Because we have great farmers. You just dig a hole, put a seed in it, cover it up with dirt. Laura also people have to laugh through difficult times, that also helps get through. Family, faith, and laughter. Sean, great to see you. I am Laura Ingraham and this ist the ingraham angle from washington the night. The left of course is up in arms over President Trump taking pragmatic and practical steps against the coronavirus. Plus, pelosi and her cronies are trying to push poison bill intoa an aid bill to fight the virus. Lee zeldin and matt gaetz are all here, along with Rudy Giuliani. Mollie hemingway, tom devitt, and Raymond Arroyo is also here. Also new details on how long the virus can actually remain in the air. Yes. We are going to tell you how you can protect yourself tonight. And the virus spread is changing the way we greet each other, interact with each other. We have a special thursday edition of seen and unseen, all coming up. But first, the number of people who contracted the coronavirusal continues to grow. More than 1600 americans now are infected, at least 40 have died. In other countries to numbers are far higher, 1,000 have now perished in italy. The numbers are going to continue to climb here, as more people do get tested. It is hard to meet an american whose life hasnt already been effected in such a short period of time by this virus. The response from the government, businesses, and wall street have rocked ourim world. There is no sugarcoating that. Schools in america are closing, my kids have been out for a week, they will be out for the foreseeable future. K12 in ohio and maryland, the first states to shut it down. Colleges like georgetown, dartmouth, notre dame, ucla are all extending spring break or simply canceling class for the rest of the semester. 750,000 amazon employees are told they can work from home if they can. Congress and the white house ary also considering, and some cases, telework. The biden and sanders campaigns have closed some offices and told staff that can work from home. The outbreak has also ruined americans plans for vacation and other fun with family and friends. For the first time in 250 yearse including during world war ii, world war i, new yorks beloved st. Patricks day parade postpone. This morning, i went to the giant to get dinner stuff for the kids. And not only were there no grocery carts, theyre even out any ketchup. People were filling their cart with cases of water, dog food, and frozen pizza. Is there a shortage on pepperoni and down . Is there a run on flour and water . At least you are going to have sports to watch while you are cooped with the kids. Wrong. The remainder of the nba and now nhl seasons have been suspended. Major League Baseball has delayed opening day and canceled spring training. Laura those storiess continue to rack up. T there are some bizarre stories you may have missed, and aspen, colorado, they have ten coronavirus cases. The most concentrated cluster in the entire very large state of colorado. And some aussie tourists there who came into contact with this infected person are they are, and they are refusing to be tested. You cant force them to be tested, by the way. That gives them time to pull their lift tickets, maybe families are feeling pressured to cancel dance recitals, baptisms. A friend of mine had to postpone their wedding, i was going to it next week in new orleans, that is postpone. They drag on the economy, the market, its a nightmare. The stock market dropped the most since the crash of 87. The dow plunging almost 10 . And suffering its worst loss since 1987, and totaled the market have lost almost 3 trillion on the day. It was a blood bath in the market, not just today but in the last couple weeks. Laura while there have been some layoffs already,st jobless claims have dropped in march. That will likely change. So are the demands for more federal money. Dont forget, this is election season. We are still in the middle of a president ial election. The democratic debate on sunday is still going on between sanders and biden. And the democrat machine just spent a lot of effort trying to kill off sanders, the whole campaign of Bernie Sanders because they said they didnt think a selfdescribed socialist was electable. Moderates like joe biden said he was too extreme for the american people. But it turns out the Party Establishment as we see this coronavirus, aid package, and all the details of service, they are more comfortable with socialism than they are letting on. Just look at what they are trying to cram down our throats from the guys responding to the viral outbreak. Pelosis coronavirus bill is full of socialist goodies. Like ending work requirements for food stamps for everyone. Mandating employers provide paid leave benefits even beyond national crises. Taxpayers footing the bill for coronavirus tests for the uninsured, and in some deliberations, for the rest of the world. It is so bad that republicans are refusing to vote for it tonight. Here is one glaring problem, under pelosis bill the Social Security administration would be set up to administer the paid sick leave program. This would take more than six months, so it wont work in time. It also will hamper the administration from putting out Social Security for those who need it right now who are in harms way. This will hurt the very population that we are supposedp to be helping. Laura the democrats delayed the vote on the aid package as they continue to negotiate with the white house. Pelosi this morning sounded very optimistic about working with Steve Mnuchin, treasury secretary saying he had reasonable points to be made. That seems to all come to a halt at some point during the day. Much of what the democrats areat pushing doesnt deal with the crisis at hand, and only seems to in some cases set a floor for future government control and spending. In the end, this will be dealt with. At some point, this will be a