>> sean: we just ran out of time. we will tell you about dom alec baldwin tomorrow. let not your heart be troubled. laura ingraham, how are you? >> laura: i thoroughly enjoyed today's coronavirus task force briefing. that was great. oh, no, it was -- >> sean: it was justified. >> laura: my mom used to always say you condition it out but you can't take it, you know, about people, and they can dish it out to trump, they can accuse him of everything, xenophobia, racism, and the second he stands up and calls them on their nonsense they cry foul and cutaway from the briefing. so they don't like being -- they don't like the tables being turned on them. i love it. >> sean: if they had any intellectual honesty, any, and they don't, they would say, you

know, in retrospect, trump and the travel ban helped the country. prevented people from contracting the disease, return to people likely from dying. that is an impossibility, they are insane. >> laura: no, they're not going to do it. awesome show, great to see you tonight. >> sean: have a great show. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington tonight. of course the numbers came in over the weekend and it is heartbreak to american families that continued over the easter weekend. we have lost no more than 23,000 americans to this covid-19 menace. since we started tracking this virus and we cannot forget -- before we talk abut any of the politics, that every life lost is a loss felt and it's mourned by families and community. and just over the week and the brother of one of my good friends from high school, dear friend from high school had a covid-induced stroke in the boston area. the effects of this are real on each of us, a lot of people know

people who have actually been affected by this, which makes the need for correct data all the more urgent the night. we have a stacked show for you, including this big question. where's congress? our country is facing a health and an economic crisis, so why aren't they back in d.c. working to fix this mess and to be part of the solution? congressman jim jordan and lieselee zeldin are here, they l weigh in on that. plus, it's no longer up for debate. states are using these covid lockdowns to wholesale stripping individuals of their liberties. harmeet dhillon is on the case on his latest shameful attacks on religious freedom and freedom of assembly. and also coming up, you're going to know why the lame stream media will not report the results of the stunning study that came out from france, emmanuel macron has his hands on an outcome, on the covid-19 patients who have been treated

with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. 1,061 patients, my medicine cabinet will give you the facts that the media will not. plus, how did "the new york times" report sexual assault claims against joe biden compared with our coverage of brett kavanaugh? kim strassel exposes a paper's shocking double standard. and last but not least, raymond arroyo is here with a special monday edition of seen and unseen. but first, my thoughts at the end of day 28, america in shutdown. over the past few weeks our fellow citizens have learned a lot about the so-called experts, you know, the people who we are told are the standouts, the most learned professionals in their field. i'm talking about politics and the media and in science. let's remember what we were hearing out of new york. this is just a few weeks ago. politicians who made a enormously expensive requests

from the federal government based on data that turned out to be false. >> all the projections say you could have an apex needing 140,000 beds and about 40,000 ventilators. we are following the data and the science, and that's what the data and the science says. >> laura: those claims were based on the faulty models of the imperial college of london study. and there were profound implications, trillions of dollars spent, based on the fear that those numbers were at least in the ballpark. we were told that the american hospital system was in danger of collapsing if we didn't flatten that curve. well, the numbers weren't even close. >> on behalf of downstate new york, we are in a position now where we are not going to need a ventilators, we are going to be okay, equipmentwise. nothing has changed dramatical dramatically. >> no one who has needed a ventilator has not gotten a

ventilator. no one who has needed a hospital bed has been denied a hospital bed. >> our hospitals were not overwhelmed and are not overwhelmed at this hour. >> laura: that is great news. it's 100% correct. ththe i hme model from the university of washington has the latest numbers and projections. right now there is zero shortage of icu beds zero shortage of vents. the projected need for ventilators on the peak day is 14,407 nationally. that's nationally for icu beds, well, guess what? the numbers just killed the estimates originally. and by the way, another cost of these lame panic-inducing models, it looks like we really didn't need the usns mercy or the uss comfort in new york or los angeles. americans should be furious

about this. of course the men and the women in the ships are doing their patriotic duty. they're amazing. the commanders, amazing. but this is a lot of money that we are spending on a response that was based, again, on faulty numbers. long before the government figured out that these fans said covid-19 models were wrong, my own little team, little band ofw statisticians that are a lot smarter than i am insisted that they had also crunched the numbers. this was weeks ago. if they were making decisions, the people in charge, based on what my team said were wildly incorrect assumptions and ultimately incomplete data. so it was 18 days ago on marc march 24th i pressed dr. fauci on new york's specific ventilator in icu bed request. >> if the numbers are not right, then maybe that affects the

