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first quarter. 20 states set to loosen restriction this is week. starbucks set to reopen 90% of its stores by june. alan greenspan sees a economic rebound in the third quarter. there is hope. joining us tonight, senator chuck grassley, republican greg stuebe in florida, on the fight to reopen as democrat led house is not reopening. the states are reopening. dr. bob lahida on hope and optimism on curse and vaccines to stop covid-19. the democrats, their pushback falling apart. the democrat led house getting blasted for delaying coming back to work. also the pushback against the joe biden campaign. it is now getting blasted for trying to pressure reporters with false ander erroneous talking points that said "the new york times" said they pushed tara reade's allegation

was wrong. the times is pushing back. where is the i believe her movement now? you remember who that included? that included joe biden. more on the justice department case against lieutenant-general general michael flynn. it is eroding and eroding fast. the mystery of the whereabouts of north korean leader kim jong-un. he has not been seen in weeks. thank you for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. this is "the evening edit" and it starts right now. elizabeth: all right. let's welcome republican representative greg stuebe. thanks for coming on, sir. >> thanks for having me. elizabeth: where, how come the house democrats are not coming back to work yet? states are opening up. businesses want to open up. senate is coming back to work. why is nancy pelosi's house-led

democrats not get being back to work yet? >> that is a great question, we were supposed to be up there we were told may 4th. everybody started making plans, suddenly the democrats didn't want to do that. because i don't know of stay-at-home order in virginia and d.c. or didn't think all the things through, with committee rooms and meeting with social distancing all the things going with that. i can tell you the republican caucus is ready to get to work. a number of us went up there this past thursday to vote the legislation. most of the republican caucus if not all was there. republicans are ready to get back to work. americans are getting back to work. on florida we're opening up on monday, thanks to governor desantis phase one reopening. businesses are working. people at supermarkets are working. congress needs to be working to make sure we're doing the will of the people. elizabeth: what we're seeing now, the track record is showing that the democrats led by pelosi act like they had the foresight early this year to see covid-19

coming. they didn't do anything about it. nancy pelosi was talking about the no ban act, just block the president's travel ban on china. she was talking about vaping legislation. we see the facts coming in. the democrats are falling behind on this but yet they're carping and attacking the president. he is pushing now on a brand new, it is called operation work speed to get fast track vaccines in place. he signed an executive order to keep meat plants open. we know 20 meatpacking plants shut down. thousands of workers were exposed there is concern in the administration about the people getting infected, people dying, and that the food supply is broken. you see the president acting on that. democrats appear to be awol, missing in action. your take on all of this? >> she is criticizing the president for not moving quick enough and she was busy impeaching the president all the way through february. she was delaying giving the articles of impeachment. then you had the senate having impeachment trial all the way

through most of february, january, and february. so they were focused on impeaching the president, not what is going on in our country. thank goodness the president was paying attention. quickly within eight days, quickly stopping travel from wuhan, china, doing things to protect our nation and thank god he did that. or we would probably have a worse pandemic here than we've had. i think the president is right to try to slowly move to reopen the country. here in florida businesses want to get back to work. small businesses want to open. i was out and about around town today. you can veal the vibe, frustration not being able to open shops and businesses, where they can have an operation. so i applaud governor desantis reopening starting monday of some of our businesses reopening. that is good for our country. elizabeth: we've got 20 states now moving to reopen this beak. i want i want to move on to this. way after the fact, governor of

maryland said now we'll do testing of nursing homes. nursing homes were known to be a problem for more than a month. we have the secretary of the va on with us last night, as veterans are getting sick. nearly 70 residents died at a massachusetts home in holyoke for aging veterans this is a terrible story. the administration is trying to stop that too. again and again we look for the stories. we're searching for the democrat response to this. we're absolutely awol. all we see is rhetoric, zero action, nothing being done on therapy side of the aisle. >> it is disappointing. look what happened to the ppp funding, paycheck protection funding. president saw, secretary mnuchin knew that fund would run out of money and tried to reauthorize money for that fund. for 16 days small businesses hurt, maybe had to file bankruptcy, shut down because they were not able to get the funding. that was all because speaker pelosi and chuck schumer held it up. republicans are trying to get work done. they're trying to get things

