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Good morning, America.

I'm glad you're here.

Thank you so much for listening to us.

I want to talk about

I want to talk about you.

I want to talk about you.

I want to to read some of the emails that have come in,

and I appreciate all of the emails.

You reach out to contact us and let us know what's going on in your life.

There's a forgotten group of people.

I mean, I don't know about you, but

I'm grateful for the medical workers.

I'm grateful for people who are actually doing their job right now.

I'm grateful for many people in the government that are actually doing their job and not playing politics with this.

This politics thing is just driving me out of my mind.

But there's a group of people that I don't think any of us really think of.

You know, we're driving on the highway and we're in a hurry.

In America, you go a long way and you're passing all these 18 wheelers and you're like, geez, what's with all the trucks?

And the trucks usually piss you off because I can't see around them.

But it's those truck drivers that are out there right now on the road that we have to thank.

Imagine how isolated and alone truck drivers must feel right now.

I mean, they do their job mostly alone, traveling long distance away from their families, but

I think they probably also know how the average person feels about truck drivers, at least the truck, not the driver, but the truck.

I was looking at some numbers this weekend on the trucking industry, and they're staggering.

In 2017, American truck drivers were responsible for hauling over 700 billion in goods.

That's greater than the GDP in countries like Poland or Sweden or Belgium or Israel, Norway.

Think of that.

We should have a health care system as nice as Sweden.

Really?

You know, just the goods we carry in our trucks over a year is bigger than their entire economy?

7.4 million workers are employed in the trucking industry.

That's 6% of our entire job market.

Each year, the average trucker locks in each year the average 100,000 miles.

The trucks you see moving all day and all night across America's freeways

add up to about

10.8 billion tons of freight.

Almost three-quarters of all American goods, all the groceries we get at the market, the clothes we get from the mall, the toilet paper at Walmart, they all arrive thanks to

the hard work of our American truck driver.

In fact, the only reason...

That we're not starving right now, the only reason why those shelves are full

are because the truck drivers are pulling in overtime.

Experts predict that if truckers stop working, most grocery stores would be running out of food in three days.

Everything, every shelf empty in three days.

I saw this line from, she's a trucker named Chrissy Becker.

She said, I'm a mom, but instead of going home, I stayed out driving my truck, sometimes 24 hours at a time.

Lately, it's six weeks at a time.

I do it because you all need what you need.

And there are hundreds of thousands more like me, but instead of going home, we're running until we can't see straight in our tracks.

I love our country.

I love our country not because of the military,

not because of our flag.

I love our country because of our people

and the things that our Constitution and Bill of Rights allow our people to do.

We are different.

You know,

everybody was talking about how great the testing is in South Korea.

Stu's going to give you some numbers in South Korea and

what's really happening in South Korea compared to us right now.

Yeah, they were beating us for about 10 minutes

now

Now you'll notice nobody's holding up South Korea.

There's just no one to hold up I guess

There's just no one that does it better than South Korea

I mean unless you want to look at the truth and you want to look at what America has done in the last couple of weeks

We're gonna win this battle

And it's the truckers out there, like Chrissy, or perhaps you,

that have made it their personal mission to make sure that America doesn't stop.

They're foregoing their own personal safety.

They're risking exposure to the virus, spending long, long hours away from their families to make sure that we have food in our pantries and toilet paper in our bathrooms.

Now imagine how much harder it is for them.

Now that states are closing down all the restaurants, the truck stops, the rest areas all over the country, everywhere from Pennsylvania, Texas, Michigan, all the way to California.

There is literally nowhere for them to stop and sleep and take a shower, go to the bathroom, even eat.

How's the trucker supposed to get food when every restaurant has closed their doors to him?

Drive-thrus aren't exactly accommodating for massive big rigs, and even those are closed.

America, I think this is something that we can do.

I don't think we need the government to tell us what to do.

I think there needs to be some sort of network for these truckers.

First of all, if you see a truck pull into a restaurant, walk up and thank them for their service.

You don't have to shake your hand and keep your distance.

But offer your services, maybe go get them food.

But perhaps can't our churches mobilize?

Most churches could offer the same kind of accommodations that truck stops and rest areas do.

They have large parking lots, they have kitchen, large spaces for beds, they even have showers, most of them.

Perhaps now it's time for our church to mobilize and take care of our heroes on the front lines.

Those are the people in the trucks.

I encourage you today, reach out to the leadership of your church.

Reach out to other churches.

Isn't there some sort of network that we could give them?

Don't you think we could build a network that spans every major urban area along freeways from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

I mean, because this is what Americans do.

This is what we do best.

At least, if you happen to be out on the road today and you happen to pass a trucker on the freeway,

shoot them a finger, but make sure it's the thumb.

Give him the thumbs up.

Give him the air horn gesture.

I don't know if they even like that anymore.

Just to say thank you.

Thank you for keeping us alive.

And

because of the truckers, we have a lot to be thankful for today.

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I'd love to hear from you on things you're thankful for.

We're doing this tonight as a family.

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I don't want to have to put it into thinking.

You know what I mean?

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Back in just a second with some of the emails that have come in over the weekend.

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Station ID.

Boy,

the GOP has gotten smart, I think,

at least in the way they're handling this crisis and this latest bill.

They tried to pass a bill yesterday.

It failed.

It's a bailout bill.

You know,

it's an awful lot of money.

But they tried to pass it last night.

Nancy Pelosi and the Senate decided not to pass it.

And so they just rescheduled

another vote in the Senate in about 11 minutes.

Coincidentally, that's the time the market is opening.

And it looks like the market is going to be down again.

So they're looking.

I mean, if this isn't a Democratic tactic, I don't know what is.

We'll talk to Pat and Stu about that coming up in just a second.

Got an email in from Brad in Hawkinson, Washington.

It says, Glenn, I'm waiting for your brain to click back to the fourth turning.

Over the years, I wondered if a crisis would emerge 2024 that would fit the pattern and be transformational moment.

Well, here we are.

I have to tell you, Brad, I've been rereading the fourth turning, and you're exactly right.

I'm going to try to go over some of it today, but definitely tomorrow I'm going over the fourth turning, especially chapter 11, 10 and 11.

It's amazing.

It's amazing how well this situation fits.

And it answers the question that my daughter asked me this weekend.

She said, Dad, so what does this all mean?

And I said, well, it means changes are coming.

And she said, but yeah, but what does that, what does that does that mean?

What is my life going to be like?

And I can't really give you an answer, but I can tell you some of the edges of that.

I can tell you that

we are all going to be needed to remain calm and carry on

because

bad things can happen when people panic.

And I think...

I honestly think that Donald Trump is, again, reflecting the mood of the nation.

He tweeted, what, about five hours ago, I must have got up.

God, I got a potty break.

It's an incredible potty break.

One of the greatest potty breaks anyone's ever.

Most people have never seen a potty break like this.

But he went, I guess, took a potty break and wrote about five hours ago,

enough is enough, basically.

I mean,

we have to have an end

to this.

Things are going to get worse before they get better, but we can't keep being crammed in our home like this.

Is the cure worse than the virus?

And the cure may be worse than the virus.

We don't know yet.

But staying in home is not something that's going to last.

I got this letter in.

Glenn, I work in lending.

I work for a company that is a small business lending company.

We basically facilitate the process of banks deploying their capital against small business loans for equipment, financing, or working capital.

I'm getting updated credit boxes from a dozen of our banking partners.

Can't share names, blah, blah, blah, very restricted.

Their lending is now very restricted, basically,

no lending to restaurants, no lending to long-haul truckers or transportation, no lending of any kind to small businesses who don't have the most sterling credit, and at least five years in business.

Even then, most banks are requiring business owners to pledge their personal credit to guarantee loans.

It's getting very lean in the lending market, even with the Fed pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking sector.

