Alert. Tonight, only moments away with my interview with the president of the united states. Donald trump donald trump will joining us live on this program. But first as i said last night, this pandemic brings out the very best unbelievable Inspiring Stories of so many. And then unfortunately the very worst in our society. The good news, the best far out to get the worst. We talk about the amazing businesses in this country, the amazing doctors, medical researchers, scientists, nurses, health care workers, first responders, other americans coming together and working nonstop around the clock to be back this deadly disease. Now, these are the people in the companys please keep them in mind, we think all of them for what theyre doing. The people of this country are amazing. Greatest people in the world. And we are going to beat this back. I noticed that fema has distributed 20 million face masks, nearly 6,000 ventilators, 4,000 this week, 2. 6 million gallons, 14. 6 million gloves, additionally the u. S. Has now tested 520,000 americans for the virus including 100,000 tests yesterday alone. Was announced the task force today that in fact he will be able to go to your Doctors Office and soon have an answer in 15 minutes and get this, thanks to some new simple technology, ventilators can now be easily converted to service up to four patients at a time. In the announcement by the Vice President today, anesthesiologists have figured out a very easy way to convert their machine into ventilators if god forbid they are needed at that mass level, but american creativity and genius will make sure that every person is covered. This is the kind of ingenuity, this is america at its best. Is truly inspiring. I hope we see that part of america even though this is difficult for everybody. Sadly, weve also seen our fair share of really bad actors including those who are now using a National Emergency for personal political gain and some of the usual suspects in the medium of democratic party, same people who have hated donald trump for three straight years rushing to blame every problem in the world on donald trump. If they stick it around and say of trim cured cancer, they would impeach him for that. I dont think i was too far off. The usual suspects cant even credit the president for that one gutsy decision ten days after the first known case of coronavirus in this country. That was january 21st. He instituted a travel ban and then the quarantine. At that day, joe biden called him zina foam it, hysterical, and a fearmongering. The mob and the media criticizing the president over and over, tens of thousands of more americans likely wouldve contracted this disease and in a far worse position than we are today, many likely wouldve died and now even new York Governor Andrew Cuomo and new york city mayor conrad bill de blasio are playing the blame game. We are going to analyze this. No doubt, we are in new york and the city is now the epicenter of the disease in the united states. Hundreds are dead, tens of thousands infected. This is a real crisis in new york. President trump has directed the federal government to get new york all of the help they desperately deserve. The American People are stepping up also big time and he has delivered. The president has approved a major disaster declaration for new york giving them access to billions of dollars. The president dispatch that u. S. Navy hospital ship with 1,000 extra and additional hospital beds if needed. Its on its way to new york harbor this weekend. Weeks earlier, when they had planned. President has ordered the u. S. Army corps of engineers building and constructing four temporary hospitals in four specific counties in new york. 4,000 additional beds, set the National Guard to help with logistics. Fema has built an additional hospital at the Javits Center with another thousand beds. The administration has sent 4,000 ventilators to the state of new york this week alone and hundreds of thousands of masks and gloves and other medical gear all earmarked for new york. The right decision and its being mobilized had an incredible speed. All told, the state of new york will get tens of billions of dollars from the federal government separate and apart from the new 2 trillion stimulus bill. Governor of new york said were only getting 3. 5 billion. Chuck schumer, the senator of new york who actually helped craft the bill and happens to be the minority leader in the senate says no, it is more like 40 plus billion dollars in likely much more but again, thed bill de blasio have made a fingerpointing and blame a constant refrain. Repeatedly returning to what is a false narrative constantly going on television fearmongering is complaining. I need 30,000 ventilators, why dont i have 30,000 ventilators . They are getting the support they need and blaming the federal government over and over again. Needs to stop. Take a look. So it shouldve been one of the easiest nobrainers in the world for the u. S. Senate to include real money for new york city and new york state in the stimulus bill and yet it didnt happen. New york city gets 1. 3 billion from this package. That is a drop in the bucket. The stimulus bill is not everything i think it should have been. Okay, heres the package, it gives us 3. 8 billion. Its as high as 15 billion. How do you plug a 15 billion hole with 3. 8 billion. We dont. We need everything in that federal stimulus bill and we need more Going Forward and this is not looking a gift horse in the mouth. No one thinks its enough. Everyone agrees theres more that has to be done. One that we have to separate facts from fiction, truth matters. I have a message for Governor Cuomo and bill de blasio. First, the president doesnt write bills so you might want to first talk to your good friend senator chuck schumer. He is the minority leader in the u. S. Senate. He was responsible right up to his eyeballs writing this bill. Not president trump. They have rightly so moved heaven and earth to help new york and new york city but this needs to be said, both of you need to stop politicizing this National Emergency. And while were at it, new york state and new york city has some of the highest taxes in the country which is why to both of your credit or blame, this is the number one state in the country where people are leaving, a mass exit