All right, glad you with us. Mark this day down in your brain, two hundred days until election day. Now, what did I tell you? Even before Christmas, when I was going on vacation, I said, buckle up, get rested, because it is going to be a roller coaster ride. It's going to be up and down and emotional. And I just didn't think it would be this nuts. Everything that happens, everything you're watching, everything the mob does, everything Democrats do, is all filtered through a prism. And that is November third, that is the election. Everything is highly charged and you can't even get agreement on something to bail out small businesses. You know, it's interesting. Jim Jordan put out a tweet today. Let's see, Democrats want to pay states to release criminals. They want to free detained illegal aliens and out in California, give them a check. Closed churches, make abortion clinics quote essential, and stop gun sales. Republicans want to help businesses with the paycheck Protection Program, the one thing that everyone seemed to agree on, and get America open and back to work as quickly and as safely as possible. By the way, some good news, I mean, the first GM built ventilators have now arrived at hospitals and it's the first of thirty thousand that they're gonna make, and we hope you don't want them. And there's also about twenty other drugs. We haven't not spent what anybody's saying, it's a disappear. That's what's the RNA inhibitor drug we spoke about a long time ago. There's another rheumatoid arthritis drug that is promising. We'll ask doctor Oz later in the program. As we talk about that Texas, a lot of states are now opening, but even opening their state is now a political event and everybody wants to politicize it. It is a fascinating study in the democratic mindset conservative mindset. We'll get into that. We have an update Fox News, the News division, not the News of Talk Opinion division, as an update on US officials confirming a full scale investigation of whether coronavirus escape from the Wuhan lab. The one thing that we do know is that China stopped all travel in and out of Wuhan Province within China, but they left Wuhan travel open to the world. That means they've got blood on their hands. That means they knew it was bad. That means when they nearly doubled their death count today, as if we believe them in the first place, it is they think about how profound this is. The Chinese communist government stops travel to and from the Wuhan province within China, no travel. They had their own travel ban, the one member Trump puts in the travel ban, and they say it's racist. China was saying that the World Health Organization, they're kind of like the fake news CNN, conspiracy TV MSDNC, New York Times, Washington Post, if you will, of the communist Chinese, they just they just were press partners. And literally America is putting the bill for that. And I'll tell you right now, with all the money being spent, the four hundred and eighty fifty million or five hundred million dollars we spend every year, we need it right now and China needs to start kicking in to the entire world and pay for what they knew was a disaster. That is beyond whether you know the Fox reporting though that this there now is a full scale investigation because we now have officials within our government. This is Brett Bears exclusive on the Fox News channel that intelligence operators are gathering information about the laboratory. They knew but ahead of time, that there were a ton of problems in this lab. But we know that patient zero. Now they're not saying the virus was manufactured in the lab. I have been reading at least five thousand people sent me Kennedy, you got to report on this. It was a manufactured virus. Now, I asked, prepare, well do we know for? They don't think it's man made. They think it was just Patient zero bit by a bat, worked in the lab and then walked around Wuhan and it just spread like wildfire. Which I understand that there is increasing confidence that this outbreak again Fox News reporting originated in the Wuhan lab not as a bioweapon, part of an effort to show that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equally or greater than those in the US, and they've confirmed that they have taken in the US officials intelligence community the possibility of coronavirus being man made or engineered inside of China as some sort of bioweapon off the table and have ruled it out at this point. Again, this is not my story I've been watching it. I put a lot of faith in the in the people I work with at Fox. I'm watching it. But the most amazing part of it is they knew it was bad, and they let travel go all around the world, but not within their own country. Now that means as far as I'm concerned, and I think Tom Cotton and Dan Crenshaw introducing a bill to allow Americans to sue China, I think we ought to just start by taking the debt that they hold and saying you're not getting it back until we pay the cost of this. Because you you made this happen around the world in the sense that you are smart enough to protect your the rest of your country, but you didn't care about anybody else in the world. And the WHO director was your propaganda minister, your own CNN that ought to scare every single America. Everybody should be angry about it. I've been warning in detail, and I'm going to get into more of this as the show unfolds today. But I'm telling you there is there there's a percolating sentiment out here that you better not You know, the Kentucky governor's taking people's license plates down. That's not going over well, churches being ordered no singing during a live stream service unless they were in their homes. Then you have a California, you know, some of these restrictions and some of these fines and ripping people off of buses if they don't have a mask instead of just handing them a mask and saying here, if you don't have one, we have one for you. It's not going to end up going well, I'm just I'm telling you right now. And the the governors, I'll get to that in a second, their reaction to a lot of this. But the backlash is beginning. You saw this now, the beginnings of it. It in Michigan with Whitmer. Now, Whitmer's trying to fight back against the people that are saying your get at home, stay at home orders are way way more than what is necessary to keep people safe. And you're watching heavy handed law enforcement. I talked about this guy in Pennsylvania dragged off a bus for not wearing a mask. You know, look, people have to buy into this. You know, the idea that a majority of Democrats would be in favor of the government taking blood samples from every American and putting ankle bracelets on people that are COVID nineteen positive. That's not gonna fly. We have a constitution, we have a Bill of rights, we have civil liberties, and most Americans want their medical and they deserve their medical privacy. And if they keep pushing people this hard, this is what you're gonna get. And for the Michigan Governor Whitmer saying that the protests are gonna lead to an extension of stay at home orders and start fighting with the protesters who are trying to communicate something to her is a bad idea. There was a Reopen Colorado rally to end statewide health orders there planned for Sunday. Beaches and parks are to reopen in Jacksonville, Florida. I think most Americans they're they're fine with the social distancing. Most people have cooperated at the highest level, even in New York City. But you better not make it mandatory, or better not be ripping people out of parks and off of buses and off of trains and what you ought to be doing. The States, if they'd ever get their acts together, they need to know they wanted the authority. The President gave them the authority yesterday and basically said when you screw it up, we'll be there to back you up again. And it's it's getting ugly. Vegas dealers. You know, they want to wear masks that you can temperature check people going into casinos. For sure, you can test food hands whether they're COVID nineteen positive or not. There are many other options beyond which these myopic thinking people are out there. We've got to stop everything. We can't stop everything anymore. He just can't. Then you've got other representatives, protests, and people are willing to let thousands die so they can get there smoothie, Congressman Dan killed Thee whoever he is from Michigan. No, that's not what people were saying anyway. The Michigan governor now basically saying, yeah, you protest, I'm going to keep you in your house longer. That's not gonna work either. The Vegas mayor is saying, this shutdown in Vegas is insanity, makes no sense. There's ways to open it and open it safely. That's why I'm telling people. Look, look, I can only speak for myself as a citizen, and as a citizen, Number one, I want China held accountable. That's number one. Now that we know the extent of them protecting themselves and leaving all of us vulnerable and lying to the the world on top of it. So that's that's fact number one. Number two if it means for a short period of time, the governor has asked everybody in New York, and two is credit. He didn't ask for everybody in New York. Didn't. You're not getting a fine if you don't have a mask. If you if you're not socially distant, he said, wear a mask. And okay, I'm willing to do that. Why because I'm in great shape I've been in I'm in the best shape of my life right now. But still I don't want to get the virus and then give the virus to somebody who might have a compromised immune system or underlying health issues. So I'll do it for them because I want to be a good citizen. If the choice is no Yankee games, no Mets games, no Jets, Giants games, or you get your temperature checked with the thermometer, assuming that everybody that works at any stadium, they're going to have to have a positive negative COVID nineteen test, food handlers, trainers, players, You got to protect the players, etc. But if it means I have to wear a mask, well, the Yankees would be designing masks that they can give out. The Mets should be doing it, the Giants and Jets should be doing it. And if everybody has to wear it, if my choices no game, sit at home, watch an empty stadium, or wear a mask, I'll wear the mask. If I have to sit my beer through a straw, I'm willing to do that. But I can't speak for all of you, but that would be my choice. We know that these rallies to reopen the economy, they're now spreading all over the country. This is now I'm telling you pay attention to this. You know, drivers swarm the Michigan capital. By the way, drivers never stopped working, Farmers never stopped farming. You know those packers never stopped packing. Manufacturers yet GM we're building ventilators and building face shields and building and manufacturers producing and ninety five masks, respirators, gowns, gloves. They all kept working. That's why the stores are still full. We have Governor Tom Wolfe now he's he had his bill veto would allow more Pennsylvania businesses to open up. You got a fight in Michigan is getting louder by the day. The President tweeted out today, Liberate Michigan, Liberate Minnesota, Liberate Virginia. Look, I think most Americans will do it safely. We got it. We understand distancing mask, gloves, temperature checks. Privacy has to be key. If you don't add the privacy part, it's not going to ever work. So the President announces his plan yesterday. Now, Northeast governors, now I'm telling you this really amazes me. The President built all the hospitals for New York. He built the Javits Center, and then they asked for it to be converted to COVID nineteen. He changed the ventilation system. They built it in four freaking days, the largest hospital in the country. He sent the Comfort Navy hospital ship. Then they made that COVID nineteen. He provided all the personnel for those two massive high hospitals. Every ventilator that New York had came