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of the party have long sought to alter american institutions to fundamentally change american life, to transform american society. many leaders of the left obviously believe that the brutal death of george floyd in custody of the minneapolis police was their moment to begin their long-desired revolution. and for several days, it appeared those radical dems, those leftists, antifa and other groups might have judged well their moment as democratic mayors and some governors surrendered streets and neighborhoods to the mobs. but this evening it is apparent that is democratic party is that which finds itself in the midst of fundamental transformation. the left and their radical factions are trying to change, and change first they must, the democratic party. the left has clearly gone mad in

the effort and may well have taken much of the democratic party with them already. after demonizing police for the past two weeks, corporate leaders and television networks are pulled police-related shows off the air. a&e, which is in part owned by disney, pulled the popular program "live p.d." viacoming-owned paramount network pulled "cops," also facing pressure to end their children's program "paw patrol," for crying out loud, because it depicts a german shepard as a cop and does so favorably. the left supports these cancellations of shows because they recognize they have influence, and it is influence that is counter to the left's narrative. the left, however, does approve -- apparently -- of the violence that dominates much of

hollywood. no calls to cancel those shows and with calls of defunding the police rising, antifa and other radical left anarchist groups in seattle have overruled police altogether, and they have taken control of a portion of the city's downtown. seattle hasn't had a republican mayor since the late 1960s. imagine that. decades of democratic rule, wild liberal policies that have led us to the point that we are today. democratic washington governor jay inslee was asked about the so-called autonomous zone that the an artists have seized -- anarchists have seized for themselves in seattle. but instead of coming forward with any sort of, well, plan or clear response, he played dumb. >> i'd like to ask you about what's going on in seattle.

autonomous zone, what's your thought about the fact that the protesters have taken that over and are not allowing people to come and go freely? >> that's news to me, so i'll is have to reserve any comment about it. i have not, i have not heard anything about that. lou: well, it's quite a distance from the state's capital, olympia, all the way to seattle, apparently at least for that governor. it's probably clear why the voters gave up on governor inslee and his presidential campaign before he was ready. he's having a very tough time handling a city in just participant of his state -- part of his state. president trump today tweeted a warning to inslee. the president saying this, quote: radical left governor jay inslee and the mayor of seattle are being taunted and played at a level that our great country has never seen before. take back your city now. if you don't do it, i will.

this is not a game, these ugly anarchists must be stopped immediately. move fast. so what does it look like there on the ground in seattle? correspondent dan springer has that for us in this report. [background sounds] >> reporter: protesters are still very much in control of several blocks in the heart of seattle's capitol hill neighborhood. the police department vacated by police and the national guard monday, tagged with graffiti calling it the people's department. while many in this part of seattle support the protesters, police have received complaints of residents and business owners being frisked and even made to pay protection money to armed guards. >> we have heard reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area. this is the crime of extortion. >> reporter: protesters deny anyone was forced to pay but acknowledge there are guns inside.

the chief of police has said that they intend to reoccupy that's precinct, but we're not sure how or went that -- when that's going to happen. one of the demands of the protesters is that it become a community center. one of their other demands is that the city police department be abolished altogether. lou: simple demands. dan springer reporting from seattle. seattle's so-called autonomous zone, by the way, is now being led i in some fashion by a local rapper who's reportedly advising that unfamiliar faces around that autonomous zone who try to enter should be stopped. they should be questioned, he says, and even checked to see when they're armed. that is a policy that sounds incredibly like that police policy of stop and frisk that's so unpopular. there are also reports on social media that the group occupying seattle's downtown are running

out of food. it was apparently taken and eaten by homeless people in the region. one tweet from a now-private twitter account begged for outside supporters to bring them vegan supplies; oats, fruit and soy products. so that they could survive. is it's not just seattle that's fallen under the influence of the radical left, of course. leaders in at least 34 cities in statements across the country -- in states across the country are now actively considering defunding their police departments. but we know that defunding is just the beginning of the left's demands. want proof? well, just listen to what the wife of new york city mayor bill de de blasio has to say about a police-free future. >> i can imagine there being no police force, but that would be like a anywhere van narc a utopia. -- nirvana that we are

