Days a week, an hour and a half a day. Laura hey, hannity, can we just get this out of the way that february ratings for prime time, you and tucker sean you laura i got shocked, i was just shocked. Sean im telling you, your ratings are killing it. We are so proud of you. You are killing at. We are all killing it. By the way, thank the audience. Laura everyone behind the cameras and everyone watching. Hey, congratulations to you obviously, number one. S sean you, too, laura. This audience, we owe them the truth and do with the mob wont do. Laura thank you, hannity congratulations. In all sincerityty congratulations for all of the work you do. This is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. You will get the first reaction to the food fight in South Carolina that took place tonight. In just moments. This is choice, okay. Weve got gingrich, steve cortez, and many more. Plus, we are going to take you live to the to the postdebate spin room, they are dizzy and there, where the Democratic Candidates will be doing justnd that. But first, ive been wanting for weeks and weeks to keep an eye on the coronavirus that is spreading from china to countries around the world. My concern was i didnt trust what china was saying about it. Some breaking news to report on the virus tonight. The u. S. Military Just Announced moments ago that one of its soldiers based in south korea tested positive for this new virus. The first u. S. Service member tr be infected. Now, im going to take you through how all of this unfolded today. At roughly noon, with the president out of the country the cdc began sounding this alarm. Disruption to everyday life you may be severe. But these are things that people need to start thinking about now. People are concerned about the situation. I would say rightfully so. Ut im concerned about the situation. N. Cdc is concerned about the situation. You you laura well, in india, with the markets the president was in india,ma and the markets plummeting, because of the coronavirus spread, all that accelerating. You President Trump also addressed the threat. We are working with china very much on the virus. We feel that something and i you you you have to tell, i spoke to president xi the other day. He is so committed to solving that problem. He was working very hard. He is very capable. The country is very capable. It snuck up on them, but i think he is going to do well. Laura snuck up on them . I dont know what to say about you that. It was measured and it was diplomatic, and he is on the world stage, so we like that. But i sure wouldnt trust china on this issue at all. For starters, we still dontt know what sparked of this you you epidemic. Chinese censors have been scrubbing the internet of any real information of what is going on within their own borders. But dont count on the w. H. O. For any help on this. They are basically complicit, in my view, in what china has been doing to cover this up. Do we look at, okay, the rest of the world would be access the expertise of china. Theyve done this at scale. They know what they are doing. And they are really, really good at it. They are really keen to help. If i had covid19, i would want to be helped in china. Laura you can stay in china if it is so fun over there. Despite all of this, the president and his team have to andd prepare for the possibility of outbreaks here in the United States. Pr it is a virus, and viruses travel. Today his working group was back in washington, and it got into the specifics. Ia the immediate risk to the general American Public remains low. But as we have warned, that had the potential to change quickly. You there is now Community Transmission in a number of countries, including outside of asia. That is deeply concerning. The usual and appropriate care for most patients to develop Novel Coronavirus or covid19, would be management at home, through home isolation with use of Health Care Facilities only as needed for those who have severe presentation. Laura watching the Media Coverage today, it seemed like some of the trump hatersrs were actually relishing in this moment. A new avenue, coronavirus, that is a new pathway for hitting President Trump. How sick that these people seem almost happiest when americans are hurting. And, of course, our markets aree feeling the pain. Now, the selloff has been significant, and frankly, it could continue as the infection and rate grows. You andd around the world and in the United States, we have supply chain disruption. None of that should be you surprising at this point. But while the administrations messaging on this has been lacking, it is absolutely disgusting that democrats are seeking to use this complex you you you you virus to score cheap political points. After their politically you you you disastrous impeachment and the fierce intraparty fighting that you you you you well get into in just a few moments, democrats needed to you you change the subject, and fast and so, like the coronavirus you are itself, democrats and friends a moved to quickly infect the political discussion with viral will recriminations. You senators from both sides of and the aisle today suggested that you and you the amount of money the Trump Administration is requesting to combat this, 2. 5 billion, that is insufficient. And there have been so many cuts that have been proposed to these various preparedness programs. Ee there has been sort of a you and you hollowing out of these scientific communities in the Trump Administration. Since he took office. Laura okay, the cdcs budget was more than 7 billion in 2019. If thats not enough to prepare for a global epidemic, they need to do some serious housecleaning at the cdc. Plus, trump is requesting that 2. 