Banks are hoarding that cash or using it to cover their losses to short covers or derivatives.

Said another way, the huge money that the Fed is throwing at the banks is not getting to the small and medium-sized business owners.

It's staying in Wall Street.

It's not hitting Main Street.

This is so important, and this is something that the president has to do.

If they go out and they bail these banks out again, and you can't get a mortgage, you can't save your home, if they don't stop foreclosures, which they have on the federal level, but if they don't make it conditional that, hey, you're going to take some of this money for the bailout,

a portion of this, 50% of it, It should be 80 because that's 80% of the business in America, small business.

80% of it has to go to small businesses and regular people, and you got to shut down their foreclosures for 60 days.

If they don't do that, they're going to get hammered, hammered, and right, rightfully so.

America can't handle another TARP bailout where we didn't see any of the cash.

Glenn, thanks for your insight and humor.

Over the last 13 years, I've been listening to my local radio station, Fox, Your Network, and yes, I even went to CNN.

I'm an emergency medicine physician in central Florida.

First, let me say that we're scared too.

We're scared for our patients, our family, our friends, and yes, ourselves.

There are global mask and gown shortages, but I believe everyone is working as hard as they can to ramp up production.

Even under the Ebola scare a few years ago, no one expected us to have to use 10 to 12 masks every shift for every member of the staff.

Having to get fully gowned up for every patient with a cough for the safety of our staff and other patients is time-consuming and probably a waste of our resources.

We have the supplies we need as companies ramp up production.

And as the message gets out to the public that emergency rooms are for emergencies,

things will get better.

We're victims of our own success as emergency rooms provide excellent rapid care, causing many people to come to us rather than waiting to see their doctor.

That has to change now.

Thanks for all that you do.

Continue to enjoy your radio show every morning when I'm not donning and duffing.

And then Janet, she works for us in Mercury One.

She's sweet.

I love her.

We asked the staff over at Mercury One to share what they're doing, the struggles they're having.

And

did I say Janet?

Jane.

Her husband is in a nursing home.

And she said, yesterday I decided I needed to get out of my apartment without coming in contact with anyone.

And I rolled the windows down and I opened my son roof and I went to the assisted living center.

They've been on complete lockdown for nearly two weeks.

Pete, my husband, uses a flip phone.

It's been difficult to have one of the care partners help him with FaceTime.

When I got there, I called him, so I told him I was out front and please bring Pete down to the lobby so we could see each other through the large windows.

It was great.

He was smiling ear to ear and throwing kisses to me.

All the caregivers came over, they were smiling and talking to Pete.

It's exactly what we needed.

I thank God all day for his idea and

for Pete, who looked well and happy.

Jane,

you were in my family's prayers this weekend, as was Pete.

I've thought about the people who can't see their relatives.

You know, in China, they just took you away.

China, there were children that died at home because mom and dad went in to be checked and they had a fever and so they were just swept up and nobody said, can we help your child?

They don't care there.

Here we do.

And

there are a lot of people that can't see.

except through the window.

And some of these nursing homes are overwhelmed right now.

We pray for the nursing home and the nurses and the doctors in all situations.

We pray for your safety and we thank you for your service.

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We're going to have some answers coming up here in just a couple of minutes as we get through another day with the coronavirus.

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We're glad you're here.

There is a vote going on here in a second.

Give me an update on the stock market, will you, Stu?

Yeah, it's at a couple hundred points.

They're waiting for the vote, of course, and there was a very large...

You've got a speaker on or something there.

I know, I know.

There's a very large

promise

from

the Fed that said they would give

unlimited money basically to back the economy.

That's what they're promising.

So

could you just say that again?

Because I think that's...

What was that?

Again,

just unlimited money from the Fed to back the economy, which is totally sustainable.

We should totally look look at that as a long-term solution.

Yeah.

Right.

So there's no limit to the money that they will use to bail out the market.

Now, see, when I see something like that, I think to myself, oh,

now's not the time to put money into the market, right?

Does that help you or make things worse?

Because for me, I'm like, oh.

No, that's not a good sign.

That's not a good sign.

No, it's not.

It's a little.

Yeah, these things so far haven't worked, right?

They've tried this over and over again over the past couple weeks where they're just dumping.

Remember, the first ask for the stimulus

process was $750 billion by Chuck Schumer.

And then the administration came back and knew $850 billion.

We're now north of $2 trillion.

And we should add on to that that that does not include the $4 trillion they're promising in

backing from the Fed and other and now I guess unlimited money is what they're saying.

But that's only $6 trillion.

That's not like $4 quadrillion.

That's a great point.

If you compare it to that,

remember, remember.

Yeah, remember it.

Remember, the banks are only with the CDOs now, they're only a quarter of a quadrillion dollars deep.

Yeah.

You know, it used to be that a trillion dollars here and a trillion there added up to some real money.

I'm glad that's not the case anymore.

Amen, brother.

Yeah.

You remember when a trillion dollars meant something?

Remember when $775 billion?

Remember, it was $770 or $775, something like that, for a tarp, and we were freaking out.

$700 billion.

Now they're like,

whatever.

Doesn't matter.

$4 trillion we did last week.

I think we could do another $7.

We just got to keep those printing machines just well oiled.

Holy cow.

Money is like Zoritos court chips.

No, you just eat all you want, we'll make more.

Spend all you want, we'll print more.

That's great.

Right.

I love it.

Doesn't matter.

Yeah.

I love it.

So

let me just go over the news.

The reason why we're looking at the market is not because it's what we do every day here in the last few weeks,

but

also because Mitch McConnell had a vote in the Senate last night and it didn't go well.

47 votes from the GOP.

Not a single, single person voted for it on the Democratic side.

And he said, okay, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to vote at 9.45 in the morning, the exact same vote that we had at 6 p.m.

tonight.

We're going to vote 9.45 tomorrow morning, 15 minutes after the markets open.

I'll see if there's a change of heart then.

Holy cow.

Holy cow.

That sounds like a Democratic move, quite quite honestly.

I wish it wasn't on a spending thing, but I am glad they finally, you know, learned how to do that.

Yeah, it's good to see the Republicans with some giblets for a change because they never do this.

They never force their will, even when they have the majority.

And when they have the majority in all three branches, they still don't.

So it's kind of nice to see that they're, you know, at least trying to do something.

They're trying to do the wrong thing, but at least they're trying to do something.

Well,

Nancy Pelosi is offering her own emergency support bill.

And

that's fantastic.

I'm so happy for it.

Did you guys see that there is a Democratic group now that has launched a $6 million campaign attacking Trump on coronavirus response?

No.

Does anybody think that's going to work well for them?

No.

Not in the middle of it, certainly.

I mean, if it gets completely out of control, they may look back at it and

pick them apart or whatever.

They're going going to try that.

I mean, you've noticed the testing talking point has gone completely out the window.

When's the last time you heard it?

Gone.

Gone.

It's dead because it's ramped up so quickly.

And now we're testing at rates three times what South Korea,

at least in numbers, I should say, three times as many as South Korea is testing, which is pretty impressive.

And it's happened pretty quickly.

That talking point's just gone now.

You just eliminate that one from your memory.

Remember, it was the most important thing.

Well, there's nobody as good.

There was nobody as good as South Korea just last week.

And I guess there's not anybody that's beaten them.

Yeah, no.

We were testing.

So there was a story, I think it was Science Magazine, ran a story last week of the amazing accomplishment of South Korea.

Then they were testing 15,000 people a day, which is an incredible number.

And it was an incredible number until the United States kind of came into the picture.

And last week we were right around them.

We had caught up to about 13,000 per day.

Yesterday, we tested 45,627 people.

Wow.

And And that includes most of it.

Actually, the number is slightly larger than that, but that's all they can confirm by yesterday.

