for local listings or to watch online. thank you so much for joining us tonight. sean is going to be back on monday. i know you're glad to hear that. stay safe, be well this weekend. "the ingraham angle" starts right now. ♪ >> laura: i'm laura ingraham, this is "the ingraham angle" from washington. can america reopen responsibly to save our economy before it basically just craters to the next decade? georgia is out in front and you're going to hear from folks throwing their doors open. well, larry kudlow will tell us how the administration's focus for may has now changed. plus, what's the truth behind the fda's announcement today on hydroxychloroquine? and was trump write about uv rays customer care medicine cabinet takes those questions on. and, it's friday, is of course raymond arroyo is here and he's going to update us on the cuomo

brothers reality show andy how hazards of coronavirus reporting. all that and more on friday folly. but first, my thoughts on the end of day 39, america in shutdown. exactly three weeks ago -- it seems like an eternity ago -- but in the early stages of the lockdown i gave this warning. >> laura: we just all have to remember, a crisis has to be dealt with. we want to protect people and save lives, we have our civil liberties, our constitution to also preserve, and after 9/11 we did a heck of a lot of stuff that in the moment felt really good. but then later on, years later comes the waste, fraud, and abuse. we are seeing some of those things creep in during this covid crisis as well. >> laura: in the weeks since we've seen a lot of covid-19 mission creep, somehow planning the curve ended up planning ours as well. virginia used the emergency as cover to ram through more

anti-gun measures. michigan and kentucky, they cracked down on worshipers, even when they were social distancing. in california, they are funneling money to illegal immigrants. but there is a new threat to our rights on the horizon and it's being pushed by the second wealthiest man in the world. microsoft cofounder bill gates and the gates foundation, they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on research projects around the world. they do a lot of good. and now it's the largest active funder of the world health organization as well, despite the w.h.o.'s recent covid failures and coziness with china. now, according to gates, the only way to responsibly and the shutdown, the stay-at-home orders is for a pretty bad surveillance system to be put in place. writing in "the washington post," the united states can follow germany's example, interview everyone who tests positive and use the database to make sure someone follows up with all

their contacts. well, of course he insists this will all be voluntary. you choose whether you download the digital tools onto your cell phone. he notes that some people have proposed allowing phones to detect other phones that are near them by using bluetooth and emitting sounds that humans can't hear, and if someone tested positive, their phone would send a message to other phones and their owners could i guess go get tested. well, how this information would be story, whether it would be stored and to whom it would be accessible -- i mean, it's anyone's guess. we don't know this yet. but in a perfect world, perhaps this would all work seamlessly with no abuses and no misuse of our medical data. but there are profound questions involved here, including the damage that would be done to america if we really can't even open this up until an army, as they call it, of tracers and technology was put in place. is any of this even feasible?

now one would think that given all the issues floating out there that journalists would have at least a few questions, some curiosity about how any gates approved tracing and digital tracking system, whatever you want to call it, how it would all be implemented. well, not so much curiosity. >> if ramped up testing will be crucial for reopening our economy, so will something called contact tracing. contact tracing is the good old-fashioned detective work long part of smart public health planning. >> it is absolutely critical to stopping new infection. >> laura: "the ingraham angle" is asking some hard questions here. it all sounds fine on the surface. member after 9/11, everything seemed fine. the patriot act, new homeland security department, ramp up security, it all seemed perfectly reasonable. years later we found out that some of that stuff wasn't. sometimes we have to ask a comfortable questions because we know there aren't too many in the media who actually will. a few months ago, we were all

terrified by models that told us millions of people could die if the coronavirus in the united states, or at least hundreds of thousands. well, here is a really powerful tool and is it really true now as some of the medical establishment are arguing that it will be unsafe to travel, to go to church or ball game, unless we give up our personal data. i haven't seen the scientific proof or any of that. that is a big leap. finally, china boldly predicted today that it could have a covid vaccine ready by early 2021. what a neat trick. china creates a global catastrophe and then swoops in for the vaccine rescue. i'm sure it will all be totally free, won't cost us anything and completely safe. but remember, the pro-china leads in the press, they see china as an example to emulate. never really a threat to our freedom and security.

