All right, glad you with us. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here at Sean Hannity Show, eight hundred and ninety four one. Sean, you want to be a part of this extravaganza. You know, there's an acceleration, there's madness everywhere. I've never seen it this bad. And you know, we've been through a lot of contentious times politically in this country, and I am just saying, my thirty one years in radio, my twenty four years at Fox, I've never seen this level of madness, psychosis, rage, insanity that we're now living through. And that is and I want to make sure I bifurcate this line really tight because it's the same groups of people, and it's obvious what this is all about in the end for them, if you cannot be a member of the media mob, and they're a mob, it is a mob mindset. You know, It's like, you know what Ellen DeGeneres's big sin was, she she laughed with George W. Bush. That's unacceptable. Can't do that. I can't. You can't possibly like somebody who you politically of disagreements with that. I'm telling you that is a huge part of it. I think and you know for Ellen to se you know, cracker job. I think Ellen's funny and I think you know the well, you're not taking the virus seriously enough. Why because Ellen told the joke and I laughed, Or Dennis Miller was on last night, He's funny last night. On hand, No, I it is it is so bad that it is, you know, never thought in all my years I get accused of murder. Let's put it that way, um. And they had their facts wrong, completely wrong, probably wrong. You want to talk about malice, libel, slander, you know it is. These are just very strange times we live in. But a lot of it is it's the same people, the same ones that have lied for three straight plus years. It is they just hate Donald Trump at the bottom of it, and they hate anybody that likes Donald Trump. And I'll tell you it's it's a fear that they see a different Donald Trump. Is my interpretation and opinion here, and that you watch these marath I could read the Old and New Testament probably faster than these press conferences go on. But what you see a president that is he is so locked in. And I've known Donald Trump for many, many, many many years over two decades and I watch him. He is dialed in, locked in, he's zoned in, whatever you want to call it, you know, all hands on deck, and it's like there's nothing that he will be able to say. Ever that the mob in the media will say, you know what you really got, you pulled that off, and it's not going to happen. The Democrats are not going to ever admit he's done a single thing right in all of this. Nobody's ever going to go after the governors that were so ill prepared and the mayors so ill prepared that they needed everything handed to them from the federal government. That's why de Blasio, Comrade de Blasio's comments, you know, you're telling New York to trop dead. I'm like, wow, the guy just built you a three thousand bed hospital. He manned the hospital with his personnel, not yours. He converted the hospital not originally intended to accept COVID nineteen patients. He had to fix the ventilation system. He sent the Navy ship then converted that to COVID nineteen. They also put the personnel in there, or that New York City was they were warned to buy nearly ten thousand ventilators, over nine thousand ventilators if in fact there's a pandemic. They were told to buy them. New York State was told that there'll be fifteen thousand, seven hundred eighty three short They didn't do it. They didn't buy it, they didn't spend the money. They wasted the money all over the place. And that's a big issue. I'm glad Mitch McConnell rightly saying you're not going to balance your budgets and we're not going to fund everything that you've screwed up in your states. We are going to fund COVID relief and COVID relief only period end of sentence, and that includes you know everything else. I mean to watch all of this, all the mobilization, twenty five thousand hospital beds around the country built by our great Army Corps of engineers. Engineers are great National guards men and women are military men and women, the greatest medical professionals. You know, the comments about opening up, opening up, opening up, Well, you know, did anybody not noticed, because I noticed in New York and Long Island, in the epicenter of this crap that every time I've been to the store, which is fairly regularly. I gotta get out of the house now wearing my mask and gloves. But I every time the guys were there stocking the shelves, every single solitary time. They you know, when there's no plan for them to get back to work. They never stopped working. And if they didn't work, reopen would If they closed, there would be no food for anybody in New York. But they kept working. I go to my local pharmacy. Nice people right Aid pharmacy, go in and say hello every time, very nice. They know me. Hey, mister Hannity, Hi, how are you? How's your kids? They worked the whole time. They didn't close down. The restaurants still stayed open, and they're still suffering, providing food for people. And as I've been saying, and I really can't say it enough, because the farmers farmed, the packers packed, the trucker's trucked, and they kept New York supply lines up and in place. And the guys that stocked the shelves, I did have a couple of weeks ago, I gently, I was really nice about it. I'm like watching this guy, he's working, he's stocking the shelves, and I said, I said, thank you for what you're doing. Please put please put your mask on. He had it at his neck. He put it down below is probably stick a wearing it. I said, please, you know, be careful. Thanks for what you're doing. Try to tip a guy I got yelled at by the manager, not yelled at, but whatever. And it's like, if the mob and the media cannot knowledge a couple of simple things, there's no point ever in having any conversation with them. But and then I will tell you it's impossible to have conversations with them because they're so full of rage. But it's the same two groups of people. It's a democratic radical extreme socialists that are now even openly saying that they want to use COVID. I'm excited, Joe Biden said, excited because COVID nineteen creates an opportunity to change everything into new green policies. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. As people in the middle of a national emergency, the mob in the meeting, we can't take his press conferences are lies if you can't acknowledge that what you and the mob called and Biden called racist, xenophobic, hysteria, fear, mongering, the travel ban of the president, the quarantines for the first time in fifty years, and the subsequent travel bands, but the first travel ban from China ten days after the first known identified case of coronavirus in New York in the United States, if you can't say in retrospect that was a game changer, and it saved an incalculable number of Americans from contracting the disease and then exponentially saving the lives of Americans, then there's no more need for any discussion with these people. You know, I've often said, you know, I can be friends with liberals. I am friends with liberals. I'm liberal friends of mine. They don't like my politics. I'm still friends with them. You know, maybe we just you know, we're friends for other reasons. I'll eat dinner with them. I'll probably pay way it works liberals distribution, redistribution. I'm teasing. But I'll live next to you, I'll talk to you. My kids will play your your kids. I just don't want them in power. What matters. Truth does not matter at even at a moment like this. Truth has become a casualty in all of this. People that give really strong advice based on what we know at any given moment, and I'll use doctor Faucci. I think everybody likes doctor Fauci. Doctor Faucci, you know, I don't know what his politics, so I probably guess he's probably more left of center. Likely probably, I'm pretty sure of that. But doctor Faucci, you know, February twenty nine sent the risk is long. March ninth, he said, yeah, young, healthy people can go on a cruise. Now you know, did doctor Fauci do it maliciously? Of course. This guy dedicated decades of his life and would I will tell you his work. His life work has resulted in the saving of human life. I admire the guy doing his best. China lied. We all had misinformation, a ton of misinformation all over the place. If Democrats cannot look at twenty five thousand beds hospital beds built around the country. If New York didn't get the Javits Center converted to COVID personnel manned by the President's team, Same with the un the Navy ship of the comfort, the hospital ship. If they every ventilator, they never ran out of ventilators. They have an overstock and supply, and we're going to end up with more ventilators than they ever dreamed of, every bit of all the facial masks, all the respirators. Why did that happen because all the manufacturers they didn't close either. Manufacturers didn't close. You know, if they did, then all those brave and they're brave frontline medical workers from custodians all the way up through the ranks, doctors and directors, including nurses and orderlies and other medical teams that go into the if those if they closed down, they wouldn't have had any protective gear. If the pharmacies closed down, they wouldn't have any medicines either. But the ability to get the ventilators, the twenty five thousand hospital beds, converting many of them to COVID nineteen hospitals manning them for New York, getting the gloves and the shields and the masks and the respirators and the gowns and the medicines and the test kits, and the next iteration of testing, then the next iteration attacking, then the next dideration of testing. And you know, everyone thinks they can snap their freaking finger. Oh we got one hundred ventilators. Good luck, even the geniuses and they are genius engineers at GM. They had a hard time getting that sucker right, but they did same with the testing five million tests. Now it is like, if you can admit that this four or five week period medical mobilization, from even the point where doctor Fauci was saying, yeah, the risk is low February twenty ninth. If you can't admit that, there's no discussing anything with you. They I do not see the same people that lied, smeared, slandered, besmirched, advanced one conspiracy theory after another conspiracy theory. The ones that were impeaching, the ones that were ripping up stated the union addresses, the ones that were saying come to Chinatown, the mayors that were saying go out, go to a play in March, and the health people, if they had no help from the federal government, if the workers in the country had closed down, we can't calculate how many people would have died, just like we can't calculate how many people would have contracted the disease and also died had the President not bravely withstood the criticism. They can't do it. Truth is the biggest casualty. Doctors that will tell you, you know, do no harm. There's no better expert on hydroxy chloroquin then Daniel Wallace. I'll read his letter again. Nobody nobody wants to print his words. They can get one flawed negative study dying. No, they not read directly from what he said. You know a guy that peer reviewed this, peer reviewed that forty two years of practice, no patient of mine ever has been hospitalized for an HCQ complication. The risk of taking four hundred eight CQ a day followed by a single six hundred milligram h CQ loading doors for thirty to sixty days. Nobody was getting it for thirty or sixty days. It was five maybe twenty max. He said. The risks are nil but for an allergic rash or an upset stomach. But they don't care if they can hurt Trump, bludge and Trump, never