changes in power, in attitude, and custom, things will not look the same a year from now. it's worth thinking through now what they are going to look like. we hope will help you do that. have a great and happy evening with the ones you love. is in new york this evening. >> sean: tucker, thank you. i have the hannity plan to open new york stadium. a lot of breaking news, multiple fronts tonight. thank you for being with us. we continue tonight to expose how china consciously, knowingly put protections in place for theirly entire country while putting the rest of the world at risk resulting in sickness, death, and disease. a full report last night, remember, bret baier revealed from multiple sources that the coronavirus likely originated in a wuhan viral lab. it wasn't created in the lab, very clear about that, and patient zero was a worker in the lab who became infected by a bat.

as of now, accidentally. that's what bret is reporting. no report that the virus is man-made. according to bret, patient zero was a worker in that lab and was infected by a bat. creepiest, ugliest creatures on earth, them and rats. the weeks that followed, china shut down all domestic travel to and from wuhan. people from wuhan could and traveled to china, but they allowed people in wuhan province to travel all over the world. china knew how dangerous it was so they protected their own citizens but put the entire world at risk. we know how bad this is now. tens and tens of thousands dead, thousands and thousands hospitalized, millions contracting this virus. economies shut down. but they protected themselves. those reports are true. do you know what that means? if down the capacitors report is on target, that would mean the

chinese government has blood on their hands. they protected themselves and put the rest of the world at risk. we have a lot more coming up in our investigation joe biden had his own irredeemable, deplorable moment. we will show you what he said. governor cuomo for a full hour on my radio show today. he passed up some differences but more importantly, how do we reopen new york city, how do we get yankee stadium open, how do we get the jets and giants at the meadowlands playing that i have my own thoughts. but i got a definitive answer from the governor also on this question. does this statement hold for you? "if nominated, i will not accept. if drafted, i willed not run. if elected, i will not serve." this is what we call a tease. answer later in the show. major news from the president earlier today. he unveiled, finally we can hopefully move on. the federal government's three-phase plan to reopen

america again, starting as early as may 1st, but actually earlier inin some places. south dakota never closed at all. even the restaurants stayed open. take a a look. >> based on the latest data, our team of experts now agrees we can begin the next front in our war, which we are calling "opening up america again." that's what we are doing. we are opening up our country. our national shutdown is not a sustainable long-term solution. to preserve the health of our citizens, we must also preserve the health and functioning of our economy. over the long haul, you can't do oneu without the other. my administration is issuing new federal guidelines that will allow governors to take a phased and deliberate approach to reopening their individual states. >> sean: you also have to

remember, i'm in new york. new york, long island. hardest hit in the country but thanks to farmers, they did and shot down. everything in between, they didn't shut down. truckers got honored at the white house. those medical supplies? they didn't shut down for pharmaceuticals didn't shut down. those who build the masts, the gloves, the respirators, the ventilators, they were all working for the whole country didn't shutil down. the details of this plan include what will be a data-driven multilayered model which allows governors to react to their own state in the unique circumstances. for example, as we talked a lot about, densely populated new york city will not be on the same timeline as montana or south dakota, which never shut down anything. instead of a nationwide schedule, the president's plannw is broken into three phases in order for a state to begin the three-step process. it has to satisfy federal

guidelines surrounding hospital capacity, ventilators, protected dear protective gear, masks, gowns, et cetera. governors, wake up. some of you are asleep. do your job. they are now asking for the ability to make these decisions? you've got it. you now have the responsibility and the president and your task task force sees that you're messing up in the hot spots emerging, they'll hard on you. restrictions on nonessential travel, discourages social gatherings of ten or more people, because more americans to continueal to work from home whenever possible. phase one also recommends large venues like restaurants, movie theaters, jams can reopen but ysu've got to use very strict physical distancing protocols, that'll mean a lot of puerile, and a lot of wipes. if the coping 19 curve remains flat, states can move into nonessential travel can continue, limits on occupancy.