But still, 45,000 people, now three times as many as South Korea.

Obviously, we are a larger country, and there's some qualifiers to that number.

But the point is that we were testing almost nobody one week ago, and we're already up to 45,000.

We're going to pass South Korean total tests this week.

And this is why you need to...

not freak out about the case numbers going through the roof.

The case numbers are unimportant largely because of how how many people we're testing.

We're testing at an incredible, uh, an incredibly increasing rate every single day.

So, those numbers are going to go through the roof.

And we've talked about that, we talked about that Glenn two weeks ago on the show.

Like, we're about to enter a period in which you feel like you're sacrificing a lot, and the numbers keep going up and getting uglier, and it's going to feel like you're wasting your time.

Even though it does take your breath away a little bit, when you know that on Friday it was 14,700 some and today it's 35,000 some.

It's startling to you.

But you're right.

we're at the hockey stick.

We're at the hockey stick point.

Yeah.

Right.

But the deaths are really more important to look at because, you know, the deaths are, and those are increasing too.

They're just not increasing at the type of rates that you're looking at for cases.

I think percentage-wise, it's actually slowed down.

458 out of 35,000.

That's not a huge mortality rate.

I mean, you don't want anybody to die, obviously, but

those are more numbers than Pat, stop it.

Yes, you do.

Go ahead.

You've got a list.

You've got a list.

You wouldn't mind people who are just kicking it.

And there was a day that you would have given that list on the air.

Right.

Right.

That day is not today, though.

That day is not today.

In fact, that day is long gone.

Long gone.

I noticed, though, that you're not talking about the obviously the real issue.

Thankfully, there's the Toronto Star, which is disgusting, you know, because COVID-19 is just something of a test run for worse news,

which, of course, it's wait.

Yes.

Climate change.

It's a test run.

It's climate change.

Climate change.

Yeah.

Climate change could be so much worse than this.

You know.

I mean, with all the hand washing, according to Dr.

Matth Lautke,

all the water, or some of the water in some of the month will completely disappear

out of most of your water bottles within the next seven to nine millennia.

And so it will be bad then.

So

in seven to nine thousand years, the water in our water bottles may not be

actually

seven to nine years.

The point of the Toronto Star article is just that global heating is another universal danger where the suffering will be intensely personal.

And why are we so frantic about COVID-19 and we're not even talking about climate change?

I mean,

one, because one's a hundred years away.

Yeah.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Maybe.

And probably not even then.

Maybe.

You're right.

And the other one is in your house.

Yeah.

And we're even looking at this.

What are they saying about, oh, look at, look at, they won't take it seriously.

No, it's hard to take it seriously when it's not here, when it's not in your own backyard.

People need to see that it's in their own backyard.

I think President Trump is right.

You know, he's, he's looking at what are we going to do?

And in 15 days, he said, at the end of the 15-day period, we're going to have to look at this and reevaluate.

So, I mean,

I think he's right.

People are, are,

people, you know, people will do it for a week.

They might even do it for two weeks, but any longer than two weeks, there's a lot of people.

That 15 days,

you know, I don't know if that was wise because everybody I talk to, they'll say, oh, yeah, well, we're two weeks away.

And I'm like, no,

not really.

I don't think we are.

I think it was a smart thing to set up an attainable goal, right?

Where if you would have said, oh, look, we're going to be doing this for six months, and after that, we'll assess it.

Like, no one would have put up with that from the beginning.

Here, he's gave 15 days where we can kind of all kind of come together and do it for 15 days, but they better have a plan at the end of the 15 days.

There better be something that we're doing that is well-defined because the American people are not going to put up with this forever.

No, they're not.

It's not China.

You know, everybody keeps asking for a plan.

How?

How?

We don't know how this is going to work out.

How do you plan for this?

Well, I think you have to have, you have to have

some

ability for people to go back to work or change things up, whether it's just quarantining the most

vulnerable,

whether it's another two weeks of quarantine and that's it.

Whatever it is, it can't be just open-ended forever.

Unless

the American people see it looking really ugly.

If there's 25,000 dead people in New York City, then a lot of this calculus goes out the window.

But if this sort of stuff does not ramp up the way that they keep telling us it is,

to an example of Gavin Newsom saying 26 million people in California in eight weeks would have this.

Again, if that's what we're looking at, we probably are willing to

sacrifice a lot on the economy and we'll probably stay inside a lot to avoid that.

If it doesn't ramp up like that and people don't see it, they're not going to put up with it.

I really love Trump's point, though, when he tweeted out today that we can't make the cure worse than the problem.

Yep.

I'm so glad that he actually recognized that.

And I hope the American people, you know, conservatives at least, Republicans should certainly recognize that, that we can't make the cure worse than the problem.

And that's the risk you run by shutting America down.

Well,

what was the governor that just was at Illinois?

Which was the governor that just shut things down and said, look,

I understand

the decision I have to make.

I have to make,

am I going to save lives and kill the economy or save the economy and kill lives?

And that's the problem here.

We don't know what we're dealing with for sure over here.

But I mean, I don't know if you saw this.

In Italy, they're now turning away anyone who is 60.

The care has become so rationed

that if you're 60, go home.

We can't help you.

Which is bizarre because, of course, those are the people who need it the most, right?

You know,

It's very strange.

But I think that's one big mistake we keep making is saying it's either the economy or lives.

And as I think Trump is illustrating today, I know Leon Wolf had a good column on The Blaze that illustrated the same point.

The economy is lives.

That's what it is.

The reason why we have an economy is to make civilization and life better.

It's not all about flat screens, although I certainly love the flat screens.

But it's a lot bigger than that.

And it's the reason why

we are able to extend life expectancy and keep people alive is because of this economy.

So at some point, there is a trade-off.

There's a line where we can get away with that.

Here's what I'd like to see.

At the end of the 15 days, the president and the CDC say, all right, there's enough vaccines out there that if you test for it and you test you've already had it or you test negative, go back to work.

And, you know, we're just going to test everybody.

And as you get a test, you can go to work.

If you don't have it, go back to work.

Everyone else has to stay in their house.

I think that at least gives you some light at the end of the tunnel

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Stu, I understand they delayed this vote now in Congress?

Yes, till noon Eastern.

So we have.

Should be interesting.

The Democrats blocked the vote.

So noon Eastern.

So

I think the Democrats are now debating it on the floor.

Can we take the Democratic debate, please?

Okay, so

I think they make a good point there.

Make a very good point.

Oh, yeah.

Is it just me or do they all sound like yappy dogs whenever they talk now anyway?

I mean, it's just, yikes, giant, giant, giant, giant.

I know.

Somebody's at the door.

Yay, giant, giant, giant, giant.

I know.

Our budget's out of control.

Yi, yipe, yipe.

I got it.

Shut up.

Okay, with that said,

what else is our federal government working on?

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All right, there was a disturbing article that

came out in Newsweek that I want to spend some time with you with today.

We're getting ready to do a special on Wednesday that

it really kind of echoes back to our first coronavirus special that we did over a month or so ago.

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But we have to be really careful on what is being passed right now and what's being done in the middle of the night.

With the Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve has now said that they are

unlimited amounts of money are going into the market.

And the reason why is the bond market is collapsing.

All of these states, all of these corporate bonds, they're collapsing.

Nobody wants them.

And if you're not buying corporate bonds, you're not buying bonds in your local area, well, then you're not going to have a school.

You're not going to have roads.

Oh, gee, you might have that rec center that's not able to be paid for now.

That's why you want to keep things essential.

When you do bonds for your city, you want to make sure that these are the essential things and you have a rainy day's nest egg, which nobody has anymore.

Well, yesterday, the Federal Reserve said that they are going to lend money to businesses hurt by the coronavirus pandemic.

