greatest scientist. look at all those companies that are helping all hands on deck, 90% that is great and then you've got a few bad apples like what we saw in congress, et cetera. anyways, that's all the time we have left. >> laura: let me just say thi this, you have loan the break three nights in a row. i know you are talking to the president. hannity, at the end, you are going to start asking questions. >> sean: cuomo and de blasio mining, how about saying thank you to the country? thank you to the president? >> laura: you know this is

about politics. >> sean: it's a national emergency, put it aside for ten seconds. >> laura: i enjoyed listening to the interview, hannity. have a good rest of the night, we will talk to you tomorrow. >> laura: i am laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. while president trump tries to bring hope, he just did on hannity show, the left is focused on stoking fear. we have our own panel of experts, doctors, practicing physicians, including those who are treating covid patients. here to explain why you should not fret. panic. you won't believe what san francisco tried to sneak into the aid package, kevin mccarthy is here with details. i am warning you how bad this pandemic will hurt our economy. today, brand-new jobless claim members. we have a lot to say on that.

but first, welcome to the end of day ten. can you believe it? the national spotligh shut downe of a virus that arrived via china. we have a lot of new information at this hour, the number of coronavirus infections in the u.s. stands at 83,000. that is an increase of about 20,000 from yesterday, we are doing a lot more testing. the day before that jumped by 11,000. the number of those recovered is 18624, and the numbers of dead is at least 1201, an increase of 314 from the previous 24-hour period. the day before that, they rose by 212. we are not at peak of at least not yet and certainly not in the covid hot spots. new york, it remains the epicenter of this virus. 55% of all new infections, 1/3 of all deaths occurring there.

governor cuomo offered some good news on the issue that people were understandably freaking out about just a couple days ago. that is the question of the availability of gowns and masks. to speak of equipment and ppe in ongoing issue, we do have enough ppe for the immediate future. the new york city hospital system confirmed that. so, we have enough in stock now for the immediate need. >> laura: he offered another stark warning on icu beds and ventilator needs. >> ventilators, ventilators, ventilators. we are still shopping for ventilators all across the country, we need more. the hospitals have 53,000 bed capacity, we are trying to get 140,000 between hospitals and overflow facilities. we are also scouting dorms,

hotels for emergency beds. >> laura: days ago, the angle had started to crunch the real numbers for both italy's covid experience and china. the dire warnings that hundreds of citizens of ventilators were going to be needed, and potentially millions of americans could've died. neither of which match the new data that we are looking at, these projections were based on a model done by the team at imperial college in london. today, this is what our instinct was. the lead researcher did an about-face, terrifying projections. the very projections that drove. >> there would be 500,000 deaths in the u.k., 2.2 million deaths in the united states. they have adjusted that number in the u.k. to 20,000, the predictions of the models don't match the reality on the ground

in either china, south korea, or italy. when people start talking about 20% of the population getting infected, it is very scary. but we don't have data that matches that based on the experience. >> laura: that data of actual covid hospitalizations and icu needs and forms to questions of how many ventilators will be needed, and the nightmare scenario that would have to ration care. >> right now, you can see these cases are concentrated in highly urban areas. there are other parts of the state that have lots of ventilators, and other parts of new york state that don't have any infections right now. so we can be creative, we can meet the need by being responsive. but there is no model right now, no reality on the ground where we can see that 60-70% of americans are going to get infected in the next 8-12 weeks. >> it appears that

governor cuomo's dire productions are based on that original faulty model that didn't include the clinical reporting by the chinese and italian health care professionals. now, viewers of the show, you are already aware of the faulty modeling done on covid because i asked dr. fauci about this on tuesday night. >> if the numbers are not right, it affects the decision-making about when the country can gradually get back to business. >> you are absolutely right. >> laura: on both the issue of promising therapies like hydroxychloroquine, the analysis used in these productions, productions, the ingraham angle has been days if not weeks ahead of some of the major news networks. why is that? how is that? i was lucky enough to assemble my own team of medical advisors, and you all know who you are out there. they were raising all the right questions, stuff that i would not know about but they do.

they actually are people who treat covid patients, day in and day out. many of these so-called experts, i was thinking about this today, have failed us in the past on really key issues. think about iraq, think about trade with china, think about the importance of border enforcement. the internet bubble, the housing bubble. and now, the cdc's covid testi testing. time will tell just how accurate, or inaccurate, the experts were in this crisis. was a total shutdown the right way to go? or should we have taken a more modified approach, akin to what sweden is doing? should we be waiting for the herd immunity to develop or force everyone to isolate and hope the second wave of infection never comes? in the meantime, we are lucky to have a president who trusts, but then verifies what the experts have been saying.

