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New Green Deal, free market capitalism that has created more wealth, more prosperity, has been we have literally built a system of governance where the individual brilliance of every citizen can be brought to the forefront.
And not only do we never abuse our power, well, we have at times.
We're not a perfect country in this sense, but what do we really do with our power?
We accumulate it and we advance the entire world human condition.
Time and time again.
And we're even getting there now, and we will get to that.
Uh we have uh a medical update we're going to get to today with Dr. Oz Hope.
I'll explain in a minute.
Bill O'Reilly is here today.
The I believers are nowhere to be found.
What a shock.
The very same people, we will compare and contrast what they said in the Kavanaugh case and what they're not saying or not being asked now because it is breathtaking hypocrisy.
Um I gotta this is really cool.
I told you about the the nail salon image that was sent to me where there's like a plexiglass barrier where it's almost six feet of social distancing that separates the worker from the person that's giving the manicure from the person that's getting the manicure.
And what happens, they have this huge plexiglass.
Both people are in masks, and they have a little slot open, like a bank slot where you can uh uh pass uh cash through, and the person will get the manicure, not me, but others that like that sort of thing.
I've never gotten one, never will.
We've discussed that at length on this program.
But anyway, it intrigued me.
And we asked Dr. Oz about it yesterday.
In terms of because I didn't think I don't know, I wasn't thinking creatively.
Maybe that can work if everybody's in a mask.
If the standard is that New York would have starved to death, but for the people that stock the shelves, then if everybody's in a mask and you have the social distancing and you have the barrier in place, is that safe enough?
I'll let the medical experts decide.
But to me, it's very creative.
It's it's ingenuity at its best.
People are thinking.
I love it.
The same, I got a picture today from a friend and restaurant of the future, because I've been worried about how do you open restaurants.
Well, one of the things they're doing in Texas, they're only allowing uh Governor Abbott was on TV the other night.
25% occupancy, a lot of distance within the restaurant.
The people, the waiters, the you know, the bartenders, the the everybody is in masks in the restaurant.
They all these guys want to get back to work.
I want them to get back to work.
I know they've got mortgages and rent to pay and car payments and kids in school.
It's it's been tough on all of them, and I know many of them are getting aid, but not, you know, they want to get back to work.
Most people I talk, they're dying to get back to work.
Anyway, so this picture, imagine this.
It's like a table of, say, 12, little more distant than usual, but you have everyone is surrounded by plexiglass uh at a pretty high level.
And I thought this was creative.
Maybe this can help us reopen America's restaurants.
I don't know how you do the bar thing.
I've talked at length about what I believe with stadiums that we can do.
I won't repeat myself.
But I love that everybody's thinking here.
Now on the treatment front, uh, we have some good news.
Uh we'll get into more of this in detail with Dr. Oz, but even Dr. Anthony Fauci has confirmed reports that broke this afternoon that this clinical trial for the coronavirus drug.
We've we have discussed it a lot in the past.
This is the RNA drug that we talked more about in the very beginning, remdisivere.
And it is a randomized international trial.
Uh, and the drug remdisivere has resulted in quite good news, and I'm quoting Dr. Fauci.
He said the drug shortening the period patients experience symptoms and potentially slightly reducing the mortality rate.
Uh, What it has proven is that a drug can block this virus, calling the development, quote, his words very optimistic.
For those who took the drug, Fauci said it took less time to recover, average 11 days compared to 15 days for those in the control uh group that received a placebo.
In other words, everyone has wanted clinical trial, clinical trial, clinical trial.
Well, in the beginning, we didn't have time for a clinical trial.
You know, as Dr. Oz rightly said, you know, you go to war with the army that you have, not the one you wish you had while you're doing the studies.
And then we got the the study back from this uh virologist in France uh that in fact was very current encouraging as it relates to hydroxychloroquine.
Uh another study in China, although I'm not too I'm skeptical of anything that comes out of there.
Uh I did not like the VA studying as much as the people that received hydroxychloroquine.
Remember, it was retroactive that study.
Um, and the people they got it very late in the process, many of them, you know, it was over by that time.
So I didn't think that was particularly accurate or helpful.
That was my interpretation.
Uh, and doctor doctors that I've interviewed.
Uh, but uh so this is this is you know, this is an improvement.
Now, what remdisabir is showing is the mortality rate trended improvement, 8% versus 11%.
I won't say that's statistically significant.
The primary endpoint of time of recovery to me is significant, 11 days versus 15 days, or a 31% improvement for those using REM disappear.
Again, this is a real, the first high-power, successful randomized trial comparing a placebo uh to a COVID-19 fighting drug.
What does that mean?
That means, okay, this is information we can use to open up our country faster.
You know, with all the talk, uh, you know, oh, the president, you know, when the president said, What have you got to lose with hydroxychloroquine?
Well, where's why was the president saying that?
Well, what is the first rule of medicine?
Do no harm.
Okay, well, I've uh what convinced me more than anything else, the definitive statement on hydroxychloroquine, I believe comes from Daniel Wallace.
Now, Daniel Wallace is uh based, he's affiliated with Cedar Cyanine Medical Center in Los Angeles.
This is a guy that inherited the largest lupus practice in the U.S. in 1985.
He now has presently 2,000 patients with lupus.
The majority of those patients are taken or have taken hydroxychloroquine.
He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed papers, peer-reviewed, it's a very rigorous process, and it goes through a lot of detail.
And doctors are very territorial.
Doctors, they they are, you know, they're very quick to disagree with each other.
I've learned more and more.
Anyway, so um, and he's written the principal lupus textbook.
He's the past chairman of the Lupus Foundation of America.
He and the rheumatic uh rheumatology research foundation of the American College of Rheumatology, currently on the board of directors of the Lupus Research Alliance and Lupus Therapeutics.
I mean, he's written numerous articles uh and authored them on anti-malarials.
And he was specifically, again, addressing, forget about what impact it has.
I have spoken to new so many people now that used hydroxychloroquine, they all tell me it worked.
They all not one person has said it didn't help.
Um now hydroxychloroquine, I'll use the words of Dr. Wallace.
Uh, he says hydroxychloroquine, HCQ plaquenil, is a very safe drug.
I'll continue.
Quote, it has been given to tens of millions of individuals in the world since its approval in 1955.
That's 65 years, and as a monotherapy is not been associated with any deaths in the recommended dose.
Forty-two years of practice, no patient of mine has ever been hospitalized for an HCQ complication.
And he pointed out that rheumatic, and again, they they prescribe it as an antimalarial, they use it for lupus, they use it for rheumatoid arthritis.
Um, and he pointed out uh rheumatologists, they don't get EKGs before prescribing ACQ.
Never had a problem.
There are no treatment guidelines suggesting uh that they obtain that.
Uh on the other hand, chloroquine is associated with QT interview interval problems when it first came out.
We did have uh we did not have other agents, meaning other medicines associated.
He also talked about the dosage having been, you know, prescribed 600 to 800 milligrams a day in the 50s and 60s.
That's when they had those occasional reports.
Uh cardiotoxicity can occur, he pointed out accumulation of the drug with long-term use in one per several thousand patients.
You know, we talked about the eye issue again over times, the risk of retinal tech uh toxicity, zero percent of five years.
And then he went and took it to the next step.
Quote, the risk of taking 400 HCQ hydroxychloroquine a day following a single 600 milligram hydroxychloroquine loading dose for 30 or 60 days.
The risk is nil unless one has an allergic rash or upset stomach, and that might be five percent of the people that take it, meaning it's just a rash and just an upset stomach.
Um the risk otherwise is nil.
Now he's talking about 30 or 60 days.
Uh in New York, most hospitals were only prescribing it for five days.
I know some people that were on it for 10 days.
I know maybe two or three people that were on it for 20 days.
So it's 30, 60 days that he says the risk is nil.
So it's do no harm.
Then he even addressed the issue of, for example, those people that use it with uh uh erythromycin, for example, Z Pac.
And he said with that, you know, dose, no clinical adverse reactions.
Um, and and you know, in other words, nearly all my lupus patients have taken zithromyasin over the years without a single adverse event.
Forty-two years of practice.
The uh I mean the most preeminent guy I can find.
And uh, but yet, you know, facts don't matter in this environment that we live in.
Truth doesn't matter in this environment that we live in.
Now I would call that that would be something that I would refer to as hopeful, helpful.
That is part of the go to war with the army you have and not the army you wish you had.
Uh we had looked into re uh remdisvir now for quite a while.
It seemed to get quiet as hydroxychloroquine kind of became more front and center.
Others have been using it.
We've been following it.
And, you know, if that is what's going to help save lives and it's safe, then what have you got to lose?
I'll quote the president.
Again, do no harm.
And the premier expert in the country on HCQ was very clear.
Um, but the mob, the media, they, you know, they are who they are.
They'll never change.
That's the 99%.
We have an informational crisis, and it's getting worse, and it's going to get even more even more complicated as we move forward.