no place close to getting to. lou: nowhere close, perhaps, but certainly on the path toward it. democratic presidential nominee joe biden is still saying he's against defunding the police, but tonight he's having something of a glitzy fundraiser in los angeles with supporters of the movement. people attending will be paying a minimum of $2800 just to get through the door. the event hosted by artist john legend. he and his wife, crust city teigen -- chrissy teigen, have pushed to defund the police. the former vice president perhaps may be willing to say more in private luxury homes located in liberal safe havens such as hollywood rather than in public and in front of prying television cameras. and then there's the conversation about reparations for slavery. during a town hall event with

the naacp, biden was pressed several times to express his support. here's how he responded. >> if, in fact, a calculation comes to you that you are satisfied with, would you then say i'm for reparations? >> the answer would depend on what it was and will it include native americans as well. lou: well, if we're including native americans in reparations discussions, then why not add other groups? how about sending money to families of those who fought and died in the union army to free the slaves? the democrats are likely to ignore that part of the equation as it is somewhat difficult for them to synthesize that it wasn't just a revolt of the slaves that won the civil war. it was a revolt of a nation that

found slavery abhorrent and stopped it. the dems, however, are looking to rewrite american history. activists are now coming to tear down statues all across the country. their main targets are those of confederate generals and soldiers. one such monument was knocked down last night by black lives matter protesters in portsmouth, virginia. the statue fell and critically injured one of the protesters. left-wing vandals have also come for defining figures of our cup, including christopher columbus. statues of the man who's been celebrated in america for its founding for more than 225 years now have either been defaced or removed entirely by city governments. during a weekly news conference today, house speaker pelosi says she wants to see more of those statues removed from the halls of congress.

>> this is a perfect time for us to move those statues because other times people may think, oh, who cares, i never go there anyway, they all look alike to maine they're all these white men, they're -- on the other hand. that's what i think. [laughter] on the other hand, this might be the, the timing might be just right. lou: pelosi's now a clever comedienne leftist firebrarntiond one who is clearly out of touch with the people who is now a full-on radical and at least for her political purposes, she has joined those who would deny our history, our culture, our heritage and forsake our values as a great nation; a great nation that has struggled from its very beginning. as bad as the radical left is, our nation's military leaders have also, well, have created great questions about their

state. today the joint chiefs of staff chairman mark milley apologized to the radical left because he walked with president trump last week after protesters had been cleared from lafayette square in washington. >> i should not have been there. my presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. as a commissioned uniformed officer, it was a mistake. lou: as a commissioned uniformed officer in charge of the military, you would think he would know where he was going and what he was doing before he went. so many of his soldiers depend on him to always know that. the generals under his command now know who's in charge. well, many four-star generals raising constitutional, as they put it, objections about

president trump and defense secretary mark esper was in tow as well that day, in tow. it reminds some of the 1964 film "seven days in may," all of this outcry from a bunch of generals. in the movie the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff -- the fictional general james scott -- plans a military plot to take over the u.s. government. this is the president's response in that movie to general scott's plan which seems as, well, it seems as appropriate to hear as it was in that movie some 60 years ago. a military industrial complex, conspiracies to overthrow our government and our president. here is the dialogue. here's general scott referring to himself, of course, in the third person. it seems those kind of folks always do. it's always a giveaway for megalomania and a runaway ego.

>> hasn't the slightest interest in his own glorification, but he does have an abiding concern about the survival of this country. >> then, by god, run for office! you have such a passionate, evangelical affection for your country, why in the name of god don't you have any faith in the system of government you're so hell bent to protect? lou: his counsel: run for office if you feel so strongly. the answer is because elites of every stripe, including the military, don't want to bow to the will of the people and to honor their judgment at the election polls. generals today, real generals with real names like james mattis, john kelly, john allen, mike money, richard meyers, martin dempsey have all put their judgments above the will of the people, and many would

damn their hides for doing is so. not to give away the ending of the movie, but these are among the president's thoughts after that conspiracy of generals had been broken. >> there's been a fraud in this land in recent months, a whisper that we have somehow lost r our greatness. that we do not have the strength to win without war. the struggles for liberty throughout the world. this is -- because our country is strong, strong enough to be a peacemaker. it is proud, proud enough to be patient. the whisperers and the detractors, the violent men are wrong. we remain strong and proud, peaceful and patient. lou: well, i hope not too patient because those generals, those rinos and those