from Donald Trump. And most of the gloves, most of the respirators, gowns, masks, and everything else, and the hydroxy chloroquin all came from Donald Trump. Now they're Trump. This is what they're doing. According to the Blaze today that Northeast governors are working to trump proof their reopening plant trump proof, goodt good luck. Go. You're on your own, get your own testing kits. At some point, when do you contribute? And here's another thing that the states better understand that most of you liberal, high tax, high regulated states that were having huge budget deficits, you don't get to put the bill on the American taxpayer. And this is where Republicans in Washington better do their job. In other words, they got to earmark the money. Okay, we're gonna earmarket towards ventilators, we're gonna earmarket towards hospital equipment. We're gonna earmarket directly to workers displaced. We're gonna your market to small businesses and big businesses. And that's it. Then the governors can do what they want. Let them take some responsibility here. You know, the federal government the biggest, most massive medical mobilization in the history of mankind. They've got a role here too, except bitching and moaning and groaning on television every day. Give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me, give me. What's their job? I mean, at some point, what do they do? All right? Lest we roll along eight hundred ninety four one Sean, you want to be a part of the program. All right, Northeast governors, you want a trump Proof you're reopening plans. Go trump proof it. You've met, you asked for the freedom, the choice to do it your way. I had Governor Cuomo on yesterday. Governor, I gave you my best ideas. Fifty percent New York City workforce works from home. Everybody gets a temperature check going into a New York building. Everybody has to wear even indoors masks and gloves. That's my plan. They got to eat in a confined area where there's a lot more social distancing than the six to ten feet as it relates. I would open City Field and Yankee Stadium. Everybody that works in the stadium, players, trainers, coaches, food handlers, ticket takers, all of them have to have a COVID nineteen test. The Yankees, I'm sure, the Mets, I'm sure will be glad to do that. And everybody. If you want to go, these are the rules. Temperature check. On the way in, you have to drink your beer through a straw. You can get a hot dog, take a bite, chew it under your respirator. But you can't eat popcorn because that means you can't keep your respirator on. That's it. If that's the choice, either I go that way or don't go. I'm gonna go. That's you know, that's how you open things up. Right twenty five to the top of the hour, our hour, call in your questions with doctor Oz coming up at the top of the next hour. We've been doing this in the middle of COVID nineteen, especially with reopenings. Whatever questions you have. By the way, there's not a dumb question on this. I know some people maybe or uncomfortable. Well, I don't know if I want to answer. There are other people thinking it whatever it is. And you know, it's my job to do the deep dive into you know, hydroxy chloroquin resenda beer and all these other treatments and ventilators and gloves and you know that's but it's not the average person's job. And you might have questions that other people will probably be thinking themselves. So I think anyway, if you want to call in, it's eight hundred and ninety four one sean quick questions. We'll get your quick answers. We'll move the show get as many questions and answers in as we possibly can. You know, I'm watching this whole thing unfold here, and I'm watching Governor Whitner. Whitner of Michigan literally vowing revenge on Corona's shutdown protesters, said she's now considering extending her guidelines in response to Michigan residents who protested the stay at home restrictions on Wednesday, calling irresponsible, she was on with a conspiracy theorist over there, a conspiracy television area of fifty one Roswell Rachel Maddow show, we might have to actually think about extending stay at home orders, which is supposedly what they're protesting. Ooh, sounds like a lot of contempt for people there. The blaze goes into these Northeastern governors banning together to find a way to trump proof their plans to reopen their state's economies. Governor Cuomo several other Northeast governors reportedly developing a plan that they hope would part attempts by the President to influence how and when they reopened their state economies. I'm not sure what press conference they were listening to yesterday, because the one I was listening to a president said he's letting you governors decide. Now, you know, I love how you all now want to hand all your power over to Donald Trump. The fact is, look, I'm trying for the sake of my fellow New Yorkers in the time of national emergency. I'm trying to work with the governor. I don't want any more New Yorkers sick. Were I made phone calls. Let me put it this way. We have called TeV La in Israel about I'm sorry Teva. It's the manufacturer of hydroxy chlora quinn in Israel. We've been in Londa. How many times were you in touch with people or people surrounding or people cannot We've reached out independently many times. Okay, we've been in touch with doctor Josh Umber, our friend at Atlas MD, which he's still taking questions if anyone in the audience has them, Yeah, he is. If you want to give that out, you can, if you take it any medical questions. People haven't. He's doing it for free, just like doctor Z. These doctors haven't slept In case you're interested, and because they're trying to get the treatments that will keep people alive and stop the death. That's what these people are committing their lives too. And you know, but this is what they're up to anyway. So and I'm watching, so the President was obviously watching Governor Cuomo, and I'm trying to get everybody along here. When the President, when the governor New York would not allow pharmacies to dispense hydroxy chloroquin, which every doctor that I know in New York wants to prescribe to their patients. The only way you can get it is go to a hospital. Now, if you don't have COVID nineteen before you go to the hospital, your odds a buch pretty much higher. You're gonna have it by the time you leave that place. It's like at you know, Petrie Dish in all these hospitals, don't you know if you're gonna avoid it? And remember the vast majority over eighty to ninety percent of people no symptoms, mild symptoms, just regular flu symptoms. They don't get the full on attack assault on the lungs that this thing is capable of. So Cuomo's doing his thing today and he's apparently saying that the federal government has to provide the what is it? I guess the testing and you know, now I'm looking at this from everybody's point of you here. I understand the governor's feeling an intense pressure. I understand the President is feeling an intense pressure. President. You know, whether you like Donald Trump or not, what this guy has done has been nothing short of miraculous in a record period of time. It's transformational. It is something you'd never see from any lifelong bureaucrats made for the times. I mean, starting with the travel ban ten days after the first known case, then the first quarantine in over fifty years, and the subsequent travel bans. It saved lives, saved, how many it saved this from being so exponentially worse. Now. Governor Cuomo on the show yesterday, to his credit, said, yep, that was a good call, and the President has delivered for New York. I wish we could have left it there now. I don't know why the governor's saying that the federal government, why it's public. I don't know why he's making it public, because the President's not going to take the public criticism, especially after he provided all the ventilators and built all the hospitals. Manned all the hospitals, converted the hospitals, like the largest in the country at the Javit Center that was not designed to be COVID nineteen, to take on those patients but overflow other patients other issues that they have anyway, redesign that redesign the Navy hospital ship Comfort sent You know, they didn't buy the ventilators in the state. In two thousand and six, New York City was told to buy ten thousand ventilators. Now, all right, give Bloomberg credit. He bought five hundred of the nearly ten thousand they recommended. They didn't buy any from the twenty fifteen November twenty fifteen ventilator recommendation that said, this is a foreseeable, predictable event. Peak week will be shy fifteen thousand, seven hundred eighty three ventilators. You know, now we're getting back to you know, at that moment when the governor said I need forty thousand of them, and that's where I went sidewayst. I resolved that with the governor. I'm done with it, and I want to open New York now, but safely, because it's not if it rebounds, it's when it rebounds. Every doctor we've talked to says the same thing. Now, you have to mitigate, but we can't destroy the country. The cure can't be worse than the problem. Now we've learned a lot. Okay, my plan for opening New York City buildings is the Hannity plan. Okay, if you've got a better one, use it. It's not about my ego. I don't have an ego in this. I just want to see people back to work because I know people want to get back to work, all right, So temporarily a new normal in life, especially in New York City, is going to be your temperature check before you get into a building. That's not that expensive. I actually did the research. Well what do we find out. We found out digital thermometers they work the best. You can get them for as low as six bucks. I bet if you buy it in bulk, you get it for three bucks. Then they have the imprared thermometers for non contact screening. It's a little more money, but you can get them as low as fifteen to twenty bucks. According to our research, the thermal cameras, which is the fever detection requirements the world has renewed interest in that technology. That's where you're can have large groups of people and see if there is you know, I worry about civil liberties, medical privacy here, but there might be a way to do it. But you know it's government. How can you ever trust anybody but the digital thermometers? Okay, find out how do I buy them? How do I buy lots of them? Maybe people can buy their own thermometer. Maybe we give allowance everyone buy a thermometer. Everyone get a free thermometer in the place of work. Whatever. But you got to take a temperature. If you're going into a building and you're gonna have to wear a mask and gloves. Half the workforce has gone, we're working from home. New normal. Okay, they'll make it work for a while. It's this is not permanent. This is temporary so that we don't have a huge rebound and have to go back and do this all over again. Then the next thing is, okay, you now have half the workforces and in a big New York any building, that means it's there's more social distancing. If everybody wears the gloves and the masks all day as inconvenient as that is, okay, then that you're lessening the opportunity to spread the virus. If you hit a hot zone, you know, you come in like a swat team, and then you do all the contact tracing. That's it now, you know. So after the President builds all the hospitals, sends all the ventilators, has New York's back, puts all the personnel on at the Javit Center. So that's that's all our brave men and women in the military, all the personnel on the Navy ship, you know, all the hundreds of thousands of mask gowns, shields, gloves, it's all been given by the federal government. Other hospitals built around the place, every ventilator that they need, and it's like the government needs to provide the government needs to provide them. Like at some point the governor's got to say, all right, I'm going to handle this part. They've