You see this with the mob, they refuse to ask any Democrat, all the I believers about the Tara Reed uh accusation against Biden.
They the ones that rushed to judgment, the ones that gave zero presumption of innocence to Justice Kavanaugh, they're now eerily silent.
So are the so's the mob and the media.
Their propaganda wing, their state TV, their state newspapers.
Uh the New York Toilet Paper Times, for example, it's not worth anything.
It is all agenda driven.
And a lot of it, even when you prove that they're factually wrong, they don't care.
They have no standards whatsoever.
It is now anything they need to do to advance their agenda.
It's sad, you know, even the New York Times giving out advice.
Who says it's not safe to travel to China?
Well, I wonder if anybody traveled to China and took the New York Times toilet paper advice.
What happened?
Wonder if uh anybody uh took that advice.
What would have happened?
All right, as we roll along, 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of this extravaganza, there is a big brewing rebellion building in the in the country.
I can tell you that.
Um uh in the state of New York, for example, there was a apparently a very popular, well loved like rabbi who'd passed away.
And there was a funeral.
Most of the community came out.
Uh, most of the people I saw were wearing masks, by the way.
But there wasn't the quote, social distancing in place.
Uh, Comrade de Blasio, Mr. March 2nd, telling New Yorkers, here's my recommendations.
Go out on the town, go to a play, go here, go there, you're safe.
Uh, that was March 2nd through 5th.
Um, and had no preparation whatsoever, even saying on March 10th it was okay to go out.
Uh, now he's tweeting out my message to the Jewish community and all communities is this simple.
The time for warnings have passed.
I have instructed the NYPD to proceed immediately to summons or even arrest those who gather in large groups.
This is about stopping the disease and saving lives, period.
Isn't this the same guy that wouldn't answer my question?
If he's going to use the videotape, I asked him repeatedly of cops being assaulted and doused with water and and attacked.
And if you can use the video, identify the people in the video and arrest them all.
Uh he wouldn't even answer.
He also tweeted out to the Muslim New Yorkers beginning their celebrations tonight.
At Need Meals, we have them across our 400-plus grab and go meal sites, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Okay, put that out.
There's a huge crisis in fight.
Now that Governor Cuomo is under such fire for, I would argue rather stupidly, giving an executive order forcing COVID-19 patients into elderly care facilities.
They weren't capable and prepared.
25% of New York deaths.
Um, he could have asked Donald Trump because they barely used the Javett Center, COVID-19 personnel, everything set for him.
Same with the the comfort.
Now they have the subway homeless crisis.
They cut the trains in half, meaning there's less distancing.
Unbelievable.
Healthcare worker calls Cuomo's order uh a death sentence straight ahead.
At 25 now to the top of the hour.
Uh good news on the drug Ramdissevere.
Even Dr. Fauci now saying good news, and uh we'll get into that with Dr. Oz coming up.
All things Bill O'Reilly, Simple Man.com coming up.
We should redo his website, which should be Bill O'Reilly, Simple Man.com.
Maybe we'll suggest that to him.
Uh he uh does crack me up.
Anyway, so there's a lot going on in New York, so you know.
Um I don't know.
I mean, when you talk about the heart of radical leftism, you're looking at New York.
Uh and it's a for the rest of the country, it's surreal.
A friend of mine who lives in Florida now, used to be a New Yorker, he says, I'm sick of you talking about New York.
He said that to me.
But yeah, if we can solve the problems, my reason for discussing opening New York City and Yankee Stadium, if you can open to New York, um, my feeling is we're wide open everywhere else.
The job that Ron DeSantis did down in Florida, we can learn a lot from.
What Christy Gnome with her new policy, they never closed down, getting back to normal.
Um, and she was on Hannity last night, DeSantis was on last night.
She has been incredible.
With the, you know, they had the one breakout at this meat packaging plant in South Dakota, managed it really well.
And you know, didn't expect it.
It happened.
Now they're putting in, you know, they're they're learning from it.
And we're all learning a lot of things in this.
And there's no there's nothing you can describe that that we've ever dealt with in such a way, but people are now beginning to get very antsy.
In New York, I am telling you, it is getting very loud.
The fights that are now going on between Andrew Cuomo and De Blasio and the Subway Homeless Crisis is disgusting and disgraceful and disrespectful, says Cuomo.
He's really talking directly to Comrade uh de Blasio, the Dumbo.
I mean, he's the dumbest guy on in I mean, the things that he was saying March 2nd and March 10th, and Governor Cuomo arrogantly believed his healthcare system was better.
Both the city of New York recommendation, 10,000 ventilators for New York City were needed.
Mayor Bloomberg bought 500.
Check.
Okay.
What happened to them?
Well, they were never maintained, auctioned off by the city, and they have no idea where they went.
They didn't have any.
They needed the hospitals.
Remember, remember, they're both saying we're not going to have a problem.
We're ready in New York on March the 2nd.
Remember, that's what they were saying.
The leaders are in New York.
They, a week later, then the freakout begins.
And it wasn't New York that got the ventilators.
It wasn't New York.
It was Donald Trump that made it happen.
The hospital bed, the largest hospital built in America, the Javit Center, 3,000 beds.
That was Donald Trump built by Trump, the Army Corps of Engineers, manned by personnel from Donald Trump.
The same with the Comfort.
And they were both converted for COVID-19.
25% of those dead in New York, nursing homes, March 25th, executive order, forcing nursing homes to take on patients.
But when asked why they did that, they said, well, it's about money, and those the nursing homes wanted the money, and why wasn't there enough protection?
Well, they uh that's not my responsibility.
Now that came from New York government that was screaming to Donald Trump, it's his responsibility.
Trump got the job done.
Why they didn't use all these empty beds, thousands of them, between the Comfort and the Javit Center, or manned personnel and COVID-19 ready, is beyond any understanding that I will ever have.
Well, it's a federal thing.
And what all you Governor Cuomo said he could call the president.
We could get a call back immediately.
How about saying we have a problem with elderly people going back to nursing homes?
We don't think these nursing homes have the capability.
Can we bring them over to the Javit Center?
Did he think the answer was going to be no?
Why didn't they ask?
Why did they sign the executive order?
I mean, it is a huge, unbelievable scandal that has emerged in New York.
Then we're finding out, well, they cut, they're telling people, all right, take the subways and be socially distant, but half of the subways aren't running.
So that means they're forcing people into that, including the homeless population, uh, which obviously is greater risk of health issues.
I don't think it's uh, you know, too hard to figure that out.
And they're on the subways with you know, essential workers that have no other way to get to work.
It's it's absolutely insane.
Um, all of these things happen.
It'll, I assume work itself out.
Uh it's sad that New York City and New York State will never understand that it was the president that bailed out New York.
Now they're screaming for more bailout money, or you're gonna tell New York to drop dead.
Uh, I mean, when I heard that from De Blasio, I I literally, my head spun around and I was projectile vomiting, green puke.
It's so disgustingly, you know, obnoxious of him.
He was the guy telling people to go out, and then Donald Trump saved New York's backside by doing all of this for New York, and the rest of the country paid the bills.
Now they're demanding money.
Uh, okay, don't take America's money for anything unrelated to COVID.
New York, I'm gonna make a prediction here.
We're gonna look back at this as game-changing for New York City and New York State.
It has already been leading the nation in terms of people getting the hell out of here.
Why?
Some of the highest taxes in the country, the most burdensome regulation.
They have some of the highest property taxes in the country.
Add to that some of the worst infrastructure in the world uh in the world, I mean, not just the country, some of the worst, and outdated, and they've been losing population, and they're gonna lose more.
What is going to be some new normals in this?
Well, we've had doctor, our good friend from Atlas MD, Dr. Josh Umber on this program for years.
I have tortured this poor guy because he came up with his health care cooperative system, 50 bucks a month adults, 10 bucks a month kids, 24-hour uh doctor availability, unlimited visits.
He negotiates directly with pharmaceutical companies, and he gets you walk out with your medicine, you Don't have to go to the drugstore and you get it at a 90, 95% discount.
And he's been able to duplicate that around a thousand times all over the country.
He's in Wichita, Kansas.
Now you add to medicine, telemedicine.
You call up, my kid has the croup.
What do I do?
Okay, put him in the shower, get a lot of steam going, see if it's a little better, call me back in an hour.
It would probably reduce off the top of my head uh emergency room visits by a third or 40%.
That's huge cost savings for any healthcare solution.
Uh with the Dr. Josh plan, 50 bucks a month, you get a with that a catastrophic health plan, which would cover you if God forbid you had a heart attack, you got cancer or something, or a bad accident, that would be covered with whatever deductible you feel comfortable with.
That is, you know, dramatically cheaper than your average health care plan.
Now you're fully covered.
That would be an innovative idea.
But I think what you'll see in New York is well, what have we learned from teleworking?
People like working from home.
People actually, I would argue, are more productive working from home.
Because in New York, you're saving maybe an hour, in some cases, maybe two hours, maybe an hour and a half, maybe 30 minutes a day each way, getting to and from the office.