Working with the Federal Reserve, this is Mnuchin, he said we'll have up to $4 trillion of liquidity that we can use to support the economy.

Those are broad-based lending programs.

We can leverage our equity working with the Federal Reserve.

The Treasury Secretary, the plan is broad-based to help small and large businesses.

It was supposed to be on the floor.

It was.

They turned it down, but we are looking at it now.

Again, I think at noon,

they're going to vote again in the Senate.

And let's see when it's.

You know, when it's on TV and everybody's paying attention.

Sorry, I'm so

had a...

Long weekend this weekend.

Small business retention loans aimed at helping companies keep their workers on the payroll.

Now, these are small business retention loans, which is really, really important.

They'll cover about half the workforce, according to our Treasury Secretary.

Payments will include two weeks' worth of cash flow and some overhead.

The loans will be forgiven if workers are not laid off.

Plus, the average check for a family of four will be $3,000 that you'll be getting soon.

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that is being interpreted as direct aid,

but it's really about the big, huge businesses with the business bonds and the state bonds.

That's not direct help to you.

The $3,000 is, and they said if this lasts more than the two weeks, we're going to have to come back and reevaluate again in a couple of weeks.

So they're taking unprecedented steps, and we have to be careful and watch how everything is being worded.

There's a couple of stories now.

I want to get to this one from Newsweek.

Stu, did you see

the plans that the military has been enacting now?

There's been a lot of reporting on it as the National Guard coming out in certain areas, and they are talking about more military presence.

The more desperate this gets, the more that's going to be talked about, obviously.

Okay, so I did some research because

we're doing a show on wednesday on what

is

happening

uh and i got a call from several people who said that they had been put on alert

and that is true um it's they've been put on uh alert

for war nord

That's the actual alert, War Nord.

And I'll tell you about that coming up in just a second.

But if you know of anybody who has been put on alert, you'll understand why here in a minute.

But there's some other things that are going on.

Now, there's new documents and interviews with military experts obtained by Newsweek that show various plans codenamed Octagon, Free Jack, and Zodiac.

This is to make sure that our government has continuity.

And

they are so secret under these extraordinary plans

that

deevolution could circumvent the normal constitutional provisions for government secession.

They're thinking that America could go into such a bad panic that we have to enter into new territory.

And we're talking about extra constitutional things which should chill you to the bone.

The guy's name that everybody should know is Terence O'Shaughnessy.

Who is Terrence O'Shaughnessy?

Well, he's the guy, he's the lone survivor.

In case the government goes down and no one is a constitutional successor of it, Terrence O'Shaughnessy is the general that is the combatant commander for the United States.

He'd be in charge of Washington if everything in Washington went down.

They're saying now that we're in completely new territory where they don't know what to do.

For instance, they're planning for a contingency if so many members of Congress come down with a coronavirus that the legislature can't meet or can't muster a quorum.

If they don't have a quorum, they can't do anything.

Now the question is, so what should you do?

Now I think I think right now the government should be preparing to get everyone out of Washington, get every single representative and senate back to their homes.

Get them into their own district.

Enough of this meeting like it's 1800.

Can we go the meeting again still with the are the Democrats still debating this bill for the bailout?

Do we have that?

Apparently not.

Apparently not.

They're quieted down a bit.

There is an interesting thing here about

why we we still have these guys meeting in Washington.

What good is that?

It makes them a target.

It makes them not only a target of bombs, of anything like that, but it also makes them a target of

lobbyists.

Imagine what we could do if the lobbyists didn't have a home in Washington, if they had to travel like traveling salesmen and they couldn't stop at one office right after the other, right after the other, and take them all out for a drink.

They had to travel.

That would eat up so much of the lobbyists' money and

time that I think

we'd gain a lot.

I don't read anywhere that the government is looking into actually moving Congress into a virtual kind of scenario, but that's exactly what should be done.

Now,

they are looking at

the possibility that help doesn't come from the outside.

We've always looked at a nation where help came from the outside.

In other words, a state or a city was having a problem, and the government, the federal government from the outside, one of the other states or, you know, groups of other states, could go in and help.

But they're saying on this one, they don't think there will be help on the outside in the worst case scenario.

So they have Con Plan 3400, the military's plan for homeland defense if America itself is a battlefield.

Con Plan 3500, that is the defense support of civil authorities where the military assists in emergency short of armed attack on the nation.

And Con Plan 3600, military operations in the national capital region and continuation of government under which the most secret plans to support continuity are nested.

All of these fall under Air Force General O'Shaughnessy, and he is based in

Colorado.

Now,

Northcom

has executed orders for nationwide pandemic plans.

They were signed by the Defense Secretary Esper,

and they are warning orders, the War Nord, as it's called, alerting Northcom and a host of East Coast units to prepare to deploy in support of potential extraordinary missions.

I heard on Friday or Saturday

from several people that said they've just been put on standby alert

and they said it was for the possibility of some sort of martial law and they didn't know what it was and I said okay so I went and I bought all the M ⁇ Ms I could find

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with a pantload of Oreo cookies.

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Anyway, so I started looking into it, and it's not for a nationwide order.

It is instead for places like New York that are getting really bad, California getting really bad.

And these governors,

stop asking for the federal government.

I'm sick and tired of these governors and these mayors blaming the president.

And yes, I would say this if

Barack Obama was the president.

It's not the president's role to call the National Guard out.

The National Guard is a part of the U.S.

military that is under national control unless there is a problem in the state.

And then that governor can say to the president, I'm pulling my troops back because we need our troops here at home.

That's how that works.

And you want it to work this way.

The less the federal government does, the better.

I don't know if anybody is

watching these

press conferences with the president.

But you have to read between the lines.

You have to

not even read between the lines.

You just have to get past the use of incredible, huge,

never seen before.

You got to get past all of that stuff.

And yes, it is difficult because now is the time when he could use that.

But he was like, no one's ever seen a turnout like this before in the stadium here where I'm at, where it's all sold out, never been done, huge, incredible.

You know, the stadium's been sold out before.

But now when he's saying never been seen before, he's actually right.

When he says, huge, he's talking $4 trillion of bailout money.

Yeah, huge, never been done before.

Exactly right.

But he's on it.

And

when he was asked about, why aren't you forcing these companies to make these things?

First of all, because they don't have to be forced.

They're volunteering.

They want to do it.

They're doing the American thing.

Why would we immediately immediately start with, Ford, we're taking over your company?

Why wouldn't we start with a phone call?

Hey, Ford, we really need your country needs you.

That's the way even FDR did it.

We didn't just go in and take companies over.

So now

there are seven very top secret plans that are

being put into place right now,

just in case this whole thing comes apart.

But I have great confidence that America is not going to become, not going to

devolve into riots across the country.

We're not those people.

We're better than that.

We don't want a revolution.

We want to go back to work.

Now the president and the GOP better understand that if they bail out the banks and they bail out big businesses and the average person can't get a loan, the average person loses their job in a small business, and that small business is not getting the same kind of help the GM would get,

they're going to have a real hard time getting re-elected.

And there could be disruptions in our civility.

I hope that doesn't happen.

But I think the president gets that.

I'm not sure about the GOP, but I think the president really truly gets that.

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let me

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this is so important that they get this right.

The number of

the number of infected is greater than we know,

but it is, that's not the real problem here.

The real problem is what this might do to

our economy as well.

And we might be killing the economy at the same time that we are trying to cure the virus.

And I think the president understands this.

And

And

that's why I think he's doing what he's doing right now.

I'm not sure that everyone else

is

in on the right stuff.

I'm not sure that this isn't something that people are using

to be able to

further their own goals.

Does anybody else, do you feel that way, Stu?

Are you worried about that at all?

Yeah.

It's hard to find something that you're not worried about at this exact moment.

It's kind of a broad-based yes on all of the worries.