is out of your state and city. Last year, they spent 170 billion, city of new york spent another 90 billion. This is also a fact. We all know the First World Trade Center bombing happened, we all know the world changed on 9 11 2001 and we also know that new york city is the number one city for possible terrorist attacks and new york city is an International City with the highest concentration of people in the smallest area thus making new york city the most vulnerable of any city in the country to a pandemic like this. Now with all that washington has been doing and saying more every single day, while theyve been doing this, we are now seeing how unprepared both the state and the city of new york have been. For any emergency which is unforgivable to me as a new yorker, born and raised. Acts on Governor Cuomo, it is your third term. Bill de blasio, second term. The level of preparedness is beyond shocking. Now, we dont have time to get into all the particulars because we have more important matters to deal with but the state should have had larger stockpiles of medical supplies and masks and ventilators. Apparently, prepared for little to nothing. Instead of stocking up on emergency supplies, we do have a list of your waste and fraud and abuse, spending on a pet project instead of stocking up on emergency supplies without amount of money they taken every year in the high taxes they cost every new yorker, he is busy wasting taxpayer money on 750 million for a solar panel factory. That closed out right down the tubes wasted money. I wonder how many ventilators, masks, gowns, medical equipment they couldve purchased for all that money. 90 million for a Light Bulb Company in california, that failed too. 600 million for a computer chip factory that sits empty in your state. And get this, it was 2015 morning at that new york would need additional ventilators to manage any future pandemics but he chose not to buy any. Instead, he assembled a task force to determine how the states two ventilators already on hand would be rationed. Now you will be happy to know that we can now convert those equipment into ventilators and youve got 4,000 more from donald trump and from mike pence and the task force this week. This is your third term. They should have been more prepared. You need to own up to your mistakes and governor, you said to me on my radio show, actually had a very good exchange. You said to me you wanted to put politics aside but you keep complaining and moaning and groaning every day and giving out false numbers, only 3. 5 billion, talk to senator schumer. He contradicts that. Youve been given far more than any other state in this country. Five hospitals are being built for you paid for by the taxpayers all across the country. You have 40 plus billion dollars on the way, five other hospitals being built for you. Start owning your own failures to prepare for emergencies and maybe you should stop wasting the hundreds of millions of dollars that you take from people like me and by the way, maybe its time to once in a while say i want to think the president , his task force, and the Vice President for knocking down every door and giving us everything we are asking for going all in to help new york because thats what they are doing. Meanwhile this week we saw the very best and worst of america while the worst also on capitol hill. On one side, republicans have been fighting since way early last week with extreme urgency to get money into the hands of our fellow citizens that need it. Ive never seen majority leader mcconnell this ticked off and animated. And god bless susan collins, she rightfully is saying where is the urgency . Bleeding with her democratic colleagues to get this done. Democrats were dragging their feet every step of the way, no urgency. James clyburn told us why, they were using this National Crisis to restructure things to fit our vision. We are in the middle of an emergency, may be is not time for politics like that. And after wasting more than a week fighting force wind and solar and carbon emission standards and environmental regulations to kick the Airline Industry when theyre down to protect Illegal Immigrants and other new green deal garbage, democrats finally agreed to a bill and that just passed the senate unanimously. Got some of that out, not all of it. Republicans had to suck it up because they have the urgency to help the people that need it. Almost none of their wish list items they didnt get their 25 million for the Kennedy Center for the performing arts that none of you i better ever going to go to. 75 million for pbs, npr. By the way, npr stations many of them wont even broadcast the daily Coronavirus Task force briefings because they hate donald trump. The democrats wish list had nothing to do with the coronavirus and now this bill, republicans had to suck it up. And didnt want to because they know the American People need help, Small Businesses need he help. Frontline workers in the medical immunity need help. We needed to get there sooner. Undoubtedly spending on this by the way they are using some of it not necessary. Some of it wasteful, sad. Republicans were pretty much blackmailed into wasting a fortune to get the money and they did compromise, they did vote for the bill and try to get out as much as garbage as they could as american workers, medical professionals, Small Business owners and big business corporations devastated by this need help now. You see it on your screen it represents major relief for everybody who is struggling through no fault of their own. Americans dont have a problem helping their fellow americans until we all get through this crisis. And tomorrow, we expect to pass in the house. Why didnt they do it today . You guys busy . Making up new articles of impeachment . What were you doing . Going on vacation . Ultimately, despite that, money is on its way, businesses, hospitals, first responders, we are sorry you have to go through this period but your fellow americans have your back and will help make you whole and bridge the gap and pay your mortgage, your rent, your car payment, your health care. Get the medicines you need until you get this country back on its feet which the good news is every american i talked to wants that to happen sooner than later. As you might also expect if youre watching conspiracy