give Trump credit. That's their goal. One hundred and ninety four days to go. It's only gonna get worse, all right, as we roll along. Eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn, if you want to be a part of this extravaganzas so, I got some interesting data. Look, it's it's hard. You're looking at numbers. Numbers. You know, when you look at numbers and people are dying, it sucks. It's you know, the lowest number of deaths in New York four hundred and thirty eight in New York. There's there's a lot of new information that I'll share in the next half hour about New York in particular, but there is if you look at we do have some numbers to share, probably subject to change, New York City. If twenty one percent of eight point four million New York City residents were infected, that's one million, seven hundred and sixty four thousand New York City dot govn list, fifteen thousand, four hundred eleven confirmed probable deaths. That would be an infection fatality rate of zero point eight seven Some calculations for New York State. If thirteen point nine percent, which is the number of Governor Cuomo used today, nineteen point four five million New York State residents, I would mean two million, seven hundred and three thousand infected. That would be and fifteen thousand, seven hundred forty deaths in the state. That would work out to an infection fatality rate of zero point five eight percent. Remember they were talking about three and a half percent to one point a right, twenty five now till the top of the hour, eight hundred and nine four one sewn. You want to be a part of the program. So, I mean, that's the New York State numbers death rate again, and maybe you're using the state's numbers, and I don't want to get you don't want you know, you got to remember every statistic we're talking about. Here's a death There were times they were talking about, oh, it could be as high as the death rate could be as high as three point five percent. In other words, infection fatality rate. If you look at the New York state numbers, Governor says, thirteen point nine percent nineteen point four five million New York State residents, two million, seven hundred three thousand, five hundred and fifty infected New York State list, fifteen thousand, seven hundred forty dead in the state. But that would work out to be an infection rate according to the Census Bureau New York State Department of Health of point five eight percent in the City of New York. I won't go over their numbers again point eight seven. They do a little bit different math than that, but I you know, you look at it and it's still you know, it's now the third drop, third day in a row that that's have been below now five hundred since April first, four and thirty eight today, the lowest you know, in a long time. And so you have a net decrease hospitalizations ten straight days fifty you have a net decrease in intubations eleven straight days. You have preliminary antibody showing test showing three thousand people infection rate nineteen counties, forty localities, thirteen point nine percent testing positive with the antibody. That's pretty high and one scent. But in the other sense, the infection rate is high, which we would mean the death rate may be lower. Again, doing the math, where we are now today subject to change, and what's happening in New York. Well, now you have the Attorney General in New York in the middle of a pandemic national emergency. She now wants to sue President Trump over his decision to suspend all immigration so he can save a American jobs and get all these people back to work. Wow, okay, understood. You know this is where people's heads are at at this particular moment point in time. And some other stuff that we're learning now. We went over last night. One state I was so worried about was Florida because Florida has a very high elderly population. I've been down to the villages, America's friendliest hometown, very cool place. I mean, let's be honest. You know, they're all retired. They want to enjoy the rest of their life. They have a zillion golf courses, they have a zillion concerts, they have movie theaters, they have restaurants, they have bars. They just they play pickleball and tennis and all those others. They have it a good time. And if somebody doesn't want to go outside, they usually make them go out. Like they make you be happy, whether or not, you know, if you want to shut yourself down and be an old person, They're like, no, come on. They got arts and crafts and reading and you know, fun stuff for people to do all day. But if you look at the hospitalizations down there per hundred thousand, well, for example, Michigan's thirty three point six, Florida's ten point three, how did they do that? Then you look at the fatalities in Florida again, highest percentage of old people and per hundred thousand, they're at four percent in Florida, twenty seven percent in Michigan. This Michigan governor just botched this whole thing. Hospitalizations currently in the ACU ICU per hundred thousand and three point two Florida, thirteen point five Michigan. How did they do it? One of the things they immediately and Ron de Santa's remember he was criticized for all the spring breakers down there, you know, but at the time, if you remember, we were told by the experts they changed their opinions a lot. My timelines are definitive on all of this, and it's on Hannity dot com. We were told, oh, young people, they're not at risk of getting us. Then that changed in New York and I remember asking the first interview with Coma what happened because he goes, right, you're right, he goes We were told, young people both aren't getting it, but we're not seeing that in New York one period. We were. Now we're seeing the look. It really ended up being what they had originally predicted in terms of those with underlying conditions, those with compromised immune systems, apparently obesity. Listen, if you want to do one thing for your health. And I'm not a doctor. I say it all the time, lose weight. But they deployed early in Florida while nobody was watching mobile testing teams with the Florida National Guard to long term care facilities. They use their Division of Emergency Management. I give a ton of credit here to Rhonda Santis. You know, they sent the protective personal protective equipment to long term care facilities. Immediately, they issued a directive or acquiring all staff with residents and long term care facilities wearing masks. Almost immediately, the Agency for Health Administration made on site visits. That's where they put their focus and they were right. Ron de Santis handled it really well up to now. I mean, it doesn't mean he won't make mistakes down the road, but good job because he went after the most vulnerable population we see in New York. I mean, there was a New York Post editorial it was it's devastating at the New York nursing home debacle is by far the worst, and it says if Donald Trump had merely been accused of what Governor Cuomo did here in New York by forcing nursing homes to take coronavirus patients. I didn't know this until two days ago. Like what I mean, nursing homes were required Now, The New York Post writes of all the missteps in the early days of the coronavirus crisis, New York State's Health Department may have committed the worst, ordering nursing homes to accept residents who test positive for COVID nineteen. Instead of quarantining the folks most vulnerable to the disease, the state encouraged its spread. Eighty five percent of the states confirmed deaths from the bug are people over sixty, with nearly a quarter of all Corona fatalities coming in nursing or adult care facilities, and at least two thousand and two and ten such death tallied in the city Now. The governor was asked about this. He said, it wasn't our job. Why it was up to privately run homes. If they needed help, the governor said, He offered they should have asked. He said, well, actually, I know it would be up to the state to contain the spread. That's what Rhonda Santis did, and his numbers are bearing out. He nailed it, absolutely nailed it for the people in Florida. Forget the spring break video. I am telling you they nailed it down in Florida here to four. You know, doctor Howard Zucker, the state health commissioner, made his order so patients could be released from from hospitals. But the president, we never came near filling the Javits Center or the the the Navy hospital ship. Comfort never unbelievable, you know, the same Howard Zucker who decided not to buy the ventilators that New York desperately needed when they did the November twenty fifteen story. Anyway, but this indicates the coronavirus mortality rate NBC News, even reporting wow occasionally they even get something right, is far lower than previously thought. They remember, they were up at three three and a half fatality rate. That's what a mortality rate that that's what they were saying. You know, the the much predicted surge did not materialize in lockdown free South Dakota. Now, they had a problem at a meat packing plant. Iowa had a similar problem. But they literally they don't vawne really quickly. And from what I hear anecdotally, now that most of those people are are getting up and running again. Um, there is a study that shows a growing number of recovered corona patients can get reinfected. Uh that's from doctors in Wuhan. I just can't I can't report, and it's being covered, but I can't report that, um, because it's just ridiculous. Uh, this is how sick people are. And then we're gonna get to um. A friend of the program, former professional baseball player, uh Dan Venezia's with us. And in just a second, so local Democrats in Detroit are actually going to hold the vote this weekend to censor a lawmaker who met with President Trump and credited him with saving her life after he touted hydroxy chloroquin. Now I'm only saying this. I'm not getting involved in the whole medical mess data, etc. But early data New York States hydrop chloroquin clinical trial now being reviewed by federal agencies. So we'll have some results there, you know. By the way, they're now debunking. By the way, this widely cited non clinical trial which was so flawed and everybody raced to run the results. One of the things that remember doctor Oz kept saying, you fight with the army you have, not the army you wish. You have. We kept saying and again, I'm not a doctor, consult your doctor, blah blah blah. But it showed enormous hope, and we have all these stories about it. And then I read the letter of this board certified rheumatologist at Cedar Sinai. This guy's name is Daniel Wallace. Nobody in the media wanted to print his letter. He inherited the largest Lupas practice in the US nineteen eighty five, cares for two thousand patients with the disease. Most of his patients take or have taken HCQ. He's authored over four hundred peer reviewed papers, written the principal Lupas textbook, past chairman of Lupas Foundation of America Rheumatology Research Foundation, blah blah blah. He's authored numerous articles on anti malarials. This is his words. Hydroxy chloroquin HCQ. Plaquino is a very safe drug. It's been given tens of millions of individuals in the world since it's approval of nineteen fifty five, sixty five years now, and as a therapy as monotherapy has not been associated with any deaths in the recommended dose forty two years of practice. No patient of mine has ever been hospitalized for HCQ. Then he says, there are no protocols. You don't get EKGs before prescribing HCQ, never had a problem, talks about the fact that it's also been given with a zithromyas, and then this is his conclusion. He says, the risk of taking four hundred milligrams HCQ a day following