thank you. before we go, tomorrow night, exclusive interview with the president. it will be on this program. hope you set your dvr, that's not quite eastern. also, sunday night, fox and i heart teamed up for life conference playing on all foxfire forms. laura ingraham, hi. >> laura: hey, hannity, awesome, and i can't wait by the wait to see -- are you going to be with the president but 6 feet away? are you going to be on the phone, how are you going to do that? >> sean: it's a secret and i don't reveal secrets. you'll have to tune in. listen, in all seriousness i know everybody's nervous. the one thing we got to remember is most people, the vast majority 98.9% get well. but we are trying to save the 1%. the president asked today, how many dots are except a ball said none. >> laura: it's zero. the demonization of him is not work -- it's not working, we know that, we are jammed up tonight, we got the surgeon general tonight. >> sean: a great interview

with dr. fauci last night. it was awesome. >> laura: thanks so much, and we will talk to later on, see you tomorrow, sean. >> sean: let not your heart be troubled, in charge. >> laura: i am laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from d.c. tonight. we have a huge show coming up for you. president trump calling out democrats for not wanting to restart the u.s. economy is the left pushes the idea of a national lockdown for the next x number of months. u.s. surgeon general jerome adams from the white house coronavirus task force is here with me tonight. he will chime in on all the latest development. plus, the disinformation campaign about the president and what he's done already to fight against covert. dinesh d'souza, dan bongino, that's going to be good, exposing the lies. and joe biden loses his way, shocker. and bernie sanders takes a page out of his opponent's under book. raymond arroyo is here with a special seen and unseen. news is moving fast on the coronavirus front. you heard some of it earlier

today, but even tonight things are changing. the government's response to it, we are going to give you the latest. now we have this 2.1-$2.2 trillion relief package that both parties it seems like finally agreed on today. >> this $2.2 trillion legislative package is bigger than anything i believe ever passed in congress. perhaps relatively speaking if you go back, look during the fdr new deal days there was something that if you time valuate you could say it was bigger i don't know, but this is certainly, in terms of dollars, by far and away the biggest ever -- ever done. >> laura: of course that has sent a lot of conservatives gasping when they heard that but we know what was coming and most of us did understand it. something needed to be done to help american workers and businesses. there's a lot at the same time not to like in this package.

check this out, nancy pelosi is still holding out for this provision that would basically got any state voter i.d. requirements. i kid you not. and there's all sort of stuff with the ballot harvesting. this is a nightmare. thinking about this, i guess they're watching old joe 's campaign stumbles -- the whole thing is really starting to look like a weekend at biden's, as i said a few weeks ago. at another concern with the federal unappointed benefits, they want people to get help, but will last 39 weeks. in other words, through the end of 2020, god help us if this shutdown goes on that long or anywhere approaching that long. so when you add up the state on employment benefits with the federal benefits, the average weekly unemployment check will be about $972 which again, when you do the math, it seems the median weekly earnings of american workers from quarter four of last year. meanwhile, the dire tone seemed

to change today at the new york governor 's covid-19 briefing. cuomo seemed to let up a little bit on the blame game. >> it's something that our team is working on the white house team and i want to thank the president for his cooperation and his team for their cooperation. >> laura: that was good to hear. and even as new york still accounts for about 60% of new covid cases, there is more room for optimism. it actually appears that the rate of hospitalizations is slowing. remember, the big concern always has been a potential collapse of the health care system. >> this past sunday but projection was but hospitalizations were doubling every two days. okay? on monday, the numbers suggest that the hospitalizations were doubling every 3.4 days. on tuesday, the projections suggest of the hospitalizations

were doubling every 4.7 days. now, that is almost too good to be true. the arrows are headed in the right direction and that is always better than the arrows headed in the wrong direction. >> laura: i'll say. and the number of new infections in new york is starting to show some signs of good news as well. on monday the state reported an increase of 5,707. on tuesday it went up 4,790, that's nearly 1,000 person decrease in the rate of increase, that kind of gets confusing but today it went up 5,146, but that is still down two days ago. you see those trends. if that trend does hold, it's really good news about when this nightmare actually peaks and then we start seeing light at the end of the tunnel. but fear is powerful. we all know that end in this case it's understandable, given what we've seen. around the world, especially in places like italy. but fear alone should not drive