5 billion you just heard2. About, to deal with the outbreak. If the senate believes we should have more . Guess what, the senate and appropriate more with the house of representatives working together. Er but you can throw facts like that at the left all day long none of it would matter. Trump could personally go to china to find some type of cure or find out who patient 0 was and still say things like this. Do you have any confidence that he wont just arbitrarily shut down entry from italy . Mew yorkers, or someone from kansas ghost italy . I would never bet thatt donald trump will not do anything that is outside of the norm. If you are so into american isolationism and you are thinking it is America First there are certain problems which are really global. And you they have to be solved by having all of these countries come together. That doesnt work with saying America First. Laura nice job, andy stick with screwing up the law. Any more people to come into the country who are infected. What a buffoon. Does anybody actually think that more globalism is going to helph this crisis . You want to cooperate, for sure and but bring in more people from other countries, dont have any concern about her travels where is that what they were staying over at msnbc today . Because im really confused listening to that logic that goes all over the place. Now, for now, the president needs to ignore the political hacks who are vying for airtime and listen to actual experts. He has assembled a Phenomenal Team to tackle the coronavirus. Now, this may end up being a you global epidemic, but his first responsibility is to the American People. In moments we will be joined by will you gordon chang on how china may will and legally in actually, believe it or not, be figuring out a way to benefit benefit from this outbreak. Newt gingrich on democrats and and you their craven attempt to use this for political leverage. But first, i think it is very will you important for all of you to get some actual answers to the questions im sure a lot of you you you you you have. You you you for that, we are joined by dr. Janette nesheiwat, emergency medical director for the city im sorry for city md. Excuse me. Doctor, is it safe to call this or is it accurate to call this a pandemic now . And what do americans need to know about it, because it is becoming such a stressful issue for americans at home. Sure, laura. By definition, it is on more than one continent, so its making its way to a pandemic definition. But what americans need to know our president is doing everything has power to keep us you safe, and we have it containedhi in this country, by having a 14 day quarantine, a ban from you foreign nationals traveling to are this country, screening at the air points, and if you enter into this country, you will be closely monitored. The key is containment. L early identification of suspected patients and isolating them, confirming if they have it, and treating appropriately and potentially tracing any contacts they may have had. Now, the risk in this country is still low, but is still a very strong possibility, especially t now we have this sudden outbreak in italy. That is when i start to really become concerned, when i saw you this outbreak in italy andd south korea, because we cant ban everybody from flying in from europe and overseas, but we definitely need to continue our efforts, being vigilant, and be we have appropriate resources and funding. I spoke to congressman Michael Waltz tonight to ask when are we going to have the vote to see if congress will approve President Trumps request for funding to help continue to keep americans safe . He said hopefully soon. Laura i want to go through some of those, just facts that people might not know. So far. And so globally, as far as we know will and 80,000 people, globally, are infected. You and just to give people a sense of that number, okay, in the year you and 2017, 2017 was one of the high points for influenza deaths in the United States. That was 80,000. You for regular old influenza deaths and in the United States. I guess we are just used to that at this point. But 80,000 infected. You you you you you you china has 26,623 deaths, if we can believe that number. I dont really believe it. They have had 77,000 people in china who have been infected. We have the one u. S. Soldier infected. We have about 56 cases now in the United States of people who are being monitored, some of whom are infected, brought back from that ship. We have a lockdown of a hotel in spain, total lockdown, hundreds of people in that hotel because one person was infected. 11 people have died and those italian ski towns, those are blocked off. Those are just some of the factual predicates we have to have people understand. But what sanjay gupta said today over at cnn was, i think reassuring to hear it it was very sober analysis of what this is. Watch. This epidemic really hits on just about every facet of our society, but i think for individuals, keep in mind most people will not get sick, but they will have to distance themselves from others, so they continue to not get sick. And are you prepared to do that . A week or two . Probably up to two weeks. First of all, it is possible that someone who is not even symptomatic or has minimal symptoms can spread this virus. It is spread through respiratory droplets, so if youre around someone who is sick and they cough or sneeze into the air you could contract the virus that way. It can also happen from touching contaminated surfaces. Laura basically, most people are going to selfisolate, and were not going to have massive hospitals filled. That would collapse the medical system. That is not how this will be treated. That is how most people are treated with the ordinary fluteg and that looks like the best way to treat people now, correct . Sure, absolutely right. E this virus is highly infectious. And highly contagious, and most people will just have sniffles a runny nose, and they will get better in a few days. That is why if you have severe symptoms, cough, fever, chest pains, shortness of breath, that is when you need to be treated. I had a couple of patientsat tonight that came in concern for coronavirus. According to protocols and the cdc guidelines, Department Health guidelines, they had no symptoms. No chest pain, no shortness of