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There is a ton of anecdotal stories about the greatness of the American people, American corporations.
I mean, it just keeps expanding out in massive ways.
I'll get to that part of this.
The politics are what the politics are always going to be.
That is who they are.
That is what they are.
We have a lot of medical news that we will be passing on to you today.
Dr. Oz, by the way, we're starting a new segment tomorrow.
Tomorrow, final hour of the show, Dr. Oz will take your calls and questions about anything you want to ask him.
Health related, obviously.
Betsy McCoy also, we're going to put to rest.
There is now a report in the New York Post.
Can you imagine this?
The ground zero.
You know, we've already confirmed how many times that, I mean, it's so repulsive and despicable, to be very honest.
You know, you get this.
We actually have a 32, how many page report is it?
Let's see.
Oh, this is from the Health Commission report, actual task force in 2015 in New York.
Then Governor, that was Governor Cuomo's administration, still.
This is his third term at this point.
Task force document that said there would be a shortfall.
Cuomo's governor, in other words, if there's a pandemic in New York, I'll give an exact quote, page 30 of this thing.
During a severe influenza pandemic, there is likely to be a projected shortfall of ventilators, 15,783 during a peak week of demand.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
And what did he do?
Goes back to the task force.
Well, we only have 2,000 ventilators.
Can you please tell us how do we ration that?
Anyway, now we're learning.
Apparently, the New York Post obtained a memo sent out to New York City ambulance workers advising them not to bring cardiac arrest patients to the hospital if they can't get a pulse at the scene.
Now, such patients previously would be brought to a hospital.
Doctors would try to revive them.
And in some cases, I have a lot of friends that are doctors.
They're able to pull it off.
These cases are being deprioritized during the coronavirus outbreak.
No word yet from the governor.
All hands on deck.
It was such a dereliction of duty.
And then the lectures and then the photo ops and I need this and I need that.
And meanwhile, Donald Trump is building hospitals everywhere, sending in all the equipment that they should have had available for themselves.
He sends 4,000 ventilators.
I need 40,000.
What did he do with the 4,000?
He put them in a warehouse.
Oh, yeah, they're in a warehouse.
Yeah, that's what, oh, that's right.
They're in a warehouse.
We're just leaving him there.
That's what warehouses are for.
So when we need them, unbelievable.
And even worse, I put together timelines.
I am going to slowly be releasing information that the media mob will never get to you as it relates to how did people on the left, the media, I got a lot in the New York Times, Washington Post, fake news, CNN, MSDNC.
Oh, Hannity, he said it was a hoax.
I never said it was a hoax.
I said, oh, you're politicizing a virus.
You're weaponizing a virus.
Oh, they were using it as their next hoax to bludgeon Trump.
What were they doing during the beginnings of the pandemic when Trump was implementing the travel ban?
That travel ban, incalculable numbers of people were in this country, did not contract this virus.
Can't calculate exponentially, mathematically, out how many people would have otherwise died but for the travel ban and then the quarantine, then the other travel pens, and then finally the European travel ban.
Anyway, so we will get to all of this.
Let me start with our facts without fear segment.
And there are a lot out there.
China is rejecting U.S. intelligence claims that they hid the virus.
They're just lying.
So we know that already.
There's a top Japanese official who wants to rename the World Health Organization to the China Health Organization and use Wuhan virus.
So that's breaking out.
Everybody in the world is mad.
There was a proposal by Senator Marsha Blackburn.
Yeah, maybe China now can forgive some of the debt that they have of ours to make up for the cost of what they caused.
We had that European study in Great Britain and 95% of all of this would have been prevented had they only told the world the truth.
All hands would have been on deck to head to Wuhan province in China to help them out.
Anyway, intelligence officials concluded China's been concealing the true extent of the coronavirus outbreak within its borders by underreporting total cases and deaths and, of course, hiding it for the longest period of time.
New York Times science and health reporter, a guy by the name of Donald McNeil, went on Roswell Rachel Maddows' conspiracy channel, MSDNC, and quote, it sounded like a paid impomercial from China.
I'm actually reading this.
That was sort of like the outrage of the day.
Anyway, he talks about in China, there are 40,000 doctors, nurses, respiratory technicians that went from all over China to Wuhan and helped Wuhan doctors fight the virus.
There's no more virus in Wuhan, and the doctors have all gone home.
There have been a victory parades for them.
Gratitude and flowers and everything.
And they're heroes, and they have skills in fighting COVID-19.
I don't see why we wouldn't hire our pandemic.
You know, the doctors that tried to warn the world, guess what happened to them?
They're dead because they went on the front lines.
They tried to warn everybody, and they were excoriated within the country of China.
And Blackburn's saying, yeah, China should waive some of our debt because of what they did with this global pandemic.
I don't disagree with that at all.
We have coronavirus deaths in the U.S. Again, Facts Without Fear.
We're giving you the news.
Top 5,000 in the U.S. More states are adding and issuing stay-at-home orders.
Florida, more recently, finally, Michigan and Nevada have released hydroxychloroquine, which they were forbidding pharmacies from distributing.
And the only way you could get it is like in New York.
I don't know why Cuomo's doing this.
Dumbest decision I've ever heard.
We now have all the anecdotal evidence we can give you.
Dr. Roz is updating us daily on radio and TV about hydroxychloroquine.
And we now have all the doses that we could need with the help of Tesla, I think is the company in Israel, a pharmaceutical company.
They've been giving us, they gave us 6 million doses.
It's here.
They're giving us 4 million more doses.
And now we know that Novartis is donating 130 million doses and Bayer is doing the same.
Why are you sending people to a hospital?
The last place you need to be.
And if you don't have the virus, but maybe you think you have the virus and you want to take hydroxychloroquine because you've done your own research and your doctor agrees with you, you can't.
That is despicable without going to a Petri dish.
What do we call it?
Petri, what do you call it?
What do you call those PET Petri dish?
Yeah.
Sadly, Anthony Fauci's security had to be stepped up.
You always get the crazy people.
You see the good and bad in people.
Nancy Pelosi, oh, she wants another stimulus, Bill.
Thank goodness Mitch McConnell hit the brakes on that crap.
Interesting, I was surprised that this cruise bookings are on the rise for 2021.
All right, that's good for the cruising industry.
I don't want to see them go out of business.
People I know love it.
I don't like cruising.
I've been on, I just, it's not my thing.
I mean, I can't because of my diet.
I'm going to look at food all day.
It's like, you know, putting drugs in front of a drug addict, saying, here, but don't touch it.
Forget it.
I wouldn't survive.
A California engineer derailed the train over suspicion about coronavirus.
That was a weird story that I saw out there.
And look, the economy is scaring everybody.
John Harwood, you know, he actually said we have, you know, we lost 6.6 million jobs, new jobless claims this past week.
Doesn't surprise anybody.
And he said, we dropped a nuclear bomb on the economy.
He's right.
This thing is not complicated.
He said it's not subtle.
We pulled the plug out from the American economy and the results is what we see.
It is what it is.
6.6 million.
That is record-breaking.
The country's demanded this response.
They're getting the response.
We want to save every life possible and the money, albeit delayed because the Democrats doing what they always do, played politics because they cared more about funding the national endowment for the arts than they did about getting the, you know, hospital workers the monies they need for the supplies they need on the front line.
We know that there are now enhanced narcotic counter-narcotic operations.
Apparently, people are trying to profit off this with drugs.
And the government is now producing and procuring and delivering medical supplies all over the country in mass numbers.
17,000 National Guard personnel have jumped on board.
FEMA Health and Human Services literally now working together to get everything to where they need, when they need it.
They've ordered the ventilators.
They got 10,000 ready to go now.
They're holding them to somebody says, okay, we need them now.
They're going to get them there the next day or that day.
The Treasury, if you're interested in Social Security, they backed off a requirement where if you are a Social Security recipient, that you'd have to take an extra step to get the $1,200, the check in the relief package that was finally passed after the Democrats betrayed American workers and small business and hospital workers.
The Fed has temporarily eased capital requirements for big banks.
One bit of bad news on the health front, Italy's coronavirus death toll, apparently now we're believing is far higher than reported.
Why we can't get accurate numbers is unbelievable.
The answer, it's sort of like what I said about that movie.
Solve the problem.
You solve people dying.
You're going to go a long way.
Carnival Cruise still has 6,000 passengers at sea.
The Coast Guard says, no, they got to stay there because they got sick people on board.
I think we probably can come up with a better answer than that if we think through it and much, much more.
Now, we have, I have so much to get to today.
In terms of the politics, good and bad, best in people, worst in people.
We have a lot of medical news we're going to share with you today.
We'll get to that.
I have a stack so high of great Americans.
I mean everybody, except the predictable mob in the media and the Democrats.
You know, they just, they cannot get over it.
Now they are now advancing right now in the middle of a national emergency.
You've got groups trying to silence the media from covering Donald Trump.
You got fake news, CNN and MSDNC not wanting to cover the president's during a national emergency.
The facts and information he's giving to the American people that they want.
How do I know they want them?
Because the ratings for those two hour-long press conferences every day are through the roof.
And they don't want, they're thinking, oh, no, we can't have this.
Even during a pandemic, they're playing politics just like Congress and Pelosi and the Democrats did.
Now they want to now start their investigation in the middle of the pandemic, in the middle of what is the single biggest effort ever to stop people from getting sick.
If they want to play that game, I want an answer from every Democrat.
Do you now support travel bans?
Did Donald Trump do the right thing on January 31st, 10 days after the first known case in the U.S. by putting a travel ban from China in effect and quarantine?