policy. facts and reliable updated data should inform all of our projections. dr. birx from the coronavirus task force seemed to be alluding to that today. >> we're dealing with the here and now, while we are planning for the future, and i think that the numbers that have been put out there are actually very frightening to people. but i can tell you if you go back and look at wuhan and all of these provinces, when they talk about 60,000 people being infected, even if you said all right, while there is a symptomatics and of that, 60,000 people out of 80 million. that is nowhere close to the numbers that you see people putting out there. i think it has frightened the american people. >> laura: that's perspective, we need that perspective. as scary as this seems. finally, new drug therapies are being tested and used including one used even to treat gout and

anybody's test -- antibodies test may tell us who already has immunities and is virus, may have gotten it, not had a strong reaction to it, already developing those important communities, that will also help us prepare better for the futu future. and around the world countries are taking different approaches. india has a total lockdown now and after italy's horrific experience, you kind of can't blame people, extreme social distancing. it's affected in the u.k., and spain. but sweden and denmark have rejected the total lockdown approach and are getting some grief for it, but are not seeing a greater rate of infection than some of their european counterparts, that's really interesting. only time will tell which approach was right and which one might have been going a little too extreme. but for us, we are ending day ten of the first 15 days and how much longer can we anticipate the shutdown lasting? here to give us an idea of where things stand now is the surgeon general of the united states.

the president has been getting a lot of criticism, dr. adams, for aspiring to end the lockdown by easter. do you think, knowing what you know now, and knowing what we've seen with the rate of infections in the rate of hospitalizations, the projections, do you think that's realistic or unrealistic? >> well, if dr. birx, dr. fauci and i have said all the time --d evening. >> laura: good to see you. >> with it constantly that every place is going to have a different curve, so new york is going to have a different curve than washington, then boise, idaho. and with the president in my mind is doing is trying to help people understand that there is a light at the end of this tunnel. we will get through this and as you mentioned earlier we are seeing new york's cases leveled off, we are seeing the hospitalizations start to level off and when you look at china, when you look at south korea, there curve was about 2-2.5 months, so there is hope that if we continue to lean into these

mitigation efforts, and we are two-thirds of the way through, 15 days to stop the spread initiative, that we can flatten the curve and we can get to the end of this more quickly. >> laura: i got an email from a friend of mine who's in icu doctor up in boston who was just questioning this number that was, again, talking about numbers in perspective and projections. this number that cuomo keeps siding, that we need 40,000 icu beds and 30,000 ventilators and he said the following. he said who's going to work on the patients and the vents, the ventilators? robots? aren't enough medical personnel in the united states to manage that many. what about those numbers and how are we getting to those numbers? again, given the realistic projections from the data we now have from wuhan and italy? >> a couple of things i would say that. number one, you have best case scenarios and worst-case

scenarios and we are not naive enough to assume the best-case scenario, but we also understand that those worst-case scenarios are projections based on us doing absolutely nothing. and that's why the president said ten days ago we need a whole nation to adopt these 15 days to stop the spread and what he specifically returned to new york, washington, california, the hot spots and said you will need to do even more. those worst-case scenarios we hope we don't get there and it's why i've been telling people we need to focus on both supply and demand in the way we lower demand is by pulling down elective cases that actually talked to anesthesiologist in new york earlier this evening who told me that their anesthesia ventilators in western new york at albany could be converted to icu ventilators. we are bringing in extra ventilators, we are procuring ventilators for the defense production act and through partnerships with other suppliers. we are doing everything we can to help new york out and i'm confident that working together with the state we can actually meet the need as long as we

continue to lower the demand. >> laura: but are you saying tonight that you -- again, looking at the data, in the worst-case scenario, and italy and projecting that onto the american population and the city of new york with its 20 million people, 10 million in wuhan, that you think a number of 40,000 icu beds, given the rate of hospitalization we are seeing now, is accurate? that's like triple the worst-case scenario, isn't it? >> it absolutely is the worst-case scenario and i will tell you i'm heartened by the people around the country who are doing the right thing, we are still seeing far too many pictures of people out there doing the wrong things, playing basketball, out on beaches. we need america to understand that we still could be like italy, we could be worse than italy if we don't participate in this 15 days to stop the spread, but more and more people are doing the right thing and i feel actually pretty good that if we continue to lean into this we will actually flatten our curve even more, start to come down and we won't reach those