Even traveling just within New York, if you live downtown, or let's say you live around Wall Street and the Freedom Tower, and you're trying to get to Midtown or try to get uptown, it takes forever during traffic times, ever.
And so that would be eliminated.
People will, you know, they live in people, kids that work for me, and they're kids to me, um, that live in these, you know, tiny studio apartments.
Um, they're gonna realize well, if I live outside of New York, uh I'm gonna have more wide open spaces, I'm gonna save money, pay less.
I'm gonna have more flexibility and freedom with my work schedule.
I'll get up early, do a lot of extra work, then I'll go work out, then I'll come back and do more work.
They're gonna like that.
They'll have better lifestyles.
Um, some, but once once this clicks in, it's a new world.
When employers figure out that, oh, uh, employees can be as productive.
I don't have to pay the high cost of either rent or owning office space in New York.
Uh, I can now move my headquarters of my business to a state like Texas or Florida with zero income tax, and I'm gonna save a fortune, and I'll have more flexibility in terms of how I run my business and not having government big government's big hand on my head.
I'm telling you, it's a prescription that New York will see potentially a dramatic, precipitous, noticeable decline in population.
Probably slow and steady, maybe dramatic.
I don't know, but it's coming.
It's a new world ahead of us.
And New York has done just about everything they can do to chase people out of New York.
You know, you'll have your people say, ah, I love the energy of New York City.
Well, you enjoy the energy, go rent a hotel room for a weekend and go home, and you'll save a fortune.
Uh, I don't think, you know, look at what, you know, I mean, the threatening Mayor de Blasio of popular orthodox rabbi died.
People want to go to his funeral.
You're not gonna stop it.
And the guy that wouldn't even arrest those that were attacking New York police officers.
Then you have California Governor Newsom saying schools may restart as early as late July, and they might open them early this year.
Okay, well, I think Gavin Newsom, I don't agree with Gavin Newsom on a lot of politics.
I don't know.
I think he did a much better job.
Person that gets the highest grades, governor-wise, there's a lot of them.
I shouldn't single any, uh, I'll single these two out.
I think Ronda Santis, Christy Noam, and there's so many others, it's not fair.
A lot of governors did well.
Uh maybe Governor Kemp in Georgia was more right than I thought when I saw these barriers that are built for people to get their manny and petty things.
I don't, I don't go to these places.
What do I know?
Uh, I thought tattoo parlors or whatever you call those places.
I didn't like that idea either.
Um, we still have, oh, the Illinois uh, let's see, I guess Illinois Senator Plummer, don't waste federal funds on my state's bankrupt system.
Well, that goes for New York too.
And New York City.
Sorry, guys, you waste fraud and abused everybody.
750 million wasted on a solar panel factory in upstate New York when they could be fracking and they could have made billions.
Pennsylvania's literally stealing New York's gas.
And by the way, not stealing, they're just taking it from their own territory, very close to New York.
They're smart.
Jobs, money, finances, Pennsylvania's smart.
New York could have been doing it.
They didn't.
$600 million, microchip company fail.
$90 million New York State fail on light bulbs.
It's ridiculous.
But they can't buy afford ventilators.
Or they can't afford masks and gloves and medical supplies for a predictable terror attack or pandemic, and they had multiple warnings.
But I I'll tell you this.
Anyone that's good that wants to work for me, and I don't need him to come in uh every day, they can work from home.
I don't care.
Linda, didn't we?
We did a great job with our team, right?
I think everybody on our radio and TV.
Absolutely.
Totally.
You know, everyone's gonna like me a lot this week, by the way.
I'm just saying.
I'm just guessing.
We like you every day.
Yeah, but you're gonna get mad again.
You're gonna get you're gonna yell at me by the time this week is over.
I'm just guessing.
Wonderful.
I think we should talk about something nice for a minute.
Can we do that?
What?
Just for like a second.
Okay.
So for those of you that heard the show on Monday, you know that Sean has a new book coming out on August 4th.
Um, and now he is doing something.
Live free or die, America and the world.
Who's telling the story?
Am I telling the story or you tell them the story?
I was given the title.
Sorry.
I've been working hard on it for like a year, but go ahead.
So I was so rudely interrupted.
Uh so for Mother's Day, for those of you out there who want to give uh something really nice for your mom.
Sean has a limited collector's edition, binded, beautiful uh edition of the book.
You can get it at Sean Hannity Book.com.
It's also on Hannity.com.
And you can go, you can get it now, and then you can get a gift certificate that shows that you thought of your mom and you thought of this awesome gift, so that you're ready for Mother's Day.
It's May 10th, and then you can present the gift certificate and then get it, you know, later on delivered when the book comes out.
They'll get the book first.
They'll get it the first week.
Yeah, they'll get it when it comes out.
But at least this weekend coming up on May 10th, you'll be able to give a gift certificate with a beautiful picture of the book and what it looks like.
It's got your mug on it, yada yada.
No, the well, no, actually, my mug is not on the book cover.
I and by the way, I'm really proud of look.
I worked hard on the cover of that book, which I'd never done before, because I think this is the moment.
This is it.
New Green Deal, death of capitalism, free market capitalism that has created more wealth and prosperity.
You know, we we uh we accumulate this power through American ingenuity and entrepreneurship, and we have advanced the human condition around the world.
That's what's at stake in 188 days.
This is this is the definitive case.
And I started this a long time ago.
I had no idea what the issues would be, and we were gonna have an earlier release.
This obviously is pushed things back because I want to make sure we capture this moment and what what it means in the right way.
And yeah, I'm very the bound edition is beautiful.
It's a beautiful gift set, and it I love the card for mom.
And it will be a it's it's really nice.
It's really, really nice.
It's a first edition.
It's just it's a nice gift, and you know, it's just something that you can give to your mom that is, you know, in addition to you know, the beautiful flowers that you can get from other great sponsors of ours, like $1800 flowers.
All right.
Well, that's on Hannity.com.
All right, hour two, Sean Hannity Show, toll-free, 800 nine four one.
Sean, you want to be a part of this extravaganza.
We have some medical updates.
Uh, meat packing plants.
Uh, we now have all uh witnessed and and read the statements of John Tyson, the uh chairman of Tyson Foods, uh, warning millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain.
We had South Dakota Governor uh Christy Gnome on last night talking about the problem they had at their one meat processing plant.
Uh we also had um the senator from Iowa, uh, what's her name?
I'm going blank.
I'm going Joe Biden here uh as I sleep less and less Joni Ernst.
Uh and we had her on talking about the problem they had in Iowa.
There's now a Problem in Washington State.
I'll get an update in a second from Dr. Oz.
Uh, the opening of salons and restaurants, we have an update on.
Uh, and then the good news that we mentioned earlier.
Uh Dr. Fauci confirming reports as well, a randomized international trial of the drug.
We had spoken about it a number of times before.
Remdicevir has resulted in quite good news, Fauci's words, not mine.
The drug shortening the period of patients experiencing symptoms, potentially slightly reducing mortality rates.
Uh his quote, what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus.
He called the development, quote, very optimistic.
For those that took the drug, Faust uh Fauci pointed out rightly so that it took less time to recover, averaging eleven days compared to 15 days for those in a control group that received a placebo.
He also said the mortality rate uh trended lower for those that took the drug, 8% versus 11% who did not.
Uh not statistically that significant, but every life matters, right?
And I think the more interesting thing is the time to recovery uh numbers they pulled out of this, a 31% improvement with the use of the drug remdesivir.
Dr. Raz has been saying Yeah, of course we all want clinical trials.
We we we got the ones from France, for example, on hydroxychloroquine.
Nobody wanted to hear it, but they came in quite positively.
I did not like the VA study.
It was sort of a retrospective, and people were late in the game that were given it.
I didn't think it was a a good study.
I don't think it'll ever meet a peer review standard myself.
Uh we've also gone over in detail the words of Daniel Wallace, who is the foremost expert on hydroxychloroquine, and has now been in in practice 42 years, 400 peer-reviewed papers, wrote the principal textbook on on lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, and he knows he's written on anti-malarials, you know, you know, said it the dosage of hydroxychloroquine, the harm is nil based on the doses.
And uh and so I didn't, you know, I think people have a political agenda in some of this, which we shouldn't have.
Uh, Dr. Oz, I know you've read this news on Remdesivir.
I'm dying to hear your take on it.
I read the news.
I also read the uh Lancet article, which I want to cover because that was uh also on Remdesivir.
That was from China and did not find the same positive results.
However, I I I think by explaining both the audience will feel pretty good about remdesivir.
And again, I want to uh uh put this a little bit on Dr. Fauci, because we don't have the data yet.
I'm going completely off what he has said in a very recent uh press conference.
I listened to it carefully, listened to it several times, but I don't have the raw data.
So here's what it seems that that we may have the first proven building block to building a protective wall against COVID 19.
So again, this is not gonna treat everybody all the time.
Sean, you went through numbers very honorably.
It's exactly what we've heard this afternoon, the time to recovery when this drug was used.