accomplished. we're trying to fund things. we're getting stonewalled. very difficult in the house to get public policy done when we can't even go up to washington to meet. elizabeth: early, earlier this month the republicans said we need money for ppe. nancy pelosi went on tell investigation to tout and talk about her ice cream collection. let's move on to this story. the administration is now working at an unprecedented way. if you talk to medical experts talk to anybody in epidemiology, they have never seen a public/private partnership like this. working with companies like walmart, cvs, rite aid, to do thousands and thousands of testing of individuals. we're talking on a level, they're pushing to do, nearly six million people tested. looking for way more than that. the u.s. is now testing more per capita than any other country bar i think italy and spain this is based on new data. we're bigger country than that. we see this happening, with the push to get testing done.

but again, here's nancy pelosi, watch her attack the president. it us all rhett rick there is no action to back up her rhetoric. listen to nancy pelosi. >> this president presided over the worst disaster in our country's history. assault on the lives and livelihoods of the american people and he did so by neglect of information, also denial and delay in accepting the facts. elizabeth: okay. here's the thing. nancy pelosi can say that. adam schiff is talking about investigating the president's covid-19 response. how about the democrats start investigating themselves because they were totally mia and missing in action earlier in the year. i have been studying the actions from that side of the aisle, both sides of the aisle from the beginning of the year. i'm telling you congressman, they have been awol. now they're attacking the president on this front. trying to, rather. go ahead. >> like i said, speaker pelosi was busy impeaching the

president at the beginning of the year, holding on articles of impeachment the house passed from december into new year and senate was busy with an impeachment trial. they were focused on that. it is amazing to me to see how partisan everything in washington is. i campaigned on the fact washington was broken and we need leadership up there. it is sad the democrats run the house in partisan manner, not get anything done. accomplish anything. all they want to do is criticize the president. elizabeth: just as journalists as a reporter, just giving you facts. now we have got hillary clinton telling joe biden yesterday, quote, this would be a terrible crisis to waste as the old saying goes. she is pushing for universal health care. your take on hillary clinton flat-out putting it right out there, that is how they think, go ahead. >> yeah, they will take advantage of a situation just like she said, to try to push their liberal left-wing agenda on the american people during a time of crisis. speaker pelosi tried to shove

all sorts of things in the $2.2 trillion package. in this last package, thank god we had the president and mitch mcconnell on senate to push back on all of her liberal socialist ideas. so unfortunately they're going to use this opportunity, in any way, shape, or form to push therapy socialist and liberal agendas into these packages because they know they have leverage on the president and mitch mcconnell. americans can see through that. elizabeth: okay. congressman stuebe, great to have you on. >> thanks for having me. elizabeth: okay. coming up later in the show we're going to stay on this story. it is gaining traction. it has major implications for 2020. biden's presidential campaign pressuring reporters to take its talking points, claiming that "the new york times" coverage of allegations that senator joe biden sexually harassed and sexually assaulted his former senate staffer tara reade, that "the new york times" story proves that allegation is wrong. actually "the new york times" is saying, biden campaign, you're totally wrong on this.

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fall which is exciting. some are beginning to end phase one and go into phase two. so i'm really excited about that. elizabeth: there is stop of hope stopping covid-19 with gilead's drug remdesivir. it may be be effective just five-day es dog regimen. it is now getting fast-tracked. dr. anthony fauci is positive about this drug remdesivir, stopping coronavirus. what is your take on that? >> that is excellent. we're actually using that. we're part of the clinical trial centers within the country. we have number of investigators, number of investigators working on our wards with remdesivir. exciting to hear preliminary data is promising. we're excited about it, and we're using it in patients as you and i speak right now. elizabeth: i don't think in any other generation have we seen such a government pushing to

stop this outbreak. this is a flat-out, all hands on deck call to get this thing done. we're talking also about the rates for the cure and vaccine now picking up over 1000 drug trials to fight covid-19 in at least 100 nations. what drugs are most excited about right now now. >> i'm am excited about remdesivir. i am not guided by hydroxychlorquine and significant low max because we haven't seen any changes. many have serial numbers in the works. many anti-virals lay fallow for some time, for many years and are rejuvenated. elizabeth: which ones. >> anthony virals like lotanovir. we'll h we're using drugs that are monoclonal an tip bodies.

