remove the concert was terrific. thank you very much for watching, everybody. we will see you back here on "fox & friends" monday. >> sandra: fox news alert, gretchen whitmer extending emergency restrictions for another month after armed protesters entered the state capitol building demanding her stay at home order be lifted. this is ten more states i now set to ease coronavirus restrictions today. we will have more on the growing challenges governors are facing is quarantine fatigue sets in. meanwhile to this fox news ale alert, joe biden breaking his silence on sexual assault allegations by former senate staffer. denying those claims are saying they are "not true. this never happened."

good morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> ed: releasing a written statement before a tv interview last hour. he denied sexually assaulting tara reade back in 1993 when he was a senator. the response came after biden faced growing pressure within his own party to personally respond to these allegations. here's more from the former vice president's interview a short time ago. >> to the best of my knowledge, there's been no complaints made against me and my senate term. it's just an open book. there's nothing for me to hide. nothing at all. >> sandra: peter doocy has more from arlington, virginia, for us this morning. >> good morning, sandra. joe biden repeatedly said he does not remember any kind of a complaint tara reade may have made about him or against him 27 years ago. he said he has not reached out to her since she decided to go public with the allegation about him and he argues he is not

treating her differently than he treated brett kavanaugh's accuser. >> why is it real for dr. ford but not for tara reade? >> a look, i'm not suggesting she has no right to come forward and i'm not saying any woman -- they should come forward, they should be heard, and then it should be investigated. should be investigated. and if there's anything consistent with what's being said and she makes the case or the case is made then it should be at the lead, but only the truth matters. >> calling on the senate to search the national archives for any personnel records because he believes any complaints he would've made would be there, but he does not arguing that could expose many past positions that political opponents could take out of context during the

campaign. >> are you certain there was nothing about tara reade and those records and if so if so. >> i am actually certain. >> might not approve a search of her name and those records? >> approve a search of her name? >> anything that might be related to tara reade and the university of delaware records. >> there is nothing. they weren't there. i don't understand the point you're trying to make. there is no personal by definition. >> biden also insisted he never asked anyone in his senate office to sign a nondisclosure agreement and said he doesn't know what tara reade's motivation is for coming forward right now. >> sandra: okay, peter doocy from arlington for us this morning, thank you. >> ed: newly unsealed documents in the michael flynn

investigation revealing former fbi agent peter strzok push to keep that investigation open despite a lack of derogatory evidence against flynn. the president among many now blasting the fbi's handling of this case. john roberts is live with more details. >> good morning to you, new documents released yesterday and this reinvestigation of the michael flynn case shows that in early january of 2017, the fbi who had been looking into whether michael flynn had any undue contacts with foreign governments had concluded that he appeared to be guilty of no wrongdoing and it and fbi memo about flynn who was named cross fire razor, the fbi wrote, "the crossfire hurricane team conducted a check of logistical databases for any derogatory information on cross fire razor. no derogatory information was identified in fbi holdings. the fbi is closing this investigation. new information is identified or reported through the fbi regarding the activities, the

fbi will consider reopening the investigation if warranted. however, peter strzok who was one of two fbi agents who interviewed flynn on january thn response to those memos, "hey, if you haven't closed razor, don't do so yet. these documents show that the fbi was trying to set flynn up and get him to live. now the vice president saying yesterday he believes flynn may not have intentionally lied to him about flynn's contact with the russian ambassador to the united states. i asked the president about that yesterday. listen here. >> what they try to do to destroy him and to hurt this presidency was perhaps in our country's history, never been anything like it. an absolute disgrace. but i will rely on what the vice president said. i can say this and i think you understand this very well, what happened to general flynn should never happen again to a citizen of this country.

>> the president also saying that he may not have to pardon flynn because the president believes that flynn has "been exonerated," and the president is open to potentially bringing flynn back into the white house. listen to this. >> this is only the first time i've been asked the question, but i think you'll be fully exonerated one way or the other and so certainly he'd be capable of coming back. he suffered greatly. >> we will hear from the president this afternoon at 4:00, he has an event to honor people who have been on the front lines keeping america open during this whole coronavirus lockdown. also, kayla mack in any of the new press secretary will hold her very first briefing at 2:00 this afternoon. the previous press secretary never held a briefing and months before that. a bit of a history making event here at the white house, we are having a briefing. >> ed: and we will be going there live i suspect. john roberts, thank you.