And then future travel bans.
Let them answer that.
Does this not alter your views on borders?
For example, you know, we have 90% of America's heroin crossing the southern border.
Well, what about people getting a health check?
Maybe we would want to check everybody for the safety of the American people.
We don't care, you know, just little things.
You have to be able to take care of your own health care needs.
You know, it's, do you now support sanctuary city policies?
You want to release all these criminals like these states are?
So much madness.
Best in people and worst in people.
The mob in the media, the worst.
Democrats, socialists, radicals, they have been the worst.
Anyway, but the American people have been at their best.
Unbelievable stories I'll share with you.
All right, interesting continuing facts without fear.
I got a lot in the political front.
Some good, some interesting, some bad.
Comments of Gavin Newsom I found very interesting.
David Pluff, Obama's ex-advisor, saying Trump will get historical turnout.
Dangerous if you're Joe Biden.
And of course, the rumblings that Andrew Cuomo, when you look at Andrew Cuomo, when America becomes familiar, when New York becomes familiar with Andrew Cuomo, the truth about Andrew Cuomo and what he was telling New Yorkers and the dates he was telling them, I don't think they're going to be too fond of Andrew Cuomo.
You know, the photo ops in front of, oh, let's see, the hospital the Army Corps of Engineers built for New York at the Javits Center with 3,000 beds or photo ops in front of the USNS Comfort the day that it pulls up to port.
Donald Trump sent that too, and he's building 100 hospitals around the country.
But for New York specifically, we have Westchester, Nassau County, Suffolk County's all getting, you know, special hospitals.
They're being built.
Also now Louisiana, we're looking at Florida, we're looking at, elsewhere around the country, wherever the need is.
And what did Andrew do with the 4,000 ventilators?
Because he only had 2,000 because he rejected the recommendation to get 16,000 in 2015.
They're in a warehouse.
You can't make this up.
We'll get to all of that.
When we come back, though, and we have Dr. Oz and Dr. Josh and Betsy McCoy today, this good news list is so big.
It'll blow you away.
It's inspiring in the tough times.
step up stay no reason
you can't turn session and i'm pulling No reason in the world for you to roam.
We're all in this together.
No, friend, you ain't alone.
All you gotta do is stay home.
I can rail the skin plum off my hands.
All right, big and rich to brand new song, Stay Home.
I love these guys.
You know, at times you just gotta let loose a little bit.
And just, I noticed that the sale of alcohol is up like 50%.
There's little things that, by the way, the people on Twitter are so politically incorrect, so irreverent, but in many ways, if you read it, you laugh.
You're not allowed to say it publicly, but you laugh.
And, you know, some stuff against me.
It's funny as hell.
And the memes and everything that people do.
And I guess we're going to have a lot more activity on social media with all these keyboard warriors in their underwear in their basements.
There's more of them now, and they're probably bored and they don't feel like really working.
And they're acting like they're working and they act like they're on their work computer, but they're really not.
It's like students probably aren't watching all of the lectures as they do tele school and everything else, but whatever.
People are predicting, this side note stuff, a baby boom.
And then on the other side of it, well, there might be a divorce boom because people don't do well when they're actually together.
They need to be separate.
I hope not on the second one.
On the first one, I could see that happening.
Absolutely.
We'll see.
Nine months from now.
Anyway, there are great stories.
You know, like I watched the concert that Elton John hosted on all the Fox and iHeart properties.
That happened to be both of my partners, my radio partner, iHeart Radio.
And obviously, I work for Fox.
And I thought it was, listen, I thought it was great.
I don't remember too much politics in it.
And they were kind of like, the best song I thought was Tim McCraw was like sitting on his diving board and you had his band playing in other locations and he had his earbuds in and it actually worked really well.
I thought that was a great performance.
There is in times of crisis and trouble and you just, it's sort of like it's different, but remember the reaction after 9-11.
Here we have 3,000 fellow Americans.
We got belted.
We have this terrorist attack.
We had the trade center, two of them we watched collapse as a nation, watch these planes crashing into towers.
We see what happens in the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania.
And it just is like, you know, unbelievable courage and heroism.
All these firefighters, policemen, EMTs, first responders, everybody else is trying to run down the Trade Center stairs and get the hell out of there.
And you can't blame them.
That's what they're supposed to do.
Although at times we now know that people, well, just stay in your offices.
No, don't stay in your office.
People tell you to stay in your office and your gut tells you to leave, leave.
But then these guys are going up in the other direction to save human lives.
They know.
They knew when they went in those towers, it was not good.
And, you know, a lot of them actually said, Yeah, I just want to say, if anything happens today, I love you.
Those calls are still out there.
It's heartbreaking.
And with the virus, same thing.
I mean, but after that, it was beyond that.
It was, it was the whole nation.
I know this may sound silly, but I remember like every restaurant opening up and staying open for those working to find any human life and then later, you know, lost lives in the rubble of ground zero.
But all these restaurants opening up, feeding all these guys for free.
Never forget Campbell's Soup set up like the biggest soup kitchen thing that you've ever seen to give everybody just feed them.
And it was that type of response.
And everybody all over the country doing everything they could do to help.
We see this happen time and time again when there are hurricanes.
More recently, tornadoes in Nashville.
You just see the best in people.
And America's all in for the fight.
Now we've got, you know, you look at the bravery every day.
We now have the National Guard called up.
We now have the national, our military involved.
You saw the U.S. Navy prepared their hospital ship for New York, the USNS Comfort.
They did that in three days.
Army Corps of Engineers helped build a 3,000-bed hospital at the Javits Center.
They did that in three days also.
Similarly, there are now plans and in the process of building these hospitals all across the country where they think it's going to be most needed.
You see all of these big companies.
If I make the list now, it's so long.
I mean, starting with the public-private partnership, the Walmarts, and the Walgreens, and the Targets, and the CVSs, and the Rite Aids, and I'm going to forget everybody, Lab Corps, and Quest Diagnostics.
I mean, everybody, Roche Pharmaceuticals.
We know, for example, that Novartis, okay, we have all this anecdotal evidence going on that hydroxychloroquine is working.
And now they stepped up.
I mean, the first company, the reason I took really close issue, I mean, Israeli scientists are amazing, and their medical professionals are amazing.
And there's a pharmaceutical company called Teva in Israel, and they sent 6 million free doses of hydroxychloroquine, and now they're sending 4 million more.
And it was like basically saying, we know this works.
This is the best thing we found.
That's how I took it.
And they did it.
And now Novartis, 130 million doses for free.
And other pharmaceutical companies as well.
They've all stepped up.
And you see, even the psychos in the entertainment industry.
You know what?
A lot of them stepped up.
And I'm sure some of them don't agree with me politically, but I tip my hat to them.
I can't believe they attacked poor Mike Lindell and mypillow.com.
That was awful.
Look at the production now.
Abbott Laboratories, they're going to have 50,000, 50,000 tests that in five minutes, you're going to get an answer if you're positive for COVID-19.
Look at the FDA draconian rules, all gone.
All these companies stepping up, one after another, after another after another.
And it is American ingenuity and innovation and compassion and generosity and goodness and greatness.
And I mean, you see, for example, spirit makers are now making hand sanitizer.
Wow, that's pretty cool because I think you have to have like 90% alcohol, 60% alcohol.
I don't know what it is to make it, you know, kill known to kill viruses.
There's so many of them, I couldn't even begin to list all of them that are willing to do that.
And GM and Ford and they're making the ventilators.
They kept hearing we need ventilators.
Yes, the president now is making them do it faster.
You've got a Pennsylvania toy maker.
I guess it's called Crazy Aaron.
They're now beginning to produce hand sanitizer.
Thank you for that.
NASCAR 3D is printing face shields for coronavirus response for those on the front lines.
And I didn't mention all the medical professionals.
Look, all these doctors, all these nurses, all these people working in hospitals, there was a viral video that I saw today where people that do janitorial services for the hospitals, they're all masked up, gloved up, and they go in to these rooms.
You know, they're contaminated.
And they walked out and all the nurses, all the doctors started clapping for them.
And at one point, one of the people that was being clapped for, involved in the janitorial service, you know, started clapping, thought they were clapping for something else.
You just wanted to join in.
And then when one woman recognized that they were doing it for her, started crying.
Amazing.
Now, those doctors and nurses and medical professionals, they were thanking them and making them feel good about what they're doing.
I know Disney Parks have been closed.
They now donated 100,000 N95 masks.
Good for them.
3D printed coronavirus fighting products.
I mean, people are so innovative.
I saw this on Fox Business and manufacturer produces the first ever washable, reusable 3D printed N95 masks.
The president was talking about this the other day.
They're washable and reusable.
And I guess I'm going to use the wrong word here, sanitize, desanitize, you know, whatever.
They make it reusable, which is good.
And you don't need the massive amounts that people have been suggesting we need.
You got chefs donating gourmet meals to hospital staff.
How cool is that?
Take care of them.
They deserve it.
They're risking their lives every day.
There was a story front page New York Post today about how hospital workers that got coronavirus, they're now getting well and going right back into the fight.
I know, I got to give a lot of credit.
I know NYU medical students, NYU Langone.
Now, NYU Langone, if you get in, you are the top of the top of the top.
It is a free medical school because of monies and donations and whatever fundings that somebody had left them.
And anyway, so they now are graduating those students early, offering them a two, three-month contract or something to that effect, if they are willing to go into the hospital system early and start helping.
By the time you're three months away from graduating, or I guess now two, I think it's a smart idea.
