guidelines and procedures that we expect to be followed all across the state of california. >> and we'll find out in the next few minutes if you stick to that. >> dana: jonathan hunt, thank you so much and thank you for joining us. here is bill hemmer. >> bill: president trump set to speak at the white house about protecting america's seniors during the pandemic bread he will be joined by tennessee governor bill lee at that event. more on that in a moment from washington. so good afternoon. i'm bill hemmer. there are developments on two big stories we are watching at this hour. first, what is known as cross fire, new documents that were just made public moments ago that pertain to former national security advisor michael flynn. showed the fed try to set them up three years ago. today, president trump weighing in on the possibility of a pardon for flynn.

>> he is in the process of being exonerated. you look at those notes from yesterday, that was total exoneration. these were dirty filthy cops at the top of the fbi, and you know their names better than i do and they were dishonest people. now we have to see what's going to happen. but general flynn was treated like a nobody should -- and i'm not talking about generals, but no one in this country should be treated. >> bill: also today, the former vice president facing a new pressure to respond to an accusation of sexual assault. biden's campaign has denied it, but he has not yet made comment about it. all this coming as biden announces a team to help take his running mate. we have team fox coverage analysis with bret baier in a moment on all of this but first, peter doocy reporting live in arlington, virginia. let's begin there with joe biden. good afternoon. >> good afternoon, bill. right this minute, joe biden and his wife are on an instagram live q&a with the world cup

soccer star megan wrap and no, no headlights out of that yet i didn't several weeks, still has not directly addressed his staffers claim that he sexually assaulted her back in 1993. on the highest ranking woman in congress to endorse biden this week is okay with that for right now. >> there's a lot of excitement around the idea that women will be heard and listened to. there is also due process, and the fact that joe biden is joe biden. >> "the washington post" editorial board is pressuring him to address the regulations and want him to sign off on senatorial records being inspected to see if there's a paper trail documenting reade's complaint. being held at the university of delaware where they have sealed

them until two years after biden leaves public life. they are going to sit on the 1875 boxes of photographs, documents, videotapes, and a files plus 415 gigabytes of electronic data. now, joe biden needs a running mate and that seems to be where his focus is. he just announced today 4 cochairs on a vp selection committee. his former senate colleague chris dodd, the mayor of los angeles eric garcetti, the first african-american in the first woman ever to represent delaware in congress. in a long time biden aid cynthia hogan. when it comes to a running mate, biden has pledged for weeks to select a woman and because of the current restrictions, public health restrictions, this could be the first time that a nominee has had to pick somebody who could sit a heartbeat away from the presidency by zoom. >> bill: thank you, we will get back on the instagram call

if there's news coming back. thank you. want to bring i in a bret baier, anchor of the special report. we are told that more documents will be made public. don't know when, but just got 1. what have you heard today, what does this matter mean? >> at significant. you have these documents that show what the fbi was doing with these agents going to interview the national security advisor michael flynn, and what jim comey talked about about setting all of that up. in these new documents, cross fire razor is what this investigation into michael flynn is called, crossfire hurricane you may remember was the broader investigation into the trump campaign and the trump white house and the administration and in these documents, it essentially says that they're going to set up this questioning not telling him what it's really about in the hopes that either you get the truth or you get him to lie and

get him fired. and jonathan who we know very well, law professor says i've been a criminal defense attorney for decades. i've seen abusive tactics. however, this one is one of the most sluggish records i have ever seen. most concerning as they were trying to create a crime, not investigative crime. the use of the logan act which we talked about before only highlights that bias. i think it significant. >> bill: i know you interviewed james comey and we've seen quite a bit of that. i want you to reflect on that in a moment. but i want you to listen to this sound bite from december of 2018. this is sound bite number two, nicole wallace from msnbc asking how did you get two guys in the white house? and this is the way he answered that here in new york. >> i sent them, something i probably wouldn't have done and gotten away with in a more organized investigation, a more organized administration. the fbi wanted to send agents into the white house itself to

