RUSH EXCERPT:
CARLSON: "Hey, scamper back to your hovels. Go inside, do you hear me? At that exact moment, while Chris Cuomo was demanding that America go inside and get back to their own homes, he wasn’t taking the same advice. It turns out, at that moment he was breaking quarantine himself despite as we said being positive for the coronavirus. One day, he was spotted by a passing bicyclist who got into a tiff with him. Cuomo attacked the man later. Listen."
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CUOMO: "I don’t want some loser, fat tire biker to be able to pull over and get in my face and in my space. I don’t want to hear it."
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CARLSON: "David Whalen is the loser fat tire biker in question, the cyclist Chris Cuomo tingled with. He joins us tonight with his side of the story. I don’t think I’ve ever had one on the show, we’re happy to start tonight. Thanks so much for coming on. Tell us about your exchange with Mr. Cuomo."
WHALEN: "Well, first I’d like to say I probably could beat him in a bike race even though he’s a lot older than me, I mean younger than me. The important thing is it was Easter Sunday, evening, it was chilly and cold. I grew up about a thousand feet from where he is building his new house, nothing but a steel frame. I go by, down the trail that runs past where his new structure is being built and there’s a bunch of people there, I’ve been writing for seven or 8 miles, take a little break and just walking. And a woman says may I help you, I said no I’m just walking. And she starts walking a little closer, and they’re pretty far away. I have very good eyes, and Chris Cuomo turns around and I Michael he spoke, it’s Chris Cuomo. I’m fairly outspoken, I just said don’t you have the coronavirus? Shouldn’t you be quarantined? I think his next words were what the heck do you know about this? What do you know about the rules? He continued to come closer and closer, and I would like to say he’s like all boiling pot, you could see his head getting more and more angry. And I said so are you gonna lose your temper like you did on the guy at shelter island? Basically, I just said you have coronavirus, what are you doing out here? You’re supposed to be home. And I had not heard what you just played about his quotes about how he was telling people to act. I see his show occasionally, and then at one point I said I’m moving on. I said you’re not supposed to be out here, nobody had gloves on, nobody had masks on, there was three children, young adolescents and I believe his wife, I’m pretty sure I have seen pictures now. And then there was a third adult. So, you know, they’re out there. You probably have cabin fever like everybody that in this situation has, and maybe if they had said we have masks, we just drove out here, they don’t live there. It’s a steel structure. I kind of understand, I would have just moved on. But he told me he was going to meet me, and he goes you will meet me over this, you will meet me again over this. At that point he’s now getting about 40 feet away."
>> Tucker: He was in full void rate at this point, he sounds almost dangerous. Have you been tested because you came into contact with an infected person who was within a 6 feet if you?
>> We don’t get to get tested, us normal human beings. Which is one of the crazier things about this whole thing. If you’re wealthy, if you have a lot of clout and this and that you can go get tested. But for most normal people, you can’t get tested. I made my own mask weeks ago, I hit it with alcohol every day. I have one part-time employee, I don’t let him within 10 feet of me. My daughter is a doctor at Johns Hopkins, I get lectured by her forever. And I yell at people when I see them breaking the social distancing.
>> Tucker: I can see by, the last thing you need is to get infected by a CNN anchor who calls you a loser, I don’t think you are after this conversation I think you have a really good point. I appreciate you coming on tonight, I hope you’re not sick. Thank you.
>> Tucker: I backed away, they didn’t get within 6 feet of me. But they started getting closer and I said you know something, I wasn’t trying to antagonize the guy. It was real simple. What are you doing out here? You’re on TV every night.
>> Tucker: I think you are wise, I would back away too. David, thank you for coming on. I really appreciate it. Good to see you.
>> You’re welcome.