manavarro on wuhan virus cover-p and roger stone on the corrupt obama justice department and f fbi. join us for that and more tomorrow, good night from suss sussex. elizabeth: trump returns soon. after touring a plan in michigan. the state at center of big firestorm taking off. a bloody fight against draconian state order lockdown, michigan is at the epicenter of this, a state that president trump won, he tweeted calls for it to be liberated. what it means for 2020. and with us, daily caller order-

editorial dec director. on news breaking about targets of michael flynn. how the "washington post" reports flynn's name was not unmasked because the fbi of already wiretapping the phone of the russian ambassador. what the media is not asking here, like who ordered the fbi to do that? and how come n nobody has seen e transcript of that call that put flynn on the road to prosecution. a federal appeals court ordering that district judge who was on the case to get the charges dropped. we'll tell you why security exper say that story and also what happened in trump russia probe is important for all americans. >> and what is going on with president extending emergency

protecprotection on southern bo, covid-19 now exploding in mexico, tonight reports coming in could joe biden asking minnesota senator aim klobuchar to be his potential vice presidential running mate. "evening edit" starts right now. elizabeth: to the fight over reopening, first to florida, governor ron d'san de-- de-- dis being called a herey for opening

florida. 350,000 residents and staff at nursing homes there across the state, this after media, tried to condemn florida governor desantis as a public menace for his moves, they were wrong, watch the governor call out the media for dishonest reporting. >> data is available and transparent. dr. birx talked about how florida has best data, any insinuating these is typical partisan narrative trying to be spun. you have a lot of people in your possession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks how florida was going to be like new york, wait two weeks, florida is next, well hell we're 8 weeks away it has not happened, not only do we

have lower death rate. dc everyone up. there we have a lower death rate than midwest, illinois, michigan, indiana, ohio, we have succeed and i don't think that people don't want to recognize it, it challenges their narrative, and their assumption, they got to try to find a boogeyman, maybe they there is a black helicopter circling department of health, if you believe that, i have a bring in brooklyn i would like to sell you, how did media get it so wrong? >> i think reason they got it so wrong, you have so many people in media who are driven bipartisan ship rather than common sense and having an open mind. it is not complicate the differences how the situations were handle. in new york cuomo prohibited

nursing homes from saying no turning away patients, who were infected with the virus from coming into the nursing home. any common sense analysis would have told that is a very bad idea. when you talk about a virus that targets elderly people. and it was a host of decisions like that just simple, common sense decisions that ron desantis made in florida, and cuomo did not make, i would largely argue driven by a political bias, media because they are so infected by political bias, they ran off, and they are still heaping hosannas on governor cuomo today. elizabeth: new york has double

more than double the fatalities from nurses homes, than florida. florida has 2100, new york 5500. you know what ron desantis did, he studied what happened in 1918, they did not do shut downs, we'll did targets risk mitigation like social distancing, and masks and he said shut down the nursing home, don't allow covid-19 back in. he saw what happened in south korea and italy, and saw 80%, you know massive amounts of fatalities were elderly. true now, cdc says 80%. and he screamed in -- a lot of ppes in nursing homes. new york state did not do that, pennsylvania also followed that new york model and so did new jersey. >> right, but not letting virus get into nursing homes in first

place was a smart, and common sense call step. for governor desantis, they have a higher number of elderly there than other place. but another reason they have been so much more successful is that because they are used to annual hurricane seasons, they understand important of preparedness, they understand important of proper emergency response. when you have something like this and again, it cannot be infected by politics, if you let politicians override the common sense scientific historical knowledge about how to handle this you will wine up -- wind up with a disaster on your hands that is why ron desantis does not have a disaster and governor cuomo does.

elizabeth: governor cuomo trying to downplay calls. say we need a federal probe of new york. cuomo saying it was cdc guidelines. they are guidelines, not the law, not rule of the land, florida governor did common sense, protects nursing homes, why is pennsylvania not doing that? how come new jersey and new york did not, do you think it is politics? >> i think it is. but, it is lamestics keutio exco blame it on cdc. the voters elected you, i believe that voters will forgive leaders for making mistakes in an unprecedented crises, but if they detect those leaders play

political games, and i have a hard time seeing how a lot of this is anything other than political games, voters, they will punish politicians severely. for playing those sorts of political games at a time like this. elizabeth: you know by the way new york's numbers might below balled because they don't -- low balled they don't include the nursing home residents who passed away in hospitals. here is the thing, nearly hatch of u.s. households lost income, since mid march, tens of millions out of work, thousands on food lines, small businesses destroyed. voters in california, illinois, pep pen pennsylvania, michigan pushing back -- lockdowns, there iis an article.