projections. i also know where stemming as much of our stockpile as we possibly can to new york city and we're trying to use reallocation efforts on ventilators that are already on the ground and around the country so that our health care providers and my friends and colleagues get what they need. >> laura: we certainly hope those numbers never get up that high because again, we just don't have the personnel to man the icu beds currently in new york so let certainly hope that's not the case. only time will tell. 30,000 -- 40,000 vents? >> who volunteered. they are actually health care providers too. >> laura: i understand. >> we are looking to move from places that don't have a lot of cases to places that do so that we can meet that need. >> laura: and, dr. adams, the president today made the point about that she was asked about bringing our supply chain home given the concern about nations hoarding their medical supplies, germany locking the export of certain medicines, you see this in india as well with

hydroxychloroquine. what are your thoughts about this need to bring it all home given what's happening now? when there's a crisis, people rise to the occasion one way or another, but we are seeing -- we are seeing wording. >> one of the things the president always talks about, and we see it every time there's a disaster of any sort is that the supply chain gets disrupted. we now have a global supply chain, we don't make as much as we used to. >> laura: but shouldn't we? that's my point though. we know we don't make it, we don't make a lot of this stuff but my question to you, your health care professional, should we bring this stuff home? >> we should deftly try to make as much is possible here and i saw during the hurricanes two years ago where the supply chain was disrupted and you had the medical industry actually hurt. i'm worried that more people are potentially could be hurt from medical supply disruptions that affect other areas. we know l bureau inhalers, actually facing a shortage

because of the covid in the supply chain being disrupted. >> laura: we are so happy that you are on this task force and i know how hard you all are working. i talked to enough of you every day. surgeon general of the united states, dr. adams, thank you so much for being with us. >> think you, don't forget to donate blood. you can still go out and do th that. >> laura: fantastic, my friends did that today and he said there was not much of a line and it was really easy, so thanks for that reminder, you take care. >> great, you too. >> laura: for more than a week i've been telling about the potential benefits of these decades-old antimalarial, the drug called hydroxychloroquine and last friday i highlighted a landmark study that found treating patients with a combo of hydroxy and is did eliminate symptoms within six days. that was a small study and it is ongoing. things are ongoing, people are using it in some experts say results like this are just anecdotal, but my next guest says not in his case, it worked.

joining me now is jay forman, a coronavirus patient. jay, yesterday was her birthday. i had a chance to talk to on the phone. happy belated birthday. and i'm glad -- you're looking pretty good there, i'm glad you're out of the hospital, but you had a nasty fever for days on end. tell us about what happened and what happened than after the hydroxychloroquine nz pack. >> i got sick originally on the 16th, a sunday. i went to the hospital, i had a fever, a little bit of a cough and the doctor gave me motrin and a cough medicine and sent me on my way. so as i stayed home, progressively i got worse. by friday i was in bad shape, my wife says you've got to go back to the hospital. i go back to the hospital, they admit me right away. i had 102 fever, coughing,

couldn't speak, couldn't breathe. it was terrible. and then i think -- i guess it was saturday morning they started giving me the hydroxychloroquine and z pack and four days later, my fever broke, i have basically no symptoms still. 180 turn around. >> laura: and you were released yesterday, jay come over today? >> i was released this morning. >> laura: i know you were telling me on the phone that it's very -- your ivy extreme were isolated. people come in the room very quickly and leave very quickly. before you got the hydroxy clerk when -- and again, we don't have a controlled study, maybe you would have gotten better on your own, et cetera, et cetera. but you felt -- you felt like you were going in a bad direction, a very bad direction. given what you've heard. >> absolutely. i think the hydroxychloroquine and the z-pak actually saved my

life. >> laura: and what you think about governors who are saying that doctors cannot prescribe it and off label use if it's not part of a controlled study, that it's just not allowed? we are seeing states but in those emergency almost rationing regulations in place. >> they have to do it to save people's lives. i'm laying in the bed in the hospital watching president trump say this possibly can work and i'm living proof. i'm on a tv right now, i'm on a tv in america telling people this drug works. so if there someone in a hospital, pick up your buzzer, buzz your nurse and told you want that drug. if they tell you know, pick it up and buzz it again, because it works. i'm a firm believer of it. >> laura: jay, i'm glad you're out. and i'm glad -- you can celebrate your birthday now, but you take care of yourself and