It's just

there is

something

that, you know, I look at and tomorrow I'm going to go over the fourth turning.

And the fourth turning is a book that came out in the 1990s and it's talked about this is all all a natural cycle, and here's what's going to happen.

And it should have happened around 2005, should have happened in 2001, really.

Then we had another shot at it in 2008, and we just kept throwing money at it.

And

now the chickens are coming home to roost.

And why this is so important, and what you can do to prepare for it mentally and physically.

We'll have that for you on tomorrow's program.

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Our Supreme Leader, Comrade Bernie Sanders, appears to be losing favor with our Democratic socialist, I mean, our Democratic Party brothers and sisters.

Based on the most recent election results, the only thing less appealing to voters than sending Comrade Bernie to the White House is now coronavirus.

We don't know exactly how this is going to work out.

Things could change.

But at this rate, Americans more likely to elect a gruesome killer pandemic virus than our brother Bernie what happened so fast fear not comrades the battle not may not be lost on the Western front but the war for global

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Lots of people, lots of people in Washington apparently want socialism as well.

Oh, the plan is brilliant.

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They're already buying their own stocks.

Yes, Federal Reserve.

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No.

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Welcome to the program.

Glad you're here.

We have Steve Dace coming on here in a few minutes.

He is

very concerned about

whether or not all of this stuff is

really happening.

He's concerned that we are overreacting to everything.

And he might be right.

I don't have an answer to this.

I will tell you that I am very concerned that the cure, the

quarantine, might actually kill the economy.

But

here's the first time that conservatives are like, hey, maybe we should

quarantine everybody.

And everybody's like, I don't know.

It seems pretty, it'll kill the economy.

Well, wait a minute.

Let's.

Hey, colleague, gee, Wally.

Maybe we shouldn't kill the whole family before mom and dad get home because, man, they're going to be really upset.

Here are the facts that you need to know, I think, on the average person.

And Stu, chime in on this.

The economy, the real story behind the $1,200 per person helicopter money, $3,000 max for the family.

70% of Americans now have less than $1,000 of savings as of January 2020.

70% of Americans, 70% don't have $1,000 in the savings account.

In the weeks leading up to the first case of coronavirus, 45% of U.S.

households had zero cash on hand.

Another 24% had less than $1,000 total.

In Q4, the 2019 credit card debt, this was last Christmas, increased to over $500 billion.

That level had not been exceeded since just before the 2008 financial crisis, this according to the Fed.

The average monthly household, the cost to credit card debt hit an all-time high of $318 a month in just interest costs.

The average monthly housing cost, rent or mortgage, $900 for December 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Given these three things, 70% of American households are basically living mouth-to-mouth, paycheck to paycheck, and that it takes about $1,200 per household to pay the rent and basic utilities and keep credit cards from being turned off.

Note that none of this includes the student loan, the car payment, the food, the gasoline, just the cost to pay the rent and have the credit cards paid, which sometimes are used to pay and buy food, I guess.

So the the math on $1,200 per person per month makes sense, but also why the proposed cutoff is $70,000 income or less, given that close to 90 million Americans are effectively in some form of income-impacting household lockdown

mode right now.

Half of U.S.

households are 30 days away from eviction, bankruptcy, being unable to buy food.

That's why

the government is pushing all of this money out in any way they can to keep these companies from laying people off.

First of all, we should point out that during this time of social distancing, no one should be living mouth to mouth.

That is not the way that people should be living mouth to mouth.

Hand to mouth.

Sorry.

No, it's okay.

I'm living mouth to mouth.

Yeah, it's a Playboy Mansion kind of thing.

Yeah,

it seems hot, but in this time,

I would not do that.

You know,

this this is why you see the multi-faceted approach of this bill that the republicans are attempting to to pass because you know you're right like a thousand dollars here or a thousand dollars there is not really going to make a massive difference for a lot of people even if you are if you're on that borderline you still can't pay for for the things that you need with that amount of money.

However, what they're also doing is saying to employers, we're going to give you a quote-unquote quote-unquote loan,

which will help you pay the salaries.

And the way the loan is structured is we'll give you the money for the salaries that you would normally pay people.

And

it's a loan unless you don't pay the people.

So basically, if you take the money and you think,

yeah, exactly.

Then it's no longer a giveaway.

It starts as a loan.

It turns into a giveaway if you do the things they're telling you to do.

So if you look at the money.

I think that's good.

I think if they use this as a giant buyback or anything else, the problem is, is the banks are getting all of this money and everyone is seeing that money.

We're seeing our children's future being kissed goodbye with all this money.

And what's happening is, as we found out from a guy who runs a small business, you know, loan shop, that

that money is not being pushed down to small business people or, you know, the average person.

Your credit has to be so amazing to be able to get a loan right now uh and and if you're a small business the the requirements are almost onerous on you you're just not getting that so the banks are keeping this money and if that happens again

nobody's i mean there will be riots in the streets there will be riots if you see unlimited spending and i go to the bank and all i want is a loan just to keep my doors open

and i don't get it.

I mean, this could go to Bernie Sanders.

It actually could go to Bernie Sanders.

Though it does seem like this is what they're trying to address.

If you think of yourself as someone who's, you know, maybe you're living paycheck to paycheck,

you're living mouth to mouth, as we all do from time to time.

If that's happening, if that's happening to you, they're trying to address the way.

Is this really hot?

This is so hot.

Yeah, it sounds pretty hot.

One, they're going to give you money, right?

This is the bill that they're trying to get passed today.

One, they're going to give you money.

It's just going to go into your account.

So you're going to have extra money in theory.

Two, they're going to protect, if you're in a normal employer and you're working for

an employer who is trying to keep their doors open, they're going to get money.

to that employer to pay your salary, even though the employer has no money.

They're talking about 50% of the workforce they're going to try to float this for.

Three, they're going to make unemployment easier and more

and more money and extend it.

So if you do get laid off, you're going to have some income coming in that way.

And then four, they're going to go to the big guys and give, as we pointed out a bunch of times, multiple trillions of dollars of liquidity to be able to make these businesses that are bigger, bigger than 500 employees, continue to operate.

And you look at this all together, and we've had this sort of conversation.

Glenn, you've done shows on it.

It's been out there as a talking point in sort of the intellectual circles for a year or two now in real force.

But we're just going to try modern monetary theory.

We're going to just give it a whirl here.

Like, that's basically what we're doing.

The idea being that you can print as much money as you need, and it just keeps going and going and going.

We're just sort of giving it a whirl.

There was not really the full debate.

We didn't really pass a lot of laws on it.

We're just going to give it a whirl, see how it goes here.

Because, I mean, this is the amount of money that we're talking about now is, you you know, a decade's worth of bad government spending all in one, in one fell swoop over a few months.

It's going to be amazing.

Do me a favor.

Do me a favor.

Do you have a copy of the book there?

Mike's not on my desk.

I have to go get it.

Look up.

It's towards the end.

Maybe the last three chapters of the new book.

It's on

modern monetary theory.

You have to understand this.

And, you know, when we put it in there, we actually debated, is anybody going to care about modern monetary theory?

Oh, boy, you will now.

I'm so glad that we put it in there because

it's so important.

I just want you to think about what we're talking about happening right now.

Okay.

We're talking about, in fact, I got to take a commercial break.

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I just, I want you to look how incestuous this really is.

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The U.S.

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I mean,

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It's our children's future.

And it's just in a giant circle.

They're just doing the same thing they did in 2008.

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All right, our coronavirus update from John Hopkins University.

The daily stats are locked in at 5:30 a.m.

Central Time.

Total confirmed cases worldwide, 341,632.

Think of that.

That's up almost 100.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, 100,000.

Holy cow.

That's up almost 100,000 since Friday.

Total confirmed deaths, 14,749.

