be sure to catch our pod cast. sean will be back here on monday. have a great weekend. thanks for tuning in. >> i'm laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. are the nevada caucus results tomorrow meaningless for democrats at this point? in a moment, i'm going to explain why this is already a two-person race. before we react, all pre-eminent hosters. plus, we're the first to point out that russia hysteria once again infected the entire democratic media complex, robert ray and dylan explain what's driving it. also tonight, an unbelievable incident which you guys might have missed because you're focusing on the political stuff, a warning from the cdc over the

corona virus as the chinese keep information from us. of course they are. john cotton is here to sound the alarm. it's friday, so, come on, you have to have some folliefollies. a service animal update for the ages and details the latest back mark for celebrities. but first, a little over 12 hours until folks start organizing the nevada caucuses, it looks like democrats could be facing a repeat of the fiasco we saw in iowa two weeks back, if you can believe it. experts are warning of potential technical snafus. now, the dnc already voided 1,000 early votes. party chair tom perez told the ap he won't commit to same-day election results. are we a third world country? we can't announce the election results the night of the el

election? do we have computers anymore? i guess not. i'm counting. but the counting chaos is besides the point now. the real question of the nevada caucuses is this -- do they matter? bernie assured a win tomorrow. after that, the order of finishes don't make that much of a difference. and i feel confident declaring tonight that this race is shaping up to be a two-man show. sanders versus bloomberg, despite the horrific debate performance wednesday night. the saying goes, follow the money, "the wall street journal" is reporting that pete buttigeig and joe biden have not invested in any ads in the crucial supertuesday states. amy klobuchar and warren combined put less than $2 million. and in other words, running out of cash, money, and time, bernie in the crass roots army through their own personal finances have

money in spades. on top of fundraising, though, biggest tell for who the front-runner sees as his real threat is whom they attack. bernie will use the sunday 60 minutes interview to take direct aim at one person and one person only -- mike bloomberg >> i think it's quite likely that trump will chew him up and spit him out. >> if you're worried about him before, are you less worried now about having that debate? >> i'm worried about an unprecedented amount of money being spent on a campaign. and, you know, we've never seen anything like this in american history >> for bloomberg, well, the feeling of antipathy is mutual. >> i worry we may well be on the way to nominating somebody who cannot win in november. and if we choose a candidate who appeals to a small base like senator sanders, it will be a fatal error. >> after nevada, the democratic primary base moves to south

carolina. now, that state was supposed to be joe biden's fire wall. but if biden's lead shrinks in the palmetto state, bloomberg is telling his rich friends to stop giving money to biden's campaign and slowly let the patient bleed out. south carolina could be uncle joe's last stand, that is, if he even makes it there. a power panel of pollsters, that's a mouthful, we also happen to be the with the bloomberg 2020 campaign. all right, frank. obviously, trump recovered many times in 2016. all these experts said he was finished. remember the jn mccain comment about prisoners of war. then he went after the judge curio. and all of the things he said he was over, finished, are there any other examples of a candidate recovering from something as bad as bloomberg's debate debacle? >> actually, bill clinton.

bill clinton had the eruption of his private life and he went on 60 minutes and had a very successful interview. that brought him back from the dead. and people just assumed that he was finished, and, of course, he served two terms as president. i look at bloomberg as being similar to what happened to rick perry. we were expecting him to come out swinging. we were expecting him to take on sanders and warren. what happened is he was on defense the entire time. his answers were half-baked at best. and if he does'do well in the south carolina, he's lucky. because south carolina is having a debate next week. he'll have one opportunity to repair himself. but if he doesn't, he could have wasted $200 million. loip i want to go to doug to respond to that. doug, you're working for bloomberg 2020. a lot of the conversation i heard in the last couple of days about how bloomberg, a man of his brain power, substantial,

