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Possibly came out of a laboratory in china . What are the prospects of that . There was a study recently that we can make available totu you that a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there, the sequences of bats as they evolved, and the mutation that it took to get to the point they were at now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human. So, the paper will be available. I dont have the authorization right now that we can make that available to you. Reporter on the protests that weve seen people wanting the economies to open, does that concern you, though, as a Health Expert . When you see folks congregate, and are you worried that thats encouraged . Well, im looking at it from a Public Health standpoint. I certainly understand the frustration of people but myt main role in the task force is to make recommendations to protect the health and they safety of the american people, and i hope that people understand that that is the reason we are doing what we are doing, and hopefully that will put an end to this. President trump i will say this, im very, very satisfied to the decisions. Listening to experts, listening to my gut, the feeling of the Vice President , and really many others when we put it all together. Im very look, if we didnt do what we did at the time we couldve lost more than 2 Million People. I really believe that. I could show you charts of other places that gave it a shot and they are not doing well. And i would show it to you right now. I dont want to embarrass anybody. But they gave that a shot. Its an automatic. I mean, everybody would say, lets do that, until they sit down and start thinking, and we couldve lost more than 2 Million People. Itnd couldve been much more thn that, by the way. We have one that says from 1. 6 to 2. 2, but it really couldve been more than that. But i look at one in particular, one country in particular that is using the herd mentality. Not working out very well. Now, with all of that being said, we have to get back to work. We will be crossing lines very soon. In many cases, in some cases we are well on the way down and in other cases we are right on the top and heading down. We are heading in the right direction. I saw some numbers from new jersey, hes having a very tough time. Hes doing a great job, the governor. Phil murphy. Hes starting to get some reall good signs. Ng looking at the new york numbers, theyve been devastated, obviously, but some really good things are starting to happen. So if we wouldve done Something Different first of all it wouldve not been sustainable. He wouldve had people, they wouldve been furious at you and me and everybody it would not of been sustainable. Because you look at some of the hospitals as an example. A certain hospital right near where i grew up in queens, and you had body bags all over the floor of that hospital. You know the one im talking about. All over the floor of the hospital. Now multiply that times 12 or 15 because thats the type of numbers youre talking about. 12 or 15. And it would not have been there wouldve been an insurrection. Nobody wouldve understood that, whereas right now, nobody can be blamed. And there is no blame. We are all in a situation that was caused, that should have been solved long ago. It couldve been solved are probably very easily. Look, this is a tough enemy, but probably very easily if a certain country did what they shouldve done, and we are just starting to learn those facts. Ou but what we did was the right thing. What we did was the right thing. With that being said, we want to get back and we are going to be opening up states to being opened by very capable people. It is also a point of sale, as they say in a different business. Its the point to be able to look at where the testing is taking place. Were going to help them, tremendous tests over the last little while and were going to work with the states and we are going to help them, but they know every inch of land in their states. I watched the governor of arkansas, asa, you saw that, i thought he was terrific, i watched the governor of oklahoma over the weekend, he was being interviewed, it was terrific. Theyve done it tight and theyke were very strong, and they were very tired. They have more beds than they needed and thats a good thing. Y but ive seen some very, very good things. I think youre going to have some very positive events taking place over a very short period of time. I think with that, we will see you tomorrow but really, this has been a situation where a lot of great people have been involved in a lot of great decisions have been made. Thank you allot very much. [reporter questions] tucker the president , you saw, just wrapping up his portion of the daily Coronavirus Press briefing. Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight. If you were just watching that, kind of an amazing exchange right on the stage there, just live. A reporter in the room asked, what do you make of the president of reports that this virus emerged from a lab in wuhan . People are saying that. At that point, dr. Anthony fauci took the mic and pointed to a study he said was forthcoming that proves the virus was not genetically engineered. What do you notice about that answer . The first thing you notice is it doesnt answer the question that was asked. The question is not, was it genetically engineered . The question is, did it come somehow from a lab . And he didnt answer that. Instead, he effectively misled. Not clear why he did that. We brought you fresh reporting last night on the questionel of where the deadly coronavirus came from. Tonight, we have more. We spent much of the day speaking to highly informed officials in the u. S. Government as well as season specialists on china, and heres the picture that emerged from those conversations. First, many in the intelligence world with experience in china suspected right away that the story the Chinese Government was telling about this virus was almost certainly alive here the first indication of that was the torrent of obvious nonsense coming from official sources in beijing. Initially, chinese sources, you may remember this, claimed the virus had jumped from an obscure, scaly animal called a pangolin that was sold in the wuhan wet market, but that explanation didnt make any sense. Wet markets are seafood markets. Pangolins are mammals. So, for that matter, are bats. S. So in the face of skepticism, the chinese authorities blamed italian personnel who had been near wuhan the year before for an International Sporting event. The italians must have brought the virus to china, the chinese vesaid. When the Italian Government complained about that, the chinese shifted the blame to the u. S. Military. The American Armed Services Must have infected wuhan, the chinese had. While they were saying this behindthescenes chinese officials were working frantically to destroy relevant evidence of where it actually came from. Doctorso and journalists in wuhn who raised him comfortable questions about the virus disappeared. Some of them may have been murdered. At one point in january, scientists in shanghai sequence to the dna from the virus. The information they gathered from that couldve been crucial to researchers around the world who were trying to understand the virus and develop vaccines against it. In other words, the rest of us. But the Chinese Government ordered that viral sample destroyed in the lab notes from that shredded. The scientists themselves were disciplined for daring to conduct this research, and their lab was shut down. The Chinese Government then quarantined the entire city of wuhan. Up to 5 Million People fled. But apparently, relatively few of them were allowed to travel to beijing, the chinese capital. Instead, they flew to western cities around the world. Now, the most in the United States, reactions to a crisis like this seem grotesque, really unimaginable. But to mandarin speakers who follow china carefully and have for a long time, these are highly familiar moves. The first reflex of the Chinese Government is always to lie in order to hide failure and avoid embarrassment. In 2003, for example, the Chinese Government lied about the initial outbreak of sars, another coronavirus. In july 2011, two passenger trains traveling in opposite directions it smashed into each other at high speed outside a chinese city. They collided on a railroad bridge. Four passenger cars derailed and tumbled below. Within hours authorities arrived and pushed the passenger cars into a pit and began covering them with dirt. By some accounts there were still survivors at that time come inside the passenger cars. In their initial statements they said that a Lightning Strike caused the crash. Then later they said itin was te shouting is the cost of the crash. The media ignore the crash entirely except for positive news or thats news issued by authorities. This was the template for chinas official response to the twuhan virus. From the early days of the outbreak, chinese diplomats around the world insisted there was no chance whatsoever the virus had come from a lab. They sometimes insisted that even when no one had asked them, as if they were reading from a script. It soon became very obvious what was going on. Englishlanguage academic journalists had raised for years questions about the Safety Standards in wuhan bio research labs. An article in nature from 2017 noted that some scientists outside china worry about pathogens escaping from the facility. Classified state department a year later voiced at the same. Chinese scientists themselves talked about working with extremely dangerous pathogens in wuhan. As of today, says someone in a position to know, there is almost unanimous agreement in the american intelligence gathering agencies that the virus currently destroy much of the world emerged fromy a lab n wuhan. Almost unanimous. That is a phrase almost never used to describe any conclusion coming out of the intel community. Government officials in this country have believed that for some time now. Ntrn theyve been unable to interest our media or our epidemiologists in writing about it. In recent weeks analysts from the cia, the nsa and others have reached