And every student I heard signed up, everyone, they signed up.
Well, why do you become a doctor?
You want to help others, and it is at times risky.
But they all signed up.
I was like, wow.
A Washington, D.C. woman starts a charity to support restaurants and healthcare workers in a coronavirus fight.
Remember a couple of Sundays ago, I tweeted out a couple of my favorite restaurants, and I got excoriated on Twitter.
Oh, you can afford it.
Okay.
The restaurants I go to, maybe the exception of one is like really inexpensive, like $10 for a plate of pasta.
I mean, give me a break.
But now they're all doing it.
I'm actually buying more food than I can ever eat just to kind of keep everybody working and checking in with my, I know the entire staffs because I go to four places, the same four places.
The masked singer, the TV show, he purchased 10,000 surgical masks for New York hospitals.
Arnold Schwarzenegger donated a million dollars in masks and gears to hospital workers fighting Corona.
Dolly Parton did the same for coronavirus research after learning about exciting advancements.
Good for her.
Hawaiian Airlines is offering free island flights to medical workers fighting COVID-19.
That's awesome and pretty cool.
I love original recipe.
Love it.
KFC, they're giving a million pieces of chicken away to franchisees so that they can distribute them to the local community.
Bill Belichick had words of strength and wisdom.
It'll take teamwork, discipline, commitment to do the right things all the time.
And he goes out and gives a strong, we're facing a difficult opponent.
It's going to take these disciplines to do it, include staying at home.
I encourage everyone to shelter in place as long as necessary so we can end it and get back to normal.
Corona Eastern Airlines, I didn't even know they existed anymore.
Apparently, Pennsylvania-based carrier, good for them.
They've now repatriated more than 5,700 Americans since March 13th.
I know for a fact because let's just say I passed on information to important people at the State Department.
Mike Pompeo, he's getting information.
They had a bunch of mission students in Peru.
They got them out.
I know of people in numerous countries.
You haven't heard a word about it, but they're getting all Americans out and getting them back and getting them home.
Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Tiger Woods, and Mickelson are going to have a golf shootout for charity.
That's pretty awesome.
I mean, everybody's doing everything they can.
They're good people.
Then, of course, you got the jackasses in the mob, in the media.
They don't want to take Donald Trump's press conference.
And you have leftist organizations.
Yeah, they don't want to either.
I got to give props to Gavin Newsom.
Yep, I never thought I'd be saying a lot of good things about him.
He was on fake news CNN, and he said, you know, about the president that they have been extremely responsive to California's needs.
I've talked to officials throughout the country who said that, you know, that they have to temper their remarks about what they say about the president.
You and the president seem to have been working collaboratively.
Like, for example, I had no intention of going after Andrew Cuomo until he became a bit of a jackass.
And, you know, we put him on this program.
I told him I'd do anything I can do for New York.
You tell me whatever you need.
I'll go to war for New York.
I will help you.
Anything I can do.
Then he has to go out there and start.
I need 30,000.
I'm like, okay, well, why didn't you buy the 16,000 they told you to buy in 2005?
If you want to politicize it, he's building you hospital, sending in all your equipment, sending your ventilators, you're storing away, you know, and kind of hoarding just for New York.
And I was like, how about thank you?
Anyway, but then Gavin Newsom said, I'd be lying to say Trump hasn't been responsive to our needs.
He said, I've been consistent.
Know this.
We've been dealing with historic wildfires, droughts out here in the West in California.
I said it back a year ago.
This is not a time to bicker.
I don't care who's up and down, whose polls are where looking better than someone else's, who wants to run for president, who doesn't.
When it comes to a time of crisis, we need to rise above partisanship.
And I've extended always an open hand and not a closed fist in these circumstances.
And this is no different.
And let me be candid.
I'd be lying to you if I said to say that he hasn't been as responsive to our needs as he has been because he has.
Good for him.
Andrew Cuomo, you might want to learn something from him.
You might.
Because your response and lack of preparedness is shocking, considering you're the number one target in America for a terrorist attack.
And there's a pandemic, a pandemic.
You got the smallest geographical area with 10 million people.
Yeah, you would be at risk.
And up to, you know, two weeks ago, he said, oh, it's not going to be bad.
And I have that full timeline.
But I mean, it's just pathetic.
It really pissed me off.
And I do wish Chris Cuomo well.
That's sincere as can be.
I've known Chris, he used to work at Fox.
And strong guy.
He's going to recover.
I know he's going to be fine.
All right.
Glad you're with us.
Hour two, Sean Hannity Show.
We have our facts without fear.
A lot of medical updates we're going to give you throughout the program today.
Well, it can't get sicker than this.
Now you have a group of people.
They are actually left-wing officials that are suing to prevent the media from covering the president's daily press conference during a national emergency.
They don't think it's fair.
I mean, it doesn't get any sicker than this.
Then they're playing politics in New York.
Comrade de Blasio, I mean, the single, the most, I mean, as bad as the governor's bed, and it's pretty bad.
I mean, the mayor of New York has been even worse.
So Franklin Graham's Samaritan Purse, they're running a makeshift hospital in Central Park.
Now, De Blasio apparently is now saying he's very concerned that this is an anti-gay evangelical relief organization.
Now, I've known Franklin Graham for years.
Franklin Graham helps people all around the world.
And yeah, he always likes to pray with people, but everything's free for anybody.
They're not asking your sexual orientation.
And as a matter of fact, Samaritan's Purse, this hospital they built specifically for coronavirus patients, fully staffed, all the equipment that they need.
You know, no cost to the city of New York.
None.
None to the state either.
Anyway, and they work with Mount Sinai, and they even signed a pledge that they will treat any patient equally.
I already knew that about Franklin Graham.
It's not the time to play politics here.
We're going to be sending people over from the mayor's office to monitor.
I mean, really?
Now the mob and the media doesn't want in the middle of a national emergency when the president of the United States of America wants to give pertinent information that people need for their health and well-being and the safety and security and keep them updated on what efforts are being used every day.
We can't hear this.
Fake news, CNN, when the president starts the press conference.
Now, multiple days in a row, they won't carry his part.
Well, that's when he makes all the big announcements about exactly what it is that they are doing and updating the situation.
And he's sat there for the last two days, two and a half hour press conferences to the point where, you know, there's like no more questions left.
But he's there and available as he's ever been, and they don't like it.
You know, you can hear the media mob, the worst people in all of this.
I just spent a half hour telling you all the good.
And then we're going to get to Dr. Josh and then Dr. Oz and Betsy McCoy on the medical updates.
You know, the media mob have been awful.
They can't stand Donald Trump even, not even to help a country in the middle of a pandemic.
Unbelievable.
It's unreal.
And then you've got the Democrats.
They hold up relief aid for over a week for hospital workers, needed supplies, monies for needed supplies, for workers all across the country through no fault of their own, the help that the American people want to give them, holding that money up, holding money, small businesses so they don't have to fire employees during this time.
And big businesses just, you know, look at the airline industry, the cruise line industry.
Unbelievable.
Now that 80, 90% of Americans have been unbelievably inspiring.
The rest, unbelievably repulsive.
Listen to this.
Listen to the media mob.
You know, coronavirus pressures of the president should not be aired.
Listen.
But these daily briefings from the White House are a litany of things from the president that would be awesome if they were true, if they were happening, but they're not.
And so the sooner we come to terms with that, I think the better for all of us.
If it were up to me, and it's not, I would stop putting those briefings on live TV.
I have said, I don't think that you should really listen to what he says.
You should listen to what the experts say.
I'm not actually sure, if you want to be honest, that we should carry that live.
I think we should run snippets.
I think we should do it afterwards and get the pertinent points to the American people.
I personally can't help but feel these daily sessions are bad for the country, even dangerous from a public health perspective.
It's obviously above my pay grade.
I don't make the call that we take them or not, but it seems crazy to me that everyone's still taking them when you got the MyPillow guy getting up there talking about reading the Bible.
Sarah and I have been talking about this.
It just seems to me that networks should not even be at this point broadcasting his 90 minutes of misinformation.
I understand what Cuomo's on.
That's one thing, but I just, I almost think it's a disservice to the country at this point.
We'll take Cuomo.
You mean the guy that rejected the recommendation that if you have a pandemic, you're going to need another 16,000 ventilators?
And he said no.
That guy?
The guy that is not allowing people to get in their own pharmacy hydroxychloroquine?
Wow.
You have to go to a hospital in New York to get it.
Even Michigan and Nevada started it.
They stopped.
When is New York going to stop?
Dr. Josh Umber is with us with the latest on.
Let me ask you, because you've been very helpful sending us and giving us information every day.
Dr. Josh, how are you doing down there in Wichita?
Excellent.
And thank you for the opportunity to be on and explain how everything's working.
You have known a lot about hydroxychloroquine.
This surprised me.
You had secured doses, extra doses.
Now, for people that don't know, you have a concierge healthcare for everybody service, and that is a cooperative.
And if you couple it with a catastrophic plan for an accident or a heart attack or cancer, God forbid.
But you have 50 bucks a month adults, 10 bucks a month kids, every medical service, doctor's on call 24-7, and you walk out with your prescription at a 90% reduction, 95% reduction, because you negotiate directly.
Now, what made you decide, not bulk, but you secured a lot of hydroxychloroquine.
Why?
Well, you know, one, we full scope family medicine, so we have a lot of rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, chogren-type patients who are on these medicines normally.
But we also know from just, you know, being kind of fully trained family physician, quinine, hydroxychloroquine is routinely studied when it comes up for viral infections like this or other types.