created an unbelievably successful company, global company, he's a smart guy, how did he not seem to be prepared at this debate? who did the recording of him? and why are we just hearing tonight that he's willing to release three women from their nondisclosure agreements if they want these disclosure agreements public, they just have to call bloomberg's operation, i guess, and they'll release them. but why are we doing this now? >> a couple of answers to a couple of questions. first, mike bloomberg hasn't debated anyone since 2009. he is an extraordinary man who's done extraordinary things as both a private citizen, a businessman, a philanthropist, and a mayor. he's not, i think, a natural debater. he's not a law professor like elizabeth warren. he's an extraordinary person. and politics is more than just answering questions in a multi-candidate field. i think he'll do a better job in

south carolina, laura. he's only down, i think, three points from his high in the morning con soelts poll. he's within the margin of error where he was. so i think reports of his demise are exaggerated. that being said, i think he made a decision that he's going to try to be more transparent >> laura: well, i just said it's going to be bloomberg versus sanders. it's only a matter of time before mr. perfect, buttigeig and amy klobuchar drop out. it will be over soon, just the two of them, no doubt about it. but, scott, this is where the race stands now. a bunch of new polls have come out. the results from the first postdebate poll, you can see here, it looks like all of the hubbub from the media is much ado about nothing, barely any movement there. doug hinted at that. we have bernie up, biden is 19. bloomy is two points down from biden. elizabeth warren, 12%, running

out of cash. but bloomberg did drop about three points. so what not? is it all about super tuesday? >> laura, look, mike bloomberg can stay in the race as long as he wants. he can keep writing checks and keep spending money on television. but his failure to launch his campaign last wednesday night shook up the race in ways that were just beginning to see effects of. and i think you're overestimating his prospects. frank talked about the bill clinton comeback in 1992. big difference. bill clinton was once in a generation politician. mike bloomberg is a politician that makes hillary clinton look like a good campaigner. so if he does not have a good debate in south carolina, it's very hard to see how mike bloomberg gets anywhere close to the nomination, no matter how much he spent. >> i think so, frank. look, running against george h.w. bush versus running against trump, they're different dynamics at play.

and the democrats are so -- there's shaking with concern that they might nominate bernie and they think bernie won't be as strong a candidate as bloomberg. i'm not sure they're even right about that. but nevertheless, i think scott is right, politics is about personality, whether it's bush, w., clinton, obama, trump. whether you like him or not, they all had big outsized personalities. bloomberg, he's doing things his own way, and if you don't like it, too bad. that doesn't play in my view >> he's been personally successful. here's the problem. i think bloomberg would have been a better candidate as an independent. democrats don't like wealth, they don't like billionaires. and they've shown a willingness to vote against them in the election. i do want to give the bloomberg campaign credit for the advertising. we've been testing them in iowa, new hampshire, and in nevada. they've done very well. they've been preferred to the advertising of other candidates.

so the ads are clearly having an impact. but too many people are watching the debates. too many people expect you to be able to stand up against your opponents and show why you deserve to be elected. he did not succeed in the last debate. he doesn't have a choice. if he wants to be president, he's going to have to do a better job in south carolina or the advertising will not be able to sustain him beyond supertuesday. >> laura: joe biden came out and talked about what his -- his benchmark is for the next big contest in nevada. watch. >> the former vice president said that he's going to win nevada. what's a win for you guys in nevada? >> well, it's happy. i think a win for us would be coming in very close in the top of the bunch. >> obviously, his campaign manager. but, doug, top of the bunch, that's the biden goal there. >> yeah, and i think joe biden is effectively dead in the water.

he's out of money. south carolina is very tight. he's not going to win tomorrow in nevada. that's pretty clear. i would say our party is facing a real crisis. because i do not believe a candidate like bernie sanders, who is running a class-based campaign, with a narrow message as mayor bloomberg says has a chance against donald trump. so if the democrats commit fratricide of the type i saw on wednesday night, candidly, the winner is donald trump as i have said, others have said. and i think this is very, very bad for a democratic party po believe that if they can just attack wealth, a man who's taken no special interest money, built a business on his own, no family money, nothing, to attack him just because he's wealthy is beyond foolish >> that's the party. that's where the party is. the party is against wealth creation >> very sadment. >> thank you so much. thank you to see you all. have a fantastic weekend. i want to take a moment to show