got to do their art. And so the President was clearly watching it said he should do spend more time doing, less time complaining, Get out there, get the job done. Stop talking. We built you the thousands of hospital beds that you didn't need or use, gave large numbers of ventilators that you should have had, and helped you with testing that you should be doing. We've given New York far more money help equipment in any other state by far. And these men, great men and women who did the job. You know, never hear the thank you. And then the governor goes out today then he starts with you know, he's asked about the president's tweet. Maybe he should get off the couch and go to work. Okay, that's not going to help the governor. That's not Oh and what do you we thanked you many times. What does he want of bouquet of flowers? No, he wants everyone to roll up their sleeves and do their part. Now I'm reading that the Northeast governors are working on their Trump proof They're reopening plan. Okay, go trump proof it. Go do it on your own. Don't have any problem with that. Go get your own thermometers, Go go buy your testing kits. Now I've called over to Abbott. How many times do we contact Abbot? How difficult has that been? Linda has been very hard? Right, Yeah, I mean I think a big part of the problem that we're dealing with a lot of these people is they're not media savvy, you know, they're they're scientists. They're medical professionals, and here that Sean Hanley wants to talk to you, and they go in a full fledged tailspin and panic. That's what they do when I'm just trying to get information that I can pass on to the audience. You know, two weeks ago, we didn't have an antibody test. Now they've got a million of them thanks to Abbott, the five minute test. That's Abbot. How do you mass produce them? That was really my question. And then the states they ought to be now thinking about buying their own thermometer, is buying their own test kits. And the President will help if there's any hot zones that emerge here. You know, for Governor Whitmer in Michigan to talk about taking revenge, we're gonna actually extend the stay at home orders, etc. All right, that's good luck getting reelected and being Joe's vice presidential running mate. The chairman of New York City Transits screaming that they're gonna need a four billion dollars, Well, what the people in New York is their transit system? Why are you gonna need four billion dollars that they you know, the writership may only reb okay, Well, then put some of the trains offline and have less service in the interim since nobody's using them, or very or a few people are using them, might be longer waits. Whatever the Blasio insisting the funding, you know, he's funding his wife's two hundred and fifty million dollars vanity program that goes on. You know, I bet New York State would love to have back the waste at seven hundred and fifty million dollars they spent on the solar factory that flopped, or the six hundred billion on the micro chip. Why is any state government getting into that and ninety million in light bulbs. It makes no sense to me, makes no sense to me why they're you know, New York doesn't do fracking. But you know, I'm just I'm not. This isn't personal. I just want everybody to live, and I want to get life back to normal. You think I love my own opening Yankee stadium plan. Not particularly. I don't feel like going to a game and wearing a mask and gloves. But if my option is no game, or I get a temperature test on the way in and I have to wear a mask, Hopefully the Yankees will make a nice one and give one to everybody, and gloves. I'll wear it. I can't eat popcorn and peanuts. I'll eat a hot dog. I'll just open my mask, take a bite and chew it underneath my respirator. I'll drink my beer with a straw. I guess it has to be a paper straw, because you can't use a real straw. Paper straw makes everything taste like crap. By the way, point, you can make a point. This is a very ironic point, and I hope that everybody listening can appreciate this. Trying to bring everybody together. Can we talk about the big plastic cup that your paper straw is going into, just for like a hot second. I mean I might only I think they have paper cups by law. No, I get all my drinks and in a plastic cup. Okay, moving on? Can I can I continue the show? Now? Sorry? Biden? Oh? Now, first we had Obama, those angry um Pennsylvanians that cling to their God, their guns, their Bibles and religion remember that their Second Amendment. Yeah, And then we had irredeemable deplorables. And now we've got liberal quid pro quo Joe. Oh did you get that audio that I asked for Joe Biden? Yes, So remember Joe, Joe's having another moment. It's not good. He has his own deplorable's moment. But first let me go to this. Remember what Joe said, all these truths be so I don't know all men and women are created an equal and the thing women creative, you know, the you know the thing, the thing being everything, God everything, the creator of everything. Yeah, we have it. Another one of those moments. You got the hand of a softball on fake news. See and then listen to this one. I don't quite understand why we're taking so long to do the kinds of things that that have to be done. But you know, there's a during World War Two, you know, where Roosevelt came up with a thing, a thing that you know, was totally different than a different day than the called he called the you know the thing the World War two. He had the world the world for production board. We don't set up something like a pandemic production board. What do you think the task force is? Joe who supported the travel ban two months and three days late. Now he's going after the president's supporters. You know, this is Joe and asked if he can go after Trump's space the people I grew up with, white, working class, high school educated people. He said, there are people who support the president because they like the fact that he is engaged in the politics of division. They support the notion that, you know, all Mexicans are rapists and all Muslims are bad and dividing this nation based on ethnicity and race. He goes on, this is one of the few presidents who succeeded deliberately trying to divide the country. Not you know. He says that we're gonna have a difficult time, but he's building a transition team. Apparently here about that transitioning from what a remember who's on it? Yeah, I have a bad podcast to a worse podcast. Okay, Joe, you're you're doing better when you just shush, just be quiet, don't talk. You're doing better, just you know, otherwise they're going to replace you. Unbelievable. All right, our two Sean Hannity's show, Glad you're with us eight hundred and nine four one Sean or toll free telephone number. You want to be a part of the program. Doctor Roz is going to be taking your calls for most of this hour. I have a couple of questions though. First, to get out of the way, I want everybody to know this that since the beginning of this I don't think this man has slept more than two hours is a night. How do I know? Because well, all over the world, in different time zones, from China to France, to Europe to everywhere in between, he's making phone calls. He's making phone calls. He is doing the deepest dive, not just on hydroxy chloroquin, but on other medicines that are potentially life saving treatment helping of the American people. We spent a lot of time talking about ventilators. The first ventilators came off the GM assembly line today and they're gonna We're gonna have plenty of ventilators. We now, thanks to all of the pharmaceutical companies, we have enough hydroxy chloroquin. This drug what is it called rezende bee? What do you call it? Saying redissevere whatever. I can't remember all these treatments. I'm not a drug addict, drug pusher. What do I know? And I'm not a doctor. But anyway, they're showing great promise and he found doctor wattson the premier expert on lupus rheumatoid arthritis, and his digging, he found the French studies, two of them. He found the one in China. I'm always questioning that. And he's talked to doctors and patients, doctors that are prescribing their different medicines and treatments like hydroxy chloroquin and other things, and the patients that have tried them and used them and are bragging that they saved their lives. I mean, it is incredible what is going on. It is incredible the amount of effort that this man has put in, and I just want to say upfront, thank you. And in the process doing his shows every day, he does hits with all a lot of his local affiliates and big markets. He does Fox and Friends every morning, it does our show every night, and then we get off the phone. And if he's not talking to people all over the globe, he's talking to people like me that are losers asking stupid questions all day. I've just come to really respect how hard he has worked and his level. This is his life's calling. And you know, everybody in medicine, just like everybody in politics, has an opinion. But there's nobody that has worked harder and help more than doctor Oz. And it's great to have you back where. You're very kind. I appreciate, by the way, it's all true. But I think the latest we stayed up with like floor I am talking. I think I think he said to me, I do have a hit in an hour and a half Fox and Friends. I don't know what time it was, but thank you for all you're doing. I know these questions are important. Look, I now we now have numerous treatments that you have been talking at length about. We now have the challenge of opening up New York City and every state in the country, but New York City. Obviously. If we can do that successfully, we can do anywhere else in the country successfully. The smallest geographical area, largest concentration of people. My plan to open New York City, it's just one plan. I'm a talk show host. I have an opinion on everything. Would be half the workforce in every building stay home, essential personnel. When they come in, they get the temperature checked all day. But the meantime for the interim, you wear a mask, you wear gloves at work, social distancing because half the workforce is at home, and if you have a hotspot, you go in and you literally lean down on it as hard as you possibly can. Now, I also want to open City Field and Yankee Stadium. Now, if you're if you have underlying medical conditions, if you have a compromised immune system, just take the year off. You can't go the same with football. But if people would be willing to get everybody that works in the stadiums have to be tested positive or negative of COVID nineteen, we have the ability to do at least that temperature checks for everybody coming in, everybody wears a mask, everybody wears gloves. If they want to start out every other seat. I'm not married to that. I would prefer that if people do it that way, I think we can success. That's fully open football, a major League Baseball, and the Yankees and the Mets and the Giants and Jets can make their own emblen you know, face masks bots. Well, it's most of us in line with what the White House Task Force came out with last night. And just to reiterate, there's some public health measures, right testing and tracing, right technology can up there. There's health systems issues I was going to point out, which we got to make sure we have enough capacity in our hospitals. We have enough protective equipment to put masks and everybody all those kinds of things, and we need that. That's that's pretty important because they will kill these tendents if you get a bunch of people seek again and run into a New York lived throw. And then there's the individual responsibility part that you pointed out, social distancing, the hygiene staying home if you're sick, which is you know, use of that. We don't want to do that anymore. And of course you got to wear masks as you know, whenever you do stuff, if you want other people going to