>> they belong to us, free grant of nature and god of nature, where americans and new yorkers you could hear that clarion call from many citizens. >> absolutely. and the thing is, that you know, in washington, politicians spend their efforts trying to figure out how foe spend ther to spende trillion, the government will never spend their way out of this, only way out is for people too get back to work, get back to a position, to take care of themselves and their families, and that is not going to happen until the lockdown orders are lifted and people can go back to work and businesses can open back up and that ranges from restaurants and bars, to the you know, auto factoriesrry.

we need to open up back. >> poverty, poverty kills too. >> yes. elizabeth: and yes. >> and isolation, and frustrations and not able to take care of your family, those things kill too. and also, it a violation of our vitas, thirightses. this about freedom, this country of founded on idea that freedom -- you know your save ti safetyt guaranteed there are risks, but americans are comfortable with risks. elizabeth: and about common sense to protect yourself. about common sense, charles hertz you are a great writer and columnist. >> thank you. elizabeth: catch federalist david marcus he penned that "new york post" piece that has new yorkers talking he will be with us on "evening edit" tomorrow

night. >> later, u.s. reportedly moving to bolster and extend emergency protection ons boardser, even mexico agrees, the covid outbreak is exploding in mexico, with dangers of creates more waves of infection here. we bring in ron vatelloon the plan. stay here, we have the best information for you, tonight on the "evening edit." get real-time insights in your customized view of the market. it's smarter trading technology for smarter trading decisions. fidelity.

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elizabeth: welcome back we're fracking breaking news coming -- breaking news coming in former vice president joe biden, has asked minnesota senator abley ay klobuchar to under go vetting to be his potential running mate as vice president. herent is debate now. would a vice president klobuchar be the person to take on the republican's big new push to damaging pay to play conflicts of interest involving joe biden, his son hunter and that ukranian energy company. we bring in washington examine irbyroexaminerby byron york. >> she is an attractive candidate for democrats. she had this representation as a

-- represent as a sent rest democrat, i remember covering her in a even -- it was system patrick cowith business people there, these are not woke progressive democrats. the thing is that those are the type of democrats who supposedly joe biden already appealed to, not sure what she adds on that front. elizabeth: here is what is going on. senator of homeland security, pushing a conflict of interest controversy. they are votes to issue subpoenas -- let me break it down, democrat run consulting firm hired by burisma, paid

82,000 dollars a month, to sit onboard. that i want to know how did blue star use the mit little bit poll connection with people like thet bidens. class could pay-to-play, what is your take? does this have legs with voters? >> it has legs with the republicans, remember back in the impeachment. republicans said we need to find out what was going on with hunter biden and burisma, and democrat say there is no evidence of anything improper with hunter and burisma, and republicans say who is investigated this, if you say there is no evidence. we really have not had a decent investigation of that. if we do get one. out of the homeland security committee, that would be a good thing, we need to hear people who were actually involved,

during impeachment all we heard were accusations back and forth without a factual basis. elizabeth: feels like rhetoric, you know, senator ron johnson said that american people deserve to know the bottom line. and senator ron johnson explaining. >> in the white house. clinton white house, they use the connectiontion to go to state department, and justice department, we're not sure how they tried to corrupt the process of u.s.'s policy toward burisma to you know stamp out corruption went ukraine. burisma is firm that hunter biden chose to become a board of director on, got compensated highly, this not my fault that hunter biden and joe biden are somehow connected to a corrupt oil company. and that blue star strategies that represented them.

elizabeth: byron, joe biden has been around since the nixon era, the. point guy for obama owrk ukrainian policy, how did not see this would be seen as a play to pay conflict of interest? >> i think he problem did see py did see that, he said he never talked to his son about this. democrats doing everything they can to stop this, saying this wrong, after the mueller investigation, and house and senate investigations and after impeachment -- that will be a hard sell t for republicans. elizabeth: even after00 are hunr biden admitted high go he got tb because of his father's name.

