>> 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

during the coronavirus. dr. anthony powell she is here he tell us specifically explaining some differences. watch within the d states belown new york. dr. phil will join us for his first fox news appearance in years with a message to america about why it's so important to return to normalcy. plus she's become the liberal poster child for liberal hate. south dakota governor kristi noem is here and she's going to tell us why her refusal to mandate a stay a stay-at-home order was her way of preserving the public's health and liberty. and devin nunes says a key democrat blocked his effort for an intel hearing on china. he reveals what happened later in the hour. but first, my thoughts at the end of day 31, america in shutdown. the media seems to be a little caught off guard by the president's announcement tonight of a three-phase plan to reopen

america. >> do you think these are pretty good touchstones for states to decide when to start slowly easing restrictions? >> in the absence of widescale testing, i'd say they are probably, you know -- there's probably some room for improvement on them but i wouldn't throw any major stones at them right now. >> laura: it kills them to say anything positive! ultimately it's the state's decision regarding when and how to reopen. some governors may do this on a statewide basis or regional basis or very soon. moving from one phase of the next requires infections and hospitalizations toli decline or a 14-day period along with state relations about crowd and schools. >> all vulnerable individuals with those with corm entities to shelter in place and those go

out into the public are not those who are not vulnerable to ban outcomes in this disease. phase two, we are asking for the public to continue maximizing physical distance. however, we increase social settings to be able to have 50 individuals and nonessential travel can assume. phase three. phase three, i won't go through in detail with what is essentially returning to our new normal. with all of what w we've talked about through all phases. >> when you're in that phase, they flexibility may be there e some setbacks. although let's face it, these are uncharted waters. there may be setbacks we may have to pull back a little. >> laura: the administration was not going to please everybody with its restarting of the economy plan. is it too complicated, is it too involved. we are nearing more key deaths in the united states and the director could say the deaths

could peak sometime this week. citizens in the several states who have had very small cases in the outset and the climbing cases already for two weeks are asking the following. why does this apply at all. the outset as a factor of ten from the upside, why are states like california even in shutdown anymore? california has 951 deaths. it's a horrible number -- we don't want anyone to die. but in a state of 40 million? speaking for california, the entire state of california hospital system only had 119 covid patients in its ten ithospitals yesterday. again, every death is a tragedy. the number of covid deaths in a state as populace of california is stunningly low, thank god. remember, 40 million people. california's economy is the seventh largest in the world.

it had to come to a standstill because of a virus that will end up, looks like, killing about the same number we lose in a nasty influenza season. at least governor to gather gavin newsom has his priorities straight. >> we have a deep sense of gratitude in people who are in fear of deportation. that's why i posit as governor to be the first day to announce a program for direct disaster assistance to those individuals. we are putting up $75 million in partnership with philanthropy. >> laura: again. this shutdown is inflicting not just an inconvenience on californians and citizens coast to coast. it's caused massive societal disruption, economic pain unlike anything we've seen since the great depression, and deep stress for children, especially at risk children and families but some hospitals are cutting salaries because of noncovid

care being postponed. other hospitals, other clinics may shut down altogether. voters across america in states with rigid shutdown are starting to look at this more closely and starting to put real pressure on their statee legislatures. case in point, the governor's absurd broad definition of nonessential businesses was rejected by the state lawmakers. democrat governor tom wolf says he will veto their measure. and finally, check out the overhead shot of the line of cars at an l.a. food bank this week. this is disturbing. and heartbreaking. and this shouldn't happen in the united states of america. i imagine over the next few weeks as we get closer to june, we are going to see a lot more citizen activism from people who aren't afraid so much of losing their life to this virus. but they are getting really afraid of losing their livelihoods from a prolonged inability to make a decent

living. and those are my thoughts at the end of day 31, america in shutdown. joining me now is dr. anthony fauci, white house covid task force member and the head of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. thank you for joining me. had a long day. you keep saying we can't go back to normal until there is a vaccine and some type of massive change to this whole thing. but how is the president's plan to reopen parts of the economy and the country in line with that? >> well, it is. it's been in detail described, but it is a gradual process that takes into account that we have a heterogeneous dynamics of outbreak throughout the country. as you mentioned, california is really different than new orleans, very different than new york and detroit come up like arkansas and new mexico are