stay safe and i'm sure we will be in touch. i want to make sure -- no reinfection. your antibodies i hope are up. thanks so much and you take care. >> have a good night. >> laura: all right. more than 150 million americans are now living in lockdown but "the new york times" editorial board once the president to take it even further. he should announce that within 24 hours all nonessential businesses should be shot in residence directed to remain in their homes except for vital trips to obtain food or medical care. a nationwide lockdown is the only tactic left to perry a viral adversary that is constantly on the move. joining me now is dr. stephen smith, founder of the smith center for infectious diseases and urban health, renowned infectious disease doctor. dr. smith, a nationwide lockdown, is that the best answer to the virus that you are treating pretty much every day now? >> i don't think so, i hope

that's not necessary. it doesn't make perfect sense to me and the other issue would be that we told the twentysomethings that they're not going to get seriously ill, the chance of getting seriously ill at least is very small. unless they have some underlying illness, and so they are already not obeying it. so i just don't know that things like that are enforceable. you're going to have another prohibition. >> laura: dr. smith, i want to get right to your experience today. you have a number -- a team of doctors working in your practice. you saw i believe you told me 64 patients today, quickly give me a rundown on the symptoms and what you prescribed. >> so the symptoms can vary. the one thing i noticed today was we did 12 new consoles of we called probable covid because we don't have -- in most cases we don't have the tests back yet. and eight of them had symptoms for over 5-7 days before they came in.

in the symptoms don't have that fever. the one thing that one of the e.r. doctors pointed out to me is when i started seeing patients, she had already been seeing them. they complain about fatigue more than anything. and i went to see my first patient and he's 45, didn't know he had diabetes, which seems to be an enormous risk factor, at least in the population that in which we don't see the viruses. but i've seen his ct scan and it infiltrates the disease everywhere. expecting to be huffing and puffing and complaining about cough and shortness of breath and he's not, he's just complain about the fatigue. and i gave him -- i already ordered the computer hydroxychloroquine. it later day he got intubated and if it is later of talking to the icu about other patients and the nurse practitioner there brought up this patient and i said how's he doing, bad, right?

she says no, we're going to intubate him soon. and i said what? that's an anecdote. >> laura: just so people understand, so you are prescribing hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin in most of her patients and you are one of the most well-regarded infectious disease specialist -- he studied under dr. fauci i understand in the eastern seaboard, so that's what you're prescribing. >> yes. and i'm not alone. the icu is even being more aggressive than i am. they are being are very aggressive with treatments i don't blame them. i guess the analogy would be when you have stage iv cancer -- we are not treating everybody with covid infection, we are treating the people who are sick be admitted and have a high chance or high probability of getting worse. >> laura: dr. smith, i think what we're going to do is try to check back in with you tomorrow because you're seeing so many cases day by day.

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or asking dumb questions like that, as you just heard. to expose the left most egregious lies, want to bring in dinesh d'souza, author of the new book, "united states of socialism." along with me as dan bongino, most of "the dan bongino" podcast. let's dig into the scum of the first lie. the left claim that trump cut his budget. what's watch. >> they haven't set up a pattern on how to proceed. they don't -- they cut the funding for the cdc. that cut the center for disease control, they cut the funding. >> laura: dinesh. >> absolutely outrageous and what we have is the democrats here in complicity with the media. you see the smog expressions on the faces of the media attacking trump. and you know, it's a reputation of an old axiom, which is that when there's an external threat,

a war, 9/11, a virus, that tends to bring people together. we are not -- it tells me the divided -- maybe worse than ever. at any time perhaps going back to the 1860s. >> laura: dan, that was just a factually untrue statement. i know you've done it on your podcast -- we'll talk about this is ridiculous, but then it keeps getting repeated and, it reminds me of the couple who took the fish tank cleaner chemical and that was another 48 hours of trump is endangering the lives of americans, we just heard from one of the most renowned infectious disease specialist on the east coast if not the whole country. he's giving it almost all of his patients right now. >> you know, i never thought i'd see the day, even with our horrible left-wing media. never thought i'd see the day where they actively cheer against a promising potential

therapeutic remedy -- i never thought i'd see it, but you're seeing a rino. laura, have you read the media headlines? they are actively hoping some of these people -- you can see it implied in their tweets and articles that hydroxychloroquine falls on its face and doesn't work. all to dunk on trump in some pathetic display of media hubris i've never seen something so stupid, but it's so bizarre. trump mentions in the press conference and all of a sudden it becomes the enemy and he is or is possible because in a tragic moment nonetheless a guy decided aquarium cleaner, but joe biden i'm sure has mentioned ethanol. if that doesn't mean anyone should go to a gas pump and start sipping from the tank. is this really where we are right now? >> laura: dinesh, i always murmur they kept complaining at the white house, didn't do enough white house briefing. well, now they want them to end, check it out. >> i would stop putting those