>> he did, you said 83 thousand a month, what didom that involvement and is there any connection to his father's en influence, we don't know? elizabeth: byron york, come back soon. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: coming up, sidney powell, michael flynn's attorney, "washington post" reports that fbi was wiretapping,us why sydney powell wants to see those classified transcripts and how come "washington post" did not into k the question who ordered fbi to do that. how come no one has seen the transcripts to date, that story is next with sidney powell. -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour?

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elizabeth: michael flynn a attorney, sidney powell calling on justice department too release classified transcripts and audio of flynn a's private calls with russia ambassador, whose phone "washington post" reports was wiretapped by the fbi. joining us now sidney powell.

first, who told the fbi to wiretap phone of russia ambassador? who leaked it to "washington post"? setting up the flynn prosecution. because james comey said it is story used. who did that? >> well, we know from comey's testimony i guess to one of the house committees. that he found the phone call transcripts, in the fbi holdings. then he briefed clapper on it immediately. clapper asked for copies, fluoral of the transcript. then clapper within to the white house and briefed obama on january 4. that is according to comey's testimony. then i think clapper has denied

briefing obama on it. but yeah. elizabeth: who orders the fbi to do that? >> that would be difficult to say. seems too have come out of the white house. but i don't know that it could be traced there yet. susan rice was interested in general flynn's work, and clapper and brennan were all over it, because he testified contraries to them. and had a target on his back for a long time for contradiction of the obama administration on the isis and iran nuclear deal among other things. elizabeth: the russia -- you can continue. >> he was going to audit the intel agency in they kim t cameo

the white house. he knew they would discover their fisa abuses. and i don't know whether from mr. brennan's fusion center he so the up to focus on whoever he wanted to focus on, or something called the hammer, but there was a massive surveillance operation, widespread, by the obama administration. surveil all political opponents any anyone else they wanted to collect information on. elizabeth: "washington post" quotes a senior government official having leaked the you know flynn phone call to the "washington post." senior government official, could it be james comey? >> it could have been comey, or clapper ord brennan or baker or someone in dapt o department ofe

they all knew about it by john 4 and 5.t elizabeth: big news today, federal appeals court, washington d.c. set a june 1 deadline for judge sullivan to respond to your motion to dismiss the changes can you tell us about that. >> they have ordered hip to himo respond. a writ o mandamus. it is allowed when a judge acted outside of his authority or jurisdiction. it shows prosecution are general glynflynn should have never happened, appeals court ordered him to respond within 10 days based on rule 48 a and the decision that court entered a couple years ago that makes clear differen district court ho

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know about crossfire hurricane. i allowed, supported mueller to do his investigation out interference. i think crossfire hurricane will be the one of the most sloppy, unethical investigations in the history of the country and i want people to know about it. i've been patiently waiting for mueller to do his job. horowitz issued his report. i intend to build on who are wit's report. no reason we can't do this before the election. elizabeth: let's bring in california republican tom mcclintock back to the show. he sits on house judiciary. congressman, great to have you back on. do you agree with senator graham? >> yes. it is about bloody time. my great frustration this should have been going on sometime ago. obviously pelosi, nadler, that bunch are not going to be looking into this. it is absolutely imperative the people know exactly what happened, what our agencies the

most powerful agencies in the government creating a false narrative, the russia collusion hoax. first with intent to influencing the election and undermining the results of the election. elizabeth: devin nunes was with us the other night. he is the house intelligence ranking republican. he said republicans are getting ready to send criminal referrals about lying, conspiracy, perjury to congress. could names including obama officials. who is at the top of the list there? >> i don't want to speculate on that. that is a legal matter. it is up to john durham. the matters shouldn't be politicized but what we do have to do get all of this out in the public so they can judge for themselves the abuses that were taking place. that is critical before the next election because i'm afraid, if