Uh, and it's the first high-powered successful randomized trial against COVID 19.
So it's a big deal that we have a big one.
So what he was basically saying was, thank goodness, at least something works a little bit.
Maybe we can use that as a building block and then add things to it, or maybe to use it smarter or better.
So he said if you use it at the right time, uh you get a statistically significant reduction in the time to recovery from 15 days to 11 days.
Now, that's a big deal for us.
And the chance of it being just pure luck is one in a thousand.
So this is a real result.
Now the mortality rate trended better.
It wasn't statistically significant, and by that we mean we can't say if that's going to be reproducibly found, but it's intriguing that it trended better.
So theoretically, if you try if you kept going and did enough patients, it might actually be statistically significant.
Um, but if you look at the Lancet paper, which was actually published, so the what we just talked about so far is just Dr. Fauci saying, hey, uh, this is exciting information.
I want the nation to hear this.
We want to start acting on this information as soon as possible to save lives.
And the reason they broke the trial, by the way, was you don't want the placebo group, these people who agreed to be in the trial, and many listeners have been offered trials.
If you're in the placebo group, you're not getting the pill.
So if once you see there's a difference, you want to give the people who honorably took the placebo a chance to be in the real medication so they do better.
Any case, the Lancet study did not show benefit, but one of the reasons might be that they treated the patients later in the course of illness.
You mentioned the VA trial with hydroxychloroquid.
Same kind of story.
If you use the right drug at the wrong time, you're not going to get a benefit.
So when they use remdesivir in sicker patients, they did not overall see a difference.
Plus people are getting better.
There's not there's not a lot of cases in China, so they couldn't complete the trial.
But when they looked at this specific group of people in that China trial, the Lancet paper, who got the drug earlier, it trended better for them.
They they they did seem to have reduction, not statistically significant, but a reduction in in and ventilation days, recovery time, even mortality rate.
It's not statistically significant, but that plus what we're learning now from this this oral report from Dr. Fauci and additional trials that come up you can begin to understand as a as a listener that a doctor might say okay now that we know this drug works in the first ten days of your illness we got to give it within those ten days.
Because after all it's an antiviral its job is to prevent the virus from growing it's not going to help with the inflammatory cascade the cytokine storm that often causes huge complications late in the disease.
So if you're going to use an antiviral use it where it might help.
Boy well said where are we?
I know your hospital affiliation is Columbia Presbyterian.
I know that Columbia Presbyterian and NYU Langone, I'm pretty sure, are both involved in a study in terms of any prophylactic qualities that might exist as it relates to the use of hydroxychloroquine, for example.
Lupus patients, those with rheumatoid arthritis who use this medicine as an antimalarial, we weren't seeing, we were seeing very low incidences of people that use hydroxychloroquine for those diseases contracting corona.
Do we have any update on that study or those studies?
Those trials got delayed a bit because we were so busy just saving lives during the uh the the epicenter hit on New York City.
But there are other trials I'm supporting the one at the University of Minnesota.
I've had the guys on my show they they're randomizing several thousand patients half of them to treat early disease.
Again if it if a drug like hydroxychloroquine works it's probably going to have to be used early that's what the data with France from France and the Chinese randomized trials are showing.
Again, we need to have a large U.S. trial to show that.
That's what this Minnesota trial seeks to do.
Plus, you mentioned prophylaxis, intriguing possibility because the drug has been used so much for so many years that it might be the kind of drug that you would give prophylactically to first responders, to spouses of people who have converted to COVID-19.
And so both of those trials are running.
They just shared that there were over 1,000 patients now in that trial, on their way to several to 3,000.
And the Data Safety Committee said that so far there have not been significant complications so they can let the trial keep going, all of which is...
is you know good news at least so we can get the data.
And I don't think it's going to be a one size fits all.
Just like Remdesivir and all these other drugs that are coming out there we want to be very targeted and thoughtful about it, recognizing that some patients will do better with some drugs than others, some patients in some parts of their illness will do better with some drugs than others and we can put together a compilation that we can take care of people wherever they happen to be with their COVID 19 I just think all of this on every level to be honest is just gives us hope.
Let's talk about a uh the opening we've talked about the salons I sent you a picture today of a restaurant more socially distant with the with the plastic around you know not well the plexiglass up high did that intrigue you at all because it did intrigue me.
I loved it just for the listeners so you imagine sitting next across from someone you care about maybe you can make it in groups of four.
So the most people you can drink eat with is four people and then you put plexiglass between your table and the table next to you and in places where that are a little bit more crowded you could see that being a tactic.
And just to to speak about the meat packing because I know you alluded to it earlier or discussed it I that was my show today.
I focused it on that and the big issue there is how do you get people who are working elbow to elbow in a meat processing plant to not get everyone else sick.
And one of the ideas is to put these plexiglass barriers there so we can work near each other because you have to you know there's some limitations to how you do that business but don't face anybody directly so you're not coughing in someone else's face put plexiglass between you that the carcass goes in front of you but the plexiglass blocks me from talking to you and infecting you and those things those tactics will make it safer to work in those facilities.
But the restaurant's a great example it's it keeps the air Because it's a clear plexiglass, it doesn't make you feel claustrophobic.
Gives you a little room.
You could have you can't put a mask on while you're eating, so you use the mask to get to your seat, but then take it off.
You're protected by the plexiglass.
Ventilate the room.
There was a great study from China today showing that in non-ventilated rooms, the the little tiny air salized saliva just stays there forever, just bouncing around.
Uh is you know, there are multiple studies now showing this.
And they're if you just get in a ventilated room and maybe use additional new technologies.
You can imagine having dinner and feeling safe about it.
You know, I I I liked it.
Uh you know what I love more than anything else between the salons and people getting manicures with the same type of plexiglass protection and and you put your hands uh underneath this open spot like a bank teller, you know, giving you the money with that, you know, just little opening at the bottom of the plexiglass.
Uh the person that's given the manicure, I don't get them by the way, never have.
I don't get it myself, but if other people really like it, apparently.
And anyway, it's but you it it gives us hope that we can open this up and they're wearing masks both sides.
Uh there's more social distancing between the stations, if you will, or you have numerous clients at once, maybe you limit that, maybe make that bigger.
The same with restaurants.
I think all of this is American ingenuity at its best.
And again, if people if people wear the masks and like the people stocking the shelves and the people in the manufacturing plants, it works.
How do we deal with this this meat packing uh plant uh plant crisis that has kind of emerged?
Three states now South Dakota, Iowa, and now the state of Washington.
Well, I think you uh if it's a bad break uh out of illness, you empty the plant out, do a terminal cleanse, which you should be able to do in a day or two.
Uh the virus dies, by the way, over that time period as well, and then you put people back in, but you test them.
Uh, if they're high contact people, they have to get tested frequently, and then be meticulous in clear tracking symptoms.
And I think those plexiglass barriers make sense.
The OSHA requirements are now gonna uh also state you can't be facing someone directly.
Um so these you know, they're there's their strategies that could work.
I mean, honest to goodness, you go from no strategy to a strategy, you test it.
Is it good enough?
Is it overkill?
Then you adjust accordingly.
And I think that's the challenge for the meat industry.
But the the president's executive order last night puts a lot of it, I think it gives protection to people to try new things, but it is uh it's an obligation of the meat producers to make it safer for the employees, or they're just not gonna come to work.
And I think it's a bigger lesson.
You've been pointing this out continually.
If you open America and people don't think it's safe, no one's gonna come.
So we got to do both together.
Um one other thing that I I I pay attention to all the things that you're covering on your show here.
Um, and that is that don't hoard the meat.
Uh like I mostly eat meat.
I'm not gonna hoard meat.
I'll I have to all eat scallops, what do I care?
Exactly.
Two weeks supply.
We're asking that.
We spoke to all the beat people now.
I have like a two-day supply.
You're uh I'm good then.
I'm not a hoarder.
Yeah, you well, you got your buddy at the at the uh the store wearing his mask and knows you well.
But yeah, he knows me too well.
He took a picture with me and I said, please don't post this on social media.
I just please you know, uh just gonna be endless brutality.
Well, we got a 25% reduction in the pork supply in America, 10% reduction in the beef supply.
These are big numbers.
And if it gets worse, you start to release the pinch.
I think if people just give the system another week or two to to clean up some of these issues and give the big companies because they're solid companies, get give Tyson a chance to fix their problem.
These guys can produce that much meat, believe me, they they'll be they're incentivized to the eye.
They want to do it.
And they will, I think the government's stepping in.
I know the Defense Production Act is is coming into play now on this, but we'll watch closely.
Uh Dr. Oz, you've been amazing.
Hope with Rem Disavere.
We'll keep everybody updated.
Uh, and as always, thanks so much for your generous time.
We'll have you on TV tonight too, and update everybody.
God bless you.
Take care.
All right, as we roll along.
Fascinating stuff.
Um we're gonna get to when we get back this whole double standard as it relates to Terra Reed.