very different. what this plan does is it creates a baseline, a starting point which we call the gating, we have to have a certain degree of indication that the outbreak isr decreasing over a period of time and you graduate graduallyp from one phase to another phase to another phase, which would allow those areas that really have had very little involvement to more rapidly and effectively get back to a more normal approach. whereas others which are still struggling, they would have to get past the first, i would say, requirements of getting into the phases. so i hadd said with you, lara, sometime ago on the show that if we go back to normal, it's not going to be like a light switch going on and off, it's going to be a gradual progression that's going to be dictated by e situation in a particular region of the country. this is that very clearly. >> laura: dr. fauci, that gives maximum flexibly to the

states, no doubt. speaker nancy pelosi from california because this plan of yours and the president's "vague and inconsistent" and this isag what joe biden said about it moments ago. watch. >> i wouldn't call it a plan but i think what he's done is he's kind of punted. he doesn't have the rightl to make the call for the country. this thing will not be over until we have a vaccine. >> laura: punted? all of you people p working on this, apparently he's claiming that you didn't listen to yourself since you are a scientist. >> i don't know what you mean by "listen to myself." >> laura: he said they are not listening to the scientists, they are punting. your response to biden? >> well, this is over to the point of our being able to not do any mitigation until we have

a scientifically sound, safe, and effective vaccine. but that does not mean we can't approach a significant degree of normality. one of the things that we saidng very clearly throughout all of those phases, there is a baseline level of care that would have to be addressed that we didn't have before we had this outbreak. so whether you are on phase one and still tightened up a bit or you already graduated to phase three, there are still guidelines for all phases beer that's what we feel is going to be safeguarding an explosion which we hope will never happen and if it does, one of the requirements of this is to make sure we have the capability of jumping all over that. laura, i don't think there is any inconsistency here. >> laura: dr. fauci, on the question of vaccine, we have no vaccine for sars, they got close in mice. we don't have a vaccine for hiv

and life to go on. so the idea that we are definitely going to have a vaccine, we didn't really approach much else in the same way as we are pegging going back to normal with a vaccine. wci did we? >> well... but laura, this is different. hiv/aids is entirely different. we don't have a vaccine for hiv/aids, but we have spectacularly effective treatment. people who invariably would've died years ago right now are living essentially normal lives. sars is a different story. sars disappeared. we developed a vaccine. we were in the process of going through the various phases. we showed it was safe. we showed it induced a good response. and then sars disappeared. we didn't need to develop the vaccine for sars. so i think it's a little bit misleading to maybe compare what we are going through now with hiv or sars. they are really different.

>> laura: we don't know for this could disappear. sars did pretty much disappear. this code as well, correct? >> yeah. anything could, laura. i have to tell you, the degree of efficiency, of transmissibility of this is really unprecedented in anything i've ever seen. it's an extraordinarily efficient virus and transmitting from one person to another. >> laura: okay. ii just want to talk about california because no one has really been able to explain that, the differential between a state between 40 million people and 951 deaths, and new jersey and new york, or louisiana, or illinois. the numbers are -- they don't really make sense. even with the shutdown data, a few days off here and there, could there be different viral strains that circulated longer on the west coast versus predominantly on the east coast.

have you looked into that? >> there could be, but they are not. if you look at the sequences of the virus is not going into the genetic banks. obviously, rna viruses mutate a lot, no indication whatsoever that it has any functional relevance. there are no good ebola geological thefirst cases that came into te country from wuhan and the people that we brought in when we were bringing them back who are american citizens, that seeded in washington state in some areas in the i people in washington and california were able to do effective containment so they never allowed it to get to the point of needing mitigation.

new york city, they really got caught by surprise. because if you look at the seeding into new york city, that was mostly from europe. that wasn't from china. by the time they realized they had a problem in a big city with a big subway system, there was a problem. i mean, it started out new rochelle with a single case coming down in the city and then we had a problem. through no fault of their own, new york city got hit very hard but fortunately california and washington started off with a very small stimulus which they jumped all over. >> laura:au dr. fauci, we asked viewers to submit their questions about the president's reopening plan and this question comes from kate. she says, how does phase one include ramping up the workforce withoutay schools and day cares opening? schools don't open until phase two, but 85% of american parents worked outside the home. schools are the primary form of child care for most of us americani, parents. dr. fauci, how would you answer