decision-making about when the country can gradually get back to business. >> you're absolutely right, laura, that's exactly right. fema is working closely with the state of new york to try and figure out exactly what they'll need at what time. if the totality of 30,000, what do they need now, next week, the week after? what you're right, those kind of models do help inform us. >> laura: well, it was kind of an answer but nonanswer. my question is if my guys knew the numbers were wrong, and they did, why didn't the experts know that the numbers were wrong as well? why didn't we adjust our shutdown strategy given the huge readjustment in, for instance, the key number, the mortality number? the president today indicated that he did suspect that cuomo's requests were way too high, but he kicked into action anyway. >> fortunately we don't need -- just like we didn't need as many

ventilators when they were asking you new york for 40,000 ventilators, i had experts -- these people, i listen to them. they said you'll never need that many. and they were right. >> laura: well, he was right. his instinct about that was right. and now the blame game of course has begun because over the weekend, "the new york times" attempted to make the case that dr. anthony fauci and others, they were urging the president to shutdown the country i guess earlier. fauci said this to jake tapper. >> you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier you could have saved lives. obviously no one is going to deny that. if we had, right from the very beginning, shut everything down, it may have been a little bit different but there was a lot of pushback about shutting things down back then. >> laura: wait wait -- kind of clarify this at the press conference but what was he caught talking about their? at the end of february he himself was saying publicly and presumably advising the

president that there wasn't all that much to worry about. watch. >> should we be changing our habits and if so, how? >> right here at this moment there's no need to change anything that you're doing on a day-by-day basis. you've got to watch out because although the risk is low now, you don't need to change anything you're doing. when you start to see community spread, this could change. >> laura: based on these projections, that again, we've gone through week after week were wrong, fauci and others eventually did push for a national shutdown and it places like new york, can make the argument that that was necessary there, but now -- you look at all of these other states because tax revenues aren't coming in -- again, beyond new york. new york is a case in and of itself here, numbers are so bad there, but the states want more federal bailout money. governors larry hogan of maryland, andrew cuomo of new york at a bunch of others are teaming up to demand

$500 billion from the federal government. that's right, half a trillion dollars, 11 zeros. the question is, where's that money money going to come from? i guess we will print it, we will borrow it and we will end up weakening our country in the long run. look for huge tax increases down the road to pay for all of this, which of course will further hamper economic growth. not that the media gives a darn. they're too busy trying to blame trump for not locking down the country fast enough even though his medical advisors had not yet suggested that. he spent part of his press conference today setting that record straight. >> because we are getting fake news and i like to have it corrected. they are saying what a great job we're doing in the media -- these are the governors of california, governor of new jersey, governor of new yo new york. in new york, ventilators were going to be a problem -- they didn't have a problem. beds are going to be a problem. i'm happy about it, the center, which is incredible is almost empty.

that's good news, not bad news. they took some clips and they just ran them for you and the reason it is to keep you honest. i don't think that's going to work. it's not going to have any impact. >> laura: the president is really frustrated, obviously. the media span on all of this has been outrageous. all the while, they ignore the cost, of course -- the other costs that are piling up here. medical procedures that people are putting off because they were afraid due to this crisis. the cost to our citizens' mental health because of forced isolation, the cost to family harmony, children's well-being, being kept out of school. and of course the cost to our civil liberties. during easter week and liberal mayors and governors moved against people of faith disturbing ways. in some places even outdoor religious gatherings more people remained in their cars were in legal limbo and they hands on the whims of state and local officials. mayor greg fisher of louisville

had his police harassed churchgoers and their two -- who actually dared to attend services, again, in our cars so if you sit in your car at a liquor store, you're fine. but not at a church. a federal judge slapped him with the temporary restraining order. it was blistering, we are going to get to that in a moment. but i say it's time for congress and for state legislatures to get back into session. if they truly believe these ongoing shutdowns beyond new york, beyond the hot spots are necessary, then it's time for them to pass laws mandating them. stop hiding behind emergency declarations for a virus that, while devastating, will probably in the end, according to the new projections, take fewer lives of working americans than heart disease or the flu. get back to work so the rest of us can do the same, congress. those are my thoughts at the end

