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general william barr to scrutinize the actions of the fbi and the justice department in actions against general flynn. in the motion to dismiss, the department of justice said they were not persuaded that a january 2017 interview of flynn by two fbi agents, quote, was conducted with a legitimate investigative basis and, therefore, does not believe mr. flynn's statements were material, even if untrue. moreover, we do not believe the government can prove if either the relevant false statements or their materiality beyond a reasonable doubt. that motion of dismissal is signed by the u.s. attorney general for the district of columbia who is described as attorney general william barr's right-hand man at the justice department. clinton-appointed judge emmett sullivan, who still needs to officially approve this decision

by the justice department to withdraw the case fully. president trump today heard of the news during a white house meeting with the governor of texas, greg abbott. here's the president's reaction. >> he was an innocent man. he is a great gentleman. he was targeted by the obama administration, and he was targeted in order to try and take down a president. and what they've done is is a disgrace, and i hope a big price is going to be paid. a big price should be paid. there's never been anything like this in the history of our country. what they did, what the obama administration did is unprecedented. it's never happened. never happened. a thing like this has never if happened before in the history of our country, and i hope a lot of people are going to pay a big price, because they're dishonest, crooked people. they're scum, and i say it a lot. they're scum. they're human scum. this should never have happened in this country. a duly elected president, and they went after him by going after fine people.

and those fine people said, no, i'm not going to lie. i can't lie. he's not the only one. there are many of them. and they all said i can't lie. they could have said something like, oh, make up a lie. trump loves somebody or something or some country. and they said, oh, you wouldn't have any problem. that's what they were trying to do, and it's a disgrace. the obama administration justice department was a disgrace, and they got caught. they got caught. very dishonest people. but much more than dis-- treason. it's treason. so i'm very happy for general flynn. he was a, a great warrior, and he still is a great warrior. now, in my book, he's an even greater warrior. lou: president trump on the dismissal of general flynn's case. the dismissal follows the recent release of exculpatory evidence revealing how the obama

administration era fbi conspired to set up and then frame general flynn. discussing even how to get him to lie so he could be fired or prosecuted. those documents also showed the fbi had found, quote, no derogatory evidence against general flynn and recommended closing down the case and, in fact, were set to close the case code name crossfire razor 16 days before president trump was to take office. the doj's actions also coming less than 24 hours after the release of a less redacted memo from august 2017 that former deputy attorney general rod rosenstein used to expand robert mueller's russian investigation far beyond its initial scope. rosenstein's memo authorizing mueller to look into criminal allegations that dud not

exist -- did not exist against carter page, paul manafort, george pop papadopoulos, michael flynn and a still unidentified fifth person. senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham finally getting his head on straight. he drew this conclusion: >> there was no legitimate reason to believe any of these four were working with the russians on august the 2nd, 2017. therefore, the entire mueller investigation was illegitimate to begin with. that's very important. lou: very important. and tom fitton, the president of judicial watch, joins us now. he has called for the dismissal of this case, a pardon, whatever it took to get flynn free of this frame-up. tom, good to have you with us. you have been absolutely tire he is in your defense of -- tireless in your defense of flynn and criticism of the

justice department and fbi. how do you feel tonight about general flynn with his, ostensibly at least at this point, off hisnn. this is vindication for general flynn. it's a vindication for folks like you, lou, and judicial watch who have been highlighting the insipid corruption behind the targeting of flynn and president trump through mueller and everything else. this was a startling document that was filed today. it reads like an indictment of james comey. and we have to remember this goes back to barack obama. sally yates admits that obama discussed flynn specifically, and the implication was going after him on the logan act which was the fake crime they used to try to impeach him or corner him on perjury. the justice department disavowed all of that today, and it shows

you, frankly, though the justice department and the fbi had this information for years, yet they continued to pursue and harass general flynn. and there's something deeply rotten in the infrastructure at the fbi and justice department. and it's exposed today. and as you're highlighting and senator lindsey graham finally highlights -- of course, we called on mueller to be fired from the get go because we knew it was the corrupt, what he was doing. lou: right. >> the whole mueller investigation's corrupted. when barr came in, he should have audited mueller immediately. you can presume everyone that mueller touched was corruptly pursued. everyone should be pardoned; witnesses, targets, everyone. lou: that's an interesting point because, obviously, the fbi was corrupt from the inception preceding the special counsel investigation as well. it is, it is a stunning document, as you say, and it is also gratifying that the

