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Nancy Pelosi's now gotta sell this pork-ridden bill uh to the House radical extreme caucus, even though there's so much crap in this thing that it makes me it should make every American sick to their stomach to watch what is unfolding and has unfolded in Washington.
Uh at a time we don't need this.
We really don't.
We need one bill to help American workers, American families, small businesses, their employees, and big businesses that basically have been shut down because of the virus.
You would think that's something, okay, we're gonna we're gonna stick with all the important stuff here.
That's not true.
Now, before I get to the stuff I'm really angry about, okay, there's gonna be full paycheck replacement for Americans uh of their wages, those Americans without a paycheck through no fault of their own.
Okay, we're helping American workers.
I can live with that.
Uh and for example, they're pushing the money out sooner.
I definitely think that is a necessity.
Uh, we know that they put another 13 weeks of federally funded unemployment insurance available, uh, and expanding access to even allow part-time self-employed and other people.
Normally it's hard to get that in certain circumstances and get around all that.
Uh, monies that we have been laying forth, uh putting down now for infrastructure for the healthcare system, uh, very, very important.
That's 150 billion of this bill, at least, maybe more.
Um, we have protections and loan guarantees.
Let me just explain.
Six trillion dollar stimulus plan.
Now, two of it is in spending and four trillion in liquidity with the Federal Reserve.
Let me translate that.
That is loans, in case you didn't know.
You know, it got so tense last night.
Lindsey Graham, Steve Daines, you know, on the Senate floor saying, you know, to just put an end to all of this.
Meaning, stop negotiating.
Because what the Democrats are doing and what they're fighting for is insane.
And the fact that they're doing it while Americans are watching and Americans are waiting, and the stock market, by the way, up another 1200 points today.
Yesterday, the biggest single gain day ever in history.
But we've been taking a lot of hits on Wall Street.
Well, that's people's retirement.
Uh the one thing does need to be some perspective here.
And I I have said many times on this program, I am not a big Wall Street guy.
But any investment guy that I've ever spoken to and check with your investment people, we'll tell you if you put money away and you're not going to touch that money in the next 10 years, history has shown you will usually be fine.
Um, depends if something happens at the time you're gonna need it, but you make you make provisions for that as you get closer.
Uh if you have a good financial person.
But anyway, people are struggling through no fault of their own.
And what have we now for days been watching unfold?
Not action.
No, we're seeing the most radical leftist socialist agendas following Rom Rombo Deadfish's rule.
And he even reiterated that rule this week.
Never let a crisis go to waste because if you because then during the crisis, you're gonna be able to get things done that you'd never ever otherwise be able to get done.
And that's what was happening with Schumer and the Senate and Pelosi in the House.
Is they had a deal, but they're like, nah, let's go in and get every wish list that we had.
It was telegraphed by James Clyburn and every unrelated, you know, proposal, a lot of it straight out of uh Alexandria Casio Cortez's Green New Deal.
It's a wish list of garbage that attacks every big, you know, it it is basically every single thing that you would ever want if you're a radical left-wing socialist democrat.
It's all there, including, let's see, Obama phones.
Uh oh, let's let's include illegal immigration in this.
Uh oh, let's Uh let's let's raise the minimum wage.
Let's uh make permanent paid leave.
Let's uh oh, let's pay off the debt of the postal service.
Uh let's pay off student loan debt.
Uh, apparently in this version, they're still giving 25 million to the JFK Center Center for Performing Arts.
Really?
Is that does that help the American worker?
But they're they're willing to fight for this because this is the only time that they have maximum leverage.
Because the adults in the room, the Republicans, now their backs are against the wall because they have a sense of urgency.
I never saw Susan Collins or Mitch McConnell as angry and animated as I did this week, by the way, to their credit, because they were fighting to help the right people and not waste the rest of the country's money in the process with this with this wish list of theirs, including, oh, let's let's let's pummel the airline industry while we're at it.
Let's kick them in the teeth while they're down and see if we can't just totally destroy them and hurt them.
Let me tell you something about the American people.
Everybody in America that I know and people that I read online, you know what they want?
They want to go back to work.
They don't want they will they want their jobs and their lives normal again.
Uh, but in the meantime, you know, if we're gonna bail out Europe and rebuild it after World War II, and if we're doing if we're capable of beating back every evil force in the world, uh and keeping the world free and sending aid all over the world, we certainly should be able to help out American workers through no fault of their own that need our help.
We we ought not be debating every controversial issue and shoving it down the Republicans' throat, because then it becomes a matter of okay, the adults, they they they feel the urgency.
They want to get money to American workers.
They don't want businesses shutting down because they're not acting.
They, you know, big businesses, they need help too.
There is no real airline industry anymore.
If we don't bail out the airline industry, it's not their fault that this happened.
It's a pandemic.
It's not the cruise line industry's fault either.
Never been a big cruise line person.
Americans love to go on cruises.
And they hopefully will go back one day.
But to make to do what they're doing and throw this temper tantrum and be willing to die on this hill.
Well, what is the purpose of this?
They're doing it because they know right now is when the only opportunity that they could probably ever get this done.
And so they're gonna use that pressure.
25 million in funding for the JFK Center for the Performing Arts in DC.
I can tell you, I have no plans for the rest of my life to ever see the JFK Center for Performing Arts in Washington.
I have no plans to do that.
And I don't really care if it gets 25 million in improvements.
And now the Democrats, they fought.
What do they want?
They wanted 300 million dollars for both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Well, that 300 million was in the House bill.
Well, the Senate knocked it in half.
Okay, we'll give you half of your crap.
Can you sign the darn thing so we can get aid out to the American workers that need it?
I mean, this is how sick this is.
And it's like they're being held hostage.
They know as adults, America needs the help.
Now, here's the other problem they have.
It's a political problem in a sense, but I think their their intentions are really pure.
They they feel the urgency of the moment I could hear it.
You could see it with Susan Collins, you could see it with Mitch McConnell.
They are like, guys, keep focused here.
Can we please act now?
America is waiting.
But no, they they hold off and they've got their wish list.
And they've got the biggest wish list of liberal radical socialist extremism that we've ever seen.
And they don't seemingly care at all about the people that are out there in the world that are suffering, their fellow Americans suffering during all of this.
It's pathetic.
It is sad, it's repulsive, it's pathetic, it's unbelievable.
And it's like, wow, you really begin.
You see, you know, you see in times like this, you always see the gr the best in people.
Look at American industry.
Look at our pharmaceutical companies, look at our health insurers, no copies.
Look at big business, big pharmaceutical.
Yeah, they're like producing It like crazy.
You know, any, you know, this uh hydroxy uh chloroquine, um, they have stepped up.
Uh CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Target, uh, big pharmaceutical companies, Ford, GM, all of these companies stepped up.
All of them, in a way that is so inspiring to help their fellow citizens in a time of need.
They've all stepped up to help us.
And it's like, you know what?
I say to them, hey, thank you.
Thank you.
It shows a side of business that has heart and compassion, which we've always known it does, but of course they make a profit.
And according to people on the left, the profit is a horrible thing, and guys like Bernie Sanders and the squad and everybody in between, they want to get rid of all profits.
Oh, why would you want to get rid of profits?
Oh, by the way, Pelosi's saying she can't commit to supporting even this package, because her speakership's probably in jeopardy because they're not getting the full 300 million for the endowment for the arts and humanity.
I mean, I I look at this thing and I uh rage builds in me on a way I can't even describe.
It is it is rage what they're doing here.
Because now that here is the Republicans' choice politically.
Uh, you go along with our waste fraud and abuse and our pork barrel projects and our protections of unions and our new Green Deal and carbon emission nonsense and the Kennedy Arts Center and the National Endowments for the Arts, and apparently there's even money for Congress in here, extra money because they have to work longer.
They don't get the whole summer off like they usually do, and more money for their offices, so they always include themselves.
Or you delay further the American people.
Now, let's say a Republican decides I'm not waiting, I'm not voting on this bill with your billions of dollars in waste fraud and abuse.
Well, this is the ad that'll run next November or this November.
It's gonna be Congressman so-and-so, Senator so and so when America called out for help, they voted no.
You know it, and I know it.
So basically, they have a, you know, if you if you stand on principle, the American workers wait.
If you stand on principle, America, small business waits.
You stand in principle, entire industry waits.
I mean, that is their choice.
There are workers struggling, businesses struggling.
We've been watching this radical socialist, you know, shift show unfold.
You know, they decided the perfect time to follow the Rombo deadfish, you know, lead.
Take advantage of the crisis and the wish list.
Let's see, wind and solar power and regulations against the airline industry, mandatory emission reductions for the airline industry.
Wow, uh mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases from the airline industry.
I'm like, wow, kick them in the teeth and bust open their head while you're at it while they're already on the ground bleeding to death.
