Have contracted the disease. 23,000 americans have been killed by the wuhan virus. President trump sparked a furious reaction from the political establishment when he tweeted the decision to reopen the country will be his or his alone. President trump wrote this. For the purpose of creating conflict and confusion some in the fake be news media are saying its the governors decision to open up the states, not that of the president of the United States and the federal government. Let it be fully understood this is incorrect. It is the decision the president and for many good reasons. The administration and i are working closely with the governors and this will continue. A decision by me in conjunction with the governors and input from others will be made shortly. The date to reopen the economy is may 1. But as dr. Hahn puts it, while cases may be plateauing, the conditions will need to be just right. Its a target. We are hopeful about that target. But its tooer to be able to tell that. He see light at the end of the tunnel, dr. Fauci and dr. Birx said that. The social distancing and hand washing mitigation factors, and that imifs me great hope. Lou well learn more about the president s plans to reopen the economy in the daily task force briefing. Thats coming up here. The white house today denied accusations the president was planning to fire dr. Fauci calling the Media Chatter ridiculous stating that the doctor remains a trusted advisor to President Trump. The media has used fauci as both pawn and foil. Trying their best to manure him into a context to be used against President Trump. Yesterday jake tapper did the honors. Here is dr. Fauci and tapper. Do you think lives could have been saved if social distancing, stay at home measures started the third week of february instead of midmarch. If you had a process ongoing you could have saved lives. Obviously no one is going to deny that. Lou those news outlets included this from dr. Fauci before the statements you just heard. I dont think you can say we are where we are right now because of one factor. Its very complicated. We look at it from a pure health standpoint. We make a recommendation. Sometimes the recommendation is taken, sometimes it is not. It is what it is. We are where we are. Lou the comments were in direct contradiction to what he said february 9, saying there was no need for americans to change their lifestyle because the wuhan virus outbreak. That was five days after this broadcast february 4 had declared the wuhan virus to be a pandemic. The signs were obvious to all. But it would take Health Officials like the World Health Organization to declare it was a pandemic. So there is a lot of shifting in position and statements are often in conflict from one day to the next. And thats understandable because of all of the pressure these great public Health Officials and physicians are under. Dr. Marc siegelle joins us tonight to take up all of this. Your thoughts about i would call it the he bear isment for k about the he bear is th embaf dr. Fauci. Hes not a pen who practiced before those cameras. Yet there are many with understandable frustration calling for him to be fired. I think you said it. Its a matter of context. A scientist is trying to answer the question posed to him based on the knowledge he has at the time. Its not a complete upon racial. You have to look at overall prevailing trends. People didnt realize how contagious this virus was. We werent allowed to send the cdc over there. We had faulty tests. We were focused on this group of of patients in seattle, washington while in the meanwhile the disease was spreading throughout our country. I think the issue was isolating people who had it, getting them out of circulation and tracking their contacts. Meanwhile we didnt have the testing to do that. We had a lot of asymptomatic spread. You cant lay that on the feet of dr. Fauci but you can lay it on the feet of the World Health Organization and china. How come the tests are becoming available now and we didnt have them a month or two ago so we could figure out who had this virus . Lou we wish those had been among the conditions met. The public Health Officials bear great responsibility. I know the president is blaming the obama and the but administrations for not having the National Stockpile put together. But these agencies. The National Institutes of health, the Surgeon Generals office, fema, they should be keenly aware of ways and is not in that stockpile. It shouldnt be we didnt have a pandemic until now so we didnt look. Its foolish government at its usual. It doesnt work often that well and its the exception when it does. You know we had a coronavirus in 2003 called sars. The vaccine was dropped when sars fade away. All this mobby gets allocated all this money getsal gate. But we only look at moving targets. So that particular virus was very similar to this one. Had we pursued further we would have ended up with the vaccine we have now. Lou if i can be change to antivirals and therapeutics. Hydroxychloroquine seems to be working in conjunction with d pack. Im zpack. Im even h anecdotal. But its working in patients, including one i happen to know. There is something about even the expression hydroxychloroquine that drives the left nuts. This has become a lightning rod. It drives the left nuts because this president recommended that people consider it. Now we are seeing a statewide test in south dakota, and well learn more. Meanwhile millions of doses have been made available. What is the big deal about something that appears to work . I want to start answering this from a place you are not going to expect. I agree with dr. Fauci that we need the Clinical Trials to know for sure if it works. I interviewed senator rand paul. He said we are doctors. We know what offlabel uses mean. We know its approved for malaria. We know millions of doses have been used