a single dose six hundred milligram HCQ loading dose for thirty or sixty days, the risk is nil his words, unless one has an allergic rash or upset stomach. And he said, contrary to all these articles, and then we find out this this Brazil thing, apparently tons of doses were like five times higher than anything anyone has ever heard of. All Right, Dana's weather Stan Bensia. He is a friend of the program, former professional baseball player with the Minnesota Twins, and author of Coach Dan on Sportsmanship. He got the coronavirus. How are you feeling? And I'm sure that sucked, Hey, Sean, Yeah, no, I got hit by a mack truck and luckily I'm getting better day by day. And you know, as I get older, there's no doubt my fate gets stronger, and first thing I want to do is give the grace to God and along with the power of prayer, my family, friends, and you know, the parishioners at the cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Patterson, they prayed for me every day. And because those masses are now virtual, people are tuning in from all parts of the country. I had over five thousand people praying those prayers work. This brutal disease tried to take over my mind. It was successful at taking over my body body, luckily for a short period of time. But what the one thing it couldn't do is break my spirit. How bad did it get? And how long? Now are we talking about since you contracted it? Okay, so twenty eight days from my first symptom exactly to the day where I had I had a fever, and then I got tested two days later. It took them about four days to send me the results. I didn't need the results. I had every every symptom in the book that you know you're hearing about, the fever to dry cough, I had aches and pains, I had tremendously bad headache, and so I get the results on Thursday, and then that following Sunday comes around and it was just the shortness of breath started to get I had one of those little finger monitors that monitored my O two level, and it got so bad where I had to take myself to the hospital. You're you're like classic everybody I've talked to, and I've talked to so many people late at night, all day long. So how old are you, by the way, forty eight former that form of any underlying conditions, trainer. I do have a slight asthma, but you know, I'm a rescue in hailer that I probably used once or twice a year when I'm around cats. I think it's that this disease though, especially because it's the lungs. How did you get better? How to get better? Well, there were many many reasons that got me better, But I tell you the first ten days I was just taking title an all and that was not working. I was getting worse, and I asked for the hydroxy chloroquin when I got to the hospital and they said, there's no guarantee we're going to give it to you. They actually, uh, they diagnosed me with pneumonia. As well, but my numbers weren't that bad, I guess in the er. So they said, we can send you home, or you can spend the night, but there's still no guarantee we're going to give you the drug. And it was then that I called a friend, a doctor friend, doctor Charles Thorn, from New York City, and he said, you should, you should stay to night. And I'm glad I took that advice. So they ended up giving it to me. They gave me and and they didn't give it to me with you know, you hear the stories about with zinc or what ze pack. They gave it to me straight up. It was twice a day for for five days. I didn't day for five days, correct. And at the end of those five and at the beginning, I'll tell you that first night in the hospital, my darkest hour, middle of the night, your mind starts to go to that place. You know, we've all been there, fear, anxiety, doubt, you question God, you see the death tolls. And I didn't allow myself to go there though. You know, I had a very small conversation with the Lord and I said, simply, if this is your will, I'm not ready. I have a wife and boys, you know, two boys at home that need me and so much more to do. And uh, I started getting better each and every day. But there were there were many other factors that that led to my recovery. But do you from your experience, do you think it helped you? Well? Absolutely, I'm not a doctor, but I do know that when I didn't take care, say that like every second, and he says he, I've never said that. I always teled to consult your doctor. You know. The the best thing that I got out of it was it doesn't hurt people. That's what That's what doctor Wallace's letter says. There's no more you know, pre eminent expert on this thing than him. And when you see there's no harm. Okay, what's a doctor's first mission? Do no harm? And what the doctor Ozz always says, you got to go to the war with the army you got, not the one you wish. We always wish we could have those trials. But listen, we're praying for you. Get well. Next time I see you, dinners on me. Okay, buddy, I'm sorry you went through all that. I'm glad you're better. If you could go to at Dan Venizia twenty three Instagram and I'm documenting my progress and intention to help to help others battling this disease. Appreciate it, all right, gotta take a quick break. We'll come back on the other side, Doctor Oz with us Nuke gingrich Ore, posters here and much more and your call straight ahead, all right, our two Sean Hannity Show. Hey, I got to thank our friends over a Pure Talk USA. They actually so cool. 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I know him. I know how hard this may and it works day and night. And you know, there's a lot of art in medicine. It's not all science all the time. Now what I mean by that is, well, what does doctor A say says you go to go to war with the army you have, not the one you wish you have. Now think about that. So it's not like, oh, here is the definitive answer. You're looking for answers. You're you're looking for what does a doctor's first job do no harm? So you're looking for ways that you can thread a needle and save a life, save a lot of lives. Um, these new numbers are extremely interesting. I think probably too early to tell where it's actually going, but I think it's something that we should really pay attention to. And um, I think it really goes to the heart of well, okay, what is the real mortality rate because we now got New York City dot gov. They list fifteen thousand, four hundred eleven confirmed probable COVID nineteen deaths in New York twenty one percent of eight point four million New York City residents infected. That's one million, seven hundred and sixty four thousand in New York City, which they kind of do their numbers different than New York State. Why, I don't know the Census Bureau, New York City Department of Health. Anyway, it would be an infection fatality rate of zero point eight seven for the state of New York. Thirteen point nine percent is what the governor said today. Nineteen point five million people in New York two million, seven hundred three thousand, five hundred and fifty infected, fifteen thousand, seven hundred and forty deaths. That infection rate for the state again, infection fatality rate at this point in time, zero point five eight percent. Now, doctor Oz, I remember people say it might be two percent, might be three percent. I even heard three point five percent at one point, which was really scared. It's betrifying if that had happened. This is now the third report with using antibodies and admitted the antibody tests are not perfect. But it's the third report from here Southern California and Northern California, three areas that we're clearly exposed to the virus that has reiterated that a lot more people were exposed than were tested, improving they've had COVID nineteen. And of course there are two possible reasons. Anyone who lives in this area, as you and I do, recognizes that from a long time we were told not to go to the hospital if we thought we might have COVID nineteens. We didn't have enough tests and we needed to save those for people who really six we can make quick diagnosis. And the other reason, of course, is that a lot of people don't know they're sick. The symptoms are minor, they don't know what they are, or they had no symptoms, and so this speaks to the fact that there's a lot of folks out there who did better than we expected. Two caveats. There's a risk when you say this, because there's a you know, it makes a harder tide identify people who are suffering COVID nineteen, so they might me contaminate people around them. But at the same token, it gives you a bit more confidence that most of us weather this. And I was struck by that publication from north Well, the biggest hospital system in this area, and they shared their results with fifty seven hundred cases, and they showed that eighty eight percent of people came into the hospital. Again, almost nine out of ten people come to the hospital had not one, but two chronic underlying issues like high blood pressure or high body mass and maxture or elevated blood sugar, which speaks the fact that we actually have a bit more control over this potentially than redially felt to Gotterbi. You get infected with COVID nineteen, if you have been able to help yourself by dealing with your blood pressure, your diabetes, are lost weight, all things that you have some chance of influencing your lifestyle, then not you could reduce your incidents of being hurt. And that's good news because as the CDs you guidelines roll out, you're allowed to leave in phase one and two. Otherwise, the people called called vulnerable vulnerable folks aren't supposed to leave the house for fear they'll end up in the hospital to get COVID nineteen unbelievable. And you know, we see the numbers going down, I mean soon as you're still talking about a lot of people. But you know, it's only this week did New York, you know, finally go below five hundred deaths a day since April first, today the lowest death rate. We're learning some things. And I'm not trying to drag in any political controversy here in any way, but there was a New York Post editorial today and it talks about, of all the missteps in the early days of the coronavirus crisis, the New York State Health Department may have committed the worst because they were ordering nursing homes to accept residents who tested positive for COVID nineteen and instead of quarantining the folks most vulnerable to the disease, which we knew that very early. The stating in that sense, you know, it was it was that was a death sentence for people. In my view, eighty five percent of the stage confirmed deaths from the bug or people over sixty, and we know that nearly a quarter of all corona fatalities coming and nursing adult care facilities now compare that too, you know, I know that that Ron de Santas. He got criticized because of the kids who are on spring break, etc. But what they did in Florida is fascinating to me. And let's compare it to Michigan. Not I won't compare it to New York, but I was worried because of their their high population of the elderly people down there. And I've been to the villages America's friendliest home town, et cetera. But their fatality rate per hundred thousand is four four point zero Michigan's twenty seven point zero. And what they did early is deploy all of their mobile testing teams with the Florida National Guard to long term care facilities. Their Division of Emergency Management sent the personal protective equipment to their long term care facilities. Immediately. They issued a director of requiring all staff that work with residents in long term care facilities wear masks, and the Agency for Health Administration they were making on site visits everywhere. They worked with the villages almost from day one to prevent any big outbreak down there and again on every