the people who were involved in this are not fully exposed, whether they were legally prosecuted or not is separate matter, but if they're not fully exposed, american people are not fully aware what is going on. that will not happen again. we might not be able to stop it in the future. we have embryo of a police state developing within the most powerful agencies we have, the intelligence agencies, the department of justice, the fbi, and for that matter, we saw the irs turned against ordinary americans as well, all to influence elections, to intimidate people and to undermine the result of those elections. that story has to be told. louie brandise said, sunlight is the best of disinfectants. elizabeth: using the powers and levers of our security and intelligence appat russ to target political opponents. republicans are saying americans for the last three-year were subjected toe lies in the now discredited steele dossier paid

for in part by the clinton campaign, also the dnc, used to launch the trump russia probe. fbi presented lies to the fisa court to get wiretaps. the fbi leaked to the media as pretext for fishing ex-pa is dids to give them cover to do what they did and the obama administration's political unmasking of trump campaign officials basically, trump team members have told us on "the evening edit" they felt harassed into bankruptcy. they had to hire lawyers to protect themselves. you know, if fbi officials have told us what is going on in the fbi washington, d.c. headquarters? to your point, they worry about a politicized police state growing inside of the d.c. headquarters there and other parts of the u.s. government. your response to that? >> it is pretty clear that is exactly what was going on. it has to be laid out clearly, documented clearly around the people responsible for it need to be brought to account.

otherwise it is going to happen again. elizabeth: you know, senator mcconnell, give you this quote, he warns the fabric of our country is hurt when tools and cape abilities meant to keep us safe are used to target political opponents, in ways at best, reckless, sloppy, unaccountable and polluted by political bias. your final word about that, congressman? >> we heard about the danger of russian interference in our election. we found out the real interference in our election was the american government using agencies created to keep us secure and free in order to influence elections and undermine the result of those elections. that is pretty close to subversion. if it is not illegal it needs to be. elizabeth: congressman mcclintock, thank you so much. come back soon. >> thanks very much, liz. elizabeth: next up, we're going to take you back to president trump's visit today to michigan,

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let's bring in vince coglianese, "daily caller" editorial director. great to have you back on, vince. >> thank you, liz. elizabeth: president's third trip to a swing state. great to see you. you know, he has been hitting the battleground states, three of them in the last few weeks. your take on michigan being the epicenter of the reopen movement? >> well, michigan is where you have a governor wield her power in a way that doesn't seem to reflect science but definitely reflects her passion for wielding her power over her citizens and the one of the best examples of this entire saga that illustrates the way governor gretchen whitmer has acted, remember early on she band purchase of seeds, seeds so people can plant vegetables but allowed purchase of lottery tickets and booze in michigan. those things enrich the government. those arbitrary decisions don't have anything to do with science or well being of citizens. it has everything to do with the well being of gretchen's ability

to control the citizens of the state and their lifts. the president knows the optics there is a state where plenty of people want to get out from a government overzealous losing its power. elizabeth: so there is that going on. and then, even democrats like debbie dingell, hey, democrats in the state, you have to talk about getting jobs brought back overseas from home back into michigan. the democrats seem to be split how to talk to the voters in the state. let's listen to putt trump today in michigan. watch this -- president trump. >> unfortunately in this case democrat governors think it is good politics to keep it closed but what are they doing? they are hurts themselves. i don't think it is good politics. they're hurting themselves and hurting their state. it is not good. so i think you will see, pretty much, people are being forced to open frankly. the people want to get out. you will break the country if

you don't. elizabeth: break the country if you don't. your reaction, vince? >> well, my reaction is think about this morning's unemployment numbers. a quarter of american adults are out of work in the course of nine weeks. that is upsetting number, deeply upsetting number and even more upsetting to think about, i'm a good position as you are as well liz, to have a job. so many americans don't. there are despair and medical concerns that transcend the issue coronavirus. they grow with each passing day. i think so many politicians have the luxury being employed, continuing to get paid, not treating their citizens like their fellow people and instead like their, they merely serve them and that their concerns are subservient to the political concerns of the moment. you can't view the world that way. you have to have take care of your citizens. elizabeth: how does this play out, how does this play out in the 2020 election?