You know, the Kennedy Performing Arts Center, the endowments for the arts, automatic extension, non-immigrant visas, uh let's get illegal immigration, uh illegal immigrants protections in this country, collective bargainings for unions, uh, oh, identity politics, quotas, racial quotas, and uh oh, well, let's get rid of student debt, let's mandate states, you know, require same-day voter registration.
Oh, we're gonna really be able to verify that voter as being legitimate as Americans suffer.
It's unreal.
So if you're an adult and you know that these people need help, what do you do?
You stand on principle, and it's a very good principle, or you suck it up, cut the baby in half, we'll give you half of this crap you want, and then get the money out to the American people.
It shouldn't be that choice.
But that's what they did here.
That's what they've been doing, and that's who they are.
It defines them.
This is their moment to get done that which they'd otherwise never get done.
And they're they're holding their ground, boy, and maybe even not supporting the Senate bill when they vote on it later.
Unbelievable.
Apparently, provisions in the Senate bill that were to require no form, requiring any form of identification as a condition of obtaining an absentee ballot.
Wow.
Requiring notari, notarization or regular witness signature, other than a formal authentic authentication As a condition of uh acceptance of the ballot.
That's what we're being told now.
And people in Washington sending this to me.
I can't you obviously can't read it.
I don't have a copy of it.
Nobody's gonna read it.
People now on Twitter are reading it faster.
Um, I mean, which by the way, to your credit.
Designate any person to return a vote, permit a voter to designate any person to return a voted on and sealed absentee ballot.
Oh, great.
No, I'm sure no, there's not gonna be any cheating going on ever.
May not limit how many uh there's no limit on how many voted or sealed absentee ballots any designated person can return.
Designated person, you don't have to return it yourself.
Pretty unbelievable.
You know, I I somebody sent me this.
It was a tweet from somebody else, which I found pretty interesting.
It's and and this is just sad, and I think it just is the all-encompassing of where we are.
Oh, and I'm told now it looks it looks like MPR and PBS are getting 75 million.
Both charitable organizations, aren't they?
501c3s.
Well, can't believe that.
Uh, somebody on Twitter wrote and it somebody sent it to me.
I don't know if I should mention the name, but it's on Twitter.
They are bail out profiteers while people suffer without ventilators.
They're exploiting what is a tragedy.
They're following Rom Rambo Deadfish's model.
Doing what they do now, take advantage of a crisis.
You can get things done, you're never gonna get done before.
And now, here's an apparently Biden is uh saying things about the Green New Deal in this bill.
I got to get a hold of that information.
You know, imagine now you're a Republican, you see all this crap in this bill.
You the you know the American workers have been waiting.
You've been waiting.
They desperately need the money.
They desperately need the help that they're gonna get.
How long are you gonna how long are you willing to wait to get this done?
Or just suck it up and take this crap.
Sad.
It is so sad that this is happening in this country.
We have a lot to get to today.
Bill O'Reilly coming up, Doug Collins coming up, and we expect the Corona Task Force, virus task force to speak up.
All right, 25 now to the top of the hour, 800 94.
Uh one Shauna is uh a part of the program here.
Uh glad you're with us.
Uh anyway, so the Senate, we expect is going to take up this bill tonight.
Things have been very contentious.
As the American workers that are displaced, uh, you gotta be kidding me.
This is what's been now been going on in Washington right now for days.
Senate's gonna vote on this tonight.
Now, what are we discovering is in the Senate bill?
Well, they're still including the 25 million in funding for the JFK Center for the Performing Arts.
75 million dollars each to the National Endowments for the Arts and the National Endowment for Humanities, but it's down from the 300 they were asking for each.
Unbelievable.
We have Joe Biden now saying in these ridiculous, you know, podcasts of his.
We're going to have an opportunity in the next round to use my green new deal to answer coronavirus economic trouble.
We we're gonna have an opportunity, I believe, in the next round here to use the my uh green economy, my my green deal, or to be able to generate both economic growth and consistent with the kind of infusion of monies we need into the system to keep it going.
Uh-huh.
Wow.
Then we got MPR getting 75 million from the package.
I guess if you break it down, there's one some person on Twitter broke it down, 93,750 per employee.
Unbelievable.
Somebody says on, you know, this is now uh we have the we have the new rules on voting.
Anyone can vote, register same day and vote without any ID whatsoever.
Really?
Then anybody can drop off an absentee ballot as long as it's sealed.
I'm sure that's not gonna encourage any type of cheating of any kind.
Apparently, designated voters shall shall permit a voter to designate any person to return a vote.
Uh voter seal ballot, absentee ballot to the post office, a ballot drop-off location.
Building, tribally designated building, election office, so long as the person designated to return the ballot does not receive any form of compensation based on the number of ballots that person has returned, and no individual group or organization provides compensation.
Sure.
I'm sure they're going to be very, very transparent about that.
Now we're finding out, again, this is all coming through.
The Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Well, that bill includes fifty million for the Institute, Museum and Library Services to expand the digital network access in areas of the country where access is denied.
Don't we have a more immediate need here?
The American worker.
You gotta be kidding.
Corporation for public broadcasting.
Anyway, all things Chad Pergram is with us.
Uh he always puts out for Fox News uh the Hitchhiker's Guide to Everything Washington, D.C. Is there anything I'm getting wrong in this, Chad?
Well, there's a couple things here just uh that we're looking at.
The Senate is still trying to finalize the bill.
So, you know, as we've said before, you know, they have to they can't vote until they get the final version of the bill.
And some of the other reporting I'm seeing out there, I'm not saying across the board, but that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put out a different bill a couple of days ago.
And what people are conflating in some instances, in some instances, are asks that were in that bill, which are not going to be in this final bill that was negotiated and finished about one o'clock this morning.
Um but uh again, when you're dealing with a two trillion dollar bill, there's going to be a lot of stuff in there, and one of the reasons they can't move this quickly is because they're trying to do this on the fly.
They're finding problems with it.
Uh, I thought there was a scenario where maybe they would have even voted already.
Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Ben Sass of uh of uh Nebraska, they just flagged a provision in this bill.
They said the way that the bill was drafted, and they say this is an error, that it it basically gives an incentive for employees to be laid off instead of going to work, and they said they won't support the bill unless it's fixed.
Now, this is why we don't have the bill text, because it's going to be probably, you know, at least a thousand pages or more.
Again, you know, more than two trillion dollars in spending total, and until they get all of that resolved, the Senate can't move.
And this is Washington moving fast.
I mean, this, you know, the Congress was not built for speed.
And, you know, if they're able to move this bill starting from the middle of last week, get it through the Senate, you know, presumably tonight.
We thought it was going to be last night, and then maybe get it through the House tomorrow or Friday at the latest, that's moving pretty quickly considering a bill of this uh magnitude.
And and Stenny Hoyer, the majority leader, has indicated this afternoon that he remains committed, this is his term, to giving all House members, Democrats and Republicans, a letter he wrote to all House members today twenty-four hours notice before they come back to vote on the bill.
Now that's a little bit counterintuitive.
You say, well, why don't they move more expeditiously?
It actually helps both sides because it gives Kevin McCarthy and Steve Scalise time to to walk their members through the bill on a conference call.
They're having two conference calls today on the Republican side of the aisle, the Democrats to do the same, so hopefully when they get everything all aligned, they can get it through the Senate and move it maybe with a skeleton staff tomorrow or maybe Friday through the House.
It might save time in the long run, Sean.
But the thing is here that a lot of this crap that is a non-corona related is gonna end up in this thing, correct?
Well, and that's where people are gonna say, you know, never before have we seen a provision where they're basically telling all workers, whether you work at the Kennedy Center or public broadcasting, or you know, you work for the laundromat down the street that we're gonna cover your salary if you're laid off.
I mean, that's that's not even what was in the new deal by FDR.
Uh that's why this is so unbelievably expensive.
Uh I mean, consider the fact that the federal government, the Congress only allocates about one point three trillion dollars each year for what we call discretionary spending.
This is what goes to the military and goes to HHS and goes to the Department of the Interior and so on.
This is $700 billion above that when you're covering everybody's salary and then guaranteeing that they will have a job, you know, and whether it's in the arts or whether it's you know, for a hod carrier, uh, I mean, that's pretty remarkable.
And and this is where the Congress, in whether you like it or not, they were very careful to not discriminate.
You know, there's a lot of criticism often about picking winners and losers.
They didn't pick winners and losers, and that's why some people who appreciate the arts are gonna be very happy that some of those jobs are protected, and those who work at the laundromat are gonna be appreciative there.
At the end of the day, you know, I would argue every person that I know, and and I will say I see this all over social media.
We want to get back to work.
Most people, they don't want to hand out.
They want to get back to work.
Now, there might be a percentage of people that have their full salaries taken care of.
It is it it's not incentivizing them to want to get back.
And that's what Graham was flagging.
That's yeah, exactly.
And and the thing is here, now the problem is for and you know this as well as anybody.
Any Republican that now because the the Republicans have seen urgency and they've been screaming.
I've never seen Mitch McConnell as animated as he's been, or Susan Collins as animated as she's ever been.