staff at the New York Times about the origins of this virus, butac the newspaper has still not reported their findings. K s at the same time, and this may otdbe directly related, china hs been waging an unremitting propaganda war on thetl subject. Chinese officials have tried to squelch all conversations about who might be responsible for this pandemic by inflaming the political sensitivities and race guilts of american elites. Watch this clip from early last month as a spokesperson forli te Chinese Foreign ministry tries to dictate how American Press outlets describe the virus. Social media say this coronavirus is a china virus. This is extremely irresponsible, and we firmly oppose that. Tucker among the many ironies and what you just heard, even now, even today, the disease is widely referred to in china as the wuhan virus. Our news outlets, meanwhile, almost always call it covid19. That term does not translate to chinese. Back in january under influence from chinese leaders who were anxious to deflect responsibility for it. Once they succeeded in removing any hint of origin for the name of the virus, the chinese launched a campaign to tar anyone who mentioned wuhan is a dangerous racist. Racism is not the right tool to cover your own incompetence lecture to Chinese State media when President Trump refer to the wuhan virus. American media parroted that line almost precisely, as no doubt chinese expected they would. The president referred to the coronavirus as a foreign virus. I think its going to smack coming across to a lot of americans as smacking of xenophobia. Xenophobic wartime trump where he thinks the only path and i was to declare public enemy number one in somewhat racist terms. The xenophobia and the racism in the outbreak is such a common thing and it is incredibly dangerous, it is problematic and it is scary, and i just really want to call that out. Reporter why do you keep r calling this the chinese virus . Why do you keep saying thats . A lot of people say its racist. Its not racist at all. Not at all. It comes from china, thats why. Tucker fools. But not a major victory for the Chinese Government. Media outlets are relatively easy to corrupt, given the relatively low level sophistication of the people who work there. The Chinese Government have bolder aims than that. The chinese instructed their employees and assets in the United States to exert influenco on elected officials. For example, according to an official, beijing has instructed diplomats at the consulate and sympathies go to work with local officials andct members of congress to push back against anyone who gets too far out on blaming china for this. That is what they are doing. Apparently, its working. Heres connecticut senator chris murphy on cnn wearlier this week. The reason we are in the crisis we are in today is not because of anything china did. Its not because of anything the w. H. O. Od did. Its because of what this president did. Tucker its not because anything china did. Other members of congress voiced similar views, often in eerily similar language. Barbara lee of california, long considered a strongly prochina voice tweeted this to the president , diseases dont have nationalities. China isnt to blame for you fumbling this crisis. On march 12, congresswoman judy chu of los angeles wrote this china didnt unleash anything. Virus spread as viruses do. Blaming china and insisting on calling this the wuhan virus, even though every medical expert said not to come is putting peoples lives in danger. Stop politicizing this and put people first. It just week before chu wrote that, a man who runs the chinese consulate in los angeles met with the Los Angeles Mayor about the american response to coronavirus. He tweeted about it that day. He said this, looking forward to working closely with. The ciy of los angeles to addresshe thif common Public Health challenge and develop closer ties between our cities and peoples. Now, we have no idea what they talked about in that meeting that day, it would be interesting to know. We reached out today to a number of california lawmakers with a history of closeness to china, including dianne feinstein, whod once employed a chinese spy come in to see if they have spoken to chinese officials recently. None of them responded to our calls. But its not just happening in california. According to a study and a story reported by national review, the head of the state Senate Wisconsin recently received multiple emails from the wife of the chinese consulate general in chicago. She asked him to propose a resolution praising china for its handling of the wuhan virus outbreak. The entire storyry of how there government of china successfully shaped our understanding of this pandemic of the virus, as wellnd as our response to it, may take years to tell. In fact, it may never fully be told at all. We promise to do our best on the show. But it is clear how china sees this pandemic. China doesnt see this simply or even primarily as a Public Health disasters in which thousands are dying. China sees this as part of a larger geopolitical struggle for control of the world. Most