interview a senior official he would work through the white house counsel and be discussions and approvals and who would be there and i thought it's early enough the militia send a couple of guys over. >> bill: you listen to that now when you hear it with a different ear. >> you really do, and i've asked a similar question when i asked for your james comey on a set of special report on the early efforts with michael flynn and it was a similar answer. i think it does take a different tone as you listen back to that. can be characterized as a set up. some analysts are saying this is what happens, but it's not really what happens in the big scheme of things if you look at what happened to michael flynn and all the coverage after that moment and all he's dealt with sense. >> bill: before he answers that, he says under the bush administration and obama administration, maybe it would've been different but he seemed to suggest he was seizing

the opportunity of an administration that had just come into the white house. quickly on the joe biden matter, something from him directly, yesterday "the washington post" editorial said this, biden should address the terra reade allegations. you are seeing more of the media come around. what does joe biden do here, do you believe? >> you got to address it. it's like a snowball going down a hill gaining more and more snow as it gets bigger and being covered by mainstream media. i think the disparity is so huge if you watch nancy pelosi and what she said in the brett kavanaugh allegations and how that was handled and what she's saying today. she didn't really answer those questions today, had a briefing on capitol hill. i think that is really what it's dark if you look at some of the people who spoke out before as far as the details emma we are

going to have to wait and see. tara reid is going to have to answer questions. we hope she does it on fox. >> bill: we will see you sunday night, seven to 9:00 eastern time for a town hall with the president, very much looking forward to that, just want to give a quick plug there. see you at 6:00 tonight on special report. got a fox news alert, president trump is about to talk about his plan to protect older americans as the country reopens, chief white house correspondent john roberts live from the north want to give us details on this. what are you learning? >> older americans are one of the most at risk populations when it comes to coronavirus. when you look at the statistics, the mortality for people above the age of 70 ranges anywhere from nine to 14% so protecting them has been a big goal of this administration. there appears to be a lot of factors at play in those mortality numbers, american say they have chronic conditions they're dealing with at the same

time as they're getting infected with coronavirus and in many cases, when they do get infected, their immune systems are weaker than younger people. in less than an hour's time is going to be similar to tuesday's event with small business people. the president will have some folks in who are in this risk category and talk about the steps the administration has taken to protect seniors such as raising infectious disease standards in nursing homes across america, requiring nursing homes to alert residents and families when they arrive, inspection throughout the health care system to ensure vulnerable populations are protected, hhs has designated $1 billion for at home assistance grants for things like homecare services, home delivered meals, and new information is going to come out this afternoon about critical supplies. even as parts of america begin to reopen, the white house guidelines recommend seniors continue to self isolate. as things really begin to change for them.

watching something called operation warp speed to get a vaccine up and running as quickly as possible. dr. anthony fauci saying this morning that if things go well, it is possible there could be tens of millions of doses of vaccine ready to go by next january, get the president is being criticized for his operation warp speed, people accusing him of overpromising. listen here. >> i'm not overpromising. going to fast track it like you've never seen before. we come up with a vaccine, i think we probably will. dr. fauci said a few weeks ago that what they plan to do this time is if they get an immune response signal from a candidate vaccine, the government will bear the risk with the pharmaceutical company and produce tens of millions of doses of that vaccine in hopes

that when the clinical trials and, that vaccine will immediately be ready for mass distribution. for the next time coronavirus comes around. >> bill: going to have to wrap up quickly. while you were talking, there was more breaking news. nascar announcing according to associated press moments ago in charlotte, north carolina, it will resume its season on sunday, may 17th. with seven races in ten days. that's the news from nascar and more details as we get them here in a moment. meantime, california officials giving an update and what he would say about closing the state speeches after a busy weekend in some spots getting hot out there in california. a potential virus treatment, what the numbers tell us about

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the issue. remember, the house was going to come back next week and then they decided to days ago, they would not but the senate expects to be open for business 5th of may next week. stay tuned for more on that. also preliminary data shows that patients who receive remdesivir have a 31% faster recovery time than those who took a placebo. dr. marc siegel, fox news medical correspondent. i've got a lot of questions here and let's see how much ground we can plow in the next few minutes. remdesivir, how does it work, what's the component or what is in this cocktail? >> remdesivir is an intravenous drug and in this case, it was tried in 1,000 patients that were already very sick and had pneumonia, and that was in 68 centers around the world. going to try it, we will see what happens earlier but here's how it works, basically a virus