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♪ elizabeth: toe a story gaining traction, has major implications for the 2020 race. it is a gathering storm, a major liability now facing the biden campaign. let's bring in our next guest, author, conservative commentator kristin tate. great to see you, kristin. >> great to see you, liz. elizabeth: okay, here's the news. the biden campaign is pressuring reporters to take its talking points, pushing back on tara reade's allegations that then senator joe biden sexually harassed and sexually assaulted

here in the early '90s but now "the new york times" is pushing back, blasting the biden campaign, stop saying our story does not show, it shows reade's allegations did not happen. our story did not report that. it doesn't go there. it wasn't conclusive either way. biden has not personally denied the allegation. your take on "the new york times" stopping the campaign that you're wrong taking your reaction. >> things have gone from bad to worse for joe biden. he was counting on the mainstream media to carry him across the finish line. by distorting "the new york times" report, he may force the media to cover these allegations. they haven't really up until now. the mantra of the "me too" movement was to believe all women but last month, left-wing journalists only believe women

when it is good for their political use. abc, nbc, as of yesterday, hadn't spent a second on coverage of allegations. cbs spent about one minute. nbc about four 1/2 minutes. cnn had a blackout of coverage on this story until a 1993 clip surfaced of tara reade's mother alluding to the allegations on "larry king" live. not like the networks don't have time to talk about biden. biden has been on the networks for number of interviews. he answered 143 questions over the last month. not one of those questions was about this controversy. i mean just compare this coverage to how the media treated then supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. during that time the media just blanketed the airwaves with christine ford's allegations. we were told we must believe ford no matter what. the media ran with ridiculous claims that were completely unvetted. including one that said

brett kavanaugh was part of a gang rape gang. media are not fair and balanced craft. they are functioning as the arm of the dnc. it is a national disgrace. elizabeth: where are democrats standing up for women? where are the i believe her now? with democrats with their silence, they're staying silent, are they throwing the "me too" movement under the bus? they claim to have the moral high ground on this story, that and they have said we must believe all women. joe biden has said that. remember the early 90s were the days of oregon senator bob packwood who quit before he was expelled by the senate for sexually harassing assaulting women. i was there i covered washington at that time. i saw that story underway. from 1987 to 1995 joe biden was the chair of the powerful senate judiciary committee. it was also a time joe biden was pushing back on anita hill. tara reade is now saying,

joe biden, please release the senate records for, for your staffers because i did file a complaint. i did report this. and if you release the records, it will show that. your take on that? >> yay. i mean for all of yo joe biden's flaw as a candidate this could be what ultimately take him down. democrats, including joe biden, made themselves the moral authority when it comes to all things related to sexual assault. just a few years ago joe biden was telling us we need to believe all allegations of sexual assault regardless how flimsy evidence is. the democrats have been saying same thing. "daily beast" came out with a report, reached out to the top 10 women's groups, all which are democrat aligned, not one of them had a comment about these allegations. this does a do disservice to the "me too" movement. this makes the left as such

hypocrites. this could really come back to bite them in the general election. elizabeth: "the evening edit," when those allegations were, you know, were brought up against then candidate trump, we said give it a full vetting. do reporting on it. let the american people see the information and decide. now five people have come forward to support tara reade's claim that biden sexually assaulted her because she told them about it, many of them, you know, they were told about it in and around the time it happened. it includes a work colleague, a neighbor and a new clip, it is devastating. reade's own mother calling into the "larry king show" on cnn at the time about her daughter's problems. that is more evidence supporting tara reade. she filed a public incident, police incident report with the d.c. police. let me back un. you can imagine how terrifying it is and how scurry it is for a woman to try to step up to make this claim. what do you think, kristin? >> these are credible allegations.