Malaria is a different type, but that's the reason we use these meds as a prophylaxis is they are effective against certain types of infection.
Well, let me ask you anecdotally about that because Dr. Oz and I have been talking about this fairly regularly.
And that is people that are using chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, or what is the plaque.
Yeah, plaquinol, sorry.
Which is pretty much the same thing, right?
Okay.
That those that are using it for lupus and those rheumatoid arthritis, we're seeing far less incidences of them contracting corona.
Is that true?
Well, that would make a lot of sense, especially considering how they would normally be at increased risk because a lot of the rheumatology medicines decrease their immune system because it's their immune system attacking themselves.
So they're normally more prone to these types of infections.
So it would be a very unique subset to study if they are now, because of this medicine, resistant to this infection.
Okay.
Now, what about countries that have high incidences of malaria?
Do we have any data about that?
And Dr. Josh had mentioned anybody that is taking hydroxychloroquine for either lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, we could do a very quick study and find out if they are far less likely to contract the disease because of hydroxychloroquine.
I think the areas most prone to malaria are probably the areas that won't have as much robust public health.
And so maybe not doing as much corona testing and looking for that.
So in the short term, it might be hard to get that data.
But I think in the long term, and I think that's the important part, is what do we look at for after this?
Because there will be an after.
And I think a big part of our job as family physicians is helping people see the full view here, not lose the forest for the trees.
And I think there's an economic recovery that the health care system can embrace after this.
Some back-the-envelope math, Wall Street Journal reported in September that the average employer health insurance premium is $20,500.
If you save just a fraction of that, 38%, roughly $7,000, $8,000 a month, that would be equivalent to $1 trillion put into the 128 million households in the U.S.
So in one year, we could give people back half the equivalent of this stimulus package.
And we could do that every year.
And I think that's a platform that we need to talk about as we get ready for the next phase of this, which is the wind down of the infection and how do we build up the economy.
Because if we don't build up the economy, we see more domestic abuse, we see more drug and alcohol addiction, more depression, sadly, a lot more suicides because of this hardship.
So there's a lot of phases to the public health side of this, but healthcare is uniquely positioned to help.
See, you have been in the forefront of something that I think is going to now be the future, and that is you've had these health care cooperatives.
I have abused our relationship, and as much as I keep putting you on, it frustrates the living daylights out of me that people don't listen.
You're offering concierge care, access to a doctor 24-7, 50 bucks a month, and you get the discounted medicines.
You walk out with them.
You don't even have to go to the pharmacy.
That's the future.
Telemedicine is the future.
Off-label use of drugs like hydrochloroquine is the future.
Getting rid of draconian FDA regulations, compassionate use is the future.
Right to try is the future.
And it's so hard to get people to change.
Well, I agree.
I think the government's often been heavy-handed on restrictions, and the medical community is slow to adapt new business models.
But what we're seeing now is we have to adapt, is telemedicine means less infectious risk, means more care, faster care.
And what we're going to see is a world a lot more receptive to this change.
Employers will probably not be able to go back to the same rate of employees at the cost of health insurance.
So if they could decrease the cost of their insurance premiums by 50% easily using a direct care model, then that's $6,000 to $7 plus $1,000 a year that could be put back into every household.
So now employees can say, look, I do want insurance, and I need it for the coronavirus ICU type infection.
But now I can do telemedicine with my doctor.
Can get meds for pennies a pill.
I mean, the Plaquenil type medicines are cheap.
So now we could say we have a high level of employment.
We need to have the White House talking about this and getting the heads of Starbucks and Elon Musk and Home Depot in a room and say, how are you going to ensure employees going forward and increase their paycheck?
It's very important.
Well, I want to ask you, you have known for years because you procure a lot of the medicines on your own at a deep, deep, deep, deep discount.
You're buying directly from manufacturers.
You've known about the outsourcing of a lot of our pharmaceuticals being produced in China.
Now we can't allow that to happen again.
So that's got a fix.
We'll come back.
I want to ask you about that on the other side.
Dr. Josh is with us.
Also, why wasn't New York prepared?
How is that even possible?
After 9-11, how is it possible?
But we'll get to that information that might scare you.
Anyway, more with Dr. Josh, then later, Dr. Roz, Betsy McCoy coming up.
All right, as we continue, Facts Without Fear, medical update.
Dr. Josh is with us.
All right, so Linda tells me that you are crazy enough that you want to give out your email and answer people's questions, which I think is amazing.
And I know how committed you are to your craft.
You were born to do this.
This is your calling in life.
You really want to do that?
You know, what we know is there's a ton of people with questions.
There's a ton of doctors with questions.
There's employers.
There's politicians.
The faster we can show them the answers to either calm their medical concerns to some degree, you know, basic information, but then also to say, how do you keep your company alive?
How do you fix your insurance premiums so that you can hire your people back?
How do insurance companies support this?
How do we go forward in a way that teaches, that we learn from the lessons that COVID has taught us, that we can be streamlined, faster, easier, higher quality, use technology?
Healthcare is stuck in an insurance model of 50 years ago, and we need to bounce forward.
Because if we don't, then the economic health of the country is going to suffer.
But if we need to find a trillion dollars every year to help small businesses, it's right there.
It's in their insurance premiums.
Now people can have high-quality insurance for half the cost.
They can have unlimited access to their doctor for less than an iPhone every month, $10 a month for kids.
This is how we get America running again.
You know, call it the Heartland plan.
But I believe that there is a very viable solution that will come out of this unfortunate scenario.
All right.
Next question.
You buy medicines direct from pharmaceutical producers and companies, correct?
And you get a 90-95% discount, correct?
Correct.
And you sell it at cost to your patients.
Correct.
Okay.
Unbelievable.
And for example, if I leave your office, I have high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
I walk out with medicine.
And some of those blood pressure, we have over 100 medicines under 4 cents a day, about 20 or 30 under a penny a day.
So you could treat your blood pressure for a year for under $3.65.
Unbelievable.
All right.
Now, you're willing to give out your email.
I have given you ample warning.
You did.
Okay, what is it?
Dr. Atlas.md.
So just Dr. Josh at atlas.md.
DR Josh at Atlas MD.
Atlas.md.
Atlas.md.
I will put it on Hannity.com.
Along with John Richards.
Yep, we'll do our best.
Help everybody direct to other direct care doctors.
Yep.
All right, Dr. Josh, good luck.
We'll put that email address on Hannity.com.
Why was New York so ill-prepared?
Next.
We're all about half crazy.
Kids are bouncing off the wall.
Yoga's done, got canceled.
Mama's pacing down the hall.
Homeschool's now in session, and I'm pulling out my hair.
It's halfway through the morning, I'm still in my underwear.
Stay home, stay home.
No reason in the world for you.
I figured, Rich, we put the link up on Hannity.com.
I love those guys.
They're just awesome.
And it's actually pretty funny.
There are people, funny videos, viral videos of people going home.
They're ready to go nuts.
They're coming out of the, they're going crazy.
And the sooner we get back to regular life, everybody's going to be happy.
Oh, let's see.
The ever-confused, confounded Quid Pro quo Joe is calling on Donald Trump to resume aid to Iran, blaming the U.S. for Iran suffering.
I guess if he becomes president, we give him, what, another $150 billion in cash and other currencies so they can continue their nuclear program unchecked and chant death to Israel, death to America some more.
Unbelievable.
Really crazy political stuff.
I'm going to get into our facts without fear stuff in New York.
I mean, this story, for example, about Samaritan's Purse.
Samaritan's Purse is Franklin Graham's group.
They go all around the world.
They have Operation Christmas, whatever, I forget what it's called, every year.
I actually went with Franklin Graham.
We went to Haiti and we, where else did we go?
I don't remember.
Dominican Republic.
And you give these Christmas boxes out.
People would pack them and they donate millions of them every year.
And you put in things like toys and toothbrushes and toothpaste and stuff like that.
Stuff they need and stuff to have fun with, a doll, truck.
You say if it's to go to a boy or a girl.
And it's unbelievable how kids react to what is just basically a little box full of stuff.
And people are smart.
They put a ton of stuff in it.
And the kids are so happy.
I saw it up close and personal.
It was unbelievable.
But they go all over the world.
Whenever there's these types of incidents, natural disasters, pandemics, they go right into the heart and soul of where it's happening.
And they'll help anybody.
They don't ask you to convert to Christianity.
They say they'll pray with you if you want to pray.
Okay, is that so bad?
Anyway, well, de Blasio, as if he hasn't screwed up everything enough with zero preparation, probably the only one that was more ill-prepared for this pandemic, which is amazing considering, you know, the first trade center attack and considering the 9-11 attack.
Yeah, New York is a target for terrorism.
One of the top two, D.C. and New York, fact.
And so you would think they'd have emergency preparations in place.
They don't.
They didn't have anything.
And so now, so Samaritans Perth opens its hospital for coronavirus patients specifically.
And they do it in conjunction with Mount Sinai, which is a hospital right adjacent to Central Park in New York.
One of the few trees, treed areas you'll ever see in New York City.
Anyway, so they're, and there's all the workers, all the equipment, everything you need, and they're doing it all free for New York City.
Now, Mount Sinai made sure Samaritan's purse, hey, will you sign a pledge that you treat every patient equally?
This isn't about, no, they say, of course.
Anyway, we're going to send people over from the mayor's office to monitor.
I'm very concerned that this gets done right.
This is what de Blasio is saying.
I'm like, don't you have anything else to do?
