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