Apoplectic and angry, and they have, as adults, both of them, a sense of urgency because Americans really need help now.
They need this money.
And they're dithering with all this crap that they're throwing up into this bill, but never let an opportunity go to waste.
You got that's the only time you can get things done.
You otherwise never get done.
That's the Rom Rambo dead Fisher manual rule.
So now Republicans' choice is gonna be this.
Yeah, and they got a gun to their head.
You help the people that need it, but you have to swallow the crap with it.
Or this is the ad.
Tell me if I'm wrong, Chad Pergram.
You're a genius.
You know all things Washington.
Here it's gonna be Congressman so-and-so, Congresswoman so-and-so, Senator so and so, when America when American workers needed their help, they were nowhere to be found.
It is shocking to me that there would be, you know, how accurate is that?
Come on, you don't have to.
I know you're a news guy.
When you hear the guy in the eerie voice, come the campaign ads in October and early November.
You're absolutely right.
They do that.
You know, and and you know what's gonna be interesting, Sean, and we talked about this on your TV program last night, is that they might not actually have a roll call vote in the House of the Senate.
And so you can't actually go through and say this person that you know voted no, this person voted yay, how dare they get either side, because they might approve this on a voice vote, because they are concerned, especially in the House of Representatives.
It's a much bigger body.
You know, right now we have four hundred and thirty current members, and they don't want to bring everybody together in the same room because that completely goes against the guidance from the CDC.
And so what they would m might do is get a an agreement where they bring a small group of those four and those opposed, and they shout yay, nay, and they pass the bill.
Now, some people are gonna find that very strange, but there are three ways that they pass a bill, Sean.
In both the House and Senator roll call vote.
You do something by unanimous consent, meaning nobody objects, and then you do voice vote.
And they do all three methods all the time.
So you might not have as much of that, you know, sinister campaign ad in September and October with the sinister voice as as usual.
So they're gonna hide the vote and no roll call, and then but the the bottom line is people are gonna be asked the question did you vote yay or nay?
And they're gonna have to answer.
Then you're not gonna w get away with not answering.
And if you and if you say nay, then the then here come the campaign ads.
And that's all but but you know, they they have some defense in some districts that will work, and they'll they'll be proud to say, well, it was such a big bill, and they rammed it through late at night, and we never got to see the bill tax.
You know, that works in some districts, frankly.
And that's why they want to give those members the option.
That's why a a a uh voice vote is preferable to a uh unanimous consent request in the Senate.
And I talked to a member of the House leadership team yesterday, and they said that's kind of what they were advocating for, because it gives those members that degree of political cover.
But you know, there's one thing you're absolutely a hundred and ten percent right about.
When they put together such a bill of this scale, which we've never seen before in the history of the United States, and albeit it's needed.
They put together a bill like this, you're gonna find all sorts of problems and quote unquote dastardly things in it, and groups and individuals who who are getting money who don't deserve to get money and so on.
You it's almost unavoidable.
When you're dealing with two trillion plus dollars, the stories, once this all calms down and they get back to health in a couple months or whenever it is here, that's gonna be the real story.
Well, I think this is the hitchhiker's guide to how corrupt DC is.
Uh and it's sad at a time when American workers and small businesses and big industries like we know are devastated through no fault of their own that they play politics with all of this.
Uh, Chad Pergram, uh, Fox News, thank you so much for your updates.
We'll have you on Hannity tonight.
Look forward to having you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sean.
Uh 800 nine four one Sean.
That Senate vote will take place.
So we'll have a voice vote.
They're still gonna have to answer.
You know, Jay uh Jason, hit the music.
This is what the ads are gonna be like, though.
Here it is.
In the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
Congresswoman so and so.
Congressman so and so.
Senators so and so.
They voted no to help American voters.
Now, that's what it'll turn into.
You want to know why Republicans have been so angry?
They've been angry because of all of this.
This is what this fight has been about.
And this is what the Democrats have been fighting for.
And when you when you look at this, you know, there are there are good things in there.
Pay pry check protection, but at some point, you know, shouldn't it be to just get people over the hump at some point?
And make sure they can pay their mortgages, their rent, their car payments, and make sure that they're going to be able to keep their kids in college or their kids in college.
And you know, they just can't do it the right way.
So we'll do it now.
There's a lot of things in here that are monies that are appropriately used for workers, small business, big business, health, uh, the healthcare system, health care uh frontline workers, health care providers, those, you know, nurses and doctors, the equipment everything, but we've already been funding all of that.
Uh, the four trillion we're talking about, that's basically for the Fed.
That's basically loans separate and apart.
But this is a lot of money.
Two trillion dollars.
And I've been predicting it's gonna happen.
I don't even why are we talking about this instead of instead of not talking about hydroxychloroquine and azithromyosin, and whether or not that's working.
I'll tell you who's who's been fascinating, and it'll be on TV again tonight is Dr. Oz.
Digging deep.
There is right now a trial test going on in this country, a trial test of those two medicines because of the president's actions, off label use, and number one, and number two, compassionate use, because there's so much anecdotal evidence out there now.
I'm sure all of you have been hearing or watching.
We've had people on the show that hey, this worked for me.
He's been having people on his show.
He has doctors on his show today saying, yeah, we've been doing it with great success.
We should know, probably no later than early next week, with the doses that have been given in pretty large numbers.
We should know sometime next week if this in fact is working for those Americans that have coronavirus that have contracted it worldwide now, 458,927, 20,806 deaths worldwide.
In the U.S., 62,086 confirmed having the virus, 869 deaths in this country.
Unprecedented actions.
We're rewriting the rules on everything as we move forward.
Well, first the travel ban, that'll be standard going forward.
Telemedicine, that'll be standard going forward.
Public-private partnerships, that'll be standard going forward.
Drive up testing, that'll be standard soon.
Home testing, that will be standard as quickly as possible.
We've never gone to a vaccine trial as quickly as we have the one going on now.
Just like uh we, you know, everything here, all the rules have been rewritten.
Every one of them.
And it will save lives, not only now, we can't even calculate how many how many lives were saved just based on the travel ban and the quarantine alone.
You know, getting rid of uh FDA regulations.
If we would have waited off label use to treat those that contracted the virus, well, we wouldn't know anything about hydroxychloroquine and azithromyosin.
French study.
We have so much evidence.
The Israelis giving us six million doses of this.
Our pharmaceutical companies now are ramping up production of this.
We now have Ford working to build ventilators and help 3M along with GM.
Every pharmaceutical company, all hands on deck, every big box store, Walmart, Target, Walgreen, Sevia, all on board.
LabQuest, uh, I'm sorry, uh Quest Diagnostics, Lab Corps, all on board.
So many companies I can't even begin to name them.
That's the best of America.
Washington, pretty much the worst.
But what do you do when workers need this money?
We're gonna talk about this bill for years.
By the time we know what's in this thing.
800.
They're taking advantage of the situation for their own political benefit.
It's repulsive.
All right, glad you're with us hour two.
Sean Hannity Show.
Top of the next hour, we expect uh expect the press coverage, the President White House Corona Task Force updating us on uh all things going on here.
Uh you see the best and worst of people.
The best uh we have even the healthcare industry, no copace, pharmaceutical companies, uh hydroxy uh chloroquin.
They're upping, ramping up production immediately, as it'll my South Korea.
They're sending over their testing kits.
Uh all of these great companies, GM and Ford and ventilators and every single product we need, uh Walmart, Walgreens, CBS, all of them have been amazing.
Quest, Lab Corp.
They've all we you know, all the rules are being rewritten.
I don't think we'll be calling travel bans xenophobic, hysterical, uh, and fear mongering in the future.
I think we'll see when pandemics happen.
Probably travel bans happen faster than ever.
President Trump did it ten days after, the first known case in America.
Then we've got drive uh drive up testing.
Soon we'll have home kits.
We have every corporation on board willing to help their co their country, their fellow man.
I just see my friend MyPillow.
MyPillow.com, Mike Lindell.
He's now making masks for hospitals.
He's now he's moving heaven and earth.
All these great companies, the FDA, uh off use, limited, you know, or compassionate use.
Uh that is now uh some great hope that we've got like yesterday with Dr. Oz.
He'll be on TV again tonight.
Um, all hands on deck, and then you see the shift show.
We've been waiting days now in our nation's capital to help workers that desperately need the help.
Desperately.
And, you know, now I'm I'm we're finally reading this.
Corporation for public broadcasting, 75 million, Institute for Museum and Library Services, 50 million, railroad uh retirement board, Social Security Administration.
I mean, and oh, and they're gonna do it on a voice vote.
Uh and then you got Joe Biden out there, he's politicizing things.
Oh, uh we're we're gonna be having opportunity for the next round to use my new Green New Deal.
Wow.
And then he said he's had enough debates.
Now we're hearing Bernie Sanders is throwing a fit, and he apparently is in a fight with GOP.
Senators, he's gonna delay it to get his radical leftist socialist agenda through.