you something that caught my eye. this tweet from never trumper in chief bill kristol calling democratic members of congress, governors, and other leaders, could you perhaps say in public what you say in private, that a sanders nomination would be a disaster for the party. where you happen to win, the presidency would be bad for the country. that got me thinking. how are others in kristol's camp handling the camp? always pleasant jennifer ruben wrote, if you're an established democrat nervous about going public, pick up the phone and urge untenable candidates to leave. i'm enjoying this a lot. the bleeding other -- bleeting over bernie isn't just relegated to those two characters, watch >> trump could very easily win re-election, especially if bernie sanders is the democratic nominee >> republicans around trump are giggling and dancing a victory dance already. they're popping bottles in the

thought it's going to be bernie sanders >> but if you're going full radical democrat socialists, that's the deal breaker for a lot of swing voters. it's a death sentence for the party. >> laura: this is the can tina scene from star wars here. all right, ladies and gentlemen, what we're watching is the unintentionally hilarious death rattle of all of the political losers. they have nowhere to go except for the dyed in the wool liberals at this point. they burned the bridges to the right. more than useful idiots to the left. they never took this bunch seriously. they had to have known that. they're ignoring them now. joining me, charlie kirk, turning point usa, author of the maga doctrine. and lisa boone, fox news contributor. what do these folks ever think that they had any say in whom

the loyalists go for in the end in the primaries >> we know democrats are using the never trumpers to serve a purpose. the second they say things that i don't want to hear, they will be pushed out, mocked, and pushed asai. they're all wrong. bernie sanders is the toughest candidate for president trump to face in the general election. he will be the nominee. he's the only person that has a path to the majority right now or at least a plurality heading in to the convention. and you can see how bernie sanders has a similar populous message to president trump. wille's got the message, i think it could appeal to the forgotten men and women that president trump was able to appeal to, especially against an establishment candidate like hillary clinton who is so out of touch, the average american. bernie sanders is not as out the of touch as he is. you can look at, yeah, medicare for all, you're getting rid of 150 million plus americans' health insurance, that's a massive vulnerability for bernie

sanders. but if you look at policies like raising the top tax rate to 70%. a majority of the americans support some of those policies. so, i think republicans acting that somehow bernie sanders a threat. i know the people we listened to before aren't republicans but i heard republicans acting like it will be an easy race against bernie sanders, it will not be. >> i said for weeks now, charlie, don't underestimate sanders. he has the energy, he has the philosophy. bloomberg wants to continue to outsource jobs to china and get rid of the tariffs and go back to kind of the pretrump days of obama. there's no appetite for that. so, i think lisa is right that to the extent that the energy and the passion ( is with the forepopulous movement from the right and the left >> they talk about the politics and the corrupting influence of it. bernie sanders made a fatal error is he decided to go all in on the open borders, no

immigration restriction at all, radical influence to the left. he never used to be that way. he used the common sense america first immigration policies. no uh he's about open the borders, no border restriction at all. that's where president trump is going to be most successful in a matchup against senator bernie sanders. hitting him on cultural issues and immigration. to lisa's point, lisa is right. it's hard to run against free. it's hard because he's going to promise more stuff on the other side to every single community and constituency. students, offer to pay your student loan debt. you have personal loan debt, we'll do that too. doesn't matter he can't fulfill it. he'll promise it. the media will be an activist network to protect him. tell you right now, the media will be bought into the candidacy of bernie sanders than hillary clinton. >> they have to be at this point. joe biden came out. he's concerned about the fact that bernie hasn't been vetted.

watch. >> i've been the front-runner for so long i've been through all of the vetting that could be vetted. they're going to be vetting bernie on things he hasn't been challenged on very much before. >> what of that, lisa? the trump people want to bernie they seem. and they haven't really gone after bernie as they will if he ends up being the nominee. >> i don't necessarily think the vetting will matter. i think bernie sanders believes wholeheartedly in the policies he's pushing forward. he has this populist message where some of the incoming is not going to hit him in a similar way where it doesn't tend to hit president trump. the way you hit bernie sanders, sanders laid it out in miami. he said, look, socialism is not about the average american woman. it's not about the common people. it's about empowering the ruling class. that's where the power will go.

bloomberg went after him in owning the three homes, bernie sanders is a hypocrite. that's where the trump could attack him as well >> the fact that charlie pointed out -- socialism has failed everywhere it's tried. still failing in europe right now. look at france's gdp in the last year. charlie, lisa, thank you so much. coming up, russian hysteria returns with a vengeance, the same players saying the same things -- again.