tv, fake news cnn, reading the washington post, doom and gloom 24 7, you know who to blame. President trump of course. Take a look. Larry kudlow and Stephen Moran donald trump pin people for catholic magazines are saying people have to die. There is no way of knowing how many lives were affected by that false sense of security to the president projected. The briefings are working for the president no matter what he says, people seem to be seeing him as a leader. At least more people do. A few weeks ago, the president was calling this a hoax. Fastforward to today, hes okay with putting a 2 trillion package together to help us. Sean he was putting in place at travel ban because he took it seriously. Thats like their new hoax. I also had dr. Fauci on my radio show january 27th on through and i warned this. Some of also blamed yours truly saying we have blood on our hands because we didnt take the virus seriously might just go to hannity. Com, i have a whole list of everything i put up, and they shouldnt throw stones from their ivory glass towers. Take a look. People should be concerned right now about the flu. People are concerned but the reality is its not even close to being at that stage. What if it is worse . Is it where countries put politics aside a little bit of pride aside and to be have u. S. Officials, should professionals such as yourself get involved . How worried should they be about coronavirus . Sean has now raised its china travel advisory now to level four, do not travel citing the outbreak of the coronavirus. This is important. We have to get this right. Right here on hannity, we give you facts. We are americans without fear, we are not alarmist, we raise concern about this virus from january 27th with dr. Fauci on the show forward. We praise the president s travel ban and he got excoriated for it. How many thousands of americans didnt suffer as a result . Anyway, reporting facts without fear. The mob in the media more interested in doing what theyve been doing for three plus years. On the same day, vox. Com criticized him overreacting, it is going to be a deadly pandemic, no. February 1st, the washington post, get a grip, america. The flu is a much bigger threat than the coronavirus. February 3rd, same paper. Why we should be weary of an aggressive government response to coronavirus. February 5th, the New York Times, who says its not safe to travel to china . The Coronavirus Travel ban is unjust. The despicable corrupt media mob cares more about hating the president than anything else. He know the New York Times is the one thats at the trump virus if youre feeling awful, you know who to blame. Americans know this. We are not blind. Look at the gallup poll, medias handling of the coronavirus lowest marks of any other group in america. I think that number is too high. Even worse than congress and thats saying something. The president never been higher, above 60 . The shift gears to other breaking news. The president says the new coronavirus guidelines will address possible changes to social distancing rules in here to explain more in our west coast newsroom, trace gallagher. The president notify the governors today about the changes in social distancing guidelines and in many cases, they can choose to accept or decline the recommendations but the criteria will all be based on whether certain counties are low, medium, or high risk for coronavirus. For example, we know the counties in and around new york city are hot spots that are unlikely to see any major changes in the stayathome mandates but Rural Counties with low numbers of infections could see different approaches. In his letter to governors, the president acknowledged they were still a long battle ahead but our efforts are already paying dividends. He went on to say the administration will soon decide whether to maintain, decrease, or relax social distancing although there was no date set for implementing the new guidelines. The president has said repeatedly that he wants americans to resume their normal economic, social, and religious lives and would like to see the economy reopened by easter. Sean trace gallagher, thank you. President trump, is he there . Yes, no. Live television. Yes or no . I am, im right here. Sean mr. President , thank you. I heard you in the press conference, you had a 9 00 p. M. Call with president xi of china, where does that go . Because of you, i made it at 10 30 so that shows you the power of the number one rated show in television. I am talking to him at 1030 right after this call. Sean one thing i will say, i watch the task force, it takes a lot of energy and stamina and you never stop being president. Let me ask you, i remember when i interviewed you at maralago for the super bowl. I dont know if you remember me asking the question, i asked you to tell me the first known case of corona was january 21st, 10 days later, you instituted a travel ban. Joe biden called using a phobic, hysterical, and if your monger. Walk us through that decision because you said to me nobody supported it. W we had 21 people in the office and we had a lot of experts and they never really thought to do that and i passed a travel ban having to do with our country. We have certain unsafe countries that we think are unsafe. You remember, i passed it, we lost in the lower courts and we won at the Supreme Court so we have a travel ban throughout the world if we want if we have unsafe countries, terrorism, et cetera. So i said wait a minute, these people if they are badly infected because i was starting to see stories and you were and was that said how many came in . If you look at it, thousands a day and i said look, we shouldnt be doing this. I made a decision, we cant have it and people thought it was very tough, some of my own people. Ill be honest with you, china didnt think it was too good either and i think we were absolutely fine with them. A lot of people decided to go to italy instead, they went to spain instead and you see the problems theyre having even smaller countries by comparison you see the problems theyre having but i made that decision which im very proud of in retrospect and youre right, i had biden calling me zina phobic and yet he cant define the word. Im sure he couldnt tell you what it means. He called me a racist because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from