Americans Still dont perceive that or understand the profound gravity of the stakes involved, but how couldd they . Our leaders have lied to us about it for years. Bryan dean wright, a democrat and former cia officer, we are happy to have him tonight. Bryan, thanks so much for coming on. It is striking to me and its a matter of Public Record that the Chinese Government is attempting to leverage its relations with our elected officials to control how we talk about a virus they unleashed on the world. How do you feel when you hear that . How can anybody not feel outraged . We all know, weve all lived in a country for the past 30 years that has been sold out to the Chinese Government. Your promise in the late 1990s that china goes into the wto and we will all benefit. That didnt take place. We watched our intellectual property be stolen for threet years, and now weve watched some of our elected leaders, and im sorry to say, many on my side of the aisle, capitulate to the Chinese Government again. Here we are, 30 years and weve learned nothing. So, im outraged. It makes me incredibly angry. Tucker it seems like a pretty straightforward question. We reached out to senator feinstein and a number of elected officials today and asked, have you s had contact since the outbreak with a number of china officials . And not a single one responded. What do you think we should infer from that . I think they are nervous. Theyre a ton of people, either because they are idiots or they have some degree of knowledge of relationships behind the scenes with the Chinese Government some of them, in fact, could be chinese agents, their actual intelligent service, god forbid. They are nervous and they know that if nothing else, the party has, certainly for the past three months, doubled down on their prochina rhetoric. And the u. S. Intelligence committee in collecting this information, not only the information we know through the cia and nsa and others, but also reaching out to our allies like the australians, koreans, and japanese, if we know with a high degree of confidence that the chinese in fact release this virus, accidentally or otherwise, and caused this pandemic, and yet the Democratic Party and its leaders have been supportive of the regime, parroting their talking points . We see not only a geopolitical fallout around theti country, bt what is the political fallout . Especially in 2020 as the november election happens. So, that is why i suspect youre not hearing much. Weve got a lot of very nervous folks in the Democratic Party. Tucker i suspect thats right. You always forget there is an election going on as well. Bryan dean wright, thank you for that. Good to see you tonight. You bet. Tucker the country is desperately focused on developing a vaccine to protect the population from this virus. A vaccine will do more than any other measure to do that. Who exactly is working on that vaccine . We found one of the people in charge of building that vaccine and protecting this country, and we learned some very interesting things about that person. V we are going to tell you what they are after the break. But first, a failed antiebola drug may turn out to be a successful treatment for the virus. Our own dr. Marc siegel explains that next. When we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Shipstation saves us so much time. It makes it really easy and seamless. Pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and its ready to go. Our costs for shipping were cut in half. Just like that. Shipstation. The 1 choice of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get 2 months free. Tucker a drug called hydroxychloroquine got an awful lot of attention in the past month as a potential therapy for coronavirus. Now another drug is also showing promising results. Dr. Marc siegel is a fox medical contributor and a professor andd a practicing physician. He joins us tonight to tell us. Hey, doctor. Tucker, last night i talk to you about the devastating effects this virus can have on the body. Now a lot of research is going on, a race against time to try to prevent the virus from spreading, from propagating, and also from causing that inflammatory response that i talked about. One drug that has been looked at very seriously and emerging from Clinical Trials, remdesivir, you just mentioned, the drug is showing some promise. That is an antiviral drug. Ive been talking to dr. Dan sterman, the head of medicine at nyu health, and hes also in charge of two trials at nyu, and they are struggling to beat the race against time with all the science they have. Lets watch dr. Sterman. We currently conducting a number of very important Clinical Trials. Some of these trials involve novel antiviral drugs. Remdesivir is a very potent antiviral drug developed for ebola. Other important interventions, that we are studying, we are studying the role of hydroxychloroquine, convalescent plasma, and many other agents that we believe may be involved in the pathophysiology of covid19. Tucker, when we emerge from the Clinical Trials and we hear it from several sources that its promising, the real question is going to be