briefings on live tv. not out of spite, but because it's misinformation. >> these briefings are substitutes for the rallies, no question there, it's an outlet. if the ability to be of a stage, he knows he can dominate the news task. >> unhinged briefing by unhinged briefing, president trump is making it worse. >> laura: dinesh, i was screaming laughing when i'm watching this going "okay, he is damned if he does, dflush damned if he doesn't. they hate that. >> they hate that and also remember that a few weeks ago, jennifer rubin and others were all putting out the idea that there was so much misinformation being put off by the president and by fox news that we would see spreads of the coronavirus in the red states. republicans would die, but in fact, interestingly, these spreads are mainly in the blue states and what i find find it interesting is you have these blue state governors and mayors

they are trying -- they are criticizing trump, but they also have the outstretched hand. they want trump to intervene. the same guy they have been calling a racist and a fascist for four years and now they want the racist and the fascist to step in and help them out. you think that if a racist and fascist was the guy they needed, they would prefer to go it alone. >> laura: and dan, from the beginning when the president rightly tagged china for not being forthcoming and transparent, still to this day they are not, we still don't have all the data. it's a was like -- and i don't want to believe this, but that people are almost rooting against america in a crisis. that's never a good place to be, dan. >> no, and the spreading by some in the media, laura, of known, active chinese propaganda. listen, it's tautological to say this is a virus that originated in china. to attach that to identity politics as many in the media, laura, four days they wasted five or six questions at a press

or asking if it was racist to refer to a virus whose origin wasn't china as a chinese virus, they wasted a question, because you know what, they know that china found our weak spot. compliant, useful idiots in the media who would play identity politics at the first opportunity again to dunk on trump because that's priority number one these days. >> laura: before, one of the funniest things, the second trump said the word "easter," and wouldn't it be great if churches could fill -- it would be great. if this is lens for catholics and eastern is the most -- really the most important designation and most important marker for our faith, and yet he says that and you might as well thought that he personally affected people with the coronavirus, they went crazy with that. >> yeah. i think part of the fanaticism here, the venom is aimed at propping up biden. the problem that biden has, it's never a good time to put a clueless, doddering guy like biden in the oval office but when there's a crisis and when

there's an economic malaise, that would seem to be the worst time ever and yes, the inability to prop up biden means you've got to go after trump. it got to relentlessly attack trump hoping that that will somehow accrue to the benefit of the democratic candidate. that's part of the politics of the coronavirus. >> laura: gentlemen, thank you, fantastic to see both of you, thanks so much. up ahead, special edition of "seen and unseen." speaking of joe biden, haven't they learned anything? putting him in front of the camel when he doesn't know what's on? raymond arroyo up next. e projec. you need a tractor that can do it all right. you need the #1 selling sub-compact tractor in the u.s.. the versatile kubota bx series.

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♪ >> laura: all right, it's time for seen and unseen segment where we reveal the stories behind the headlines. joining us with all the details, author of [inaudible] now in paperback, fox news contributor raymond arroyo. we show the audience up joe biden's first streaming coronavirus address that was earlier this week, so what is joe doing now, pray tell? >> well, laura, biden's dire side chats, as i'm calling them, are not going anywhere. he sees this as a way to stay relevant, to reach out to people. he did a round of interviews the other day, sans the podium. they were typically biden-esque. >> those poor people who have -- anyway. my heart goes out to them.

>> listen, where two people in our basements with nothing but time. >> why doesn't he just act like a president? that's a stupid way to say that. i really wish she -- sorry. >> go ahead. no. probably best i don't. >> he should have heeded his own advice, it was probably best that he did. the poor man is having brain freezes in the middle of almost every interview and today he hosted a virtual press conference. the only two reporters were allowed to ask questions, the whole thing with a long preamble lasted about 30 minutes. biden issued his support for $2 trillion bailout package and he wants to keep evil quarantine. it's like a man who announces the plant to win world war ii in 1957. at one point he conceded that the public trusts trump's response to the coronavirus and any got confused again. >> i noticed that the president's numbers with the