level. Current hospitalization ten point three per one hundred thousand, where it's thirty three point six in Michigan or I mentioned fatalities four point zero to twenty seven. If you look at ICU per hundred thousand, it's three point two in Florida, thirteen point five in Michigan. That and then learning what we learned about New York, it seems like Governor DeSantis made a hell of an early smart decision. Well, I'll tell you we've understood for a while where the rule of one of the population is. You know, they're even without this version of the coronavirus. The older chronavirus is the ones that circulating in our population that caused sore throat and alike. They'll kill thousands of folks a year, almost all elderly folks as well. So this fact this virus picks on older people, and I think the cautionary and big opportunity here is that if you start to protect and focus in on people who are most likely to suffer badly from being infected, it'll make a disproportionately good outcome. I mean, but former Mayor of Mike Bloomberg's doing I think is very wise. He's building it out, helping to build out the city's testing and tracing programs. We have about five hundred contact tracers in New York right now, it's just an example, just you know, this is extrapolates of the whole country. But imagine if we could do forty thousand tests to day, which is the goal here, and you know, quadruple at further the number of contact tracers. Then you've got people in Florida and in Michigan going around first targeting nursing homes, populations at risk. We've really days are focused on public transportation, you know, and then most importantly help people who test positive not have to go back to a place where they're likely to infect others. Those moves are hugely effective, as we're shown in Florida. So I think those are lessons that other governors, I hope are taken into their states. And of course we've got the federal CC guidelines, which is get too weeks of trending data that you're effective in what you're doing, so you keep a score and then keep doing it if you if you move that way, the ineritive process, I think most Americans get comfortable with this, don't. We're gonna have some place and going to pull back, and one's going to trust a system because nothing's perfect and then we go back and work, back and work do we fix this? But eventually all the states will be completely open if we do it the right way. You know, I know the governor of Georgia, Kemp, has taken a lot of heat. I don't get it, to be honest, my own pumble opinion. I don't get tattoo parlors opening, I really don't. I don't get now salon hair salon places opening yet. I want to know more I've given you. For example, I think New York City faces all these unique challenges, and anyone wants to get in a building temperature check, mass clubs in the workplace and have the workforce has to stay and work from home at least for the interim. Am I missing? And when you can get testing on board to the high extent, you're gonna have to test people. But then you have to test them three days later, right you up? I don't know what second test is not clear yet, but I'll tell you something. I mean, I'm struggling with this. You are as well about my own folks. You know, I want I want them safe, I want them feeling comfortable. I want them making the choice to come and if someone who got to take you know, three different subway stops to come to the office. That that's a risk, and I want them to feel that this says subways are safe before I'll expect that of them. I do think a lot of us can work outside the main office for used to go to, at least for now. But ideally our leadership will create steps that we all want to take so we're not challenged. You know, we don't have to be brave to do these things. We should stay you know what, that makes sense. You know, I got a family take care of. I feel that's a safe thing for me to do. If not, I'm comfortable voicing that opinion of people around me at the same culture. But it begins to slowly create expectations that are different. None of us thought on I'll even go back. I'm marched the first. I challenge anyone listening right now to have predicted what happened over the next month. It just it's easy to look back and pick on people, but there are very very few folks who could actually predict that. And whoever they were, I don't think we were listening to. So now we are a month into this plus into this, and everyone sort of a different expectationous and now we got to get everyone the same page again to make the next step. Otherwise half the population move had won't go and then wind up with this argument internally, it's your fault. No, it's your fault. Yeah, well, I mean all of that is true, all of that would happen. Look, I don't you know a lot of people go to this. I don't like the fact that there's been so much criticism of the president. I think a lot of it. I think, you know, the travel band, it's incalculable how much worse this could have been. To me, how many more Americans would have been infected? And he got the crappied out of him, And you know, Democrats politicized it. But you know, I know you respect Anthony Fauci, and I'm not being critical, I promise you. But he was even say in February twenty ninth, yeah, the risk is low. In March nineth he said, yeah, young healthy people can take a cruise. China lied to us. That was a big part of it, wasn't it. I don't think we had good insight and what was really happening, not just in China, but around the world. I think a lot of folks were You know, it's hard to judge motivation. You can only judge action. But I don't think most of us had a deep appreciation of what was going on, and a lot of it I gotta say it was driven by the fact that we didn't have any testing. So for my best guests, we had, you know, tens of thousands of cases in New York before we realized we had a problem. It might have been more. And look at those numbers, you think, oh my goodness. You know, there's a huge force fire and we didn't smell the flames or the chart ember while we were trying to figure out how to slowly gently shut down. Meanwhile, you know, the infrastructure was burning up. Yeah. Well, I want to thank you. I know that you your work day and night. I know you're looking for answers. I know you care about health. Oh last thing, you agree with me. The best thing everybody can do is lose weight. Right now, I don't have a pannasee. I did it with the NJ diet. It's a pain in the neck. I hate it. You don't drink for forty days and you know, like three point five ounces a protein a day, two twelve ounce portion of vegetables a day, and two fruits a day. That's it, um, And I lost the weight and I've been able to keep it off. I just want people to be healthy, live longer lives. And isn't that one of the best things you can do? Yeah, it might be the easiest, simplest thing to do right now. And I tell you it's good for you anyway. And frankly, you pick a way that works for you. We've got lots of programs your opposite showing have had great success with this. You lit a greyhound these days. But yeah, yeah, yeah, not exactly. A lot of people sitting at home. How do how do I make a difference? This is a good way of doing it. You know what I do. I drink a lot of chicken broth. That may sound stupid, right, I drink a ton of the not at all, you know, very effective as they full your stomach and you actually digest them slower. So it's one of the smartest things you can do, soups and broths. No, I honestly, it's just ton. By the way, everyone's laughing. My whole staff mocking me because you call me a grayhound. Thanks a lot, all right, doctor us, thanks for all I know you worked day and night helping people. Let's see, you were born to do this. I can see it. I know your passion behind it. I wish everybody knew the side of you that I now know, and thank you for all you do as we roll along eight hundred and nine for one sean toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program so much that, um, you know, I'm talking a lot of friends, Linda. We were discussing this earlier too. Everybody's like, man, like, everyone needs a break every you know, And when they attacked Ellen, I'm like, really, now we're going to attack Ellen for telling a joke? Yeah, I think people I want to say, don't stop telling jokes. Keep doing it. They've just taken themselves too seriously. I mean, her job is to be a comedian. It's to provide levity in a time of you know, struggle, and people are freaking out, they're upset, So why shouldn't she tell a joke. She's doing all the right things, she's practicing social distancing, she's in her home and she's making fun of herself. I mean, what is the big deal. I mean, honestly, I mean that's what I'm like. I'm looking at people, and then this is what else here? You're doing it from a mansion? All right, well, okay, that's where she lives. God forbid, somebody be successful would live in a tent. Exactly. People. She doesn't care about the suffering of others. I'm like, she's actually trying to relieve the constant stress. And quite frankly, she's a very giving person. She gives a lot to a lot. She gave a million dollars for COVID reliefs. So everyone needs to shut up and leave Ellen alone. Ellen, if you ever hear of Sean Hannity talking about you, please keep telling jokes. Oh Hannity, last big government. This is the Sean Hannity Show, twenty five Now till the top of the hour, toll free. It's eight hundred and ninety four one, Shawn. If you want to be a part of this extravaganza, you know, early on former Speaker of the House, he'd been a dear friend of mine. I mean, he's like family to me. At this point, I'll forever be so proud of the fact that I was the MC the night that Nuke Gingrich became Speaker of the House in nineteen ninety four. I was the MC of that event that night. I think it was the Cobb Galleria Center. My mind's not that. My mind's not as bad as Joe's. And we just have been friends all throughout and we've had parallel lives careers. He's a mentor, he's smart as hell, a great historian, and he also gave this country a very very accurate, dire warning and it helped. And that was he was in Italy, his wife Callister's we all know his ambassador to the Vatican, the Holy Scene, and he warned us about what was going on in Italy and he goes, you better take it seriously. Got in touch with everybody from the President, Congress, Senate, everybody got the lowdown. And to that extent, mister Speaker, we owe you as a country a data gratitude. And I know you did it. You affirm you are tough. You said it loudly, and you are very clear, and I think people listen to you well. Thank you. I think that's probably right. And you know I'm talking to you from Rome where chlifts and I are still This is our seventh week of an effect being locked in the house. They're slowly starting to get better, but it's been a really long grind. I will say, by the way, to any of Clifton's fans, that she has a great new picture on Facebook, because today she had a dental emergency and in the middle of the pandemic, if you go to the dentist, they really wrap you up, and they took a picture of her, which those of you who know her, well, we'll find a collector's item. But it's also just a reminder. This is changing, you know, this experience is changing something for every one of us everywhere in the world. And we should start with that recognition that we're going to rebuild America and we're going to rebuild the world. But it's from a new baseline forced on us by the Chinese dishonesty and the Chinese manipulation, which has caused unbelievable human and financial costs. You know it really and nobody saw, you know. I like the way the President characterizes this as an invisible