director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. Author of the 100year marathon. Lets start with where we are in this contagion, this pandemic. We have a lot of conversations about the who and its relation to health agencies. It seemed a lot of our Health Officers were deferring to the w. H. O. Its my feeling about the United Nations and globalism, that made me very you be comfortable. There is a sharp contrast between what the w. H. O. Leadership is saying. They are praising china and president xi, this is in line with the prop began today cap pain, xi has gone to wuhan. Everything is getting better. Factories are opening. The w. H. O. Has aligned itself with chinese propaganda. Mrs. Robert obrien gave an excellent speech calling china out saying there was a coverup for the first two months by the chinese. This is a harsh charge to make. I think hes accurate. He said this cost the Global Community two months of time. Lou it was absolutely unnecessary and could have been prevented. Our own Public Health experts have been siding with President Trump that this is outrageous conduct by china. They are trying to be polite and tactful because they are trying to get more information from china. But they are angry. Lou we are going to have the audience join us in this examination of Robert Obriens statement. This outbreak in wuhan was covered up. It probably cost the Global Community two months to respond. And those two months, if we had had those and were able to sequence the virus and had the information from the chinese, i think we could have dramatically curtailed what happened in china and now across the world. Lou hes reacting to what is a fullon disinformation cap pain by the chinese, including trying to rename the wuhan virus. The idiotic nonsense that sprung up in the press by those sip pathetic to the chinese government. Saying you cant call it the wuhan virus or chinese virus because that is quote you be quote xenophobic. Its a reference to its origin. The place of its origin. Lets look at other diseases and viruses. If we can put up that full screen on other viruses. The ebola virus derived from the ebola river in the congo, the west nile virus from the west nile region. The zika virus from the zika forest. The lyme disease from lyme, connecticut. And the Rocky Mountain fever. Its gotten worse over the years. Your thoughts about that nonsense coming from some of the luminaries of the left. The World Health Organization took the lead. They gave their own pegs name to the virus and dropped saying wuhan or china. The chinese followed up quickly. They even reef to this as the italian virus. The worst of it is this comment by a Foreign Ministry spokesman that basically the u. S. Army lou i know all that nonsense. I am talking about the absurdity about trying to control the language and a departure for our good friends, the chinese. They are taking a risk doing this. The trade deal is coming due in the next couple weeks. Lou a lot will come due if they keep this up. The report that could have put an early end to the case against general michael flynn. I cant believe it. That chad really was raised by wolves . Which one is your mother . Thats her right there. Oh, gosh. No, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. Its really great. Well, im just so glad to have met your beautiful family. And we better be sitting down now. Believe it geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. You dont just own horses. You own a pasture. A fence. A barn. An arena. More fence. And hay. Lots of hay. So you need a tractor built to do it all. And do it right. You need the power to handle anything. You need versatile performance matchedattachments. 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The president assuring americans there is no financial crisis, that markets will as always be bouncing back. We have a lot of things we are working on with the Financial Markets and it will work out fine. The stock market is still much higher than when i got here. Its taken a big hit but it will bounce back very big at the right time. Lou joining us, let me first of all get your view on what has been one heck of a run here. The wilshire 5,000, 2. 8 trillion in market cap lost 26 trillion, down about 10 trillion since the record february 2019. We are up considerably since election day. The reason the markets dropped off so much. The market is searching for a sense of direction where the economy is going after we contain the virus and whether we have people with sufficient incomes to bring gdp back. Lou will the consumer be healthy. Precisely. We have no fiscal package that clearly targets the victims of the virus. When pelosi announced she was going to leave town without a package, thats when the market went nuts. To give people and businesses. Lou ill ask four friends, john, why we didnt see a rally when nancy pelosi announced she was leaving town. The markets are looking for some sense that in the not too distant future well contain the covid virus. They are dealing with a situation they never faced before. Lou we were dealing with a mass of unknowns i have never experienced in my career reporting on markets and economics around the world. When we look at all of the uncertainty, the market of horrors, this is a fullon hate march by stocks right now. There is uncertainty at he turn. Its just there is no place you can look and see with any clarity what the next six months or 12 months looks like when you are talking about public policy, earnings or the state of the globe. This is a biological bomb. It has been set off and we dont know anything about how its going to proceed. It has clear information about how the disease will progress. We look to dr. Fauci and other Public Health authorities for that. We have policies in place to enable businesses to be sustained, to be financially viable and consumers continue spending again. Lou we have been watching the Federal Reserve move 175 billion a day. We were looking at secretary mnuchin moving a trillion and a half dollars to add liquidity. But yet the view is on wall street thereby isnt a liquidity issue. There is a lot here that is uncertain. There is a lot to figure out about why we have so many dislocations, i am balancings, and inexplicable adjustments in the markets and underlying infrastructure of those markets. There was some worry about a lack of liquidity for those with leveraged positions. You dont realize how much leverage is out there in the financial system. But lets inject this liquidity. Despite a weak equity market. One thing i want to warn people of. The 10year treasury yield 0. 