goes inside yourself. hijacks your dna and your machinery to replicate. all that cares about is reproducing and then jumping to another cell. remdesivir is incorporated in one of the enzymes that the virus uses to reproduce. and once it gets inside the virus, it halts the reproduction. it the virus and the virus halts. that is an incredible mechanism that seems to decrease the amount of virus that is circulating in your body. it is decreasing from 14 days to 11 days recovery time. that's the key. >> bill: dr. fauci yesterday said it's not a knockout, but it looks good. how do you rate it? >> i rate in terms of virus recovery time. in other words, that difference between 14 days and 11 days is huge if you're trying to recover from a life-threatening illness,

but we need to know what will happen if you give it earlier in the game. to him i going to be able to keep people out of the hospital with it if i give it intravenously at home? is it going to shorten hospital courses? is going to save lives? we don't know yet, but preliminary studies like it may save some lives, and that's key. >> bill: so it stops the virus from replicating in the body which stuns the growth which is what you want to do. but they were using this drug on ebola a few years ago. you remember that. >> yes. ebola is a far different type of virus. ebola is an incredibly deadly virus. this virus for some reason makes a lot of inflammation and blood clots in your body. that's when it gets deadly. with this virus, i think you can stop it in its tracks a lot easier than ebola. once a bullock gets in there, it's almost impossible to defeat it. >> bill: if this is the answer, and i still note some hesitation in the analysis here

from medical experts like yourself, gilead is going to have to produce how much of this? hundreds of millions of doses and how difficult could that be to get it produced and get it out all over the world? >> first of all, i don't know that's the answer. what i think is it's a weapon. it's definitely an arrow in our quiver. it's a tool we have now. it's going to save lives i believe. gilead is going to start by ramping up 100,000 treatment courses over the next month and by the end of the year, millions of courses. so they are on the way to making millions of doses of this. that's what's going to be needed. but even 100,000 doses to be used treatment courses is going to make a big difference. i think it's something positive here. >> bill: are you giving it a a, b, what are you giving it right now? looking for help, be honest. >> it is preliminary. i'm giving it an a-. i am very excited -- here's the

real headline. clinical trials done this quickly with results on 1,000 patients this quickly that show a positive result, wow. against a deadly virus, this is incredible. >> bill: we are in the right range. thank you, good to see you. dr. marc siegel with us today. a bit earlier today, staggering job losses continue to pile up. more than 30 million americans have applied for unemployment during the pandemic, some state starting to get back to business. a restaurant chain getting ready to reopen more than 100 locations across texas and georgia coming up next.

>> bill: nearly 4 million americans filed for unemployment last week, that means more than

30 million have lost their jobs in the past six weeks. a tough stuff here, good afternoon. >> out, huge numbers. these are jobs, these are people that are trying to pay rent, trying to put food on the table here. the administration saying that would be worse without the payroll protection program, but if you look at this over the past six weeks, that's 30 million jobs. we are talking about all sectors of the economy, not just one hit more than the other and if you do the math here, 151 million people are in the workforce according to the labor department. that's 20% of the people now without a job. this is pointing to a very bad unemployment number coming up next week. white house advisor saying the highest unemployment number we've seen since the second world war. and the good news if you want to call it that, the jobless claims seem to be decreasing from the peak of march 28th. that's when to fix all of this,

the white house is hopeful for a phase opening up of the economy. listen. >> of the economy gets going relatively quickly because the viruses contained, than we expect most of those people to go right back to work, but if the virus continues to be a problem throughout the suburban, then it's going to be a very, very heavy lift for a top use of the economy going at that rate. >> the federal reserve chairman jerome powell saying he believes the program meant to keep people in their jobs are critical to a big bounce back in the economy. the administration saying 60 million people will be helped by the payroll protection program at the end of the day when it's finished and in its second round of funding, they've burned through about a third of that funding, but the demand is increasing for this program, but the treasury secretary steven mnuchin says they will be no more money for this program after this round. in fact, house speaker nancy pelosi confirmed