work. And then of course if this gating criteria is how they called it, as met over the course of fourteen days to see a continuing decreasing cases because we want to keep you safe, and theoretically you can go to the next step, you know, phase two, where you said take a little bit more leisure activities into account, you know, restaurants and things like that. But you pointed out the biggest takeaway, which is that life for vulnerable people who have comorbid conditions will not return to normal anytime soon, right, and in fact that they're not going to let the return to have a vaccine. So for that population, which is you know, half the population has colomorbid conditions, we've got to half the population would has underlying medical conditions or compromised immune systems have. Yeah, if you include obesity, which is one of the colombid conditions, it takes you to half. So we have to be thoughtful about who's most at risk of those people and how to keep remember that they're not going to be locked away. They get they're going to get to go out, but at the very beginning, we don't want to have folks in the community when something happens that we didn't expect. Because if we're doing this and there is a hot spot, you want to make sure that people in the hospit are healthy as possible, so you're not gonna be in a hospital fighting for their life. And most of the people who are without chronic conditions don't end up in a hospital, So by definition, they're going to be doing all, you know, struggling maybe at home, maybe not having nobody symptoms, but at least they're going to survive and do okay. Now, the reason I lay out the plan this way. Look, I'm healthy. As a matter of fact, I recently had my blood taken and I sent you the results just for the hell of it because I was bored late at night and you laughed. I weigh one hundred and seventy seven pounds. I'm in the best shape of my life. I've more muscle than I've ever had in my life, work out like crazy. I'm in pretty good shape for an old guy. So I don't fit into that category. The only reason I really will accept where in the mask follow You know, everyone has to accept it, because I don't want to. If I got it, I'm gonna probably be fine because You're gonna be all over it, and all my doctor friends are going to be all over it. Whoever, whatever hospital I'm in, they're gonna hate me by the time I leave, because my doctor army is going to come in every second of the day because all buddies of mine. But I don't want if I got it to infect somebody that might die from this. That's why I'm willing to do it. And if it means to me, okay, if that's the only way, If the choice is either I wear the mask, or I can't go to the game. I'll wear the mask. I'll do it. I'll drink out of a straw, I'll eat hot dogs, just lift my mask, take a bite, and then chew it under the respirator. I'm willing to do that for a short period of time. It's not going to be forever, right, No, No, Well, and by time you get to phase three of this, then vulnerable individuals can go out in the public interacts a little bit sought to fractice social distancing and minimizing exposure. But by then you'll have proven that you can do these things without getting sick, and that'll give everyone comfort. That will be in the right space. In your opinion, would that plan work for City Field, Yankee Stadium, and the Metal Lands Again, they're outdoor arenas, outdoor stadium. Yeah, I think it'll work eventually. If I wouldn't start there, let me start in parts of the country that haven't been hard hit by this virus. And New York is really you know, we still have hospitals full of patients. That's you know, And I know you're talking about months from now, but I'd like to see how parts of the country that have not been hard hit have done. I love to have the task force evaluate what works, what doesn't work. We may find surprisingly effective tactics or new medications that help us with them with certain types of patience, things that we don't even know yet. So what we don't have to predict the future. But I think our aspirational goal is to be able to occupy those fields before their seasons are over. Certainly in football season, you have enough months that you can get there. But what happens if you have an operate We've got to be ready to get rid of fans and just continue the games themselves, or you know, God would bid we have another big outbreak. We'd have to deal with those as well. Now one of the best This will be the last question I asked that we'll take calls from our listeners for the rest of the hour. You have been searching and looking on and you've been asking people that are taking hydroxychloroquin for either lupus or rheumatoid arthritis. For those people that are on it, that have been taking it that are also that have also contracted the COVID nineteen virus. The last time I asked you this question was probably a week ago, you've been actively, along with others, trying to find that person that has been using hydroxy chloroquin for what is on label use and also contracting COVID nineteen. Now there's a study at your affiliated hospital, Columbia Presbyterian. There's another one at NYU langon going on. Have we found people? I found about two dozen people who say that they were on hydroxy chloroquin and contracted COVID nineteen. Statistically, again, if everyone in the country heard me, then you'd have many more than that. But the fact that we have some gives us a place to start to be can started evaluating with it, taking it regularly, What was their dose, how it they exposed? Was this exposure a lot? And it just gives us some clues. The insurance study is continuing as well, where we're trying to go through a bunch of insurance records and figure out what percentage of people who are already taking hydroxy chloroquine chronically. We can tell that because you can see what their insurance records are dictating, and then we look at their medical records, it can tell if they got COVID nineteen. Now that we've had two weeks of official COVID nineteen data entered into the Medicare database. It makes it easier for us to query this. And again, what the reason for the audience that we're trying to do this is if it turns out that people who are already on hydroxy chloroquine get COVID nineteen a lot less, and it's a clue that it might be a preventive strategy we might want to use. And there's some great hospitals like the University of Minnesota Governor nom in the group and at Sanford Health in South Dakota are actively involved in doing clinical trials in this as well, doing a huge study in Christy nom State in South Dakota. You're right, yeah, she just tell them about it, all right, Doctor ros will take your calls for the hour. Right as we continue, Sean Hannah showed doctor Roles taking your call. Bob is in Maryland. Now he has a fib apparently and an artificial heart valve. I would imagine hydroxy clarquin might be tricky for you, Bob, but asked the real doctor, doctor Oz, how are you. I'm doing great, doctor Oz, thank you and bless you for what you do. I was curious how susceptible you think I am with the seventy seven year old, otherwise healthy male, but I do have occasional a FIB. It's been it's been corrected a couple of times, so I'm in and out of a FIB. I have a per kind heart valve, and I was just wondering how that stacks up for for this corona susceptibility. Bob, do you have high blood pressure or elevated blood sugar? Um? Not sugar. My blood pressure runs just a tad high. I'm you know, I'd say at average one thirty five over eighty, that's better than mine. Yeah, I have medications for it. I am yes, all right, So then you're considered hypertensive even though you don't have it right now. You're treated for it. So you're definitely high risk well from age and also because of high blood pressure. And I just would feel terribly if you got COVID nineteen and I think you're in that category that John and I was speaking about earlier that should stay out of the mainstream of life, certainly in that first phase when people are just beginning to work out the kinks and see what's safe and what's not, and then depending on what happens, you'll probably be phased three before you start going out. And you may also want you say this, and I'm going to wait till the vaccine comes because some major advance happens and we end up at the vaccine earlier. So right now, time is on your side if you just hide out. So that's what I would do, all right, Boba, wish you the best. It's a good call. Kathy is in Texas with doctor Rosa. Kathy, how are you hi? Thank you. I was wondering if we would change our diets to like a keto or carnivore diet with intermitte fasting, would it boot our immune system so that would reduce the symptoms of the virus. Well, theoretically, intermittent fasting would help your immune system, but it's never been checked against COVID nineteen, and we're not talking about the kinds of immune boost that would dramatically change how much of virus can take advantage of. Because these viruses are weaponized, right, they get these little pipe spikes on them, They penetrate into these cells in your nose that they perfectly know how to unlock. So I wouldn't trust that just going on a special diet would help prevent me from getting it. On the other hand, every little bit helps, right, So if you're sleeping well and exercising daily, both of which message to your immune system that they need to be on the alert, eating the right kinds of foods, and then, as you mentioned, intermittent fasting, potentially these become attractive things you could try in the meantime by im indeed, by the ways is not getting not shown for the coronavirus, but for other the cold and other traditional viruses. It seems to reduce the chance of getting it. And you can just get that from the sunlight outside. You're very fit. You know, you're obviously keep your weight down. How do you do it? I intermitted fast again. I do it for a bunch of reasons. I think I'm sharper when I do it. So I generally don't have breakfast till late morning, depending on what I'm doing during the day. So I'll work out first thing before this all started. Of course, quarter of virus start, I don't there anything except I'm still doing my workouts. I'm not stopping. Well, go ahead, God bless you. But otherwise just hammering away, trying to make sure that that I don't make any foolish moves of my diet. I'll tell you one thing that I gave up a long time ago, as dessert, because dessert is metabolic suicide. I'm given up dessert. I don't even have a taste for it anymore. I'll tell you one thing I'm not giving up drinking. I refuse. Yeah, well, line becomes dessert, right because if you're not, let me have a term massous with good Kiante. That's a great point. All right, your questions, your comments for doctor Oz next half hour. Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina coming up, and we're obviously we'll take the Coronavirus task Force if that opens up straight ahead, by the way, working from home, if it doesn't present enough challenges in your life. Are cybersecurity experts that they're telling you you better be extra vigilant. 