>> russia's back in trump's re-election. he doesn't want -- he doesn't want anybody to know about it >> if the russians are attacking our election processes, i think frankly the president welcomes it. he wants it. >> donald trump is operating in the white house. in conjunction with vladimir putin to hide what vladimir putin is doing to help donald

trump get re-elected. donald trump is a russian operative. >> laura: i'm sorry, this is the best comedy i have ever seen go, larry. well, that was just a piece of reaction we've seen in the last 24 hours, the reports from "the new york times" and "the washington post" claiming that russia is trying to get trump re-elected in november because trump has been so good to russia. sadly -- actually, not sadly, i want to say pat ourselves on the back, we've predicting something like this was going to happen. >> this looks a lot like a planted story meant to prespin the 2020 election and maybe even provide cover to front-runner joe biden should any inconvenient details come out. if they come out, they can say, see, it's russia. >> joining me now, trump 2020 advisory board winner along with

robert ray. all right, we reported last night that the times and the post had completely mischaracterized this meeting. but, they can't help, can they, themselves, from diving back in. they have to think, oh, we can wake up mueller and say we need you back. let's go have a run at this idea of russian conclusion? >> well, laura, they say that a liugets halfway around the world before the truth is able to get its pants on. that's been the situation here with the version 2.0 of the russian scam, the insurance policy a gift that keeps on giving. we've seen democrats repeat this propaganda and the lie on television. it's bad when jake tapper is kind ofodiling it back a little bit on twitter. so, ultimately, laura, we know what this is, you called it a few months ago. this is a distraction. and the president's team needs to anticipate it, ignore it, brush it aside, and keep focusing on the prize.

as an aside, every foreign power wants a stable, reliable, honest, trustworthy president they can make deals with. in that sense, sure, every foreign power wants somebody whose word they can trust >> who do you think might be preferred by china? the guy who would lift all of the tariffs, namely bloomberg? or trump? the guy who's been making china's life a lot more difficult, holding them accountable. of course they want someone like bloomberg. a lot more powerful, a lot more money and people than russia with a tiny economy comparatively. after this whole thing was debunk, cnn still tried to spin it this way >> maybe the assessment was stated to clearly -- it's not at all clear that the russians want trump. donald trump's reaction is something that the russians are watching. because donald trump's reaction was not, let's see the sources and the methods, his reaction was i want maguire out.

that tells the russians one thing which is, of course, we're going the keep doing it >> rob oert, i just wish we had all of this concern about russia when it was the soviet union. we couldn't get their attention, okay? now they're back on the russia train. they're going to jump off and break every bone in their political bodies. your reaction to that? >> it's as you predicted. the same variation of the russia conclusion narrative. i don't understand how anybody can be speculating about this since we don't have any information about what the intelligence was, and exactly what kind of russia interference you're talking about. so, all of the media hullabaloo amounts to nothing, i have nothing to measure it against. more importantly, they don't know what they're talking about >> we're going to get to the breaking news about bernie sanders and russia in a second. but catherine herridge tweeted this -- source familiar with the white house briefing said

briefers press for evidence to back claims that russia was trying to help potus. asked if there were signals or intelligence, phone intercept to back up the claims, source said briefers had nothing to offer. right to robert's point. no evidence to offer. after coming out of a tough debate performance for the guy the establishment would want to win -- biden or bloomberg? what are they going to do? they lost impeachment and mueller. it's like a security blanket. russia is a security blanket. this is a point, "washington post" is reporting tonight that bernie sanders has been briefed by u.s. officials that russia is trying to help bernie's campaign. you can't make this up. now, that makes a lot more sense to me, frankly, than old trump. i don't understand why they wouldn't want trump. he said, how funny is that. now it's just comical at this point >> the problem that the

