>> I've noticed over the past few days, a talking point that is spreading on the RightBooth
in Right Wing Media and also elected republicans.
That, the fear you might be feeling about Coronavirus is not based in fact, it is the
desire of the media to make you go mad because they think that will hurt Donald Trump in
the election.
So, we've got a number of examples of this.
We're gonna go first to Mick Mulvaney.
>> The reason you're seeing so much attention to it today, is that they think this is what's
gonna bring down the President.
That's what this is all about.
Really what I might do they call them the market says tell people turn their televisions
off for 24 hours.
>> Okay, so that is what I was gonna say that's not just some right wing rack whack job.
I guess it's not just what right wing whack job he's also the Acting Chief of Staff, but
he was there in front of a crowd.
Saying the media wants you to be scared, not so that you won't expose yourself to danger,
you'll take the threat seriously, but specifically just to hurt Donald Trump.
>> Yes, a right-wing wack job who has a lot of power, isn't that so great?
>> Yeah.
>> The new reality that we're living in people talking as if they're rush limbaugh as if
they're Alex Jones, but being one of the most,, powerful 20 people in the country.
It's lovely, has the ear of Donald Trump on a daily basis and just completes to completely
feeds him sycophantic garbage and sits and love, love this timeline.
>> And if you like that you might like this.
That wasn't the only thing Mick Mulvaney had to say here he is talking about the actual
threat posed by Coronavirus.
>> Is it real?
It absolutely is real.
There's no question about it.
But you saw the president the other day, the flu is real.
Any particular time 20 million people in this country gonna have the flu, the flu kills
people, it does.
This is not ebola, it looks like this disease is someplace between 1 and 2% fatal, is that
serious?
It absolutely is there's no question about it okay?
But it's not it's not a death sentence, it's not the same as it is is the ebola crisis,
but this is something we deal with, this is something we know how to deal with, that's
why we sit there and watch.
The markets in there's this huge panic but why isn't there this panic every single year
over flu, are you gonna see some schools shut down?
Probably, may you see impacts on public transportation short but we do this, we know how to handle
this.
>> I don't even know where to begin.
>> It's not a death sentence.
Okay until we find out a way to actually treat it.
We have a way to treat the flu, I'm not sure if you're aware of this.
But there are ways to treat the flu, this is spreading at a rapid rate and we still
have not found.
>> Well you think the flu shot's medicine.
I see.
>> I know I'd rather take my gorilla, my gorilla hair supplements or whatever that was right
wing whack jobs on the internet.
>> Yeah, but you reference that it's not a death sentence.
>> I love that he went very smoothly from what is it kill 1% to 2%?
It's not a death sentence, except presumably for those 1% to 2%, which represent thousands
of people that have already died.
And by the way, these loose associations with the flu, the only good to come out of all
of this is that maybe people will take the flu more seriously because I don't think most
people knew how many people die every year just from the seasonal flu in the United States
alone.
There are a lot of differences as Emma rightly pointed out, we understand the flu, we have
treatments, we have shots you can take beforehand.
We do actually have something we can do about the flu.
We don't really have that for the Coronavirus.
And we don't necessarily know when we're gonna get it.
That's a pretty big difference.
The flu I read kills about 0.1%.
It might even be less than that.
That's a big difference between that and 2%.
It's not 2%, it's 2% overall.
But when you talk about older people, it shoots up.
In the highest age demographic, it is 15%.
I mean, look, if I told you, you could do something that's 50% chance you're gonna die,
you might consider that a death sentence, I think rightfully so.
>> I might.
>> And here's the thing.
I understand everybody wants to stop people from getting unnecessarily panicked.
But talking to that crowd about a disease we don't have a vaccine for and we don't necessarily
know how to treat at least to stop people.
We have people who have been taken in with the disease.
There's doctors there and they die.
To say that's not a death sentence.
It's the flu.
How irresponsible a Chief of Staff of the White House to tell people, It's all gonna
be fine.
You'll get it.