china coming in, they made a good decision than if he didnt, it would have thousands of thousands of more people in very serious trouble right now. Sean ive been making the case, everything thats going on now we are rewriting the book of how to deal with pandemics, you started with a travel ban in the quarantine, than the Publicprivate Partnership which we should talk about all the Great Companies we have in this country, drive through testing now will have a 15 minute test soon at the Doctors Office, home testing according to your task force, telemedicine i would argue is one of the easier solutions for health care, off label use getting rid of draconian fda rules, vaccine, we are at stage one trials. They used to take years to break down the sequence. Tell us what is changing and why it has to all change. I think the fda has been incredible, we have a man who said a great doctor, highly respected from texas in charge of one of the great hospitals of our world and he came in as the fda director and we had a good man there before also as you know, you know scott very well and we have done things that are pretty amazing. We are using certain medications that are used in other aspects of life for other reasons, normally it would take a long time to get it approved for this for the virus as we call it, so it would take a long time and i was able to get such a fast turnaround it was incredible. Literally fast because it was proven safe and it is strong stuff. Malaria was the disease in particular, its been out for a long time, very effective on malaria. May be effective with what we are doing and we are going to find out soon. But the head of the fda and others gave me a really rapid approval like how about 24hour approvals . And we just started having it, people in new york and others are taking it now and i think we are going to know fairly soon whether or not it works i think its got a shot, its got a good shot. Sean ive got to Say Something nice. I know we and you fox town hall, i know dr. Oz was on the program. Ive gotten to know him. Dr. Oz is like me, he never goes to sleep. He has talked to more people, more doctors, more patients than have tried hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. I dont think theyve actually really explained, there is a real trial going on in the state of new york right now. Am i wrong on that . We had 10,000 units supplied and approved and its a lot and people have been taking it now for a day and a half, and we havent heard bad news. We havent heard too much news but its a little early, we are going to probably know and maybe it wont work, but we are going to give it a good shot and why would we wait . Normally this process would take two years to get it approved even though its out there in terms of malaria, out for a different reason but we have reason to believe, youve seen the same test in france and other places, italy. So we have to see whether or not it works. You were a betting man, i guess youd have to bet against it but a lot of people are saying this could be a big answer. In addition to that, gilead and others are making some incredible things that we are going to find ans going to be a question of how fast, but there are some incredible things that are going on right now. The vaccine is going really well but for the vaccine, you need at least a year of testing because you cant put things into somebodys body by the thousands and then if its dangerous. For that one, we are going to need testing but they are making tremendous progress, incredible progress. Sean dr. Oz has been putting on doctors that have been prescribing off use hydroxychloroquine and patients that used it miraculous turnarounds, incredible anecdotal and i understand dr. Fauci would love a twoyear study and so what i and so would anybody but if we could save lives now and the right to try for me as a freedom we should have and i know youve made that law. What are your experts, the surgeon general, dr. Fauci and everyone else telling you about convalescent plasma . People have the disease, they get over the disease, they have antibodies to the disease, they extract the plasma, and then they infuse it into a very sick patient. What are you hearing about it . Theres really positive things. Here are seeing some positive things. Its affecting the immune system and lots of other elements are at work and these are all Game Changers by the way. This really solves a problem. Getting the vaccine is important but if we could do Something Like if we had something therapeutically where one of these numerous items that we are testing right now, literally testing right now if any of this work, this is a game changer. And there is no risk when its already out there in a different form for a different purpose so we are going to see how it all comes out and we just started. So you will probably know before me because you know all of these things and you really are up on it. But youve also seen some of the other things. Aside from that, youve seen some incredible potential from other medicines and we hope we are going to be able to find it quickly. Sean you were very gracious to your predecessors today in a press conference because we now know after the 20092010 virus in that particular case, the secretary declared an emergency 11 days in, we knew about it in april, pandemic in june. Wasnt until late october my 1,000 dead americans, we had tens of thousands acted in. Ultimately, 60. 8 million americans contracted. I never saw not only a government response like this but the media, they praise president obamas declaration six months after they identified it and it was never a travel b ban. The h1 and one, he calls it that but i dont know if thats a big deal. The swine flu is really known as swine flu. As you probably heard, 17,000 people died and most people dont even remember anything happening. You see with going on now, youre not going to be forgetting about this. We close things up, we had no choice. Its pretty vicious out there. But the swine flu, people dont even remember it but it killed 17,000 people. Thats a lot of people. Sean worldwide, almost 600,000. In this country was 17,000. 