public have gone up in handling this crisis but i haven't thought of in terms of his presidency. >> galloped to joe he is now at 49% job approval. which is a reversal from a few weeks ago. it does suggest that the american people see him as a stronger leader than you may be characterizing him as. >> well i hope that he does -- he's so strong that he software above that. >> laura: maybe he needs to go back to the swimming pool, raymond, and do that and with the leg hair. >> if trump is stronger, you lose. it's so confusing watching these press conferences. and it was so controlled, they only allowed real journalists to chime in. the big news of the presser was one biden was asked about debating bernie sanders in april. listen to this. >> my focus is just dealing with this crisis right now. i haven't thought about anymore debates. i think we've had enough debates. i think we should get on with this. >> laura: dealing with the crisis -- is he the president? what is he doing? is in his basement! >> that's what i'm saying! he has no job here. if your job is to run for

president, not solve the crisis. but his job, apparently, is to get rid of four bernie sanders. unbeknownst to most americans, laura, bernie sanders held his own virtual town hall last nig night. he was sort of a socialist ed sullivan. not only did sanders feature doctors, but song interludes. >> laura: wow. >> and now we are going to go to our singer, who is sarah lee guthrie. >> laura: and one, and two, and three. >> this was such a mess. bernie was in between senate votes, laura. so there was some confusion about which panelist came next, but whoever was next, it is not political, he kept saying, only it really was political. >> our next panelist is dr. --

>> laura: now this -- this is bad staffing. you could say the staff maybe didn't brief him enough on it because he too is trying to manage the coronavirus response. >> he's not a host, laura. he's not a host on the golden boy biden and bernie have a problem. they have platform envy because every day trump is out there doing his corona update. they have a zoom connection with jill biden using the wi-fi. >> laura: that's a very, very, very unfair and very mean if you and i don't like that, raymond arroyo. besides politicians, this quarantine has brought new talent to the internet. mia farrow posted this clip of her son, ronan farrell, crooning sometime. >> ♪ nowadays ♪ i will send them howling ♪ i don't care

♪ i've got ways >> laura: he has a great voice. >> if you need a definitive proof, laura, that he's not sinatra's kid, that's it. i mean, i don't know why he's running around singing in the house, but nice of mia farrow to celebrate his 90th birthday. they're having a lot of self-serving folks out there. but madonna and others we've shown you, but i have to give a round of applause to garth brooks and his wife tricia yearwood. they did it concert for their fans on facebook the other night. they took requests, they were pitch-perfect, laura. ♪ ♪ we are far from the shallow now ♪ ♪ we are far from the shallow now ♪ >> it was laid-back and cozy and for the fans. that's what we should be doing during these times and what entertainer should be doing. >> laura: a cappella. they had the guitar. >> just the guitar.

>> laura: incredible monster talent. raymond, i just thought you were going to treat us with another madonna singing about that for sure whatever that was buried >> i will see what i can do for friday. >> laura: thanks so much, great to see you. in moments with the latest detail on that $2.2 trillion relief package that the congress right now. plus i'm drawn by the ceo of lifetime fitness. he employs about 40,000 people in his business, he's doing everything he can to save his employees' jobs. you don't want to miss it. it's another big day at the office.

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♪ >> laura: the senate is now moments away from voting on that gargantuan $2.2 trillion stimulus bill. it lets go to congressional correspondent chad pergram, who has his blanket and his provisions and he standing by

on capitol hill. waiting for this, chad. >> we are here every night. we are going to have a vote on this bill in about 30 minutes. they are working for one amendment that's an order, this was offered by ben sasse, republican senator from nebraska. it would bar those that are on unemployment from making more under the unemployment provisions than they would if they were on the job. they are going to subject that to a 60 vote threshold, it's going to lose. bernie sanders, the independent senator from vermont, he headed out with him on the floor just a bit ago and here's what he said about the mmn. "they are upset that some of you who makes 10-12 bucks an hour might end up with a paycheck three months with more than what they're making. the universe is collapsing, oh, my god." they are going to defeat the amendment here, but what comes up in 30 minutes or so, that is final passage of the bill. they are going to subject that to a 60 vote threshold. and probably sometime before midnight the senate will have moved this phase three coronavirus bill. then it's on to the house of representatives.