after all, we don't even have vaccine factories. >> we are even going to start building them or look to countries that might make them for us in one of those countries might be china. the president keeps calling at the chinese virus and he might have a really hard time getting xi jinping and his government to be friendly to the united states, or he may extract something from donald trump in return that donald trump isn't going to want to pay. like, you know, that apology, and, you know, some respect. >> laura: some respect to our chinese overlords? bill gates, well, has some respect for china. >> china took tha the situationn wuhan and by extreme interventions by reducing movement, they were able to crush that epidemic. now that china is mostly back to work, some of the critical

supplies, having china participate in providing those could make a huge difference. >> laura: hey, bill, china locked people in their apartments, essentially. scientists disappeared. people were terrified and terrorized. we don't even know what happened and yoin wuhan but it's all a le extreme. they still haven't given us key data about the coronavirus. where was it started, who really was patient zero, the way it started, the full research on therapies, patient records. they've made a huge difference, as you say. they made a huge difference. we've lost 50,000 americans and trillions in wealth, and those are my thoughts at the end of day 39: america in shutdown. right, mass surveillance, if it's carried out the wrong way, mass surveillance, as a phrase, is a huge mistake. what we really need are therapies that can give

americans the confidence to get their lives back. back to school, back to work on the back to church if you go to church. i've heard from doctors across the united states, who are having huge success treating covid with a variety of therapies including hydroxychloroquine. i even got my hands on the atlantic health systems guide to treating covid-19. what is their first line of treatment? hydroxychloroquine, and the added azithromycin as well. that is why i was kind of surprised to see the fda today caution against using hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 outside of hospital setting or clinical trial. fda says there's a risk of other side effects. what about countries that have given out millions of doses free to people? india, turkey, we talked about that the other night.

they are prescribing it in outpatient care to treat people with early signs of covid, in some cases prophylaxis, and with autoimmune issues, of course. as we know, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, whereas our next guest is one of the most qualified autoimmune experts in the country and she says doctors need to be empowered with the best available tools in order to beat back this pandemic. joining me now is dr. christine geter, founder of the kendrick medical institute. great to see you tonight, what do you make of the fda's dismissiveness, or this morning today that came out about hydroxychloroquine, which obviously should never be prescribed except by a doctor and people always need to be looked after, and you have to look at someone's medical history, but what do you make of it? >> the issue that i have is that they are raising concerns, obviously, this whole issue with

cardiac passivity and we've heard about it in a lot of different ways but they are not giving us what to do, right customer excel that is an issue for very small segment of the population. so give us guidelines. perhaps there should be machines that covid testing site so people can get them and understand better who might be at risk. but it's 95 plus percent of the population is absolutely no risk, why are we denying them a very bona fide treatment strategy that could really be effective in staving off the first part of the disease? >> laura: doctor, i talked to a turkish doctor yesterday and she actually sent me the chart that is sent out to all of the health care centers in turkey, and she is like, i don't even get this. obviously there is always a risk with every medication but she said we've been doing this in the beginning. australia is using it, the u.k. is using it, a number of

countries, india has been using it for decades. she was like, dumbfounded. they are using it in d.c., washington, d.c., and new york. she liked, didn't understand it. she is like, we don't understand what y'all are doing in the united states. it's not a cure all, but it keeps a lot of people out of the hospital and it gets a lot of people better. we feature so many of them on our show. >> yes, absolutely. the drug has been around 30, 40 years, great track record. i prescribe it in my practice more times than i could count and never had a concern of this magnitude. in the concern could be handled, as they said. that is the biggest issue. shutting it down for a subset of patients, that in medicine is what we are trained to do. we evaluate risk/benefit ratios to create a risk for an entire population is completely nonsensical. >> laura: it is bizarre and it is like, the fda, you get the sense that people are looking

for a result instead of looking at the whole patient of america here. two days ago i spoke with nfl player mark campbell, former nfl player, who told me about his own experience with hydroxychloroquine. watch. >> within a couple hours i felt better. within 24 hours i felt pretty good. within 48 hours, i really was able to leave the hospital. >> laura: do you feel like that made the difference for you? >> i do, i do. for me, i felt like it made all the difference in the world. >> laura: any side effects? >> zero. >> laura: he didn't have any side effects. dr. gedroic, that 48 hours he mentioned is interesting because you said you have seen a similar timeline with your patients. tell me. >> yeah, absolutely. coming through we have had at least 50 that have been diagnosed covid positive and probably their practice we have touched a couple hundred now that either had early signs. we do a lot with immune support of therapies through our practice and many of our