>> sandra: thank you, eda. thank you, john. let's bring an counsel to the president kellyanne conway live from the white house. good morning. >> good morning, sandra. >> sandra: i look forward to the briefing happening at 2:00 eastern time today with kayleigh mcenany but to michael flynn and what happens next with this. talking about a possible pardon, he said he would even consider bringing flynn back saying he is essentially exonerated. is this president really considering that? >> the president stated very clearly yesterday this is the first time he's been asked that. i think he is more likely to bring him to the oval office or white house as his guest and to review what has happened to michael flynn which should have a chilling effect on every american because if it can happen to the president's newly installed national security advisor, it can happen to you and by the way, peter strzok and his lisa page of the whole lot

of them at the upper echelon of the fbi misrepresenting the rank-and-file 35,000 wonderful fbi agents across this country and world that do a fabulous job on behalf of each of us and god bless each of them, but he wasn't just trying to have that and making fun of the walmart trauma voters, castigating people. he continued doing that bidding after president trump was elected and into our first days here at the white house. peter strzok had something important to say about general flynn, let's consider that he posed an existential threat, he could have come forward and said that. that isn't the purpose of this inquisition of michael flynn. you see the notes, you see them saying don't end cross fire razor, keep it going, why? to harass and embarrass a general who had served with the sanction for over three decades. i would remind everybody that

president obama told president-elect donald trump he had "two things to worry about. north korea and michael flynn." oh that's just weird on its face. in a nuclear capable dictator in north korea and you've got to worry about a general of 37 years who served in the obama administration. so people should look at this for what it is. and taxpayers funded this nonsense and to think that four days into administration coming into the white house not to be helpful to the incoming administration and national security advisor and by extension helpful to you, the american people, but to try to get him fired or get him to lie, and that is a disgrace and everybody is the president said should be concerned about that regardless of your political affiliation. >> sandra: just to finish up on that point with the president considering a part in bringing him back saying he's been essentially exonerated. mike pence waited in as well saying that he is more inclined

to believe that flynn unintentionally lied, so what can you tell us? we hear you talking about what might be the next steps on the part of the white house as far as the decision being made in a timeline. >> it's a very important statement by vice president pence because everyone will recall when michael flynn left the white house in february 13th or 14th a month into my presidency, it was because he had not been candid with the vice president about his meetings with the russian ambassador, and others of us had said that he hadn't met with them or what not. but now the vice president is rethinking this recognizing that people were setting michael flynn up. was a total set up them and i want to repeat not in the of subbasement of some office building or in the dead of night somewhere in some, in the white house during transition and then here on taxpayer dollars, people had an incredible amount of power,

can't abuse your power is a government official just because you don't like who the president is because you didn't vote for him or didn't want him and most importantly, didn't expect them to get elected which is what's really wrinkled so many people. so i don't know what the logistics are, i haven't practiced in years, i'm a happy person mso michael flynn may be could withdraw his guilty bed. i don't know what the logistics of that art but clearly this man has been treated unfairly pushed out of a job early on and to have people from the previous administration that served with michael flynn trying to get to the president and get -- make our first couple of weeks i'm successful through the new national security advisor and help them understand all of the hot spots of the dangers, and i think joe biden should be -- if he wants to be president again, he should be asked why are these obama biden officials doing this and how does he agree with that?

>> ed: we will get to joe biden in one moment but meantime i want to talk coronavirus in china. his with the president said yesterday about the wuhan lab. watch. >> have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the institute of virology was the origin of this virus? >> yes i have. and i think that the world health organization should be ashamed of themselves because they are like the public relations agency for china. >> ed: the president says he had confidence it did begin in that lab but his own director of national intelligence put out that statement yesterday that he referenced in his question that said the intelligence community does not know anything yet. they're just trying to determine that. so does the president know something that the dni does not? >> remember, the president also set a number of other things in response to similar questions in that same seniors and elderly american event yesterday which was fantastic.

he also said i can't tell you that in response to a different question to a different network. let's also why it's being looked into but either way, he said he's not happy. china's lack of transparency and then the w.h.o.'s lack of transparency about being able to spread from human to human. is a layperson, i called a global pandemic before the w.h.o. did. and they said it couldn't spread, it was fine, it was contained, don't worry about it and again, taxpayers, you pay for that misinformation, you pay for them to be that arm of chi china. pay 10% is over the last few years. we paid over $800 million in u.s. taxpayer money hoping that a minor return on our investment would be the truth when it comes to this virus by the president yesterday said death and destruction all around us, that

should be amplified. talk about everything we've been doing in the nursing homes getting ppe now to all 15,400 nursing homes across the count country, medicare and medicaid approved. >> big issue in data i'm glad you raised it. the news this morning is that he is now on camera denying that there was a sexual assault of tara reid. i want to give you a chance to respond to that in this way. during the kavanaugh days said you should believe women and b, what should happen next in terms of the university of delaware and the national archives? >> this one is not a close call and that's why you see some democrats and their coagents and them mainstream media publications calling for an investigation. unseal the records and let us go through them. he should unseal them anyway if you want to run for president and i have two things to say to the feminists on the left. believe all women means all women, not just based on who

they are, what their station in life is, whether they have a college degree, it doesn't matter. when you said believe all women, there is no asterisk. number two, he also said something that i personally know is very important to say which is if you are squelching the confidence of women coming forward and telling their story of actual assault allegations, then you're silencing the thousands if not millions more women, so it's very difficult as a feminist at the time, very difficult for women to come forward. so if it's open and shut now because joe biden says is not true, you are silencing so many more women and this is differe different. in our culture thank god than it was back when tara reade says joe biden allegedly assaulted her. it is graphic and it is disgusting and it involves penetrations of everybody needs to read that.