of day 28, america in shutdown. joining me now is ohio con whisman jim jordan and new york congressman lee zeldin. congressman jordan, let's start with you. looks like steny hoyer is saying that may 4th will be one y'all are called back into session for real as the country is bleeding jobs. obviously continuing loss of life but things seem to be stabilizing and most of the country. why no congressional, on-the-job movement here while the country is in such peril? >> you're exactly right, laura. we got all these tasks force and they're doing great work but the task force that is supposed to be focused on doing a people's work is the united states congress and the 50 general assemblies in the respective states, they are supposed to be meeting, taking care of business in leading by example. we can be having hearings. we can sit every other chair. we can be talking the people's

business, so why won't nancy pelosi quit criticizing the president and tell us what her plan is for bringing congress back into session so we can lead by example and do the people's work? so i'm all for that. my guess is lots of my colleagues or for that but we haven't heard anything from speaker pelosi and mr. hoyer other than they are now saying we are not coming back until ma. >> laura: i would consider the freedom caucus and all the other republicans on capitol hill just to come back. just to come back. you can go into your offices, you can hold press conferences. congressman, congressman jordan just mentioned speaker pelosi. she's nowhere to be seen. specific heights, san francisco, napa valley -- i don't know where she is buried but she's wailing on president trump. politico reporting that pelosi sharply criticized trump's handling of the coronavirus outbreak telling democrats i guess on a call that it was "almost sinful how this administration has failed to live up to promises to make

testing available to all americans and quickly and down and mask shortages et cetera across the country. if this is almost sinful, congressman, what about a speaker of the house, when americans are dying and people in small businesses say their dying -- congress is not in session and she's apparent not going to pass a shutdown mandated via legislation. >> the paycheck protection program, that fund is going to run out of money. she looks at this as leverage to be able to get unrelated priority items as she tried the last time with phase three, the green new deal, ballot harvesting and other items. $25 million for the kennedy center, $350 million for the refugee assistance. that actually made its way into the bill. she really likes the way that gavel feels in her hand, so for her, she doesn't look at this as an opportunity to be bipartisan or nonpartisan carried she just wants to expand her majority, she wants to take out the president of the united states and, regardless of the

consequences for americans that need congress to work, she's just going to do what's best in her own political interests and by the way she has people rank-and-file in her own conference. there are people i talk to that they would actually like to work with us, work with the president to get good things done but unfortunately the leader of their party doesn't have that same goal. >> laura: congressman jordan, joe biden, they acknowledge the crisis but they see a political opportunity, which has to be exposed every step of the way. this is what he said on using this for climate change, congressman, watch. >> the united states has no choice but to seize this opportunity and create millions, millions of great paying jobs that your energy plan has suggested and mine as well. energy and structure of tomorrow. we take a backseat to no one when it comes to fighting climate change. >> laura: we have to seize on this virus is a political

opportunity. imagine if the president said that. we need to seize on this virus as an opportunity to, you know -- anything. take on china, fund the wall. they jump all over him, and they do. >> two things the democrats never missed, the left never misses, they never miss an opportunity to advance the left one crazy agenda. they never miss an opportunity to attack the president. they started attacking the president before he was even elected president. those of the two things you can always count on consistently from the left but the thing that scares me most, laura, is what we are seeing happened to civil liberties, fundamental freedom. the governor of kentucky says he's going to arrest people at church. we had a prosecutor in one of our counties say he was going to charge people for felonies if they weren't -- if they were violating the shelter at home. even said if he was governor he would call off the national guard to stop people from going to church on sunday. we got google saying they will track and give that information to the government and the scariest thing of all -- the scariest thing of all is

garcetti, the mayor of los angeles said if people snatch they will be rewarded. >> laura: i did that two weeks ago. >> all this happens at the same time that michael horowitz is telling us when he looked at the 29 pfizer applications, every single one of them had problems when they were spying, looking to go spy on the american citizens. that's the context that scares me the most and that's why congress should also be back at work, defending civil liberties and leading by example doing the will of the people. >> laura: i want to stand up and applaud that. we are thinking of tracking americans who have -- having some database, which ultimately could lead to contact tracy. some of it sounds may be plausible we are talking about to reopen the country, according to some of the experts, we need to test 6-7 million people in these various tests per week. i think we are doing, what, 200,000? is that right? correct me if i'm wrong. but we have to set metrics for reopening the country that are