patients are coming there absolutely unscathed. i have sent nobody to the hospital yet, which is amazing, but we have felt that we needed to start the hydroxychloroquine absolutely on the mark. within 48 hours, and it's been shocking to me that there have been a couple cases where i had to part dominic fight with primary physicians, and they are sitting at home with a fever taking tylenol and it's going oy are starting to get very short of breath and i'm the one arguing to say, try the hydroxychloroquine. what do we have -- you know -- >> laura: but are you not supposed to do that now? i don't understand this. are you not -- are you prohibited from doing that now, or these are just guidelines? >> guidelines, and they're changing all the time. that's the problem. >> laura: i thought we were supposed to keep people out of the hospital, dr. gedroic. we're going to have you back on next week because i know you have other interesting ideas and things that you've done to keep people out of the hospital who

test covid positive but we wanted to get your perspective on this tonight. thank you so much. it's great to see you. all right, the fda's new warning that we just talked about about hydroxychloroquine has the media completely enraptured. >> hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside of the hospital setting or clinical trial due to heightened risk of heart rhythm problems. >> look, hydroxychloroquine can cause heart problems heart problems. >> the drug has been linked to serious heart rhythm problems. cardiologists have been warning of this for sometime. >> laura: but what are the facts wa? joining me now, ceo fox cardiology. you are a cardiologist and at the practice, you have treated several covid patients, symptomatic. what are your thoughts here? what is this all about? >> you've got to wonder. we know that tylenol can cause

liver failure, but it's available it's available over-the-counter. today, i sent to you a package insert over hydroxychloroquine. forget about chloroquine, nobody is using that. but it actually shows for rheumatoid arthritis, 600 milligrams a day until adequate results are achieved and then drop down to approximately 5 milligrams or kilograms per day, which is about 2 kilograms per day. this is how we does this for covid except we only use four, five, ten day course at the most. typically five days. so, the fda's recommendations are really schizophrenic. i would make one last comment about what your previous doctor spoke. the rate of cardiac toxicity is not 5%. it's probably 0.05%. mr. prescribe it to pregnant women. we used it in children. we used it without monitoring

and countries for prophylaxis. you might've taken it yourself. >> laura: i've taken it three times. >> it's ridiculous. the toxicity risk is crazy. >> laura: when you read these headlines, i don't even think they went and read what the fda actually said on its website. i did. and they don't ask the question, doctor, first of all, we are not talking about chloroquine. we're talking about hydroxychloroquine. it's already been established that chloroquine is much more toxic, has much more toxicity. but when i don't understand is that lupus patients, rheumatoid arthritis patients, they are on this as stephen smith has said many times, for decades. decades. and yet they can get the prescription in a doctor's office, so they don't have to go to a hospital? which we are not supposed to go to hospital now, if you have covid, you want to stay out of the hospital. but i am just a layperson. but i think to me none of this make sense. >> it really doesn't. even the fda package insert

never mentions the ekg baseline. all the patients come close to a dozen that i've treated are established patients with ekgs. heart history problems. they've had no problems except for one patient who had persistent nausea. a small price to pay for avoiding the icu. >> laura: and dr. did he write you to my stomach found one case in 1,000 , maybe it wasn't any, but it was over 1,000 -- >> nine. >> laura: you have a better memory than i do. this was president trump today around noon when he answered questions from reporters talking about it. >> i did speak to the president of honduras a little while ago and i didn't bring it up, he brought it up. they say they use hydroxychloroquine, and he said the results are so incredible with hydroxychloroquine. maybe it's helping. if it helps, it's great.