Uh Nancy Ohio, uh, how are you?
Glad you called.
Oh, I'm doing good, Sean.
Thank you.
I uh just wanted to share.
I work from home, and I know a lot of companies are moving toward working from home.
And I've actually been working from home for about six years, and I'm A nurse for an insurance company, and I wanted to share how we've made it successful.
Tell me.
Okay.
So we have to have a designated room with four walls and a door that locks.
It cannot be used for any other purpose.
And we have a business class internet.
They go straight to that room, separate from her home internet.
The computer's supplied by the company, so we don't have to worry about using our home computer and getting any you know patient information on there.
And the company can watch us if we stop typing for about 10 minutes, a light will go off, and the boss will know that you're not working.
And they can be like, hey, what are you doing?
They found that the nurses that worked from home for were about twice as productive as the nurses that worked in the office.
I am speaking from my own personal experience.
I have a lot of people, a big part of the people that work on radio and TV working from home.
Well, I've always had the best people.
I mean, I'm very lucky in terms of everyone that works for me, but they they they were even more productive.
And they don't have the long travel, and they like they like the freedom, the flexibility, they like more open spaces.
And I'll tell you, corporations they're gonna bail on New York, I think.
New York is in, and if you don't think it can happen, look at Detroit.
They lost half their population.
Um anyway, Nancy, thank you for sharing what you do, and you're on the front line as a health provider.
We love you guys.
You guys are called to do this, and we're lost without you.
Thank you.
All right, 25 now till the uh top of the hour, 800 nine four-one.
Sean, you want to be a part of this extravaganza.
Um, if you look at the double standard, it is it should take your breath away.
Every single solitary thing that I have said about the media mob, state-run television, uh, for the the radical socialist democrats is true.
The same with state-run newspapers, the New York Toilet Paper Times.
It's useless.
It is agenda-driven.
It is facts don't matter, truth doesn't matter, slander doesn't matter.
Uh, they can make it up, get facts wrong, and there's no honor, or they wouldn't even correct a factual mistake.
That's who they are.
That's just the same Washington Post.
Um, you know, anyone took the New York Times advice after the president put the travel ban in effect about a week later.
There's the New York Times, six days later, five days later.
Uh, who says it's not safe to travel to China?
I wonder if anyone took the New York Times advice and traveled to China.
I would have been dumb.
What would what what might have happened?
Um, so we all know that this is true.
Now, we've had this case involving Tara Reed and her accusations against Joe Biden.
It is graphic, it is sexual assault.
And we have an ability to compare and contrast how Democrats reacted in terms of oh, the Kavanaugh case and the I Believers versus now.
Um, you know, Hillary Clinton endorses Joe Biden for president.
They're having a conference call on women's issues, and beyond Joe nearly falling asleep, they never talk about the issue of Tara Reed.
Not one time.
Tara Reed has spoken out uh against Hillary Clinton, you know, saying that she's enabling a sexual predator.
Now, keep in mind Tara Reed is a lifelong Democrat.
She voted for Hillary Clinton, a staunch supporter of Barack Obama.
Um she never went through with this damning information about his running mate, and we now know why, but and she's spoken out about this.
She, you know, she was watching as a familiar conversation around her former boss, creepy Joe, and his relationship with personal space was unfolding on the national stage.
That was last April.
The Intercept broke this in one of their columns.
And that was about Nevada politician Lucy uh Flores alleging that Biden had inappropriately sniffed her hair, kissed the back of her head as she waited to go on stage at a rally in 2014.
And Biden, in a statement in response, said, not once in his career did he believe he had acted inappropriately.
Now the allegation by Flores sounded accurate to read, she said, because she had experienced something similar as a staffer in Biden's Senate office years earlier.
Then she watched an episode of The View, that hard hitting news show on ABC, uh, in which most of the panelists stood up for Biden, attacked Flores as being politically motivated.
You know, Reed decided that she had no choice.
She came forward to support Flourish.
She felt the compelled to do it.
Gave an interview to a local reporter, and then the intercept in a podcast describing instances in which Biden had behaved sim similarly towards her and inappropriately touching her in the early 90s during her tenure in his Senate office.
In that first interview, she decided to tell a piece of the story that she said that matched what had happened to Flores, plus she had filed a contemporaneous complaint that uh that there were witnesses.
So she considered the allegation bulletproof.
The article uh then brought a wave of attention on her.
You know, now there are accusations she's doing the bidding of Russian President Putin.
Uh I mean, it's crazy.
It's it's just insane.
You know, there was a piece.
When did I read this earlier today about women's groups?
I think it was uh the Daily Beast, actually.
No fans of Sean Hannity.
Why w have women's groups gone dead silent on the Biden sexual assault accusation?
Daily Beast contacted uh ten top national pro-women organizations for the story, including Emily Emily's List, Planned Parenthood, Action Fund, NARL, Pro-Choice America, National Organization for Women, they didn't respond.
This show and our TV show, we have reached out to the senators, uh the I believer senators whose name has been out in the public, women that Joe said he was going to pick a female VP that whose names have been mentioned.
None of them want to talk.
They go on the Sunday shows, they're all protected.
Then no one asked the question.
Joe does 10 interviews since the allegation, uh, 81 questions, not one about Tara Reed.
Sort of like quid pro quo Joe, right?
They protected him on you're not getting the billion, unless you fire the prosecutor, investigating my zero experienced son hunter who's being paid millions.
And the issue of China will be in the forefront as this campaign unfolds.
Um the silence is deafening, especially when you consider all the I believers.
This is TV four, uh, Jason, and you know, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe, I believe all where are all the I believers?
Because we're not hearing from any of them.
First of all, anybody who comes forward at this point, um, to to be prepared to testify in the United States Senate against someone who is being nominated to one of the most powerful positions in the United States government, that takes an extraordinary amount of courage.
Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed.
They need to be believed.
Let me just say right at the outset.
I believe Dr. Ford, I believe the survivor here.
There's every reason to believe her.
She has come forward courageously and bravely.
I believe her.
I stand with her and shows up on Monday.
Do you hope that she touches the bigger?
I don't think she should be bullied into this scenario where it's a he said she said.
I believe Professor Ford.
I think she's credible.
And I think when the investigation is finished and when she testifies, and Judge Kavanaugh testifies, I think a majority of senators will find her credible.
They all believed.
Now, there's something very interesting that has happened here.
Again, lifelong Democrat Tara Reed uh voted for Clinton, uh, staunch supporter of Barack Obama.
And as these allegations, now this is a big difference between what happened with her and Professor Ford.
All those I believers, she has corroboration of at least four individuals that she confided in, including a best friend, including her brother, uh, and a former neighbor who is a Biden supporter,
and the haunting call, haunting in as much as it's her mom apparently passed away in 2016, calling into Larry King live in 1993, asking for advice about a daughter that worked in Washington.
She was talking about her daughter.
Not only do women like Dr. Ford who bring that is that is pretty haunting.
So, and we played that for you.
I won't play it again here.
Now, I when you look at all of this together, it makes you pause, doesn't it?
Because we're talking about something really significant here.
In other words, there was no corroboration.
No call from mom back in 1993 and Larry King Live.
She has all of these witnesses that have corroborated her story that she told at the time and a neighbor.
And by the way, Biden supporter.
And then we have on top of that a police report that was filed.
That's why she wants the records opened in Biden's Senate office from his Senate days.
They're not encouraging people to do that right now.
You know, or we why is the media not asking the question?
Why is the mob in the media?
Why are they giving Joe a pass?
Now, if you look at Donald Trump, none of that was off the table.
And I'll remember a New York Toilet Paper Times front page, I believe it was top fold article about all these women that they said, said this, this, this, this, and this.
I started an interviewing the women.
And they said just the opposite.
One after another.
They got facts wrong like usual.
Facts, truth don't matter to the mob in the media.
They are a they have a political agenda.
Their agenda, they are the pravda wing state run newspapers.
They are all things Democratic Socialist Party.
They are all things anti-Trump every second minute hour of every day.
They hate Trump, they hate Trump supporters.
They bludgeon, they lie, they belittle, they smear, slander besmirch.
This is how they make their money.
This is how this they think they're doing God's work.
They threw, you know, this whole thing about irredeemable deplorables, etc.
Yeah, that's they they think we're smelly Walmart choppers that cling to our God, our second amendment, our Bibles and our faith and religion, and we're angry.
Uh, well, okay, I'm guilty.
I'm a Walmart shopper, and I believe in God and Jesus his son and the second amendment, and yeah, all of that.
And I like to shop at Walmart.
Okay, guilty.
If I smell, I don't know that I smell.
I shower often.
Um, it's like Biden said, you know, about Trump supporters.
The people I grew up, he said that you know, they're their kids.
Uh, you know, they're they're their their kids and they're not racist, they're not sexist, but we didn't talk to them.
Wow.
Biden repeatedly said Clinton did not do enough to reach, you know, white working class voters who previously voted for Democrats.
Biden was asked if he hopes to reach the president's base, and he replied with a laugh, his base?