realistic, not continuing to move the goalpost on one americans can actually exercise their civil liberties and make a decent darn living. >> our economy was the strongest it's ever been before this happen. unemployment rates at record lows. we had our markets at record highs and they all came to a screeching halt because this virus that quickly spread all throughout the entire country. i'm all for reopening our economy smartly. that means we don't want to see another outbreak. a part of that is including ramping up rapid testing, ramping up antibody testing to be able to be slick at a vaccine -- >> laura: i got to jump in on this. we've got to go in a second. i agree with you in an ideal world where we don't actually have to pay bills and small businesses don't have to like pay rent. having six or 7 million tests -- maybe we can do all that. maybe my thinking on this is wrong. maybe. but it has to be realistic and achievable for a virus that ends up -- mortality rate will end up

being about 55, 60,000, horrible, but certainly not 2.2 million and then we are going to then keep america closed until we have 7 million tests a day or a week or whatever the heck the new number is? i mean, that's. people have to think about that. think about whether it's even achievable before election day i should say. final thought, commerce majority, real quick. quick. >> geography should definitely be part of this. i come from suffolk county new york where we have over 21.5000 coronavirus cases. bringing back the economy in a place like mine might be different than some other parts of the country there have been less affected. >> laura: you're right. absolutely right. it's incredibly hard hit there and it's different from nebraska or even ohio. gentlemen, great to see you both tonight. thank you so much and i hope nancy pelosi is watching. bring congress back into session, state legislatures, get off the dime. coming up, billions of dollars from the so-called stimulus bill

are already going away. hospitals in states with few covid cases somehow raking in the dola medical centers and hot spots are struggling. my medicine cabinet joins is next to tell us what's really happening and why. plus as we just talked about coming or civil liberties, do people even care about that anymore? there under attack, next.

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♪ >> laura: is not even a question anymore, the covid-19 lockdowns are already being used to attack our civil liberties. almost always at the hands of liberal mayors or governors. again, state representatives, statehouses, where are you? the latest case comes out of kentucky. that's a republican state legislature, by the way, where state troopers, acting on orders of democrat governor andy beshear rode down the license plate numbers of easter

worshipers at the baptist church. the troopers left notices on churchgoers windshields threatening further enforcement if they didn't self-quarantine for 14 days. pastor jack roberts also sent piles of nails and are pictures of them -- had been dumped at the entrances to the church parking lot. they were picked up by parishioners and they went in anyway. joining me now, harmeet dhillon, civil rights attorney and from 2020 campaign advisory board member. the rights that we all hold dear, they can be intruded upon, infringed upon, in very limited circumstances, as the attorney general told me last week. am i missing something here or are we down a really slippery slope infringement? >> well, laura, you're absolutely correct. as they said an animal farm, some animals are more equal than others. so in this case, many governors including california immediately had exceptions for the first amendment for reporters,

who are allowed to do their job freely, but clampdown on religion. this has happened all over the country and so what the attorney general is talking about was a supreme court case that says that religion may be treated as equally as any other organization and that is not discriminatory, but here, wherever it governor and every county in the country has exemptions for different professions, for alcohol stores, for pot stores, for grocery stores, for even abortion facilities in some states. so there are a lot of exemptions with the exception of not being allowed to religion, so that's unequal. >> laura: the governor has state troopers harass the celebrants. that came after a federal judge castigated the mayor of louisville for what the mayor of louisville was doing, right? they were -- you know, same kind of deal there, but he rode, this judges also offer d.c. circuit nomination. he was nominated by the president a couple of weeks ago.