attorney general, william barr, appointed a man -- u.s. attorney jensen -- who moved this to a decision in a matter of months instead of what we have become used to, a painful, prolonged procrastination. this was, i think, a timely exercise of a power to stop an abuse of power. >> yeah. and general flynn deserves tens of millions of dollars from the federal government for what they put him through. the next step in justice, in my view, that's required are prosecutions of his persecutors. and you see this in the justice department filing who ought to be targeted, james comey. i mean, if mr. durham doesn't talk to barack obama, that will be a miscarriage of justice. it goes back to barack obama. it's difficult to overstate obama's role in this. and he's been a predict -- protected person and he shouldn't be.

lou: well, you know, the entire lot of them, the top of the fbi -- >> well, that's right. lou: -- have been at least removed from office. they are also, as you say, the product of the obama era. it is almost, i think, inconceivable -- and i want your opinion -- to think that a fbi director, a department of justice could proceed as they did against the president in point of fact as he said today, they went after everyone working for him, it seemed. it is just remarkable to -- it's unthinkable, in my opinion, that president obama or the white house did not know what was going on. >> well, look, we've had comey talk about it, we've had sally yates talk about it, obama knew. he knew about the dossier and this infamous meeting he had on january 5th, 2017. and they all talked about it. obama was there, biden was

there, susan rice was there, sally yachts, clapper, i think brennan was there as well. the next day james comey took that dossier information and went and ambushed president trump. and obama knew that was the plan. they talked about it. and then, of course, the document toddies closes -- today discloses that comey, behind the scenes, was pressing the obama view that this was a logan act violation, and he was trying to keep it alive, and he was purposely avoiding full disclosure to the president of the united states, the white house, president trump about this issue. and he secretly went and sent agents to ambush flynn. that's not me saying it, that's the justice department saying it. relying on the testimony of obama's, well, obama's appointee, sal ily yates. sally yates says she was dumb founded. she said she call comey up and said you've got to let them

know, and comey said, no, i've already sent the agents to question flynn. yates says she hit the roof. she was obviously involved too because she was pushing the logan act as well to get flynn fired. no clean hands here, lou. no clean hands. lou: and demonstrated today in the dismissal, the motion for dismissal which i presume and would like to get your opinion very quickly, will you be -- do how you expect judge sullivan to approve this motion? >> not only do i expect he'll approve the motion, i expect that he will institute proceedings, potentially criminal contempt proceedings, against those involved in the fraud upon the court. these documents were withheld from the court and the defense, they were withheld from the american people by this justice department and this fbi including the current leadership. what did wray know and what did he know. i'd hike to know that.

i'd like to know that. and if i were the judge, i'd be calling in everyone, put 'em under oath. lou: well, we'll find out what kind of judge sullivan really is. he has not been a particularly active judge to this point with plain evidence staring him in the face throughout. tom fitton, we appreciate it, and we thank all that you do as always at judicial watch and, in particular, this case tonight. the dismissal of the justice department case against general flynn. up next we'll have more on today's bombshell decision from the justice department. we'll be talking with general flynn's defense attorney who has led the fight to free him from this frame-up. sidney powell. he tuning -- we take up her efforts in flip's years-long fight for justice. she joins us right after the break.

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schiff, who reporters have said has looked to be in something of a panic, writing quote: flynn pled guilty of lying to the fbi about his illicit russian contacts. his lies do not now become truths. this dismissal does not exonerate him, but it does incriminate bill barr in the worst politicization of the justice department in its history. well, joining us tonight, kt mcfarland, former deputy national security adviser to president trump. she's the author of the book "revolution: trump, washington and we the people." kt, first, your reaction -- great to have you here. first your reaction to this day of good news for general flynn. >> oh, it's been a long time in coming, and thank goodness, you know, the justice department finally realized what they should have realized at the very beginning, that there was -- he committed no crime and that he