it's different now. women feel more free to come forward. they feel they can talk to law enforcement and there is corroborating evidence in this way, she did tell people contemporaneously. neighbors knew, her mother called in to larry king on cnn. she told other people but we didn't have the apparatus that we have now where you could go and file a complaint and do these different things. i think someone like kirsten gillibrand the senator from new york who unsuccessfully ran for president on women's empowerment got rid of al franken democratic colleague on less than this and didn't ask him what he thought. so i think they are really twisting themselves around, but believe all women means all women. you don't get to choose. when you have nancy pelosi and amy klobuchar coming for him saying i know joe biden, nobody else has said that and he's great for women, being for abortion and the nice months does not make you great for all women. being great for women it means you let them have their say.

i want to hear from this woman. >> ed: we certainly appreciate your time this morning, thank you. >> sandra: thank you. the stay-at-home orders to expire overnight, what is the plan to safely move forward in the state? and the opposite is happening in michigan as governor whitmer extends the shut down until the end of the month. have state republicans are now pushing back. >> the virus is here, it's going to be here, so we need to get out and live our lives and quit taking our economy deep into socialism. it's time to let people go back, that's all there is to it

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swaying along the building dangerously. the winds they are blowing 47 miles an hour yesterday, thankfully nobody was hurt in this but what images coming out of florida. >> ed: ten more states reopening today as quarantine fatigue continues to set in. that sparked a legal battle and arm protest at the state capital. of meanwhile one county is planning to defy governor gavin newsom's orders and open backup. charlie, good morning. are your thoughts on where we are now that about a dozen states in america have relaxed at least some restrictions. >> to be sure, governors and the president have brought authorities in a crisis like this to issue guidelines to deal

with immediate crisis. but as the attorney general has pointed out last week, the farther you get away from that crisis, the more questions arise about people's constitutional rights and the idea that when you get away from the immediacy of the crisis that these governors can continue these stay-at-home orders and begin to feel more and more like home confinement which is a clear violation of our first amendment rights, so you're going to have these disputes and i would actually caution about governors pushing these orders once it becomes clear especially in rural parts of different states where there have been few or in some cases no covid-19 instances, they threaten to undermine their own authority if they try to push these things too far because i think the federal courts anyway would

clearly see it is a real problem to have anything in place after the crisis appears to have passed that confines people to their homes. >> ed: when you talk about constitutional rights, the beginning of these protests really started in michigan where governor whitmer has been under fire. here's what she said yesterday about renewing the state of emergency. >> i don't know of any other legislature in this country that is just deciding to declare that the global pandemic that killed 103 michiganders since yesterday is over. is not over. we remain in a state of emergency until the order is rescinded. >> ed: we show these protests, people have been fired up for a long time, they are still fired up but what's the line here? >> that's a tricky question, and i would argue that the governors

run a real risk by pushing this because if you wind up with a court case that winds up going to the supreme court on the supreme court rules governor doesn't have a right to force people to stay at home and to imprison people at home who've done nothing wrong, then that undermines the future ability of future governors to protect their citizens in a case like this. it's a little bit like having your 18-year-old daughter home from college living under your roof and she slowly discovers that when you tell her she has to be home at 9:00, she doesn't really have to be home at 9:00. she's 18, she can do whatever she wants, but she's unsure because the last time she was home before the pandemic, she was 17 and had to do what you told her to do. it's a little bit like that with governors in a situation like this. it's not a black-and-white line and i think that's probably a good thing because as long as you don't have a black-and-white line issued by the courts, then executives like the president or governors have a whole lot more

authority, a lot more leeway to look at a situation and use reasonable guidelines to say let's not do this. every member, american citizens were remarkably levelheaded about this. governors and the president saying don't go to church on easter and people said okay, we're going to do this. that a reasonable levelheaded thing but if a rule like that, a law or a guideline like that actually went to court i went to supreme court, there is no doubt in my mind the supreme court would laugh it out of court. it is clear, they were a few guidelines, few rules set down in the constitution more clear than the freedom of assembly. >> ed: shutting down some beaches and whatnot, people are fired up about that as well. we'll continue to follow it. charlie hurt, thank you. >> sandra: we are moments away