Pelosi won't even commit to any of this.
25 million dollars.
Yep, the museum, the Kennedy Museum for the Arts.
So important.
Really?
They wanted 300 million for the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for Humanities, but the they you know, here's what Republicans are faced with.
They're screaming all week.
I've never I've never witnessed rightly so an outrage, Susan Collins.
Where the hell is your urgency?
An outrage, Mitch McConnell.
I mean, just what is going on?
They're holding out for everything that they can possibly get here.
Everything.
Oh, and then we're gonna have uh same-day voting, and we're gonna allow anybody to drive up ballots with no identification.
That's in there too.
Lindsey Graham, Senator Scott, and I believe one other senator said we're not doing this.
We're not gonna support this.
Lindsey Graham joins us now.
Good for you, Senator.
What's going on there?
Well, a lot's going on.
If not, it's worse than you thought.
So Ben Sass, myself, Rick Scott, and Tim Scott.
Here's what just blows my mind.
How about this idea?
You should never make more not to work than to work.
Does that make sense?
Makes sense.
Okay, so here's what happened.
They're gonna give a $600 check to everybody on unemployment beyond the state benefit.
So the maximum you can get in South Carolina is $326 a week.
We're gonna give them $600 on top of that.
That's $926.
That's $24 an hour.
Who in their right mind is gonna stay at a job working for $15 an hour when business is down?
What this provision will do, Sean, is it rewards people for not working.
I want to make people whole, but I don't want to pay them pay them more to be unemployed than if they worked.
So you were in the bar world.
I was in the bar world.
My family owned a bar, a restaurant, and a liquor store.
We paid people the best we could.
They were good workers.
But business is down.
They're shut down because of containment policy.
The goal is to keep them on the payroll by floating alone to the business that will be forgiven to pay the person their salary.
But how do you keep the waitress and the bartender on your payroll when the unemployment insurance agency will pay them $24 an hour for doing nothing?
This is Bernie Sanders on steroids.
It will destroy the economy.
Well, I and I and I think you're right, and I can't believe we're even at this particular point here.
You know, in the abstract philosophical, this is a real world problem we're having here.
And yeah, I mean, no American would earn more by not working than working is a statement that you use.
That that that's hurting the economy.
And in the process of all of this, then all the waste fraud abuse, you know, because Republicans are backed into a corner.
Now you either go along with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kennedy Performing Arts Center, National Endowment for Humanities, all this waste.
Rather now, while this shift show is going on with you guys, and I like to use some of the words you've used on Hannity.
This isn't cable.
Um while all this BS is going on there, American workers that rightly need help.
It's no fault of their own.
And they're not getting it.
And they're right.
But Sean, here's the point.
Well, you want to help the American worker who no fault of their own is out of work because we shut down restaurants and bars to kill this disease.
But you don't want to destroy the employer's ability to hang on to their workforce.
The Susan Collins Rubio model was a pretty smart model.
The business owner can go to a bank, borrow money to make the payroll up to $80,000 per person.
They can pay the rent, the mortgage payment, we'll forgive the first six weeks or eight weeks as a grant, not a loan, but that keeps them on the payroll.
They don't have to go to the unemployment office.
What Bernie Sanders and these guys somehow have got got in this bill is unemployment insurance now is going to be equivalent to $24 an hour.
There is no way you're going to keep a bartender and a uh a waitress on the business payroll when they can make a lot more money being unemployed.
You're going to have a run on the unemployment system and you're going to destroy the employer-employee relationship.
What I want to do is reimburse people on unemployment up to their salary, not increase their salary.
All right.
That is the best way to say it, up to their salary to meet their immediate needs.
You don't get to double your sal I mean the fact that we even have to discuss this.
Is all of this now agreed to, the waste fraud and abuse?
Well, a SAS and Rick Scott, Tim Scott, now we're throwing a fit.
The reason I know I'm right is because Bernie Sanders just threatened me.
So I know I'm on tocking.
You're on to something good.
This is and I'm on tweet back at Bernie.
I said, only in Bernie's world does it make sense to pay somebody twenty-four dollars an hour not to work.
We're in a national national crisis.
People have been laid off, they can't work because business is down.
I want them to get their salary until we can get through this, but I don't want to incentivize them to leave the payroll, go to the unemployment agency and have their salary increased because that severs the employer-employee relationship.
This is dangerous to if you're a nurse out there and the doctor is lost income because elective surgeries are not allowed, and the doctor is trying to hang on to his nursing core.
A nurse making $18 an hour for the sake of their own family is going to go on unemployment.
Unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
Now, and this is the sad reality.
Because if you I I think you're actually up for re-election this year.
This is what they're going to be doing running ads in South Carolina.
No, I mean that's the thing.
It would destroy the economy.
And you know, by the way, now Nancy is delaying the coronavirus relief bill because this is where the fight is.
American workers have been literally waiting.
Now we're fighting over every pork barrel project you could ever have imaginable.
You know, Rob Robin, never let a good crisis go to waste because this you get things done you could never otherwise accomplish.
Okay.
There there are half a dozen of us in this site.
We need your and your listeners to back us up on a simple proposition.
Change the bill to say you can never make more unemployed than you were making when you were working.
Six hundred dollars goes into each person's pot for unemployment increased benefits up to the point you're made whole.
Again, it's twenty-four dollars per hour is what it works out to in South Carolina to be unemployed.
There is just no way our employers can stay in business when you're paying people twenty-four dollars an hour not to work.
You're you're you're also keyed in on the key point here.
This will destroy our economy.
Now I want to bring up one thing.
So all these workers, small business owners, big businesses are waiting for the help.
They deserve it.
And by the way, I would include you know, not even we're not talking about loans for workers.
They get that money.
Again, make you can't make more than um unemployed than employed.
But here's the problem.
You're running for your like election.
And if you if you say no and you take a stand here, they put a gun to your head.
Either support all the pork barrel projects, all the new Green Deal initiatives.
Literally right there.
Or it's gonna be this I would swallow money for a stupid uh uh museum, but I'm not going to structurally destroy I my dad owned a liquor store or a bar and a restaurant.
The NFIB, all the small businesses in the country will lose their employers if we do this for uh sixteen weeks.
For sixteen weeks, you're gonna bleed the workforce for sixteen weeks under this bill.
You shouldn't have to swallow millions for the the endowments for the arts and this, but they'll say Lindsay Graham didn't help us when we needed help.
That's the act.
Now you're right about that, Sean.
But my bigger point right here is it's structurally, we're gonna this is Bernie Sanders' dream come true.
This is not fifteen dollar an hour minimum wage.
This is paying people in South Carolina twenty-four dollars an hour not to work.
It is going to destroy our ability to keep the workforce intact.
It goes for 16 weeks.
It's not the amount of money, it's the concept.
Let's make people whole, but never make it so they do better by being unemployed than working.
Assuming you can get this part fixed.
You're b and I know they negotiated in half the the pork barrel spending.
They're gonna force the country to pay for this crap that they've this is what's been delaying this whole process.
They're gonna force the country to eat.
If you want to help the American worker, yeah, you have no idea how right you are.
We've been on your show for every day for the last month.
I never thought it'd be this bad.
I know, you know, I said I I went on the floor last night, passed the damn bill because you could hear the cash restauring.
Every hour we negotiated, they were nickeling and diming us to death.
Stop the negotiations, Mr. President.
Tell Manuchin to come to the White House, no more.
They were bleeding a strike.
But this is a major problem for our whole country here.
You're turning the unemployment system into a competition for the worker in a way that the workforce, the employer will always lose.
Nurses and truck drivers are going to get a lot more unemployed than if they work.
I want to help them, but we can't put that burden on business.
And and while they take advantage of the crisis and exploit this crisis, the American worker waits.
It's sad.
The workforce is not getting money they need, the the medical front is there's so much in here for hospitals.
I I I am sick to my stomach.
I am a sometimes I get beat up because I want, you know, to do too many deals.
I want to help people, but I can't in good conscience, my friend, legitimize a system that destroys the ability to run the economy.
This will destroy the economy.
And they and for them it's about power.
It's a if they sub if they cared about the workers and they cared about the economy, and they could think about the bigger.
They would make them whole.
They would make them home.
I'll support you on making uh making workers through no fault of their own whole.
I'll support that.
The American people will support that.
Make them whole up to fifty thousand dollars.
That should be enough to get us through this thing.
But now what you've done is you've a family, uh, the average household income in South Carolina is $50,000.
That's a man and a woman working, making $50,000.
They're hard working, they're great people.
Under this bill, both of them will get almost a thousand dollars.
The family income under this bill will be almost a hundred thousand.
It will double.
You will get twice the money to not work than you were getting working.
And that's just not right.
Is there any way in hell you can get rid of the crap?
Or that's just when we're never gonna get it.
This is my number one goal here.
No, I know it's because this impacts the economy.
I I'll help you.
I just don't, I never lie to you.
I never tell you something I can't do.