we have the 1993. we have a number of individuals who have come forward to corroborate her claims. we need to treat this with seriousness. i'm not saying joe biden is guilty. all claims of sexual assault and sexual misconduct must be thoroughly vetted. we need to treat them with the seriousness that they deserve. unfortunately we have a press that refuses to do that, and is acting flagrantly partisan. elizabeth: kristin tate, you're terrific. thanks for coming on. come back soon. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: little housekeeping. we've got a little house keeping to do here. the governor of maryland, he is a republican, keep you up to date on that, we're staying on the tara reade story. questions mounting about silence of top democrats, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, jerry nadler on tara reade's allegations. evidence is mounting corroborating her story. yesterday hillary clinton endorsing joe biden. tara reade is going after hillary clinton. we have fox news contributor byron york on that part of the

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♪. elizabeth: let's bring in our next guest, fox news contributor and "washington examiner" chief political correspondent. he is byron york. great to see you, byron. >> hi, elizabeth. elizabeth: we're staying on the tara reade story. it has major implications for the 2020 race. it is a gathering storm, a major liability for the campaign. questions are growing, byron, about the silence of top democrats, nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, adam schiff, jerry nadler on tara reade's allegations. the question are they throwing the "me too" movement under the bus on their silence? here is tara reade on hillary clinton endorsing for joe biden. i voted forehillary clinton in 2016. i voted for her in the primary.

i'm a life long democrat. what i see now someone enabling a sexual predator. your reaction to that? >> look, joe biden is the guy for democrats. he has been selected in this process. he is going to be their nominee and they're just trying to make this go away. we haven't heard from a lot of people in this, specifically from joe biden himself who has never personally answered any of these questions. so what the campaign has done is send out guidance, talking points, to a lot of women in the party, saying this did not happen. so they're absolutely stonewalling it while not actually addressing any of the specific allegations here. elizabeth: okay. here's the thing. again, we've got democrats like senators amy klobuchar, kamala harris, i'm looking at kirsten gillibrand, they're trying to have it both ways saying tara reid has the right to be --

tara reade, that she has the right to be heard. stacey abrams here is echoing joe biden's talking points. she is hopefully, hoping to be biden's choice for vice president, as, as his vice president. watch this. >> "the new york times" did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible. i believe joe biden. elizabeth: whats your take on that? >> well, "the new york times" did not establish or find that it was not credible. just today by the way "the washington post" editorial board has called for joe biden to personally address this. by the way, there is one more thing to talk about. joe biden was a senator from 1973 to 2009, 36 years. he had a huge number of senatorial papers during that time. he gave them to the university of delaware. there are estimated to be 1850 boxes of papers and about 400,

415 gigabytes of electronic information covering all of biden's years in the senate. perhaps there was something about tara reade in there, not known. the papers are secret. they're going to stay secret until two years after joe biden leaves public life, whenever that might be. you will see increasing pressure for the, for the campaign or someone to account for the question of whether there is any tara reade information in those papers. also by the way, for just the public to be able to know more about biden's 36 years in the senate before they vote on him to become president of the united states. elizabeth: you know, the tara reade is saying my complaint letter, my resignation letter is in biden's papers, you know, the senate staff papers, for senate staffers. she already said it is there. she is saying biden released those papers. ii want to stay on this.