if it doesn't help, don't do it. >> laura: again, we've said, countries around the world are using this in hospitals, and doctor's offices, prophylaxis. either they are all stupid or it does something for some people. but the press doesn't want any good news. >> hydroxychloroquine has an important role to play in mild to moderate covid illness. you shouldn't use it in late stage cases or patient to simply test positive but are asymptomatic. this is an important part of our toolkit but you use it in selected patients. why they are doing this really boggles the legitimate medical imagination. >> laura: practicing physicians bombarded me today after seeing that fda warning. it was -- i don't know. i don't have any words on a friday night to describe it. doctor, thank you so much. esteemed cardiologist in washington, d.c. coming up, georgia is open for business today, but what are things like on the ground for

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♪ >> laura: the state of georgia allowed nonessential businesses to reopen today. huge lines were seen outside of barbershops, gyms, hair salons as they opened their doors for the first time since governor kemp issued his stay-at-home order three weeks ago. georgia business owners are rejoicing but remaining cautious. >> this morning, we can't believe it but we are doing it. >> were thinking about the safety of both our customers and our staff. prioritizing that and make sure that we think creatively about ways people can still have a great time. >> we are already exposing

ourselves at gas stations, pharmacies. why shouldn't our business be allowed to try to adapt and survive? >> laura: joining me now is the owner of bless up barbershop in atlanta. what's it like to be back in business? >> it's a true blessing. true, true blessing. the last month has been tough. it's been very, very tough. >> laura: what do you say to all the folks out there who think this is so dangerous, you are putting people's lives, you know, in jeopardy. al sharpton today said that what you're actually doing is bad. watch. >> i don't know any barbara in georgia that his 6-foot long arms. how are you going to have social distancing in a barbershop or in a beauty parlor? i mean, let's be serious. you are really telling people, put yourself in danger. for what reason, i cannot imagine.

>> laura: your response to reverend al? >> reverend al, he might have a couple million dollars in the bank. also nonessential owners do not. so, the only thing we can speak from is our perspective. for the last two months, i speak for myself, i had no income for the last two months. i own three barbershops, i also cut hair myself, and us being out of work is no money coming in at all. in the last few months i have spent over 20 grand in brand, in mortgages, you know, stuff like that. i applied for the fdas, applied for the unemployment. i haven't even received the stimulus. to my question to people out there, what should we do? should we just let -- just sit back and wait for the government to bail us out, or take advantage of the opportunity we have them be as safe as possible and still, you know, make as much money as we can and play it

safe customer exploring your fighting for your survival your way of life, your survival. i imagine if didn't have a pretty clean and well attired to shop you probably wouldn't have been in business as long as you've been in business, so how are you dealing with the customers? are you wearing a mask? how does it work. >> okay, we had a meeting with our shops yesterday and wednesday. we came up with some creative ideas. we got a whole bunch of disposable ponchos. so when you come and come up before you come and you put a poncho. you've got to sanitize your hands, put on gloves, and spray with lysol. the door is locked. we have control of who comes in and who comes out. as far as the ponchos and stuff like that, it's just a creative way of doing it. >> laura: are you wearing masks as well? >> of course. for sure. >> laura: that's a given.

we might have a little bit of an audio problem here but a "new york times" reporter had a warning for business owners like you. >> if we go out of hiding it will all turn on again. and people who are determined to rush back into the stores in states like georgia are risking seeing what we saw happen before start again, and it's a very hard way to learn a lesson. >> laura: he can see into the future, he knows exactly apparently what's going to happen with this virus. close it out. >> this is what i say. if you don't want us to work, find a way to make an extra stimulus package or some kind of fund for us nonessential workers to save our homes, to save our cars from being repod, to save our businesses. i've busted my butt building franchise from the ground up and

what people are telling me to sit at home and wait, something no one has an answer to save me. but i'd much rather take the opportunity i have with my faith in god and continue to push forward and do the best i can and be as safe as possible. the key is to be as safe as possible. it's no different than coming into the barbershop as a person going to the grocery store. and touching that bag of chips. who knows who touched that bag of chips before you did. when you come into a barbershop, i know who sat in my chair so i'm going to wipe it down. i know who's touching my door handle so i'm going to wipe it down. >> laura: so, i think everyone understands what you're saying saying. i hope the president is watching and i hope people who are afraid still are watching. you are adapting, and i bet you're going to have really good results. and i think you seem really responsible. i can't wait to hear more. when i come down there, you got to do something with my mom,