that? >> there isn't a a perfect answr to that. obviously that is an issue. remember, the schools that are closed stay close, that doesn't mean you would close schools that are open depending on where theyg are. i don't see in phase one all of schools being closed. if you look at the world carefully, it says those that aywere already closed to make se you get through phase one before you pull back. but as someone, a governor, estate or whatever, you think about what they need to do, and their state is doing pretty well. they don't necessarily havey to close the schools. >> dr. fauci. finally, do we have all the data thatat we want from china? i know you have a good working relationship with chinese scientists and epidemics. but what about thatt primary daa about patient zero and all that key data about the therapies that they views? >> no. i think any of us who have been

dealing with this now for the past few months don't feel confident at all that we have all of the data of the originally infected individuals, how long people are inth circulation, or even now, how many deaths there really are in china. n that number is really rather a low number. that number surprises me. that that number is so low. then again, it is what it is. it's behind us. let's move ahead and address our own problem. >> laura: dr. fauci, we really appreciate you taking some time tonight. thanks so much. >> always good to be with you, laura pier thank you. >> laura: south dakota governor kristi noem is refusing to stop their economy and imposing aow lockdown. that has obviously made her public enemy number one for the liberal media. kristi noem joins usno now. they are not happy with you, they are now claiming south dakota is becoming a covid hot spot. you have seven deaths inyo the

state. why are they coming after you? >> we've got one issue in a pork processing plant in sioux falls, south dakota. but outside of that, two-thirds of our state have no cases or one case in the entire county. so we are doing very well as ae. state. we are addressing the one hot spot that we do have an aggressively testing in that area. but what you talked about, laura, is exactly right. we should be tracking who is in the hospital, what the death rate is, and south dakota and's are doing a fantastic job following my recommendations and we've been able to keep our businesses open and allow people to take on some personal responsibility. >> laura: the reaction on south dakota an iol, utah, wyoming, basically south and north dakota, arkansas, they decided to go their ownhe way. the blowback, the media blaming you for the pork processing

plant outbreak. watch. >> now the largest coronavirus hot spot in the u.s. >> kristi noem has issued, >> the government just let this problem get bigger and bigger and bigger. and to think that she pretended out of existence. >> laura: governor, are you pretending this isn't happening, is that what you are doing? >> what they are neglecting to tell folks is that this processing plant is critical infrastructure. regardless of a sheltered in place order or not it would be up andpo running because it's an important part of our nation's food supply. that b has what has been happeng on a national level. they have not been telling all the facts behind this. the people of south dakota can be trusted to make good decisions. we have common sense. p that's why people want to live

here and that's why i wound up living here. >> laura: are you so surprised that so many states that are quite populous as a matter of just percentages have done really well in this battle with the coronavirus? they were predicting a potentially 2 million dead, the hospital system was going to be overwhelmed. didn't really. come close. new york, new jersey's very stressed. i hear the governor ofof louisia saying that we are doing pretty well, going in that right direction and we can collapse our system. >> i do think it makes a big difference how seriously people take it, how you communicate with them. i gave our folks the guidelines and south dakota. but we don't like what we needed to do to flatten our curve they followed. we've had a dramatic impact, and

will be able to handle it with a capacity in our health care system andd it's all because of decisions that the people made and thee fact that we work together to do that. ii think that's what's been unique in south dakotaa and we'e probably seen that in other states as well. >> laura: folks at msnbc morning shows saying -- they say you are too casual about it. when governors are supposed to listen to their people and be pragmatic because you are balancing civil rights andh. health. that's the balance. rights and livelihoods versus a virus that, you know, is very tough. it's amazing. they are treating you guys like pariahs. >> i had a very honest conversation with the people in our state. i took in oath to uphold the come down the constitution of

our state, to uphold the constitution of the united states. what i've seen across the country isy so many people give up their liberties were just a little bit of security and they don't have to do that. if a leader will take too much power in a time of crisis, that is how we lose our country. so i felt like i've had to use every single opportunity to talk about why we slow things down, make decisions based on science and fact, and make sure that we are not living emotion grab a hold of the situation. >> laura: liberty, freedom, and our inalienable rights in balancing health. governor, thank you for being here tonight. it's great to have you on. coming up, what does an extended lockdown due to people's mental health. what about the reliance on drug, alcohol. dr. phil is here, his first fox news appearance in years to tell us why it's so important to open up america as quickly and safely as we can next.