intelligence community has here and the media is they have lost all credibility. they're the boy who cried wolf. right now, that's bad and dangerous for our national security, because we can't trust our own intelligence. is bernie a favorite of the russians? maybe, some of the folks who want to blast from the past and want to return to communism around the world. but in reality, laura, i think as robert says, you can put little faith on these leaks. what we do know is that the president is finally cracking down on a leak riddled and unfriendly national intelligence apparatus in the white house who's responsible for tremendous time and it's past time, laura. so -- >> clean house. >> so the -- i'm thrilled that he's finally doing this and hope we don't see a repeat of that in the next administration >> all right, there's another interesting point we have to get to. now, this is a really fascinating development. very little time. but, robert, in california, the "l.a. times" spun a recent ice

action in the state saying that ice is flouting state law and arresting two people at a northern california courthouse. well, in response, imcustoms enforcement said in a statement that california's law doesn't supersede federal law and will not contact laws pursuant to duly enacted laws passed by congress. robert, does the l.a. times need a lesson on constitutional law, the insurrection act? >> and two words under the constitution, supremacy clause. i have enough stuff dealing with the stuff i know something about and try to stay away from things that i don't know anything about. but this is simple. i don't know where we have gotten off of the track that the democratic party thinks they can ignore the constitution when it comes to immigration enforcement. i just don't understand it. >> you live there. how is it going to play out? the president has the right to

dispatch federal authorities. if you look at the insurrection act, he clearly has the authority to do it there. it's the -- i'm having a joe biden moment. the supremacy clause all together >> the policy originated from the head of the supreme court in california and she's wringing her hands about this. this is a dumb law. it's a law that puts californians and americans at risk and i'm thrilled that i.c.e. is ignoring the dumb lawn and putting the interest of the united states and the safety and security of californians first. >> sanctuary cities and states are about to change. everything is about to change on that score. i love it. it's about time. great to see you, have a great weekend >> you too. >> coming up, the service animal craze is making air travel unbearable for some. a cnn crew caught coaching its audience. what's the deal with celebrities and face tattoos. all of the important stories, next.

>> live from the news headquarters. the corona virus is spreading. south korea confirming 142 new cases, most cases coming from the city of dagu. residents are warned to stay inside and wear masks. the mayor pleading from help from the central government warning that a rash of new cases could overwhelm their health system. the total corona virus cases now stands at 346.

russia is actively helping president trump and senator bernie sanders campaign. the officials say the motive is to undermine the integrity of the u.s. elections. senator sanders telling russia to stay out of american elections. president trump dismissing it saying it's a rumor started by democrats. i'm marianne rafferty, now back to the "ingraham angle." >> it's friday, that means that it's time for -- oh, friday follies. have we got something for you. joining us with all of the details, raymond arroyo, fox news contributor. all right, raymond >> we have talked about the service animals before. >> we have. >> but they have gotten out of control. i personally witnessed it, monkeys, a lizard. >> i saw a lamb once, on a leash. but picturese menched this week. now, that really took the case.

a mini service horse named fred. it flew first class to grand rapids to california. did she think she was describing it by dressing it as the scooby doo van? >> this looks like the cat with the corona virus mask from last week. it's tot will out of control there. >> is he going to the bathroom there? >> if i wanted to, i could register anything as an emotional support an animal -- and i know, because i did. . where exactly are we headed here, laura? i'm ready to see this on the next visit and plane ride. service falcons, this is where they allow people travel with falcons two to a street. i hope the armrests come with a newspaper. this is a sign of prestige in

the middle east. and therefore they allow them to fly with the falcons uncaged >> if you could release the falcon at particular time. >> to feed on the people on either side. >> we had some experience -- >> the veterans groups are complaining about all of this. i'm glad they are. many of these guys rely on service animals because of their -- >> traumatic -- >> traumatic stress syndrome. they feel it's abused. they're going to the department of transportation. they're going to tighten the rules. high time this needed to happen >> a large long tailed iguana. i kid you not. if you say anything. how is that -- and the woman says to me, she says, well, he's very nervous on the flight. and i said, well, wait a second, isn't he supposed to calm you down? >> 84% increasing, urinating, defecating, and biting service animals. >> that's just after mardi gras