steny hoyer, the house majority leader, he indicated that he is going to give members 24 hours before they have to come back to washington. what does that mean? probably means that the house doesn't tangle with us to sync up with the senate until friday. kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader seems to be in alignment with that. what this really does, laura, is it buys both sides time to be able to communicate what's in the bill to the senate -- excuse me, to the house were public and congress for the house democrats and then the universal buy-in so they can pass this quickly, supposedly on friday. laura. >> laura: there's a big concern the nancy pelosi is insisting on this provision that would essentially nullify state voter i.d. requirements and other requirements for individuals eligible to vote. any word on that? because that raises a lot of red flags potential for fraud and so forth. >> we just got the final bill text before we came in the air. it's 880 pages. not quite the 1404 pages in her bill and i have not read through

it. i am not a speed reader, so that is something we have to parse through. of the one thing to watch come every time they pass these big bills, especially under pressure, that in the weeks and days succeeding, we find out that there are all sorts of very interesting provisions tucked into these pieces of legislation, laura. >> laura: they have nothing to do with covid-19. thanks so much, great to see you tonight. if congress works to pass the symbols package mother coronavirus is already wreaking havoc on the economy. we know the numbers. the on employment rate expected now to soar. >> what's the job number tomorrow look like do you think? >> it's going to be very large increase in the weekly unemployment. >> millions or what is it, larry? >> i'm not at liberty to say. that will come out at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow, but it's going to be a very big increase. everybody in the market knows that. >> laura: my next guest is a phenomenal businessman, business donor who's doing everything he can to save jobs of all of his workers, by grandm bahram akrads

me now. what are you trying to do to keep your people employed? >> thank you for having me. i am working day and night with all my executives to figure out how we can keep all of our 40,000 team members financially safe through this period unknown and uncertainty. we made the commitment as soon as this thing broke out a couple weeks ago. we immediately canceled 100% of myself and my executive team's compensation, that's every last dollar. we committed to pay our team members through friday, march 29th. and then i have made the commitment to find ways to make sure they all can stay intact beyond that, although i have to explain that with some level for you today. after what i have seen comes out

of these stimulus plans, without having a certain date that we know we can go back to work, i have no choice but to put probably about 90% of my 40,000 people on furlough -- >> laura: i've got to jump in here. because we don't have a date certain to restart the economy -- because you -- your fitness places are all shut down, right? for the most part they are shut down. >> correct. >> laura: those are nonessential businesses although a lot of us need -- they are not essential. they are shut down. so you're saying when trump says i want to get this going starting as soon as possible, maybe even by eastern, when you hear that as a business owner, that's music to your ears, because it means your employees will be working again, even if new protocols are in place with social distancing in the workplace. >> you're absolutely correct. let me explain this.

our president has the right instinct. he knows as a businessman what this means. without a date, myself, all other executives, ceos, boardrooms, you name it, business owners, we are complete we paralyzed and crippled. we cannot make any decisions. okay? if i know i can get my people back to work on 15th of april, i absolutely would pull them right back off the furlough immediately. if i had known -- if i know that we can be back to work by may 1 i can make provisions. we can make sure all of our employees will get full, 100% of their medical and no premium from them immediately. >> laura: bahram, we are running out of time but i want everyone to understand this because businesses have been demonized by the left for so long. you're trying to do right by your employees. you need some certainty at some

point from the federal government. thank you for telling the story tonight. we're going to check back with you next week, hope we will have some more certainty then, bahram, thank you so much. up next is the last bite, and it gets a little snippy. stay there. i'm finding it hard to stay on top of things

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>> laura: it's time for the last bite. it seems like someone is getting a little annoyed that trump's approval numbers keep rising during this crisis. >> so i don't have time to follow people's tweets, twitter

or less, whatever. >> even be on twitter, the president of the united states -- >> i don't care. i don't care. i don't care. >> laura: i don't care. did she say that on purpose? she didn't like that very much. that's all the time wife and i, shannon bream, the "fox news @ night" team take it all from here. shannon, i can't wait to watch. >> shannon: yet. listen, and laura, it's another busy night, they can't get together on the hill. thank you, laura. >> laura: take it away. >> shannon: we are waiting. we begin tonight with a fox news alert. the senate continues to grapple with the details of a massive multibillion-dollar release package aimed at getting that into the hands of you, the american people and loans to small businesses as quickly as possible. senator bernie sanders threatening to hold up the entire deal. we're going to take you there live as we think they're finally hammering out a compromise ahead of what is expected to be in a historic fight in on unappointed claims. hello and welcome