bars will be tough. the last step, lifting staffing restrictions, lift distancing restrictions on bars and restaurants. that allows visits to senior care facilities and hospitals to begin again. each phase of the plan to get americans back to work will take extra precautions. now especially at a place like new york city, you've got this very small geographic area, largest concentration of people. 11 million people. it's a difficult task. governor cuomo of new york was on my radio program for an hour today. we talked at length about all of this. i shared my views, he shared his. but it'll take a little more work in a place likeit new york city. take a listen. >> there is going to be a phase again and it's going to. be different. i don't know different, worse, it might even be different better. but it's going to be different. this is going to do what 9/11 did, right?

if i ever told you before 9/11 you would have to take off your shoes when you go to an airport and walk through a metal detector on a line and have them go through your bags, people would say it, no how, no way. but 9/11 changed our orientation. this is going to change our orientation. and people are going to want to change it. people want to be safe, first of all. >> sean: some of this is annoying as hell. nobody wants to wear gloves or a mask. alsosoei doing it for the people most vulnerable. underlying conditions, compromised immune systems. thankfully finally tremendous progress. the flattening the, now the decline. the models are holding as we hoped they would pick ones that come up with the hospitalizations dropped by 600, that's the largest decrease today. total intimations, the largest decrease. the death rate is starting to decline, that's the lighting has

been for to continue in a place that's densely populated like new york city. it sucks, i'll be honest. if you want my plan, we'll call it the hannity plan to reopen new york city. it would be the following: maska and gloves temporarily might be the new normal in new york city. even indoors. nonessential workers, they are going to have to work from home. 50% of the workforce every building in new york, 50% is the goal. keep them working at home. that allows more social distancing for less concentration on the streets of new york city. digital temperature checks, they don't touch you. that has to happen to everybody entering any building, it should be mandatory. again, temporarily. if you want entrances to any building in new york city. i discussed all of this with the governor today.

i want to see yankee stadium open pit i want citi field where the mets play opened and i want metlife stadium open for the giants and jets. this is not my decision. you have to start with this one thing. people most at risk with underlying health issues or compromise immune systems, you should not go. you are going to have t to to te a year off. every ticket taker, food and beverage taker, everyone in the stadiums will have to have that abbott five-minute test. have to. anybody who wants to attend ast game. if i have the choice consult your doctor, i'm not a doctor. but you must get the temperature test to get into any yankee stadium, you have a temperature, they give you information, you go to your doctor. be safe at home, how to do contact tracing. can't have a database. got to respect medical privacy. but you can't be if you have a

temperature going into any, even outdoor stadium for a temporary, not the best conditions. but if it's my choice and i have to wear gloves, a mask. okay, i will wear it. i'd rather go and wear it. if everyone else is wearing it, gwe can suck it up for a couple of months until things have passed. probably can't eat popcorn because you've got to keep your mask on the whole time but you can probably eat a hot dog. open up your respirator, take a bite, chew it under your mask. i have to drink my beer if i met again. i have to use a straw and slip it in, i'll do that. i want to have a beer. everyone has to make decision. what your appetite for any risk. you have to decide come consult with their own doctor. i'd rather have my temperature taken, drink beer from a straw, eat a hot dog going like this and chewing it in the mask than not go at all. that's my decision. you make yours. i'm pro-choice. i know this is not ideal.

but if it's about saving the lives of other people morehe vulnerable and getting our economy back up and running full speed as quickly as possible, i will suck it up and i think a lot of new yorkers will suck it up and want to go to the game and wear the mask and gloves and may be the yankees and giants and jets and mets they can make their ownet masks and hand them out as you go in with them emblems on its for just an idea. medical privacy a must. no government databases. sorry. we have a constitution. we have civil liberties. people can decide to go or not go based on the temporary rules. i, i choose to go. same with football, cement outdoor contents down the concerts. indoor events -- you can move the new york rangers and the islanders to yankee stadium and city field. they do that once a year anyway. recent poll shows that some democrats, a majority of them, would likely support mandatory l nationwide blood testing and electronic ankle bracelets for those who are sick?

i'm not taking that. joining us now to weigh in on all of this because we can't have draconian measures as we kick it off here, larry kudlow. i'm cutting half my monologue short because i'mut ad-libbing o much, larry. you're the chief economic council guy. and a friend of mine. okay. i want the games. i want the economy open for how bad is the second quarter unemployment going to be. how bad is it going to be gdp second quarter? i would imagine awful, god-awf god-awful. >> it's going to be pretty awful. look, the important thing here is these guidelineshe with the doctor is giving us a pathway to reopening the economy. we have too be safe, we have to be healthy. as you were going through, i agree with pretty much everything you said. we've got to have the rights testing, we've got to have the right diagnostics, we've got to have the right hospitalizations. all that should be in place.