Probably not.
They are people who support the president because they like the fact that he's engaged in the politics of division.
Joe Biden said this about Trump supporters.
They really support the notion that, you know, all Mexicans are rapists, all Muslims are bad in dividing this nation based on ethnicity and race.
Oh, he sounds like Hillary.
That's his irredeemable deplorable moment.
What is the when Michael Avenatti was charged with abuse?
I said I'm gonna give him that which he never gave Donald Trump.
And he's the one that came out with the whole Julie Swetnick thing, which was off the rails in the end.
And I said, the presumption of innocence.
But I thought Republicans, in the case of Professor Ford, they finally handled something right.
They took it seriously, they brought in they they allowed the questions to be asked, they did it respectfully, they sought the truth.
Fine.
We now know Justice Kavanaugh goes out there and you know he was being accused basically of being a rapist, according to Julie Sweatnick.
You think of all the times the mob in the media gets it wrong.
You know, this kid, Nicolas Sandman, is going to be a billionaire.
That's my guess.
He had a settlement with fake news CNN.
They don't disclose the amount.
I'm betting, probably, if I had to guess, is a guess.
100 million dollars minimum.
New York Times Is being sued.
Washington Post is being sued.
I think that they're gonna, he's gonna win every every single time.
This kid did everything right.
And even they never tried once to ask him his side of the story.
And even after we knew the truth, they still continued to bludgeon him.
And it and he's not a public figure.
Times v.
Sullivan.
That standard doesn't exist for him.
Um and I think Lynn Wood, one of the best libel attorneys, just like Charles Harder.
These serious people.
You know, look at what I've told the story how often.
The lesson I learned with Richard Jewell.
I was in Atlanta, 1996 Olympics, as the Atlanta Journal Constitution said at the end of the year of 96.
1996 was a great year.
The Olympics came and Hannity left.
But that newspaper came out with he fits the profile of a lone bomber.
He lives with his mother.
Well, I was on the radio and I said, so what?
He lives with his mother.
He's probably trying to save money.
That doesn't make you a terrorist.
And I didn't know Richard Jewell was listening.
He told me I was the only one later.
He would tell me I was the only one that ever gave him the benefit of the doubt.
I learned a life's lesson.
You want to know why we were right on Ferguson, Missouri?
Because I had sources early on that told me multiple eyewitnesses that corroborate and confirm Officer Wilson's story.
Duke LaCrosse came around.
I took the time and I actually did some work.
I went to the home of one of these kids, talked to his parents and the kids, and I got the other side of the story.
What did the mob do?
Just like in Ferguson, just like with Richard Jewell, just like with Nicholas Sandman, just like the UVA case, like Duke, they rushed to judgment.
Remember the professors coming out, almost a hundred of them.
Guilty, guilty, guilt.
No, the kids weren't guilty.
They eventually proved their own innocence.
Time stamped when they returned to their own uh dorms.
Uh ATM machine uh receipts with evidence.
They had to prove their innocence.
The rush to judgment is regular.
Freddie Gray Baltimore, we were right, they were wrong.
Cambridge police, we were right, they were wrong.
Donald Trump can win.
We were right, they were wrong.
Vetting Obama, they never vetted Obama.
Now they're protecting Joe.
The mob in the media protecting Joe.
They won't even ask the question.
And it's far more credible.
There is now they're weaponizing what is a significant, a real important issue.
Those that are guilty of sexual assault.
But if you're wrongly accused, and I believe in the case of Justice Kavanaugh, that he was wrongly accused.
That story of Julie Swednik that then changed.
It's horrific if you make a false allegation.
Well, how about you give people due process and the presumption of innocence?
Let people talk, take it seriously like they would if it was Donald Trump.
Stormy, stormy, stormy.
Remember, but that was consensual.
They never claimed assault.
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Uh Mr. O'Reilly, sir.
Are you still social distancing?
Which I think is probably easy.
Uh but are you wearing your mask?
Are you going out or are you you basically sheltering in place?
What's going on?
How are you, sir?
All right.
Number one, I like the sir.
Number two, I got to dig in on the social distancing.
I mean, yeah.
What Hannity is telling his vast audience is that no one would want to hang with O'Reilly anything.
That's not no, that's I'm just trying to be funny.
It is Hannity, it's exactly called me ugly last week.
You said the mask made me look better.
No, I said I understood why you would want to wear one.
I didn't call you ugly.
I never things are beautiful.
You sort of like the New York Times implying that I'm a murderer, You know, it's just I'm used to it now.
Well, let's get to that after we uh run down my resume of uh the pandemic.
So my philosophy is that I am cooperating in um the quest to beat this virus down.
So therefore, um I do have the six feet rule, and uh when I go out to pick up food or anything, I give my credit card in advance, so I don't have to spend any time.
I just go in, they hand me the bag, and I go back to the car.
I don't wear the mask because I really don't go in anywhere um where there are other people.
Um by the way, I do wear the mask, and I go grocery shopping every week at least once or twice.
And you know what, Bill, the guys that stock the shelves, they uh they don't need to reopen because they've been there at the epicenter of this the whole time with their masks and gloves on, feeding all of us and sustaining us.
Without them, we wouldn't have stock shelves, and they're all healthy.
I talk to them every week.
Well, I would pay money to watch you go grocery shopping, number one.
Um I donate it too.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
I I just want to know what you do.
Do you buy chocolate milk?
What do you buy Oreos?
What are you buying?
That's what I want to do.
I'm not coming to the case.
I'm a very simple man when it comes to my diet.
You know that I'm like manorexic because I I wanted to lose weight, and I did.
Yeah, well, I've had dinner with you, though.
I you don't want to get uh your hand in between Hannity and his fork.
I just want to tell everybody that.
Uh but anyway, no, I am uh I'm a guy who believes that the public health is endangered.
Um, and I am gonna do everything I can to make sure that the transmission is not spread by me or anybody I know.
And I think that's what 90% of Americans are doing.
I do it because I uh when I go out and I'm outside, I find like a cloud lifts because when you're indoors too much, I hate it.
And so be just getting out, doing chores, going around, talking to people, which I do because I never shut up, but I'm like you.
Um and I want but I wear it because I want others to be safe.
I ran your ideas up the flagpole.
Uh I spoke with Randy Levine uh and uh because I want Yankee Stadium to open.
I want to have I want to have people buy get tickets.
Um and I think if we have temperature checks, well, let me backtrack.
If everyone that works at Yankee Stadium, players, coaches, trainers, ticket takers, food handlers, all get COVID 19 tested before the game.
Uh and then everybody goes through, they have these they literally you can walk through, it's like a turnstile temperature taker thing, and everybody has to wear masks uh at the game.
You know, he wants to open, and I mentioned you said May 15th with just no but no crowd at all.
I want to get people in the seats as soon as possible, so we're on the same page and safely.
Uh he liked your idea.
Well, good, because it should happen.
We need morale in this country.
But what I said today on BillO'Reilly.com, it's my lead story.
Uh it's anarchy versus social distancing.
And that's my lead story.
I give it two more weeks.
And that's all the American public is going to be able to take.
And of course, I back it up with facts.
Last weekend in Orange County, 40,000 people went to the beach.
Huntington Beach.
All right.
The governor told them not to.
All the local officials told them not to.
They went.
Now I'm not condoning it.
I'm reporting it.
That's anarchy.
So 40,000 people said, blanket, I'm going to the beach.
And blanket isn't what you sit on.
It's a euphemism for another word.
Um, and I saw that.
I saw what happened in Michigan when the crazy governor there said you can't buy seeds and you can't go to your second house.
And I saw what happened last night in Brooklyn when they had a funeral for a rabbi and hundreds of people showed up and didn't do anything, no distancing at all.
So that tells me that we got about two more weeks of this lockdown.
And then people are gonna go, you know what?
I've had enough.
I'm gonna go out, I'll be responsible, but I'm gonna go out.
And I really believe that's what's gonna happen.
I I don't think you're wrong, but I'm going to say this, and it may surprise you.
I will urge anyone that does go out to continue to wear a mask.
And I'm gonna tell you I don't mind that, and they didn't do that in the funeral.
Some of them did.
Well, most of them did at the funeral, actually.
This was uh uh uh an Orthodox uh community that lost a rabbi uh and the mayor's like threatening to arrest everybody.
Most of the people that I saw had masks on, and I would say I didn't see anybody at Huntington Beach that had a mask on, and I didn't see much social distancing either, and I they tried to shut it down, it didn't work.
And I can tell you, I would urge people to wear their masks, and I'll tell you what, it's not for your sake.
Probably the people, young people, you're healthy, I'm healthy, we'd be okay.
But for others that we may come into contact with if we get it for them as long as it takes.
You know, when I I don't want the country to reach a point where the population is rebelling against the public authorities.
I don't want that.
So I think that everybody has to understand that the tolerance level of people not being able to leave their homes is coming to an end.