deserves to be exonerated and restored to all of the glory that he would have otherwise had. but it's also a great day for the country and for trump. because trump started a revolution. president trump went to washington to clean the swamp, and the swamp tried to talk him down, and it couldn't do it. and so now, finally, president t trump has prevailed in this. lou: that is exactly the context for this event. going after not only president trump's national security adviser, but going after his deputy national security adviser, you -- [laughter] >> thank you. lou: you know because you experienced part of what general flynn has gone through. you were one of those people that the special counsel, special counsel attorneys tried and fbi agents tried to get to lie about flynn, right? >> well, and about president trump. i mean, they tried to catch me

in a perjury trap, which they couldn't, and they wanted me to plead guilty to a crime i didn't commit, perjury. they wanted me to say things about flynn which he didn't do. they wanted me to say things about president trump which he didn't do. they tried to break me. they tried to break me financially and every other way, break my career, break my reputation. they did the same thing the general flynn with one added addition, they tried to blackmail him because they threatened his son, and general flynn sacrificed himself so that husband son wouldn't be charged. -- his son wouldn't be charged. now, is this the american justice department? no. this is the people who were trying to get back at donald trump because he head a revolution. -- he led a revolution. and, finally, justice has prevailed. lou: he has, he has prevailed. it has been three long years as well for general flynn under this immense burden. one can hardly imagine how his family has felt throughout all

of this, the stress that the man has been put under and the absolute political corruption and without conscience. the fbi agents who went after flynn, the special counsel, the justice department attorneys, this is ignorance and evil, and it is obviously rampant within the obama era justice department and fbi. >> yeah. lou, i mean, i've been in government long enough to know this is not some mid-level bureaucrats who are conducting this. this is a cabal of people at the highest levels of the justice department, the fbi, the intelligence community. who knows, maybe even into the obama white house. and it was a concerted effort to reverse the will of the people who had just elected by a land slide, surprise victory a person who wanted to come in and clean

out washington, to reverse course and policy but also in practice. and they should all be held -- it's not just about exonerating michael flynn and all the rest of us who were pulled into that trap, it's about going after the people who were responsible. i'd like to know what did comey know and when did he know it and then move up the food chain. lou: kt mcfarland, thank you very much. we appreciate it, as always. good to see you. >> thank you. lou: our next guest this evening, one of the main reasons the department of justice dropped their case against lieutenant general michael flynn. her push to reveal documents concealed from flynn by the corrupt department of justice as well as his own former attorneys has been a great service. joining us tonight by phone, sidney powell, michael flynn's attorney, former federal prosecutor. first of all, sidney, congratulations to you and to general flynn. your reaction today upon learning of the department of justice decision.

>> oh, thank you so much, lou. we are both, obviously, relieved and gratified that we have an attorney general and other attorneys in the department of justice now with enough integrity to bring the truth to light and agents who were willing to help dig for it until they found it and then the expose it so the public can see it. the government made a significant filing today. i haven't even had a chance to read all of it yet. there are a number of additional exhibits attached to it. mr. schiff wouldn't know the truth if it poked him in one of his bug eyes because general flynn's plea if was neither knowing or voluntary. this is a restoration of the rule of law and a huge step in the right direction toward getting rid of the people who have deliberately sought to subvert a lawful election and the will of the american people writ large. and this president, presidency. lou: and i want to give you

credit in your defense of general flynn because you are also among those who produced, as a result of your efforts, produced documents that led to adam schiff being absolutely revealed for what he was clearly but not necessarily evidentially proved, as an evil and absolutely ignorant partisan force within the democratic party. it is beyond -- it, to me, is beyond imagination that he still is running off at the mouth talking as he did today in reaction after being held up and demonstrated to be a liar for the past two years. it's just amazing. >> he is obviously an extremely disturbed and deceitful person.