We have got to find a way to the reason they say they do this is unemployment agencies cannot adjust their system.
They can't figure out how to pay you your maximum wage versus the whole $600.
You're gonna come on Hannity tonight, right?
We'll see you tonight.
To get unemployed, Sean, you gotta tell the unemployment agency where you work on the city.
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.
You make 202, 224 3121.
2022, 3121.
Make Americans whole.
You don't incentivize people not to work.
And get rid of the crap in this bill.
I cannot say it any better.
The waste, fraud, corruption.
All of it.
We're better than this.
This is Bernie Sanders.
No, you know what?
We're not better than this.
This I've been warning people this is coming, and here it is.
Well, here it is.
This is Bernie Sanders running away.
He could not win at the ballot box, but he's winning in this bill, and we gotta stop this.
I want to thank you for all you're doing.
I really do.
I mean, I need your help, need your people's help.
I'll see you tonight.
We need to do get this right for those people that have been waiting and waiting and waiting for help.
202, 224-3121.
I bet Bill O'Reilly's gonna lose it when we get to him at the bottom of the hour, and we expect the White House coronavirus task force coverage with the president uh and our final hour, our news roundup information overload hour.
This is outrageous.
202 224121.
Unbelievable.
25 till the top of the hour, 800 nine-four one Sean.
If you want to be a part of this extravaganza, I you know, I will say this.
Now we've heard it from Lindsey Graham.
We're gonna pay people more in this bill than what they're making.
And he said, How about we just pay make them whole?
In other words, you make them whole through no fault of their own.
As all of this has been going on, the country is in a state of emergency in many ways.
And you see the best in so many people, so many corporations, uh the the all hands on deck, every aspect of it.
And you know, it's like Rome is burning.
And here they're fighting for every socialist uh fantasy they've ever had.
They're exploiting what is a national emergency by by literally putting, you know, you I've never seen Susan Collins that angry, or Mitch McConnell that angry, and justifiably so.
Now, Rick Scott, Tim Scott, Lindsey Graham, uh Ben Sass, my former friend, but right in this case, say we're not gonna do this.
The main reason is that will destroy the economy.
All the waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, you know, new green deal, illegal immigration, you know, uh same day, no proof of who you are, registration to vote.
I mean, every oh, carbon emissions, you know, the national endowments for the arts, national endowment for the humanities, the uh JFK performing arts center.
This is what the Republicans uh they have been so angry about because they want a clean bill and they need it to get it to the American worker.
The American people that through no fault of their own are waiting as they do this.
And then on top of it all, now you've got uh an entire shutdown threat by Bernie Sanders.
Joe Biden today putting two sentences together, amazing moment that, oh, in the next phase we can get my version of the new Green Deal in.
What about American workers that have mortgages to pay, rent to pay, car payments to make, kids in colleges, and food that they need to put on their table.
They're waiting.
They are waiting for their government, their public servants, to do their job.
But in a moment like this, where we see such goodness and unprecedented greatness in people, every industry, uh all of corporate America.
And you see, all these doctors, you know, working so hard.
All the rules have been rewritten on how to do deal with future pandemics, travel bans, quarantine, public-private partnership, drive up testing it's in Walmarts and Targets and CVS, etc.
Getting, you know, eliminating burdensome regulation.
So, you know, we can now have where the early stage vaccine trials, but off-label use of hydroxy chloroquine with a zithromyosin.
It's all unprecedented.
All the all all the rules have been rewritten and they're on the fly as we go and getting done, and amazing work by the American people.
These workers need money, small businesses need help, big businesses need help.
And they can't they can't pass a clean bill.
They politicize even this.
Get the workers of this country the aid they need.
Take this crap and shove it.
Bill O'Reilly's with us, Bill O'Reilly.com.
I'm really not in a very good mood today.
So what else is new, Hannie?
No, I'm using don't make me laugh at a moment.
I don't like people that make me laugh when I'm there what?
Come on now.
Um, yeah, I listened to your uh your interview with Graham, and uh the point is solid.
You want to uh deliver relief to the American public, but you don't want to destroy um the economy going forward after the pandemic subsides.
You want to have a two trillion dollar investment in the country, not a two trillion dollar owed to socialism.
So what has to happen, though, for the folks to understand, because what a lot of people are gonna hear on NBC News, um I know this Ted Coppel just got rehired on Nightline.
You see that?
I did not.
Yeah.
Oh, you mean selective Trump fan, not a Trump fan.
He interviews me for an hour, Bill O'Reilly.
An hour.
He takes out literally the one fit a minute and seven seconds just to make him look good.
Oh, what a jackass.
Go ahead.
Yeah, he doesn't he doesn't like you, he doesn't like Trump, he doesn't like conservatives in general.
And I know that.
I know Ted pretty well and talk to him about this.
But anyway, so the folks aren't gonna get from ABC News or NBC News or CNN, they're not gonna get, hey.
Um this bill is designed to promote socialism, which it is.
It is.
If you look at all the baggage attached to it, the pork, it's all socialist stuff.
All right, they're not gonna get that.
So you gotta figure half the country, people who don't listen to you, don't worry, watch Fox News.
And and believe me, if you watch Fox News during the day, I don't know if you're gonna get it.
Primetime you will.
Um so the folks are gonna go, wait a minute, I need relief.
I need money.
And uh, if they're gonna send me money, I don't really care about the Kennedy Center getting 52 million dollars.
I just want my check.
And if the check is going to be more, uh, that's okay with me because they don't see the broader picture.
Now, why is it happening?
It's happening because everyone knows in the Democratic Party and in the media, if Donald Trump can come through this pandemic and can alleviate the suffering by the summer, he'll win.
There's no way Biden beats him.
All right, no way.
And that's what Andrew Cuomo's doing, by the way.
He's positioning himself for Biden collapse by putting himself up as a hundred percent.
There's no doubt about it.
Yeah, as the pandemic slayer.
It's like the dragon slayer.
And Cuomo's good at it.
So the Democratic Party, they know they're not going to get the socialists to stop.
Bernie Sanders knows he's through.
But they can attach it to a bill that will be broadly popular because it sends money to people who need money.
And they might sneak this stuff in because they're not going to get it once Trump is re-elected.
Now maybe the Senate will be able to compromise and get some of that out.
They're not going to get all of it out.
They're not going to get all of it out.
But if Trump is re-elected in November, he can then and if the of course if the Republicans control the House and Senate, they can revise anything they want to revise.
Keep that in mind.
That if it's passed now and it's not that great now, it doesn't have to stay.
But the most important thing is that Americans have to know they're being conned, and they're not going to know it by watching and reading the mainstream national press.
They're not going to know any of this, Hannity.
And that's what really disturbs me.
That most people are just going to be completely shut out from the socialist stuff that the Democratic Party fervently wants to impose on the nation.
Bill, I've never uh you've been around politics a long time, and I we've been doing this a long time.
I've never I've never witnessed Mitch McConnell or Susan Collins that ticked off.
That because what's happening here is there is an urgency behind this.
This is Rama Manuel.
Never let a a uh never let a good tragedy go to waste, you know, because you'll get things done you'd never otherwise get done.
And what they're doing is they're putting they're saying to the Republicans, oh, okay, we're willing to sit and wait.
You either take our garbage, our agenda that has nothing to do with relief for corona, or workers will wait.
Now there are adults and then there are children.
They're playing the stare down game.
So I I don't think they're gonna do it much longer.
But it all depends on the messaging from the president and the Republican Party.
The messaging is what really will put this over.
Because people have to understand it.
They have to understand what's happening.
Not everybody listens to Hannity on TV and radio.
Not everybody goes to Bill O'Reilly.com to see the truth.
They don't.
All right.
They're in this kind of fog, and uh, I'm gonna get money, and the more money I get, the better, and they're not gonna calibrate whether the unemployment benefits um overwhelm the benefit of working.
They're not gonna do that.
But you know what's the best it has to be brought out.
Let me give you the best sound bite that that has been in the media in the last week, and that comes from Congressman Clyburn from South Carolina, who put Biden over the top.
He said now's the time to get our agenda passed through the relief bill.
At least the man is honest.
He said it.
We're gonna try to ram the socialist climate change stuff down the throats of the American people because they won't understand what we're doing.
They're exploiting a tragedy, Bill.
And you know the sad part, we've been watching this unfold.
You want to know why I'm angry?
Because I was that worker.
That is my life.
I I lived paycheck to paycheck.
I didn't have any cushion for for a good part of my uh early adult life.
It sucks.
And all these people are are desperately awaiting help.
And the only way you're gonna get the Democrats to do the right thing is if you accept all of this crap.
Uh you know, Lindsay said about uh I'll t I'll I'll suck it up and I'll pay for the stupid museum.
But we can't destroy the fundamentals of the economy.
I want to make American workers whole, but I can't double their salary.
There's another way.
What is that is for the president of the United States To go on television and explain exactly what is happening.
He will.
I mean, honestly, I think what he's been doing is pushing them along and trying to get the deal done.