when to give it, how early to give it . Because you have to give it before all these devastating effects like blood clotting, inflammation, all the things that are jeopardizing the patients life occur. That is going to be the art in medicine. Right now we are dealing with the science of medicine and what we are dealingat with here dr. Sturman, by the way, actually recovered from covid19 himself and then went back to the fight. That is whats happening. Scientists on the front line, fighting this, figuring out in real time figuring out how to treat it. Remdesivir, several others, antiinflammatory agents, blood thinners, hydroxychloroquine. We are going to find a way to really ameliorate the symptoms here and we are going to beat this thing, tucker. Tucker how far are we from applying this . Very quickly, you get sick of me wind up in the hospital, are you likely to be treated with this . This is in Clinical Trials all across the country so its very likely. If youre in a Major Medical center, this is something that very well may be tried. Its going to be emerging from Clinical Trials very soon. I think it a matter of weeks, maybe a month, were going to see it available for use. This or Something Like it. This is a very potent drug, remdesivir, and i think its very promising to decrease severe symptoms in very threatening cases. Weve heard this from dr. Khalil in nebraska, whos conducting all these studies for remdesivir, we will see the Clinical Trials soon. Very promising drug. Tucker dr. Siegel, night after night your updates have been fantastic. We appreciate it. Thank you, tucker. Tucker so often you hear politicians say thehe government should never get between a patient and that patients doctor, but in the state of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has banned a huge swath of medical procedures in her state. But she hasnt banned abortion. N planned parenthood is open for business. Why is that . J. D. Vance joins us next to talk about it. Pacity, given more access to unlimited data. And provided free data for schools and students. Visit tmobile. Com to learn more. You can also manage your account, make payments, and find tmobile stores that are open near you. 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Nursing homes killing 7,000 and that is more than a fifth of the nations fatalities. 36,000 nursing home residents and employees have the virus, the figures based on a new analysis by the New York Times. In this weeks 17 bodies discovered in a four person work of new jersey nursing home. A new york this is said this is a death pit. Largely overcrowded and understaffed. And the wnba, kobe bryants daughter and two of her teammates honoring draft picks friday night. The three teams among nine people including the nba legend who died in a Helicopter Crash in january at 13 years old. She was a rising basketball start. Im ashley strohmeyer, now back to Tucker Carlso Tucker Carlso tucker one group of victims in this pandemic who, for some reason, have been all but ignored out the Many Americans who badly need medical and dental procedures right now but cant get them thanks to lockdown. You never see these people on television. Most are suffering in silence. Weve all been told we must sacrifice for the sake of the country, but is there a good reason these t people are suffering . What exactly is the logic here because my consider whats happening in michigan. On march 21st, Governor Gretchen Whitmer executed an executive order prohibiting all doctors and dentists in the state from performing nonessential procedures. Joint replacements are nonessential so they are now banned. If you ever had a hip or ankle or knee that stopped functioning or know anyone who has come you understand what this means. People dont get joint replacements lightly. Every joint replacement is essential by definition. This isnt botox. When joints go bad, bone grinds on bone. People cant, walk. They wind up in wheelchairs, which frequently leads to a cascade of health disasters. Immobility kills people. It happens all the time. Tough luck, says gretchen whitmer. Scheduled joint replacements are now illegal in the state of michigan. Performing one is a criminal act. Is there valid Science Behind this order . No, there is not, and we know that conclusively because Governor Whitmer has not included elective abortion in her ban. In other words, people who cant walk are not allowed treatment but planned parenthood is open for business. The other day, Governor Whitmer was asked about this transparency. Heres what she said. We stop elective surgeries here in michigan and some people aihave tried to say that that te of a procedure is considered the same, and thats ridiculous. You know, a Womans Health care, her whole future, her ability to decide if and when she starts a family is not an election. It is fundamental to her life. It is lifesustaining. And its something that government should not be getting in the middle of. Tucker did you follow that . Abortion is essential. It is lifesustaining. Abortion is not something the government can get in theli middle of. Abortion isnt Something Likee