we sought the truth from the very beginning of my appearance in general flynn's case. that is what we are getting. i'm sure there's still more to be revealed, but we have made a huge step in the right direction thanks to the real lawyers and agents in the department of justice who speak truth and not conviction. lou: well, it's gratifying to hear you compliment the energy and the acts of fbi agents who were instrumental in producing this material on the attorneys of the justice department under william barr. and, again, u.s. attorney jensen making a timely decision. he only took up the role of scrutinizing that case in february. so by legal standards of late, he was working at warp speed. and you throughout, sidney, have

been absolutely terrific, and we compliment you for all you've done for general flynn, for the presidency of donald trump and the country. thanks so much. sidney powell. congratulations. up next, president trump raging against the left-wing national media for their complicity in the deep state and radical dems' push to overthrow his presidency. we'll take that up and a lot more right after this quick break. i'll be talking with congressman matt gaetz. please stay with us. ♪ ♪ thanks for sharing your diy haircuts. thanks for sharing your savage moves, and especially your awkward ones. thanks for sharing your cute kids. and your adorable pets. now it's our turn to share... with the geico giveback. a 15% credit on car and motorcycle policies for both current and new customers. and because we're committed for the long haul, the credit lasts your full policy term. so thanks again.

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of this, the barr investigation, if you will, of the investigators, durham's investigation. the president is finding vindication in this process and watching -- and i want do you both again about adam schiff. tom, let me begin with you. this man is out of control. he is vicious, he is venal, he is outright evil personified. >> well, in my view, the justice department should have been investigating him for some time, especially his communications with the alleged whistleblower which may have involved the dissemination illegally of classified information. schiff has major ethical issues. if i were the president of the united states and i've been calling on this to happen for some time, i'd cut him off if access to classified information. there's no law requiring he be given access. he can't be trusted to handle it, and so he should be denied

that privilege. lou: how closely do you believe, kt, that democrats, the radical dems like adam schiff and various others, were working with the deep state and the obama era justice department and fbi? >> oh, i think they were working hand in glove. and i would add to that, that partisan press that leans towards obama, i think they were all passing things back and forth. i know from my own experience that things i was saying in the mueller investigation were finding their way to the committees on capitol hill, finding their way into the new york times. if always edited, twisted, spun, not what i had said and the way i said it, but with their own spin and interpretation. so i think they all three were working together and doing the bidding, frankly, of russian disinformation. this was russian disinformation, and the justice department knew it from the first day. and when -- and at trump tower

on january 6th when president-elect trump met with the heads of the intelligence agencies and comey tries to shake him down, from that point on the intelligence community, they knew the steele dossier was a fake, and yet they went through everything including the mueller investigation. and what they knew it was a scam and a sham. lou: and, tom, it's also obvious that as these documents have been revealed as a result of general flynn's defense, as a result also of the release of, the pending release of documents from the intelligence committee, the transcripts of 53 witnesses and there's not an ounce, an ounce of indication let alone evidence of anything remotely approaching collusion. >> well, as strzok and page, the infamous text messages, there was no "there" there.

and when rod rosenstein, after the fact, blessed mueller's investigation, he was blessing an investigation based on what they all knew to be a fraudulent dossier. look, it's one thing to have russia disinformation, but you then had the fbi continuing to work with the -- well, assuming it was russia disinformation, you had the fbi and justice department continuing to work with, they were seeking out -- steele as a source. despite the evidence, he was a front for the russians. in the end, i don't think the russians were behind this disinformation. i think it was an inside job. the evidence is it was all a clinton operation, fbi, western intel pretending it was russia intel, and they were all deciding, began this extradition against the incoming president. remember the attack, the targets of flynn was about flynn, but was also about the coup against president trump.

flynn, kt, others, they were trying to destroy the presidency. lou: yeah. it was all about exactly that as we have discussed -- >> it was -- yes. lou: the attempted overthrow of the president of the united states. kt, tom, we thank you both for being here. we appreciate your insight and sharing your perspectives with us here tonight. thank you. up next, the slew of recent developments exposing the corrupt efforts to bring down president trump by the likes of, among others, james comey and the deep state. well, one of the people defending the president throughout, congressman matt gaetz joins us right after these quick messages. please stay with us. ♪

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lou: and joining us tonight, congressman matt gaetz, a member of the house judiciary and armed services committees and stalwart throughout defending the president and calling for justice from the department of justice and the fbi through the obama era and beyond. thank you very much for being with us, congressman, good to see you. your reaction, first, to the, to the motion to dismiss charges against general flynn. >> it's great to see honor restored to general flynn's good name. the media didn't have any honor to begin with, and the only way to bring it back to the department of justice is to see these prosecutions through to insure that the people who engaged in this activity are never able to frame someone like they framed general flynn ever again. the boomerang has really come back on a lot of these house democrats, adam schiff and nancy

pelosi have egg on their face. you and i have been telling people, lou, for three years that this wasn't a crime, it was a cover-up for the fact that democrats were actually colluding with russians through christopher steele. everything we've said has been proven true, and adam schiff is now a man who is caught in a lie and then used an impeachment over ukraine to cover up that lie. lou: and still lying, saying today in response to the motion to dismiss that general flynn still is lying as a result of the investigation by the fbi and the justice department. which is patently untrue. the lying was james comey and all of those at the top of the obama era department of justice and the fbi agency itself.