that about three hours ago. >> bill: meanwhile, we just made mention of the news from nascar as parts of america continue to slowly reopen and in texas allowing restaurants to open starting tomorrow. ceo of dickey's barbecue pit, how are you doing? nice to see you today. >> thank you so much, i'm great. >> bill: you are the rules, 25% capacity dine in and patio, staff wears masks and gloves, tables at least 6 feet apart and the staff is continually cleaning. so how is it going to go? >> we hope incredibly well. we are conscientious but cautiously optimistic. it's a little bit different for us and we've been doing business here at our original location in dallas for over 79 years. thankfully, we were able to shift our business to our online, to online ordering, delivery, so we've had continuous operations, but to be able to open the dining room is

back up and interact with our guests, that's part of what that barbecue experiences, and it's a real touch tone for the community. we've been here a long time. have a lot of our regulars that come in and this is a third space, and meeting space and we look forward to it cautiously going very well. >> bill: well stated. any reservations here as you get ready for this? >> i think there should always be hesitation and reservation. i think that's how you stay sharp. i think the most important thing is most of what you mentioned, we are in an industry where we are professional food handlers. all of our folks are food safe certified so i think more than most sectors we are prepared for this but you should see that we are prepared. you should see hand sanitizers stations by the doors, you should see that tables are set, but again, only to 25% here in texas. other places are creeping up to 50, but we are at 25.

he should see it visually that we are ready. >> bill: must feel good to give your employees a job again, right? >> it absolutely does. we have 159 folks that work for us directly here in dallas, and we have been very fortunate because of our online ordering and because of our catering and art to go that some of our first responder relief programs that we've been able to keep folks on the payroll and avoid a mass layoff compared to a lot of folks, but we still had to reduce hours, reduced shifts, so bringing folks back into the dining room really helps everybody. helps add those hours back and really helps grow those paychecks back to a healthy sustainable level. >> bill: thank you for sharing your story. the customer decides when we open again and you're going to find out tomorrow. thanks for coming on today, good luck. moments ago, breaking news out of california. the governor they are ordering some beach is closed, that's a reversal now for a second time after thousands walked to the

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>> bill: back now to one of our top stories, documents to be released about what is known as cross fire razor. last hour, got a few more documents and now some are more forthcoming. the investigation into former national security advisor michael flynn and learning new details by the minute. so former deputy independent counsel of the whitewater counsel, let's begin with what you believe was the set up. go ahead and make your case.

>> i don't know if there's any question. we've known for a long time it was a set up. jim comey on his book tour admitted it was a set up and the interview by michelle wallace said the crowd got a big laugh at it. did i call her michelle? sorry. he's admitted it. what's new about this is there are notes showing that they were using it as a justification of the logan act. that is just ridiculous. the logan act is a complete dead letter and everybody and federal law enforcement knew it was a dead letter. it's never been in force. let me repeat that. and it's over 200 year history, it has never been enforced. there's never been a successful prosecution under it. so to use that is a pretext. >> bill: never been enforced, it was mentioned when john kerry was meeting with some of the

iranian leadership but again as you mentioned, with regard to these documents we are seeing the department of justice apparently another just being released right now, we don't know what's in it. appears to be quite lengthy so we wait on that for the time being. as a federal employee, general flynn is working in the west wing in 2017. should federal officials have warned him or notified him to some level of degree as to what they were pursuing? >> i think so. there is a long-standing federal case, supreme court case and a follow-up and what they basically stand for is if you're a federal employee and you are being questioned in a criminal investigation, you have to be warned as to how your questions will be used. they cannot be used in a critical case.

and no one has really talked about this other than one commentator i'm aware of, and "the federalist" in december. i feel as a federal employee, they certainly did need to be warned. >> bill: professor wrote this piece in the hill a bit earlier today, one quote here. "i've been a criminal defense attorney for decades. i've seen abusive tactics but this is one of the most thuggish records i have seen. most concerning is they were trying to create a crime, not investigating a crime. the use of logan only highlights that bias. that was a tweet he sent out earlier. i am told the department of justice there is more to come on this. what is your understanding about what happens next? >> keep in mind that ag barr

appointed the attorney for missouri, the eastern district of missouri to look into it. he has been -- to look into the flynn prosecution. he has been over the last couple of weeks releasing documents initially under seal both for the government and the defense in this case and we don't know how serious these are. we know there's at least 100 pages and a number of attachments. so if you had asked me ten days ago is there a chance that judge emmet sullivan is going to dismiss this case, i would've said absolutely not. he appears to be hostile to general flynn and two general flynn flynn's new attorney. but now we don't know exactly what is in these documents. we don't know how serious these violations might be. that's the violation of the government to divulge exculpatory evidence, so i think we need to wait and see.