And um reality is reality, but it's gonna happen, so that we have to now switch, and then all of our public officials have to say just as you said, just as you said, going out, you gotta wear the mask.
And it may be an inconvenience, but you gotta do it for other people.
And I think most Americans will respond to that.
First, I gotta also thank you for something, and I read your piece uh earlier this week that the press should be quarantined.
Um look, I I said in 2007 and eight, and you referred to your in your piece with Ted Coppel.
Ted Koppel, the last time I let him interview me was over an hour.
He used a minute and seven seconds, and it was edited fake news because it made him look great, and he didn't even include my answer, and it really ticked me off.
Um but anyway, I and I know he blames people like you and me for you know the the horror of injecting opinion into news, which is what a talk show host does.
We are talk show hosts, and I uh I found it interesting, but journalism's dead, Bill.
We have an information crisis in the country, they are so agenda-driven now, an extension state-run television, state-run newspapers, they're all things extreme democratic socialists, and they hate Donald Trump, and that's it.
And it's 99% of them.
Well, uh, you know, you're do you want me to talk about the your thing with the New York Times or not?
Yeah, no, I'd look free.
Um I'm uh I am very happy where I stand at this present moment and stay tuned.
Okay.
So here's my take of the Hannity versus New York Times thing.
Uh what the New York Times did was irresponsible, and it was done on purpose to hurt Sean Hannity.
That's where you start.
It's almost exactly the same as what they did to Sarah Palin in 2017.
Now that lawsuit is set to begin on June 22nd here in New York City.
All right.
Palin is suing the New York Times because the Times implied that she and her political action committee were responsible for six people being gunned down in Arizona.
Now, that's absurd.
It's insane, but that's what the New York Times did.
The New York Times will lose that lawsuit.
I don't believe, I don't know how much Perlin will get because she's a public figure, very hard for public figures to get damages.
Um it's exactly the same as what they did to you.
They're ascribing a death to something that they're not.
I didn't say.
I don't know.
No, the interesting, Bill, factually they're wrong.
That's right.
They put in their paper and they were three separate times they were informed by me of my timeline.
And they and they ignored it.
And that's malice.
The guy didn't take the cruise till he took the cruise March 1st.
They're quoting my comments March 9th.
They are factually wrong.
That's right.
And you proved it because you have it on the tape.
So it is not like uh he said she said.
So you watch the Palin thing.
If Palin wins, all right, then you're gonna win.
Because it's the same case.
Now, Nicholas Sandman, the high school kid in Covington uh Kentucky, he's also suing a New York Times.
He's gonna he's gonna be a billionaire, that kid.
He got millions from CNN.
They won't say how much, but it's millions.
Um, and he's also suing the New York Times because they did exactly the same thing to him.
They tried to hurt him, and this is we're talking about a 16 year old kid.
Because he wore a MAGA hat.
So the newspaper tried to hurt him.
That's what this all comes down to.
It comes down to we want to hurt Bill O'Reilly.
And for 20 years, they try to do that.
We want to hurt Sean Hannity.
We want to hurt Sarah Palin.
We want to hurt Donald Trump.
So we're going to use our power and our constitutional exceptions to do that.
Once that gets into a lawsuit, then that's malice.
So I hope you win.
I hope you uh expose them in a deposition where they're gonna have to come in.
It's gonna be unbelievable.
Um because then it if they lie under oath, you can get them for perjury.
So that's my take on it.
Uh I'm I glad you had the guts to do it.
Most people don't.
Um, and good luck.
There is there's there's so much going on here at this moment right now.
We're at a crossroads.
When you have media, and there's a reason I say they're a mob, because it's a mob set, uh m mob mindset.
And it's almost like who can be the most uh the biggest haters of Trump.
No, I hate hate hate Trump.
No, no, no.
I hate hate hate triple hate, double hate, quadruple hate Trump.
It is, you know, they're all trying to out hate you know, be the bigger hater, and they've lost all perspective.
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Um a hundred and eighty-eight days, Bill.
You know I'm asking you every week.
You still think it's Joe Biden, and and how do you look at his odds?
Uh the endorsement, town hall with Hillary, he was falling asleep, did you notice?
He cracked me up.
Um Biden's a weak candidate.
His family and the uh power brokers inside the Democratic Party are worried about him.
They're worried about his mental acuity.
All of that is true.
But for Donald Trump, he's got to get this pandemic under control.
If he does that, and you saw what happened today in the stock market, because there's good news about a medicine um that fights the call de Severe.
We we've been talking about it, but it uh obvious yeah, it's a great news on the medicine.
If Trump can get the thing under control, so people are going back to work and the stock market is not going down anymore, even though there's gonna be pain, there's no doubt.
People will look to the future.
Now, if it's the future of Donald Trump, who did do a uh masterful job in the economy, and Joe Biden, who really has trouble formulating his sentence these days, then Trump, I think will win, even though the media is gonna kill him.
Bill, on March 2nd, Comrade de Blasio was telling New Yorkers, oh, here's here's my recommendations.
Go out on the town, go see a play.
He was saying it March 10th, the risk is low.
Uh March 2nd, Andrew Cuomo was saying, oh no, no, go out.
You know, the risk here is low, and we have the best doctors, and what happened elsewhere is not gonna happen here.
I say this as an arrogant New Yorker.
They had no ventilators, they had no hospitals, they had no gowns, they had no preparation at all.
Donald Trump built all of that for them, and then the order came from Andrew Cuomo if you have COVID 19, nursing homes have to take you back.
Twenty-five percent of New York deaths are from that.
Your thoughts.
Cuomo's got some deficits.
Um if he's the candidate, if if Biden were to step aside, it would be Cuomo.
Biden would give him all the delegates.
Um you got deficits, no doubt about it.
But I'm seeing this um through the prism of what's best for the country.
And I I think that's ill-defined now.
I think we have to wait and see what the unintended consequences are of this pandemic.
But Donald Trump should just step back a bit, uh, Not I'm glad he cut down on his press conferences, you know, the length of them.
I'm glad he did that.
Um and be very precise, very, very meticulous in what he tells the American people.
But I gotta run Bill O'Reilly Um dot com, daily newscast, and you can sign up at Bill O'Reilly dot com uh for his newsletter every day.
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Always a pleasure.
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All right, when we come back, uh the double standard as it relates to Tara Reed and the media and the mob and the I believers straight ahead.
San Luisa Bispo, California.
Hello.
Yes, hello.
Um, I'm wondering what uh uh uh uh uh staffer uh would do besides go to the press in Washington.
My daughter has just left there uh after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all.
And the only thing she could have done was go to the press, and she chose not to do it out of respect for him.
Or she had a story to tell, but out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn't tell it.
That's true.
Well, but these are the people who do come to the Lois Romanos, right?
The staff worker who says I want to let you know about what's going on, even with my guy down the hall.
I want to send a message to every survivor of sexual assault.
Don't let anyone silence your voice.
You have a right to be heard and you have a right to be believed.
We're with you.
Not only do women like Dr. Ford, who bravely comes forward, need to be heard, but they need to be believed.
They need to be believed.
I just want to say to the men of this country, just shut up and step up.
Do the right thing.
Let me just say right at the outset, I believe Dr. Ford.
I believe your survivor here.
I believe her.
I stand with her and you hope she shows up on Monday.
Do you hope that she touches?
I don't think she should be bullied into this scenario.
I believe her.
I believe Professor Ford.
I think she's credible.
Uh, yeah, where are all the I believers now?
I believers are missing in action, and I gotta tell you something.
It is when you look at when you make the comparison, just make the comparison of every I believer in the case of uh Professor Ford, and then they believe Julie Swetneck, whose story collapsed uh the Avenati client and the frenzy that took place.
Hillary Clinton, you know, endorsing Joe Biden.
Remember we had her on tape saying the same thing.
Every woman has a right to be believed, and I'm like, really?
Juanita Broderick and Kathleen Willie and Paula Jones and you were there the whole time and you didn't say a thing.
And she's not saying a thing now about Tara Reed.
And Tara Reed said that Clinton, Hillary, is enabling a sexual predator.
We can't tell you the this is a full-on sexual assault.
She has corroborating witnesses that she told at the time, something that Professor Ford did not have.
Uh she also had that haunting call from her mom back to Larry King in 1993, and and it's haunting.
Nobody in the media asked any of these these potential VP picks of Joe Biden, because he's gonna pick a woman, and they're all all on the so this Sunday shows, they're all defending Joe Biden.
Stacy Abrams asked specifically, you know, saying that Joe will make women proud.
Kirsten Gillibrand, uh another I believer, I stand by the vice president.
Well, she was uh back in twenty eighteen when the Kavanaugh case came up and the accusers came out that had no corroborating evidence or witnesses and didn't file a p police report like Tara Reed.
Yeah, she uh indicated that Kavanaugh's denials didn't matter.
It is rank hypocrisy.
Now, I'll sta stay where I always have.
And that is simple.
That people have are innocent until proven guilty.
You do have a presumption of innocence, but er any allegation, you gotta take it seriously.