De Blasio's going to the gym.
De Blasio's, I have the whole timeline.
He's advising people to go out into the middle of this pandemic.
He's so stupid.
And you got the corrupt media.
I mean, I'm not even going to get into it.
You know, could we leave the pictures of Andrew Cuomo out of this?
Even I'm saying that.
I mean, it's so ridiculous.
Now, I told you about New York.
EMTs, according to the New York Post, obtaining a memo sent out to New York City ambulance workers advising them not to bring cardiac arrest patients to the hospital if they can't get a pulse on the scene.
Now, those patients previously were always brought to the hospital where doctors would do everything to revive them.
And sometimes we're successful.
These cases are being deprioritized during the coronavirus break.
And I'm like, looking at this and I'm saying, you've got to be kidding me.
You've got to be kidding me.
And you're worried about Samaritan's purse building you a free hospital because you didn't do anything to prepare.
Now, that's a little, you know, insane.
By the way, that's in Business Insider and elsewhere.
And the New York Post has that story.
So we're now, you know, asking a lot of questions.
Why wasn't New York prepared?
And I've been very critical of this.
I actually have in front of me a 240-page document, ventilator allocation guidelines from the New York City Task Force on Life and Law, the Department, New York State Department of Health.
It's in November of 2015.
Now, the person in 2015 that was the governor was Andrew Cuomo.
I have a report in front of me.
We didn't have to have a ventilator shortage.
Leaders chose not to prep for pandemic.
This is an actual task force document I have in front of me.
Said that there would be a shortfall in New York if there's a pandemic, specifically predicting exactly how many ventilators short New York would be if they had a pandemic.
Now, geographically, you've got the smallest area with the largest amount of people.
That would make them the most vulnerable, not only most vulnerable for terror attack, but also the most vulnerable if there is a pandemic.
So you think New York after the first trade center attack and other terror incidences and 9-11, of course, that they would have thought to prepare.
They did not.
The task force told them exactly how many ventilators they estimated that New York would need.
Cuomo, governor at the time, current New York Health Commissioner, was on this task force.
I'll go to page 30.
During a severe influenza pandemic, there is likely to be a projected shortfall of ventilators.
15,783, exactly.
That's the shortfall.
New York at the time only had 2,000 ventilators.
So what did Cuomo do?
He goes back to the task force.
Not to buy them.
How do we ration the 2,000 that we have if, in fact, we need them?
Well, the person that has been writing about it.
Nobody wants to listen when the president said it.
They said, no, it's not true.
Oh, it's true.
I got it right here in front of me.
Ventilator allocation guidelines.
New York State Task Force on Health and the Law.
New York State Department of Health.
Betsy McCoy, former lieutenant governor, chairwoman of the committee to reduce infection deaths.
Am I correct?
And you have all these doctors.
You are absolutely correct, Sean.
In fact, it says right in there that they considered buying them and decided they'd rather spend the money on other things and write the rationing rules instead.
So it's not as if they suddenly got caught short without the ventilators.
They planned on this shortage.
They planned it and devised a rationing system to accommodate it.
That's what I find so shocking.
And that's only one of the reasons why New York is falling victim worse than any place else so far, unfortunately.
Look, the coronavirus is nobody's fault, certainly not Andrew Cuomo's.
But New York's vulnerability, there is fault there.
I see Andrew Cuomo earning high grades right now for his telegenic leadership, his daily briefings.
But if you look at his record, it's all talk.
No, no, talk.
It's all talk.
Who's the best?
And by the way, the photo ops in front of Trump's Navy hospital ship when it comes.
Then the photo op at the Javits Center that the Army Corps of Engineers built, like all the other hospitals, and the 4,000 ventilators that Trump gave him in a warehouse.
You've got to be kidding me.
I need 30,000.
Why didn't you buy what your own task force recommended instead of waste, fraud, and abuse that is obscene, which I'll get to in a second?
That's right.
And in fact, that very same time, that they could have spent approximately $500 million stocking up on ventilators.
They spent well over that on a boondoggle solar $750 million.
Correct.
That money wasted.
Another $600 million wasted.
Another $90 million wasted.
Unbelievable.
Sean, because he has also presided over a severe bed shortage in New York.
He's complaining now that New York City and the metropolitan area doesn't have enough hospital beds.
But who caused that shortage?
Andrew Cuomo.
It was deliberate, and year after year, the number of hospitals in New York and the number of beds decreased because of Andrew Cuomo's policy decisions.
And then you've got something else.
And this is, as you know, right in my wheelhouse, New York hospitals have poor infection control.
Their people are not as well trained as they should be.
Year after year, hospitals in New York have higher infection rates.
You know the kind of infections everybody fears, C. diff and VRE and MRSA.
But when the CDC came into New York several years ago and tested, are the hospitals here ready?
Do they do the right thing when somebody might have measles or another communicable disease?
And believe it or not, 69% of the hospitals flunked at least once.
And they found that about three-quarters of the hospital employees, as heroic as they are, weren't trained properly to wash their hands every time they should be.
So you see all these heroic doctors and nurses falling victim themselves to the coronavirus, blame the state health department's lax infection control standards.
Well, what the state health person has been saying is ridiculous.
The health care commissioner is just an idiot.
And like the mayor is, you know, telling people up until like the end of February, oh, no, go out, go out, go out.
And Cuomo said, we're prepared.
He kept saying over and over, we're prepared.
It's not going to be bad here.
Not going to be bad here.
Not going to be bad here.
Emotions don't have to be fact-based.
Part of my job is to say to people in this state what the reality is.
And first, this is not going to be a quick situation.
It could be a couple of weeks.
You know, he kept saying, no, it's not that bad.
All through March, not that bad.
Over and over again, Sean, that the hospitals were not ready.
They didn't have the equipment.
Their doctors and nurses and other employees weren't sufficiently trained and drilled to protect themselves and other patients in the hospital without coronavirus from getting this when it starts to race through the hospital, which, as you can see, it's doing in one hospital after another.
And of course, the deadliest decision is the one we talked about on the year earlier in the week: the nursing home decision.
That is going to cause the deaths of unfortunately many elderly people.
Hydroxychloroquine.
I've been having doctor after doctor, study after study.
Dr. Roz is going to give us an update at the top of the next hour, showing incredible, promising, anecdotal.
And now we have a clinical study that Dr. Roz referenced yesterday.
Yeah, I'm telling you, if I were unlucky enough to get this disease, I'd want to get a heartbeat.
But here's what Cuomo's now, an executive order, the only state in this country where you cannot go to a pharmacy to get it if you want it.
You have to go to a hospital.
Now, the last place somebody that is not in need needs to be is a hospital right now.
Absolutely so dangerous.
And your physician, your personal physician, should have the discretion to prescribe this off-label.
Unbelievable.
And you know, and the thing is, the media phones over this guy.
Oh, I think maybe he can replace Joe because Joe's losing it.
He's confused and confounded and it's awful.
And these press conferences online are a mess and he can't answer a question and he loses his trend of thought every second.
Maybe Cuomo's the answer.
That's what they're all saying.
Well, one thing we're watching, he's getting a lot of press now, and I pay tribute to him for that.
But governors and glass mansions shouldn't throw stones.
And his record on health care in New York, unfortunately, sadly, made this situation worse.
And your show is so powerful, so influential.
I hope that people in New York State are listening and will tell Andrew Cuomo to retract that order that every nursing home in the state must take patients being discharged from the hospital with just like his decision to release no bail.
You're a criminal.
Just you go in, and then you see like all these articles about like bank robbers.
They're like, yeah, they rob seven banks in a row.
They don't get bailed.
They get released.
How stupid is that?
Nursing home edict is the biggest blunder.
That's terrible.
But you see, Massachusetts, they're having dedicated coronavirus nursing homes and then other nursing homes that are being spared that illness to protect their residents.
That's the way to do it.
And many states are following that laudable example.
All right, Betsy McCoy, thank you for being with us.
We appreciate it.
We have a lot of medical updates coming up.
Dr. Oz, now, tomorrow, I said five o'clock earlier, I meant four.
For the full hour, Dr. Oz will take your calls, and we'll get to that tomorrow.
He'll be with us to update us.
He had good news yesterday.
We're going to follow up on that next.
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information overload.
All right, news roundup and information overload 800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of this extravaganza, just a few headlines are medical facts without fear.
There is a politico article, the Hanon Province in central China now taking measures putting a mid-sized county in a total lockdown.
There is concerns the virus might be re-emerging there.
Ex-FDA chief warning: parts of our lives will shut down without a coronavirus drug by the fall.
Nations with mandatory, this is a Bloomberg piece, mandatory TB vaccines show fewer coronavirus deaths, something I think we should pay attention to.
We now, the administration working with the pharmaceutical group Abbott now have developed a test that will tell you within five minutes, there'll be 50,000 of them a day in all 50 states that will be able to do this.
But they're now clamoring for the quick test, and they're now going to the virus hotspots first.
We have Fauci Security sadly had to be stepped up because of politics, which is insane.
Not surprising, though.
Well, we have one infectious disease specialist that was on Fox News from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Katie Kellner, saying that this is the beginning of the end of the pandemic.
I'd say that's a little early from my perspective.
More evidence indicates healthy people can spread the virus.
European experts, ready smartphone technology to help stop coronavirus spread, something they did in both South Korea and Israel.
Oddly, in 2017, the Pentagon warned about before Donald Trump was ever sworn in about a shortage of ventilators, face masks, and they specifically mentioned a coronavirus.