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so you can... retire better. to mark fox news alert from wall street where stocks closed out april with their best monthly gain since 1987, the dell following this morning on new concerns about trade. still a lot of uncertainty over what the rest of the year will look like. let's bring in answer of the countdown on the fox business network. you always have this, so we'll see where the market goes throughout the day and finish up with you but start us off this morning why we are seeing the sell-off and despite the pandemic that we have been battling through, stocks managed unbelievable double digit gains. >> is on that incredible? the height of where everybody was saying are we peeking,

what's happening with the coronavirus, the stock market figured let's look forward to six months out and so the nasdaq up 15%, dow gained 11% for the month of april and the s&p was very strong as well up 12% but i have to tell you, there's an old adage that you know very well that may be your viewers do not and that is go away. that's what you're seeing on this first day of may but there is concern about president trump's reigniting the trade were flames, threatened to slap new tariffs on china due to the coronavirus and what he has said has been china's real lack of transparency when it comes to how this started, how many people were killed and why are we not flagged earlier by china? to make very interesting larry kudlow talking about how about the data is but he is predicting a sharp come back. >> we are going to take another

bad hit and the second quarter because of the national shut down because of the virus, no two ways around that. on the other hand, the congressional budget office and private forecasters seem to agree with president trump at at the second half economy is going to show very significant growth going into 2021. >> sandra: we were hearing a lot of optimistic forecasts but i want to transition over to this growing feud between your governor andrew cuomo and rick scott of florida. talking about bailing out the states and rick scott is suggesting that democrats want to bailout, andrew cuomo took them on in his daily press briefing yesterday. he responded to the governor this morning. >> he doesn't understand the difference between state policy and federal policy. here's the deal.

to make some money, they pay in social security, they pay medicare and they get sick and tired of all those taxes and they moved to florida. >> sandra: he was responding to andrew cuomo saying we bailout florida consistently, so what about this feud? >> can't we all just get along? army of the united states of america? i would back it up and say governor cuomo was responding to a tweet that president trump had put out a few nights ago when he had said he kind of mused why are the highest tax rates democratic run states asking for more money? he referenced illinois and that's when governor cuomo came back and said hold on, we are net givers when it comes to federal taxes, we pay in hundreds of billions more than what we take out versus florida or some of the red states out there. he didn't use the term red states but that was the

underlying thing. is very political but be careful what you wish for. florida gets a lot of its money from tourism and if you were to dig into that, a lot of it comes from new york residents new york pensioners. i think it's really important that we don't put unrestricted money out anywhere for this particular disaster just like we give to florida for hurricanes every single year. so i get what he is saying, but you want to be careful because florida is a state that constantly every year takes this money. i think it's going to be one of those things where we brush it off and move ahead. we are united states, let's act that way. >> sandra: we will see, we usually see him on the 11:00 eastern time hour in the morni morning. always good to see you, we will see you at 3:00 on fbn. remember, this sunday,

bret baier and martha maccallum will be anchoring america together returning to work, a town hall with president trump. have you lost your job due to the coronavirus pandemic and want to get back to work? are you concerned about the safety of your workplace? these are all big questions many of us have. you have them, send a video of your question or log onto the fox news facebook or instagram pages. send us your questions and you might just get an answer from president trump himself. >> ed: meantime, georgia allowing stay-at-home orders to expire with guidelines still in place to keep people safe. steve harrigan is live in atlanta with more. >> they were still stay-at-home orders were several groups in georgia for the elderly, the medically frail and in nursing homes as well. meantime, the cdc is partnering with 75 universities and public health institutions trying to

map the mutations of the coronavirus, researchers here say they have seen promise from the drug remdesivir, but warning that it is not a cure-all. >> we can hopefully knock the virus down earlier, but that inflammation may go on. so we want to use an immune modulator to get that inflammation down as well. so using remdesivir and the anti-inflammatory in concert. >> even as a state opens upcoming numbers continue to rise in georgia. back to you. >> ed: thank you. >> sandra: joe biden speaking out this morning for the very first time denying those sexual assault allegations against him by a former senate staffer. this as critics point to a double standard among democrats. brand-new reaction from congressman eric swalwell will be our guest live trade ahead.

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>> women are to be believed, given the benefit of the doubt. they come forward and say something that is they said happened to them, they should start off with the presumption they're telling the truth, then you have to look at the circumstances and the facts. and the facts in this case do not exist, they never happen. >> ed: that is the former vice president joe biden firmly denying sexual assault allegations by a former senate aide. his response came as critics pointed democrats allegedly having a double standard over their reaction to similar allegations against justice brett kavanaugh justice brett kavanaugh. eric swalwell joins us now and he serves on the intelligence committee. got a new look there, good morning. >> good morning. look forward to getting rid of this book. >> ed: let's get to the issue at hand. do you believe joe biden?