It's like the cold is like the flu.
What's the difference?
And he's echoing, by the way, what Trump said.
Trump in an official press conference said, it's like the flu.
It's worse in some ways.
It's better in other ways, what ways is it better?
>> How is it better?
That is such a great point by you.
And I also just want to point out Fox News they've got to be bummed that this is the
narrative coming from the White House because they don't get to fear monger and blow things
up more than they normally would.
I mean, this is something that people should actually be fearful about.
But Fox loves to say, black people, Muslim people, those are the things that you should
be afraid of, when their dear leader Donald Trump is misleading people about what they
truly should be afraid of and truly should be taking precautions against.
But because the corona virus isn't wearing a hoodie and isn't a black teenager, I guess
this isn't the kind of stuff you want to devote your airwaves and make people afraid that
perhaps, the government does not have your best interests at heart here.
Because it's run by right wing sociopaths who would rather see the Dow skyrocket up
then care about thousands of people in this country potentially dying from a disease that
we do not understand.
>> And and my heart does go out to the hosts of producers at Fox News.
They're between a rock and a hard place where they would love to fear monger about foreign
diseases creeping in now we've got locked down the border.
But the more they do that, the more they confirm that the media taking this seriously are probably
doing the right thing.
So it's a really hard choice, I don't know how you come out on that.
>> A catch 22.
>> It is, exactly.
>> Or a catch core, what's it 19?
>> Catch 19, yeah.
It's a catch 19.
>> I shouldn't start my remarks before knowing where they're going.
>> You know what, it was a laudible goal?
Aim for the stars.
Let's go to, we had their Chief of Staff here Rush Limbaugh the guide that Mike Pence goes
and talks with, here is him talking about the disease.
>> This coronavirus thing I want to try to put this in perspective for you it looks like.
The corona viruses being weaponized as yet another element to bring down Donald Trump.
Right now, the media is reporting on the coronavirus as they hope, it evolves.
They hope for hurricanes on the first day of hurricane season I hope for Hurricane so
they can say climate change anything to advance the leftist agenda.
Now the leftist agenda includes getting rid of Trump.
They would love for the Coronavirus to be this deadly strain that wipes everybody out,
so they can blame Trump for it.
Don't doubt me on that.
>> Okay, so this is not the last time you're gonna hear.
Again, not just some wackjob, he was visited by the guy coordinating the Coronavirus response.
He just said, the media the dems, they want mass numbers of people to die, because it
will hurt Donald Trump.
That's, I mean what, I know we live in crazy times.
I don't know what we're supposed to say to that, like we're-
>> Are the Democrats bringing the Coronavirus over the border with the refugees that we
want to have a good life?
>> Well, he effectively said something similar to that during the Ebola crisis.
He said, Obama- >> That's, yeah, exactly.
>> Is that what you were elluding to?
>> Well, kind of, yeah.
>> Okay, yeah, he said that Obama wants Ebola to kill people in the United States as, revenge
for slavery, that's what medal of freedom.
>> Recipient Rush Limbaugh said.
So yeah, now we want people to die.
Who exactly, the Libs?
We're trying to get people to be cautioned against this, to be prepared for this.
All the right we needed personalities are going out there and doing broadcast everyday
telling people, you shouldn't worry about this at all it's not actual concern.
Don't worry about it, they're blowing out of proportion.
Trump today during chopper talk was asked, do you think all of this coverage is a hoax
and he said well, yes, CNN is a disreputable organization, like, yes
>> What does CNN have to do with anything?
>> They are spreading Coronavirus.
So, really, who is encouraging deaths.
The person who says hey take this seriously, take precautions or the people who say you
are being hoaxed by fake news CNN.
Don't worry about it, it's basically the flu.
>> Yeah, I want to say you should trademark chopper talk but that was kind
>> No, I didn't come up with that.
That's all over the place but thank you, that is very nice that you might have been.
Mike might have been cold beer first anyway.
>> Okay, >> So that was Rush Limbaugh.