set on holy thursday and american mayor criminalized the communal celebration of easter. that sentence is one that this court never expected to see outside the pages of a dystopian novel. perhaps the pages of the onion. the mayor's decision is stunning and it is beyond all reason unconstitutional. what was the judge getting out there? clearly success on the merits, this is just a temporary restraining order. but these are legal battles that have to be waged now against these lockdowns and at least the attacks on religion. >> some of us have been saying that from the beginning, laura, but what the judge was saying where there is that it's unconstitutional to pick on people of faith and by the way, it's also unconstitutional to quarantine people who aren't sick or who haven't been exposed to an illness. in that state they actually have a religious freedom restoration act, which provides a higher level of protection than the constitution of the united states. so that's doubly bad for those folks and my law firm and center

for american liberties just filed a lawsuit in san bernardino and riverside county stay on the same issues. that the police and the counties are picking on people of faith and are harassing them, issuing tickets to them, soup kitchens are being shut down if they're run by religious and pitched tuition but not that they're run by the government. this is blatant persecution of people of faith in organizations and we have to fight back on it now. it doesn't matter if it's only two more weeks or four more weeks, there should not be a minute of our liberty infringed. >> laura: this is precedent-setting. we are going to track this every night because this could set a precedent -- precedence if we don't see these kinds of constant challenges. i know you're waging a good fight in california, but this decision by judge walker was phenomenal. it was blistering and i hope these republican state legislators are paying attention to this because all of them are like not at work. i don't understand how people are not working when they're supposed to be looking out for

all of their constituents. come back soon and keep tracking this for us because we are going to hit this all most every night this week. thanks so much. >> thank you, laura. >> laura: new analysis from kaiser health news reveals that hospitals in montana and nebraska with relatively few covid cases are getting upwards of $300,000 for covid-19 patience. all the while, hospitals in new york are getting only 12,000 for covid patience, 25 times less. how is this happening? let's bring in my medicine cabinet to discuss this, dr. scott jensen, physician and minnesota state senator. ceo of fox -- dr. jensen, wire hospitals in nebraska getting me per patient than new york city, which obviously has the most patience by far in the country? >> well, this is because of the historical distribution of revenue through medicare, and that's what they're doing.

>> laura: expand on that a little bit more. so there -- it's medicaid-based, but you mentioned last week that you were concerned that some of the accounting -- look at the camera, my friend, there you are. with that to look at you, doctor. but some of these -- that some of the coding for the patient's mortality might be more liberally focused on covid when they had several underlying comorbidities. does that play into this or not? >> i think it does. i think what's happening is these $30 billion that are being distributed are being distribute it based on what they thought they were going to be doing. and what we are hearing is that they are saying hey, that's not fair. we want the money because we've got more cases and this is exactly what we said last week, the counting of the cases will be critical. so if there's a way the governor cuomo or mayor lazio can increase those numbers, and

they both talked about doing that, than they're going to be able to get more of the dollars. so last week i think we were criticized for talking about money, but the fact of the matter is, this is about money. >> laura: dr. oskoui, i know you have some thoughts on this. we'll get into this new hydroxy data that just came out. it was released in full over the weekend, but really quickly on this first. >> well, i think it goes to the cdc altering slightly how these cases are described in mortality work and i think it naturally leads to hospitals that are cash-strapped because they've given up elective procedures to goose the diagnostic -- i'm not at all surprised. i appreciate dr. jensen's work and his pointing this out. probably what needs to happen as medicare needs to go on retrospectively review this stuff. >> laura: i want to get your thoughts on this major new study out of france.

a doctor who by the way has only 3,000 peer-reviewed articles on epidemiological matters. incredible career. he did a thousand study of 1,061 covid patients. here is findings. no cardiac toxicity observed. they gave hydroxy and azithromycin. good clinical outcome for nearly 92% of patients within ten days. poor clinical outcome and just 4.3% of the cases, five patients died, all over the age of 74 and another 31 require ten days of hospitalization or more. dr. oskoui, i don't know how dr. fauci and his others could go forward and just dismiss these is all anecdotal when you have hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin used early. early is key in these covid patients. >> absolutely. absolutely. i think the safety of this cocktail of both hydroxychloroquine specifically, it is a thermax and zinc is very

compelling and should reassure every american. on the flip side however, they use a high dose regimen, one that i don't think is often used in the united states. we may not see us robust success as the french do because we are using a lower dose regimen, probably conserved drugs volume that they use in china, but this is incredibly reassuring and i think really should put to rest some of the recent sniping of president trump regarding his -- promoting this as a possible treatment, which is. >> laura: most of the people criticizing it, dr. jensen, they be the first one to demand their doctor give them the hydroxy. where is the hydroxy prescription? i want it now. i've got to ask you about what dr. fauci said about rolling, reopening of the government, dr. jensen, let's watch. >> the idea about how we would evaluate from a purely public health standpoint about what i