8 . It probably wont stay there for long once the covid19 virus is out of the way and the equity market begins to take off. You will see a benchmark Treasury Bonds yield move significantly higher. We had something unusual. Despite the drop by the treasury yield, the 30yearold yield rose 3. 6 the latest week. Lou bill, we have a prospect of something we havent had in the previous crises. There is up reply sit it seems to me in the spread of the wuhan virus and the responses of governments around the world and the continuing contagion, in terms of the responses of these markets. There is the possibility implicit in all of this that well come out at the end of this process perhaps with a new world in front of us. We dont know how profound the changes will be or how profound the adjustments and adaptations on our part will have to be. Thats right. All this work at home and incentivizing people not to go to conferences will likely change business in the future. The hotels used to having large gatherings may not see them in if the future. Lou we are going to approach globalization a lot differently than we did in the past. We are aware of the risks if you concentrate too much plaintiffing activity in one country, one region. Repatriation is going to be key. Lou we look to them for essential elements of our trade. Will the president veto nice a legislation that veto fisa legislation thats being pushed through Congress Overnight . Limu emu doug [ siren ] give me your hand i can save you. Lots of money with Liberty Mutual we customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Well keep building smarter suvs. To help keep you focused on the road ahead. And. The road beside. Did we mention the road ahead. With an available best in class. Epa estimated combined fuel economy and the technology to practically park itself. This is the reimagined 2020 ford escape. 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He says less than two weeks into the president s time in office. The fbi knew that flynn had not lied and knew the dreary witch hunt was a farce that should have never been embarked upon. Exactly. The agents briefed three different groups of people high up in dodg in doj and fbi how truthful flynn was and they exonerated him of anything russia related. There is a memo related to that that we have not been able to obtain as we have not been able to obtain the ridge nam mall fbi report the original fbi report of that interview. Lou what the fbi knew in january 2017. The steele dossier was unverified and fraudulent. Page and papadopoulos made exculpatory statements, they knew they were innocent and flynn was not an agent of russia, no matter what they pretended to think, the socalled officials of the corrupt fbi. Thats stunning stuff. And still you get no answer. I have got to ask you this. How do you know about that memorandum. How do you know about the missing documents. The 302s that are missing. What happened to them . How did you know about them . The government admitted the existence of the missing 302, and its effort from tracing the copies we do have. They produced some drafts. Those were all given to prior counsel. But nothing was done with them. And they gave as you threeline up are you and admitted there is an inexternal dojfbi memo. Lou what i want to find out is why wouldnt the justice department, knowing all of this just say, lets ends it. Lets quit putting this man through hell. Well take up that question after these quick messages well after these quick messages well bebebebebe you work hard for your money. Stretched days for it. Juggled life for it. Took charge for it. So care for it. Look after it. Invest with the expertise of j. P. Morgan, either with an advisor or online, through chase. After all, its yours. Chase. Make more of whats yours. To be our guest. With an invitation. 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Proven to significantly reduce hallucinations and delusions related to parkinsons. Dont take nuplazid if you are allergic to its ingredients. Nuplazid can increase the risk of death in elderly people with dementiarelated psychosis and is not for treating symptoms unrelated to parkinsons disease. Nuplazid can cause changes in heart rhythm and should not be taken if you have certain abnormal heart rhythms or take other drugs that are known to cause changes in heart rhythm. Tell your doctor about any changes in medicines youre taking. The most common side effects are swelling of the arms and legs and confusion. We spoke up and it made all the difference. Ask your parkinsons specialist about nuplazid. Ask youtv sports announcer list oh not another commercial al. When you bundle your home, auto and Life Insurance with allstate you could save 25 . The more you bundle the more you can save. What . Bundle and save. Click or call for a quote today. Lou we are back with attorney sidney powell. I was asking why doesnt attorney general william barr get to the bottom of who is responsible for destroying evidence and not following regulations. Thats what needs to happen for a First Step Towards restoring the publics faith in the department of justice and the fbi. The case should be dismissed in the interest of justice. Lou sidney powell, great to have you here. Thanks for being with us. Well have tomorrow, john solomon, general jack keane, and pastor robert jeffress. See you tomorrow. Good night from new york. [ ] trish this is a serious, challenging time. The democrats and the members of the liberal media need to recognize its not the time for political attacks and finger pointing. This is a time when we need to come together to make sure people stay calm, stay healthy, limit their interaction with others, and lock down our points of entry. The president took a bold move in shoght our borders to the europeans. Leadership matters in types like this. Yet joe biden and their supporters are sharpening their