17,000 people. So they acted very late, they were incredibly late, and the news, the media, i wont be a wise guy on your show and call it what a lot of people know it is. So unfair if we could only have a fair media in this country, our country would be an even greater place to be. But the media did nothing to criticize anybody. But ill tell you a lot of people are giving us great marks. He looked at all the different bowls that are coming out, really being given good marks for whats happening. This is a very unique time in life to see whats going on. Very terrible thing. Sean i heard a question and i think i know you well enough, ive known you for 25 years or so, you asked a question, what number of deaths is acceptable to you and you said none, zero. And im going to scroll, you know im big on my lists and all of the things that you have done starting with a National Emergency and we mentioned obviously what you did with the travel ban. Is there anything else you can think of that you could have done better and how do you feel about where we are now if the pattern doesnt hold . In china and in south korea, we see rapid rise in people contracting it, and it gets scarier and scarier, and the net plateaus, levels off and then a precipitous drop. Do your scientists believe that will happen . Is there anything we can do to make that happen faster so we can save lives and people dont get this virus . We did the band from china but you remember we also did a banner very, very early from italy. That was another one we were hearing bad reports and a lot of people were dying in italy. I did the band to italy and especially certain areas in italy and then i did the bantu europe and then we did ultimately the u. K. And ireland and we did the rest of it. That was separate from the European Union as you know when we had to do that because they started building up. And in fact, they are building up quite a bit now, unfortunately. So we had to do it with the u. K. And we did that, and it was something that by that time, i felt very confident we were doing the right thing. And we did the right thing, otherwise it would have had a lot of people from italy coming in and you see whats going on in italy. Its an incredible thing. Really went to italy and spain a lot of the people from china but you see exactly whats gone on. I think we inherited a broken system from the previous administrations, not just one. And it was very broken. Was a system of tests, but it wasnt meant for millions of people like we are talking abo about. Was a bad system for millions of people. Was okay for small numbers but we are talking about something that hasnt been seen for many years. This hasnt been seen for decades. May be that big one was 1917 and that was the worst by far, that was vicious, the spanish flu they call it. And that was really nothing like that. What that did to europe. Wiped out vast sections of europe and a big chunk of the united states. That was the worst. Sean youve been asked a lot of questions in recent days about the defense production act. I do think that bad times often brings out the worst, the price counters, the hoarders. With all due respect, the democrats playing games and holding up this bill for a week really ticked me off. You are more gracious than me but ill put that aside for a minute. But all these businesses going to scroll on the screen have stepped up and offered to help and you said that you have not had to enforce the defense production act except for two minor cases. He didnt want to talk about it earlier today. These companies are helping the American People. Explain this new paradigm of public and private partnerships and drive up testing and everything that theyre doing. There was a tremendous esprit de corps, its incredible whats going on. The spirit, the love of our country and we have something called the defense production act, and it is a very powerful act. Is incredibly powerful. You can do almost anything as president. You can demand that they give you whatever you want, all of these things. Its a powerful tool. So i havent had to use it because we had a forward step up, General Motors step up, 3m step up, so Many Companies stepped up and are making vast amounts of things but when you talk about ventilators, it is a highly intricate piece of equipment. Heavily computerized in the good ones are very, very expensive. And they say like Governor Cuomo and others that say we want 30,000 of them. 30,000. Think of this. You go to hospitals who have won in a hospital and all of a sudden everybody is asking for vast numbers. But we have now companies stepping up and building them, doing the masks. Weve already delivered millions and millions of mass but remember, we are a second line of attack. The first line of attack is supposed to be the hospitals in the local government and the states. The states themselves. We have people like governor inslee, he should be doing more. He shouldnt be relying on the federal government. Thats the state of washington. He was a failed president ial candidate and he is always complaining and the governor of michigan, shes not stepping up. I dont know if she knows whats going on but all she does is sit there and blame the federal government, she doesnt get it done and we send her a lot. Now she wants a declaration of emergency and have to make a decision on that. But michigan is a very important state. I love the people of michigan, im bringing back many car factories into michigan and she is a new governor and has not been pleasant and you look around and you see whats going on and by the way, most governors have been fantastic. Most of them whether democrat or republican, but we have had some trouble with the state of washington and he ran for president , didnt exactly do well, he got zero and we had a big problem with a woman governor, you know who im talking about, from michigan. Though we cant we dont like to see the complaints and i am getting along with Governor Cuomo. I think that a lot of things are being said that are more. I dont think certain things will materialize, a lot of equipment is being asked for but i dont think theyll need, but we are building for medical centers and many other things we have developed and sent thousands of ventilators and hopefully, theyre going to do well but you have to know, this has to be managed by local government and by the governors. Cant be managed by the federal government. With that being said, we inherited a largely empty