But we also have Pete Hegseth, one of the reasons I want to go to him is you might recall.
He was like this far from being the head of the VA, almost chosen by Trump and here he
is again talking about the media and Coronavirus.
>> I don't wanna say this, I don't velish the reality, but you start to feel.
You really do watch the Democrats, watch the media.
You start to feel like they're rooting for Coronavirus to spread.
And I don't say that flippantly, I really don't.
But they're rooting for it to grow.
They're rooting for the problem to get worse.
They're rooting for mysteries, unknown cases, quarantines, towns, for it to become an absolute
national crisis.
For one reason and one reason alone.
They have yet to find a reason to drag down the presidency of Donald Trump.
Even though it is not the fault of Donald Trump, they will try to pin it to him like
his Katrina moment and make it political and, so, a headline like this lays bare their intention.
Because we know it already, they just won't say it.
So I think it's important to say it because we know what's in the backs of the minds of
a lot of Democrats.
>> So what happens is Donald Trump can give whatever response he wants to give to coronavirus.
And that's really what he's saying he should have immunity from whatever decisions he makes
in that response.
Because the democrats are just gonna criticize him no matter what, he's having a terrible
response.
We're freaked out.
And then they're criticized.
No, we want you to help prevent this further.
Were freaked out by the coronavirus, the left.
And the rest of the country, Trump do something about this and because of that criticism,
we are the ones that want people to die.
People to die from coronavirus.
>> And look, as I reference on the damage floor earlier today I will remind you that
Pete Hegseth, that's the guy who said on Fox News that he hasn't washed his hands in 10
years.
So maybe learn about that before you start talk about us encouraging the spread of germs.
Yeah and look, he's an influential guy he has the ear of the President.
And the thing is that it shouldn't be that shocking that he's saying this sort of thing,
because Trump and his family are also encouraging the same sort of rhetoric.
Here is the son of the President.
>> Are you surprised the way they've been handling the coronavirus situation, meaning
democrats?
>> Not at all, like you've said, we've seen this play out for four years.
Anything that they can use to try to hurt Trump, they will.
Anything he does in a positive sense, like you heard from the reporter that was just
suspended from ABC.
They will not give him credit for the playbook is old at this point.
But for them to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here and kills
millions of people, so that they could end Donald Trump's streak of winning is a new
level of sickness.
>> He went on to accuse the New York Times of either being infected with Trump derangement
syndrome or Coronavirus.
>> I accuse him of bad beard syndrome and bad beard virus.
>> It’s actually spreading on the right these days.
But anyway, there he was more clear pick up Texas said we in the media want lots of people
to die.
John Don Jr. said we want millions to die.
We wanna rule over the ashes effectively.
That really does come through, that plot in Bernie Sanders obvious speeches about however
one should have health insurance and access to healthcare, we definitely want people to
die.
I mentioned one thing, so this is Pit Hagsive point about the media is hoping for Trump's
Katrina moment.
And here is the thing, I remember Katrina.
You know what was so damaging to Bush about Katrina?
Not that the storm happened.
That is not why people turned on George W Bush.
It was the incompetent handling of it.
It was allowing people to die when it wasn't necessary.
Because they didn't take it seriously and they didn't prioritize the lives of the people
that lived there.
And so when he flew over and looked down occasionally, and when he heckuva-job-Brownie-d, that was
not taking it seriously.
That's why it was bad for him.
To Trump, again, I will say this for the millionth time, Is not responsible for coronavirus being
transmitted to humans and he's not even responsible for making its way into America.
But if he locks down information, if he spreads disinformation, if he sends people off to
deal with these people without the proper training or equipment.
If he makes it materially more likely that people die as a result of coronavirus, it
very much is his Katrina moment.
Because that is his anti-science ignorant I don't wanna swear, approach to the world
that is endangering lives, the same as George W Bush.
Katrina couldn't have been stopped the storm.
The deaths could have been stopped.
That was the problem and we're seeing it potentially in real time.