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Before we get to the next call our Crackerjack executive producer Linda, who does not listen to her boss, Doctor Oz, because I told her to stay home and she comes in half the time. Now anyway, she said, what do you mean it's metabolic suicide. I can't have dessert? That was her question. Do you want to ask? Is that my asking you? Yeah? I mean, I mean, Doctor Oz, there's so little. I mean, I eat tons of blueberries, I do peloton every morning. I eat salad every day for lunch. But a girl's got to have a little chocolate, a little kid Chris here and there chocolate. I don't mind it. If you have it in the middle of the day, that's fine. The problem is when you start taking a big dinner, and then you have after a big dinner, especially there's alcohol involved, then you have a big dessert. And what that does is signal to your insulin, which love the hormones in your in your buy that regulates block sugar. That's got a surge, and that stores all that food that you just ate as fat on your hips and else in your body. So I don't like to stimulate this a lot later in late in the day. So if you're gonna have sweets, you ought to have them earlier in the day. If you could have him lunch, you could have the middle of the afternoon. Just you know, it'd be nice if it was more than a couple hours after you had sweets before you went to bed. That way though, so the whole before six, it sticks thing exactly right after six forgive me, all right, let's let's go to cliff in Florida. You're on with doctor oz hi Yah. Yeah, doctor oz Is. You know, um hydro chloricuin is just synthetic quinine with drinking tonic water help boost your level so that you would resist the the coronavirus. I don't think the level would be high enough. I don't know it's ever been looked at. Obviously there was that was developed in its time for malaria, but I don't think the amount that you'd be getting enough that's it. I wouldn't start taking hydroxyl chloroquine to prevent COVID nineteen because we have no data that that's useful. You know, we're just starting to do these experimental studies, you know, like the insurance search that I was mentioning earlier, and having people who are taking it already who got COVID nineteen let me know so I can start to analyze them. But for the best divority of people, you should just do what you're already already doing. And plus you need to have a doctor involved because this is a prescription of medication. So I think people who have contracted COVID nineteen can have a serious discussion with their doctor. I don't think it makes sense to take a propolactical people. We have more data thanks for a good called Cliff Florence is in Staten Island, New York on the All New AM seven ten w R. How are you hi? How are you showing good? Okay? Question dot oz okay? What medical grade air purifies such as used in I see you be an asset in opening up our restaurant our offices the New York transit system of two million a day. Now, I know that it'll be quite a lot, but we can make them sean in America. But wouldn't that be a help? It would would people feel much more comfortable if our air is terrified. I think it's a good question because they had to change the ventilation system at the Javits Center. I didn't know that until the President mentioned it in a pressure He gave a good question. Hang on, doctor os in theory. Yes, I gotta say I never thought about it that widespread. I know that their company is completely revisiting how we clean our subways because that's like one of the tot spots in New York that we think might be responsible for a lot of people getting infected. If people have to get to work when we know when we eventually open up again. I hadn't thought about air purification systems like that, it might work. I mean, I think weable planes have air purification systems. Half the air that you get an a little event above your head comes from outside the plane, which directly free of virus, and half it comes from inside, which theory they would have virus from one of the passengers, so they use a different type of filter to clean it. But I don't know if it does anything to the viruses. All these are great questions. I gotta say, I want to get smarter in that area because I never thought about occupational health quite this way, and most of it's not geared for hed bitty viruses like this. So I think there's there's a lot of big opportunities probably to help people stay healthier in general, not just from COVID nineteen, but even from influenza. A friend of mine is obsessed with airplanes zones an airplane, and he said that he sprays his plane with an anti viral that lasts like ninety days. As it relates to could commercial airlines do that, should they do that? And if people wore masks on a plane on gloves, would that open up air travel faster or is that just a pipe drink well. When we do open up air travel, which is going to be you know, early in this phase opening up the country, it's going to be for essential travel. And I think people are going to wear masks. I mean I would not get in the plane without putting the mask down, not because they don't trust them, but just too many moving parts getting onto the plane, getting off the plane, that someone serving you a water, I mean, anything can potentially be at risk. So you're going to be all glambed up with masks and gloves and everything else while you're on the planes. And ideally they won't be crowded, which will be the huge benefit of only essential travel being allowed. All right, good, good points, Thank you, doc, Thank you for the call. Let's say hi to Jared Is in North Dakota. Jared, how are you? You're on with doctor Oz? Glad you called pretty good. I'm a trucker, So I was just kind of curious if if we've had the COVID and we've passed through it with no issues, are there antibody tests out there and are we immune? And if we are immune, can we get like blaze orange hospital bracelets to show that we're free and clear and we can go anywhere anytime. Good idea has been raised. The answer to the first part is we have antibody tests. Yes, have it just released one, We haven't others as well. We think we'll have a million tests in the country this week, within the next week, and then four million by the end of the month and hopefully twenty million by June, so the company's ramping up pretty rapidly. It's a very reliable test theoretically because you don't have to swab any part of your body and you're not going to miss it. It's your blood. So they take the blood, they look to see if their antibody's already made against this virus. Some are predicting the twenty five maybe have been higher. Percentage of the population could have already been infected and just had mild symptoms and got better. So it'd be fantastic to understand how many of us have actually been through it. And yes, it would allow you to go and travel more readily. However, there have been a few instances patients who had the infection got better and then got sick again, and we think that's because the virus never left their body, although we're not sure. There's always the possibility that you know, you got reinfected. So I don't want people to have feel like they're completely immune from getting problems. But generally speaking, you should be okay if you've already been infected once. And I don't know what in orders Blaze Brace said, because I think people would be able to say that a bunch of different things about whether they cheated, did they get it? Relieves in that. But yeah, I mean honors is probably the best way of doing it. Good call, Thank you, Jared. Let's say hi to Robert and Texas. This is a good question because I go shopping every weekend, doctor Oz, and I like to go and I talk to the guys that are stock in the shelves, and I've actually had to tell some of them, what are you doing? Put a mask on? And I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying. I'm like, these guys are stock in the shelves, they don't have masks and gloves. I'm like, what are you doing. You're you're opening yourself white, You're making yourself wide open. Anyway, Robert has a question about that, Robert, how are you? I'm also our first God bless both of you and your stabs for the work and the information y'all provide the nation. It's very important. I live in San Antonio. We're getting close to two million people. We have a major grosser here, AGB, whom I don't work for, but you know, we've been opping there for six to eight weeks, and two weeks ago they started implementing some safety precautions. The best of my knowledge, in the San Antonio area, only two HGB employees have tested positive. So how contagious is this really? My friends who are virologists, including Ian Lipkin, who was on my show today, says it's the most contagious virus he's ever seen in his life. So it is very contagious. However, for many people is a well tolerated virus. You're sick. I mean, you're not happy you got it, but you know, you do okay. For a lot of the younger folks, they don't get that many symptoms, So it's possible that people maybe even have had it in the community had not been hurt badly enough to they're identified as being COVID nineteen positive. However, there is a percentage of the population folks the chronic illnesses as we have discussed who did not do well with this virus, and they're the ones that we are all working for to help and we don't want them suffering, and so being super careful about all these moves ensure as we don't have hospitals and I sus packed with people who have, you know, a hypertension and normally would have been fine, but now their lives are changed forever because they got sick like this. All right, good call, Thank you, Robert. Let's say hi to Casey and Wisconsin. Casey, you're on with doctor Ozz. Glad you called hi. Doctor. My question is what constitutes a COVID nineteen death. I just want to understand, is it is it you know someone if they have underlying conditions, Is it because they contracted it they wouldn't have died normally with their underlying condition or what constitutes a COVID nineteen death. Well, this is a profound the question really insightful. I think for most of us, you contracted COVID nineteen and then died, it counts. That's what it is. For the influenza, for example, if you contract it and then you have a heart attack with the virus, it's still is one of the deaths associated with influenza. With this condition, the virus is aggressive in some people, and you can usually directly say it wasn't for that, you'd be alive. But there's going to be some people who were already really sick and then contract the virus. After that they were already sick, and then they die. You could argue it wasn't the virus's fault. But I think for now what we should do is attribute every person who dies with COVID nineteen as a COVID nineteen death, because there's no question. It makes you like a lot more difficult and I don't know any other way of doing it in an honorable way, because who wants to arbitrate whether you die from COVID nineteen or the cancer you are suffering with who you got it. And that's one of the problems. In nursing homes you have people who are older and trailer. In China, the initial admissions came into hospitals and they were all these people who are really sick in the ICU. When they got the virus, they died, and so you have to blame the virus, I think for that, not the fact that they were already in the ICU. Casey, thank you. Let's say hi to Markers in Virginia with doctor Oz. How are you mark, Good morning, you two actually get afternoon, and thank you for taking my call. My question is about allergic reactions. My wife has an alpha gal allergy, which makes youre allergic to most mammal products and especially ones it come in medications. We have to be very careful for it. I'm wondering the Zitheromanson or the other medication you take with it is possibly has mammal products within it that can cause allergic reaction. Well, it's a it's a complicated challenge, these these immunologic reactions that are happening because of spider bytes and bug bites and you know, tick bites. They are creating having because they're redding up our immune system and forcing us to do things that we don't really want to do, like making antibodies that are out of whack, and it does create drug allergies. And I don't know the answer to your specific question because I don't I haven't looked at it. And frankly, the number of doctors who understand alpha gall in those kinds of conditions limited, So this is a place where, Thank goodness, these drugs are prescribed by doctors, so they're do look on our databases. We'll see, Okay, this person with discondition with that