your thoughts about adam schiff. you know him very well. >> look, you know, history will not be kind to what these folks did to our country, to our president. and if you really think about it, this demonstrates how the house of cards has come falling down. we would always show the bias, the evidence of mistreatment, and then the democrats would say, well, yeah, but flynn pled guilty. now you see that was all based on this phony setup done by the fb i. but here's, i think, a bigger issue. if you zoom out from michael flynn if, you see a common trend. folks were trying to set up the people who were close to the president when that was michael flynn, george papadopoulos, donald trump jr., corey lewandowski, any of these folks that got wrapped into having to respond to the mueller investigation were largely there to try to create leverage against the president. the only reason we know that to be the case for certain flynn is because someone actually wrote it down. but it's not as if comey and

that whole cabal try to flame flynn and then didn't try it -- frame flynn and then didn't try it against anyone else. the only person a they got the leverage against was michael cohen because he had some dirty business with the taxi cab medallions that he couldn't answer for. for the most part, everyone else told the truth, they didn't fall for the traps, and now we're really starting to see who the real criminals are, and i think these prosecutions that are upcoming will further i'll human nate that -- illuminate that. lou: as i said earlier on the broadcast, it is nice to see a u.s. attorney, jensen, who made the decision to move the motion to dismiss against the general. this is the beginning of what appears to be william barr's reform of the u.s. justice department. it is great to see. your reaction. >> i am very heartened by the determination that the attorney general has shown, but i still think that at the end of the

day, lou, this can't all end with a series of reports that say, well, people broke the law, but they're not really going to jail. that does not do it. that is not a sufficient antidote to the virus that was down on the department of justice, you know, during the beginning of the trump presidency and during the trump transition. and so i think that to fully rad candidate that, we're actually going to need to see criminal process brought against the people who were directing these illegal acts. james comey has essentially admitted to it. he took advantage of the fact that it was a new government in transition and got away with something he never would have gotten away with otherwise, and that was the framing of michael flynn. but flynn wasn't the only one. they tried it over and over again, and i don't think a single person should spend a day in jail as a consequence of the mueller investigation because it was built on a rotten foundation. mueller really should have been investigating those subsources of the steele dossier and figuring out their collusion with the democrats and the dnc

and glenn simpson and the perkins law firm. lou: more to come. congressman matt gaetz, thanks so much. good to see you. texas, of all places, with two examples of overzealous, overbearing local law enforcement of their pandemic regulations. in dallas, texas, the state supreme court ordered a judge to free a salon owner he jailed for disto obeying an executive order to close. in west odessa, texas, they brought up a s.w.a.t. team to railed a bar. -- raid a bar. >> hands up! you in the green shirt, put your hands up. i can't see 'em. lou: can you believe that's happening on the streets of odessa, texas? unbelievable. the s.w.a.t. team arrested the bar owner and several people who were part of a proprotest group opposing the executive order to close bars. governor greg abbott has removed jail as a penalty for violating

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media, the h-20 bomber would be equipped with missiles, a takeoff weight of at least 200 tons giving it an advantage over or the u.s. b-2 bomb or. joining us to take this up and more, dr. michael pillsbury with the hudson institute, author of "the 100-year marathon." 9 mike if, good to see you. let's start with the b-2 bomber. that's a close resemblance, isn't it? >> yes, lou. it's a surprise on two counts. first of all, the sheer audacity to steal our designs and technology, but secondly, they promised us they would never develop a long-range stealth bomber. this is not in china's cultural dna. they promised the same thing about aircraft carriers and outer space lasers. now they've done all three. so this is quite a surprise, i think, to the people with who underestimated chinese ambition withs. lou: well, underestimating their