and balances that with the overall needs of the american people and economy. he announced today he will be releasing new guidelines for the governors, gradual, relaxing of the shutdown in areas that have managed to escape the worst of the virus. >> we do have 19 out of 50 states to be reminded, they had early cases but have low level of cases at this point. that is almost 40% of the country with extraordinarily low numbers, and they are testing, these 19 states are still doing active containment. they are at 200 cases, just the fact that they have been measuring them for the last 3-4 weeks. >> laura: even then, if the restrictions are lifted it doesn't mean that people should go about their merry way like before the virus. that is not what the president i think is going to advise. they should not still let their guards down. >> i want both guidelines to go

even when we are open and fully operation, and frankly much of e guidelines like shaking hands maybe people aren't going to be shaking hands anymore. as soon as we open, that doesn't mean you're going to stop. you will still try and distance yourself, maybe not to the same extent because you have to lead a life. but i think the time is coming. >> laura: common sense, when will that reign supreme? he understands that the virus or no virus, people don't have a way to make a living on the other side of this if things collapse, businesses go out, banks go under, restaurants go under, jobs never return, certain types of jobs don't make it. if the long-term to america is this insidious virus, those are my thoughts at the end of america shutdown day ten. joining me now is dr. stephen smith, founder of the smith center for infectious diseases and urban health. also with us, ceo of foxhall

cardiology. new york saw an increase in infections today, what are you seeing in your hospital? >> we have fewer consuls today, patients today with this suspected virus. we are down to maybe 5 o maybe 5 or 6 today, as i mentioned yesterday the vast majority of patients that came in yesterday with suspected covid had had symptoms for a long time, a few of them had been to ers and hospitals and sent home. they were infected along time ago, their symptoms continued. we are seeing fewer new infections, people have been infected in the last few days. that is not happening as much. >> laura: doctor, i mentioned earlier in the show this fact that this original projection from the imperial college which stated in the u.k. they would have 500,000 deaths.

it ended up being, while now it is 20,000. i am not great at math, tell us about that and how that created a domino effect of panicked response. >> neil ferguson, as you mentioned, estimated that 20% of infected individuals would be hospitalized. there was recent paper put out and published in the financial times by a doctor from oxford, suggested about 1,000, half of the u.k. have been affected. i think the difference here is, when one or two people here cross the road they look both ways. 120 people cross, no one looks. and no one really looked at neil ferguson's base assumption which is a guess as to what was going on in china early on. >> dr. smith, we heard these horrific possibilities today

that there are all these doctors talking about dnr's, do not resuscitate orders. i imagine they are going to run out of ventilators. dr. birx threw cold water on that, angry about that today. what are your thoughts on that? >> the dnr obviously is always a decision for the family. most are in their 90s, some of the patients we have had discussions with families about, we don't even know if they have covid. anytime someone in their 90s gets sick or goes to the hospital, it is just a discussion. there is not pressure on people now more than ever simply because of these situations. there is no one thing we need to make your grandfather dnr

because we don't have enough fence, that is not happening. >> laura: it panics everybody, that in and of itself can drive the concern about keeping this country shut down. as long as possible, isolate people as long as possible. but you have been looking into the herd immunity idea, and other countries are as well. tell us about that. >> well, the british floated this idea that essentially, they would quarantine or self-quarantine high risk individuals and over a period of time, when 60 or 70% of the population had been infected, that essentially the virus would burn itself out. the arnott would drop to one or less, the idea at the same time, someone like my 75-year-old mother would be restricted at home, away from

risk for a couple months. but the larger population would develop community by exposure. >> laura: dr. smith, i know in your patients today and yesterday this week, you have seen an interesting and i guess disturbing trend of underlying conditions for those covid patients. what are those? >> it's revealing. we are seeing a lot more diabetes. we have 23 proven covid patients, 13 are known diabetics. the other nine are prediabetic, only 1 out of 23 hospitalized covid patients that we are taking care of are not diabetic or prediabetic. in the severe form, we had 15 patients with severe covid cases