i will tell you, however, it's extremely rare for defendants to be allowed to withdraw a guilty plea. it's a very difficult climb. >> bill: so we will see as it goes along. thank you for coming back today, nice to see you. a moment ago right now, watch this. >> a few cities, a few coastal cities off and around orange county area, those are the point of particular concern. so today, we want to make some clarifications. we are going to do a hard close in that part of the state just in orange county area. >> bill: so that just happen, orange county and california governor gavin newsom shutting down beaches in that county after a crowded weekend during a heat wave. at 80 packed the newport beach which the governor said as an example of what not to do. police say the overwhelming majority of people were practicing social distancing, so

a bit of a reversal, but also the clarification. meanwhile, other part of the country in the panhandle of florida, local leaders getting ready to reopen more beaches there. that includes pensacola. the board of commissioners voted unanimously to reopen the beaches tomorrow with social distancing guidelines in place as well. vice chair of the county board of commissioners, how are you doing? tell us how did you arrive at this decision? why don't we begin there. >> thank you for having me. the decision was not taken lightly. we consulted with medical professionals, we of course track the numbers, the hospital ceos that had sent us a letter requesting us to close almost six weeks ago sent a letter saying it was time that we could scale back our restrictions and reopen the beaches for the county. we've actually had very good enforcement and the people here have been following what to do and staying off the beaches, so we hope they continue that as we move into this new phase of

reopening our beach. but we have about 8 miles of beach on pensacola that is all open to the public and so they can easily spread out. we put in our ordinance that groups no more than ten and 6 feet apart which also follows governor desantis' order that starts on monday, so right now we do have that that he's extended through monday and we think we can still come out and face that. >> bill: what happens if they don't obey the restrictions? how do you get involved there? >> we have our lifeguards that are out here. but we also have our public works, animal control and ultimately the sheriff's department to help enforce that, so we are just going to be encouraging people. we know we have a hot spot, a trouble spot in the peer that's behind me that people usually congregate and that's where we were congregating before we have the beaches so we close that area off. also public restrooms, a lot of

people going and so we had some porta-potties for the first few days, a week or so to see how that goes so that a reduces the congregation and those smaller confined areas. >> bill: it sounds like you are ready. you have ten new cases today, 11 deaths throughout the county. looks good for you. what if the trends reverse themselves? what's the plan there? >> as a board, we are meeting each week over the next three weeks and we will monitor that. typically what we have is a big memorial day crowd here, the organizers of those events already canceled those. we are starting to focus our attention on our big blue angel airshow here in pensacola, and they do a beach show here in mid-july, so i know they're probably in your area earlier this week and what they are doing flying across the country. so we are starting to focus on that. >> bill: thank you for your time, good luck.

i know a lot of folks who love those beaches, they are some of the most beautiful you'll find anywhere in the entire world. that's right. enjoy the white sand and keep it safe. thank you for your time. at the white house, president trump going to speak at the top of the hour about protecting senior citizens and what is a major story, especially here in the northeast, also one leading model with a new prediction about how devastating the virus could be. i'll talk with one of the lead researchers behind the forecast. also, the usns comfort left new york city today after releasing the last of its patients on board. up, and mortge rates are at record lows. that's good news for veterans with va loans. that's me. by using your va streamline refi benefit, one call to newday usa can save you $2,000 a year. that's me. there's no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. that's me. put your va home loan benefits to good use.

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>> bill: the navy hospital ship is now sailing back to its home port in virginia after the

usns comfort is leaving the hudson river today. . arrived on the 30th of march. doctors and nurses treated 182 patients while here in new york on board that ship. meanwhile from the american northwest, researchers now predicting at least 72,000 americans could die from covid-19 by august. this is more states move to reopen their economies. and he university of washington which produces the models often referred to by the white house and thank you for coming back. it's been about two weeks since we have spoken so good afternoon to you, sir. >> my pleasure to be with you. >> bill: thank you. you have a new key finding is just today, what are they? >> we are projecting now 72,000 deaths until august 4th and this came down a little bit from the earlier projection because we were concerned when some of the social distancing would be lifted that people would move about much more than we expected. seems a haven as they are increasing their mobility they