rescuing crippled people from rotting in wheelchairs. That, by contrast, would be considered nonessential. Joint replacements are in fact one medical procedure the government is happy to get in the middle of. Joint replacements arent a matter of conscience, something women should decide in close consultation with their physicians. Just the opposite. Gretchen whitmer will punish you for attempting to perform one. That is her stated position. Gretchen whitmer is a ghoul. She is a dangerous ideologue who knows nothing about science and doesnt care to learn. Whitmer deems elective abortion essential because the abortion lobby has bankrolled her political career. She is encouraging liquor and lotto ticket sales in her tax because sin tax on the poorest people in her state fund the government. She knows who her political opponentsca are. These are not decisions rooted in epidemiology or science. They are partisan political decisions, every one. And shes not the only governor making them right now. J. D. Vance is the author of thillbilly elegy and joins us tonight. Thank you so much for coming on. I think you and i agree, i know you do because we talk a lot, that this is a very serious illness that we should be afraid of and take firm steps to protect the population from, so i think we can start there. Are you concerned, however, by the way that some politicians have interpreted that mandate that politics are getting involved. A bunch of states have banned procedures like joint replacements but allow abortions. What does that tell us . Tells us a couple things. Its pretty sad that things favor like abortion and the abortion lobby is deemed essential care about thingss le heart surgeries, joint replacements are not deemed essential surgeries. Obviously, that means a lot of people frankly are suffering. Me and they are suffering iny, a context where most hospitals outside of new york city are not overrun, so you have a a lot of needless human suffering. That is really, really terrible. But the second piece of this is, like you said, this is a serious problem butec if you think it ia serious problem, then leaders need to be trusted in order to be followed, they actually have to be acting in good faith. So, if you look at the things you are not allowed to do in michigan right now, like buy tomato seeds at home depot, like go fishing with a motorboat, and you compare that to the things you are allowed to do in michigan, like get an abortion. If a im a person living in michigan right now, i wonder if those restrictions are about Public Health or if they are about who has the political line to the governor. I think unfortunately for some of these issues, we know the answer. Tucker so, the broader point youre making is that this degrades the Publics Trust in the authorities, and in a time of crisis, that is a dangerous thing. Thats exactly right. You know, if you want people to follow the social distancing guidelines you have to have leaders p who are trustworthy on the one hand, and you have to make it is easy to follow those orders as possible. You know, i like to grow tomatoes in my backyard, tucker. And if i lived in michigan it would be much harder to do that because of the orders that Governor Whitmer has enforced all across the state. But if you think about this just from the perspectiveac of the average person, you are stuck at home, youre trying to be a good citizen who is following these rguidelines but the governments making it harder for you to do very basic, natural things youki would want to do while social distancing, but you would like to be doing those things and you would like to be stuck at home actually enjoying your life and not just watching netflix or getting an abortion, which are few of the only things you can apparently do in michigan right now. Tucker theres a kind of component of the huxley novel brave new world where an authoritarian government dopes up the population on a drug called soma so they dont notice how completely barren their lives are, and youve got to kind of wonder, government after government is pushing us towards getting loaded and a playing lotto. Maybe theres kind of a soma element in play here, or am i being paranoid . I dont think you are being paranoid, tucker, because if we are going to have people follow these orders, they need to be reasonablear and they need to be connected to Public Health. If you are a person trying to follow the rules, youre not going to follow stupid rules, youre not going to follow rules that have nothing to do with following the coronavirus. At the end of the day, theres no rational Public Health justification for telling people they cant buy tomato seeds on the one hand but they cant buy marijuana on the other, but they can get an abortion. And i think our leaders need to think about not just whether these orders make moral sense, w that is of course a very important question, but do they govern in a way that make it easier for people to follow the social distancing guidelines . A and if they dont, then what is the purpose of this whole thing . If we are actually making itg harder for good, honest citizens to follow the rules we are trying to get them to follow. T tucker thats right. They are devaluing their own legitimacy. E its dangerous over time, i would say. Very smart. J. D. , good to see you tonight. Thanks, tucker. Tucker a promising new study out of Stanford University offers additional evidence that this virus may be more common and much less deadly than we thought. Details on that next. Plus, a top Coronavirus Vaccine researcher is saying things on social media that make you question her ability to prosecute legitimate science. We will let you judge, just ahead. 