memory, thank goodness, we hopeh it is sooner rather than later. But in the end, the average person is always asked to cough up more money in return they get less freedom. It is socialism by crisis. And there is no hiding it. Nice try. Joining me now, congressman lee zeldin, andy bigs, matt gaetz who joins us newly freed from self quarantine after testing negative for the coronavirus. Congressman matt gaetz, lets start with you. Just before the show started, Speaker Pelosi said that in congress they are close to an agreement on the bill but apparently the vote was postponed. What do we know . Hopefully, the agreement that our leadership is talking about does not include just a plus up in every democrat wish list budget item. I dont think we necessarily have to enhance the snap program to be able to ensure that we have testing resources and medical resources in the hands of those frontline medical professionals. We are not borderless europe, we are not informationless china. We should use the tools we have in our country, use the facts that the president has been proactive on travel bans and certainly i think you can reflect on the difference between the president doing everything he can to protect our country and the democratsy t literally bringing legislation to the floor this week to limit the authority of the president to have these National Security restrictions on travel. They are going in the opposite direction. Laura here is what i got from one of her colleagues a few minutes ago, we are not voting tonight, here is what the Democratic Senate campaign put out. G. O. P. Blocks Emergency Paid Sick leave for moving forward. That is what they are trying to do, they are trying to frame the republicans as heartless, dont care, want people to starve in their homes, arent going to give people a safety net during a time of global crisis. They are talking about permanent proposals too, they are not looking to just get through a crisis. They have priorities that they have been trying to get for a generation, with leadership of ireland. Its important for us to fight back, will we were in this negotiation in good faith, senator schumer goes to thee floor of the senate to try to w call up a vote on the bill they got introduced late last night after 11 00 p. M. Ca so will all these goodfaith talks are we want to help them, we have ideas too, we cann make them feel better while we are doing this, they are going to the senate to try to jam it through. Laura i want to play through what nancy pelosi said about her hope to work with Steve Mnuchin and have good results. Negotiating with secretary mnuchin, he has some suggestions all very reasonable. I dont think any of them would prevent us from moving forward with the bill. Laura this is not what they are putting out tonight. Ld it is nice to say we are going to be above politics, we will not get down in the gutter, this is an opportunity to just shove everything you want. Gutting the Hyde Amendment which is restrictions on funding abortion with government tax dollars, they are trying to work out. They are claiming republicans are putting abortion, hurting abortion rights in this legislation. I read that and i said, oh, my gosh, do we have any reporters left in the world still . . Take that rahm Emanuel School that says never let a crisis go to waste. It is what they are trying to do, this bill has gone every which way they want. Its a billion dollars, its getting into laura so people understand what that means, taxpayer money could go to fund abortion. No restriction on that. Thats exactly right, no restriction on that. They get into businesses, and say you will give seven days paid sick leave. Thats only for hourly workers, with coronavirus. Es if its not hourly workers, they will get 14 days. And thats not tied to coronavirus at all. This is permanent. Laura this is whatat americans need to understand tonight, what the democrats are floating is a permanent series of government control on american business. We are going to climb out of this chasm at some point, that is just what business is going to need on its back. All of the things wrong with corrupt washington, with lastminute deals and special interests getting their way. Lack of transparency, none of that was removed when we had tod deal with the coronavirus. So you are seeing the very same things about washington, deals getting woven together at the last minute without debate and review in the light of day leading to a legislative work product that seems to be more of the democratic policye wish lit forever than a temporary focused response to the coronavirus. Laura the administration i bet feels like they are in a no win situation here. They are looking at peoples pain about the markets, the numbers are going up, obviously screwed up at the beginning. They are now fixing it, we will end up learning a lot fromusp. Its too bad we had to learn it this way. It is being done. We will get out of this. They dont want to be framed, any time especially in an election year. Of course donald trump cares about this, he doesnt want to make the problem worse and long term for the american taxpayer. He was criticized for going too far with the restrictions on travel with china, he was criticized for going too far with the restrictions on travel to europe, i have seen it play out in new york. Where im from, working with the state where they requested that they want to provide testing and state labs. They want to do the semi automated testing, okay approved. They want their private labs to be able to do testing, approved. I am seeing it close to homest where this administration has been working with our locals to deliver the resources and pursuing the vaccines, pursuing the treatments. They have been aggressive. Laura they want some Amazing Things that arent surprising, given the nature of politics today. A member of aocs squad Arianna Presley spouted this nonsense to the cdc director during