we have to practice, best practicing for social distancing and so forth and so on. but the key point is we've laid out a pathway, guideline for all the state governors across the country who will then begin to reopen the economy. it'll be done in phases. may will be a transition month. but this thing will get us back on track. the economy -- look, the last four weeks, these numbers are very painful because they have hardship written all over them. unemployment insurance claims, sean, went up 22 million in the last four weeks. that's about 13.5% of the whole labor force. it's a terrible number, no question. but, but, but, with these new guidelines and as we gradually reopen phase by phase, state-by-state, we will see a turnaround in the economy in the weeks ahead. i truly believe that.

>> sean: i believe it too. look, we are still in april here. we just began the second quart second quarter. april, may, june. i would imagine 90% of the country is going to be open probably in early may, by the end of may if i really want to be conservative. what did you think of my idea about yankee stadium, city field? if everybody has to wear a mask, get there temperature taken, you have to drink beer through a straw, i'm into it i'd rather go home then stay home. thoughts? >> i agree. i'm a big baseball fan. a lifelong yankees fan for that matter. you know, yesterday, when the president talked to all of these business task force executives, we also met with all the sports commissioners. they want to open up. baseball wants to open up, for example. they may have to start slow, figure out the best practices and procedures. but they want to get going.

there was announcement that the golf tour may begin in early june. people love to watch golf. i'm a tennis player myself. but i think the tennis people, maybe we can have the u.s. open in new york. what the president has done here with safety, uppermost in his mind, we need safes, american people. the guidelines put out by the best doctors, the best science minds will open the door to a resumption of sports. heck, i want people to go back to work, sean. >> sean: they want to go back to work! truckers never stop working! farmers never t stopped! >> the truckers are phenomenal s for the truckers at the white house were unbelievable. people forget how important truckers are to the economy, 70% of the freight called at the u.s. is done by truckers. those are the supplies in the supply chain. by the way, they have been

working for the most part. now we can begin to open up the brest of the economy and becaue the economy was pretty darn strong. >> sean: i'vere got to run. >> the trump economy was pretty darn strong going in. we can recover the economic growth and get people working again. that's the key. all we want to do is protect the workforce and the businesses.bu so in the next few weeks we can rebound. a rebound will come. a rebound will come. this is a big first step by president trump. >> sean: that'st our hope third quarter. joining us now, louisiana senator john kennedy. they pointed out your state, i like the fact they figured it out early, they got on board fast, they were able to level it much faster than other places, i would argue, because we learned a lot by the time louisiana got hot. >> we did learn a lot. we also benefited from the

president's assistance. we got extra ppe. he was going to build us an extra hospital. we didn't need it. we never came close to running out of ventilators thanks to the president and the vice preside vice president. our numbers are now going in the right direction. we are starting to talk about reopening the economy. i was very impressed today with the trump-fauci-birx plan for reopening the economy. i hope the governors follow it. >> is it true, drew rees donated $5 million to louisiana? pretty amazing guy. >> he's a wonderful football

player but he's an even better person. he's been very generous with his money. but as lot of people in and outside of louisiana have been very generous to the people of louisiana including and especially the american taxpayer. i want to thank the american taxpayer because it's their money that we are spending. >> sean: as long as it's for workers displaced and hospital supplies and ventilators and thermometers and testing and also small business and big business through no fault of their own impact and i'm fine with that, i think we are going to get in a fight though with your democratici colleagues because they are going to want to balance these corrupt budgets of these, you know, states by burdening the taxpayers. these monies going forward. no more art centers, no more humanities, and the more endowments, they've got to go toward specific causes. can we do that and pass clean