♪ >> laura: more than 90% of >> laura: more than 90% of americans living under a under stay-at-home orders. that might change with the president's new reopening, but it's meant to spread the halt -- halt thehe spread of the virus, excuse me. the devastation being caused by the lockdowns may be creating a new pandemic, one of mass anxiety and helplessness. >> i don't have any income coming in. i don't have any food stamps. so it's just hard to get any help right now. >> i have a 12-year-old son at home and stuff like that. that makes me stress more. when i stress more, i smoke more. >> because i'm pregnant with twins, if i were to get evicted i don't know what to do. >> laura: that's heartbreaking and you hear all the stories all day long. 22 million people out of work

and millions of business owners are facing insolvency. how many of our fellow americans feeling stressed and panicked, like the woman you just saw? join me now is dr. phil mcgraw, psychologist and host of "dr. phil." this isn't part of the calculations is bending the curve and all of these graphs that t you see very interesting and i'm not saying they are important, those comments aren't taking into consideration. >> given a voice to this, so very important for this is abysmal but i can't show you an x-ray of depression. i can't show you an x-ray of anxiety. the fact of the matter is the longer this lockdown goes on, the more vulnerable people get. it's like there is a tipping point, a point in which people enough problems in

lockdown that it will actually create more destruction and actually more death across time thanl the actual virus will itself. 250 people a year die from poverty! the poverty line is getting such's that more and more people are going to fall below that because the economy is crashing around us. and they are doing that because people are dying from the coronavirus. i get that. the fact of the matter is i-40 5,000 people die from automobile accidents, 360,000 a year from swimming pools that we don't shut down the country for that. yet we are doing it for this? the fallout is going to last for years becauseiv people's lives e being destroyed! the one dr. phil, conversations with business owners who i've gotten to you know over the years, i come from a family that owned a small business, a car w. my heart is always with the people who get, you know,

screw -- i hate that word, screwed in situations like this. the restaurateurs, the employees are their family. they've had the same employees for 30 years. these are grown menn in tears. they are like, i can't sleep. these are grown men. i've never seen this. i've never witnessed this before ever. >> i've talked to them before and this happened. when it happened, they got no warning for and some them just received huge orders of perishable foods. they didn't even have time to give it away. they have these people that have worked for them 20 or 30 years, they can afford to keep them on and they can't do takeouts at a lot of these restaurants, they are not geared for that. people are at home.m, it's a perfect storm, laura. people are in isolation, that creates problems. loneliness actually creates

problems. people that suffer fromli loneliness, they become 29% more likely to have coronary artery disease. 32% more likely to have strokes or die. 40% more likely to have dementia if they are in that age group. it's not just its psychological, their bodies actually start breaking down. we think we are protecting people's lives by keeping them locked up? you keep them locked up long enough, there is a paradoxical effect, you destroyed more lives by then letting them go out and protect themselves and opt into their lives to fight for what they believe in. >> laura: dr. phil, i could not agree more. i have not slept during this because i'm so worried about our country. i'm blessedav because i have a b and i'm very blessed but i am so worried about the working people in our country. the impact of being out of school for children, and there hasn't been that much of a focus

on that. sweden kept their primary school kids in. they thought that was the right thing to do. and we'll see how the numbers all turn out there. the risk that this poses to children,es watch. >> they could just be totally blowing off school, not talking onto anyone. just numbing out on youtube videos all day long because they are anxious and worried and depressed and tryingd to distrt themselves and no one would know because they aren't going to reach out for help. >> laura: dr. phil, how can parents make sure this doesn't happen toth their kids? >> that's a real problem and i'm glad you brought it up because attendance and actual completion of work across the country has dropped about 40%. parents are not trained as teachers. i mean, we've got so many parents where they have three or four children in three or fourr different grades and they've got one device, one laptop or computer at home, if that. and they are trying to run 3-4 curricula when they don't have

the training to do it once. that's a real problem and they are doing it while they have this hammer hanging over their head that the economy is crashing around their ears but don't know if they are going to be able to pay their rent. there were 10,000 people that showed up in san antonio over the weekend for the food bank. people that used to be volunteering at the food bank are now in line getting food at the food bank. 10,000 people. these are people who don't want to be there. they don't need to be there. >> laura: we have so many questions.s. our viewers, dr. phil, have been sending in questions day long. when we come back, we are going to get to those questions from all of you. stay tuned. more dr. phil coming up next. we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. i'm good at my condo. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement.