left-wing radical dems who think they're smarter than the rest of us, who think they have a better idea than the founders of this great republic will meet a sorry end. they should be standing with president trump, with all americans rather than trying to divide us and to overthrow him. and there is a broadening view that all of these generals spoke out against the president because this president wants to bring most of our troops home from abroad. we'll see how that works out. on wall street stocks plummeting today over fears of a possible second wave of the china virus. the dow plunging 1862 points, the worst day for the dow since march. the s&p fell 1 is 88, the nasdaq -- 188, the nasdaq down 520 points. 28 points, to be precise. volume on the big board, 7 billion shares. crude oil fell as well, down more than 8% finishing at $36.24

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♪ ♪ lou: well, as we reported to you, new fears that early fall could bring with it a second wave of the china virus and more deaths, of course. fears that caused a major selloff today on wall street. but when compared to the actual numbers this spring, the new predictions, well, they're somewhat concerning. the university of washington model that predicts that deaths will decline in june and july and remain flat in august but then rise again in september and october has been controversial. the model also predicted that by october 1st, daily deaths will

hit more than 1,000 americans. but that number falls well below the previous high daily death toll in the united states, almost 2300 back on april 15th. so we have a lot to answer, and for that we have turned to two folks i can't wait to talk to. joining us tonight is fox news medical correspondent dr. mark seeing and if alex berenson, former new york times journalist and author. amazon briefly, by the way, blocked the sale of his new book but then repented when they heard from elon musk. unreported truths about covid-19 and lock down's, the title. it's now third on the bestseller charts, and we would recommend that you read the book and in so doing drive the book even higher on that chart. alex, let me start with you. you must have a warm spot in your heart for both amazon and

elon musk. >> i don't have such a warm spot for amazon, although the controversy obviously, you know, got some attention for the book. amazon is a monopolist, basically, when it comes to books. they're incredibly dominant on the sales side, and they've benefited tremendously from the lockdown. the stock -- well, not today anymore, but it was at an all-time high, you know, as of yesterday. lou: right. >> and so it is up to them. it is incumbent upon them not to censor, not to hide views that, you know, they may not like or may not help their corporate position. and i know that -- lou: oh, we -- >> -- that they have tried to -- . lou: yeah, we could go down that, i mean, the left in this country right now is trying to censor and cancel and stultify every voice that is counter to their narrative and ideology -- >> it really is is. lou: we can have that discussion another day.

i want to turn, first, if i may, the issue on this china virus. is this damn thing going to come back in a second wave? does dr. fauci have a clue what he is talking about, and if he does, tell us the correct statements and separate them from the bizarre statements. >> well, i think that kind of saber-rattling inappropriate. by the way, they should rename alex book "amazon says if you end the lockdowns, you might be able to social distance at a bookstore and buy alex's book there, right?" [laughter] as far as this point about the lockdown -- lou: with a hell of a subtitle, at least. [laughter] >> lou, listen, this virus came upon us so suddenly, and it was panic that caused the lockdowns in the first place. it doesn't make public health sense because the virus riddled through the communities x then you lock it down, and the virus spreads more within the communities. and there's no travel bans in place that prevents people from coming in.

in australia and new zealand, they never had these number of cases because they closed the borders the way the president wanted to do here and wasn't able to do. so now you have a situation where we're finally starting to open up and, yes, we're doing more testing which shows that there's more cases in certain areas, but you're not seeing more hospitalizations, you're not seeing more deaths. "the wall street journal" -- lou: well, in some states, in some states, in some states -- i'm sorry, mark. in some states we are seeing more. i think it's too early -- >> yes. more testing. it's because of more testing. lou: okay. and, alex, your thoughts -- [inaudible conversations] >> yeah, my thoughts are it's quite possible we'll see a, quote-unquote, second wave in the fall. respiratory viruses cobetter in the fall -- do better in the fall and winter. by the way, we don't say we're on the 108th wave of the flu. it may be coronavirus season in

the fall and winter, and we're going to have to deal with it. and we're going to have to make sure if there's short-term surges, that we have hospital capacity. and we're going to have to make sure we protect nursing homes and people with severe co-morbidities, but we can't lock the country down again. the answer is not to pretend that this, you know, can't happen again, it's to talk about what we're going to do if it does. because the cdc's best estimate on this is that 1 in 400 people who get it, on average, are going to die, okay? that's not 3 in 10 or 1 in 50 or 1 in 100. it's not the flu either. it's more than the flu, but it isn't so much that we should panic. we need to take responsible steps. >> i want to add to this, lou -- lou: doctor? sure. >> you know what works the best? social distancing works the best when you have a situation where the virus is throughout the community. and then there's a word called cocooning where you protect people most at risk.