>> don't want to be on those flights. while we're talking about service animals, while closely watching one of the almost daily democrat ittic presidential town halls at cnn, a new show there in town hall tonight? there might be. we discovered why the audience explodes at laughter or applause at any of the flat lines. in the interview, cnn accidentally showed the audience conductor. look to the right of the screen, he's priming the audience. he's conducting the audience to applaud. and the audience is rising and falling depending on his gestures. i don't mind a warmup act. but to conduct the audience this, is really -- >> i would like to have a warmup act in here. to warm up -- even though nobody's here. >> yes, i like the warmup act. johnny carson always had a great warmup. if you're going to get a tattoo,

this is probably not the one you want to wake up to. >> uh-oh. >> you have a situation. >> oh, holy -- where are we? oh, my god, alan. >> amazingly, laura, face tattoos are now all of the rage. celebrities like amanda bynes, look at her. amber rose, post malone, and pressley gerber. >> i don't know who these people are. >> cindy crawford's son. they are all supporting face tattoos of dubious artistic merit. they all look like something you scrawl in a middle school notebook. it's disturbing. even tattoo artists are expressing their concerns. a new yorker inkist told "the new york post," i don't do face tattoos, i have a moral obligation to educate people.

what people need to realize -- it takes a year to remove one of these with lasers and they have to go over it like eight times a day. it settles, the skin scabs up, it falls off, you put salve on it, then they go at it again. it's painful and awful. why would anyone put it on their face. when this is the most interesting thing on your face, time to wear a mask, one of the corona miss masks >> i must say, i used do do this topic on the radio. never got the tattoo thing. never got it, never liked it. looks gross. sorry. i know -- okay, a small heart, or a military -- >> out of place and if i had one and it was in the bowl of my arm here, it would probably say -- ink belongs on a page. that's the kind of tattoo i like. >>ened or -- and i remember, i kid you not, i was coming off of a plane, and this woman had the

most incredible outfit on. she was like very exotic. doesn't really -- and i was like, i love your -- i was just about to say, your blouse. it was a tattoo. it was a floral situation like green and blue. and i was like, thank goodness i didn't say anything. but maybe she would are taken it up. >> she would have -- occasionally, you would like to change, you can't change there. it's there forever. we have the old producer. mike? he teased you all the time. a great guy >> my favorite of all was the one that used to say, deplane! >> that's my idea. we'll leave it there >> okay. i won't look. >> no tramp stamps, okay? raymond, thank you so much. coming up, why do we allow people infected with the corona virus to fly back to the united states with nothing more than a plastic divider or screen kind of thing separating them from

noninfective passengers. yes, that happened. and what is china still refusing to tell us about how this thing started. tom cotton is sounding the alarm over the misinformation from the start. here in minutes, stay there. good morning!

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>> not seen it spread here in the united states yet. very possible, maybe likely, it may happen. this new virus represents a tremendous public health threat. we don't yet have a vaccine nor do we have a medicine to treat it specifically >> despite warnings like the one you just heard, a plane full of corona virus-infecced people was reportedly still allowed to fly back into the

united states against the wishes of the centers of disease control. as all of these unfold, we're learning of the disturbing new corona virus outbreak in iran which apparently has no links to chie nachlt the disease has taken 2,200 lives worldwide if you can believe those figures and we don't have all of that much confidence that china is truthful about the origins of the corona virus. for good reason. joining me, senator tom cotton, somebody who has viewed china with an extremely skeptical and critical eye, but long before this ever happened. and hep's gotten a lot of grief for it. senator, how do we protect the united states, it's got a lot of people, originating with a country we can't trust with primary or rudimentary information about medical or other issues. >> thanks for having me on to

discuss this important matter. the president made the decisive step three weeks ago to stop all air travel from china in to the united states. that was an important step. now, we have to realize, though, that more than 1.5 million people came from mainland china starting in mid november until late january when ever the president instituted that travel plan. so it's very important that the public health officials know if anyone got any kind of viral pneumonia, if they were in china or in contact with someone in china. it's critical we have a surge of resources into our pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry supported by the national institutes of health and other laboratories to try to identify effective, competent diagnostic testing and a vaccine as quickly as possible. i have high confidence in the state of american ingenuity and medicine and science. i have lope confidence in the state of chinese politics because their government is still lying to the world about this deadly serious matter