Unfortunately, they've made it next to, if not impossible, to actually get to a deal.
And by the way, Bill, while we're sitting here talking about it and why these over there are doing their thing in the swamp, I mean, think about we you know, there are laws against price gouging, right, Bill?
There are laws against that.
What about what about this exploitation while American workers suffer and wait and wait and wait?
That ought to be a crime.
You gotta do it fast.
If you can articulate what's really happening behind the scenes and put forth what should happen, what he needs to run this country and fight this virus, if he can do that in ten minutes, they'll win.
It may come to that.
I think, you know, the guy's kind of busy right now.
What do you think of overall?
I as I've been saying, the way we will deal with future pandemics now.
The every the whole book is being rewritten.
And I mentioned, for example, the travel ban.
How important was that travel ban?
How important was that quarantine?
Ten days after the first diagnosed uh case in America, he did it.
Uh, how important is it that the public-private partnerships drive up testing, soon to have home testing, telemedicine is now happening, uh lifting FDA burdensome regulations for off use uh of drugs that are mostly safe, may have some risk, but little risk, um, to help people to save them from dying, and we're hearing so much anecdotal evidence.
Dr. Oz has been great covering this.
This is this is a whole new book we're writing here, Bill, and I I think in the future we're gonna save millions of lives.
I pray to God.
Well, first thing that has to happen is the federal government has to develop an office of pandemic response.
All right, and get the best doctors in that field, microbiologists, and then link it to the centers for disease control.
Doesn't have to be a lot of money, but it has to be there, it has to be solid.
The Office of Pandemic Response.
And that has to be a cabinet position.
And that's the first step in protecting ourselves in the future.
We have so many government agencies that you would think would do it.
I will say this, you know, I know Andrew Cuomo has been out there and he's doing his thing and he's politicizing it.
Meanwhile, the president's building him for hospitals, sending a hospital ship uh ship, and and thousands and thousands of ventilators.
I get it.
You know, you know what's sad after 9-11?
How is he not more prepared?
Some of these hospitals, Bill, they weren't prepared for a one-day emergency.
You know, we we have to now go back to the state level, the local level, the community level, and make sure we're in better shape, preparing for what will be another inevitable emergency, pandemic, flu, whatever it happens to be.
Well, I wrote a column called um the contagion chronicles.
It's on BillO'Reilly.com.
And I tell you why we weren't prepared.
And bottom line on it, we don't have any money.
States don't have any money, feds don't have any money.
Really, New York 25 trillion.
10% state income tax Florida doesn't have any.
They don't have any in Texas.
I want to ask you about the health side of this, though, when we get back.
I want to ask you about hydro uh chloroquine and uh azithromyosin.
I know you're following that story too.
800 nine four one Sean is our number if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, Simple Man BillO'Reilly.com, uh, old things O'Reilly.
All right, so um I know you've been following this.
Hydroxy chloroquine and Zithromycin.
We're seeing anecdotal evidence all over the place.
I mean, really promising stuff.
Dr. Roz, in particular, who's on TV tonight, has done a great job on this.
Your thoughts.
We only have 30 seconds.
I'm praying that the United States saves the world again.
We talked about this last week.
I I think we will.
I think medical science will come up with either a vaccine or a strong medicine, and that'll turn the tide, and that's what I'm praying for.
I'm praying for our country, and we got to get the help to these workers, Bill.
They need it.
Small business guys, they're dying.
We need it.
It'll happen.
And we need the corruption to end.
This has been going on a week, they've been waiting, playing games, exploiting this tragedy.
It's disgusting.
It's repulsive.
It's what is everything wrong while the rest of the Country steps up.
By the way, Uncle James, if he can come in here for a second, um, it's just predictable what they are doing.
This actually defines them.
This is who they are.
The American worker that desperately needs aid and support and help from their public servants are not being served well.
They have been waiting.
We've been watching the Republicans yelling and screaming, and we've been explaining to you all the waste, all the fraud, all the abuse that they are sticking into this bill.
At the top of the last hour, we had Lindsey Graham on the program.
That in Lindsey in South Carolina, somebody on unemployment makes $326.
Now they're going to be making $926 uh uh uh dollars a week.
He's saying more than $24 an hour.
Well, if uh he said, let's make American workers whole.
They deserve to be made whole.
We're gonna bail out Europe, rebuild Europe after World War II, and we're gonna save the world from evil and communism and fascism and imperial Japan and Nazism and radical Islamism.
If we we can do that, and we always end up paying the price for freedom.
We absolutely need to help American workers.
There's two billion dollars to be spent here.
There's another four, I'm sorry, two trillion dollars to be spent here.
There's another four trillion available loan guarantees by the Fed.
This is a very comprehensive package to support American workers through no fault of their own that need help.
This is also going to help our hospitals and and the infrastructure and everything else associated with this.
Why are they doing this?
Because this is now their opportunity.
They are this is while the American workers that have rents, payments, mortgage payments, car payments, school payments for their kids, even though the kids are out of school, they're still paying for college.
They they've been waiting and they've been waiting.
And now what do we have?
We have, let's see.
Oh, the corporation for public broadcasting, they're gonna get $75 million.
Institute for Museum and Library Services $50 million.
We're gonna take care of our labor union friends.
They must have a seat on the board of any industry that is bailed out.
Why?
Because that's more important to them.
That's not where the priorities of the American people are.
You know, it's let's make people whole.
You know, you can't make more money unemployed than you make working.
Because we have on the other side of this, and there will be another side of this.
We have an economy that must bounce back for everybody's benefit.
And by the way, you know, the president says the cure can't be worse than the problem.
If you do that, we we need these businesses to let's see, get the groceries to the store and get the pharmacies, uh, the products that they need to get the help and assistance to the American people that they depend on, that they count on.
And this is and they dither and they dither and they dither and they politicize and exploit, exploit this, you know.
You want to talk about swamp in the middle of an emergency.
While everyone else, all hands on deck.
Now you put senators in a position.
There's no choice here.
You will destroy the foundation of the economy if you follow through with this madness.
You can't do that at this point.
We shouldn't have to be discussing this.
We should, you know, and Pelosi, well, I'm not sure if we're ever gonna, I'm not sure if I'm gonna I'm not gonna say the house is gonna pass it.
Why she wants to put even even more money, 25 million still in the bill for the operations and the maintenance, let's see, of the John F. Kennedy Senator Senate for the Center for the Performing Arts.
I'm sure a the extravaganza.
Not now.
You can't pass a clean bill now.
$75 million each to the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities.
I'd rather give that to the American working people.
But again, make them whole.
Not give them, you know, twice what they're usually making.
And for those that don't need any help, they don't get any help.
Do we really need MPR?
$75 million?
Somebody on Twitter broke it down.
I'm not sure if it's right, like $93,000 per employee.
You know, price gouging is illegal in this country.
Hoarding, that might be illegal too.
You heard the attorney general the other day.
What about in the middle of a tragedy, not doing your job?
Now they want to change the voting rules.
Now they want to.
I mean, everything you can imagine.
But oh, and they're putting money in there, of course, for themselves.
Then they're going to have a voice vote so they can kind of hide where they really felt about it, although they're not going to be able to do that.
That won't work.
People are going to ask what they did and all these delays.
You watch all the companies in America, the ways they've stepped up.
It's inspiring.
Really?
It's been totally inspiring.
But it could lead to employers putting many people out of work here.
And it can greatly reduce the chances of us having a strong recovery.
Now, Senator Rick Scott, Senator Lindsey Graham, Senator Tim Scott, Senator Ben Sass.
I'm before this day is over, I can tell you right now, a bunch of other senators are going to say we can't.
And this is what the Democrats are going to do.
They cause all of this.
They're the ones insisting on AOC's new Green Deal, and we're going to subsidize windmills and solar panels.
What does this have to do with coronavirus relief?
And I wish I was wrong, but I told you this was coming.
I knew that I could see this sucker a mile away.
This amount of money?
Oh, yeah.
It's going to be politicized.
And I just want to help American workers.
I want to help American small business.
I want to help America's big businesses to overcome what nobody predicted or saw.
And I'd like to spend most of our time and attention at getting to what are the real issues that need to be dealt with.
It's unreal.
By the way, Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo's getting four hospitals from the president.
He got thousands and thousands of tens of thousands of doses of hydroxychloroquine from the White House.
They've gotten everything they've asked for.
They've gotten just in the last two days, 5,000 more ventilators.
And he's politicizing it.
But he did say something today because we welcome people across the globe.
They had 15 times the coronavirus cases of California and other states.
He says, why?
Because people have been coming here.
We have people who came here from China, Italy, who came here from all across the globe.
Well, you know, there are a lot of good things that have happened here.
We are going to save lives as a result of the rules now being rewritten on how to deal with pandemics.
Travel bans, I don't think they'll be called xenophobic and fear-mongering in the future or hysteria in the future.
I love the American businesses that stepped up, so proud of my buddy Mike Lindell.