those are the people you want at home, those most at risk. and, by the way, you don't admit people to nursing homes who are covid 9-positive, mr.-- covid-19-positive, mr. governor. it's called cocooning and you social distance like they did in the state of wisconsin. careful reopening with social distancing in place workings. lou: so let me -- [inaudible conversations] lou: let's go to -- well, we're going to -- [laughter] we're going to have to cut it here. i wanted to just ask you quickly, alex and you, dr. siegel, again, 15 seconds, is, are we, are we doing what's right right now in this country? >> no. lou: alex? >> we need to be reopening more aggressively, and we should especially have schools and camps open, absolutely. we've punished children because of this virus. it's so --

lou: we've got, we've got ya. mark, you get the last word. real quick. >> i completely agree with that. and, yes, there is a seasonal quality here and, yes, we have to keep an eye on the fall, but we have to reopen aggressively. i agree. lou: thank you. we appreciate it, look forward to talking with you again soon. roger stone when we continue. roger stone when we continue. stay with us, when you think of a bank, you think of people in a place. roger stone when we continue. stay with us, but when you have the chase mobile app, your bank can be virtually any place. so, when you get a check... you can deposit it from here. and you can see your transactions and check your balance from here. you can detect suspicious activity on your account from here. and you can pay your friends back from here. so when someone asks you, "where's your bank?" you can tell them: here's my bank. or here's my bank. or, here's my bank. because if you download and use the chase mobile app, your bank is virtually any place. so visit chase.com/mobile.

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program of cutting taxes and regulation to create jobs is working again and that under the president's -- lou: roger, we've got 400 -- i got -- roger, i've got 400 wall street analysts that we draw on every day, but i appreciate your volunteering. >> no, i'm optimistic. lou: well, that's great, i'm glad you are. you're free and you've got wrongs to be righted. let's start with an answer, though, to my question which is your thoughts about june 30th and what's likely to transpire. >> well, at this point, lou, as you know, i have filed an appeal both of my conviction and an appeal separately of the judge's decision not to grant me a new trial based on egregious conduct -- misconduct by one of the jurors. at this juncture, neither the bureau of prisons nor the u.s. attorney for the district of columbia is inclined to give me any additional time or to extend my surrender date which right

now is june 30th which means a 67-year-old man with pre-existing health problems is going to go to a covid-infested prison at the end of the month absent some act of clemency by the president, which i have been very forthright about the fact that i am praying for. but it's the end of the road. in other words, my appeal will not delay my incarceration in any way. lou: you know, other people are being let out, frankly, in droves from prisons who have done far more serious things than you are accused and were found guilty of. why are you going in while they're coming out? >> no, it's an excellent question. why is there one rule for michael avenatti who stole $25 million from his client and a different rule for roger stone who allegedly made misstatements to congress when those statements were neither material or in any underlying crime?

i guess it's because i'm a supporter of the president particularly because i would not bear false witness against him. they put enormous financial and legal pressure on me, they threatened me with a superseding indictment unless i would read their narrative about 29 phone calls between the president and i, and i declined. it's a broken system, lou, but at this point there is no appeal -- lou: oh, it's worse than broken, roger. it is corrupt and broken to an extent i don't think most americans even imagine. let me read the president's latest tweet about you, and if you will put that up, please. roger was the victim of a corrupt and all legal witch hunt. he can sleep well at night. do you think that the president's going to give you a pardon? >> well, the president could give me a commutation of my sentence, he could give me a pardon, he could take no action