>> now, this plane that carried all of these individuals back in to the united states, a long piece in "the washington post" about how there's a raging debate including the centers of disease control and other administration officials about whether to allow these individuals back in given how little information we really know about real incubation periods, real ability to test, etc. the centers for disease control said i guess you guys can do what you want. we're not putting our names on this press release you're putting out. that concerns me a lot. there seems to be a stark disagreement within our government about how to handle infected patients. >> laura, i think it's a very last-minute decision given the facts on the ground. these americans were on the diamond princess cruise ship in japan. it seems now that the unwise

decision of the japanese government to have kept all of the passengers on the cruise ship given the way it's spread across the cruise ship. americans who are known to have the corona virus were taken to japanese hospitals but 350 americans who were going to board planes and come back to american military bases where they'll be quarantined here. at the last minute, an s toen of them tested positive. the planes had segregated areas for people who appeared symptomatic in flight. i understand it was the tough call at the last minute. there were not surprisingly disagreements. i think donald trump's democratically accountable officials made the decision they wanted to err on the side of bringing americans back to the united states and i'm sympathetic for that decision. all of those people symptomatic or not are under quarantine on the military bases >> i pressed the head of the allergy and infectious diseases about china's trustworthiness. here's what he said

>> the w.h.o. has finally gotten a team of people, an international group to go over there. right now at this point in time, i believe those numbers >> i'm surprised that you would say that given what you know about china's pattern of lying. >> my direct indirection with chinese science, not party politics, medical people and scientists that i can believe what they're telling me. >> senator, do you have the same view of chinese scientists and there's a line between the scientists and the ccp, the communist party of china? >> well, first, laura, i want to say that i have the highest respect for dr. fouchy. but i do have a different perspective here >> yeah. >> so i don't disagree that china's scientists and doctors can, in some cases, be world class and they can be professional. however, they have sitting next to them at every level of government a minder from the chinese communist party.

and i do not have any confidence in those party workings allowing scientists or doctors to speak freely to anyone outside of china, especially officials in the united states government. that's why we've seen the numbers to spike and strange unpredictable patterns. they are not newly discovered cases, they're newly disclosed cases because china is carefully managing the flow of information about this viefrs >> you call someone who floats conspiracy theories, because you questioned the comments of the -- the justification they gave about how this all started. and you mentioned the fact that there's a level 4 lab in the wuhan province where it's thought to have biological weapons, capability of production. any new thoughts on that? . >> we know it didn't start in the wuhan food park.

that was the original story. it's only highly possible to ask where it did start. it says it was approximate imtally given, the proximity to the food market that it's only reasonable to ask the chinese party to be open and transparent about the research they're conducting and the safety protocols and practices they have in place. until china provides the evidence, we cannot know where this virus originated >> senator, thank you for raising these questions. few are doing so. we appreciate your leadership in general on the china question. thank you so much for being with us tonight >> thank you, laura. >> coming up, dog show and a hat that triggers the left? well, the last bite will somehow explain.

♪ >> laura: it is time for the last bite. the left is in shell shock over the outfit of a dog and get this, dog show contestant. >speak a 1-year-old yorkshire terrier. >> office of the most dangerous dog in the competition. >> make america great again, i heard where voting and wanted to make sure. >> their political, all right. >> laura: okay, sadly, did not win the cutie pie, but i hope he

started the political movement amongst his fellow canines. make america bark again. that's all the time we have tonight, kristin fisher and the fox news at night team to get all from here. ♪ speak out this is a fox news election alert on kristin fishen for shannon bream and we are just hours away from the nevada caucus and bernie sanders is campaigning right now and democrats in the state are promising will be nothing like what happened at iowa and tonight, there are several developments that may tip the scales in a tight race that interrupted by another new york billionaire. of one day after democrats feasted on reports that the russians are trying to help president trump get reelected, we learned that team put in is