a house hearing. Since beginning of the covid19 outbreak, we have seen not only the spreading of the virus but also the rapid spreading of racism and xenophobia. We have witnessed at the highest levels in the republican party, irresponsibly fanning these flames. Laura raise your hand if you are responsible for fanning the flames. We are not only having to deal with the viral outbreak at the damage to the u. S. Economy and real working americans who want to take care of their kids and go to work every day, we have to deal with this. This is infecting our Public Discourse and political discourse, that is poisonous. Im sure there are bad apples, but because someone is goofy enough not to go to a chinese restaurant, that is not racism, that is irrational fear. They went last week, it is irrational, not necessarily racism. Exactly right. That is the playbook they are working from. Th laura its a viral outbreak and they are still using racism and phobia. A spokesperson from theal Chinese Government today put out a tweet where he was blaming the u. S. Military for planting the coronavirus in china. They are at a whole other laura would they speak up against the chinese propaganda here . Or is trump the problem, and china is the model . Apparently a lot of this virus released, and handled the virus appeared i got it now, china is the model. Its great to see all of you, matt, i am glad you are out of quarantine. I am glad you not sleeping in your car anymore. , its great to have you back on the show. The architects of obamacare had an extremely pessimistic prediction for how long the coronavirus could stick around. Until we have immunity in the population, either by infection or by a vaccine, i think we are going to be in a serious, serious a couple of years . I was going to sick weeks, months, what are you saying . Now, you are not going to get a vaccine proven for 12 months at the earliest, more like 16 or 18 months. You are not going to have enough immunity in all of society to keep this thing down. Laura joining me now, dr. Ramin oskoui. And dr. Amesh adjala, senior l scholar at Johns HopkinsUniversity Center for health security. All we really looking at a couple of years here . Where people are freaking out . I think we are not, i think we can say we will probably see it peek initially, probably late april or early may. We may see an uptick in the fall again but i dont think were looking at at years. That is wishful thinking. Laura i think when you look at what is being said and felt by people, just regular everyday americans, they are still confused by this. There was such a rapid series of closures, catching everybody off guard. I think a lot of americans are trying to cope with their daily lives now, what do you say when you hear things like that from the guy who brought us obamacare . What is your response to this okay, get ready for two years of this where people are staying in their houses . I dont think that is the scenario that we are facing. What we are facing is a new coronavirus that is in the human population. It is going to spread, we are going to have a peak in the fall, it is likely going to become a seasonal coronavirus. It is going to stick around, that doesnt mean it is going to cause intensity of an infection after that. It is going to be one of those coronavirus that we deal with. Our real first wave, that is what we are worried about now. What is going to happen now, what will happen in the fall. Th after that i think we will see w this came down and we will have a vaccine to tame it even more. Thats a misinterpretation of the way he presented that, not an accurate way of thinking about the coronavirus. Laura that doesnt calm peoples nerves, spouting off two years. Ay there is now a new study out that says that the virus is more aerosolized than we thought. And it can remain on surfaces for days and days and days. N these are the kinds of things that people are hearing that is sending them into a panic. You cant get wipes, people are going into a frenzy. I think the panic is a bit overdone, we have to understand that extreme social distancing certainly makes sense. Excellent hygiene practices, bui panicking does nothing for us. I think it actually depletes resources for health care workers, and people who really need them. Laura do you think in the end that this is that it is a clue that we will ultimately get a vaccine for, did you get the Coronavirus Vaccine . Some people say yeah, some people say no. Previous sars vaccines have a problem, i think we are not going to see a vaccine this year. It just takes too long to go through human and animal trials. Laura the fda can speed that up, the collapse of the u. S. Economy versus speed up the vaccine, which choice are we going to make . We did that with polio, we t made have to do that as well if we have a good enough vaccine. Do you think we should do that as well that we should speed up any process of getting a proper vaccine . We have a company in canada, one and israel, both saying they have the vaccine . Tonight i was reading about this Canadian Company saying speed up the testing, we have them. I think we should pull out all the stops, all the red tape, and try to get a vaccine to Clinical Trials as quickly as possible. We dont have any vaccines, this will be something we need to test at least enough so we have an idea of how safe it is and that it actually works. I do think when you thing about manufacturing, and the whole world or the whole country, it is going to be a long lead time. 1218 months to have enough to be able to vaccinate people. We are in phase one Clinical Trials right now, this is going very fast. I think this will be a record speed for a vaccine. It is still a long haul. Thank you so much. Great to see both of you tonight. And coming up, new york city mayor de blasio declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus. 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