are practicing safe distancing as they are doing it, so this is very encouraging news. >> bill: to graphics i want to put on the screen, you just refer to it, 72,000 deaths, which is a lot, but it's too thousand fewer than just two days ago. also in the second graphically have, we are about two weeks, 15 days since the projected peak and i think the projection was the 15th of april, and i remember the night you were on with me, a friday night, april 10th, and you said bill, we are on the backside of this. i will never forget that moment. do you still feel that way? >> yes, i do. and unfortunately right now, when you when i talked, we protected 60,000 deaths and now we are counting more deaths because states are adding presumptive deaths, we were underestimating early on. now we may be overestimating so

still the statement is the worst is behind us and we are now at a place where you we are considering how we will reopen our businesses, we have some news on the vaccination, so it's very positive for this and hopefully. >> bill: some people put a target on models because they change so much and we are just learning about this as we go, but 2,000 deaths reduction in a matter of 48 hours is significant. how does that happen? >> that's very true. what we are realizing as i said before, we don't just increase mobility. we are tracking mobility from cell phone data. we notice an increase in mobility and suspected that would increase mortality. the expected deaths wasn't as big as we expected, so it seems as they are going out, they are practicing social distancing, so we are counting how many people are moving about but not counting how well they are moving about while keeping a social distance. >> bill: so one of the key

models you were trying to develop was how it varies from state to state and as we begin to reopen. have you been able to make a key finding on that yet? >> yes. so we now have specific dates where they can move from a strategy of containment or we can trace cases and test them and isolate them and we have different data from different states. some can start much earlier which is sometimes in may, and that is a function of the cases at that time when you say you can move to a containment phase, we are looking at one case per million new cases that people can detect and try to send isolation. >> bill: tough question here, what does winning look like in your model? how do we know when america has one >> sandra: >> how america has won in my opinion when we

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[applause] >> bill: that is a great moment. celebrating his 100th birthday. they get this. in a british army, the veteran known for raising money by in his garden. he is raised more than $37 million. the story from london. >> bill, this is one of those great stories we left to do. in these not so great times. central england decided for his 100th birthday, he would do 100 laps of his backyard with a little help from his wellcare. his hope was to raise 1,000 pounds, about $1200 for the national health circulars for the doctors and health workers as they leave their own or here. this gentleman touched in accord

here with the people in the u.k. he's raised the equivalent of up a little bit from what you sow, $41 million. they call him a hero. of course, he got an honorary promotion. when hundred 50,000 birthday cards and a message from prime minister boris johnson. he is that he said and how captain tom responded. take a look. >> captain tom, i know that i speak for the whole country when i say, we wish you a very happy 100th birthday. >> i'm delighted the effort that we set up has turned into this enormous ceremony. the cause is so good. from that point of view, i'm delighted. so much money for such a good cause. >> such a good cause, and the whole affair was topped off with

a flyover from british airplanes. last time he saw the planes and eric about they were flying and angry. now it was something different. happy birthday, captain tom. thanks to you and all the seniors out there they were keeping us grounded and of course, all the health workers here in the u.k., the u.s., and around the world. >> bill: $37 million. that's awesome, greg. >> amazing. even topping that now, he didn't even expect it. >> bill: thank you for that story from london today. i've got a bit of mixed news over the past now or come -- that's may 17th, 7 races in ten days. the first will go down. they will cram a lot into it. start your engines, get ready and nascar is going to lead the pace for america getting back to work, may be. also, the little league world series has been canceled for the first time ever. that news crossing a moment ago. so a bit here and a bit there

for the past hour. in the meantime, stocks are down for most of the trading today. neil, got that coming up next. we are almost to a friday, aren't we? make it a great thursday. bye-bye. >> neil: all right, thank you bill, very, very much. we are waiting for that big event to kick off at the white house. if the president will be addressing the nation's seniors today. of course, they are the most vulnerable group in dealing with covid-19. but he's taking a number of measures not only to protect their health but to be on guard in the future against any potential flareup in cases. there is a who's who list of groups represented including the people behind the 60 plus, the american health care association, national hospice and care and organization and many, many more. officials i noticed secretary innes event, there had been some talk early in the week that the president was sidelining him.