>> live from america's news headquarters, i am ashley strohmeyer. china reviving its death toll from the coronavirus pandemic. raising the number of dead in wuhan, the epicenter of the virus, from 1,290 to 3869. china state news agencies says the deaths were from people who died at home without seeing a doctor were being tested for the virus. china also stated smell medical facilities were overwhelmed her and also under reporting data about the coronavirus pandemic. one in six americans are now out of work mostly due to the coronavirus pandemic. that's the worst unemployment

numbers since the great depression. another 5.2 million workers applying for first-time jobless benefits bringing the four week total to 22 million. i am ashley strohmeyer. now back to "the ingraham angle." >> laura: i want to now bring in back dr. phil mcgraw, host of "dr. phil" which is in its 18th season, i can't believe that. we asked our viewers what theyhe really wanted to know during the coronavirus lockdown. a lot of mental health issues, and a lot of concerns. our first question comes from val and she wrote, my 89-year-old mom is showing sudden signs of delirium. can you offer some practical suggestions on how to assist her with this quarantine. she's normally active. socially shopping, hair salons, dining out, et cetera. dr. phil? >> i can and i say this for val's mother and also everybody in this quarantine. you need to maintain your routine but you don't want to

become a couch potato and a slug. you want to get up every morning, take a shower, fix your hair, put on your makeup, get dressed, and groom yourself just like you do whenever the world isor open because let me tell y, that door is going to open soon. it's kind of like the pace car at a nascar race. when the pace car pulls off the track you want to be at full speed but let everybody else be looking for their keys and figuring out what they wanted to do. you need to have your mind busy. you need to be working and doing things every day. don't be sitting around. because particularly elderly people, their mind will begin to wander and they will not become cognitively active. you have got to be cognitivel cognitively -- you've got to be cognitively agile. this really has an effect on people near and psychologicallyl i've been talking with my colleague dr. marty greenberg and we are very concerned even people in their 30s and 40s losing a step cognitively by inbeing in quarantine. >> laura: kids have to be

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♪ >> laura: with the news that >> laura: when the news that fox broke last night about the true extent of china's coronavirus cover up, we at "the ingraham angle" felt obligated to tell you we told you so. china's ambitions have never enbeen a secret yet over the yes our political media dogma,

media, financial, and health experts claimed it was in your best interest to cozy up to the communist party. but why? so they could make a quick buck and flood our country with cheap imported goods much to the detriment of american workers. given how- devastating this covid-19 pandemic has proven to be, it's important to remind you of those who ignored this global danger andan dismissed it altogether. i give you the china threat deniers. first, i want to begin three decades ago when china was struggling mightily to emerge in the modern world. as a "wall street journal"'s bob davis wrote in 2018, it's difficult to remember how economically backwards the countryy was in the early 1990s. inflation hit 24%. in 1994, nearly 60% of the population lived on less than $1.90 per day. but china had a plan. theun nations, and his party leaders would woo western,

political economic elites to gain access to the powerful world tradeo organization. and one of their key targets was former president bill clinton. during his 1996 reelection campaign, they were efforts, some successful, to funnel illicit foreign contributions into his coffers of the campaign. just a few short years ago and years later, clinton was already trying to convince americans that they needed to welcome china into the global trading community a. >> a china that overcome the challenges it faces at home, and china that's been that promote global norms. >> laura: oh, world trade organization. it'd clinton and federal chair alan

greenspan held a triumphant rose garden events. >> as china's citizens experience economic days, so will the firms that trade in their expanding markets. china's progress towards prosperity and accession into the wto will create new n opportunities for american businesses and farmers. >> i believe that chairman greenspan has established a pretty good record of knowing what's in americans' economic interests. >> laura: i can't even listen to that! to be fair, it wasn't just the clinton administration. two years later, george w. bush echoed his predecessor's naive sentiment. >> china is on a rising path. and america welcomes the emergence of a strong and peaceful and prosperous china. >> how does that all work out for us? and obama echoed bush literally.