enemy. Look, it's the same predictable people that have sadly politicized this. It is incalculable to me the number of lives that were saved, the number of Americans the President's travel ban ten days after the first identified case of corona in the United States. I've been brought in. People were in the room. I've talked to and not a single person agreed with the President about the travel ban, not one. And he did it anyway. And that one decision you, I can tell you because Klist and I are right here in Italy where the Italian government for political correctness took the opposite track. They had one hundred thousand Chinese workers in northern Italy. They allowed the airplanes to keep coming from Uhan three flights a week for weeks after the pandemic occurred, and they were just flying in the disease. I mean, you look at the impact in Italy, a much smaller country, less than one fifth the size the United States, and you look at how close they came to collapsing totally. And it's because they didn't have a Donald Trump who had the courage to say, I'm going to protect people in my own country. And I think no historian is going to look back and ever say that the President was wrong. It was the right decision. It took a lot of guts, and people like Joe Biden and others all attacked him when he did it, and their efforts nowadays are pathetic to try to hide from their responsibility because their strategy would have led to a lot more Americans dying. You know what bothers me and I think every Kennedy. We're one hundred and ninety four days away from an election, and right now, I know nobody's really focused on it except the Democrats. But there's such a level of intellectual dishonesty because I think every Democratic candidate, Congress, Senate, local, whatever, it doesn't matter. Joe Biden was in retrospect, was the racist, hystericals, xenophobic and fear mongering travel ban in retrospect was the right call? What did Donald Trump do right here? Because mister speaker, we in a month's period of time. Remember Anthony Fauci said, you know, the risk is low. On February twenty ninth, Remember you know Andrew Cuomo said, I don't know, we're prepared. We don't like these other countries. We're New Yorkers. We're New Yorkers. You know, look what happened in New York. That was March second, Anderson Cooper fake newc and in March fourth was saying that you should worry more about the flu than Corona. March ninth, Anthony Fauci, who we all respect, said yeah, if you're young and healthy, can go on a cruise. And in a month's period of time, the president built twenty five thousand hospital beds around the country, the biggest hospital, the Javits Center in the country, and manned it all personnel from from Trump, from the federal government. Then they converted it to COVID nineteen. Then the comfort was sent to New York Harbor. Then they converted that for COVID nineteen. The millions of masks, respirators, the gall owns, the gloves, the medicines, all. No state was ready at all. They had nothing, and they did it in four weeks, the largest medical mobilization in history. And not one thing can anybody in the mob, in the media, or the Democrats. You know, Nancy Pelosi with her designer ice cream on comedy shows, the laying aid so she can change election and immigration laws and give money to the endowments for the arts and humanities and the Kennedy Center. They didn't do a thing. They were impeaching him. She was ripping up his speech while he was talking about Corona. She was telling people in Chinatown February twenty fourth that, Oh, come to Chinatown. I'm you know, I'll let you talk about I'm thinking it angers me. You have no idea. They're so dishonest, they're such liars in my view, Well, look I think that's all true. Look, I had Tony Fouch's you know, I do a weekly podcast that's a niche world. Is an old friend and we'd worked on hidads back in the nineteen eighties, and he said in early February that this looked a lot like stars. It was going to be controllable. There was not something to panic about. But the reason he said that we should never forget this, the reason experts like Fauci said that is because the Chinese Communist dictatorship was methodically and deliberately lying to the world. I personally believe the at least one hundred and sixty or one hundred and seventy thousand people dead today because of the Chinese Communist dictatorship, and that we need to recognize how truly destructive and how dishonest they were, and that they were the starting point. I remember at that point in time, people like Joe Biden were defending them and protecting them and say hello, I said, let's not be a hostile to these people. Well, the truth is what they were doing was deliberate, I think, and malicious. They were the doctors who warned about this virus were locked up and they were told, you know, you're not going to get out until you sign something to say that what you said was not true. It's just unbelievable when you go back and look and how bad the dictatorship. How should we the courage to exactly at all? You and you and the President and you, I'd say one and two were the two people that have been warning us about China the longest, both of you. Now the question is, well, they hold a lot of our debt. I don't think we pay it back? Can we do that? I just, first of all, as you know, I wrote a book on Trump versus China back in October, how aligning how bad they would be, and then they have lived out exactly what I described from the book. I just did an article this week on newsletter and made the argument that they are clearly guilty and that we should both create a right of suit for private citizens, so every family who's lost somebody should be able to suit become thiss dictatorship. In the case of the Lockerbie terrorist bombing, govern it amounted to about amounted about eight million dollars per person, and then after inflation that we probably about eleven million to day. And then second, every government in the world, not just the US government, every government in the world, the Italian, the Spanish, you name it, should calculate the economic cost of Chinese communist dishonesty, and we should charge them for that. We can frankly impound the debt that they hold, We can impound all their assets in the United States. We can establish a virus debt repayment tariff and say to them until we collect what you have cost us, we're going to not allow you to ever send anything under traditional rules. Period. But it would be a disaster for the world if the dictatorship in China was to taught the lesson that they could lie to everybody, kill one hundreds of thousands of people and it will be over two hundred thousand before this is done, cost the rest of the world trillions of dollars, and have nothing done, and that's an enormous danger because our friends on the left just can't bring themselves to defend America against the Chinese communist dictatorship. Let me ask you, because I think this is very very important. If we do all of that, what consequences are they we're gonna you know, is that going to be viewed as an act of war? Because I think one of you know, beyond lying. Remember there was a studying out of Great Britain. It said ninety five percent of this could have all been prevented. Have they invited in the world's experts? And I asked the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, if they gave you a call and said, hey, we need help, what you have done it? He said, we would have sent our best. But they did that, but then they cut off. We offered to send people, right but they remember when they did this, though, they would not allow travel to or within China, to Wuhan or Wuhan to any part of China, but they kept open international flights, so they knew it was dangerous, right right, Look, I think you have to have an assumption here that the Chinese time ins dictatorship was deliberately and methodically lying that has been manipulating this entire situation for at least four months. And when people say to me, well, what if they retaliate Atlance, is really simple, If we an't got the guts to stand up to them, now, what are they going to be like ten or twenty years from now. I mean, this is a decisive turning point. And it's exactly what Churchill talked about in terms of Hitler in the thirties. I mean, you reach a point when you either stand up for your principles and you stand up for what's right, or you allow the dictatorship to dominate. It's exactly what Harry Truman has faced with them the late He could have caved into Stalin, he could have given up Berlin, he could have allowed the Soviets to dominate. And he said now, and he took the risk, and a lot of people said, now, boy, that's really a big risk. Will let me tell you, it's a big risk to take on the Chinese Communist dictatorship, and it's a bigger risk to not take on the Chinese Communist dictatorship. I've never seen the mob as bad as they are in the media and Democrats as awful as they have been all throughout this. We have an election in one hundred ninety four days. How these are uncharted territories, that we're in unchartered waters, rather that we're in here and uncharted territory. What is your guest? How does this play out? You see the vitriol Donald Trump could do nothing right. They wouldn't give him credit for anything right. Have three quick points. One, Trump is the most hated president Abraham Lincoln. As Alan Guelzo, a great scholar at Princeton, has pointed out, you have to go back to the slave owner newspapers in South Carolina attacking Lincoln in eighteen sixty to have anything like the level of vitriol you get out of the modern left. So that's part one. They hate him. They get up every morning they know they hate him. They're not sure what he did bad, but they know something was bad. And that's this reality. Part two. The number one thing for the president is to pick up a lesson from Franklin Delano Roosevelt and doctor defeat the virus, and doctor create jobs. He should not be a candidate in his own head until Labor Day. From now to Labor day. He should be the commander in chief, the person helping America, the man getting the job done, which, of course shrinks Biden every single day because there's no possibility that Biden can compete with somebody who's an effective command or chief. Three. This is my prediction. You can we can come back this later on this fall. The weaker Biden is, the more indefensible and impossible Biden is, the more vicious the news media will become. By the way, that's that is like, you know what, that's a layoup prediction. Come on that I make that prediction. Let me ask you this, um, do you do this? You know you already took the layoup, but you could have fed it to me, but you decided to take him for yourself. You know, I understand some people are selfish on the court. I'm teasing in every way. Do you think they're going to try and steal this from him and they're gonna say, Aye, he's really not doing well. We can't run him. Oh you mean Biden. Yeah, I don't know. I just had a note tonight from somebody's a pretty good expert on who says he doesn't see technically how they can do it. Does Jill Biden step in and or does he does he do a hail merry and bring in let's see Michelle Obama's a running mate. Well, I don't think I don't think the Obamas would do that. If you watch person Obama's reluctance to endorse him, and then you will look at how weak the indorsement was. That didn't strike me as somebody who was eager to go out. And you know, the Obamas right now can say we were this heroic, wonderful couple. We have a great life, We're doing fine. Why would they want to tie their their career in history to a guy who's is weak and clearly incompetent as Joe Biden. Mister speaker, thank