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lou: we're back with roger stone and, who has been wronged mightily by the same people who carried out the efforts to overthrow the president. let me say first of all to, t not first of all, but it's fist on my mind. it is great to see you in the fighting spirit, great to see you feeling well. and i want to get your reaction to white house correspondent' association giving a damn award to cnn for filming your early morning -- the fbi's raid on your home and your arrest. your thoughts. your feelings. >> it's really, it's incredible, this false narrative that cnn has created. lou's, cnn's camera crew showed up exactly 14 minutes before the fbi when 29 heavily armed agents stormed my e home to arrest me for a nonviolent series of process crimes. they would have us believe that that was based on a journalistic hunch, but the truth is at 6:05,

five minutes after i was arrested -- [laughter] a cnn appropriator contacted my -- reporter contacted my attorney and e-mailed him a draft of my indictment. it had no court markings, no time stamp, but it did have the meta-tagged initials of the person who wrote it, andrew weissmann. so this is -- lou: oh, no. >> -- undisputable evidence that cnn had advance notice because that document was sealed s and it one unsealed -- it wasn't unsealed until 9:30 that morning. why is this significant? here's one good reason, because when they executed my arrest warrant, they also executed a search warrant. and tipping someone as to the governor's plan to execute a search warrant is a felony, to be very specific. so this isn't investigative reporting or some hunch, they were tipped, and they should admit it. now they're getting an award for humiliating me and my poor wife

in a totally unnecessary gestapo-type raid. i have no previous criminal record. lou: by the way, the fbi -- >> later they asked for no cash bond at my arraignment. lou: the fbi and the justice department should apologize like hell to both you and your boyfriend and to the -- your wife and to the country for behaving like they have behaved. too often over the course of the past, well, at least four years. roger stone, thanks for being with us. look forward to talking to you again and taking up the next chapter in what has been a horrific persecution of a man whose principal guilt was to be a friend of the president's. well, breaking news now, the senate armed services committee releasing us version of the annual national defense

authorization act. it's $740 billion. the bill include nearly $7 billion to focus on the chinese communist party. $7 billion of it in the inning do-pacific -- indo-pacific region. the bill also requires new reports on the race aring of using technology from chinese telecom giant huawei. and china today warning the united states against even thinking about decoupling from the communist regime's economy. a senior chinese official also calling for improved u.s./china ties. this wasn't just a threat, it was a call for harmony. the same officials also reassuring beijing's commitments to the phase one trade deal with the united states. is this just a set-up and more nonsense from the communist chinese? let's find out. dr. michael pillsbury e joining us, director of the center for chinese strategy at the hudson institute. what do you make, mike, of the threat of fighting decoupling

coupled with an entreaty to get along and to hug one another? >> well, in the art of the deal, donald j. trump explained to us 30 years ago what the other side is afraid of or has nightmares about. that gives you an opening. so we can now see that this decoupling contest is really something china may pay for, may make concessions to to block. i hadn't realized they were so concerned. they've been kind of nonchalant about decoupling up until today's statement. he's in a position to know. he used to be vice minister of the finance d., so this is quite a tip from china. they are afraid of decoupling. lou: they're afraid of decoupling, it's also not just a fear, let's be clear. this is an outright threat, because it's saying to a sovereign nation -- that is, the united states, lest anyone misunderstand my point -- a sovereign nation, the world's

only superpower, can't act out of its own volition and in its own national interest and that the chinese will fight them, us, if we choose to do so. who the hell are these arrogant s.o.b.s who think they can speak in this nonsensical tone and term? >> well, i know these arrogant s.o.b.s pretty well, lou. i think what they're going to count on now is their channels of influence through wall street, through the think tanks, through people in congress to try to block decoupling. this is like a declaration of war with, you americans are not going to get away from decoupling with china. and they will activate their friends who are quite numerous and powerful, as you know. lou: yes. well, we know who they are, they're on wall street, many of them are in the white house or the administration. and, by the way, that reminds me bob davis, senior editor of "the wall street journal," and link

link -- l are ingling wei, it looks as though they anticipated these developments well. we recommend that book, superpower showdown, want to know what you think of the book. >> well, i was very impressed with the level of detail in the booker lou, about how the chinese tried to influence president trump through various or channels including billionaires who would visit china, and xi jinping would give them a message about the trade talks. and they would convey it to the president. so there's a lot of detail in the book also on the chinese side. the chinese have been having debates between the hard-liners expect moderates, and that's brought out quite well in the book. but i think they're right, there is a superpower showdown. lou: i do too. and it is, the question -- i'm not even sure it's an open question that it's a cold war. the question is what, what direction does this cold war