bills, sir? >> we can if speaker pelosi will agree to it. based on the conference call we had with the president this morning on which democratic senators, to which they were invited, i'm worried we are goingem to have another fight, though. i worry that some of them are not going to support the trump-fauci-birx plan for reopening the economy. i hope i'm wrong. i know that the tofu and arugula crowd are not going to like the president's plan. they think we should leave the theconomy shut down until theres no more coronavirus. that's unrealistic for two reasons. that's bone deep down to theat marrow stupid for two reasons, number one, the economy will collapse, the world economy will

relapse down my collapse. as we saw in michigan the american people are not going to stand for it. >> sean: we wish your people the best, send my best to drew brees. one person not working, she's in the safe compound eating ice cream, marie antoinette, we can all eat cake iswe nancy pelosi. and apparently she flies out with her carbon emissions private plane into her gated neighborhood and she's not even working. eishe needs to get back on a little private jet of hers and fly back to d.c. to get the job done. thank you, senator. speaking of policy, just when you think it can't get worse. you know the paycheck protection plan for small businesses? they are out ofma money. pelosi, the democrats, they support it, they were refusing to re-up the program again. again they are playing their games. again they want to waste money. again they are basically blackmailing republicans and

leveraging necessary needed monies for unrelated issues. you know, never let a crisis go to waste. but small businesses suffer, you can blame her. and chuckie schumer. picking out her favorite ice cream. she recently appeared on late night comedy showing off her stash of gourmet ice cream inside her $20,000 industrial freezer inside her gated multimillion dollar mansion. lindsey graham is with us. he would've brought us ice cream if he had such a freezer. okay, she's not at work. she's blaming president trump for everything. she was telling people february 24th, come to chinatown. dummy!br that was a dumb idea. impeaching trump when trump put the travel ban in effect. now she's holding money hostage again. >> yeah. i think she's been incredibly small at a time when the country needs big leadership.

remember, she held the articles of impeachment from december 18th to january 15th trying to get mitch mcconnell to bend to her will to conduct the trial she wanted in the senate. she held phase three hostage, get money for the kennedy center and other stuff. now she is trying to hold the small business administration loan program, she's been a hostage taker rather than a problem solver. the one thing i want to say about president trump, the guy i got to know the last three years listens and he leads. he listens and leads with dr. fauci and dr. birx and he's come up with a phased opening up the country. he listens to him he leads, and nancy pelosi undermines and destroys. >> sean: have you been following bret baier's reportinn about -- >> yes. >> sean: patient zero, the guy who got infected with corona from a bat, he worked in that

wuhan laboratory. i've seen all the conspiracy theories, that it was manufactured there. his report doesn't say that. but apparently china and travel in and out of b18 province according to bret. but they let people from wuhan travel internationally and in fact the rest of the world and this is the result. that would mean to be they consciously, knowing this is true, they protected themselves and screw the rest of us with the help of the w.h.o. that lied to us. >> all the evidence indicates that they lock their country to protect their people and they did not tell their world about the true state of play in china. iran is the largest state sponsor of terrorism, china is the largest state sponsor of pandemics for this is the fourth pandemic from china.

this may have happened from a lab, but the evidence seems to suggest it was spread at these wet markets. what did we do tuesday 23 who was a bad actor? we sanctioned the iran. what should we do to the largest state sponsor of pandemics in the globe? we should sanctioned china. senator cruz has a bill to do that. >> they should pay for this. that means they knew that wuhan was so dangerous you could and travel in or out within china. but that would mean they have blood on their hands. if they didn't tell the rest of the world what they were doing with wuhan, but they let wuhan, you know, people travel everywhere else, they didn't give a flying about what they were doing with the rest of the world. they knew it was bad and they let it happen. >> if it weren't for the irresponsibility about the irresponsibly of the chinese communist party, china is

responsible. they are the largest state sponsor of pandemics in the entire globe and they need to pay a price. >> sean: yet. maybe we aren't going to pay back the debt they are holding but let's start there. they pay for all of this. senator, thank you. when we come back, lawmakers are demanding china be held accountable as these reports surfaced that coronavirus originated person zero in that lab in wuhan. trace gallagher will have more on our investigation into this and senator cruz, the great one mark levin, and the answers that governor cuomo gave me. sherman-esque answers or no? answers when we come back. because the best people to fight for our communities are those within them. so, if you've just bought a volkswagen