you, you're the best. Stay safe eight hundred nine one Sean. If a solemn duty to ensure these unemployed Americans regain their jobs and their livelihoods. Therefore, in order to protect American workers, I will be issuing a temporary suspension of immigration into the United States. You've heard about that last night. By pausing immigration will help put unemployed Americans first in line or jobs as America reopens. So important, it would be wrong and unjust for Americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad. All right, that is the president News round up information overload. Our seventy percent of Americans favor a ban on entry into the United States. Sixty nine percent believe false information from China made the pandemic worse, and only ten percent believe that China is telling the truth. Now our posters are all back. John McLaughlin, Matt Towery, Scott Rasmussen, Scott, let's start. Those are your numbers. I think the backlash towards China is really only just beginning. I think you're absolutely right about that. You know, a few weeks ago we were pulling and people weren't sure whether to blame China. They weren't quite sure. We were even having that debate about whether it's appropriate to call this, you know, a China virus or a Wuhan virus. Well, now sixteen nine percent think that they made it worse. Only eight percent disagree. You know, this is a situation where China has lost all credibility, and I think what we're seeing is an issue that is going to get bigger and bigger as November, it gets closer because people are really angry at what China has done to not just the United States, but the entire world. Yeah, what's your take, Matt Towery Oh, I think Scott's completely right there that China is going to feel over the next six months to a year is going to be phenomenal. I think you'll see production, manufacturing come back to the United States, even if it costs more money. And I think you're going to see it become a huge issue in the election. And I don't see how the Democrats can really descend the positions they've taken with regard to China. With the President ending to travel early on, the statement's made by Biden, those are going to become very difficult to defend as you get to the last days of the election. John mc I'm seeing the same thing. I mean, we've got we've got a pole coming out tomorrow that a businessman from Long Island who's one of your neighbors, one of the good neighbors out there, Lawrence Cages paid for seventy percent think China knowingly kept coronavirus data from international healthcare provengials. Only twelve percent of the voters said no, seventy five percent. I think we need to end independence on Chinese imports seventy five to sixteen. They think that they got to change our trading relationship with China seventy two to fifteen. And they think we ought to mandate that we got to bring technology companies, essential manufacturing companies back to the US seventy especially pharmaceuticals, a medical equipment. Right. Absolutely. I mean these are big numbers, but these are not small. This is across the board, all parties, all ideologies, every region of the country. This is a wake up call to America. This is a huge after shock. Let me ask you all this question because if there was one guy that was out there front and center warning about China, warning about open borders, which I think now are big issues and I've been saying it for years two. As it relates to the border, why do you want to secure the border? Ninety percent of our heroin comes from there. We have three hundred dead Americans a week from opioids and our feent and all crosses that border. Then you have potential terrorists and people with gang ties. I think we'd have to do background checks, make sure before people enter the country. You certainly need to secure the border in terms of people need to be able to provide for themselves. And now I would add health issues to it. These are two of Trump's signature issues. Scott rasmussim by in one hundred ninety four days. How did those two issues factor into people's voting patterns? Well, they factored not just in the voting patterns, and but two things that are going to be happening throughout the next decade. This is going to be a fundamental change and the way we look at America's relationship with the rest of the world. We saw last year that a lot of people recognize that terraff wars, we're going to hurt us economically, people won't have to pay more, but they still supported them because they recognized there were other issues involved. Right now, you know, you mentioned the ban on immigration. Our polling showed that among people who strongly disapprove of this president, the resistance to this president, fifty seven percent of them support the idea of this temporary ban. The idea that we're going to have open borders, the idea that we're going to go back to the way things were is just a losing issue at every level. And I think the larger debate is going to be what is how are we going to approach security in all of our travel and trade relationships with the rest of the world when something like the coronavir virus can disrupt global patterns Your thoughts, Matt Powery, Well, when you live by the sword, to die by the sword. So we've had I don't want to say an exaggeration, because this has been a terrible crisis, but when you hype something beyond measure, it comes back to bite you in the end. And that's when it's going to bite in the elections season, because you're going to look back and see that Donald Trump has done a magnificent job of dealing with an impossible situation, and by the way, one that was made even more impossible because of bad decisions from prior administrations, whether it's globalism or whether it's decisions not to do a certain public health measures. Trump had to build an entire public health system, a secondary public health system in a matter of a month, and he did it. And people were going to start to realize that when we get to November. It's been the biggest medical mobilization, the fastest medical mobilization in the history of this country. John McLaughlin, starting with the travel band that was labeled racist and xenophobic and historical and part of fearmongering on the president's part. I think Joe Biden will eat those words. But Matt is right here the States, there was no preparation. In New York. Donald Trump built the Javits Center, the largest hospital in the country, converted it to COVID nineteen and all the personnel came from Donald Trump. The same with the hospital ship, the comfort every VENTI later. New York needed the mass the gloves, the respirators, the gowns, the medicines all came from Donald Trump. New York had zero preparation. Early March, the governor, the mayor, the health officials, we're all saying, no, we got this covered. They didn't have anything covered. Does he get credit for that, Well, well he should, but you've got to get the press to you know, get around the press distorting the truth. But the amazing thing is in New York, the death that we had, they had a policy. We now find out the state had a policy that they would send coronavirus patients back into nursing homes. Can you believe that's why you had this massive death because it was just highly contagious disease among all people, and the state ordered Governor Clomo's state health commissioner ordered it, so they were so they were sending people with coronavirus. Well, the governor said today, well that was their decision to do that. I didn't do that. Terrible. This is so sad, This is so sad. So thousands of deaths. Does he get credit for this? Yeah? Scott? Do you think you know? I think that by November, we're not going to be talking about getting credit for these types of issues. What we're going to be looking at is the way society has reopened. And I think it's really important that we talk not just about reopening the economy, but reopening society. And people were gonna be saying, what's been happening, how, how has life begun to return to something semi normal? If that's happening, if we're making progress in that way, the president will get credit for that, and these other arguments will have become ancient memory. Matt, your your thoughts, where are we going to be in one hundred and ninety four days? We're not going to be where we were, you know, in February. We know that there's a lot of adjusting that has to take place. We're going to have to walk before we run. And we don't know what the cycle of this virus will will be, but I predict one thing, regardless of where we are, the president has a magnificent opportunity to remind people of what he's accomplished pre virus and post virus. And I believe this president. And I just want to note, you know, networks really have no business calling in states because they do a terrible job. But I noticed in CNBC came out with a poll in almost all the swing states yesterday. Trump up in every single one of them by one point. That's in the middle of all this stuff going on. So anybody who thinks this man is not going to be re elected needs to go back and study again, because if you want, the media can't say a single good thing he's done John McLaughlin, then never the mob in the media, Democrats, they can't name one thing good that he's done here, not one. All they do is trash him. No, and we just put we just by the way we just put out And granted I worked for the campaign, but this is our monthly national servery that we do not necessaries to the campaign, but we put it out and we said, we basically asked people to agree able scary of the statement that the Democrats and liberal national media are trying to move the blame from the spread a coronavirus away from China to President Trump for partisan political gain, and the plurality of Americans agreed with that forty nine to forty two. And then we asked the question like, and it was kind of a tough question because we're saying, would you say that too many members of the media have been unfair, biased, and even disrespectful to the president? Where has the media have been fair, unbiased and always respectful. They said they were unfair and disrespectful forty eight to forty two. And it's higher among the fifty six percent that regularly watched the briefings, so they know that the media is not telling the truth. I mean, these briefings have really exposed the hostile to the president at a time we're in the same poll seventy nine percent of all Americans want to be united and don't want to have anything to do with partisan politics. So Donald Trump may have to fight for the credit that he deserves on what he's doing to save American lives and bring our timey back. But we will fight for that, and the majority of Americans will recognize. We'll recognize that. So let's go to Biden. How does Biden stack up to Trump? He seems so diminished the poor ever confused? Quid pro quo Joe Okay, If the elections held today, Scott Rasmussen, who wins well right now, our latest polling shows it. In the last couple of weeks, Joe Biden has actually gained a couple of points, and that's probably because he's been out of the public eyes so much. But this is a poll of registered voters, it's early on, and it's a national poll. If the election were held right now today, I think we would be looking at for the places like Pennsylvan in Michigan and Wisconsin to see who wins the electoral college. It would be a close race. I think the President emerges on top. But as I said before, it all depends on what happens in the next few months and how we come out of these lockdowns. Matt Towery, Well, I mean I think Scott alluded to something which I believe in that as Biden has gained only because he hasn't been out talking and