chain or think of it as a big monster warehouse all over the country, but it was largely broken and we are filling it up and we fill it up very strongly and we deliver the equipment. A lot of them we have go directly to the states that we are helping the governors. We had a call today were almost every governor, i would say all 50 just about and it was like a love fest bid they were so happy with the job we were doing. But they are that front attack because they are there. In the case of new york in the case of louisiana you have a very good governor, he is a democrat, and is very thankful for what were doing. We are doing a hospital for him, these are portable hospitals but they are incredible when you see them go up and it is fema and the army corps of engineers and they are incredible people. They cant get enough credit for the job they do. Sean i had them on a radio for 40 minutes, great conversation. I was born and raised in new york and then it is i need 30,000 ventilators and it was like okay, it was annoying me. Before i get to the things i dont like in last nights bill and a lot of it got taken out thankfully but rather than the reading everything that is in it, im going to scroll. I love lists, you know that. The good things in the bill, good in the sense that were going to help hospital workers, we are going to help workers, going to help Small Business, going to help the cruise line industry, the Airline Industry. Tell us what you like about this. Its unprecedented, we never spent this kind of money before. Its an example theyre going to get 3,000 for a family of four. Theyre going to get all sorts of things that they frankly in many cases wouldnt have even gotten if they had the job if they didnt have to go through this and it is a wonderful thing. The problem is and you see it all right there right in front, the problem we have is that its very, very painful dealing with the democrats because they ask for things theyve been trying to get for ten years that we dont want to give but if we dont get give it, we dont get the 2 trillion that gets sent out to people of the workers and we dont get the 2 trillion thats going to really save companies. We have a lot of this money going to save bolling, going to save the Airline Industry and that means not only does it mean what it says, it also means tremendous jobs so boeing had a problem, big one to start off with and on top of it, this happened and we will save bowling and we will save the airlines and other companies. We have companies that were virtually aaa and all of a sudden, loaning them money. A bridge loan, a short loan to get over it. An in all cases, getting the money back, getting interest and in many cases, some cases issuing what they call warrants. Pieces of the company, large pieces of the company. And that will come back to the benefit of u. S. Taxpayers. Its going to be great. So we had to give up things that instead of just saying lets do whats right, which is taking care of the workers and making sure these companies dont go out of business, going to be able to start. Its a very difficult thing with the democrats. So we end up giving them something for Kennedy Center, we end up giving them something for far worse than that, say what you want about Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Center got hit hard, arent too many people watching romeo and juliet. You cant go in because of whats going on with the virus. But far beyond Kennedy Center, we get things we dont want to give, you know what im talking about, you have them up on your screen but you have to. He just said it better than anybody over the last two days, we cut out much of it. You would have seen some of the things we were giving up and its a shame that we cant just sit down and easily it is always such a big deal. It went on and on and on late into the night every night and this couldve been done quickly and one day. The bottom line is, we got a 960 vote and i think all of the senators that werent there were in quarantine in the case of rand paul, he actually has this problem, and im sure hell be all right, i spoke to him today. Sean that is good news for the senator and people saying you were joking about mitt romney, you want everybody to get well im assuming. Im not a fan of mitt romney. Im not a fan but of course i want him to get well, absolutely. Sean let me ask you this. I scrolled the best i am more angry than you are but its more important we focus the solutions. So we look at the unemployment claims today, the number is scary. 3. 3 million is not surprising but it is scary. We have watched china, south korea, quickly scary numbers, people contracting the disease, scary numbers with all sorts of things and all of a sudden if the pattern holds, then it levels and it drops down completely and then there is no more new cases. Are your doctors telling you every day they expect that to happen here . I think we do. Whether you have doctors or not. I am looking forward to that day when it levels out and then goes down and i think we are going to have a tremendous bounce bear look at the stock market today. We set a three day record, a oneday record yesterday. Today almost i did again in the stock market has gone up tremendously over the last few days and i think its for two reasons because they know that i am one that wants to get everybody back working there that was important. People saying we will take three or four or five months and everybody said three or four months . Our country is not designed for that when our people arent designed. We are not engineered for that. Everybody wants to go back to work, so they cant keep the restaurant closed for months. The sooner we go back, the better the lift that we are going to get. I think we are going to have a balance like youve never seen. I just think there is so much pentup demand. But we have to get rid of this. Theres a possibility ill do it in quadrants, in pieces. Sean can you explain that . Ill take certain states that arent badly impacted where they have almost none or they have just a little bit. You take a look at some of these great states like iowa, idaho and you take a look at nebraska but i have great medical facility, by the way even for this and you take a look at some states a big portion, they all have a little bit emma but many of them have