>> the united states welcomes a prosperous china. we want china to do well. >> laura: did they share notes? do they pass notes along? it's crazy. how did we lost millions and millions in manufacturing jobs. we saw a trade deficit balloon, intellectual property ripped off left and right. and meanwhile china broke its promises to let foreign banks participate in their business. which they undervalue their currency, we know all that. they've got huge margins for years. you think that would upset the titans of wall street like >> china's rise is important for china but it's important for everyone in the world. improving the confidence over the last couple of decades. >> laura: at least he defends

trump tariffs last year but that was after he left his position f at goldman where he had a financial interest in playing nice. all these a years later after al the trade abuses, all that intellectual property theft, all the market manipulations, publications in the south china sea, what they do do terrorize taiwan and the world health organization, you would think the politicians in both parties, especially the ones who would be the party standard-bearers in 2020 that they would be very clear on that, on the china threat that we face. >> china is going to eat our lunch? come on, man. they aren't bad folks, folks. they are competition for us. china is not a problem for us if we invest in them. >> laura: look what's happened around america the last four weeks.os we've lost all of our job gains

since the last recession. it's time for china to enter the forefront of the american political conversation and if you see someone denying what china has done, our workers, our people, now our health with the way they handle this virus? ask yourself. what's in it for them? you can f usually find the answr pretty quickly. my next guest says he wanted to convene a public intel hearing in the china threat but derailed by mr. impeachment himself adam schiff whoff wanted to talk abo, you guessed it, russia. congressman, david nunez joins s now. take us through what happened with schiff. >> well, actually in the house intelligence community, the republicans had been running an investigation into china since 2011. we were actually the first to announce that we had a 5g problem, we talked about the

huawei and z te problem food we continued that through '15 and '16, we were continuing it into 2017. that's when the democrats decided that we wanted to play like with russian nesting dolls all the time and we convened a series of hearings but the hearings got hijacked and they began to subpoena this russian agent, that russian agent, and they blew the whole thing apart. we actually did submit a classified report to the administration last congress, the republicans did. we continue to run our own investigation because the democrats, youno know, they are too busy playing russian roulette with thehe chinese whee they don't take it seriously. >> laura: we have some video of that hearing you are referencing. watch. >> before we turn to the subject of the challenge posed by china, there is another issue that our committee members wish to raise.

delaunay concerning the more proximate threat from russia. what took place during a two hour private meeting that the president had alone with mr. putin. >> laura: what's a more proximate threat now to our country? is it russia? russia? or was it what china has done and specifically now with this virus and all the economic damage that came before? speak with >> the sad truth is the obama administration wanted to be friendsro with russia. nobody cared about russia on the democratic side until donald trump was elected. remember, this was because the clinton campaign working with dirtyy cops that everybody knows they story, they went with that narrative, the media went with that narrative, still to this day that none of the media have actually apologized when it's pretty clear, i've been saying this for three and a half years, it wasn't the trump

administration that was attempting to collude with russians. in fact, what the democratic party colluding with russia. >> laura: congressman, they knew that this thing was not a case. they knew thisas in january of - january 2016, excuse me. ythey kept it up anyway. that's the obscene thing of what they did with president trump. they knew this was phony. >> they knew it was phony. they knew, he looked for russians, there are no russians for bob mueller to even look at. to talk about the china threat, theas coronavirus was building,e are busy with impeachment. they are doing their walks

through the capital, giving away pens. it's really disturbing. we, republicans, have been warning about this threat for a very long time. s it seems like there should be some bipartisan support for it now. it's just not happening rightht now. >> laura: they have to consider how china pays, whether they should be a member of the wto, whether we should be members. there's a lot to think about here. >> that's an important question, whether we should be involved or not. >> laura: the same with the w.h.o. maybe we get out of the w.h.o. and the pto and make our own way forward. thank you so much., and governor andrew cuomo claims to be a beacon of something. we will tell you when we come back

>> laura: it's time for the last bite. governor andrew cuomo today praising his state's political morality. >> new yorkers will do the right thing. what is the right thing? there is i always a right thing. it is the appropriate path that is socially and morally correct. and new yorkers have a very strong right thing quotient. they know the right thing when they hear it. >> laura: i hope so.

governor, did you forget lawmakers in your state did this? after decriminalizing partial-birth abortions? speak of the bill is ia >> the bill is passed. [cheers and applause] >> laura: was that the right thing? that's all the timee we have. shannon bream and the "fox news at night" team is >> a busy night, thank you so much. odds are you are among the millions who have been staying at home for weeks wonder when the light will appear at the end of the tunnel. the president outlined the data marker and timelines and said some in the country will be back up and running sooner than you expect but leaving those decisions to your governor. who goes first as what guidelines for you and our country's economy? will we see a split on partisan