at some point he has to come out of his basement and start campaigning again. And he's just you know, wait, he's been a disaster in his basement. It is embarrassing. He's a disaster. The sad thing about it is for him. Seriously, he was much sharper three or four years ago, and it seems like this during this campaign he's just become increasingly confusing. His words get jumbled. We know what's going on here. Now, if the American people want to vote for that, they can, I don't think they will. I think from President Trump and Biden debate, you're going to see a clear demarcation and President is once again going to come out on top. And as we roll along, Sean Hannity, shall posters, got rasp music, Matt Towery, John McLoughlin, all right, we see Joe Biden, Well, we don't see him. Seems very diminished, you know, very confused. His readings are well now one thing of fame. He's now claiming that this is good, this is a great opportunity. I can't believe it. In terms of Oh, we can do things that we weren't able to do. I'm excited by this, he made in a statement he said, anyway, did the Democrats try to dump him? John McLoughlin, There's nobody running against him. He's he's won the race. Everybody dropped out. So all right, does Jill Biden come in and say, you know what, he's not feeling up to it, you guys pick someone else. Well, you know what, remember back in twenty sixteen, you brought me out to do radio in Milwaukee and we met with then candidate Donald Trump, and you had me telling him he was going to lose Wisconsin the cruise. But then once all we had to do was we said, okay, we're gonna go win Indiana, and that will New York with these Indiana lock it up in two weeks. Once we did that, they kept spinning for an open convention. It wasn't gonna happen. What about that, Matt Towery and what about all this talking about well maybe we'll put Michelle Obama on the ticket. Well, I'm a little more skeptical about Joe Biden's future than perhaps others. I think that this could be a real crisis for the Democrats. Um, because, as I said, this is just one person's opinion. He doesn't seem as sharp as he did when he started his campaign, which I find very interesting. So, Um, I think there's always a possibility Sean, that something could happen and he could could bow out. That's not out of it's not out of possibility as far as I'm concerned. Then they're stealing from Bernie. Good luck with that, Bernie fans will you know, no fun fun intended. They'll be burned. That's the problem. Yeah, that problem. Got What do you think and any of you have any thoughts on the Michelle Obama rumors? Well, look, Sean, what I think is that if for some reason Joe Biden had to step aside for because of health or any other concerns, the Democrats have a choice. They can either give it to Bernie Sanders and put forward a very weak national candidate, or give it to somebody else and really divide the party. At that point, there are no good options there are. Would Michelle Obama do it real quick? Last question? Yes or no? John mcglockla No, no, because she wants to be the top of the ticket, not the bottom. Matt Towery, No way, She's not going to do it. Scott Rasmussin, I agree, not gonna happen. All right, want to thank you all when we come back. Final half hour wide open phones Hannity tonight at nine eight hundred and nine for one Sean you want to be a part of the program, And we're waiting Coronavirus Test Force briefing. If it happens, we'll take it straight ahead, all right, twenty five now till the top of the hour. We don't know when, but sometime soon the Coronavirus Test Force briefing will begin, and for stations on the Sean Hannity Show Network will continue to follow our usual protocol and give you all the discretion you want, need necessary to take your breaks as warranted. I want to remind everybody, look, Mother's Day is coming. Let me tell you it's tough on moms, right. 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You know, it's interesting I got interview because I owned shooting ranges and gun stores here in New Mexico, and our governor being the central any place that in her mandate that anybody who serves law enforcement in military, and you know we have Albuquerque Police, State Police ATF always in our shooting ranges, and it's interesting. Once our story got out about calibers, I'm sorry. I wasn't supposed to say that about Sorry, I didn't even hear what you said. I didn't. I didn't even hear what you said. Okay, good, I'm glad you didn't hear the name of my story because I wasn't supposed to say that. But yeah, all of sudden the governor deems us non essential and closes us down. Um, and she's doing it to all small businesses. And she's literally picking winners and losers in New Mexico. You know, And as I'm so stupid, that is. It is ridiculous, you know, because listen, I'm telling you right now, if and again, I go to the stores all the time. If if and I talked to everybody, I can't shut up. I'm a talk show host, and I talked through my new you know, my respirator, my mask. And but I see every time I go to the store, the stores are filled in New York and Long Island, They're they're packed, They're full packed. Yeah, I guess what. And I talked to the guys stocking the shelves. Now, excuse me. They never closed down because otherwise New Yorkers would have starved to death. You know, if farmers didn't farm, packer didn't pack, truckers didn't truck, pharmaceutical companies didn't do their thing. And those manufacturing all this medical equipment that saved New York because New York government failed on a spectacular level. Um, we'd be dead. We were dead without if America closed down. Now, if all those people can do it, why can't others do it? To tell her, we can control how many people we allow in our store. We can do social distancing, and the and and the interesting thing is, you know, New Mexico has lasted so many categories in business. But yeah, she's allowing hundreds hundreds of people into the big box stores at a time. And we knew we were getting targeted because we are a gun store in a shooting range. But the fact of the matter is that she's literally picking winners and losers. And where we're looking at, eighty percent of small businesses in New Mexico will never open their doors again. And it's you know, we're not even asking to open up one hundred percent. We're at, Yeah, listen for exactly. I just beentioning pro one eight hundred flowers. I mean, you know they're going to do contact the less delivery. Okay, I go to all my I go grocery shopping, I go to Mario's, my favorite pizza place. I go to all my favorite restaurants, how you know, Chris and Tony's and LAPAs at Rothman's when they reopen I'm I'm gonna I go to my local Delhi, I go. You know, I'm going everywhere I can try to spend money. And I'm not I'm not saying that. I'm saying I feel so bad for people. You're trying to keep their freaking doors open, and you know they're all struggling. And it's like everyone else around the country saved New York's ass because they got up and they went to work. They didn't close down. And there's we gotta find the ways to do it safely. Okay, if it means that in New York you have half your workforce in New York City work from home, all right, you just built in all the social distancing that never existed. Then you put everybody in a temperature check to get in a building. When you have more testing, you can do that too. Then you put everybody in masks and gloves in the workplace all day long. You know what, open the city up, do it safely? Say with Yankee Stadium. I talked to Randy Lavini. He said, with the Yankees, all right, maybe you start Bill O'Reilly's way and you just just show it on TV. I'm cool with that. But then you know if everyone gets the temperature check. They actually have these turnstiles I told you about. This company makes them where everyone's you walk through and it takes you temperature that fast, pretty amazing. So the equipment's there. The Yankees will build, you know, Brandy Levine, I don't want to speak firm, but I'm sure they'll. They'll make mass with Yankee emblems on it, or Mets emblems or Jets or Giants emblems. Let the MLB, let the e NHL, NBA, NFL, Let these guys do their thing, work with the health officials to make it safe. And and if you if you're sick, compromised immune system, underlying conditions, take the year off. Don't go to a game. Don't go. I'm sorry, I would recommend you not go. But there's ways to do it. Do it safely. You can test. Everyone that works at every stadium, makes you give them the real test. Nobody can no food handle or no ticket taker can't be working with unless they test it. Same with the players, coaches, trainers, etc. You can do it. If you want to do it, you can do it. Um. I don't know how you open a bar. Maybe I just Louis if you have any ideas you're not to open a bar. I have no idea. I don't know how you pull off. No, I just bonn shooting ranges. But you know, we did everything she has. We separated every other stall, we had curbside service. Uh. But but you know this isn't this isn't only about my shooting range. This is about you know, Tennessee shore stores. This is about Flori's restaurants. And these places can't even afford to pay their mortgages and we're trying to hold on. And the fact that she's picking winners and losers. Where where the big box doors are gonna record these record earnings at the quarter and New Mexico is going to be recording record bankruptcies from small businesses that will never open our doors again. It's you know, it's it's to the end the bat show. We can't afford this, right, we got We're too smart not to not to pull it off. We're too smart. And here's the issue. New Mexico has two million people, the fifth larger graphic area, and she just pushed us back from the first to the fifteenth and made a statement that she'll only open once a vaccine is out, well, that could be in December. By that time. The only you know what, she's not gonna have to worry about reopening New Mexico because everybody's gonna be closed. But you know, the big boxes will still be going and it's gonna put the rest of us out of business. But um again, New York stead if people, if the whole country shut down, we were dead. We'd starved to death. We'd have new medicine. Our frontline medical heroes would have nothing. And they're the ones that they saved the day they saved New York. Without that logistical support, supply chain support, we wouldn't have no food, we wouldn't have any medicine, we wouldn't have any protective gear, nothing. They did it. Good call, Luis. I wish you. But what's the name of your place? By the way, we'll give you a plug. What's the name Caliber's indoor shooting ranges in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Yeah. I had a guy in Florida, Felix. He just uh, he's down in Sarasota area. He's I bought some stuff from him recently, really good stuff. I'm actually really happy about it. Thank you. Felix. Thank you, sir. All Right, Amy Colorado, what's up baby? How are you hi? Sean, thank you for taking my call. You'll be happy to know that funding is going to marijuana shops in Colorado. I read apparently today. I know, right, and it's pretty crazy, but at least our governor decided to open the state up start eating on the twenty seventh. And just a little example of how we can do it in a smart way. I go to your nail salon and my Neil Salon actually sent me an email today stating their opening on the first of May, and that all they're deep cleaning the entire place. They're doing the spacing so that we have shewsful distancing. They're thanking me a certain amount of customers. They're obboy to be wearing Ppee masks. They asked their customers to wear masks, and that's that's all