call reentry into some sort of normality, as health people, i don't know anything about -- nor do i ever claim to know any thing but economics. it likely will be something i refer to a sort of like a rolling reentry. it's not going to be one-size-fits-all. >> laura: i'm glad it's not going to be one-size-fits-all, that's for sure. but what about that, dr. jensen? would have medical concerns, we have economic concerns. they are interrelated but at some point you've got to make the call. >> i think dr. fauci -- she's very fortunate. when we talk about total health, we talk about mind, spirit and body and he's able to focus completely on the body and this issue with the covid-19, but there's people out there dying mentally, they are dying emotionally. they are dying spiritually and frankly, the first patient i saw today in the office was a patient that had a heart attack, 58-year-old guy and i asked him why didn't you come in sooner? he said i was scared of this covid-19 thing.

he's living and he's going to do okay but this is happening all over america. we are so paralyzed by the fear, and dr. fauci is feeding into that. there's mind, there's body, there's natural things we can do -- in the final analysis -- immune to the covid-19 virus. >> sweden is trying that and if at some difficulties but we will see in the end which approach ended up being the right approach. the data will tell the tale. wait until you hear what michelle obama's plans are to reshape the next election. raymond arroyo has all the details, seen and unseen, next. and spray... and spray. well, we used to. with new ortho home defense max indoor insect barrier, one simple application kills and prevents bugs in your home for up to a year without odors, stains or fuss.

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♪ >> laura: it's time for our seen and unseen segment where we reveal the stories behind the headline. joe biden got the long sought burning endorsement today. no one noticed, but is it going to do any good? we go to fox news contributor raymond arroyo. raymond, sanders and biden did this joint virtual appearance -- i think virtually nobody saw it. what happened? i didn't even know about it until you told me. >> it was a vintage biden basement event. you'd think with a teleprompter and a big endorsement there would be an exciting open. nope. >> going live in three, two, one. starting broadcast.

>> [laughs] laura, he looks like he was waiting for the colonoscopy to begin, okay? and when bernie finally joins him, it was magic. you've heard of the grumpy old man. these are the stomping old men. unfortunately, they are stumping each other. >> takes care of all of our citizens in times of crisis. >> you know, just a -- >> i want to thank you for your question. bernie, if i don't mind -- >> and -- >> the number -- bernie, i want to thank you. it's a big deal. and, you know -- >> [laughs] >> laura: i do this with my kids all the time, raymond. i'm like stop saying "uh." they were trying to get casual with each other may be varied the big deal was presumably this endorsement.

>> given the enormous challenges that we face in the future, it is -- we don't have a choice. we are going to have to come together. >> we don't have a choice, more. so we are going to have to come together. this was so half-hearted, this was like the closed-circuit newscast at the retirement home. it was so embarrassing with these two. lackluster, confused. bernie looked like he was peeved because biden kept grandstanding through the whole thing. they announce these six policy working groups on immigration in the environment and climate change. this is going nowhere. they should not inspire confidence in the democratic ranks and i don't think it will. >> laura: raymond, send me a memo when we are done with the working groups, okay? and the phrase "the new normal." i'm so sick of that phrase. i thought the whole point was to go back to the order normal -- old normal. wear your masks. i'm touching my face. >> [inaudible] the new normal.

meanwhile, obama, obama is wading into the campaign season, not the one joe biden was hoping for. michelle obama announced today due to the coronavirus she and her celebrity group, when we all vote, is endorsing mail in ballots and early voting. >> laura: shocker. >> they are supporting amy klobuchar's legislation that would require downloadable, printable mail in ballots, no excuse absentee voting and 20 day early voting. what could go wrong? >> laura: first of all, i think of my mom, who i always -- i think of her waiting on tables, raising four kids. somehow she always managed to get to the polls to vote. somehow. i don't know how she figured it out, but she got there and she figured it out and we've been doing this and now nobody can get to the polls. apparently nobody can get to the polls anymore. i've never seen anything like it.