and in the icu. ten of those patients had diabetes, four had prediabetes. the only one who didn't was 94-year-old man, we don't know if he had either. we don't even have his covid test back, we are not sure. so the frequency of diabetes and prediabetes and high sugar levels, that's enormous and something i have never seen associated with any viral infection. i have been asking colleagues about it, for instance people with diabetes should get the flu vaccine, it is not one of the main groups the cdc recommends. >> laura: dr. smith, this is one of the things we are going to learn a lot about as this data keeps coming in. i know you have said all along, we need all the chinese data. the data will tell the story

about transmission rates, and all of it. we have a lot of time to digest that. in the meantime, thank you both for your analysis tonight. especially on that faulty modeling, thanks so much. and michigan governor joined nevada and new york and literally are threatening doctors and pharmacists in the state who prescribed and dispensed speec hydroxychloroqu. dr. smith is using hydroxy and azithromycin on some of his patients. prescribing hydroxychloroquine without further proof of efficacy for treating covid-19 will be evaluated and may be further investigated for administered of action. joining me now, dr. jeff colyer. chair of the national advisory committee on rural health and human services. doctor, these governors seem to be still reacting to that one story out of arizona where the guy had the aquarium cleaner, that was a tragic death for him.

if this off label use hurting or helping patients? >> off label use is extremely common, 21% according to johns hopkins magazine. johns hopkins estimates 21% of prescriptions nationally are off label usage. doctors do this regularly. and this is an instance where we have some data, but it is our only option. i think if you work with your doctor, and your doctor prescribes this, then i think that is a reasonable plan. you need to have a plan with your physician. >> laura: but threatening pharmacists with license revocation, or threatening doctors who are already under such incredible strain. with administrative action. you are lucky to have the doctors you have, boston has 150 health care workers infected. this is how they treat them?

many of them are reporting to us positive results with hydroxy and azithromycin, this is insane. >> one of the things that would actually be a very good idea is in this emergency, you should drop risks of malpractice or other things against licensed physicians. we need those bodies out there. we need people to take care of patients, see them, listen to them, and they are on the front lines. they are putting their own lives at risk. >> laura: dr. fauci addressed a question today, i have asked him about it specifically. he doesn't dismiss the potential completely, of these antivirals, but he wants to wait for all the bows to be tied. watch. >> the best way to get the best drug as quickly as possible is to do a randomized controlled trial. so that you know, is it safe?

is it effective? >> laura: doctor, isn't this a wartime situation? ideally, you want a controlled, randomized study. but, this is wartime. you use the advantages you have. >> exactly, you go to war with the team that you have with the soldiers that you have. you know you were also building additional planes and tanks for it. in this instance, we have a drug that is very safe, it started in 1955, has been used throughout the last 60 years. it has been widely used. that's a very good safety profile. the safety part of it is minimal. we are using it only for five days. the efficacy of it, yes, i would love to have the standard. >> laura: i have to ask you one more question, cuomo is under a normal strain obviously, a horrific situation unfolding

in his state. but he said this about how the state experience will be americas in general. watch. >> almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the current health care system. keep the curve down. new york is the canary in the coal mine, new york is going first. we have the highest and fastest rate of infection. that is how the nation should look at it. look at us today, where we are today. you will be in three weeks or four weeks or five weeks or six weeks. we are your future. >> laura: is not the case? is new york's example, which is horrific, going to be the same for kansas city and denver and

scottsdale? >> no, every region is different. here's the thing, we all get smarter as this goes on. that is part of the ingenuity of americans and how we deal with it is very important. we are fighting for our patience, the president is fighting for our patients. all of us are, we are getting together. one of the things is, yeah, we will help our neighbors in new york but we will take care of our own here. i see also is of interest things happening here. getting more medical students how to help the community in rural areas, taking care of specific problems. we have a lot of answers and we are going to do it. >> laura: a highly congested city like new york is going to be the same into topeka or bend, oregon, that doesn't add up.

thank you very much for joining us tonight, up ahead democrats say they held up the coronavirus a bill to make it more worker friendly. is that true? kevin mccarthy joins us next to expose the truth. i'm finding it hard to stay on top of things a faster laptop could help. plus, tech support to stay worry free woory free.... boom! boom! get free business day shipping... ...at office depot, officemax and officedepot.com

>> laura>> direct cash paymentse available to american citizens earning less than $99,000 per year. expanded unemployment benefits, the average worker who has lost his or her job will receive 100% of their salary for up to four full months. these are things that, by the way, we have plenty more to go, but they are things that nobody has ever had and ate a package like this. >> laura: it is a big amount of money, a lot of money.