okay? >> i already got you. >> laura: i making you cut my hair. i needed. i've got to get down there, my friend. all right, i'm coming down. when i can travel, i'm coming down. thanks so much. we will check back with you in a couple weeks. as some businesses do reopen, my next guest is cautioning that may will be a transmissio trans. here now is larry kudlow. you heard that barbershop owner, he seems like a really cool guy, we can get back to work safely,e a free market believe her, and you love that story is much as i do. go ahead. >> actually come i got to tell you, i'd love that guy and i'm also going to confess, i had a hair trim yesterday. it was kind of a special deal. friends -- you know this person, not mentioning any names.

she got her hairdresser to come in and open up her barbershop and the guy gave me a pretty good trim. i don't have much to work with but it looks much better because i want it to look good on the laura ingraham show. that was the key point and here i am. i had no temperature this morning coming into the white house, i tested negative last week, i feel fine, and i love that guy. i'd like to meet him sometime. >> laura: larry, so you're special. you got a haircut. the rest of us, we are dealing with it. now, i'm just kidding. but may is a transition month. got to get this economy going. people are dying out there. at that guy, that was sad, the opening to that story. i'm bleeding money, i'm going to get my car repossessed. that is the american understanding right now if we don't get this thing going. think brian kemp is going to end up being a big success story. >> i totally agree. i meet the guidelines and we've

got good, scientific-based guidelines. you've got to have your adjustment in special cases within a 14-day period. he fed to observe it. he ran it down pretty well. you've got to have the testing, the cleaning, the hand washing and all the rest of it. and the distancing. but if that is true, if you meet the criteria, i think you're going to see a lot of states opening in the next few weeks and i think the month of may it's going to be a transi terric transition month as the economy reawakens. it will be rolling, phase and at times. 26 million people, laura. 26 million people in the last five weeks have filed unemployment claims. 60% of the whole workforce. we cannot continue that. it is unfortunate -- if we are fortunate, then you know what, the numbers will keep coming down and people will reopen and we look at this economy restarted again. restarted again. >> laura: the white house is

considering tonight, apparently, we learned of a liability shield that would protect employers from lawsuits related to coronavirus. businesses say they need to reopen otherwise they're going to get slammed with lawsuits. critics say it's just going to excuse that of conditions, unsafe environments. your response? >> that's just not true. i mean, look, covid-19 guidelines. you've got federal guidelines, state guidelines, city, county guidelines. that is what the stores and small businesses, they have to abide by that. if they do, then i think there should be a safeguard around the liabilities related to the covid-19 virus. there should be a safeguard. love, if you go to a restaurant, just take this example. you go to a restaurant that has recently opened. the restaurant observes all the guidelines, okay? every single one of them. now unfortunately, if the

customer comes down with the virus, unfortunately, how can you prove necessarily that it's the restaurant's fault? because this thing is highly infectious, as you know. i don't think we should open the door to a lot of false claims by trial lawyers and others who are always on the lookout. he will stop the business from opening or the business will close or they won't have enough money to keep going because of these lawsuits, so why not have some safeguards? and by the way, i think business but also the employees in the business should be protected from these kinds of phony lawsuits. >> laura: i think there is incredible wisdom in it. i think it has to happen. the economy has to get going, we have to get back to work. do it safely but let the free market determine. they will innovate and adapt more than the government ever imagined. thank you for coming on. coming up, the cuomo brothers are presumed their reality show question right there is no way. all the details. raymond arroyo, friday follies

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>> laura: it's friday and that means it's time for friday follies. joining all the mayhem, joining us now is raymond arroyo, all right, the cuomo brothers, tell me they haven't given up their sick gum please. >> actually they haven't given it up. >> laura: oh, oh, good. >> it's all part of the latest

edition of the house husbands of the hampton's. ♪ >> good to see you, big brother. >> good to be with you, little brother. >> the governor's counter argument for the people who say it's been too long already, you're killing me by keeping me home. >> the only way we brought down the virus spread is by doing what we are doing. the cure is not worse than the disease because the disease can kill you, and that is what people have to remember. freedom -- >> i don't want to give you the freedom point because i don't buy that. you're hurting my freedoms, we need to liberate, i don't know why the president is saying that. i hope you don't ever say that, go liberate your own region or whatever. >> he is essentially here lobbying his brother, the governor of new york, to continue that lockdown. orders he refused to abide by, chris cuomo. i'm glad chris is recovered but he is moralizing and demanding the public at here to stay at