take now. give us, this budget devoting -- >> yes. lou: -- a sizable portion to the u.s. operations in the indo-pacific. your reaction as we rap with up here -- wrap up here. >> this is extremely important news, lou. a lot of talk about china and the shifting to the pacific. this is the first time, and it's thanks to oklahoma senator jim inhofe and jack reed, they have really put money in now to improve bases, improve our missile defense, a lot of tangible things against china. we spend far -- lou: is it enough? is it enough? is it enough? >> it's a good start. $5 billion is a lot. lou: okay. >> it just started. lou: all right. dr. michael pillsbury, thanks for being with us. we appreciate it. up next, an a appellate court set to hear arguments on general michael flynn's bid to drop the case against him. we'll take that up with investigative journalist john

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his new book, "fallout," it's available for pre-order, and we encourage you to read it. i can't wait myself. john, good to have you with us. let's talk about the intelligence community assessment just released. they had only limited corroboration. that sounds like b.s. for they didn't have any -- [laughter] >> yeah. the intelligence committee was clearly very suspicious of the steele dossier. it mentioned about it being politically sensitive, it mentioned that it had limited corroboration, they thought the dossier had been leaked just before election day, all things that a professional intelligence analyst would flag as a problem, and that's why the intelligence community says it didn't use it to make part of its assessment on the russia case. why it's an important document is it shows that while the fbi was telling a court in october of 2016 that it had verified steele, it was agreeing with the

cia and nsa in december saying it wasn't verified yet. this document directly undercuts the certification that the fbi made to the fisa court back in october 2016. lou: it also acknowledges that they went and used the nonsense for their own intelligence efforts but would encourage -- [laughter] the fbi, the justice department to go after a presidential candidate and a sitting president with impunity. i mean, this is, this is wretched stuff. give us a sense, if you will, about why christopher wray is dragging his feet now on producing the evidence of these known relationships with the dnc and the clinton campaign. >> yeah. no, it's really remarkable. so there are notes and e-mails from july of 2016, august of '16. three months before the fbi went to the fisa a court in which it is clear that fbi agents and supervisors are discussing two

things. they know that steele's project is connected to hillary clinton, and they know it's can connected to the democratic national committee. in other words, it had significant political origins, and somehow despite that knowledge, the fbi went out of its way not to tell the fisa court about the hillary clinton/democratic national committee connections, another omission that goes to sort of the conspiracy, the cover-up what the fbi was trying to do; sustain an investigation with tainted political evidence and a lack of evidence. lou: and with that, we'll have more with john solomon right after this very quick break. he gets the final word here tonight. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ -excuse me. uh... do you mind...being a mo-tour? -what could be better than being a mo-tour?

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usurped authority of the executive branch, acted as judge and prosecutor. this is big decision to watch. what will the appeals court do. think they will remove him and dismiss the case. lou: it has been the right thing to do, obviously so to all of us who have been following the case over the course of the past year. it has been, i mean, sidney powell, in that time has built a case. did so strikingly from my belief, the very on set of taking it up. you get the last words here on the, your new book. how soon is it out? >> it will be out july 14th. i'm very excited. we trace how the clinton-obama era gave us the russia scandal, the faux russia scandal. it will be a great read. i can't wait to talk to you more about it in the coming days. lou: we will, i guarranty it. >> thank you, sir. lou: fallout, russian spies and washington lies. good to see you so much.

thank you, john solomon. just the news.com. speaking of sidney powell, she joins us before the d.c. appellate court today. tom bishop harry among our guests here tomorrow. good night from sussex. elizabeth: stocks across the board falling hard today and the worst cell office since march d-iggered by w fears of a second wave of covid-19, 23 states selling a surge in less than rosy outlook delivered from the federal reserve. with us tonight columnist byron york on news about promising drug treatments, vaccines from [inaudible] and this debate concerns about covid-19 in recent protests. were they super spreader events? government officials are worried about this but also, treasury secretary mnuchin saying the u.s. cannot shut down again if there is a second wave.