just a little bit and they have it under control. Incredible governors, incredible senators and they are watching it and they are very well run and they have it under control. They immediately put the people in quarantine, so you do that. New york is a bigger deal but its going to flow also but i have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than theyre going to be. I dont believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. You going to major hospitals sometimes and theyll have two ventilators. Now all of a sudden theyre saying can we order 30,000 ventilators. So its a very bad situation, we havent seen anything like it. But the end result is weve got to get back to work and i think we can start by opening up certain parts of the country, the farm belt, certain parts of the midwest, other places, but i think as an example, you go to texas, there are places in texas, they were places where tremendously big state, that are impacted by this. So i think we can open up sections, quadrants and then just keep them going until the whole country is , but we have to open up, the people want to get back to work. They want to get back. Thats the way we are engineered. Sean let me go back to Governor Cuomo. I really did have for the first time, a good 40 minutes on air and i think hes been in many ways done a good job in new york but that always reverts back to whatever. I will put up on the screen all the things you did for new york and theres one thing that i noticed and i dont know, maybe this is uniquely you but i dont think people really truly understand where do you think we would have been if the travel ban wasnt in effect . Where would we have been if ten days after the first case, i think that one decision was probably the best from the beginning, but i dont hear anybody on the other side of the aisle saying i dont like donald trump but that was a smart idea, probably save tens of thousands of americans from getting the disease. Are we that divided as a country that you cant acknowledge leading state sponsor of terror, iran. He leaves the state sponsor of terror, he killed americans in iraq. The divide is pretty intense. You dont hear it too much. Youll hear it from republicans and some democrats but we would have had tremendous deaths, tremendous had we not acted early and our country is getting great credit for that, forget me, our country is getting great credit but it was a good decision. When i made it, i was saying thats a big decision. He cut off china and the people coming in and youre talking about tens of thousands of people. We would have had death all over the place, you know that. Sean early on, i remember somebody asked a question about how your younger son i know your family, your older kids, ive met your younger son. He is a wonderful kid, very polite and nice and funny and smart. And you asked and he said its bad. Where is he now . How does he feel about it and what do you to those americans that you see the headlines, they read the worst of the worst, death counts on tv almost 24 7 over contracting the disease, what do you say to americans that are very, very concerned, worried, even fearful about th this . Is anybody thats a parent knows and he is a wonderful young boy, but the others are old enough they can see for themselves. Its very hard talking about a thing like this because it is so negative, it is death and you dont like discussing it and you hope they can always handle it in some way but people are they grow up and nobody said there has not been anything like this in this country. Swine flu is pretty bad but it wasnt to the extent of this. I think you probably have to go back a long ways to go to this one. Who would think i read about the spanish flu, that was 1917 which killed anywhere from 75 to 100 million people. Him and it was devastating and it was also if you had it you had a very good percentage of not making it. Was really something. And one thing that i can say thats really good, the mortality rate is much, much better in our way then people were thinking at the beginning. Because you were hearing three or four or 5 are now with all of the testing and all of the things that weve established great testing, thats one thing i can tell you, thats really a big achievement. Weve tested more than anybody but with all of the testing, with all of the cases and you have to remember, if somebody is sick and going to the doctor, bad things can happen to that person. But there are thousands and thousands of people, hundreds of thousands of people, millions where they havent and they dont go to a doctor because its not that bad, and some cases they have nothing, they literally dont have anything. So when you look at that and then you see the people who die, you take a look at the people, you think youre talking about very significantly under 1 . I think thats a tremendous thing. Now, the flu, we lose thousands of people year to the flu, but that number is very much under 1 . Onetenth of 1 so this number would be higher but i think thats a big positive because when this started, people were talking about three and four and 5 . Now they are seeing through the testing that it looks like it is substantially below 1 . The people dont report the only people that report are the people that are feeling sick and those of the ones that unfortunately sometimes dont make it. Sean let me ask you, and 222 days they will be an election in this country, it looks like it will be joe biden on the other side, im not sure if you had an opportunity to watch his lets say technically struggling candidate struggling whatever hes doing. And today he said we hold these truths, et cetera after we hold these truths to be selfevident that all men and women are created by the saying, are you watching it and what is your analysis of the things hes saying and seems to be rather forgetful and doesnt seem to have a lot of stamina and doesnt seem to be having a fastball if he ever had one and a slope that seems to be slower than ever. I understand what youre saying but to be honest, i watch his debate, ill shock you by saying it, i watched him debating bernie and it was pretty much of an even debate. He was not bad at all and bernie is not a bad debater, hes got a lot of ranting and raving and lets give everything away, but bernie has been a pretty good