That was 20, at the very beginning, like early before Trump was sworn in.
Hospital is not allowing nurses to wear masks, if you can believe it, in Chicago.
I mean, that is insane.
French student doctors are thrown in the front line of coronavirus.
I mentioned earlier that NYU medical school, Langon, is now graduating their students.
Now, they offered them two-month contracts.
Every student signed up to help in New York.
Hospitals were now looking at shortages on certain things and who's getting what, where, and when.
Now, a big report.
The CDC has said COVID-19 can be spread one or three days before onset of symptoms.
And let's see.
I guess it's time for Dr. Oz, our medical aid team, the medical aid team.
Well, great news yesterday.
How are you, sir?
You never sleep, do you?
Well, last night was pretty busy getting ready for all the work today.
But I tell you, there are those times in your life, those moments that define actually your life.
And when I got that pre-print paper of this Chinese study that we've been sort of like a sleuth, we'd have a whole team looking for it.
I knew it was out there.
We finally got our fingers on it.
And I read it because you don't actually know what the paper is going to say.
Again, it's not even peer-reviewed yet.
It's so early.
And I saw they had taken these 62 people and randomized them.
That cute wet word randomized, everyone should remember, because that's what you have to do.
It has to be completely random.
So no one fixed it.
No one biased the results.
And we saw the benefit of the hydroxychloroquine that you've been speaking about so eloquently.
To me.
By the way, I'm getting the crap beat out of me because I'm looking for a treatment answer.
I'm talking to the best medical professionals in the country, including yourself.
I'm looking at every anecdotal bit of evidence.
So why do I care about this?
So people won't die, Dr. Oz.
That's why.
Well, I'll tell you, I was having an interesting discussion with somebody, and we're fighting over this.
And there's no question that there was a lot of resistance to this being possible.
It just seems too good to be true, right?
You've got this inexpensive drug with a 60-year history of safety that's used widely for malaria and lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.
And then the Chinese figure out that it might save lives.
And it's just, you know, come on, really?
And so people have a natural reluctance.
But I was having a conversation with someone.
They said, is what's bothering you?
Because, you know, there's a big debate about maybe go public, right?
People are going to embarrass you.
They're going to come after you.
As yes, you've experienced yourself.
And in medicine, it's even worse.
And, you know, Kissinger is famous for many things, but he was being reviewed to be Secretary of State under Nixon.
And one of the senators looked at him and said, you know, Mr. Kissinger, you don't have any experience in politics.
What makes you think you can do this job?
And he put his glasses down and he said, I'm on the faculty at Harvard.
That's politics.
If you want to see politics, you just go look at top-notch medical institutions, and there's politics there.
People, they'll eat each other alive because they're smart.
They know how to hurt you because they don't want bad things to happen.
They're all motivated.
I do, maybe naively, but I do believe for the right reasons.
But they'll start saying, hey, listen, it's too early to go public.
Don't mislead people.
Folks will not understand the nuances of what you're saying.
And that's why every time we've spoken about this, I've clarified we do not have peer-reviewed data.
This just doesn't exist.
It won't exist.
That's the problem.
By the time you get clinical data, this thing, how many people might have died when there might have been a potential treatment that saves lives?
And, you know, I've looked at all the risks, as you have.
I've asked you questions on air, and I've asked you questions off-air.
I think I'm pretty informed on hydroxychloroquine.
And it's, what's the other one?
Plaxoquin, quill.
Plaquinol is the.
Plaquinol.
I'm sorry.
You said it right.
And I know it's been around since 1945.
I mean, I'm sorry, for 45 years, not 1945.
And they use it for rheumatoid arthritis.
They use it in instances, what, for lupus, and they use it as an anti-malarial drug.
And the risk that is a possibility, we've gone over the risks, which possible arrhythmia.
And then long-term, if you use a lot of it, you know, you can use arrays.
They're theoretical, and you know this really well.
I call him Dr. Hannity, by the way.
Because your nurse sisters try to beat medicine into you, and it's actually, you have a natural aptitude, but interest in it.
But, you know, every study done has looked at side effects.
I mean, the one thing you can't argue about is that.
And it has proven in these studies to be remarkably effective.
Even when it's used with antibiotics, and that they didn't this randomized trial, you can argue about what the results are, although they're pretty clear, but no one got hurt from it.
I mean, you think they get a little rash.
That's enough.
I'll take a rash if the payoff is I might reduce the chance of my getting a bad version of coronavirus, or if I can convert the coronavirus, which is what the Chinese think they're doing, into a more benign version of what it is.
And that's all we need.
Imagine nudging the virus in the right direction by treating patients early in the course of their illness.
And one day maybe even treating them ahead of the illness to reduce the chance of getting it.
That's the dream.
We have to prove it.
But there are a lot of naysayers who, I mean, it's weird almost.
They're sort of rooting against it, not on purpose, but they're trying to be such purists like we should be in most situations.
But we're at war.
That's what it is.
It's a war to say.
And it's a war to save lives.
And it's a war worthy of the fight and worthy of, like, I loved when the president did right to try.
I love the idea of off-label use if it's going to save lives.
I love the idea of the FDA pushing aside draconian rules and people, you know, compassionate use.
If you want to try it, I would, based on all I know, Dr. Hannity for Dr. Hannity, I'm my only patient.
I would absolutely use it if I got this.
Well, Ian Lipkin, the famous virus hunter, who was on my show today, and I brought him on a purpose to talk about this topic because it's so delicate.
I know there's going to be a lot of people who instinctively just bristle at the idea of it.
But it's the data's the data, right?
The Chinese people are human beings.
They did a clinical trial.
We have to respect it.
And he came on, and he actually got to China to help them.
He was there.
He never got COVID-19.
Came back here, quarantined himself, did all the right things.
He's in the hospital helping.
Last week, he gets the disease.
He gets the virus.
So what's the first thing he does?
Call all the world-famous virologists to see what they would do.
And then he did what they said, which is to take hydroxychloroquine.
The world-leading researchers and doctors told him to do what we're asking people to consider talking about with their doctor.
So I'm not uncomfortable sharing with you and with your audience what I tell my own family.
Why wouldn't I?
It doesn't mean it's going to work for sure, but I've got enough information that I give the people I care about the most of my life this advice.
You ought to hear it from us, and then you decide as you talk to your doc, because you can't get it without a doctor anyway.
Well, I mean, and that's the important part.
You have been now looking as you dig into these studies, the new data, and again, every day on your program, and you know, it's must-see TV now because you're bringing on patients that have recovered, that have used hydroxychloroquine and Plaquenil, and you're bringing on, and with it, azithromycin, and in some cases, zinc, and you're bringing on doctors that are prescribing it, and you're talking to these virus experts.
I mean, it's hard to imagine that people study viruses their whole life.
It's crazy.
And they're pretty darn good at it.
But, you know, it is the existential threat.
I mean, well, our human civilization will never be destroyed by each of us.
We can hurt ourselves badly, but there's no way we'll kill each other in any real way other than letting a virus wipe us out.
That is the threat that has always been able to take out huge swaths of humanity at once.
You have to worry about biological terrorism in some ways.
And, you know, I know there were conspiracy theories that I don't believe all over the web of, oh, this was manufactured in a lab.
I don't believe that because this is, what, 98%, it's the equivalent of the previous coronavirus, which was SARS.
Yeah, I don't think so either.
And that same doctor I mentioned, Ian Lipkin, when he went over there, he helped sequence the virus.
And again, these are the top guys in the world.
And they all agree there's no way that a man would, first of all, you wouldn't have built this if you could do it yourself.
I was going to play with you.
How long have you had that cough?
Do you have a fever?
I'm kidding.
Go ahead.
Dr. Hannity, please quickly prescribe me.
I doxychloroquine.
I agree.
You know, I'm going to say this.
People are going to sue me.
I am not a doctor.
No, but I want, I like you.
And I do have many of my friends that are doctors.
I've actually been in, I've watched brain operations.
It's unbelievable what we do.
I love it.
I'm like, there's an operation on TV.
I watch the whole thing.
Knees, hips, everything.
I'm a nut.
My mother wanted me to be a doctor.
Look, I just ended up with a big mouth.
Can you imagine?
A total failure.
Not at all.
But so give us some hope.
What do you think?
You know, I mean, I want to give a realistic.
What is your realistic analysis of these numbers?
Like, if we didn't have the travel ban and mitigation efforts and the quarantine stuff, you know, the estimates, the charts that they showed this week, it could have been as many as 2.2 million Americans died.
We now have 5,600 Americans we know died.
Over a million people worldwide have contracted this virus.
Now, 60.8 million in the U.S. got H1N1, but it wasn't as deadly.
Well, I'll tell you, there were at least hundreds of thousands of lives saved by the brave decisions made all along the road.
And I tell you, it's reassuring that our country could flip on a switch like we just did.
I mean, how many of you a month ago would envision we'd be here right now?
Most of the countries are saying, another month, not so good, but we can do it.
Whereas a month ago, we were moaning and groaning because they were closing down restaurants and bars.
And I think the society has coped with it nicely.
We probably delayed some of these decisions.
A very human response.
You're making drastic moves is difficult.
But they moved the ship of state in the right direction pretty quickly.
I wish we had better testing.
That really, really hurt us in ways that are unimaginable.
There are no simulated attacks of viruses in our country.
None.
It's also, things get complicated too.
South Korea, they just shut everybody down.
I mean, you have the virus.
Oh, they're watching where you go every second of every day.
We have something called the Constitution here.
It's not as easy.