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>> sean: also developingls tonight, turns out the u.s. and canada have actually funded the chinese lab at that's being eyed as the source of this virus outbreak. here to explain more, chief braking correspondent trace gallagher. according to bret's report, they knew, they stopped to and from travel to wuhan but they let them travel internationally. >> laboratory was part of china's effort to show the world it can identify and combat viruses as well as the united states and even though back in 2018 u.s. officials sent messages back to the state department raisingo alarm bells about risky practices inside this lab, those officials weren't advocating for it to shut down but rather to give it more money to improve safety. now we know as you say the united states and canada gave millions of dollars in grant money to this lab in wuhan and various other institutions to help fund research concerning coronavirus in bats. canadian funding went to the

wuhan lab as recently as last month and some u.s. lawmakers are trying to follow the funding to see exactly where it leads. remember, this wuhan lab is suspected of being the likely source of the coronavirus pandemic where the virus accidentally escaped, infected a lab worker who then spread it to the larger population. there is still no proof the virus came from the lab. but wherever it came from, there is ample evidence that china spent weeks trying to cover it up. >> sean: four weeks and weeks, people have been sending me this it was invented in this lab. i thought it was a conspiracy theory and bret's report is not saying that. have we ruled that out yet, that it was just a regular virus this guy contracted? >> correct. this was not made in the lab. it was not a bio weapon. this was a natural emanating virus that was contracted by a worker inside the lab who then spread it. >> 100% confirmed?

>> that is 100% confirmed. >> sean: 98% similar to sars which is also a coronavirus. that's what made me think it can't be true. trace gallagher, thank you for that report. senator ted cruz introducing legislation to hold china accountable for their virus for their deceit, they're lying to herewith reaction, senator cruz. i am so angry at the idea that they stop all travel to and from wuhan within china but they let people in and out internationally. i'm like, that means they knew the risks and they didn't care about the rest of us! >> sean, that's exactly right. china's responsibility and culpability for this pandemic is enormous and there are three different aspects of what china has done that should be concerning. the very real possibility that

this coronavirus originated in a chinese lab. we know there are a two labs in wuhan controlled by the chinese government that we arego studyig not just coronavirus is but bat coronavirus is miles from where the outbreak occurred. the question there, there are multiple state department cables from the department raising concerns about the safety and security of the labs, them not having adequate protections ando the question the chinese government has refused to answer is where they were studying this particular virus in one of these labs or did it escape accidentally, they are stonewalling and refusing to answer that. issue number two is there a cover up and it is undisputed that the chinese government for weeks kept silent, tried to hide, try to obscure this outbreak. when you had physician whistle-blowers bravely try to blow the whistle on this, the chinese government came down on

them, they silenced them, and as a consequence -- if they behaved like an ordinary, responsibleav government, there is a very real possibility we could have gone in with health professionals, contained at this outbreak, quarantine those infected, and kept it as a regional outbreakna rather than a global pandemic. the third critical epidemic that this has underscored is the degree to which our entire supply chain has gone to china, including critical infrastructure, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, and we've got to correct that and bring those critical supply chains back to the united states. >> sean: they hid it, protectedd their own people, thy let the rest of the world get infected and die, i think the one you are referring to, says 91% of all this could have been prevented. if that report is right, they've saved themselves and knowingly

knew the risk for the rest of the world. that would mean they have blood on their hands. >> over 40,000 people have died worldwide from covid-19 and if china had not covered it up, had not been so afraid of being embarrassed, of having their culpability exposed, they would've prevented a majority of those deaths and i think there will be serious accountability, serious transparency, and the chinese communistt government -- i will tell you, sean, most of the mainstream media doesn't want to see it as well. whent the first report came out with that these lab studying current of viruses from bats you had "the washington post" and other mainstream media put out these reports debunking this conspiracy theory, as they called it, and they focused on what you are talking a minute ago, the argument from scientists that it doesn't appear that this virus was created in a lab, that it appears to be naturally occurring. well, they were answering the wrong question because the