>> i believe he has a right to defend himself but i believe the accuser has a right to make her claims and the vice president calling for an investigation into any records that may exist is the right thing to do. >> ed: but on the records issue, i thought he was not clear on that, so you say definitively the university of delaware, should they search -- they have joe biden's records from his senate days. should they search tara reid's name and find out whether they are records of a complaint, yes or no? >> yes. >> ed: see do you believe tara reid? >> she has a right to be heard and i'm not going to question her motives and the vice president didn't either. he didn't say she was a liar or that she's not the type and those are all things president trump said about 25 people who have accused him. >> ed: my get you want to switch it to president trump and we can certainly talk about

that, let's get to that in a moment but on joe biden, i feel like the standard shifted their because you said when i asked if you believe tara reid, said she should be heard. joe biden in 2018 said about brett kavanaugh believe women, so why should we not believe this woman? >> we should believe this woman and then we should also look to other facts that may exist. the vice president had stories to tell as well another people around the incident should be interviewed and i'm going to leave it to that. and i'm not going to question the motives, some of your former colleagues at your network called christine blasey ford a lying skink and said she had a drinking problem, that's not the way to go after someone. >> ed: i am certainly not responsible for unnamed former fox people. >> it was laura ingraham show. >> ed: we will check the

transcript. i'm not sure what that has to do with whether or not you believe tara reid. you spin and attack accusers, i think that's instructive. so she's made the allegation, the vice president is denying it and it looks like there's a way to get some records that might have existed and that may put this to rest and welcome an opportunity to do that. >> ed: s, the former vice president did not attack the accuser or at least i didn't hear that in the interview. so let's move on from that point. brett kavanaugh, senator amy klobuchar said the fact that christine blasey ford had mentioned this before coming forward, that you mention this before means a lot. in the case of taylor read from we now have at least two women who have said she mentioned it before she went public, why

shouldn't that mean a lot? >> i'm not discounting that at all. >> ed: we have less than a minute so i want to be fair. i want to be fair here, he said i don't know what happened here with biden, said brett kavanaugh is a outstanding man and so it's going to come up between now and november. he just attack the president a moment ago and said they were 25 women. i promise to get back to it. how does this play out as the president tsai lies go after joe biden and biden allies go after the president, what comes next year? >> i think it's really about leadership and character in this country in a pandemic right now and the vice president has the experience to bring us out of this. the president is the worst possible person to handle this crisis and i think that's what's on the ballot this november more

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reopening in june. >> ed: meantime, nascar is returning, it will come ma may 17th, it will be the first t of seven events in 11 days, they will not attend any races in m may. >> sandra: something to look forward to there. around this time, beach towns up and down the east coast are gearing up for the busy summer season is major concern that some of these beach communities will not see an influx of tourists this summer. hey, molly, good morning. >> good morning, sandra. you said it. these coastal communities that depend on seasonal tourism are

facing a potential economic disaster unlike any they've seen before. on cape cod, massachusetts, usually bustling businesses are closed in the future is murky. >> very concerned about the summer because as you can see i'm sitting in an empty room right now with lots of tables and barstools. never been down this way. >> sam baxter is taking to go orders but fear is what will happen if covid restrictions remain and the waterfront restaurant founded by his father and grandfather in 1957 can't open for dine in service soon. >> i really don't know if i'm going to make it. we will see what happens. i know people are just going to be practicing a different way to go out. >> the question remains will tourists return? further south, monmouth university poll found more than half of people who plan to visit the jersey shore this summer expected they won't go. 38% say probably not, troubling

numbers for those who depend on a short season. >> this is something i could've ever imagined. without memorial day weekend, it would be catastrophic. >> the financial toll of long closures at these beach towns could be calculated in the billions. >> sandra: okay, thank you for that report outside of boston this morning. >> ed: check this out. crashing weather report and the most entertaining way. this is a fox station was on air when his dog brody interrupted his forecast, bumped his computer and sabotage the shop. a golden retriever stayed on the weatherman's lap hoping for a treat, then disappears from site only to stick his nose into the very final shot of the report. >> sandra: you know how it is. the dogs get jealous when the attention is not fully on them. so there he made his appearance.

>> ed: a whole new reality. another guy who's doing the report and we didn't realize that he could see below his waist and it turned out he was wearing shorts, but he kind of went viral. it's a whole new line out there. >> sandra: we have the dog entrance with maria on this program when we first started all of this. >> ed: let's get back to the news, former vice president joe biden speaking out for the very first time about sexual assault allegations and strongly denying those claims. what should happen next? fox news sunday anchor chris wallace all over that top of a brand-new hour. with their va streamline refi, there's no income verification or home appraisal. and this refi costs you absolutely nothing out of pocket. it's the quickest and easiest refi newday has ever offered.