You know, stay, you know, a national stay order.
Well, that would violate the rights of states to make decisions.
Yep.
We've got to, you know, there are plenty of good things about democracy that all of us are going to fight to the death to defend.
And one of the limitations is you have to ask people to do things you can't tell them sometimes.
And with the things they did in Korea, where they would go to the people you had seen because they had technology tracking you and go to the butcher at the shop you bought stuff from two days ago and quarantine the guy.
You know, we don't do that here.
And you probably don't want them doing that because they could do other things if they knew that.
But quarantine the guy so he doesn't contaminate 50 more customers is a good move.
And that's what they did.
Now, Germany, which has more of an approach to ours, was just draconian in what they did.
A guy came back from Wuhan to his factory and he was sick.
They closed the factory.
And that's what we're going to have to do now.
We're going to have to be bold in our decision and aggressive in circling people who are sick and continue.
But you asked me my opinion on numbers.
I think the estimates that the White House Task Force is giving, and Dr. Brooks was on my show today, so I quizzed her pretty much on them.
The 100 to 250, it's a big range, right?
That's a lot of folks who could die.
100,000 to 250,000 potential deaths.
That's after the mitigation efforts, travel ban, et cetera.
And if we didn't do those things, it was 2.0 million.
2.2 million was the estimate.
So now that you see those numbers, you probably are all cheering for decisions that were made.
But it was still hard to make them because when you first started making them, people said, what are you talking about?
We don't do that kind of stuff in America.
I got to shut this.
I'm not going to call a travel ban.
No one's going to do that.
And now, of course, in retrospect, it makes sense.
There'll be some other bold decisions that have to be made.
But I do believe a month from now, we won't be through it, but a month from now, we'll have a pretty good vision of what the light at the end of the tunnel looks like.
And maybe some parts of the country that don't have a lot of virus would be good places to experiment, to do the things you're just talking about, to track people coming.
If you live in West Virginia, which doesn't have the kind of hospital backup that New York has, so you don't want to let the virus go loose there.
But if you don't have many cases, and you can meticulously travel with people and track them down, and we need to make more people to mitigate.
Yes.
You know, they have 9,000 public servants in, I think it was, there was an Asian country I was looking at, but all they do is detectives trace who the sick person was close to.
I know, and by the way, it worked, but I think that's not going to happen here.
All right.
So Dr. Oz tomorrow in our second hour, 4 Eastern, 1 West Coast time, is going to just take calls.
Any of your calls, questions that you have on the virus, how to protect yourself and your family.
And we'll see you on TV tonight, Dr. Oz.
You've been very generous as always with your time, and you're doing great work.
Thank you.
Thanks for all you're doing, Dr. Hennedty.
I'll see you tonight.
Oh, geez.
My fellow doctor.
Oh, God help us all.
800-941, Sean is our number.
Quick break.
Oh, the politics of this is getting more repulsive than ever.
The president's task force, likely when we get back.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, time for the president's daily coronavirus press conference, which the media and others are saying we shouldn't be carrying this in a national emergency.
It's really sick.
Pretty ugly.
Anyway, here's the president resources at SBA and us to make sure there's additional capacity.
As I said, we heard a lot of good feedback yesterday to simplify this process.
It's going to be up.
All right, let me bring this to the beginning.
We're a few seconds behind here, and I just want to make sure the president comes out with his opening remarks and comments, and then you're going to hear from the SBA loans and administrator.
Steve Mnuchin is there on the economy.
Vice President Pence is there.
Because the president, when he comes out, again, fake news, CNN doesn't want to cover it, as well as the conspiracy theory Area 51 Roswell Rachel Maddow MSDNC channel.
Anyway, here's from the opening remarks.
Good to be with you all.
We're in a very critical phase of our war against the coronavirus.
It's vital that every American follows our guidelines on the 30 days to slow the spread.
The sacrifices we make over the next four weeks will have countless American lives saved.
We're going to save a lot of American lives, and We're in control of our own fate, very much so.
Maintaining social distance, practicing vigorous hygiene, and staying at home are your most effective ways to win the war and to escape danger.
While you're fighting this battle from home, we're working with the best scientists, doctors, and researchers anywhere in the world.
We're racing to develop new ways to protect against the virus, as well as therapies, treatments, and ultimately a vaccine.
And we're making a lot of progress, I think medically a lot of progress.
At the same time, we're also racing to get relief to American workers and small businesses, as you know.
I want to remind small business owners across America that the Paycheck Protection Program is launching tomorrow.
Nearly $350 billion in loans will be available to small businesses, including sole proprietors.
These loans are up to 100% forgivable as long as employers keep paying their workers.
Got to take care of your workers.
Furthermore, we want Social Security beneficiaries to know that if they are typically not required to file a tax return, they don't have to file one in order to receive the direct cash payments that will soon be distributed to American citizens.
The Treasury will deposit the money directly into the bank accounts.
And don't forget, I will always protect your Social Security, your Medicare, and your Medicaid.
We're protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and I always will.
I'd like now to invite SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza, who's doing a fantastic job.
She's going to be very busy in the next little while.
And Secretary Steve Mnuchin to say a few words about these vital initiatives, and then we'll get on to the attack of the virus itself.
And please, if I might, Steve and Jovita.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
And Mr. Vice President, Secretary Mnuchin, Ivanka Trump, and all who I have been working closely with in this effort.
Small business is the backbone of the American economy, and the President has put the nation's 30 million small businesses front and center in the response effort, and we are working hard to get money to them quickly.
This is an unprecedented effort by this administration to support small businesses, and we know that there will be challenges in the process.
Secretary Mnuchin and I are working in tandem to ensure that feedback from our partners is being heard and implemented.
The private and public sector must work closely together to ensure that small businesses and their workers across the country are put first.
This administration believes wholeheartedly that if you are a small business, you are a critical part of the economic fabric of this country, and your viability is critical to the economic well-being of your employees.
At SBA, we are working around the clock to support small businesses, ensuring that we are prioritizing emergency capital for small businesses that are suffering economic harm as a result of this unprecedented situation.
This relief will help stabilize the small business sector by providing businesses with the financial resources they need to keep their workers employed and keep up with their day-to-day operating expenses.
Today, I want to ensure that small businesses all over the country know about the Paycheck Protection Program and how they can benefit from this.
Simply put, the Paycheck Protection Program is to help keep employees on payroll and small businesses open.
SBA will forgive the portion of the loan that is used toward job retention and certain other expenses.
We are working closely with lenders so that businesses can go directly to their local lenders.
Paycheck Protection Program is in addition to substantial work that the SBA has and will continue to do to help small businesses, including providing advances on SBA disaster loans and forgiving existing SBA loan payments over the next six months.
Additional details on these critically important programs can be found at SBA.gov, and we will be updating these resources regularly.
Our hearts go out to those affected by this terrible virus.
Our communities around the country are stepping up, and we will get through this together.
At SBA, we know that every phone call, email, or application submitted has a small business owner, their employees, and the communities they support are on the other side.
Our most important objective is to allow small businesses to keep their employees on board and keep their businesses viable through this unprecedented disruption.
I want to reiterate the importance of patience in this process as we work together to ensure that businesses are able to access needed credit.
We will continue working around the clock as we've done with our federal and private sector partners expanding capacity and working to make our systems as robust as possible to meet the needs.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Thank you, Mr. Vice President.
Thank you, Jovita.
Mr. President, you've made clear to us we now need to execute.
We need to get money to small business and American workers, and that's what we're doing.
The SBA and Treasury committed to get this program up and running tomorrow, and when Jovita says people working around the clock, they literally, we had both teams working until 4 o'clock in the morning and start working again today.
We've heard feedback from lenders, community banks, regional banks, and we've spent the last 24 hours making this system even easier.
So this will be up and running tomorrow.
I encourage all small businesses that have 500 or fewer people, please contact your lenders.
Any FDIC institution will be able to do this.
Any credit union, existing SBA lenders, and fintech lenders.
You get the money.
You'll get it the same day.
You use this to pay your workers.
Please bring your workers back to work.
If you've let them go, you have eight weeks plus overhead.
This is a very important program.
I'm pleased to announce we are going to raise the interest rate on these loans.
And again, the interest rate is paid for as part of the program.
The borrow doesn't have to pay this to 1%.
We had announced it was going to be 50 basis points.
We've heard from some smaller community banks that their deposit costs, even though the government's borrowing at three or four basis points, this is on average a 90-day loan.
To make this attractive for community banks, we've agreed to raise the interest rate.
Again, I encourage everybody, take out the paycheck protection program.
I'm also pleased to report the economic impact payments.
I had previously said this would take us three weeks.
I'm pleased to report that within two weeks, the first payments will be direct deposit into taxpayers' account.
And as the President said last night, the President authorized me to say that anybody that has Social Security recipients won't need to file a new tax return and will have that.
If we don't have your direct deposit information, we'll be putting up a web portal so that you can put that up.
It is a very large priority.
The President has made clear.
We want to get this money quickly into your hands.
I'm also pleased to report that we continue to work closely with the Federal Reserve.
We're in the process of designing a new facility that we call the Main Street Lending Facility.
We're also looking at facilities for state governments as well.
And I'm also pleased to report the employee retention credit.
It's up and running.
The first $10,000 of wages, you get a 50% credit.
That's $5,000 per person.
For everyone who's kept someone, you can immediately get that money.
You can deduct it from what you owe the IRS immediately.
If you don't owe us money, you'll get a refundable tax credit.
So that is up and running.
I'm also pleased to report we have the program up and running.