safely. We note side effects and we know it decreases viral uptake of this virus. It decreases inflammation. If we physicians want to prescribe it off label early in the game to try to decrease the severity of this illness we should be allowed to do that. With attacks from nonphysicians, by the way. Politicians rather than physicians. Lou i have a theory. It is msnbc, it is cnn. The Washington Post and the leftwing media trying to stir up as much as they can. They are side issues moving front and center. They are between the doctor and a patient. And the news media made it the stuff of politic as they try to politicize and weaponize almost egg in this country against this president. And hydroxychloroquine the fact of the matter is, we are watching this leftwing media at its worst. The thing with tapper. Hes talking to fauci as if he doesnt know the record what fauci said february 29 . He necessary very well the record or he should turn in his journalist card. But maybe he has already done that. This is absurd to watch this go on. I have to say its liberating because the American People are watching this nonsense unfold from the news outlets that are orthodoxy from the left. Its glaring and. Its a moving virus. We are learning more about it he day. Its not a political object. Taking a bloodthirsty meal off someone for political reasons. A virus is nonpolitical. It spreads from host to host, democrats and republicans. We cant look at what somebody said on march 6 when they had less be than they had april 13. Thats the whole point. We are learning as we go. It shouldnt be a partisan with bickering battle. The leadership has tried its best to staunch this virus. And it mitigated the worst possible outcomes dramatically. Lou it looks to me that the administration has done an outstanding job. It looks to me well see if the democrats want to join the sensible republicans on capitol hill and put together more money for the rescue plan that is so critically needed by most americans. The left is in real trouble politically, and thats a side issue to the real issue. We have people trying to resist doing the right thing for themselves. Taking responsibility. Mitigation efforts, social distancing. We have idiots having parties and it goes on and on. But we are seeing the country come together ever so slowly. In that sense politic are critically important. I want to turn to where you think we are with this socalled plateau. The head of the f be da said, or r the head of the fda said, or peaking. You said it best when you talked about mitigation and the effects social distancing have had. People are sheltering in place. There is more and more agreement of this in major cities. The key thing i look at is hospitalizations. I cant tell you the number of cases exactly. There are asymptomatic carriers. But when you look at hospitalizations, those are flattening out. When those flatten out thats a huge indicator that we are getting to the point of a flattening and a decrease. I think the next couple weeks you see this will continue and we will have flattened the curve. Lou dr. Marc siegelle with a diagnosis. A new report from the daily mail says the president s task force to reopen the economy will include ivanka trump, jared kushner. Michigans governor gretchen whitmer. Governor cuomo today created his own task force filled with democratic governors to reopen the economy in northeastern states. Is this a collision constitutionally . Well find out. All that in addition to the president s response all along. Who the hell is running this show. These are folks that will be part of the president s task force. Breaking news today. Socialist Bernie Sanders may no longer be in the race, but hes quick to endorse. He just endorsed joe biden five days after he suspended his campaign. They agreed to Work Together on policy. There is no doubt a red store is now rising d a red storm is now rising. They are even gained io theye engaged in a desperate coverup. It is clear that the Chinese Government deleted the Research Files on the websites on the online caches that contained the research as well. If there is any indication the government needs to be more careful with taxpayer money. The United States gave the Chinese Government 4 million to conduct studies on horseshoe bats. Its 6 miles from the wet market where the wuhan virus was thought to have originate. What was the National Institutes of health thinking when they paid money to a research lab in wuhan, china. Looking into that would be an interesting trail to follow. Joining us tonight is someone at the forefront of that effort. Congressman jim banks, a member of the House Armed Services and Veterans Affairs committee. Hes demanding reparations from china for the you be told damage and loss of life. I would like to start with 3. 7 million the National Institutes of health are giving a Government Laboratory in wuhan, china. As it becomes more and more clear while china took our jobs, they have give be us this virus in return. They should be held accountable for doing such. Every day you are hearing more and more politicians walking about Holding China accountable. Through the u. N. Court of justice we should explore all the violations china has made dating back to 2005 Health Regulations that china signed on to. They were designed to stop the spread of a pandemic. China violated so many of those regulations that there is an open door that secretary of state pompeo and attorney general barr can go to the United Nations and demand china be submitted to the court of justice. It lays out a series of repercussions the United States and other countries can take if china refuses to submit it self to that. Blocking flights ton from china or broadcasting into china and taiwan. The United States should take advantage of that and hold china accountable by submitting that to a court of justice. Lou there is no doubt the chinese