they're asking of us is to wear masks, and they're going to do the rest pretty much. So there are ways of getting a happy medium between taking things seriously and you know, doing things smartly so that we can get our economy going again. Listen, I just want the best for all of you. I'm a little concerned about nail salons. You know, I don't. I've never been to a nail salon for myself, but I used to take my daughter. I mean, she hated when I took her, and Lenda hates when I tell this story because I never knew the process of going to a nail salon. I mean, you do the whole thing, right, You stick your your feet in the in the pool that they have, right, you get the massage that they offer. You do the whole thing right. Um yeah, usually I do a predicure and a manicure, right. It takes forever, you know, it's I've never I'm like, I'm like coming out of my skin. So I would hire two people, then I'd hire three people. I tipped everybody really well, so they all wanted when they saw me come in, they they love me. But my daughter was like, Daddy, it's embarrassing. You know, nobody else here has two people working on them. Why are you doing this? I'm like, because we get out faster, and I guess that apparently takes away from the experience. Linda's shaking her head. Yeah, I mean I don't really understand if you're supposed to be getting your nails and your feet done, and it's supposed to be relaxing. I don't think having you standing around, chopping at the bit to get out of there is exactly the most relaxing experience. Quite frankly, I think you should wait in the car. But that's just me, okay, I just I don't know how people do it. I just like I don't understand. Tell you what about how do people do it all day and hang first of all to day. I can't talk about that because I'm you know, eighteen shades of sea through white and I burn at the drop of the sunlight. Okay, all right, but it's not that. It's just even if you sit under a what do you call it? Umbrella? Who can sit there for an all day? I want them blow my brains out sitting there on board to death. I think we should have a pole. After COVID and we're allowed to go back out and the salons are back open. How many people think you should go into a salon and experience this for yourself so that you have a better understanding of the relaxation that's possible when you allow yourself to sit there. When I allow myself, what do you think what do you think. Do you want to go get a patticure? There's one right up the street from the studio. I think I'll pass on all of it. How's that mmmm? I think we'll do a pole. I think you're gonna have to do with the audience wants. No, I'm never doing it. No, I'll not take a pole. You know why, because the audience would do it just to torture me. Oh, nobody wants to touch. It's disgusting. And you know what I'll do. I'll stand right next to you the whole time and I'll tell them to hurry up and hurry you think it's safe? You all right? So, because they're doing this in Georgia, I'm a little worried about what Kemp's doing down there because if Kemp fails and the tattoo parlors sound dumb to me, But if he fails down there, very dumb, okay, which he might. You know what they're gonna do. They're gonna say, see you open too soon. That's what they're gonna do. Said to open the right way and do it safely. We have to understand that as soon as we open, there might be some increases in what we see is people that are going back out after not being out for so long. Right, So there's a there's a potential for a raise in this. But I think ultimately, if people are doing what they're supposed to be doing, we could be Okay. We have to be safe and smart. Got to leave it there. The President just steps to the podium to our stations, Hannity, tonight at nine, We'll let you close this out. We'll see you back here to morrow Sea at a night at nine, Thank you very much. Later this evening, we expect the House to pass Paycheck Protection Program and Healthcare Enhancement Act. I'm grateful that Congress is answering my call to deliver these additional three hundred twenty billion dollars in relief for the American worker and for small businesses. At a time when many Americans are in ring significant economic challenges. This bill will help small businesses to keep millions of workers on the payroll. You see states are starting to open up now, and it's very exciting to see. I think it's very awe inspiring. We're coming out of it, and we're coming out of it well, and we're really I'm very happy the governor has been The governors really have been doing a really good job working with us, and it's it's really pretty impressive to see. I've spoken to numerous leaders of countries over the last forty eight hours and they are saying we're leading the way. We're really leading the way in so many different ways. Well, I'm also very pleased at Harvard. Is your know, it's Harvard and Stanford and Princeton and numerous other universities in college as also large businesses have sent funds back to us, and in some cases I stopped funds that I looked at, and we are police to report that the funds have either not gun out or it's about three hundred and fifty million dollars and either they're not gone out, or we've renegotiated it and they're not getting them. So it's a couple of cases they're sending them back and sending them back immediately. So I think it was very nice. I want to thank Harvard in particular. They acted very quickly and decisively, and they agreed when they heard the facts that they should not be getting it. So we appreciate it very much from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and other institutions. The bill also includes thirty billion dollars to support small lending institutions serving distress communities, helping Countitalists, African American and Hispanic American small businesses. As we continue our battle against the virus, the data and facts on the ground suggest that we're making great progress. In twenty three states, new cases have declined in the peak week. Forty percent of American counties have also seen a rapid decline in new CA. Forty six states report a drop in patience showing coronavirus like symptoms. That's a big number. To keep America gaining momentum, every citizen needs to maintain the vigilance and we all understand that very well. We've gone over it many, many times. This includes practice in good hygiene, maintaining social distance, and the voluntary use of face covering a safe and phased reopening of our economy. It's very exciting, but does not mean that we are letting down our guard at all. In any way. On the contrary, continued diligence as an essential part of our strategy to get our country back to work, to take our country back. We're winning this, and we're going to win it, and we're going to keep watching. We're going to watch very closely for the invisible enemy. With each passing day, we're learning more and more about this enemy. The scientists at DHS have released a report offering a number of sites about how the virus reacts to different temperatures, climates, and surfaces. The findings confirmed that the virus survives better and colder and drier environments and does less well and warmer and more humid environments. I have to say that very excitingly. We're going to have somebody up, Bill, we'll be up in just a little while. It was a great report you gave, and he's going to be talking about how the virus reacts in sunlight. You really hear the numbers, you won't even believe them. US trials of the COVID nineteen have been going on and have been approved in the United States, Germany, UK, and China. It's big news and we're a lot of trials are going on and we have a lot of great brilliant minds working on this, both from the standpoint of a vaccine and therapeutics. We must be careful in all conditions, but we will, we will get this done. We're very close to a vaccine. Unfortunately, we're not very close to testing because when the testing starts it takes a period of time. But we'll get it done. And I want to thank the head of DHS Science and Technology, Bill Brian, for what he's going to be doing and what he's going to be saying and the report that he's about to give. I think it's going to be something that nobody's ever heard. It will be brand new information and very important information. My administration continues to leverage the Defense Production Act to dramatically increase the manufacturing delivery of critical medical supplies. We finalize three contracts to produce thirty nine million more and ninety five masks and ninety days. And as you know, we're also using a sterilization process some great equipment that will sterilize the masks up to twenty times per mask. So that's like ordering twenty times more masks and it's working very well. We just want the hospitals and the institutions where it is to use it. A lot of people don't use it. There's they're used to getting a new mask. They don't want to use it. They want to go and immediately get a new one. We're asking them to use the sterilization process. Every bit is good up to twenty times. Think of that. In addition to wrapping up our domestic assembly lines, we also have airlifted nearly seven hundred and fifty million pieces of personal protective equipment into the United States through our Project air Bridge, which has been an incredible thing to watch. It's really a military operation. The Vice President is now providing each governor with an exhaustive count by county breakdown of the privately distributed personal protection and this is equipment and things that are incredible. It's personal protective equipment. It's incredible, and it's all brand new and at the highest level. We're getting only the highest level. And also we're looking at essential gear within their states and as being delivered to different states quickly, and as we speak this way, the governors should know exactly what's being delivered through a private sector supply chain within their states as well as through the Project air Bridge. We're trying to get it immediately from the plane to the state. When we can't do that, we bring it into our facilities and get it to the governors. And we're getting them fast, and we're notifying them very strongly so they know it's there. Governors can use this information to quickly ensure that they get materials where and when they are needed. Today also want to extend my special thanks to our nation's incredible county emergency management teams who have been working relentlessly for weeks, around the clock, end on end to serve their communities, help distribute critical supplies, and save capitalists American lives. We salute these heroic officials on the front lines. As we continue to develop potential therapies, the FDA has recently begun a national effort to expand access to convalescent plasma donated from the blood of those who have recovered from the virus. The blood of these donors contains antibodies that can potentially reduce the severity of the illness and those who are sick and frankly those that are very sick. Nearly three thousand patients are now enrolled and the expanded access program receiving transfusions nationwide. And I want to thank all of the people that recovered for what they've done. As I said yesterday, they raise their hand when they barely can walk and they're saying I want to donate blood. I want to donate whatever it is that you want because we want to help people. It's really quite incredible. Convalescent plasma will also be used to manufacture a concentrated antibody treatment that does not have to be matched with a particular blood type. This concentrated antibody treatment could be used as a preventative measure to keep healthcare workers in other high with