That is up.

almost 5,000 or five yeah 5,000.

These numbers are

getting so huge, and the jumps are getting so huge, it's hard to even imagine.

Total confirmed recovered worldwide, 99,000, up 10,000 from Friday.

Total confirmed recovered worldwide, 89,000, up from 85.

Now 192 countries have confirmed cases, up from 182.

Only two countries, the Marshall Islands and St.

Kitts, do not have confirmed cases.

St.

Kitts, isn't isn't that a place where all the rich people live?

St.

Kitts?

Yeah, it's very nice.

Very nice, St.

Kitts.

Have you been to St.

Kitts?

I've never been there.

I've done a lot of research on it because you can buy citizenship there.

So I'm very much looking into that.

It's getting more and more attractive.

The price might be going up as we speak.

What is citizenship cost nowadays?

It varies very widely depending on where you would like to go.

Like St.

Kitts, so they don't don't have the coronavirus.

I believe St.

Kitts is several hundred thousand dollars, which is

not buying a lot less.

Is there like a kit St.

Kitts?

Like a kit car, but it's not exactly St.

Kitts, but it's kind of a knockoff that's a lot cheaper.

There are.

Like I got a hundred bucks.

What country would take me?

There's not a lot that will do it for $100.

There are some

that are like countries you've never heard of.

They're like landlocked in the middle of Madagascar that you can go to for cheaper.

Yeah, there's one right there that the pirates like to take

right off of Africa that you're like, oh, well, they'll take you.

Yeah,

they've got pirates hanging out there all the time, too.

Arby, maybe.

5% now of active cases are considered serious requiring hospitalization.

That's steady from 5% Friday.

But remember, three weeks ago, that number was 19%.

By the way, our sincerest thoughts and prayers to Amy Klobuchar's husband, John, who has the coronavirus, is not on a respirator yet, but is getting oxygen.

He was coughing up blood.

It's very bad for him.

So please keep Klobuchars, the Klobuchars, in your prayers.

You know, I may not vote her way, but...

She's an American and we're all in this one together.

Who's going to be the first celebrity, Stu?

Who's going to be the first person that gets this that

dies?

I think that will be a significant moment.

You know, if we would have lost Tom Hanks or Rita, that would have been bad.

Yeah, no, I know.

I do think that there's a moment like that that's very potentially possible here, where you see one of these people who seem, you know, you think

a lot of these people almost seem

insurmountably protected from the world, right?

Did you see the press conference on Friday with what the president said?

He said he can't walk into a room without somebody taking his temperature.

He said, every time you move from room to room in the White House, somebody's there beep, beep, beep, taking your temperature.

Can you imagine?

I know.

So it's a different world, man.

One people, one billion people now sheltering in place.

More than a billion people remain indoors in India for a 14-hour curfew as Singapore banned all short-term visitors.

Now, you know what's amazing is

they only had a 14-hour curfew in India.

If you're going to keep people inside, India seems like didn't, I've always wanted to go to India, but I've never wanted to go to India.

You know, it's one of those, I'd love to see the Taj Mahal.

I'd love to go see, you know,

a beautiful place in India that I can't name right now.

I'd like to go to India.

I think it would be a wild experience, but I want the India that I see like in,

oh, I don't know,

Indiana jones where it doesn't smell

i can go to the counter for popcorn and a coke you know what i mean i want i want to experience some of these places maybe just in the movies i'd like to go but i don't think i ever will because doesn't seem like a safe place um all right planting season is here and there is a worker shortage this one could be a problem

The farming industry is warning that immigrant visa restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic could mean a loss in farm labor sharp enough to hurt its ability to get many items to the grocery store shelves.

If the current policy holds, we will have some very serious shortages of labor.

That's according to the Western Growers Association.

We don't go out and pick our own fields.

We don't do that.

And I don't see American children running out to do that anytime soon.

This could be

a real problem

coming at the end of the growing season.

We really need to have the president look into that.

Respiratory therapist describes the terrifying lung failure from COVID-19,

even in his young patients.

He said, it first struck me how different it was and how my first, from my first corona patient, I was like, holy crap, this is definitely not like the flu.

Watching this relatively young guy gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tubes, said the therapist on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to speak at his hospital.

But reading about it in the news, I knew it was going to be bad.

But we deal with the flu every year, so I was thinking, well, it's probably not that much worse.

But seeing patients with COVID-19, it has completely changed my perspective.

It is a lot more frightening.

Donald Trump on Sunday announced that he has activated the National Guard in California, New York, and Washington state in order to combat the spread of coronavirus.

He said, this is war, and we're going to treat it like a war.

The administration emphasized the deployment of Guard members does not constitute martial law.

There's a really nasty rumor going on around martial law, and it is a rumor.

Some units have been put under notice to remain prepared to be called up for service here in America, but that is not for martial law, and that is not nationwide.

State governors retain command of the National Guard, but Federal Emergency Management Agency will cover all of the cost of the missions to respond to the virus outbreak.

That's according to the president.

That's huge.

The White House said more than 1,100 troops should be deployed to start with more to follow as needed.

Is anybody else sick of de Blasio and everybody else just tearing down the president that he can do no good?

I mean,

I can't take it anymore.

What are you guys doing?

And by the way, have you seen the latest poll numbers?

Looks like Cuomo's starting to make an impact.

Was Cuomo just, was this a stealth run

for Governor Cuomo?

Is that what this is?

Was he just

because he's been

forefront in the news?

Now, again, he is the governor of New York and his brother is on CNN.

But now there are those in the Democratic Party that are saying, oh, you know, maybe he should run for president.

Senate Democrats blocked COVID-19 stimulus and relief plan.

The trillion-dollar coronavirus stimulus package that would help offset the devastating economic effects of the virus hit a roadblock last night as Democrats blocked the procedural vote on the measure.

It was deadlocked at 47 with five Republicans not in the chamber, including Senator Rand Paul, who announced Sunday that he does have the virus.

Mnuchin, our Treasury Secretary, said that the bill, which has grown to as much as $1.8 trillion, includes direct deposit checks to Americans and expanded unemployment benefits.

Democrats want more money guaranteed toward child care, expanding funding for women's health care, and more for the aid package guaranteed to go to the body.

toward hospital and health care workers.

You know, I love this.

Funding for women's health care.

What do you think they meant in that,

Stu?

From the New York Times?

What do you think that was?

The only kind of health care that matters for women to Democrats, which is, of course, abortion.

Killing their baby.

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In California, the most populous state in the Union and one of the hardest hit by the virus, thousands now are using internet apps to offer their services to neighbors in need.

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You know, one of the things I'm going to talk to you about tomorrow and the things that we need to teach our kids and the things we need to do to prepare for what America looks like in our next phase.

There's some real positive things as long as we teach our children that we are in this together and

take care of one another.

And it doesn't matter how they voted.

It doesn't matter how different they are from us.

In fact,

it's kind of a mark of shame if that's, I mean, if you're not helping somebody because they voted differently than you or, I mean, I know we don't do that.

But that's all you ever hear about.

I want to hear the stories from you where you are taking your kids out.

You're doing something.

Please write to me and tell me.

I want some good news to share with America every day.

In San Diego, a Facebook group created to coordinate volunteer efforts, San Diego Community Volunteers.

Huge uptick in the number of people offering to help, going from 50 members to 400 in just the matter of a couple of days.

Elsewhere, popular restaurant chain, which was forced to shut down because of the virus, gave away 500 free care packages this week.

The name of it is

Pusto?

Is that right?

Is that how you pronounce it?

I could barely use English.

Why did you ever put a foreign word in front of me?

Pusto, I think is what it is.

And

it's a little taco restaurant, and

we told you about it on Friday.

The guy's closing down the shop.

He calls his mom.

She says, I'm going out to get some eggs.