home orders practice while covid positive. that bicyclist we discussed the other night in the hamptons who called him out for not quarantining, then cuomo allegedly threatened the guy. and by the way, were not the only ones questioning the journalistic ethics of inserting herself in the story line and the conflict of interest here. "the washington post" and "the new york times" both wrote critical pieces of this cuomo double act. "the washington post" writes the cuomo brothers put on quite a show. should the journalism ethics police shut it down and "the new york times" headline is that americans don't trust the media anymore, so why do they trust the cuomos? we caught all kinds of hell for doing this story the other nig night. >> laura: you know something? people can dish it out but they can't take it as my mother would say. all right raymond, chris cuomo's wife, god bless her, christina, is also now making headlines. she posted a cuomo's protocol

for covid on her blog where she admits to calling and a doctor who does at home vitamin drips and covid tests. then she wrote come at the direction of my doctor, i take a bath and add a tiny amount of sodium hypochlorite in the formf clorox as a type of homeopathic bath. my goodness, i did not know about this genius use of using clorox in a bath. >> we should all pursue. the president is getting hammered for using uv light or some type of digestible -- meanwhile, cuomo's wife is suggesting you bathe in clorox which the clorox websites is avoid skin contact at all cost. she also took some peruvian bar that is a benign form of -- >> laura: maybe it is hydroxychloroquine. maybe that said. >> who knows? on capitol hill, they have been

wearing masks to work but i think they could use some instruction on proper mask usage and etiquette. i will show, look at this. here the democrats. look at this, i love this with the mask hanging from that year, laura. is that hilarious customer at maxine waters put under her chi. the cdc guidelines clearly state, do not touch the front of the mask, don't then touch your face, eyes, mouth. want to show you nancy pelosi at the podium in the well of the house. watch this. speak out thank you. ensuring that taxpayer money goes to workers paychecks. this is so important. >> this is a very important piece of legislation. >> touching the podium. she is a petri dish of covid problems. i hope she's not spreading it around. >> laura: i liked it when aoc was still gesticulating out

there and she didn't wear the mask. when you gesticulating you're all excited, very passionate about her views. i mean, stuff is going everywhere i would imagine. >> they all look like bandits when they came in with those masks pulled up. so coordinated -- >> laura: raymond, all right, have a good weekend. a banner week for the media but who were the worst offenders? worst in the media next. every financial plan needs a cfp® professional --

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>> laura: it's easy to become pretty numb to media bias these days, so "the ingraham angle" is keeping track of the worst offenders of the week. joining me now is one of our favorites, sara carter, fox news contributor and host of "the sara carter podcast.

"along with me, president of acn media. panel, let's begin with a reaction to the comments the president made yesterday about potential treatment for covid-19. >> what's more important than lysol gate is what this all suggests about the president's ability to handle this crisis. >> someone who follows him closely will take a little sip of clorox bleach today to ward off the potential of the virus, and they will die. >> this is beyond snake oil. >> that sounds like king george and his last age. >> laura: the president maybe wasn't as clear as he could have been, but he's hearing a lot of input from the medical community about all these -- this is new, that's new, innovation. so, was he telling americans to drink clorox? really? >> absolutely not. these are journalists that don't let the facts stand in the way of their lives. they hate donald trump, the

president, so much that they will twist his words whenever they can at the expense of the american people. any american and anybody with common sense that watched his briefing knows that he didn't do this but remember, this is the same kind of attitude that they took with the russia hoax when they lied to the american public that they did with lieutenant general michael flynn and why it was so easy for them to believe all of the lies that were being spewed by a former obama officials. they just continue to do the same thing over and over again but this is why the president does the right thing. he gets out there every single day, does these briefings directly with the american people and just cuts out the middleman, which are the trump-hating media hating media. >> laura: have got to tell you, adam, i'm watching this and i think, did he say clorox and lysol and lysol comes out of the statement? i guess people could take words and -- i guess -- but you really