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>> it doesn't matter what crisis there is, you only have the power that you have and you can't take more and if people are going to die, i'm sorry, he only have as much power as you have. >> sandra: quite a scene there, mike tobin is live on this from chicago for us this morning. >> here in illinois, there's a group that has organized this open illinois protest, it is off to a slow start, but the organizers says they're going to have militias from three different states show up here unarmed. their primary beef is a claim that the illinois governor and chicago mayor are playing politics while they destroy livelihoods. mayor lightfoot has responded by saying that opening up the state before the data and the science tell them to would be foolish. also under a lot of pressure is the michigan governor gretchen whitmer. demonstrators descended on the

capital yesterday, some of them brandishing weapons. she went in the other direction. she extended the state of emergency in michigan by executive order. after the legislature refused to grant her permission to do so. the also passed a resolution to sue the governor. some anticipate some legal action in michigan. meantime the demonstrators they believe the governor has been exercising too much power. >> we are trying to get rid of our tyrannical governor. she's overstepped the powers that we the people have given her. >> i know there are people that are compromised and people that are older and weaker and they can't take it, that's what freedom is. this isn't freedom. >> on more than a dozen reopen state protests from coast to coast and there's going to be a counter protest here in illinois, a group called refuse fascism is going to mount an

event expected to show up here right about noon. back to you. >> sandra: mike tobin live in chicago for us this morning, thank you. >> it is not true, i am saying unequivocally and never happens. i don't remember any type of complaint she may have made, who is 27 years ago and i don't remember nor does anyone else that i'm aware of and the fact is i don't remember. i don't remember any complaint having been made. >> ed: vice president joe biden right there breaking his silence insisting an allegation of sexual assault never happen. mounting pressure for him to address those claims directly. chris wallace joins us now. your thoughts about the denial, how he did and how he can square the fact that in 2018, he said believe women.

>> in terms of how he did, it was a flat denial, categorical denial, there were no cagey words and there. that is certainly what you expected, you hardly expected him to say something went on. in terms of the contradiction, i think that the me too movement and the left particularly in the case of the kavanaugh case got too far over its skis when they said believe women at that time which is of course crazy and not responsible. listen to women? absolutely. take them seriously, yes. but investigate. everybody's entitled to due process whether it's donald trump or whether it's brett kavanaugh or whether it's joe biden, and i think that movement has come to understand that. i will say that the case that tara reade mexicans joe biden is

a lot stronger than the case christine blasey ford made against brett kavanaugh becaused not told anybody for decades after the event happened and really was incredibly sketchy and there was no real record that she and brett kavanaugh had ever met. clearly tara reade worked for joe biden, worked in his office and did tell people contemporaneously in '93 and in the years immediately thereafter let this happen. so it doesn't mean it did happen, but it does mean she has a stronger record of making the allegation then christine blasey ford did. >> ed: were you surprised msnbc didn't ask him whether he knew her interacted with her, remembered her work in the senate, where they ever alone? >> i haven't had a chance, but i did see that he was asked that. what do you remember about her? and he just talked about the

complaint, so he didn't answer the question, and he was allowed not to answer the question. that's one of the story of all of this, it turns out joe biden has done something like 25 interviews since tara reade first made her complaint back in march and he was never once asked by any reporter about this complaint and all i can say is i know i would've asked him and i know you would've asked him, and i think any good reporter should have asked him. >> ed: that was my point, politico said what you just said, 25 interviews since march 25th when he briefly addressed it and i was surprised the question was they didn't press him about the details, it just sort of moved on and we didn't establish whether or not they even knew each other or there was anything remarkable about their time together. let's get to the issue of the records. he was joe biden on the national archives and what they meant. >> it would be stored in the

national archives were documents from the office she claims to have filed her complaint with are stored. that's where they are stored. the senate controls those archives so i'm asking the secretary of the senate today to identify whether any such document exists and if it does, make it public. >> ed: so there is national archives and records than his personal records at the university of delaware and i thought mika did a good job of pressing him on that point and saying why can't you just search for her name and the university of delaware records and he didn't go along. eric swalwell a moment ago said they should search her name. >> it's interesting. those records were sealed. these were all of his public records from his full career as senator and vice president, and they were sealed and then they were supposed to be -- the time lapse for when they were to be open was coming up, and then i

forget exactly when but in the last few or two, biden said they are to be sealed until two years after his public career is over, so obviously they began anticipating they didn't want all of those records open if and when he became president of the united states. now he says that personnel records would not be in there, all just public files but as you say how do you know? so why not open those records and the vice president didn't seem to want to go along with that and the fact that he is saying to the archivist let's open the archive records coming up to bet there's pretty confident there's nothing in there. >> ed: let's talk about michael flynn. the fbi flynn outrage, this is law enforcement abusing its most tyrannical power to strip citizens of their reputation, their livelihoods, their liberty. the fbi's treatment of mr. flynn who lives up to american's worst fears. your thoughts?