breath, no fever. What did we do with them . They just flew in from italy. We put them on 14 day quarantine. Laura got to have common sense measures, no panic. Au panic is not going to help anyone. And consistent messaging, using this for political reasons is pathetic, and were going to get into that with newt, as well. Dr. Nesheiwat, thank you. Before we get to the democrat debate analysis, the coronavirus isnt just a Public Health threat, its also an economic one. Just look at the stock market today. The dow closed down nearly 900 points. Okay . The biggest 2day drop ever. Now china is taking the biggest hit of any country, but what if this outbreak actually ends up making the surveillance state in china stronger . If they can use this epidemic as a pretext for beefing up their ability to spy on their own people . One human rights activists tells cnbc, i think there are signs the coronavirus outbreak serves as a catalyst and a boost forr chinas development in mass surveillance systems. Once these systems are in place those involved argue for their expansion or their wider use. Joining us now, gordon chang china expert. What are the chances this emboldens and strengthens their ability to control their own population . It is more than a theory laura, because we know that xi jinping, the chinese ruler has been doing exactly this especially since januaryhi 20th when he actually talked to thexa Chinese People and started to impose draconian measures. Even before the coronavirus xi jinping had been pushing china back from authoritarianism to totalitarianism. 626 million surveillance cameras, supposed to be in place this year. What he has done during the epidemic, though, is increased these measures. And clearly, they are going to stay in place after the epidemic. Laura what about the idea that globalism is the answer to this . You have heard the comments on msnbc, globalism is the answer Andrew Weissmann says. I dont know who died and made him an expert on globalization after he screwed up everything in the investigative arm of our federal government. T. That is clearly lunacy. The reason we dont have more cases in the u. S. Right now is because we did issue those travel advisories. Av we did put people into quarantine. We have these travel restrictions. If we didnt do this, we wouldng be looking like italy or south korea, or god forbid, even worse right now. And its important for us to remember, china criticizes us for these travel restrictions but that is exactly what china did internally, imposing these quarantines, knocking down ti laura can you imagine donald trump actually shutting down travel . He could actually do that right . Well, yeah what . Yeah, i mean, do you want to contain the virus, or do you want to spread the virus . Let everyone come in from any country and then we will call ourselves a kumbaya society. If you want to control itststo coming back to control it right . El absolutely. There is no question about thisa these are measures that people dont like. I understand that. The point is an epidemic is an extraordinary circumstance. If you are going to control it youve got to do it fast. China has a problem now because it let the virus spread for six weeks. The u. S. Didnt let that happen. The u. S. Acted very, very quickly. Laura and i think the most important thing is that pele keep their eyes wide open. About what is going on in china. Listening to the democrats debate, theyre trying to talk tonight, were going to work more closely with china and we and they are an important partner in this Michael Bloomberg said. Tonight, it was all what we are going to do with china. We know they are authoritarian but. But trump today was also, you know, pretty positive on how china has been handling this. What we have seen right now yes, we would like to cooperate with other countries, including china, but you cant cooperate with a country that doesnt want to laura they kicked out the media the wall street h journal. They kicked out the wall street journal, imposing more severe controls on this, and also restricting the cdc and the nih, for really investigating the source of the virus. This is a regime in china that wants to do this on its own and by the way, laura, starting at the beginning of this month they have been blaming the u. S. And laying the groundwork for saying that the u. S. Because the spread of coronavirus. Laura i think they want toto use this in china, they dont want to deal with trump anymore. The tariffs. For them, the best thing would be is if this hurt trump in his reelection, correct . Wouldnt that be good . It was terrible for china, but at least it hurts trump, if they can pull that off. I think the chinese dontea want the president to be reelected because they dont like his unpredicted ability. They hear the words he saidau about xi jinping and cooperating, and they sort of think they are thrown off balance by that because they know the president has really good policies on china, tough ones, resolute, ones laura no one has been better on china and no other president other than this president , but it is never good enough for us, because we want gordon, great to see you. Thanks for being with us. All right, the democrat debate you you just wrapped up, and as expected, 2020 hopefuls tried to pig pile on frontrunner Bernie Sanders. Vladimir putin thinks that donald trump should be president of United States, and that is why russia is helping you get elected. Imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders versus donald trump. Think about what that would be like for this country. I dont believe that aou government takeover of large parts of the economy makes any sense for working people or for families. Are you saying we should primary barack obama . Lets talk about progressive. Progressive is getting things done. Laura they were kind of echoing the same lame attacks that 2016 g. O. P. Also used unsuccessfully, i might add, on donald trump. They are also doing a lot of this. Okay, here is heres the math heres what will happ