antibod have a reaction with this kind of drug. I do know that historically patients have done pretty well with some of these medications, that they have not had major issues, and they have been many many have been prescribed in some parts of the world and out of the prescription. But thank who they are here, and that's kind of a detailed questions. They're the excellent one to raise because the doctor may have been thinking asking you if you have that problem. A good call mark. Thank you. Paul is in New Hampshire with doctor Oz on the Sean Hannity Show. How are you Paul? Glad you called? Thank you? Sean. Doctors in New Hampshire during the nice season. We have to worry about those wonderful things called mosquitos, and I know we worry about Tripoli and West Nile and we do have people, you know, very very minute, very small number of people that come down with cases and some even die. Is this disease or virus something we have to worry about. Being a lot of transferred from mosquitoes. We don't think this can convert to from a mosquito bite, but we're not sure. And that's one of the realities of this virus. Although it's been looked at and it will start was comfortable with that statement. It's been said by folks and you know, really spend their lives studying this. You never know. It could surprise us, but it's not one of the ways I would fear right now getting the virus. All right, one quick last call, let us say hi to Ron and Baltimore with doctor oz Hi. Hi, Thank you very much. My question is about the clinical trials that you're doing for HI drugs, the chloro queen and other drugs. The question is about how far off do we think it will be before they can make a determination yes or no, whether these things are effective as a days or weeks or months or what. No. I think I think it's months. It's going to take us that long because these trials you have to get the people enrolled in them, which takes time. And I'm aggressively trying to enroll people for this University of Minnesota trial, you know, contributing money, time emails, just try and get people to sign up for it, and you know, it's just slow going because how to get people to say, Okay, I'm gonna do fifty to fifty. I mean, I'm not sure what I'm getting. I'll do the best I can with whatever I got, because you got to you have to randomize your trial. If you don't randomize your trial, then you'll never know if you actually have a good solution or just you're providing great care and the drugs just happen to come along for the ride. Doctors, you're always generous through the time. And we've been doing this as we go through this COVID nineteen. How bad is it going to spread in other parts of the country real quick in the final thirty seconds we have. I don't think we're going to peak in hospitalizations for another week or two there for some parts of the country, Like the Governor Georgia was telling me, Governor Kemp, who's doing a great job down there, he doesn't need to going to peak till May seventh. That stated, if their peaks are much much smaller than the New York City peak, then it won't be nearly as painful for those areas. And so I think that the total number of hospitalizations may not come down that much over the next couple of weeks, even though the death rates may not go up because a lot people aren't in the ICU and we won't have any humanity carrying crises threatened where we just don't have enough beds for the people who get hell. But it is a lesson to us. Other parts the country are still suffering that the twenty four day washout at New York City had to go through. Doctor as you're doing amazing work. You're up night and day. You're generous with your time. This is your calling in life. It's when people are passionate about what they do. It's infectious to me. And one thing I like to remind everybody these are not words we sing. Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. That definds us we'll get through it and you're gonna help us. Thanks for all you're doing, all right eight hundred nine four one Sean Senator Scott I say bring the Senate and House Republicans back in session. Boat every day, by the way, quick break will come back, and much more on the other side, including more of your calls straight ahead on this Friday, coming up Next, our final news round up and Information Overload hour. Right News round Up, Information Overload Hour. We'll get to your calls. The Coronavirus Task Wars briefing is scheduled for six pm today. It looks like we'll have the full show. We'll get to a lot more calls as we continue. I'm lucky enough to call our next guest a friend. I've gotten to know him and love him, and he's great, and I don't know, I think he might be better than the other senator from his state, Lindsey Graham. Senator Tim Scott is with us. He's got a brand new book out. We're going to talk about that, talk about obviously what we need to be doing with Congress and COVID nineteen and everything in between. But the book is. We put it up on Hannity dot com. AT's on Amazon dot com. I normally would say bookstores everywhere, but you're probably gonna have to buy it online, but you can link at the Hannity dot Com Amazon dot Com. Opportunity Knocks an overcomer's story for the challenges of today and tomorrow and how hard work business community can improve the lives and end poverty. You know. I really never even asked a lot of questions about your past. I realized because they read the first the description of the book, and it says from a childhood of a father, fatherless, poverty to dreams demolished by a random accident to the floor of the United States Senate. New York Times bestselling author Senator Tim Scott's new book, Opportunity Knox offers a compelling case for what's possible in America. I did not know that you were the only African American black American ever elected to both Congress and the Senate in history. I did know that you are the only African American Republican in the Senate. And I want to know more about your background because I did not know you had you grew up without a dad, and this story about your dreams being demolished. I want you to tell people how are you? By the way, well, thank you? How are you? You don't shake Lindsay's hand when you see him, do whatever you do, I will not. He and I are practicing social distancing by doing calls together, but now ever in the same city at all. So if he's listening, he's gonna get mad. But okay, so I want to hear about this. Yeah, well, I was raised in a single parent household mired in poverty. My mother was a nurse's aid, the lowest part of the food chain in the hospital. She changed bed pans and flipped patients for sixteen hours a day, and it was come home. And she wanted two things in the last She wanted her boys to become successful, and she always wanted to know. Wanted us to know that the way forward is work, hard work, and integrity. So she worked sixteen hours a day to make sure we had a model in the house of hard work. She couldn't get a better job, but she wanted to always have a job, and that stuck with me. And then I found myself seoan on the wrong path. Frankly, I was a freshman in high school. I was funking out of high school. As a freshman, I felt Spanish and English. When you fail Spanish and English, no one calls you bilingual, boy, call you bi ignant because you can't speak in anything. By the way, we would have been best friends at that time of life, because I was incorrigible. But I won't interfere with your great story. And so I also felt World geography and civics. Civics been the study of politics tells me God has a sense of humor. That I wound up being a United States Senator. Unfortunately, after seven years in the Senate, I noticed on the left there are a lot of people who are not passing basic civic for our nation. I'll say this that, well, what turned you around? I mean, in other words, because I look, I had a similar story. I mean, I was financially independance since I've been ten and I you know, when I was twelve years old, I come home every Friday, Saturday, and even Sunday night, you know, like two in the morning, you know, flying home from the restaurant I worked in on my bicycle. Having had two same poly girls before, we have similar stories. Then I started working at thirteen years old. What turned me around, Sean was two things. The prayers of my mother, and then as a fifteen year old, I met a Chick fil A operator, a guy named John Monie, and John for some reason took a liking to me. His sons and I became friends, and he slides this Chick fil A sandwich across the concession stand at the movies that are where I was working, and he started telling me that football and entertainment are not the paths forward. Yes you can succeed, but always think of yourself as a business person. Work for yourself, no matter who you're working for. Those lessons they started to really percolate in my heart. He started telling me that having a job is a good thing, but creating jobs is a better thing. And he said, one day, I want you to know the difference between making a profit and having an income. When you make a profit, you can change commune unities. When you make an income, you can only change your life. And literally, through four years of being mentored by a small business owner, conservative Republican and a Christian, he embodied the future I wanted to see in my life. And he was a white guy, by the way, and it's part of what you will read about an opportunity Knox. And sometimes we spend so much time on the negative racial history of our country that we forget the positive racial realities of this country. My life was transformed by a guy who saw the content of my character and he forced me to live up to my highest ideals and not just think them, but to walk them out. He said, faith without works James two seventeen. It's dead exactly, and I bet for a kid that you know was thrown out a church. But now let me ask you this now, because my mom was a prison guard, work sixteen hour ships our whole life and died. I died young because of it in my view. But um, my question, now, why was your father not there? Did he pass away or no? My parents got divorced when I was seven years old. He was an air force, uh person and and and a good guy in many ways, just uh, he just had some challenges that manifested in the relationships. So we moved back to South Carolina and from seven until I was probably twenty three twenty four, we had a very strained relationship that up. I'm sorry. Did you eventually patch it up? We did? It took it took me twenty five years is to start that process. And we are better friends today than at any other point in our in our lives. It's a blessing from the Good Lord to have a second chance and chance at redemption. And he and I have been able to become friends. We're talking close, of course, that's I think it's hard. I think listen, you know, look, I always get in trouble when I say this, But I mean, you know, like moms bring a beauty and a love to kids that that no man can offer. It's just a thing I don't know. But and and you know, it's always my role to be the bad cop. That's it. I'm the bad guy. And you know, I keep telling my kids, you're not my best friend. I don't need a best friend. My job is to be your father. That's it. And when you know, I want to be kind and nice and best friends with them, and when they get a little bit older, hopefully we're there. But until we got to that point, I'm still got to be their father first. By the way, we got to call him from South Carolina. I want to talk to you. Um uh Lyne three. You're on with Senator Tim Scott. Who's this? I don't know who's this. I know who this is. This is Lindsey Graham. This is your partner in crime. Senator. Yeah, I like shot. I hate kids. I'm not don't hate kids. I love my kids. Hate kids. I hate dogs. Buy his book so he'll what do you mean you hate dogs? I mean that's gonna go. Virals. Tell everybody you're kidding. I am