He's now making respirators.
Ford, where they make F-150s, they're making respirators.
GM and Ford are making ventilators.
You know, I got I haven't even barely touched the medical issues, which is what we should be talking about today.
Shouldn't have to deal with all of this today.
But, you know, this all right, this is where we are.
This is, I guess who they are.
The media's been despicable.
The media is just beyond any hope anymore.
I just I've given up hope.
If there ever was any hope, it's gone.
It doesn't exist.
That's sad too.
Because you like to think that even in these times, you know, I went through the list yesterday.
Oh, you know, the Washington Post and and company.
You know, get America get over it, get a grip on the virus.
Attacking my coverage, but my coverage was dead on accurate.
Dead on accurate.
Now we have a lot of money in this bill that we need too.
Like $117 billion for hospitals, for veterans' health care, $45 billion for FEMA.
They need the money.
$16 billion for the strategic national stockpile.
That's needed money.
An extra $4.3 billion for the CDC.
$11 billion more for vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, other medical needs.
That's all in the bill.
We're helping out farmers and agriculture and rural development for the food and drug administration.
They're getting $34.9 billion.
That's all necessary and needed right now.
The commerce department, justice services, etc.
Well, that's important to our economy.
Unfortunately, the Department of Justice needs more money because people do this.
The Department of Defense is going to get more money for their medical care, medical countermeasures to help our guys out in the field that are contracting corona.
Defense Health Program, military health care system, direct care capacity.
President already made huge changes on that.
And equipment said they are needed.
That's in this bill.
That's being held up because of this.
Energy and water development.
That's being held up in this.
I mean, significant amounts of money.
Our Army Corps of Engineers, $70 million, operation maintenance account, expense account, the interior, uh, water, reclamation, energy department, making sure energy is going out as needed to help everybody.
All right, let's go to the press conferences.
This is Dr. Fauci.
No, it's not Dr. Okay.
No, I was looking at B-roll.
Sorry.
B roll means it's aired earlier.
It looked like it was live.
Then, you know, these are important monies that need to be delivered, but most importantly to American workers and small businesses that are literally now, you know, been waiting and waiting and waiting.
I know why Susan Collins got so angry this week.
Because she feels as I do, a sense of urgency to help Americans in need.
A sense of helping on the health care front.
You know, a sense of urgency to help small business owners, a sense of urgency to help health care workers.
All of that's in the bill.
Good stuff.
A lot of money, good stuff, necessary based on what is now changed.
But now they're throwing in billions of dollars of crap.
And pork and fraud and waste and abuse.
Why?
So they have control, they create dependency, they get power.
Americans want to make other Americans whole.
The Americans understand it.
Bernie Sanders, he's threatening now to, you know, shut down the Senate over this whole thing unless they do adopt his socialist agenda.
Biden's out there saying, Oh, the next round, we're gonna use that.
We have an opportunity to use this round for my new Green Deal.
Huh?
Really?
Unbelievable.
You know, Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Institute for Museum and Library Services.
Wow.
Pelosi still won't commit to it.
Then we got the, of course, the JFK Center for the Performing Arts.
National Endowment for the Arts.
National Endowment for the Humanities.
Wow.
I just can't, I can't believe it.
I can't believe it except I predicted it.
That's the sad part.
Then we're going to impact voting.
And voting, you know, issues in the country.
Let's pass it through where we got a chance.
We'll get everything we want here.
I'm like, what?
Immigration.
We'll get that in too.
We'll get in everything on our checklist.
James Klyburn said he'd do it.
I I it just is, you know, the great Thomas Payne once said, where the guides and dictates of human conscience, irresistibly obeyed, there'd be no need for any lawgiver.
That's not being the case.
You know why?
Because we're not perfect.
Human beings in a fallen state.
We need salvation.
I believe Jesus gives us salvation.
I do believe that with all my heart.
God's the creator of the heavens and the earth.
Then he goes on to say government in its best state, but a necessary evil.
It's worse state, an intolerable one.
Government's not working for you today.
They have not been working for the American people.
It's repulsive.
And the media is not even going to tell you.
Look, I hope you call your senator.
202-224-3121.
Maybe you can speak out and tell them help out American workers.
Pass a clean bill and get the money out to the health services, the people on the front lines, and do it now.
Pass a clean bill.
But they're holding, you know, Republicans.
Well, well, we're just going to go out and say you don't care about American workers if you don't support the bill with all the garbage in it.
I'll scare up a quick call.
We're still waiting for the live press coverage, coronavirus task force led by the president.
Uh, we'll see when that comes in in the meantime, David in California.
David, how are you?
I guess yours now number two behind New York with the number of cases.
How's things out there?
Well, actually, really good, Sean.
Um, in my area is San Fox County, we have 550,000 people, and we have zero death and only 11 infections, which is kind of where we're going is why uh is everything being treated the same throughout California.
I really think people could go to go back to work, at least in a modified way and get everybody back to work.
Listen, I want everybody to work.
Um, how is the Gavin Newsom shutdown going?
Uh it's been really bad.
I think um what we're really looking forward to is the president really opening it up in some kind of way, even a modified uh work uh uh would really change things.
And I'm wondering why he doesn't wait until at least in that 15-day, you know, slow the spread, which is one of the before he makes a commitment to this bill.
This bill, I'm just listening to what you're saying, it's disgusting.
And the fact that the Democrats, or even if it was Republicans doing it, I feel the same way, would try to take advantage of it and the American people during this time is the worst that you could possibly do.
I really think if the president would just let people get back to work, even in a modified environment, there wouldn't be the urgency, and it wouldn't be so quick to give in to these things that really don't make any any sense.
A lot of Americans, a lot of Californians are still working right now.
There's essential um employers that are still working, so not everybody is is at home and and and we're doing okay.
And it's only been a short time, and I think if we could get past that 15 days and at least get some kind of modified work schedule for the rest of Californian and Americans, that we can make it.
But to give in now, it's too early, and that's so much stuff is in that bill that it's just it's disgusting.
And for that to be taken advantage of right now, I just can't even believe what's going on and what's being presented.
Unbelievable.
Anyway, 202-224-312 on switchboard.
We're waiting the White House coronavirus task force press briefing.
That's coming up as we continue.
Glad you're with us.
Call your senator, please.
Now, until the top of the hour, toll free, it's 800 941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, if you want a clean bill, you want to finally get Americans, the money they deserve, American workers.
I think we need to put some pressure on these people for what they're doing.
It's it is beyond repulsive.
It just is horrible.
All the pork, all the the every socialist uh utopian give back imaginable when we should be helping small business, big business, and American workers.
They are waiting.
Where is it?
Um, you know, I'm watching the media mob and all of this.
They've been claiming, oh, Fox News changed the tone.
No, I I actually have a timeline on Hannity.com.
We first interviewed Anthony Fauci, January 27th.
I said from January 27th and 28th, and straight on through, uh, I noticed this virus, and I said, woo, asymptomatic people for days are walking around and spreading it, and it seemed to be aerosol airborne, turned out to be from the get-go.
Let's see.
Vox.com.
They don't like Sean Hannity.
Uh, what is this coronavirus?
It's part of a family of viruses that attack the respiratory system.
Should I travel during the outbreak?
The CDC, and by the way, they proclaim that the coronavirus would not be a deadly virus.
CDC says, yeah.
Avoid traveling at the time.
They proclaimed it wouldn't be.
Here's the Washington Post.
Mm-hmm.
Wow.
They told Americans to get a grip.
Well, that's pretty interesting.
They want Americans to get a grip.
I mean, that was their early response.
Get a grip, America.
This is in January.
The flu is a much bigger threat than coronavirus.
In January, Washington Post, op ed claiming our brains are causing us to exaggerate the threat from coronavirus.
Let's continue.
January 31st.
That's the day that Donald Trump put in the travel ban ten days after the first known case in America.
What did the media mob do?
How our brains, says Washington Post, January 31st.
How our brains make coronavirus virus seem scarier than it is.
Wow.
Harvard professor, they quote, risk, communication consulted on how risky is it in reality?
Why are fears don't always match the facts?
That's what they were saying.
Let's see.
Downplaying the growing spread of the virus.
Fake news, New York Times.
Oh, they've been taking hits at me.
I explained my timeline.
Gave them the video, gave them the audio.
Just it's a waste of time.
It's a waste of my time, even engaging with any of these people.
But they got it wrong.
Because they wrote in February that the fear of the virus may be spreading faster than the virus itself.
Quote, in Europe, fear spreads faster than the coronavirus.
Oh, I guess they were wrong in their assessments.
MPR, they were out there warning that the flu is a much bigger threat than the coronavirus.
Well, they were wrong too.
Then we got the Washington Post again.
Why we should why we should be wary.
This is interesting of an aggressive government response to coronavirus.
That was February 3rd.
Well, Donald Trump had already acted.
What were the Democratic Party doing?
They were impeaching the president.
They're having their big trial, their impeachment trial, their impeachment hoax trial.