question was wasn't artificially constructed, the question is was where they studying the virus from that and that they screw up and let it out and they don't want to answer that question and most the mainstream media doesn't want to acknowledge the question exists. >> sean: unbelievable, senator. thank you for all of that information and i'm glad you aro doing what you're doing. want to remind people because, you know, this is really important. the media has been so corrupt in all of this. over at fake news cnn, we know their behavior for three and a half years. thank you, senator. for three and a half years, they were the worst culprits. they were the ones who put in their conspiracy theories, their lives, their myths and truths, everything else. you actually over at cnn, we didn't like that we called it the wuhan coronavirus, the credit racist and more chinese propaganda from a bogus

communist party report claiming that china's navy was better prepared for coronavirus than theed u.s. navy. cnn more than happy to say xenophobic and stigmatizing. cnn also quoted, they tuned out more of the briefings than any other network out there, skipping seven hours in the last two weeks. worst example of cnn discussing coverage, don lemon last night took a very ugly, twisted, sick victory lap. a pastor in virginia died from the coronavirus and this guy, you know, makes the statement that, oh, that ought to serve as lesson to the faithful. really, don, from your ivory tower of fake news cnn? let's go to that tape. >> let that be a lesson then. you can have faith. but you also have to heed the warning of the authorities and the people -- the experts but i

think that should be a lesson to people who are trying to gather, whether it's ten or more people, in places. you shouldn't do it but my heart goes out to that family. bless them. but they should be a lesson to everyone out therere who's tryig to defy the authorities saying don't do it. >> sean: listened to the >> sean: a lesson to the faithful? what a anyhow, the great one mark lev levin.

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>> live from america's news headquarters, i'm ashley strohmeyer. president trump has unveiled a roaroad map for recovery for economic pain from the coronavirus pandemic. restrictions in each area of the country with low virus threat

while holding the line a little harder in those harder hit locations. it is clear from the plan that they return to normalcy will take far longer than president trump initially thought. in fact, health official was that some social distancing measures may remain in place throughout the year to prevent a new outbreak. and former lawyer and longtime fixer michael cullen is going home but locked up last may for campaign fraud and lying to congress but wasn't due to be released until late 2021 but the associated press tells us that he can serve the rest of his service in home confinement due to the coronavirus. i'm ashley strohmeyer. back to "hannity." >> sean: the great one mark levin warning back in february thatat the witch hunt would harm america's coronavirus response. he's the number one "new york times" best seller, number one show 8:00 p.m. sunday nights, "life, liberty, levin."

the great one, it hurt. and nancy pelosi saying on february 24th, go to chinatown? donald trump had implanted the travel ban that was racist a month ago. >> and now she's apparently a nonessential employee because she has not showed uphe for work and she using number three in line to be president of the united states. as for her ice cream, i'm lactose intolerant so i would never touch it. i want to thank the president and the vice president. they are the ones who have been pushing to open up the economy. the governors have shut down the economy. not the president. the governors have shut down businesses, not the president but several of them are dragging their feet. you can see it's the president a month ago and now trying to press to open up the economy. i just want to point something out, these states do not have plenary police power when the affect interstate commerce,

$2.2 trillion in federal spending to deal with what they've done. 22 million people filing for unemployment, compensation. this has a national interstate defect. the debate federalism at the effective date. i've given this a lot of thought. this has the thing to do with federalism. the president has power to order governors to open up their economies more than people think. statesavto have the power to rer commerce within their boundaries. but the congress under the federal fusion is the only body thathe has the power to regulate interstate commerce. governors to their dictates and he also wants a special pen nonessential shutting down businesses, that's the ultimate regulation. if it affects interstate commerce in a very negative way, and can infect enforce the interstate commerce clause of the positive square governors do not have the power to control interstate commerce.

the police powers do not extend to interfering with state congress. the clause was explicitly put to promote commerce. the put in by the framers, not me. it follows that a governor by unilateral action, i don't know where they get the power, but bt unilateral action orders businesses closed and an particular weight that and of course, it's the president's job as the head of the executive branch with his justice department and so forth to protect theo constitution. so it's absurd to say the president has no power. it's not a federalism issue. it's in interstate commerce issue. i will give you an example. if the governor of kansas decide to close all the wheat farms in kansas to prevent those farmers from exporting wheat to other states for any reason, including