kidding. Like kids, you're allowed to hate bats. You can hate bats. Uh God, I hate Chinese baths. Yeah, you know, I know you guys are very close. I mean, I can tell the story. You guys are very very close. And sometimes in the Senate you have two senators same state they hate each other. That's not the case with you guys. I'm absolutely not Lim's He's been a blessing to our state. And he's an African American Republican and that's no easy thing in this world which we live in. And I mean I was hearing you know, I've heard this story four but to him, it's it's inspiring. And uh, you know, the Republican Party's lucky he had him. He's a great conservative, but beyond that, he can connect with people at a level that a lot of us can't. I just appreciate Tim. Uh. You know, Linda's a good man. I tell you, Sean, I know you make fun of Via Lindsay, but Lindsay has been a great senator. And I'm I did say, senior citizens, I said, Senator oh Man, And well the other then, when you got part of the trio, which is Trey Goudy, who for a while was a pain in my ass because he wouldn't come on the program. I'm like, what is up with this guy? He'd only he'd only go on Hannity when Jason Chaffitz was filling in, And finally I just started calling him out on air until he finally gave in. I talked to him yesterday. I told him I was on your radio show. He loves you. Nah, he's a great guy. I listen, you know what I'm looking forward to, honestly, I mean, I'm thinking, like everybody else, I can't wait to get outside, go to a restaurant, drink a beer in a restaurant, have a steak at Hall Steakhouse. Now when when when Senator Graham was was being quarantine Senator Scott, I literally felt bad for him, so I sent over like food for twenty people. Then I realized, oh, he's an isolation. I should have thought I could have saved a lot of money, but I did everybody in the neighborhood. By the way, I'm probably you're probably gonna have to uh now if I fill out some Senate form or handed, they're gonna they're gonna accuse me of trying to bribe a senator when he was in isolation. Well, it was under fifty dollars of value. You seen him over Taco Bell, so that was fine. Yeah, Blaco Bell Hall's steak. Yeah, okay, we'll go along with that story. There's no evidence. You hate all the evidence. Isn't that the stupidest That's just the dumbest thing. But you know you're worried for a while. Let me ask you both, why have you both of you are doing a great job. Um, Can we make a rule going forward that any more money's if there's gonna be money, because we never spent two point two trillion before, we never you know, opened up four point five trillion in loans with the Fed. Can we say any more money has to be COVID related period, Clean bills only, none of this the Endowment for the Arts you Kennedy Center, I mean, no changing election or immigration laws. How about a clean bill and insist on it in Republicans unite around it. Senator Scott. One of the things that Lindsay and I both did on the floor of the Senate we try to find a way to pull back from the craziness brought to the table by the Democrats. If you look at the list of Pelosi's plunders, she wanted not twenty five million for the Kennedy Center multiple times more six hundred million for the humanities. They drove it down. But you are one hundred percent correct. We need clean legislation that is temporary and targeted for COVID nineteen and nothing else period. Lindsay, yeah, amen, Amen. The first thing we've got to pix too, Sean, is that Kim and his colleagues and Finance Committee came up this small business loan to allow people to bar two and a half times our payroll to keep their employees attached to their business until weekend, you know, start open up the country again. And that's a good, good idea, But we also created unemployment benefits that paid people more not to work than to work. And Tim and I had in amendment and you supported us. Every Republican I think but one or two voted for it. But right now we got an odd situation, Sean, where you're paying people more to be unemployed than they were getting at the job site. And if we don't fix that, we're never gonna have an economic recovery. We gotta get this country open. Now you guys have the Gamecocks down there, and you guys have football down there. We we gotta make it. I put out a plan last night to the dopey talk show Hostality Plan. Anybody's welcome to improve it, but I want Yankee Stadium open. I want USC football for you guys in the in the fall. And if I have to get my temperature taken before I get in the stadium, if I have to wear a mask and gloves, I'll do it. If the choice is stay home or go through that, I'm willing to do that. Senator Scott, here's what we need to do, and the President is moving in that direction. Lindsay and I are both on the President's task force of Senators to get this country back up and running. The first step, as he said, is we have to expand the number of people that can gather. It's hard to do business in a restaurant if you can't have them coming inside. He's been spot on because he's an entrepreneur who understands how to open businesses. He is helping through three phases us get this country up and running, and to do it with an abundance of testing so that you know who has had it and who does it. Lindsay, We're gonna let you go, Senator Scott, you stay, Senator, thanks for checking in with us and helping our friend. The book is called Opportunity Knots, an Overcomer's story for the challenges of today and tomorrow, how hard work business community can improve the lives and empovery. It's an amazing story and background. Senator, there's a guy from South Carolina calling in that New York granddad. We're gonna take that call next Ryan, as we roll along, Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina. Opportunity Knox and overcomer story for the challenges of today tomorrow, how hard work business community can improve the lives and then poverty. Amazon dot Com, Hannity dot Com. Senator, we have apparently somebody that knew your grandfather, Ryan and South Carolina. Ryan, say hi to your senator. How are you Ello, Senator Scott, there was a misunderstanding. I didn't know his grandfather. I heard a story that Trey Gaudy told about Senator Scott's grandfather that I wanted to make a comment about. He said that, Um, he told a story he was preaching at a church. UM. Not your grandfather, but Trey Goudy, and he told his story. He said that your grandfather would sit at the table in the morning and thumb through the paper, but that your grandfather couldn't read, but he wanted to instill in you how important it will. It's not only to read, but to read the newspapers. Is there truth to that? And if so, I have an additional comment, yes, and ran, Yeah, thank you, Sean Brian. That is a true statement without any question. When I when we moved back from from Michigan to my grandparents' house, the first couple of years we were in Charleston, my grandfather would have his cup of coffee in newspaper. He wanted to have a great example of just absorbing all the news in the newspaper. And my brother and I would sit there and watch him read through it. And you thought he ran years later, I didn't know. He did not know he could not read until fifteen years later. Unbelievable. Anyway, the book's phenomenal. It's called Opportunity Knox, an overcomer story for the challenges of today tomorrow, how hard work business community can improve the lives and the poverty. Senator Tim Scott Amazon dot com, Hannity dot Com, and he will be joining us on Hannity tonight. Nine Eastern. Senator, You're an inspiration. This book is great people. They need to get it asap. Thank you for being Will us see later eight hundred nine for one Shawn your calls next. I had twenty five to the top of the hour. Will get to your calls here in a second. Well, Linda, I tried. I have tried now to get some peace between the governor and the great State of New York, Andrew Cuomo and the President. But it's just not meant to be. I mean, I give up, but at this point, I just have to give up. The President's watching Cuomo's press conference today, and you know then Cuomo's saying, I need you know, testing, I need to I'm like, and the President is like, well, okay, I built you, you know, five hospitals. I manned the biggest hospital in the entire country, the Javit Center. Because you needed manpower, you needed personnel. I sent you the Navy hospital ship. I sent you all the ventilators you asked for that you needed and you had. Now you're given away my ventilators. I mean that's what he said. And all the masks, gown, shields, gloves that were needed, and even the governor on this program yesterday rightfully said, and I the President delivered for New York. I thought I was bringing them together. Now opening New York City is gonna be the biggest challenge and one of the things that you know, if we stop the death. That's what the doctors and the researchers and the scientists. You know that I put so much faith and I think they've done a great job. And you know, we have now been able to break down the sequence of a virus faster than ever. We now have phase one trials for a vaccine going on, but that's fifteen months away in all likelihood. So in the meantime then we've looked at all of the treatments that are available. Resem devere, how do you say, die red? Dissevere? Write it down for me and send me a big thing. I keep forgetting all um. I sound like Joe Biden. No no, and hydroxy chloroquinn. And you know all these doctors wanted it. Well, the President provided it for New York and New Jersey Democrats they you know, he he's putting in a travel ban. I will tell you what a decision that was in retrospect ten days after the first case. And the media will never give this man credit. Media just hates this president, hate him. So the President is like, okay, you governor's asked for the authority. They're all asking all this. No, we're gonna tell him how to Okay, you got the Now you got the authority. And if you're gonna open up your city, your state, you better have a plan. And if you don't do it right, we'll have to come swoop in and save you again. But you know when a president not only build you all these hospitals, sends his hospital ship, send you all your ventilators, send you all your hydroxy chloric win, send you gloves, mass shields, everything you need. And by the way, in New York and California, not exactly states that are voting for Trump, Trump saying this is about death. We were all hands on deck. And so I guess he didn't like the governor out there saying that the president has got to provide more testing. And he got pissed. Then he tweeted out governor emotion, spend more time doing and less time complaining. Get out there, get the job done. He's been saying that to the governor's all over the country. That is, we will have you back, but you got to do your part. Stop talking. We built the thousands of hospital beds that you didn't need or use. We gave you large numbers of ventilators, the over five thousand that you should have had, he said, and helped you with the testing that you should be doing. We have given New York far more money help equipment than any other state by far. And these great men and women who did a great job. Never hear you say thanks. Your numbers are not good. Less talk, more action. Now Clomo has asked the question during his daily press briefing, and it because that's when the tweet went out, and his responses, well, maybe maybe the president should get off the couch and go to work. I'm like, really, the president is also watching this press conference, He tweeted thirteen minutes ago, quote Governor Clomo should spend more time doing and less time complaining. Get out there and get the job done. Stop talking. We built you thousands of hospital beds that you didn't need or use, gave large numbers of ventilators that you should have had and helped you at testing that you should be doing. It