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Faster speed, coverage, and free advanced security at an unbeatable value with xfinity xfi. Can your internet do that . Tucker a few days ago, we had a genuinely interesting interview with the Stanford University professor who was researching whether the coronavirus may be far more common than we initially assumed. The results of that study have just come out. Fox news correspondent Trace Gallagher has that story for us. Hi, trace. Hi, tucker. The study is trying to give us better information on how many people have covid19, which would give us a better denominator, a number which could tell us how many people have immunity to the virus, and the mortality rate, meaning the percent of people who die. And as one of the authors of the story told tucker this week, the death rate is crucial. Watch. If its 3 in 100 you act differently than if its 1 in 1,000. So im hoping to get back, when we get some numbers in place, we will be able to quell the fear that is out there. So to get more accurate numbers, dr. And other researchers focused on Northern California Santa Clara County, one of the first places where Community Spread was detected. They tested 3,300 volunteers and found that anywhere from 2. 5 to 4. 2 tested positive for covid19 antibodies. In round numbers, that means of Santa Clara Countys 2 Million People, between 48 and 81,000 may have had the virus. If true, that would make the infection rate of 50 to 85 times higher than we currently believe. In a hot spot like new york, that means more than 11 Million People infected andew more than 3 million in new jersey. Although nobody is saying Santa Clara County is representative of the entire u. S. Population, and nobody knows if having had the virusn means you are immune for a year, ten years, or life, but the researchers acknowledge that at the very least, this study tells us a lot more americans than we thought have been infected and gone undetected. Tucker. Tucker Trace Gallagher, thanks so much. Yep. Tucker every medical advance helps, we hope. They are all worth knowing about because really, right now, our main weapons against this pandemic are repurposed old medicines and extreme social distancing measures. Measures that have wrecked the economy. So, if we could develop a safe, effective vaccine against this virus we might be able to get back to normal. Developing a vaccine may be the single most important project going on in science right now. If we could get it quickly and avoid future shutdowns, that would save trillions of dollars, millions of jobs, maybe tens of t lives. Of so, who is in charge of this allimportant operation . An immunologist with the Vaccine Research center a division of the National Institute of allergies and infectious diseases, a center run by dr. Anthony fauci corbett has been described by the press as the countrys lead scientist for Coronavirus Vaccine research. Back in january, theea New York Times characterized her as the scientific lead for the Coronavirus Team at the Vaccine Research center. There is evidence that corbett is qualified for the job. Her Research Career has focused on developing vaccines for different coronaviruses including sars. Thats good. But there are worrying signs about corbetts commitment to scientific inquiry and rational thought. Corbett has been an active presence on twitter. Shes tweeted at least 17 times just today. On twitter, corbett has endorsed bizarre theories, and we are not overstating that, that the virus is being used to murder black eamericans intentionally. Some have gone as far as to call it genocide. I plead the fifth. Now right now, africanamericans are dying at higher rates of coronavirus. The surgeon general, who is africanamerican, said last week that maybe because africanamericans suffer more from obesity, diabetes, and other ailments that may increase their risk. M corbett apparently disagrees with this. For her, white racism is the only explanation for the disparity in death rates. After suggesting that black americans avoid alcohol, corbett retweeted another users thread saying dr. Adams, check your privilege. Stop spreading harmful fallacies that support white supremacy. Corbett then responded herself, saying, black people are not dying more because of their behaviors. That is just a copout to adjust accountability. She didnt say who was accountable. O to be clear, she is not an intern for alexandria ocasiocortez. This is one of our top Coronavirus Vaccine researchers and she is arguing that helpful medical advice is a fallacy that