a virus, that's not constitutional. why? because of its impact on interstate commerce. 22 million people unemployed -- it's actually morbid those are the ones who signed up for unemployment in 30 days. trillions dollars in debt by the federal government. you can't tell me this is a state on the issue. this is in interstate commerce issue. i will back it up even further. these governors do not believe in federalism. if he believed in federalism, there would be no new deal. it's the supreme court and fdr that expanded the idea of interstate commerce. going to the president's powers, 1937. i know, i know. this is a hot stuff. stick with me. in 1937, the nlrb decision, what did the courts say? activities in the state them in a interstate commerce, that have such a close and substantial relation to interstate commerce that the controlol is essentialr

appropriate to protect commerce from burdens and obstructions within congress' power to regulate. if a state, even within the state congress is regulated in the way that harms or affects interstate commerce, only congress has the power to regulate that, according to the supreme court in 1937, the new dealers. not saying the president is regulating it, saying the president as the head of the executive has the power to thenforce that. the big decision was in 1942, worker versus bill it was such an outrageous decision, a it never touch interstate commerce and here's what the court said. it still can be regulated by congress because, "the stimulation of commerce is a use of the regulatory function placed definitely as u prohibitions and restrictions thereon." in other words, congress has the

power to stimulate congress element commerce and if actions were taken in state to prevent this demolition of commerce, congress can regulate it. what i'm saying is the president of united states is the head of the executive branch deftly has tools and power. this is not a federalism power. finally, sean, if i may. >> sean: quickly. >> these governors are a little confused. they think federalism means they have all the power. they think they can make whatever decisions they want and the rest of us have to pay for it but that's one way federalism. no such thing exists. >> sean:ng that's it. great one, that's it. sunday night, it continues right here on fox. whenon we come back, you won't believe the comments joe biden made that he had his own irredeemable, deplorable moment. that and my exchange with governor cuomo on the question of,, well, is he going to run fr president? listenen next. who do you think takes more pride

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♪ >> sean: biden completely embarrassing himself yesterday at a fund-raiser. biden reportedly said he can't connect with the president's faith because they support the notion that, you know, all mexicans are racists and all bidens are bad. oh. all, all, all. that's what he thinks about trump supporters. bitter americans clinging to guns, bible, religion but sounds like that's what he things of anybody that likes trump. >> why is it that the democrats had three president anemones in a row have very dim view of almost half of the country?

nearly one out of every three latinos voted for donald trump. does joe biden think they all think mexicans are all bad? this is once again an elitist perspective that will put joe biden in difficulty just like you did hillary clinton and barack obama. >> sean: does this impact his chances inke your views? maybe not now but when we get back to the campaign and 201 days away. >> depends on how people perceive it from here on out. they made that comment relatively late in the race and it was damaging their president obama, it hurt him but didn't keep him from winning reelection but it hurt him.ur the question is does joe invite and reinforce it by hanging out with exactly the kind of people that the president barack obama did. we'll see if joe biden continues to slander half of the american

population. >> sean: by the end of this week, karl rove, we'll have new whiteboards. >> there is a giant box on my front porch. but it says "covid-19" on it. >> sean: that was probably sent by joe biden. when we come back, i asked governor cuomo if he is he running for president? i ask for his definitive answer straight-ahead next. you know, new customers save over $1,000 on average

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♪ >> sean: so was governor cuomo thinking about running for president? i asked him, here's his answer. >> i'm going to i'm going to be governor of new york, sean. it'sop very important to me that people understand that because, frankly, this is such an intense partisan environment.o i can't do my job at this moment in time if there is any political agenda whatsoever. i'm not going anywhere.

max. >> sean: does this statement hold for you? "if nominated i want accept. if drafted i will not run. if elected, i will not serve." is that your statement? >> yes. >> sean: all right. let not your heart be troubled. laura -- i guess that's a prett' definitive he's not running. >> i think it's really great that he comes on your radio show. >> sean: we got into a fight -- got into a pretty big fight because i was pretty unhappy with all the stuff that he was saying. >> laura: that's all right. >> sean: we are beth -- i live in his state i don't want anyone applying. i'm sick of it. >> laura: all we can say is we didn't need it thankfully 30 or 40,000 ventilators. shopping, for one have a great show. >> laura: i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle." this may be one of the most important shows we've done