goes on a little bit more so, wondering if you could respond to that, and then also the question about the overwhelmed I sua, let's respond to the president. First of all, if he's sitting home watching TV, maybe he should get up and go to work, right really? I then I tried, I tried. Listen, you got two New Yorkers who have lived their entire lives acting like this. It's not going to change. And even if they both have the same goals, A friend of mine always says, a lot of us have the same goals, but we just take different paths to get there. So I just hope that their paths and anyone even further. I mean, this is now if there were a husband and wife would be called reconcilable differences. At this point, you know what am I supposed to do? Send the bouquet of flowers. That's what Cuomo said that the President doesn't want to help on testing. The President already is helping on testing. Over four million tests have been done nationwide. Well where are the drip? Drive? Up? Testing is five iterations ago? Two weeks ago, we didn't have Abbot's antibody test. They now have a million of them this week out there. Abbott did that. Now the government is the president said if you can get it cheaper, go get it cheaper. We'll have your back if you need help. Beyond that, I mean, you know, we've been calling Abbot. We called, you know, the pharmaceutical producers Teva in Israel about hydroxy chloroquin. We were working with, you know, doctor friends of ours. We had our good friend at Apa Atlas MD, doctor Josh Umber, and we had a doctor Oz, you know, and we were looking. At that point we didn't think we had enough hydroxy. Now Nevartest is doing one hundred and fifty million doses, bears doing doses. The first ventilators came off the GM assembly line. Today they got one hundred and fifty thousand ordered. We're gonna have plenty of them now. The next thing I think we'd probably need is a lot of masks. That's in the pipeline. Everybody's hands on to make them, and the testing is changing every day. You know, they're thinking they nobody knows this, but I have sources telling me that they now I think have found a new saliva test. Did you hear about that, Linda. Yeah, they're actually doing it in Pennsylvania where they have you driving up, they have a bucket and you spit into the bucket. It's corect. Well, thank you for that. That was anyhow, so I mead about that app that might might be able those sort of artificial intelligence you cough, and they can tell of maybe you need to be looked at. Listen. I think there's a lot of things that are already in play. I mean, if you look at anything you do online and you get ads that pop up for things that you're watching, I mean, it's clear there's a lot of things that already tap into who we are. If it can be used to save a couple of lives, that's fine. But I just think that line between overreaching and trying to help is very very fasting. I just find that, you know, when Cuomo goes out there, what does he want? A bouquet of flowers? I'm like, Okay, you're never going to fix the relationship with the president and the present. But acate Devil's advocate, No Devil's advocate, and he says, the only thing he's doing this is what he says, the only thing he's doing is putting power in state's hands. I'm like, are you kidding me? That's not what he's doing. Look what he's done. New York was screwed without Donald Trump's help. I mean, they had no ventilators, they didn't have any extra hospital beds, they had nothing prepared. And so okay, now, Governor Cuomo, all these other governors wanted the power. They got it right. And then he starts, he starts lecturing the president and on the tenth Amendment, he goes, what are you what are you gonna grant me what the Constitute Juan gave me before you were born? Just what he said today, it's called the tenth Amendment. I don't need the President of the United States to tell me. I'm governor. I didn't need the President to tell me the powers of state of a state. I don't need the President to read the Constitution for me. Maybe he should have read the Constitution before he said he had the power to open the states. Now, if you want the guy to help you, you're not helping your cause by doing all of this. He's not, especially the guy that, in his own words yesterday said delivered for New York. He's picking a fight. And it's actually to President Trump's credit, he hasn't allowed that to get in the way despite all of the things, like Gavin Newsom is a perfect example. They have so many lawsuits against this administration sixty eight. But President Trump has done everything he can for the state of California despite how much they are against him. And so to President Trump's credit, he looks beyond you know, sort of the tifferts at that's going on in the politicization of I just want dying to Let's first thing first, we want the dying to end if we can. That's why, that's why we've spent so much time focused on this program, on the treatment to save lives. That's it. We did it for that one reason. If you stop the dying, then you prevent further contraction. And again, if the patterns play out, what do we have we you know, if the pattern is that you have a leveling off and then after the leveling off, then you have a slight decline than a precipitous decline. But then you have to watch out for what they say is when, not if, and when the rebounds happened. The hotspots. They talked about this at the task force briefing yesterday. You got to jump on it in record time. Now in the process, they got to get more thermometers, more mass, more gloves. And I'm just looking at all right. I'm not saying I'm a panacea that I have all the answers. I'm telling everybody what I would do. Now. Other states are gonna have it a lot easier in terms of opening up. They never close. South Dakota, Idaho is now open, but there's still practicing social distancing. Now, I'd like New York City to open because it's such a big part of the economy in the financial capital of the United States. So for the economy in New York. Opening New York City, you have the smallest geographical area, the highest concentration of people in that area. Okay, it's more complicated. So the Hannity plan, if you will, is that everybody gets the temperature taken, everybody inside has to wear gloves and masks for the time being, fifty percent of the workforce has got to work from home. So you build in the social distancing. You have to figure out how people are gonna eat and eat safely. That's doable, and and at that point, then you just got to watch it. It's gonna be a lot about temperature taking. And as these tests come online, they're going to get cheaper and cheaper and more readily available. There are twenty five tests in the right now. In the hopper we've been They've been moving the ball in one iteration after another, and it gets better every time. The antibody tests, the five minute test, a six and a half hour test, a twenty four hour test, the three day test. You can test everybody eventually, but get the city up and running. Now. Why have I focused on a plan to get Yankee Stadium open? Why have I focused on a plant? Because Yankee Stadium is important to the economy. And I will tell you what I would do is the same thing everybody. If you want to go, you can stay home. And all those ticket takers don't work, and all those vendors don't work. I think they'd rather work. But that would mean that all the people that work at Yankee Stadium, they're gonna have to have the test COVID positive negative. You got to maintain medical privacy, civil liberties, constitutionality. That's obvious. I've been saying that over and over again. But if everyone gets the temperature taken, doesn't just because you could be asymptomatic and still have it. So if you want to open up Yankee Stadium and you want to open up the meadow lands for football for the Giants and Jets, and every other outdoor stadium or city field for the Mets, well, I think if I called Randy Levine over at the Yankees and said, hey, Randy, why don't you build start making Yankee masks and hand them out to fans as they come in, they all wear the same mask. For me, my choice. I'm not telling other people what to do. If my choice is to stay home or get my temperature taken, wear a mask, wear gloves at Yankee Stadium and watch a game, I'd rather go. That's my choice. Now, if you have underlying health issues compromised immune systems, you might have a different choice. You might have to sit this season out. But if you're generally healthy and everyone else is in a mask and everyone has the temperature taken, now what if somebody is a hot temp Well, I think you have a protocol. The protocol would be very gently saying sir, ma'am, can you come over here, By the way, you have a temperature. Here is our recommendation. You know, go to see you doctor, Go get a test. You might This is how you isolate if you're home from other family members, so if you do have it, they don't contract the virus from you. This is what contact Tracy means. Think back who you were in contact with the last fourteen days, to the extent you can and call them all done privately. They don't know your name. They gave you the advice, but they can't let you in Yankee Stadium. Then you're always gonna have its New York. Then some idiot that's not gonna want to wear a mask, so you walk over, You hand the guy a mask, and the group of guys a mask. Of guys, you got to wear it. That's the rules, or else you can't watch the game. You ask nicely, you hand them a mask. Then they want to be jackasses. There's always a jackass, and you're gonna have to say, guys, don't make us do this. Please wear the mask for the safety of other people that want to watch the game and abiding by the temporary rules. And you know you'll de You'll deal with a few. I think most people will accept it for the health of other people. But we gotta get moving. We gotta get this country up and working. We got to. We can't afford it. Where a consumption society. When these numbers roll in for this quarter GDP unemployment, it's gonna suck. But this quarter is April, May and June. It's only April seventeenth. We got two and a half months left in this quarter. Let's accept this quarters gone. But by July, let's have the country up and running with more ventilators, gloves, mask gowns, and more more ability to identify and test by the time a possible fall rebound happens. That's the only thing I can think of, is am I missing anything? Linda, You tell me if I'm dumb or smart? I mean, listen, I work for you. I think you're a genius. So yeah, so you're doing the opposite of the como thing. You're just lying time where no, I mean listen. It's it's a tough situation. But at the end of the day, I think they both want to do the same things. They just go about it very differently, and they want to make sure one of them looks like you know, they're fighting for who looks like the tough guy here. It's okay. You know what, I don't think any president could have done more for any one city. I completely agree with you. I think he did a lot. So I don't think it's in Andrew's best interest to, you know, be firing back. I need, I need a need. I won't call Abbott, call the temperature. You know, people make a deal. Everybody wants to con all spending has got to be clean COVID related spending. That means, that means hospital gear, small business, displaced workers only. No more crap in these bills, and the faster we get up and running, the less money the American taxpayers are going to be on the hook. You can't have these governors and mayors all over the country trying to balance their budgets off the backs of this virus. That's the next thing that's going to happen. You watch mark my words. All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today and letting out your heartbeat troubled Handay Tonight at nine the President's Task Force. Now we'll have the latest updates. Have a great weekend, see you Monday.