Anyway, Tracy Melkor is uh with us, and she is an actress, entertainer.
Uh she does a lot of movies now.
She best known one of her big roles was One Life to Live, The Bold and the Beautiful, Sunset Beach.
She wrote the book, Breaking the Perfect Ten, and is now the writer and director of a documentary that she's working on.
Uh and Tracy, it's good to have you back.
How are you?
Hi, Sean, I'm doing good.
Thanks for having me on.
What are your thoughts?
Because there's such a dramatic difference in terms of what Tara Reed has in terms of witnesses, corroboration, the haunting call, a police report versus, say Professor Ford or Julie Sweatnik and all the I believers in the Kavanaugh case.
Pretty rank hypocrisy for me.
Yeah, it's quite a contrast.
And I like you, I am firmly against people making false accusations for um their own self-interest.
I I I think that dilutes and um undermines people who have legit concerns or complaints of sexual fault.
So I'm with you on that.
However, I agree with you, and the difference is these were things that were not only, you know, there's some record of it, but I think the other difference is, you know, you have to look at motivation.
And when I look at someone as motivated to come forward just to corroborate someone else and back her up, you know, she said that she thought she should come forward because she saw Lucy Flores being attacked and being discredited and questioned.
And to me, that is what women should do.
You know, that is exactly, you know, the beautiful way to come forward rather than it's just like out of the blue, he's running for office, I don't like him, and now I'm gonna try and smear him.
She wasn't coming forward for that.
She was coming forward to defend another woman.
I think that we should be applauding that.
I mean, I know for me, and the reason you're talking to me today is because I have experience in this as a victim of one myself.
Had I had the power in numbers, if I heard, you know, and maybe I should have been the first one to come forward on some of these men.
I wish I was brave enough.
But if I had and met other women would have come, that would have empowered me.
You know, when you're a lone ranger and you're marching on the playground by yourself, that's much harder.
And this is what women should do.
So I'm I'm applauding Tara Reed for her motivation for coming forward to defend another woman.
They're weaponizing this issue.
And if somebody, you're right, if they make a false allegation, I I followed the Duke Lacrosse case closely, the UVA case closely.
Behind the scenes, I met with the some of the families and the kids in the Duke Lacrosse case.
There were professors, you know, like almost a hundred of them, writing that uh these kids need to be thrown out of school.
The they basically proclaim them guilty.
In the end, every one of those kids was able to produce evidence, uh, an entry time into a dorm, uh an ATM machine withdrawal, whatever it happened to be, that they that proved their innocence.
It ended up falling apart, but not before all the damage was done.
We see this rush to judgment a lot.
We saw it with Darren Wilson, Ferguson, we saw it Cambridge Police, we saw Richard Jewell, we saw it UVA, Duke Lacrosse.
Um in the case of Justice Kavanaugh, I mean the Julie Sweatneck, uh, like every other weekend, these kids would throw parties, they'd spike the punch.
Uh the girls would pass out, they line up in a hall again, they're almost every other weekend, and they would, you know, gang rape these girls, and then it became well, I never saw him spike the punch ball.
I saw him near the punch bowl.
Well, I never saw him give a girl a drink.
He held the red solo cup.
Well, he wasn't lined up in the hall, but I saw him standing in a hall.
And if and this was the Avenatti guy, because it can be so damaging to make an allegation that is false.
Now, in some cases, all of it is true.
When I interviewed Juanita Broderick, I had to bite my my cheek to to keep from being emotional.
Because I I I believed her, looked her in the eye, and I just she oozed just credibility.
And remember, Lisa Myers, when MBC was spiking the story, said that she made a call to Juanita Broderick, well, I have a problem with MBC airing the tape because uh you're too credible.
That was those were her words.
So it's a fine line we're talking about here because of the seriousness of the allegation and to say just uh give a blanket I believe is different than I will listen and look at the facts.
Right.
Well, you know, it's interesting because you talk about like the Duke Lacrosse team, and it was like they were guilty before proven innocent.
Yet, you know, you've got Biden where they're like, no, we can't even look because he's running for office when you have the Times Up movement, you know, and this legal defense fund refusing to look into this Because they say they have legal constraints because he's running for office.
I mean, I don't understand why running for office gives you immunity.
And should it?
I mean, we really need this.
Well, is it really running for office, Tracy, or is it if you're a Republican or a conservative running for office?
That to me is that's what speaks volumes here.
But the only reason the I believers aren't believing is because he's a Democrat.
Well, I'm curious.
What about when you talked about um what was the broader?
No, the one recently that um stormy, what's her name?
Oh, Stormy Daniels.
Yeah, Stormy, Stormy, Stormy Story.
By the way, and she never said it was anything but consensual, so we can start there.
Right.
Did she get any times up money or defense or no idea?
No, but she never she never made an accusation of an assault either.
That's true.
But they look at the coverage.
Yeah.
Compl exactly.
And then Justice Kavanaugh.
Again, there was no corroboration.
No, no witnesses that confirm stories.
There was no police report.
Tara Reed has all of that on steroids.
Yeah.
Full investigation in that, right?
And yet I watched this interview with Stacey Abrams, and she's like, well, the New York Post did a little, you know, blurb on it, and they decided it wasn't.
I'm like, what?
That's that's all we need is an article, and they did a little journalism and that's how our our legal system runs now.
It's frightening.
But you know, the times up thing really kind of bums me out because so many people donated so much money, you know, and you look at like their their mission statement about defending, you know, and we got you.
This whole thing like uh hashtag I got you, tell the other stories, back other women, and then to tell one woman, yeah, you don't count because of who your accuser is.
You know, I I just uh our judicial system, like you said, like if this was a a black guy who was a soccer coach, they would defend her, but if it's a white guy running for office, they won't.
You know, it's like how do you how do you square that up?
Unfortunately, it it's sort of like and everybody attacked me saying that I referred to the coronavirus as a hoax when I did just the opposite.
On January 27th, the first case in the US was January 21st, identified case of corona, and I had Dr. Fauci on January 27th on Hannity, my television show, asking him questions about how serious this virus is.
And I had him back on February 10th.
On on January 28th, I had a panel of doctors and I'm asking, what about these asymptomatic people that we keep hearing about that might be infecting everybody and they're walking around for days and days, maybe week, and don't know they have it.
That bothers me.
And I was very I was on top of it from day one.
And at some point when I hear people say, Oh, Trump's Chernobyl, uh, Trump's Katrina or the New York Times toilet paper saying uh that it's the Trump virus, and if you're feeling uh awful, you know who to blame.
I said, Yeah, oh, this is their new hoax, this is their new weaponization of her Trump.
And I was right.
But then they ignore all of what I said that they weren't saying.
The New York Times toilet paper actually uh had said February 4th or 5th, uh after the president put the travel ban in effect January 31st, ten days after the first case.
They said, Who says it's not safe to travel to China?
Wow.
I wonder if anyone took their advice and I wonder what happened.
Well, one thing I've learned recently, Sean, is people don't want to know the truth.
They only want to know what makes what they believe true.
And everything else is discounted, discredited, and they just focus on what proves what they believe.
And it's kind of sad where we've gotten to in this country.
We need to be more willing to like open our eyes and hear other sides and not immediately discredit people based on politics.
It's all they've now politicized it.
It's all in the political realm.
How old were you when this happened to you?
Oh, first time I was sexually assaulted was at 16.
And then but you know, I was looking at the Tara Reed stuff and it was 1993, and ironically, that's when I was here in Hollywood and trying to make my break, and that's when adult sexual assault, which would be more related to what we're talking about here.
That's when I was exposed to more of the the big producers and directors and Um sexual assault here.
We gotta every person has to know how to protect themselves.
And uh we have to teach our daughters.
We have to, you know, teach all the women in our life how to be safe and secure, and all these predators that are out there, uh, they all need to be put in jail.
You want to know why I'm not a Catholic anymore?
I'm not a Catholic because the corruption from the local church, parish, through the diocese, through the bishops, through the cardinals to Rome, covered it up.
I can't I can't I can't ignore that truth.
I'm so I'm a Christian.
I believe all the things, I love the mass, believe in it, but I but I uh institutionally, why did they put in a rule 1100 years into the church uh that priests can't marry when eleven of the twelve apostles that Jesus chose was married?
It's institutionalized corruption.
I refuse to and they're not they're still not fixing it.
It's the same thing here.
It's it's now it's the you know, collect protect your political party at all costs.
Same thing.
It's a cover up, the cover up to protect.
And you know, something Tara Reed said in her thing, and you talk about educating young women, and one of the things that was said to her after she, you know, denied the advances, um, or not denied them, uh uh refused the advances.
Uh he she said Biden told him told her that you're nothing.
Yes, she did say that.
That really that struck a chord with me.
Uh I gotta run.
Tracy Melcure, great to uh talk to you.
Congrats on I guess you're working on this documentary with your dad, and we look forward to uh uh hearing it.
Thank you so much.
It's called monochrome.
Okay, appreciate it.
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