that was president trump earlier today touting the aid package that passed the senate last night 96-0. the house is expected to pass the stimulus bill tomorrow, with bipartisan support. in a surprising twist, nancy pelosi is taking credit for it all. >> we did jiu-jitsu on this, it went from our corporate first proposal to a workers first, democratic workers first legislation. >> joining me now, house minority leader kevin mccarthy. congressman, was nancy pelosi's 80th birthday today. did she give herself a little gift there? is that what happened to make this $2 trillion bill better? >> i know it is her birthday, but it does not give her the right to live. 99% of this bill was already decided on sunday, she held the bill up. look what we just found out today, almost 3.3 million

americans just lost their job last week. while she was holding a spill up, why? she wanted to change election law, she wanted planned parenthood to be funded, she wanted the green new deal, she wanted more money for things money for things weary cities. that is what she was requesting, that is what was kept out of it. this bill is just about where it was, she did get $24 million more for the kennedy center, that is her jiu-jitsu. that is the only thing they're able to do. think about what this bill does, provides funding for those who need it by the income level, we provide money for hospitals that are in crisis right now, but then we take the small business where millions of americans work, and we provide funding, we give them alone. the big part of it, if you pay your rent and you keep people employed, that is a grant from government. we are trying to keep people employed in this nation. >> laura: congressman, i am hearing from a lot of business owners. people who had to furlough 900, 700 people in the last couple

days. these people are heartbroken. what their concern is is that we need a date certain. bloomberg had a big piece on this tonight. the date certain is really the thing that is most needed. to inject a sense of there was another side to this, we will get on the other side and it is not going to be a month, it is a date certain. if we don't have that, then $2 trillion as a drop in the bucket. what is your reaction? >> this president is looking and talking to experts, but also realizes and tells the american public we will come back and business will come back, there may be spots of america that could open up soon and others would have to go through this. that is why this bill provides more than two months to pay for your employees, to not lay them off and keep them employed. if you are a large employer, it helps you secure that loan but more importantly gives you a tax credit where the federal government is playing for your employees, about 50% of it for the next two months. that date certain is where this

president is working to to get america working again. this bill allows you to stay employed while that time goes forward. >> laura: what about the employees who lose their health care? if they're going to be more money for obamacare, medicare? what are they going to do? >> it's most important for them not to lose their job, if you have fewer than 500 employees, we are going to provide you the money, not a loan, but a grant to pay your rent and pay your employees. you keep 100% of them, we pay 100% of that salary. that allows for the next two months that we get through this, just as you talk about date certain. we will get through this, but we will keep you employee so you will not worry about health insurance. >> laura: the businesses that are struggling are the ones that are more than 500, but less than the behemoth tech companies. congressman, this is something said today by l.a. mayor

mayor garcetti who is bracing for the increase in coronavirus. he is making his own warning, to the rest of america. watch. >> for anybody listening out there, this isn't one of those moments you say that is new york, we are different. from the smallest town, no matter where you are, this is coming to you. everybody is the new wherever the worst city is right now, it is going to be in topeka, atlanta, louisville. >> laura: do you agree that what is happening in l.a. and new york is going to also come to smaller town america was to mark medium-sized cities in the united states customer car they're all the same when it comes to covid-19? >> i don't think they are all the same, people washing their hands more saves people, people distancing themselves, the things we have learned in the last month make us safer. what is happening also on the ground, look at the therapies that are being created.

look at what we are being able to make already, looking at a trial when it comes to a vaccine. it took us two years to get to clinical trial after sarge, we are already in clinical trial. this president has fundamentally shifted what is going on. look at what we are doing and testing, and the last eight days we have tested more than south korea tested in the last eight weeks. by the end of this week, we will be testing 100,000 people in a day. >> laura: dr. birx seemed to want to bring everybody see your level down because of that faulty modeling, that really got everyone scared about the numbef events that would be required, thank you very much, stay safe out there, great to see you. >> the coronavirus has been a wake-up call about our dependency on china. so, why are 12 g.o.p. senators opposing policies that would fix that? they wrote this to president trump, we urge you to pause any consideration of

