Tucker Carlson calls for Senator Burr to resign over insider trading On Thursday night, Fox News host Tucker Carlson called for Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina to resign and be prosecuted for insider trading. Earlier in the day, it was reported that the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman sold stock in mid-February that he knew would take a hit due to the coronavirus . And while Burr downplayed the threat of the coronavirus publicly, NPR obtained a recording of him privately warning of its dangers. “There is one thing about this,” Burr is heard saying in the recording, “it is much more aggressive in its transmission than anything we have seen in recent history. It’s probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic.” The 1918 pandemic to which Burr is referring is estimated to have killed between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide. Carlson slammed Burr not only for insider trading, but also for not warning the public about how dangerous the coronavirus