get the sense that the media are trying to drive this narrative that trump not only doesn't want to save american lives but he's basically just the terminator here, but not in a good way. >> not only that, it seems like they are on the other side. trump is trying to fight the disease and i swear that some of them are rooting for the disease. they rooted against hydroxychloroquine working, they were hoping it wouldn't work. they are rooting against sunlight killing it. they are rooting against the summer heat wave killing it. you would swear they are for the disease. the only advisable actions that they offer are two, freak out, and b, worship andrew cuomo. that's all they've got. >> laura: any bit of good news or treatment that helps some people is immediately discounted if the donald trump in any way advocates for it. all right, here is a bogus narrative. the media is pushing this about who secretary alex azar put in

charge of leading the coronavirus task force. >> a lab or doodle breeder is currently running the day-to-day federal government response to a once in a century pandemic. >> a man named brian harrison, who "had joined the department after running a dog breeding business." >> he bread australian labradors and people would refer to them as the dog breeder. >> laura: all right, there is just a few problems here. the dog breeding is harrison's family business. he's not in charge of the task force and he has experience in similar roles, administrative roles, multiple administrations, but dozens of media outlets ran with this. >> they did, and its own fortunate that they just read this information and lied to people and also it's really dangerous because when you think about this, laura.

even though it seems funny on its face because you say to yourself, how can this be, how can these mainstream media outlets, the ones we trusted in the past, be just so lackadaisical and applied this way without any attempt to correct the record is dangerous on a national level. the real liars are china, iran, north korea, issues all over the world that we have to take care of but they are obsessed with president donald trump and destroying anyone around him in his administration. and that's the really frightening part. >> laura: it's mind-blowing, actually, at this point. i want to play this from wolf blitzer following tonight's coronavirus briefing. watch. >> only a 22 minute briefing. this is the first time the president has been afraid to answer questions from reporters. the president clearly, shall we say, was chicken today. didn't want to answer questions the reporters had prepared. >> laura: oh, wolf calling the president chicken, adam.

first the media complained the briefings were too long, they didn't even carry the briefings often on cnn because they said it wasn't news. now they're complaining that he on a friday night after the guy has basicall basically not lefte white house in weeks and weeks because the briefing is too short? i thought it was to the point. why give all the stupid advice? adam. >> this is an exciting day for wolf blitzer because with the airports empty, half of their viewership is gone. by you airing his clip, he's actually going to be seen by people tonight so it will change things up for him, which is exciting. but no, it's outrageous. these folks are peddling fanfiction, stories they know not to be true that radical leftists want to read and want to watch peer they will make up anything, they will sneer anything, they will stretch any truth it is a story they know people want to read. >> laura: i think it's now onto the business of america, it can't be all covid all the time.

we have to move to all the other challenges. i think these briefings should be to the point, answer a few questions when there is real news and move on and work on reopening the country safely. guys, great to see both of you on a friday night. thank you for being with us. and coming up, how is nancy pelosi trying to be a little bit more like uncle joe? we will explain.

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>> laura: it's time for the "last bite." all right, speaker pelosi knows how much fancy ice cream she has in the freezer, but she has a little problem keeping track of the wee ones in her family. >> i think people want to get back to school. three grandchildren who are in grade school, who are engaged in social media learning. i have three in college who are engaged -- four in college who are engaged, distance learning, so that's three -- i said three, four in college, three in grade school. i have two more, one more of them is also -- five in college with distance learning. they almost finished. >> laura: i thought that was just great. there's a lot of grandkids, it's hard to keep track of those

little, big, in between one's. that's all the time we have tonight. let everybody come enjoy your weekend with your family, get outside in the sunshine if you can. the fresh air. shannon bream emma "fox news @ night" team take it all from here. ♪ >> shannon: hello, and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. as the president signs a nearly half trillion dollar relief package come he's also sparring again tonight with the media. out west, california's governor facing a lawsuit over hedge plans to get 75 million taxpayer dollars to people in the u.s. illegally. tonight, the cbo project double digit unemployment even next year, for trillion dollar anticipated budget deficit, what does it mean for the economy in the months and years ahead?