Fox News Correspondent-at-large Geraldo Rivera reacts to New York's second coronavirus shutdown on 'Fox & Friends.'
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Hope you are too you and Erika.
What do you think? No national
shutdown but hes, considering
still on the table that mandate
to wear a mask, everyone has to
wear a mask.
Is that a good idea?
Geraldo, I dont know
I dont know what they should do
and what they shouldnt do.
I think wearing masks are
polite, whether they work or
not its so far beyond debate
people should just wear a damn
mask whats the problem
I was sitting here Ainsley. I
was distracted, the old saying
of all sad words of tongue or
pen, the saddest of those it
might have been
so watching the guy from Pfizer
saying that hes going for the
emergency use authorization
today. What if it was three weeks
ago that he had the same
announcement, how different
world history would be if Pfizer
and Moderna had announced that
they had the fabulous vaccine
and our issues, our problems
were almost over and President
Trump would because he was the
architect of it. He would have
you know benefited. I think
the election would have been
entirely different story. If but
for timing,
I had an idea with the world so
divided and everybody telling
him he has to give up and time
to leave and time to transition
and all the rest of it. Why not
name the vaccine, the Trump make
it have you gotten your trump,
yet
it would be a nice gesture to
him and years from now it would
become kind of a generic name.
Have you got your trump yet I
got my trump im. Fine,
I wished we could honor him in
that way, because hes definitely
the prime architect of this
operation, warp, speed and and
but for him wed still be
waiting. You know into the grim
winter for for these amazing,
miraculous breakthroughs.
While we wait for the cavalry
to come and third vaccine to
come, and we will have a great
two thousand and twenty one in the meantime, shutdown
after shutdown, business after
business going belly up
in New York, they are shutting
schools
in California. The governor goes
out and does what he wants.
What about the shutdowns?
We already know it didnt work
the first time and destroyed the
economy in the process, even
though the vice president, and if
he becomes President im not
going to have a shut down, you
might as well youre doing the
same thing again.
Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom
are similar personalities. They
are larger than life. I want
things the way they want things.
What happened in New York
yesterday showed arrogance of
power that I thought was really
very untoward and unfortunate
when they shut down public
schools again when they shut
down the public schools. Again
one point: one million young people now
released on to the streets of
the city. A lot of them have
working moms, you know with
other small children at home.
You know, homes are stressed
single family
Brian. The rate is below two percent.
Its a joke.
Geraldo seems to me that
egotistic attitude is driving
rather than science.
He said no doubt about it for K
through twelve weve examined. All
of the data safest place for
children is to be in school in
person in school, and why dont
we get that. Why are we afraid
of teachers? Union
is that what it really comes
down to as something so
common? As that
I I hate that
I think its a terrible,
terrible idea and for me to come
home for me to be here in my
hometown and to look around. You
know the avenues and see all of
the plywood and closed hotels.
Im the only person in my hotel,
big, high rise, hotel, famous
hotel,
the bars have been broke off
Brian. I know
its so sad.
The city needs
Brian. The governor writes a
book on the good job he does
Geraldo. Your daily briefings
are a huge hit.
The reason they tune in is
because they hate Trump and they
look for him to jab trump and
the result is people ultimately
look at the emperor and he has
no clothes on and right now.
Andrew Cuomo has a lot to answer
for nursing, home infections and
a lot of other things that did
not go perfectly well that were
maybe submerged because of
politics
Steve, I think youre, probably
right
speaking of politics Geraldo,
we heard before the election
that the the plan of the
progressives and including the
squad is so called squad of
Freshmen Congress. People was to
get Joe Biden elected as
whatever he wanted to be
centrist, moderate whatever,
and then they would drag him to
the political left because they
have an agenda and yesterday, as
you can see in the images
yesterday from the steps to have
Dnc, they were out in force and
they were reminding Joe Biden.
You won because of us, and we
want you to make sure that you
incorporate folks that we want
on your cabinet, and the green
new deal is something America
has got to have
here are those people I was
talking about yesterday directly
talking to Joe Biden
thats. What our next move is
to make sure that the Biden
administration keeps its
promise
we have to organize for it.
We have to bring the heat for
it.
I urge you all to continue
raising this issue, because we
hear you we are here with you
and we standby you.
We are going make sure that
the Biden administration sticks
to our timeline and moving
towards our timeline, and so I
ask all of you: do not move from
the needle
do not
Steve. What do you think
Geraldo?
Do you think theyll be
effective?
Would they be able to drag him
further to the left than he is
comfortable with
Geraldo? You know, Steve having
an agenda is different than
having a mandate.
They have an agenda.
I agree. They have an agenda
whether its green new deal. You
know critical race theory
teaching whatever
they have an agenda, but the
results of this election Steve
indicated that there is zero
appetite for that agenda in the
United States. Today
we are a conservative nation and
in many ways I dont mean
conservative politics. We are
slow to change when he want
consensus. We go with the flow
and we have an idea.
We go with it:
theres, no kind of consensus,
theres, no ground swell of
support for the green new deal
or any of the other activist
programs.
This this crowd is totally
out of touch.
They better check with Nancy
Pelosi, because the last time I
looked, the democratic majority
in the House of Representatives
had been wheedled down to 5 6
members, a couple of defectors,
a couple of them being
conservative
Nancy Pelosi may have a very
difficult time controlling her
own house, caucus much less
passing sweeping legislation
that changes the way. You know
people do business in this
country,
Ainsley yeah. I have to imagine
shes walking on egg shells and.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-20.