supports white supremacy. To be clear, this is not about politics. It is not about who corbett voted for, it is not about her t opinions about American Society and it doesnt mean she is a bad researcher. But presumably we would want our vaccine team to worry solely about merit, viability and outcome. The questions of science, not about peoples skin colors. Not about some weird race theory. But corbett disagrees with that. In a c twitter argument last wek corbett said that merit is defined by prejudices. Another user askedfi if she meat by that we automatically ignore white men, this was corbetts response. White men are not to be dismissed, but the systems they have made that their ancestors curated are. In other words, if corbett decides a system was built by white men, that means by definition it cant be trusted. It must be ignored or destroyed. Once again, this is the person running nihs Coronavirus Vaccine efforts. She has received glowing profiles from nbc, cnn, people among other outlets, not one of which thought that her history of spouting lunatic conspiracy theories online was worth mentioning, and so they didnt mention it. No matter what she believes, no matter what she says on twitter, we hope, we pray that her work is successful, because its important, but none of what you just heard was science or even related to science, and its not how scientists ought to think. Its not rigorous, its not rational, its not sane. Its bigotry. If the nih is regarding people who think merit is prejudice and white male systems need to be dismissed out of hand, regardless of whether they work or not, then nih is not going to be useful scientific body much longer. Because its lunacy. Just a few minutes before we went on the air tonight, a senior official reached out to say that ethicse officials have begun an investigation into this and are taking it seriously. We will tell you what happens. Even as rapists go free over coronavirus, and in places around the country they are going free rapists a left wing judge has decided to order roger stone to prison in the next few weeks. Roger stone joins us next. Itching for a treat. Itching for an outing. Or itching for some cuddle time. But you may not know when hes itching for help. Licking for help. Or rubbing for help. If your dog does these frequently. They may be signs of an allergic skin condition that needs treatment. Dont wait. Talk to your veterinarian and learn more at itchingforhelp. Com. Tucker michael just got out of jail. One person who is on his way out of jail as robbers comb. Two weeks will be sentenced for the rest of his adult life for supporting ill just get right to it. Im a little bit confused by why with all the pardons going around, everyone eye is have ever met his part in the come up by y white house thats done a lot to put such criminal Justice Reform and let a lot about people of jail in terms of humanitarian terms, but you are not in that category. Why is it, do you think . I really dont know, tucker. I was hopeful of the motion for a mistrial in my case based on the flagrant and blatant, even egregious juror misconduct would have won me a new trial. The u. S. Supreme court has been very clear that all defendants are entitled to a jury that is impartial and indifferent, but in this case it is undisputed that the jury for for woman attacked both me ands President Trump in 2019 in m social media postings, lied about that during jury selecti selection, and later deleted hek Facebook Page to cover her trails. Legal authorities, judge napolitano and Professor John currently has both said that i should be entitled to a new trial. But that is not the case. At this point, the judges ordered me to surrendered surrender me in two weeks. At six to seven years old with someyi Underlying Health proble, including a history of asthma, i believe with the coronavirus ith sentence. Tucker of course it is. Yo they were ready life, bob dylan should be writing a song about you. And yet you cant get a pardon because your crime was worse than raping someone, you supported someone. Are you better . 16 months after being gagged to be able to defend myself. I wasnt prosecuted because eyes ne i was refused to bear false witness against the president. Numerous phone calls between myself and candidate trump in 2016. At this juncture, i am praying for justice. I am praying for mercy. But ive got to be honest with you. Its in gods hands. After meeting and praying with reverend Franklin Graham some months ago, i have reacquainted myself with my catholic faith, christian faith. Im praying for the very best. Sean welcome to hannity. What happened to roger stone is a travesty. That needs to be thrown out, like yesterday. Breaking onon as we, 9 00 in the east, 6 00 in the west coast, we can confirm, fox news can confirm a fullscope federal investigation into the origins of covid19 is now underway. Investigators are now focused on a biological testing lab in wuhan, china, thats the province were according to our own bret baier and his exclusive reporting, patient zero contracted that virus from a bat. Officials do not believe the outbreak was linked to any