kamala harris last year said she believed joe biden's accusers. now, kamala harris is staying silent on tara reade. listen to kamala harris. watch this. >> i believe them and i respect them being able to tell their story and have the courage to do it. >> do you believe that the vice president should exit this race? >> oh, he will have to make that decision for himself. i wouldn't tell him what to do. elizabeth: your reaction, byron? >> things have really changed. obviously she was a candidate at that time for president, an opponent of joe biden's. now she is out of the race, a senator who might be first in line to be chosen to be his running mate. so obviously things have changed a lot since then. in 2018 when kamala harris was a member of the senate judiciary committee, democrats made a choice when they decided to treat the brett kavanaugh

supreme court nomination the way they did, when they decided to embrace the allegations by christine blast sy ford, even those by julie swetnick and michael avenatti. when they decided to embrace those, believe all women, they essentially set themselves up for what is happening now because, because the obvious question for all republicans is, tara reade, does believe all women apply to her? and there is a lot could be known about this. one from joe biden answering some questions, and two, looking at those papers much his. elizabeth: byron york, you're terrific. come back soon. >> all right, thank you. elizabeth: next up, one of the leading republican senators in the country, senator chuck grassley, and why he is asking the justice department to release newly, even more information about the fbi's handling of its case against lieutenant-general michael flynn. looks like that case might be falling apart.

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♪. elizabeth: let's welcome one of the leading republican senators in the country. he is known for serving his country with decency and integrity. he is senator chuck grassley of iowa. good have you on, sir. >> thank you. i'm glad to be with you. elizabeth: former chair of senate judiciary, can you tell us why you sent the letter to the justice department asking the justice department to release more information about the fbi's handling of its case against lieutenant-general flynn? >> well i have been on this case for about three years, trying to get more information, and more information. even making public the fact that

we had comey in for a briefing in a secured room. democrat and a republican. and comey said he didn't think there is going to be any prosecution of this person. so he's, he is hung out to dry for 3 1/2 years. looks like there is plenty of exculpatory information coming in now as, flynn has gotten a new lawyer and that lawyer is taking the case very seriously, defending an innocent person, and as long as this information is coming out, coming out, why not get the whole thing laid out? there ought to be some people that have mistreated flynn, ought to be properly prosecuted. i don't care so much about the prosecution but the injustice that has been done to flynn ought to be made public and everybody that was a part of it ought to either be prosecuted or short of prosecution, we ought to let the people know of how

ill-treated this lieutenant-general was. elizabeth: you know, senator, to your point, flynn's lawyer, sidney powell says these new documents prove that mr. flynn has been deliberately set up and framed, that is her quote, framed by corrupt agents at the top of the fbi. he did plead guilty to lying to government investigators during a january 2017 interview about his contact with russians. flynn since claimed he was pressured into pleading guilty because new documents show they threatened to go after his son. your reaction to that? >> well, we, we suspected that two years ago and now we've had this new lawyer working hard to get all of this information out. we've got impartial judges that know all this, that is going on. we have got a very good attorney general that knows there has been an injustice here. and i don't know why you got to

keep paying lawyers $1000 an hour to dig this information up it is so obvious the injustice that has been done to lieutenant-general flynn. these people of authority like either impartial judge or attorney general in charge of all these prosecutors ought to step in yesterday and free flynn! elizabeth: senator, i want to make sure we understand this. you've been asking for records on this since early 2017. did you ever get from the fbi the fbi's phone call transcript between flynn and the russian ambassador, or did you only get an fbi summary, their take about that phone call, and did you only get a briefing from former fbi director james comey that said fbi agents quote, saw nothing that led them to believe that michael flynn was lying? is that what happened? >> yes and we don't, we have had

that information out there but not in a way that we could use it, and what's the secret, what is the secrecy justified now when all of this, knows, through this exculpatory information that lawyer powell has brought out, shows that he has been set up, shows that he has been harmed in a unconstitutional way, and he ought to be set free. the answer to your question is, no, we have not gotten that information and now that we know that he has been ill-treated, why shouldn't we have this information? why shouldn't all of this information be made public? if there is any reason for not making it public, somebody's trying to cover somebody's rear end, and that's not the responsibility of the government. the responsibility of the government is, the people's business ought to be public.