>> i'm not going to go along with what a lot of people are saying about this. mike flynn had the opportunity to tell the truth about his conversation with the russian ambassador, he had the opportunity to tell the truth about his work for an organization going to turkey and raising questions about whether he was an unregistered foreign agent. he didn't tell the truth about either, he pleaded guilty and i was kind of surprised that the president said yesterday maybe i'll bring him back to the white house. was the president before any legal case was brought who fired flynn because flynn had lied about his conversation with the russian ambassador to the vice president mike pence. mike pence came on "fox news sunday" just before the inauguration in january of 2016 and said there was no discussion of that and it turns out he was basing that on what flynn had told him that flynn had lied to him. so i'm not sure i understand why people are all rallying to

flynn's case. did the fbi play hardball? guess what? the fbi plays hardball and if you are talking to the fbi, a lot of lawyers would say don't talk to them unless you have to. don't lie. >> ed: i know this is a sensitive subject and you may not want me to bring it up. "tiger king ," have we reached the point where we need a special counsel? >> as long as i don't have to cover the case i don't have to talk to anybody involved, i am all for a special counsel to get to the bottom of the case, absolutely. and let me just say, i'm not worried about tigers, i'm worried about you beating dead horses with the story, eddie. >> ed: i'm glad you finally directly answer the question. we'll be watching you on sunday for those direct questions.

>> sandra: meanwhile, president trump announcing he will be going ahead with his commencement address at west point just 50 miles north of new york city, the nation's epicenter of the coronavirus. cadets will be returning to the military academy ahead of the graduation ceremony we are told and will quarantine for 14 days. >> they will be segregated the entire time. they will come back in five cohorts, no cohort will intermingle. they will live separately. >> sandra: so that's the plan, jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon with more on all of that. good morning. >> good morning. continue the mission is the order from top army brass about plans to have 1,00 1,000 graduag cadets return to west point from across the country to hear president trump's commencement address in person on june 13th. the army secretary and chief of staff were asked if this plan is

irresponsible. >> we are fighting our way to lead through this. united states military academy is but one example. there are thousands of young men and women over the last couple of months that have got on buses and trains and gone from every corner of this country to our installations. we can't telecommute to combat and our troops need to be ready to go and we need to create a safety bubble at west point. >> last month, he spoke at the graduation in colorado with social distancing in place but unlike west point, air force kept its graduating class on campus. they weren't allowed to leave. democratic senator tammy duckworth, a member of west point board of visitors and a former pilot wounded in a crash during the iraq war said bluntly, "trump's reckless decision to gather 1,000 cadets for his speech for their future military readers at increased risk all to stroke his own ego. west point superintendent says the graduating seniors have not

been on campus since leaving for spring break march 6. >> there's a number of tasks they have to do, have to be medically ready to join the army was a series of medical tasks that can only be done at the united states military academy as well as get their stuff. >> asked by our own lucas tomlinson if governor cuomo had signed off and the graduations, he said he had informed his office but didn't know if the ceremony had received his blessing. >> sandra: all right. we will be watching that. jennifer griffin at the pentagon this morning, thank you. >> ed: dollars flooding into banks, what does it mean for savers as they brace for an extended downturn? plus california's governor closing down beaches and why one town is suing to keep them open. >> we have to stand up and protect the people of huntington beach. we have to protect our rights as a city.

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the sand last weekend. now the town of huntington beach is taking them to court. >> we are going to be objecting to that decision, to that order, to that directive from the governor so we will be filing a lawsuit. in >> ed: meanwhile, some businesses are suing over state orders claiming the shutdown violates their civil liberties and is causing grave economic harm. >> sandra: from wall street where stocks have been falling today on concerns over trade among other things, right now the dow down more than 70 points all this after the u.s. stock market wrapped its best month in decades. joining us now, host of bulls and bears. april was amazing month for the u.s. stock market despite everything. in double-digit gains across the board for the dow, the s&p, and the nasdaq but starting out may 1st day one with a sell-off. >> a lot of that had to do with what happened yesterday which is

amazon and apple came in with some numbers that didn't look so good even though amazon is up 34% since the downturn. so amazon is doing great, but they gave us guidance that they're going to be putting in most of their profits into the new post coronavirus world. that is to say investors were expecting $4 billion in dividends or however they are to give it back and instead jeff bezos the head of amazon is going to be filing all that money into paying workers more. they were some protests among workers at amazon facilities like whole foods, but they're going to be getting more money, going to be getting a safer environment and changing the way in which people who go to stores at amazon as to make it even safer than it is. they are making an amazing amount of money both in their retail, they are the king of retail delivery right now, also they have these amazon web services which bring

entertainment to our homes and they have amazon prime so they have a trifecta of very good selling products, that's why they are up so much right now. >> sandra: meanwhile, everyone is going to try to navigate through this rough economy and the recovery from the hit that it has taken from this pandemic. every kudlow sounding very optimistic about the economy eventually on fox news this morning. >> we are going to take another bad hit because of the national shutdown and there's no two ways around that. on the other hand, the congressional budget office and private forecasters seem to agree with president trump that the second half economy going into 2021. >> sandra: have to figure out what that means for their money, their savings, their investmen investments.