>> a 2005 commission and the federal election curve reform commission headed by jimmy carter determined absentee voting has the greatest potential for fraud. people will just -- dallas arrested a bunch of people for 700 ballots that were signed by the same witness. it's brought from top to bottom. g.o.p. operatives have been around doing the same thing, not good. >> laura: i notice cuomo today announced that new york and five other east coast dates are going to coordinate, kind of regional coordination on reopening the economy but cuomo had some biden problems just at the top of the presser. >> i think most states -- operator, we are ready. i started hearing music. >> [laughs] >> laura: that happens to us when we try to do our calls, that's not fair. everybody is tired of skype interviews. -- i know it's great technology, but it's just not

perfect, okay? it's not perfect. but the left, they're always attacking the president, claiming that people at his pressers have to pledge loyalty to trump. they're always grousing about that. what you call this, raymond? >> governor cuomo, thank you for hosting us so graciously. >> thank you very much, governor cuomo. again, appreciate very much your leadership, what you've been doing over the last several very difficult weeks. >> thank you, andrew, for doing this and for all that you've been doing. >> you call that the biden alternative. that's what that is. building up the alternative to biden. i just don't know why rhode island and connecticut and delaware are going along with this. they're all coordinating. i get connecticut and new jersey, but why rhode island? why not maryland and virginia? they are far enough away where they can social distance from andrew cuomo and whatever he's doing in new york. >> laura: i noticed that maine, new hampshire, and vermont -- i don't think they

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♪ >> laura: well, it turns out that the left does not believe all women. in its story about the sexual assault allegation against joe biden, "the new york times" somehow came to this bizarre conclusion. the times found no pattern of

sexual misconduct by mr. barton be on the hugs, kisses, and touching that women previously said made them uncomfortable. okay. back now is fox news contributor raymond arroyo. that sentence that i just referenced has now been deleted by "the new york times." what the heck is going on here? >> well what's going on is the campaign complained about it and requested that they remove that line because they didn't like the implications, that it was only this case and perhaps there was other activity. if you read tara reid, who was, by the way a staff assistant to biden when he was in the senate -- if you read the account -- and by the way, it was buried on page 19 in "the new york times." i read it today cover to cover. the thing that's most disturbing are her allegations here. it's not just kissing or smelling of hair or touching. it's graphic, i can't describe it on a family show like this. these charges are so serious, they do demand some sort of

investigation. as kavanaugh was investigated, they need to find -- she claims, tara reid does, that she reported this to the senate at the time. they have not uncovered that document. she doesn't have a copy of it but they should track it down and see if it exists. she also told family and friends contemporaneously this is a real challenge to the biden campaign right now. and given his public activities of stroking and touching and kissing, there is evidence here that you can't look past. >> laura: all right, well, the point that we want to make is that it is so patently obvious that they used a different standard with kavanaugh and again, because everything was on the line, the supreme court nomination, everything was on the line for the left, so they decided to go all in on that. this is what the executive editor of "the new york times" said when he was asked by npr about why biden and kavanaugh were treated so different and by the paper and he said the

following. "kavanaugh was already in a public forum in a large way." his status as a supreme court justice was in question because of a very serious allegation. it was a live ongoing story that had become the biggest political story in the country. it was just a different news judgment moment. they claim that trump -- they claim that trump plays fast and loose with how he describes things in the coronavirus. what about this! >> presidential campaign is not alive political moment? >> laura: what! >> joe biden has a long career of legislation to protect women. he's defended the rights of women. now's the time to stand on that reputation and allow this woman's charges to be fully investigated. he should cooperate with an investigation. >> laura: they are treating this allegation the way they treated epstein's allegation in

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♪ >> laura: there is a huge decision of the president is going to have to make taking into account the health of the

republic and the health of individual citizens. we will talk to vice president mike pence heading up the covid task force exclusively tomorrow. you do not want to miss it. lots of big questions. states rights, federal government power and the deadly nature of this coronavirus. shannon bream taking it from here, shannon. >> shannon: laura, much like you i find myself putting on my lawyer hat repeatedly to cover the stories. it is an important part. >> laura: you are but make you bet, take it away. i will be watching. >> shannon: president trump is speaking but only he has the authority to reopen the country for business and happy to keep an eye on the governor's review to work together. to date marks the most contentious and longest coronavirus task force yet with plenty between the president and the white house task force. tonight a new announcement, and five others northeastern governor as another hoop of ve