and with, with transparency comes accountability. and you can see that a lot of people connected with this case have never been accountable, in fact, they have abused their authority. they have neglected the constitutional rights of this lieutenant-general. and it's all very, very wrong. and we need to get this righted quicker. this new lawyer's been on the case for a year-and-a-half. why should it take her a year-and-a-half to get information out that people have been hiding and sitting on? elizabeth: yes. so to that point, isn't one of the fbi agents who interviewed lieutenant-general flynn, peter strzok, that occurred without a lawyer present to represent flynn? peter strzok wrote a summary saying throughout the interview, michael flynn had a sure demeanor, did not give any indicators of deception. strzok had impression of at the

time he was not lying, didn't feel he was lying. peter strzok was later removed from the mueller probe for bias against then candidate trump. so this certainly critics are saying this feels like lieutenant-general flynn was totally railroaded. your final word? >> well, you couldn't say it any better. railroaded, violate constitutional rights, lack of respect for a person who faithfully served his country for 30 years. even serving a democrat president in a high national security position. and for, some reason a long time before it came up whether he ever lied or talked to a russian ambassador, it is pretty obvious there was some information we got, there was people for some reason, and what reason i don't know, were out to get flynn, get him fired, get him prosecuted, whatever you could do. then i suppose he knew so much

about the intelligence community and their violations of law, and maybe the constitution, and that's what he was probably fired for, then they get, they line up against him and then he gets to be president trump's national security advisor. and then they all get very nervous. this guy knows too much. so let's, we got to get him out of the way! elizabeth: okay. so that is quite a story. senator, thanks for talking to us about this story. you will stay right there. we'll be, we'll be back with more with senator chuck grassley. don't go away. ♪.

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elizabeth: let's welcome senator grassley of iowa, your reaction, sir that the white house ordered intelligence officials to look into w.h.o. and the chinese government. they're finding they withheld information about the chinese government. this is a bombshell. circumstantial evidence is now circulating in the intelligence community, that the covid virus, covid-19, did escape from the wuhan lab. your reaction to that? >> i would believe that is very

possible. i trust our intelligence. i think it is pretty hard to deal at this level directly with the russian government but i think we have got a very good chance to put pressure on the world health organization to get a lot of this truth out and even if we didn't get all the truth out, the fact that the world health organization was a propaganda organization to cover up the chinese not making this public until they did, and costing tens of thousands of lives as a result of it, not living up to their responsibilities as a member of the world health organization to worry about the world health and not worry about the prestige of the communist party. and i think i would rather at that point work, work with the w.h.o. to try to get to it. but whatever we can do, through

to get through to the chinese government we ought to do that but i think that is a tougher nut to crack than the pressure we can bring to bear to get a lot of this information out through the world health organization and i just had a briefing this morning with the ambassador to the united nations organizations in, in geneva. basically that conversation dealt with the fact that this head of the, this ethiopian that heads up the world health organization is really very protecting of china through his leadership, protective of china itself, and then not, not reducing china's influence within the world health organization. elizabeth: why is he so protective of china? i mean china has been reckless

with its laboratories in the past. the sars coronavirus escaped in 2004. it walked out with an infected researcher, it killed at least one person, possibly nine people. this has happened before. why is w.h.o., leader of w.h.o. so protective of china? >> i think it is quite obvious for political reasons, because he probably wouldn't have his job if china hadn't backed him and china got more behind this guy than we were able to get behind a british person that we wanted in the same position and, and not only that, but the whole chinese communist party and their governments efforts is to take over leadership of all these u.n. organizations, just to increase their power, their prestige. so i think that's the, that's the main reason, a personal one. and i suppose somebody will argue, well china's the second

largest economy in the world. they ought to have something to say, just from that position. but, we put in 400, $500 million, a year compared to $40 million a year by the chinese. we ought to have something to say and we need more americans working in that organization. somebody gave me a figure of only 3% of the employees come from the united states. elizabeth: okay. senator, you're terrific. a man of integrity and decency, i followed you for decade. you're a great man sir, thank you for your service to our country. senator chuck grassley, thanks for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you're watching "the evening edit" on fox business. thanks for joining us. we'll stay on all developing stories tomorrow night. have a good evening. s

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