debater over the years. And i thought that that was one of his best nights. So i dont want to stay negative, id rather just run against them. I dont want to go against somebody else. We will see what happens. Thats a long time before you get there, that will be quite a bit of time. We have our convention in charlotte and we are definitely planning it towards the end of august and someone was asking today will you cancel the convention and i said no way im going to cancel the convention. Its going to be incredible and i dont know what the democrats are doing. The advantages the winner gets to choose the time of the convention so i could go first, i could go last. Going last is much better because when you go first and then they do it going last is much better. And we chose the second day so we are quite a bit later than them which i think is good. So we are at the end of august and i think we are going to be in great shape long before that. I dont know what theyre going to do. And they are in milwaukee, a great place. They dont do it, maybe ill do a speech there, well do rally in milwaukee. May be unlikely theyre going to do the convention but thats up to them. Sean you said you will be speaking tonight a halfhour after this program, 10 30 eastern with president xi of china. We know this is a fact, its indisputable. They hit it, they lied about it. Mike pompeo said china is still not being forthcoming and even went further and said russia has not being forthcoming and i ran, we know the Conspiracy Theory that theyve been pushing in china against the united states. I know you have set at different times to get along with president xi, you have the new first part of this trade deal in two years, what do you say about him withholding information and moving forward, why did they lie to us . Lets go back, you mentioned russia, russia look like a they are having a big problem. I randomly know about that, thats been really, really bad. And then weve offered them assistance. We have the greatest in the world, and with china, they said some of our soldiers because the problem. They are saying what soldiers . It wasnt by him, i dont believe but nevertheless, get got out there and they called it the chinese virus. Is better to have a good relationship. We have a great trade deal now finally after many years, should have been done by obama and previous administrations because nobody has ripped this country like china. We were losing four, five, more than that, 550 billion a year every year to china and this went back many years. So we now have a great piece of the trade deal and now we will start phase two and that will be great and we are taking in billions and billions of dollars a year in tariffs and they are paying for it because they devalue their currency and other things. So lets get along with china, lets get along with russia. We can, well see if we can do something with iran. I think they want to make a deal and if they dont, theyve got a problem, but we will see what happens. It was one of the worst deals ever. Sean you would help i ran if they would allow help with the virus. Secretary of state pompeo said that. Weve offered many countries including north korea, including iran, i think its the appropriate thing to do and we will see what happens. We are going to see what happens with iran and i think they want to meet. I think they want to make a deal. I think john kerry shouldnt have been speaking, thats called a violation of the logan act but john kerry has been speaking to them probably saying wait until after the election, dealing with sleepy joe. And same thing with china. Maybe china is saying lets wait until the election is over and maybe will be dealing with a guy whose son walked out with 1. 5 billion to manage. Sean there has been a lot of speculation, i watched your entire medical team and the task force meetings, dr. Fauci has served six president s. You have some of the best. Is there a conflict . With either dr. Fauci or anything else . I get along with him great, i get along with deborah fantastically. We are all in this together, this is not a question of that and i get along with most of the governors. I dont like it when some governors, i mentioned two of them, but some of these governors take and then they complain. They take and you do a great job, you build them a hospital, and then there are always complaining, so i dont like that. But generally speaking, im getting along very well with Governor Cuomo. We have a ship going there and we are supposed to be in four weeks, it is leaving now on saturday. We were able to move it up it is stocked up with supplies, its a great ship and its a hospital ship. And if leaving virginia on saturday. Its going to get to new york on monday, going to be docked in new york harbor. These are warships, these are ships that take care of the soldiers in battles and they are big and powerful and up there instead of three weeks, itll be up there on monday. Sean how are the people that are around you and you see people spread out and we have a little less than a minute here in the first lady in particular, i think she could say almost on a regular basis that her Approval Ratings are higher than yours. Is that a problem in the family . I think they are, shes doing a great job. Every time i make a speech have a rally, they have signs we love our first lady. She is doing a fantastic job. You know that. Sean i know youve been busy, i know its up late and youve been working hard, my goal is that every american, we want to save lives and in the interim, get a permanent solution. Thank you for taking the time to spend with our audience and hopefully we can get this passed us as quickly as possible, thank you. Its an honor. Thank you very much. Sean thank you, mr. President. One of the things i love about this country is that we have the greatest scientist. Look at all those companies that are helping all hands on deck, 90 that is great and then youve got a few bad apples like what we saw in congress, et cetera. Anyways, thats all the time we have left. Laura let me just say thi this, you have loan the break three nights in a row. I know you are talking to the president. Hannity, at the end, you are going to start asking questions. Sean cuomo and de blasio mining, how about saying thank you to the country . Thank you to the p