ambition and certainly underestimating their intents in the south china south china seay continue to expand and seem to be taking possession of that disputed territory and region. >> yeah. they're basically bullying, to use the pentagon's word last weekend, they're bullying four countries now, lou. after promising president obama they would never if militarize or have bases in the south china sea, now they're using these bases to send out patrols. apparently, it looks to me like whenever a country like ma a laze ya, vietnam or the philippines start toss to actually drill oil or gas, the chinese show up, and they intimidate the ship, the survey ship or the drilling ship to stop. so it's a kind of business or mafia-type approach. keep out of the china sea, it belongs to china. and this is even though the u.n. tribunal ruled four years ago

this is not chinese territorial waters. they're acting in defiance of a u.n. tribunal decision. lou: well, they mustn't be quivering too much about the prospect of u.n. response or, for that matter, u.s. response because four years have gone by and still they persist with their expansion their doctrine. >> well, you remember under obama and biden there was a four-year pause which i believe was a mistake on freedom of navigation patrols by our navy in the south china sea. president trump has increased them. there have been four just in the last few months. i think this is one way to get the chinese attention. and just yesterday, lou, our air force flew two b1 bombers guam out a toward taiwan and back again. so we're trying to send signals. i think president trump is saying don't test me, don't take advantage of this epidemic to make progress on your

territorial claims. i hope it works, lou. lou: we a all do. -- we all do. and there's much for the president to consider here. not only the south china sea, of course, and their ambitions there, but the wuhan virus, this pandemic, the extraordinary decision by, by xi not to warn e rest of the world when we were approaching -- well, we are at hundreds of thousands of fatalities as a result. the president has a difficult choice to make here including trade relations with china. your thoughts on how the phase one trade agreement is going and the prospects going forward. >> well, lou, i think they've been slug you should. they're behind -- sluggish. they're behind schedule in their purchases, only about roughly half what they had to purchase by now. what we see -- lou: excuse me. >> what?

lou: excuse me. miking we've just received word that the house intelligence committee has released those 53 transcripts of witnesses before the house intelligence committee. the chairman, adam schiff, of the intelligence committee giving in to direct pressure from the director of national intelligence, richard tremendous can knell. -- grenell. his house intelligence committee releasing 57 transcripts, in fact, to the public. additional material also being made public if, all of it part of the committee's investigation in 2017 and '18 into russia's interference in the 2016 election. and sources are telling fox that not one of the people that the committee interviewed and the transcripts that we will assess, we'll be able to read here shortly, was able to provide any evidence whatsoever of russian collusion with anyone they talked to in that investigation. no one.

mike, i apologize for the interruption. go back to you, if we may, and pick up with your thoughts about some of the decisions that the president has before him. we're in close time, if you will here. >> well, lou, the chinese keep assessing how strong the president is. whether they should test him or go ahead and meet their commitments in the phase one trade deal. exoneration of general flynn, the release of these documents, it all helps the chinese the understand not to test, not to test president president trump,d meet their obligations. i hope they will because if they don't, lou, i think the -- [inaudible] will come back. lou: all right. michael built bury, thank you very much -- pillsbury, thank you very much. i apologize for the loss of time. we'll make it up to you soon. we'll be right back with much more. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ["good job" by alicia keys]

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i want some more what's he doin? please sir. i want some more more? he has asked for... thank you well he did say please yes he did and, thank you (all boys): thank you, thank you, thank you. ♪. lou: president trump today charging the obama administration era justice and fbi officials guilty of treason. >> i hope a lot of people will pay a big price. they're dishonest crooked people. they're scum, human scum. the obama administration justice department was a disgrace and they got caught. they got caught.

very dishonest people. but much more than dishonest. it is treason. it is treason. lou: that's it for us tonight. thanks for being with us. good night from sussex maria: good morning and happy friday, everyone, thanks for joining us. i'm maria bartiromo, it is friday job's day, friday may eighth, 6:00 a.m. on the east coast on the the button. this morning taking a closer look at the impact of coronavirus having on jobs in america, economists are expecting historic loss this month of 22 million jobs. expecting unemployment rate to skyrocket to 16% as the coronavirus shutdown has businesses shut across the country. special coverage beginning 8:00 a.m. eastern.