He's like, mom, I have eggs here and we can't use them.

Wait a minute.

And so he started delivering care packages and delivering all the things that they had on hand so it wouldn't go to waste.

He says we're going to come back strong with tacos for everybody.

Supermarkets across the country have also reached out to help seniors putting in place special hours for people 65 and over to ensure that they avoid the crowds.

Supermarket chain Railies, based in Northern California, said that as of March 21st, it was starting a special program offering pre-selected bag of groceries at a reduced price for seniors and people in need.

In Walnut Creek near San Francisco, where residents have been ordered to stay home, a dentist is offering free emergency dental services to ease the congestion at hospital emergency rooms.

In the small town of Coos Base, also in Acoos Bay in Oregon, coffee shop owner John Bean.

I mean, if you have the name John Bean, I think you have to own a coffee shop, don't you?

He's hosting virtual

times for the kids after shutting down his cafe.

We come from the theater and stories, which always are part of the shop.

Bean said the owner of So It Goes Coffee House.

Some of the very best parts of our work are the brilliant and curious children that we see every day.

And in Washington State, the city of Seattle,

the country's coronavirus, ground zero.

Music venues are trying to soothe fears over the pandemic by broadcasting live virtual concerts.

That's some of the good news that came out of

the world over the weekend for coronavirus.

May I give you one other that's not necessarily good news, but

apparently it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

It looks like Harvey Weinstein may have the coronavirus.

Now, I'm not sure.

He may have the coronavirus just like he needs that walker as well.

It seems like he's involved in everything now, isn't it?

And he's more powerful in prison, I think, than he was.

He's in the news all the time now.

He does.

Yeah.

I mean, people are obviously somewhat fascinated.

It does seem that there's always something that their press core is, or their press group is sort of releasing, leaking to people.

They seem to claim that they weren't even aware of this.

So whether it's true or not, who knows?

But that is the latest thing that's supposed to make you feel bad for Harvey Weinstein.

So there's another story that we found on Friday, and

my television executive producer, Ricky Radcliffe, she went and she actually got on the phone with the only FFL dealer in all of Washington, D.C.

Now, if you don't know what an

FFL dealer is, you don't, you don't, you've never bought a gun.

They are the only ones with the license to be able to sell a gun, okay?

And there's only one in the entire city of Washington, D.C.

One.

Can you imagine that?

How many people live in Washington, D.C., Stu?

I mean, I'm surprised there's any, to be honest with you.

Not that live in Washington, D.C.

I mean that, I mean any FFL.

Although, you know, the other one's kind of true, too.

Washington, D.C.

population is in, let's see,

in the actual city,

it's about 700,000.

Yeah, in the district itself.

Okay.

700,000 people who could buy a gun.

one FFL license,

and it was issued 26 years ago, and no other license.

It's not like you are like, hey, that's a huge market.

I could go in and I could sell guns.

No.

They won't offer anyone else a license.

They made a deal with this guy like 20 years ago.

You'll be the only dealer in all of Washington.

Well, now he's like 75 and he's a little tired.

And he's just stopped selling guns.

When Ricky called him from our office, he's not in a good mood.

And when he called and said, hey, you know, are you selling guns?

He's like, no, no.

He's like, I stopped transferring.

It's too much for one person to deal with.

I get swamped in the last two weeks and there's no end to it.

And he's like,

I don't know what's going on.

You guys are 75 years old.

He didn't even know about the coronavirus.

He just sees that he's just working his fingers to the bone and he had no idea why.

And he's like, I'm overwhelmed, but I'm not the bottleneck anymore.

It's not me.

He's like, it's Washington.

Washington.

I'm getting, this is a quote, I'm getting old.

I'm still helping, but I'm not accepting any new firearms.

Other people just have to do this.

It's going to be the same thing over and over again.

More lawsuits.

Do I want to do this and continue to be overwhelmed?

Or do I want to live happily ever after?

He said, I want to live happily ever after.

So he's done.

The only FFL dealer in Washington.

And I can guarantee you, Congress and the city won't do anything

to make sure that there's another one that allow you to buy guns.

So there is no legal way for a resident in Washington, D.C.

to buy a new handgun.

Can't do it.

There are so many cases that are going to go in front of the Supreme Court that the Supreme Court, they're going to be like, no more cases.

I don't know what's going on out there, but there's too many cases, too many lawsuits.

I'm done.

Which, actually, depending on who says that, may not be such a bad idea.

All right, Steve Dace is coming on here in just a second.

He's written an article for the Blaze over the weekend, a very good article about, gee, what are we doing?

We are taking these enormous steps.

Are they the right steps?

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Steve Dace has a column on the Blaze.

You can read it there, and he's going to talk about it next.

This is the Glenn Beck program.

I want to bring Steve Dace in.

Steve has written a fascinating, fascinating op-ed for the Blaze, something that needs to be heard and needs to be considered.

And it goes to the heart of

what I talked to you about originally.

I said the coronavirus is not going to kill us.

We're going to survive.

We don't want to overwhelm the hospitals

because that will take a great toll.

But also the real problem here, the real killer is the economy.

And

I'm not sure how we get past what this thing is doing to the economy.

Well, Steve has done his work now.

He's been working on this

for really a couple of weeks because it hasn't set right with him.

And he says, I don't understand how we're making these decisions.

Welcome to the program, Steve Dace.

Hey, Glenn.

How are you, brother?

I'm good.

I'm good.

I'm a little concerned, Steve, because I feel like

I believe the coronavirus is real.

I believe there is

a pandemic, et cetera, et cetera.

I don't know what I would necessarily do about it, but I will tell you that my feeling is this is being used

to

do some house cleaning and game changing.

Well, one of the things, the whole premise of this piece that's kind of a compilation of everything I've been researching and writing and talking about in the last week is to frame this now as a public policy debate.

And, you know, the Constitution charges us with a president elected by the people as our CEO, not a team of subject matter experts, not a surgeon general,

not a joint chiefs of staff.

The presumption of our Constitution Republic is that the average American can be educated and informed enough to ask the kinds of questions that balance

what really is

the unknown factor, the collateral damage

of every action, rather than just looking at it myopically.

And so to me, the epidemiology is separate from the public policy.

And the question that we have to ask, and I worked on this piece, Glenn, not knowing what the president was going to tweet last night.

But the whole premise of this piece is to ask, from a public policy standpoint, is the cure worse than the disease given the data that we currently have which is very insufficient very incomplete and and has some anecdotal questions that beg asking which is according to business insider apple said it was reopening its 42 stores in china last friday did they do that have we even followed up because i don't i don't trust china's data at all and i'd urge nobody in my audience to but i certainly trust tim cook's love of his share price i certainly trust that south korea is resuming pro sports sports at the end of the month.

How are they doing that?

Japan is on the doorstep of Wuhan.

Washington, D.C.

is 8,000 miles away.

How are they not on a societal-wide lockdown?

I mean, these are cultures that, Glenn, have a lot more experience with Chinese outbreaks

than we do.

And so I think it's time for us this week, especially.

to look at this now from a public policy perspective with this 15 days about to expire a week from tomorrow, and ask ourselves, based on the data we have now, how is it possible that the country that could go back to work post-9-11 and keep its economy roaring, the country that could put a man on the moon and keep its economy roaring, how is it that a virus that right now has a mortality rate amongst the limited affected of about 1.27%

can manage to cripple the entire American engine in ways the Soviet bloc, the Nazis, the Japanese, and Islamic jihadists couldn't.

I think we need to start asking that question.

So

you don't buy into the fact that this is as dangerous as they say it is.

Is that right?

I don't know.

I don't know how dangerous it is.

The question is,

what's the law of unintended consequences for public policy?

That's the question.

So the week before we shut the government down, or really most of the country down, Glenn, the government reported 7.7% of all deaths in America were because of the flu the week of March 7th.