reported buy american requirements for medical goods and equipment, we cannot risk paralyzing an utterly critical supply chain at this point in time. here to react or to fox news contributor's, sara carter and marc thiessen, former white house speech writer. sarah, why are these republicans opposing the made in america idea? i don't think the president will saying cut all medical supplies at this moment. but it was a larger concern that they have about globalization being less popular today than it was perhaps just a few months ago. spea>> coming off the tariffs, e tariffs are a barrier. they send a direct message to china. i know republicans are saying less to a moratorium, a 90 day period in the letter that senator chuck grassley sent along with others, it says a total moratorium. i don't think that is a way to go at all. china has shown, and especially the communist party under

president xi, we know that they have lied from the very beginning of this outbreak. they have lied to the world. they exacerbated this problem, they used propaganda against our nation. and i think, if anything, we could take a look at what is going on. we should see what we need as far supplies, but we don't know the extent yet of what we're going to need. so we need to take this slowly. we just can't drop the entire tariff issue. >> laura: rewarding china, for what happened. we are going to take a tariffs off, that will hurt american export. that is a brilliantly idiotic idea. mark, nbc is now touting the chinese government's response to the coronavirus. we warned us that this was going to happen last week, saying if the u.s. struggles to stem coronavirus, china assert itself as global leader with italy in dire need of medical equipment, an economic superpower stepped in to help.

not the united states, it was china. we could have written this. they cost it, now they are the white knights coming into save us. >> it's unbelievable. the fact is, we are in this lockdown today because the communist chinese regime cared more about suppressing the truth than they did about the virus. they knew in december of last year that there was human to human transmission i'm to the back medical workers were getting sick and they told the n january 15th that china has found no human to human transmission. it was a lie, a month later. this wasn't just a virus, we had trouble containing it, sorry but we will help you fix it. they intentionally suppressed the truth, they punished doctors, that poor doctor who died. the whistle-blower, he was arrested for trying to alert the world that there was human to human transmission of this disease.

not only should we not be rewarding them or praising china, we just spent $2 trillion of american taxpayer money as kevin mccarthy just said to pay the salaries of every worker at a company with 500 or less employees. china off to pay that. when this is all over, we should send him the bill. >> laura: 2 trillion, we will need a lot more than that. when you really do the math on this, if we don't start listening to trump's instincts and part of the country where this is peaked or didn't get the exposure, gradually start opening up this economy, $2 trillion is not going to get us anything. we will have to spend triple that, then what do we do? then where did we go? >> that is right, we are not going to get anything from relieving china of obligations. if anything, that is a joke. i think the president realizes this, i think the white house

does. i don't think, i think for them this is a no-go situation. the national security applications, with the coronavirus it told us and taught us where we are failing as far as our supplies of antibiotics, our supplies of medication, our supplies of medical supplies. those are national security issues. we need to fix that, and we need to hold china accountable. >> laura: it is not even, it makes you so sick to her stomach. what has happened to our country, just in the past six weeks because of this. i just put a list up of the coronavirus barrel spending, we have the kennedy center gets $25 million as we pointed out, smithsonian get seven, national endowment of humanities 75 million. corporation of republic podcasting 75 million. it goes up, international disaster assistance, i am not worried about that. migration and refugee assistan

assistance, 350 million. this has to be a misprint. marc thiessen, real quick. >> look, when you write a bill this quickly to deal with the crisis a lot of stuff is going to happen. democrats control the house, they have some leverage. i think as kevin mccarthy said, 99% of this bill was written before the democrats started messing with it. look, as a conservative, i don't want government intervention in the economy. we are already intervening, we have created a recession in order to hav salt a health cris. if yo>> laura: my mother used to say, that burns me up. sarah and mark, thank you so much. coming up, congress is economic aid bill is supposed to keep the unemployment rate from exploding, but will it cost to mark a boy, steve forbes has something to say about that next.

>> laura: the national shutdown of our economy because of the coronavirus has caused huge economic pain. it pretty much everyone we know or someone close to us has really felt it. 3.3 million american workers, i can't even say that. it is so devastating. that is nearly five times the previous record, who filed for an employment. that is back in 1982, i was 695,000. now it is 3.3 million, joining

me now steve forbes german editor in chief of "forbes" magazine. steve, steve minutia the treasury secretary said said those figures aren't relevant aa discussion. are they not relevant? >> of course they are, they would have been higher if people had been able to get online. their systems were overwhelmed. you will see numbers not only this week but in the weeks to come. we know that, when you take 30 or 40% of the economy out of commission if you will get massive unappointed rapidly. that is why they are having this bill. tens of thousands of businesses face ruin, that is why they need relief right away. and so, it may not be relevant, the only way it is not relevant is it is low, it is going to get worse. >> laura: steve, a friend of mine floated the idea instead of this approach where we are throwing stimulus dollars at the equation, at the problem, a lot of these companies have bills