>> it is going to be everything. i really do think this will have a gigantic impact. i think that the 2020 election is going to rest a lot when joe biden reemerges from his basement in delaware. i really mean that. i mean right now, the biden campaign, the dirty secret is as you watch the poll numbers, fox issued a new poll that suggests biden is ahead nationwide right now, that has everything to do with the fact that biden is hidden. the more biden gets out in public, people see how he is functioning as a candidate he will be hurt by that. so the dirty secret of the biden campaign, they're pleased that he is hidden inside of a basement in delaware that can't last forever. i think the way this disease is going right now, looks like things will start opening back up. the american citizens will expect the presidential candidate to get out on the campaign trail, to actually try to earn their vote. that is coming soon. elizabeth: vince coglianese. thank you so much for joining us. we brought the news earlier that

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♪. elizabeth: the trump administration is reportedly getting ready to announce a new public health regulation for the southern border. it would continue to give federal border officials broad power to rapidly detain, process and return border crossers to their home countries. basically what is going on is, the covid-19 outbreak is catching on and breaking out like wildfire south of the border. let's bring in former i.c.e. acting chief, he is ron vitello. ron, always great to have you

on. your reaction what is going on? >> glad to be here. things have dramatically changed from the border a year ago. this authority and announcement they made and current authority the cpb and exercising at border comes from title 42. it is all based on public health and safety measures. so it allows agents to quickly return people back to mexico after they cross the border illegally under this title 42 authority. then other people who have criminal record or children that have alone, they have to be processed in the traditional way. so this helps both the agents, helps keep them safe and helps the interactions come down right, so that is 90% less active at the border this week than it was a year ago. this title 42 has been really important for us to gain control of the border because when people get here, they can't be successfully related into the united states, more of them will refuse to try. they won't come as much in such

a volume. elizabeth: you know it is interesting too what you just said because here's what else is going on, south of the border you can't trust the numbers on the covid outbreak. mexico says it has 51,000 covid-19. but the government believes it is eight times more than the official account. we see that happening in central america. we're seeing numbers are coming in. are you worried, are border officials worried about a second wave many coulding into the united states from illegal border crossers? >> that is why it is important for them to keep that authority. you saw the announcement yesterday, that non-essential travel across the border is also been suspended. only trade and necessary items coming across. and so, understanding what is happening in the region, both at the local level, public health officials in mexico, their counterparts at hhs and dhs are

monitoring that situation but it is important for cpb to continue to% its authority. that will be fewer cases that make it into the united states or even attempt to try, if they can't be successful. so it bears watching. that's why we, all of the agreements that we have to bring people back home, the repatriations to central america, into mexico is all coordinated with the government. so that must continue to keep us all safe. elizabeth: has number of illegal border crossers, we saw the number, it plummeted to 16,000, 16,000 in april. that is fraction of what has been apprehended in the past. is that true. >> i can't hear anything. elizabeth: sorry. can you hear me now, ron? can you hear me now? okay what we're going to do now, we'll watch retired i.c.e. acting director tom homan. he was on our show last night. he addressed the democrats

criticizing the border patrol. he is saying no, they're wrong. the border patrol actually is doing humane, they are humanely treating illegal border crossers in detention facilities during the time of the covid-19 outbreak. watch tom homan. >> if there is a situation where someone crossing coming across that border and they need medical help they're not turning them back around to mexico. the humanity still there the border patrol, men and women of border patrol saved over 4,000 lives last year. that doesn't change. that doesn't go away. the humanitarian response is still there. elizabeth: ron, i think we got you back. i don't know if you heard tom homan. he is saying the border guys, the border patrol is being really humanitarian in dealing with the covid outbreak in the detention facilities. what are you seeing? >> here is what tom knows, i agree with what he said, no one does more to protect people on the border than the border patrol. vast amount of resources. they saved 4,000 lives last year helping people in that

situation. every encounter a agent makes is known threat. every risk they take on our behalf every day because they could come in contact with people who have the covid. we all know that it transmits readily, very fast. and -- [inaudible] and so -- elizabeth: i think we're having trouble with the sound there. that was ron vitello. okay. we are having technical difficulties. we'll have ron back on. he is a terrific expert and a border patrol guy. he served our country. we want to thank you so much for joining us. i'm elizabeth macdonald. you've been watching evening edit on fox business. that does it for us. thanks again for watching. us tomorrow night. we'll have headlines for you and breaking news. have a good evening.

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