I will say this.
I'm getting a lot of response, and I'm hearing from a lot of you in this audience.
Thank you, by the way.
Everybody's saying the same thing.
Yes, they want to help America's workers and small businesses.
American people are smart people.
This is a moment that's kind of unprecedented.
Nobody expected any of this.
Did people's opinions change?
Yeah, a little bit.
Certainly did, because of facts on the ground.
Um, but I will tell you, you know, in the beginning, we saw very early on that people in the media were gonna use it to hurt Donald Trump.
And Trump virus.
If you're feeling awful, you know who to blame.
Hey, Ben Smith, that was your newspaper over at the New York Times.
I'm gonna write an article about that.
Same New York Times last week that edited the call with the president and the governors.
They actually put you're Trump to governors, you're on your own.
President said, if you can do it faster, get something faster, do it, go right ahead.
Um, and then he said, we'll have your back.
Yeah, they edited that part out.
That's selective editing on their part.
I know it doesn't sound nice, right?
That's how dishonest they are.
You know, all those people, fake news, CNN, the same groups of people, same people.
They're now you know, the ones that sold us lies and conspiracy theories and everything in between, those same people.
You know, we're out there led by the New York Times, CNN, fake news, conspiracy TV, MSDNC, saying some of the most repulsive things about the president for three years.
Why would they stop now?
And they saw this as an opportunity to politicize it, weaponize it, a virus, to bludgeon and hurt Donald Trump.
Donald Trump's have they ever said, wow, in retrospect, he was right about that.
He was really right about that travel ban.
He was really right about what he did.
No.
Nope, not at all.
They don't want to give him any credit.
Why would you give them credit?
If you give them credit, not only hurts our ability to beat him in November in 223 days.
Of course, that's what they want to do.
It's all about politics for them.
It's all about power.
That's what I say.
Government in its best state, but a necessary evil.
And it's worst state, it is an intolerable one.
That's all true too.
As we go through all of this together.
And meanwhile, the American people wait.
Um, I do have some good news.
This is where you'd see the best in people, and you see the worst in people at times like this.
Then they attack me.
Hannity said it was a hoax.
No, I got a whole timeline that says, uh-oh.
Uh, January 27th and 28th, pre-travel ban.
First case in the United States, January 21st.
Six days later, I'm on on the air interviewing Dr. Fauci about the virus.
Because I happen to like medicine.
Uh, I know it's sick, but I have many of my friends and doctors.
I've actually gone in operating rooms and I watch operations.
Fascinated by it.
Many of my family members gotten medicine in some capacity, the medical field in some capacity.
Sisters that are nurses.
And it's a tough job.
They're all putting themselves on the front lines every day.
Thank you, all of you, what you do.
Thank all the corporations, the pharmaceutical companies, the Walmarts, the Targets, the CVSs, all these people.
All these businesses, our friends at Mindpillow.com, my buddy with Mike Lindell, he's now making respirators.
Ford, F 150 uh assembly lines, they're making respirators.
Ford and GM making ventilators.
There was uh a doctor, Charlene Babcock, they did a study uh based on her study, practices in the Detroit area, they actually were able to turn one ventilator into four ventilators.
It's a great Daily Mail article out there how one doctor turned one ventilator into nine with some, you know, they call it evil genius mechanics, winning fans like Elon Musk.
There are corporations too.
I'm not particularly the biggest fan of Google, but I I want to thank Google for the things that they're doing.
You know, thank the Israelis for the six million doses that they're giving us of hydroxy chloroquine.
So that obviously they see hope.
The French did a study on it.
The Chinese are giving us finally data we believe might be accurate.
Finally, they did his repulsive too.
Prince Charles has tested positive for corona, according to the palace.
Anyone that gets this, I'm praying for.
Uh, the FDA off label use for hydroxy uh chloroquine, that's really important.
We're seeing nothing but anecdotal evidence.
Dr. uh Oz has been unbelievably amazing in all of this.
Really has been.
So many people could be.
By the way, on Hannity.com, we've written up the article about we can't pay people more to to work, uh, more not to work than to work, what Lindsey Graham was saying, which is what this bill does on top of all of the waste fraud, corruption, and abuse.
So sad that people in the middle of a crisis like this would ever act this way.
Dr. Fauci, the media's tried to put a wedge between him and the president.
No, we there's no wedge here.
He's listened to everything we've said.
We might disagree on a few minor things, but no, he's doing everything possible.
Can anyone really add one thing that the president should be doing that he hasn't been doing?
He's but they're killing themselves.
But they've had to rewrite the book on everything.
Every single thing.
Now, I've been saying, and I want to continue this narrative.
If you go back to the Michael Crichton book disclosure and the movie disclosure, Michael Douglas, Demi Moore's actually a great movie.
It was a great book.
I read the book.
And it it's it tells the story of how these two were an item at one point.
Anyway, he has a job, this company, the company's about to go public, very important time.
They want to get everything right.
And anyway, and she comes on to him and he rejects it.
And there's a recording that you don't find out till later that happened.
But he's getting all these cryptic emails because they're setting him up to destroy him and fire him.
Anyway, so he gets these cryptic emails from a professor whose name happens to be a friendly, a friend, rather.
Now, it turns out obviously it was a novel.
But anyway, long story short, the emails would always say solve the problem.
The best thing that we can do now, and that's why I'm hoping these anecdotal stories on hydroxychloroquine and along with the zithromyosin.
I am hoping.
Um, I am hoping that they're successful.
If we can stop the death first, people that contract it, stop the death first.
That will go a long way to helping us get back on track as a country faster.
So I'm hoping, I'm watching very closely.
Dr. Oz has done a great job.
He's interviewed people that have used it, patients that have used it and recovered, they're telling their story.
He's interviewing doctors that have been prescribing it and telling their stories.
That's hope for me.
But, you know, you Can't you can't turn the country.
Listen, we won't have any medicines if we shut the country down.
Let's put it that way.
There might be every area in the country that can open at the end of this 50 15 day period, but say New York, Washington State, and California.
We don't know yet.
You know, you and Andrew Cuomo is definitely trying to be plan B as it relates to Joe Biden.
It's obvious.
Because no matter what the president does, four hospitals, a medical uh hospital, Navy ship, uh hydrochloroquine, uh doses sent up here.
That's now basically we have a clinical trial going on as we speak.
Off label, innovative, creative.
Donald Trump breaking down the bureaucracy.
Calling it, yeah, off label use.
Absolutely.
Compassionate care, absolutely.
Remember, he's the one that had the right to choose.
You know, in other words, the right to try.
Experimental medicines.
That all means something.
Um, but anyway, there's so many people that are working so hard, and we see so many so such goodness out there.
And then we see these idiots in Washington playing politics as usual.
Then you got the idiots in the media, you know.
Then now they're saying MPR saying we're not going to carry the coronavirus task force because it may because Donald Trump is doing them.
That's basically the answer.
And then other warnings on MSDNC, the conspiracy theory channel.
This is vital information.
They give it out every day.
They start out what they've done, what they're doing, and what they need people to do.
But no, we're not going to carry it because uh Donald Trump looks too presidential.
Is that the answer?
That's that's what it really seems to be about to me.
Why else would you not give out this information?
You get to hear from Dr. Fauci, the other medical experts, the Surgeon General who's been phenomenal on this.
We get to hear from all these people.
I want to hear from these people.
Some things to watch out for.
Um, for example, red itchy eyes seem to be another symptom of coronavirus.
Coughing, obviously, is one.
Temperature is one.
Um, following the recommendations of the task force seemed like this the smartest play here.
Um testing centers now going up every day, and you can go to the website and look for all those things.
Um, I know uh the grocery store chains have now pledged that they are going to keep the store, the stores stocked up, which is important.
In other words, try not to hoard.
And if anybody's involved in price gouging on something that's essential, you know, like water, masks, Pure L. Um, really.
What compels you to act that way?
You really need the money that bad?
You're really lacking a heart that bad.
It's pretty sad.
What profit the entire, what profit a man to gain the whole world and lose their soul?
That's kind of losing your soul kind of stuff.
But I'm hoping that we can now get this thing right.
Meaning, I'm hoping that Washington will get their act together.
I know it's probably way too much to even hope for.
I'm setting myself up for major disappointment, get knocked down in a major way.
But we'll see what happens.
All right, so here's what we got tonight.
Steve Minucchin is going to be on.
Lindsey Graham is saying he won't support this bill.
Steve Minucin is on.
Chad Pergam will give us an update, all things in DC.
Then Peter Navarro is on about the economics of this thing that they're trying to get through.
Uh, Senator Tom Cotton is going to join us.
I'm I'm betting he's not going to support this in its current form either.
Dr. Oz on the hydroxy uh chloroquine potential option.
He's interviewing doctors and patients every day, and anecdotally, we're getting very good information.
He'll update us on all of that.
That brings hope of saving lives.
Uh, Mike Huckabee, Congressman Mike, uh Matt Gates, and much, much more.