We're taking applications from the airlines, from the cargo companies, and from national security companies.
So thank you very much, Mr. President.
Thank you, Steve.
For Jovita or Steve, any questions, please?
Yes.
Mr. Secretary. Chase Bank sent a letter to its business clients today saying that they don't have necessary guidance from the SBA, from the Treasury Department, to be able to accept loan applications starting tomorrow.
The need is clearly enormous, but at least one major bank says they're not fully empowered yet to be able to help their government.
As I spoke to all the CEOs yesterday, I had a conference call with them.
We got very good input from them on what they needed.
As I said, people were working until 4 o'clock.
I believe we just put up the Federal Register with the new guidelines for lenders.
I've been assured that the banks will be in the process starting tomorrow.
Now, again, it's going to take a little bit of time, but we committed that this will be available tomorrow.
And I encourage all companies, go to SBA.com, go to treasury.gov.
You can see the information you need immediately.
Mr. Speaker, I just want to follow up with the small business owners.
A number of them say that they were on that conference call and that there's a tremendous power struggle going on between the Treasury and SBA and that it's over process and forms is what they tell me that lenders are actually opting out because they can't make enough money to even service the loans.
So how are you going to make sure these small business owners get the capital they need to survive right now?
Well first of all I can assure you Jovita is here.
Jovita used to work for me as the treasurer.
There's no power struggle.
Jovita and our team, as I said, worked together till 4 o'clock in the morning, started working at 7 o'clock again.
We've made the form simpler and I can assure you at five points I've told these bankers they should take all their traders and put them in the branches so there'll never be another opportunity to earn five points on a 90-day government fully government guaranteed loan.
And this checks right into direct deposit IRS now saying it could take four to five months.
You're saying two weeks.
Let me be clear.
Let me be clear.
I don't know where you're hearing these things.
I told you this would be three weeks.
I'm now committing to two weeks.
We're delivering on our commitments.
The IRS, which I oversee, within two weeks, the first money won't be in people's accounts.
The question is not about the first checks.
For folks who have direct deposit, it sounds like those will go up pretty quickly.
The question is then for folks who don't have direct deposit.
And there was a staff memo that was released by the House Ways and Meetings Committee today saying that that process could take up to five weeks.
That takes you to mid-August.
Is that how long it is?
That is not going to take five weeks.
Again, let me just say when Obama sent out these checks, it took months and months and months.
I am assuring the American public they need the money now.
What we're going to do is, again, if we have your information, you'll get it within two weeks.
If you have Social Security, you'll get it very quickly after that.
If we don't have your information, you'll have a simple web portal.
You'll upload it.
If we don't have that, we'll send you checks in the mail.
How many checks do you process a week, though?
How many checks can you process?
Again, we can process a lot of checks, but we don't want to send checks.
In this environment, we don't want people to get checks.
We want to put money directly into their account.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
We'll continue our coverage for stations along the line on our Sean Hannity Show network up until the exact second end of the show.
As the President's task force continues, I'll see everybody back here tomorrow.
Dr. Oz will be taking your call hours to the full hour tomorrow.
Any questions you have about coronavirus?
Hannity, tonight at nine, news information the mob won't give you.
Thank you for being with us.
We'll continue our coverage.
For I guess, both you and the administrator, there have been some anecdotal reports that business people trying to get access to the online site to submit the applications.
The website's been crashing.
I've heard of webinars going offline because there's just too many people on them.
So, how are you guys going to be ready tomorrow to get these loans out?
We've brought in a lot of external resources at SBA and us to make sure there's additional capacity.
As I said, we heard a lot of good feedback yesterday to simplify this process.
It's going to be up and running.
Now, let me just be clear: that doesn't mean everybody is going to get their loan tomorrow, but the system will be up and running.
We encourage people over the next week, sign up.
You can go on right now, you can go on the web, see what information you need.
Very simple process.
Mr. Secretary, on a separate subject, have you been in touch with Leader McConnell and Speaker Pelosi about their differences right now about another stimulus package?
I've spoken to the leader, I've spoken to the speaker, I've spoken to the president constantly.
When the president's ready and thinks we should do the next stage, we're ready.
The president's talked about the issue of infrastructure since the campaign.
I think you know that's a big priority for HIP.
And again, if we run out of money on the small business program, we'll be back right away to Congress to get this increased.
Does the unemployment numbers today increase the urgency of doing a phase four?
Well, let me just say, you know, we're going through something that we've never done before, where the government has shut down big parts of the economy because of health reasons.
Our economy was in great shape.
Our companies were in great shape.
There are three ways that Americans are going to be protected.
For small business, they'll get paid by their business through this program.
The direct deposit, there's also enhanced unemployment.
So we realize, unfortunately, there are a lot of companies that, because they aren't in business over a short period of time, again, we're working with the states on enhanced unemployment.
And as soon as the medical professionals and the president give the all-clear, we're going to have a ton of liquidity.
We have about $6 trillion.
This has never been done between us and the Fed to put into the economy to support American workers and American business.
Mr. Chair, in addition to the jobless numbers we saw today, Phase 3 was signed before the social distancing guidelines were extended for another month.
So what additional relief are you going to give to Americans as they stay out of work for all these extra weeks?
And what are you waiting for?
Well, in designing this program, we thought that we had liquidity for about 10 weeks, and that's what we've designed.
And again, I think the President's been very clear.
If we need to go back to Congress to support the American economy and American workers, we will be doing that.
Mr. Secretary.
Secretary Redouzhan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has formed a select committee to oversee the distribution of recovery funds, and she says she wants to make sure that those funds are wisely and efficiently spent.
Do you think that select committee is something that's necessary?
I don't.
I mean, you know, both parties wanted us to have oversight, wanted us to have transparency.
We have full transparency.
We have an oversight committee that the speaker gets to pick someone, the leader gets to pick someone.
I believe there's five people on it.
And again, that committee will review the money that we're spending.
And again, we support full transparency.
Taxpayers should understand how we're going to support this economy and jobs.
Mr. Secretary, Senator McKowski has asked you to consider providing loans to energy companies under the CARES Act, the Phase III bill.
What are your thoughts on that?
Would you consider providing those loans to energy companies?
So thank you.
And let me clarify.
I have very limited ability to do direct loans out of the Treasury.
I can do them for passenger airlines, cargo airlines, contractors, and national security companies.
Outside of that, we work with the Federal Reserve to create broad-based lending facilities, which we will do.
So our expectation is the energy companies, like all our other companies, will be able to participate in broad-based facilities, whether it's the corporate facility or whether it's the Main Street facility, but not direct lending out of the Treasury.
A question for clarity about the direct payments to Americans.
For those folks who don't have bank accounts, who don't have direct deposit information on file with the IRS, how long would they have to wait for their check?
Well, for people who don't have direct deposit, again, we'll have an easy way they put it up.
We can, on a rolling basis, I think, you know, within a couple of days when they give it to us, we'll send the money out.
We do realize there are people who are underbanked.
And again, we're working with all the digital companies, prepaid debit cards.
We're working with all of them to make sure we have a process that every American gets their money quickly.
This money does people no good if it shows up in four months, and we will deliver on that promise.
Quickly is a matter of weeks then, perhaps, not months.
Quickly is a matter of weeks and not months.
That's correct.
Would you consider a moratorium on Mr. Secretary?
One area where you can make direct loans is to the airlines.
How much do you expect that the Treasury Department and the federal government will be involved in overseeing the operations of airlines as it pertains to which routes get cut back, how much they operate, what they do about their employees and the like?
So there are very strict requirements that's built into the bill.
Again, this was a bipartisan requirement.
One, anything we do with the airlines, they have to maintain substantially all of their employees.
So again, any money that we provide them will go to pay their employees.
We're going to be working with the Secretary of Transportation.
There are requirements to maintain certain routes.
So again, we have a very clear process.
We've hired three outside advisors.
We'll be financial advisors and three law firms.
We'll be releasing that information shortly.
And I want to thank them.
They're all working for basically very, very little money.
They couldn't work for free, so they've agreed to basically work for what they would sign up to work for charitable organizations.
So again, no big fees to bankers.
We've got a great team of three lawyers and three financial advisors that will assist us.
Mr. President, just to follow up on that, will you give us a list of the names of those people who are advising you when you release the information?
Of course we will.
We'll give you the names as well as the contracts.
So again, I'm happy to announce we have the PJT Partners is going to do the passenger airlines.
Molis and Company is going to do the cargo and contractors, and Pirella Weinberg will handle the national security.
And there'll be three law firms which we'll announce shortly that we'll be working in each one of those sectors.
And again, let me just be clear.
We need to get this done quickly.
The airlines need money.
We're going to work very closely with the Department of Transportation and get this done quickly.
We've actually already received contracts from a lot of the people.
Again, there's guidance up on the web.
Full transparency.
We've asked for applications.
Secretary.
On the airline issue again, Speaker Pelosi and others have said that the government taking stakes in those airlines should not be a condition for the federal government to provide payroll support specifically.
What's your response to that?
I spoke to the Speaker last night about that.
This was something that was highly negotiated between the Republicans and the Democrats.
The President was personally involved in this.
He was on the phone with us many times.
Mitch McConnell, Mark Meadows, senators on both sides.
There is a specific line in the bill that says that the Secretary, meaning me, will determine proper compensation.
So this is not a bailout for the airlines.
And I will be working, once we get our advice from our financial advisors, we get the applications from the airlines, I'll be working very closely with the president, and we'll make sure that we strike the right balance, not a bailout.