are trying to cover up their role in the origins of this deadly pandemic. There is no shortage of evidence that they are continuing to steal our intellectual property. There is no shortage of evidence that they are continuing their hegemonic ambitions on any continent in this world. There is no doubt about what they are doing. I dont see any way in which it can be handled diplomatically or legalistically. They dont give a damn about our laws or anyone elses. There is no question about it, lou. You nailed it. But these are opportunities we have in front of us that we can take advantage of. You and i dont agree the u. N. Isnt worth much. But this is an opportunity for them to redeem themselves as a legitimate organization doing what it was meant to do. Lets expose what china and where china violated the regulations in allowing this pandemic to spreaden and lying about it. Countries like india and spain want to join us in those efforts. We should welcome that support. And secretary of state pompeo and attorney general barr have one powerful avenue to do just that. Lou the secretary of state informed the governors organization that he was keenly aware in some cases ambiguous of their views unknown to china are in fact hardliners as the chinese put it, willing to resist them. We reached a point in this country where we can triangulate where positions are on china, whether its trade, geopolitical ambitions or efforts to surveil and carry out espionage in this country and line up the governors who are pro china. We dont know to what degree they have compromised their states or this country. But now we have some clear abilities to do so. Including the lobbying groups in washington. Whether its the chamber of commerce, wall street, the securities association. We have wonderful ways to know who is supporting this president and this president s interest as well as the nations versus those beijing and the ccp. Hes the first president in my lifetime thats been tough on china in any way. As you mention, as secretary of state pompeo made clear, the Chinese Government labelsle all politicians labels all politicians on wet he they are friendly or hawkish to china. They are paying attention to politicians that are far too friendly to china. It has allowed china to take advantage of the United States and unleash this pandemic on the United States. We laid out avenues where we can make china pay for this pandemic instead of my daughters generation shouldering the debt thats loading up to pay for the pandemic. Not my daughters, all three under the age of 10. China should be paying for that. Lou neither your daughters nor minor anyones children should be paying for that. I know you discussed a trillion dollars in reparations. But it would be reparations. I cant wait to see how it all work out. One thing i do know is people are getting a clear idea of what china is, what it stands for and what it means to do. Congressman jim banks, you are part of the reason that thats the case. Thank you. We would like to hear your thoughts about this. Follow me on twitter loudobbs. Like me on facebook and follow me on i a gram that lou dobbs n instagram loudobbstonight. Peter navarro telling 0 minutes the globalization of production led to the short and of medical equipment needed to handle the wuhan virus. The globalization of production through multinational corporations who salute know flag and love cheap sweat shop labor and love the massive subsidies the chinese throws at production. We wouldnt be having this problem if we had domestic be production on medical supplies and equipment. If he made it here we wouldnt be faced with this. Lou thats what the president campaigned on and what he has been saying since 2017 when he stepped into the oval office. That we cannot be dependent on foreign supply chains, and we are paying the price now for those who ignored his counsel. There is a warning that wuhan virus ask stalk the human race until there is a vaccine. We are not so sure it will be coming in waves the way influenza does. It may stalk the human race for a long type to come. There will be small outbreaks that will break through our defenses. Lou in january the World Health Organization said there was no evidence of person to person transmission. Why did they say that . Because the chinese said that. Joining us is kt mcfarland, author of the best selling book revolution, trump, washington and we the people. We think of her highly indeed. We are listening the to jim banks talk about reparations. I dont think there is a chance in the world of getting reparations. But we should be keeping a very close ledger on precisely what they do owe and a very strong journal of exactly what they have done direct violation of our interests and you are values. I think both the ledger and the journal are becoming voluminous with content. I devote several chapters in high book to this issue of china. Its not that china puts chinas interest first. But for 30 years america has put chinas interest first at the expense our own industry, businesses and economy. What i think the pandemic has shown to everybody, this should be a wakeup call. This is the kind of chinese world order they have in mind. The chinese have been going around the world saying democracy is finished. Free markets. America is a thing of the past. Our system is better. Follow us. This is the cold, dirty dark secret of wait would looks like. Strong arming our economy and industry. And loosening the pandemic on the world. China isnt having the big consequences we are having. And we lay a lot of of this at their feet because of their duplicity. The world is now in crisis. Its in crisis and has been for some time. Our business establishment, wall street, corporate america, the principle lobbyists for business and finance have allied themselves with china against President Trump and his insistence on global, balanced tr