due. they are not going to be able to make their payments that are larger than 500 employees. kicking out the timeline for accounts receivable, so you don't get forgiveness but it is like a 30 day, give us a breather for 30 days. what about that? >> everything has got to be considered, a lot of these companies are really stretched thin. they are hoping for a relief coming in. that is why the democrats putting in this bill, more bureaucratic procedures so-called oversight will delay the money going out by several days. this should have been done a week ago. every day that is delayed, the host voting tomorrow, but if they had done it a week ago a lot of these businesses would have seen signs that they could stay in business. that is why the small business administration have to weigh these requirements, there will be fraud, there will be placed. we can deal with that after the

crisis. we have a lot of innocent businesses that need help now. >> a lot of business leaders i have talked to over the last week, everyone is trying to get my ear. they say look, we understand the virus has its own timeline. but we as people employing millions of americans, we need a timeline here. we need to something, some sense that we are going to get a date certain very soon and we will be on the other side of this. anthony fauci is obviously concerned about the virus timeline, i get that. but what about that need for certainty? >> i think this is where the testing is finally going to provide some useful information, for a variety of bureaucratic reasons we are a month behind on that so we didn't get the information we need. there are different parts of the country that are suffering in different ways. moreover, these things like hydroxychloroquine could be very helpful in terms of treating this disease. so, in terms of that, i think we

will have parts of the country be able to go at least partially back to work. people like me, over the age of 70, part of the population that is really vulnerable, we may have to stay quarantined so to speak for a while longer. but you can take a more approach to get more people back to work. then you can focus on businesses that are still hurting, get the assistance to them. another thing that democrats did, republicans went along with that, i don't like the idea that the government taking stock in these companies. you make the loan, you charge them interest, but putting socialism of bernie sanders, this is going to be troubled on the road. >> laura: i am concerned as well. it's always great to see you, we will check back with you next week. thanks so much. coming up, epidemiologists are still trying to figure out how the number of coronavirus cases in northern italy exploded. the ingraham angle investigates, next.

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>> laura: a lot if you are wondering why was italy so hard hit by the coronavirus outbreak? weird, right? did you know 310,000 chinese people now live in italy now in the north? 30,000 of them work in the tech district alone. others have reported that many of them come from wuhan, the source of the coronavirus. winning me now is stacy mccain, a writer for the american spectator. robert, why northern italy and how did covid affect that part of the country so, so terribly, and contribute to the threat throughout europe? >> laura, the key is over the past ten years, multiple media outlets who have reported on the fact that chinese workers and

chinese owned firms have substantially taken over the fashion industry and it northern italy. because they want that brand, that made in italy tag. that is worth something. >> laura: how does that then connect to the covert virus? china comes into the country like the bahamas, and tried to set up hotels. they didn't spark an outbreak there. we don't have any definitive proof or linkage yet, or perhaps it exists, perhaps a dozen. that doesn't explain the number of chinese people who come and go in that part of the country. >> exactly, that is the point. the media, since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, have gotten a collective case of amnesia about these chinese workers and it northern italy.

you have to ask the questions, who, what, when, why, and how. the lunar new year celebration from january 24th, preceded by about three weeks the outbreak of the first known cases of coronavirus in northern italy. and, apparently, these workers were coming back after going home, this is a traditional holiday in china, and many workers do go home and they were going to the province where, of course, the outbreak occurred. >> we should say, the first two cases in italy they believe were in rome. they were people traveling to rome that were chinese people coming to rome. the media has written about this connection before, before this virus. it is good to just ask these

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>> it was just five days ago that politico reported the justice department was seeking extraordinary powers for the national emergency including indefinite detention for suspects. today the ag told fox news the

story is cockamamie nonsense, it was about court filings and deadlines and another irresponsible example of press bias. a part of the recent no one trusts the media anymore. that's all the time we had tonight, shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team take it from here. >> shannon: rakin breaking toni, coronavirus cases and deaths surge coming out saying the shelter in place strategy may not have been the best public policy strategy. the the admission comes as new york and the rest of the country come to grips with the severe economic impact of the response. fears and questions about whether the u.s. will see the same. a key member of the coronavirus task force chided some of the media reports for needlessly scaring already frightened