When you look at last year, and I take all these numbers and cite them in my piece, when you look at last year, last year at this time, the week of March 16th, we had a massive spike on the flu bug.

7.1% of everybody who had the flu that week in America died.

That's a massive cliff

or curve that needs leveling.

Why weren't we called to do that?

And keep in mind, we were seeing those numbers with flu, Glenn, when we've got vaccines and all kinds of public awareness about that disease that we don't have about COVID-19.

And so I think the question an average American should ask is this, given how acute, how non-discriminatory I mean, the flu goes from infants to the elderly, given how acute, how non-discriminatory, and far more lethal that the cold or that the flu and pneumonia viruses are, and we didn't shut the country down for them, 65 million Americans were infected last cold and

last flu season, according to CDC.

Why are we doing this right now, given the percentages of what we're looking at?

Why haven't we taken more of a herd immunity approach, which has been taken for thousands of years in fighting plagues?

This might be the first time in human history we sequestered the healthy rather than the sick and the vulnerable.

I just think these are public, and there might be good answers for these.

I keep telling my audience that.

There might be really good answers for why we've done these things.

We don't have any of them.

And the number one reason we don't is that a skeptical press is too far interested in playing PR flag for China than asking these kinds of questions at these briefings.

So what should we be doing?

I think that's a good question.

If you're President of the United States or you were advising the President, what would you be doing?

Well, we would have locked down all the borders day one in five seconds.

We would have done that day one.

We would have banned international flights.

I mean, have you ever gone on Expedia and charted a flight from Wuhan, China to Spokane, Washington, where CDC is now saying that's the first case they currently have of COVID-19 in America back in January?

That's a 24-hour minimum flight.

You stop in Peking, LAX, and on most of these routes, you've got to stop in San Francisco as well.

All right, so I would have shut down every international flight day one.

I would have shut down the borders day one, protected the American people before we knew what was going on.

My instinct would have been to do that day one.

Now, the president has done some of these things

gratefully as time has gone on.

But I like the 15-day period that they put out.

I think that is a reasonable amount of time given the

medical infrastructure we have around the country.

While we're hurting ourselves down, I don't believe if 15 days is a mortal blow.

I think the psyche of the American people could come roaring back pretty quickly, feeling like they've conquered something or overcome it, if we really have.

And I think what the President's message is this morning is right on the money.

In 15 days, that's a week from tomorrow, when they launched this last Monday, we're going to, you know, let's find out where we are really at and then assess what the total socioeconomic cost is.

Because this is the final question my piece ends with.

The question that our government has to wrestle with, and we're a government of representatives, not experts.

The questions that have to be wrestled, the number one question in my mind is.

Will any potential toll we pay as a society from COVID-19, based on the data we have, will it be more expensive than the toll we are already paying by preemptively shutting down our government?

And I think that's the equation that the president has to weigh on behalf of the American people.

And I know people want to say, well, what about experts?

Hey, expertise is one thing, worldview is another.

If I wanted to invade Afghanistan, don't listen to me.

I mean, I'd go get the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ask them how to do it.

But then if I wanted to know after 17 years why we're still circling the drain there, and their only response is, well,

if we leave, we'll lose.

Okay.

Well, what does victory look like?

Well, we don't know.

We just keep doing this.

At some point, expertise ends and worldview gets in the way.

And I think that's why we have elected representatives that are directly accountable to us, not a plutocracy, not an oligarchy, not non-governmental organizations, because we get to question those things.

Even if you and I go in a hospital and they give us a diagnosis of a terrible illness, we still have the right as patients to question whether the cure is worse than the disease.

So I think the president is right on the money this morning, and I think that he is listening to these concerns.

Now, I should caution people, we may not like the answers we get, okay?

But at the very least, they're questions that need to be answered.

Here's what the president said.

We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.

At the end of this 15-day period, we will make a decision as to which way we want to go.

The Fed is taking extraordinary steps.

I mean, we are in,

wouldn't you agree?

We're just giving modern monetary theory a whirl.

We're just like, yep, let's try it.

I don't.

We're basically saying right now, Glenn, that

we can print any amount of paper because our military weaponry is bigger than yours, and nobody will call in the note.

That's essentially what we are doing right now.

Well, nobody's calling, nobody's buying our notes.

I mean, the Fed now is buying the notes.

I mean, we're just, we're buying our own

debt now.

We had a 30-year treasury bond sale, what, last Friday, Friday before last.

Not a single bidder, not one.

It all went to the Fed.

So nobody wants our debt anymore.

So now we're at that place.

And so we're doing

modern monetary theory where we're just printing our own money and we're buying our own debt.

That's not going to last.

When they came out today to try to stabilize the market and said, don't worry, we will print an unlimited amount of money.

We will buy as many bonds as we have to to stabilize the market.

How do you recover from that?

You do that the least amount of time that you possibly can.

Because if this goes on further,

you're talking about unless this is worse than the the 1918 epidemic a century ago, unless this is worse, this is the worst plague that this nation has ever faced, and on a systemic level, beyond hospitals being overrun, we've got Army Corps of Engineers, just build more adjunct sites,

beyond infrastructure being overrun.

That unless we're dealing with captain troops here,

this is that level of a societal event, you cannot justify that cause,

that cost.

Now,

I don't know that we have enough data to say affirmatively that it's not yet and that's why I think this 15 days is a wise course of action and but and and I think what's going to happen is now that the president has put this out there politically everyone in these various departments are now going to are now going to hunker down because nobody wants to be left on the on the wrong side of history So the medical people will become more alarmist.

The economic people will become more alarmist.

The political people will become more alarmist because no one wants to be wrong on the other side of this.

And so that's why I've also urged my audience, pray for this president like you have never prayed for him before.

This is going to take a supernatural level of wisdom and courage of conviction to navigate.

I would agree with you.

And his gut has proven to be right, usually.

I mean, I think this tweet that came out this morning says a lot because I think that's exactly where the American people are.

And

hopefully that is also

a part of a God thing.

Thank you so much.

Steve Dace.

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Unfortunately, I don't think any of those things are actually being protected.

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You're listening to Glenn Beck.

Hey, the FBA approved a rapid coronavirus test on Saturday.

It will deliver results in about 45 minutes.

It is going to be available in the next few weeks with no training necessary to administer the test.

This is the capitalist system at work.

Thank God.

We'll have more on that as it becomes available.

Stu, have you been to the Johns Hopkins University website where they have the coronavirus stuff?

Yes.

Okay.

Are you there by any chance now?

Can you click on that real quick?

I want you to pop it up and look at the total confirmed cases and then confirm cases by country, region, and sovereignty.

Do you see that?

Okay.

China is at the top.

How many cases?

81,000.

How many cases?

Italy?

59,000.

47,000?

Okay, 59.

Okay.

Go to Russia and look at the latest stuff from Russia.

Yeah.

438 total cases.

438 total cases.

Now, let me give you this.

From CNN News.

CNN published a report this weekend with the state-provided figures that show Russia's efforts to fight the coronavirus outbreak largely successful.

Quoting CNN, does Russia have the coronavirus under control?

According to information released by Russian officials, Putin's strategy seems to have worked.

I can't keep up.

Do they like and trust Russia now?

They didn't trust Russia with anything.

They're lying, lying, lying.

And now all of a sudden we can trust them.

And it's blatantly odd.

Putin's a great guy.

The countries that aren't testing are the ones with the.

I mean, Mexico is having the same issue.

They had people out at soccer games last weekend.

Last weekend, they were still letting out to soccer games and festivals, and they have like 300 cases countrywide.

Really?

Is that possible?

They got it solved.

They got it solved.

Yeah.

Make up your mind.

Russia good or bad?

Which one?

This is the Glenbeck program.