should we be in the stock mark market? we are in a time of crisis to store up cash for the tough times that may be coming. we are already in tough times. could get tougher, but i have to end on an optimistic note because i live in new york. i've lived here 40 years. we've been through a lot of crises. we had 9/11, crime waves, all kinds of problems here but we always rise above it and we do so by improvising, by overcoming our difficulties borrow a phrase from the marines, adapt, improvise, and overcome. even though the politicians are still afraid to get us back to

work from a yorkers already are getting back to work. i've been walking to work for the past month and every day, and see new stores opening. i go in and ask them to have the police told you to close? they say the police come in and say how are you doing and that's that. there was a very soft policy about the locked out and it's getting a little softer now as new yorkers know how to protect themselves, know how to rise above the difficulties and i think you were seeing that and we want to be safe, we are going to do that, that's the only thing that's going to turn the economy around. >> sandra: we will hear from him a later round as we start to hear how they plan to have those businesses reopen slowly and safely. for now, down 479 points. always good to see you, thank you.

remember, bret baier and martha maccallum will be anchoring a town hall with president trump and there are big questions out there. they want to get back to work. probably concerned about the safety of your workplace. whatever questions that you have, send us a video of that question to town hall at foxnews.com or log onto fox news facebook facebook or instagram pages, and you might couldn't answer directly from the president himself. so we want to hear your questions. >> ed: going to be a big event this weekend. the navy ship comfort has left the docks of new york city after treating just under 200 patients. meantime, the subway system is facing the dire health crisis. new this morning, former vice president joe biden addressing an allegation of sexual assault. will that be enough to help save his campaign? >> it's an open book, there's

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a subway station with the latest details. >> good morning, eddie. it's been called the lifeblood of new york city and now for the first time, the subway system is not going to be operating around the clock. governor andrew cuomo says transit officials will close down the new york city subways for four hours overnight to disinfect trains among many homeless have been living on or in the subway during the recent corona crisis after viewing photos of train cars crammed with debris and filth, cuomo called the situation "disgusting." the mass transit system is crucial for health care providers and first responders to get to their jobs and under the plan that will start next wednesday, the system will shut down from 1:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. cuomo called it a monumental undertaking. >> this is a whole new process, these are new chemicals, new equipment for workers, new methods, just think about it. you have to disinfect everyplace

that a hand could touch on the subway car. every rail, every poll, every door. >> former new york mayor michael bloomberg joined governor cuomo in a video link to provide details about the state's contact tracing program to prevent the spread of the virus. bloomberg has volunteered to head up that effort and says recruits in the army of tracers will have to take a training course in order to be hired. three smartphone apps will also be deployed. and whatever playbook the state does come up with, it is going to be publicly for others to use. although broadway is dark, each night at 7:00, one of its stars and says thank you to health care workers in his own unique way, from the window of his home. the belts the broadway classic "the impossible dream." ♪

mitchell is grateful that he has a long power to resume his career. he was sick for several weeks with the coronavirus. >> ed: nice to see the rich baritone back, david lee miller, thank you. >> this never, ever happened. i don't know what is motivating her. i don't know what is behind any of it, but it is irrelevant. never happened. never happened. i am not going to start questioning her motive, i'm not going to get into that. i'm not going to go after terra reade for saying these things. it's simple. what are the facts? to any of the things she said, do they add up? >> sandra: that was joe biden finally breaking his silence and a brand-new interview denying an allegation of sexual assault by former senate staffer tara reid

that she says happen back in the early 1990s. this after pressure from democrats and some women's groups to directly address the issue had been overshadowing his campaign. some commentators are pointing out that biden and all the democrats defending him were quick to give credence to the allegations against supreme court justice brett kavanaugh in 2018. marc thiessen is writing about that in a "washington post" op-ed saying biden gave christine bosley for the benefit of the doubt. why not tara reade? mark, good morning is famous for being here this morning. so are democrats and is joe biden after you saw him break his silence, are they giving tara reade the same treatment that they asked christine blasey ford received during the kavanaugh allegation? >> not even close and i watch the interview, he lied to our faces.

he said that all he said with christine blasey ford is her case should be investigated. that's not what he said. he said he believes her. after her testimony, hailed her testimony as courageous, credible, and powerful and said he believed her and the american people believe her. that's a completely different thing from saying it should be investigated. and christine blasey ford failed to provide a single corroborating witness to back her claim. she didn't know where the incident happened, how it happened, how she got there, how she got home. one witness she presented said she didn't even remember the party much less the incident. she had no corroborating evidence whatsoever, and tara reade has contemporaneous witnesses. told her next-door neighbor who has come out and said she told her back in the 1990s, told a colleague in the california state senate where she went to work after biden's office dismissed her. told her brother who said he came forward at the time and told her mother who called in to "larry king live" to ask for advice the same month she left

biden's office. any of that could have existed in christine blasey ford's case, brett kavanaugh wouldn't be on the supreme court today. >> sandra: so this is biden spokesperson statement back in 2018, you've got to start off with the presumption that we see the essence of what she's talking about is real whether or not she forgets facts to know whether or not it's been made worse or better over time, but nobody fails to understand that this is like jumping into a cauldron. now here was more from biden's interview this morning responding to the question about should all women be believed? here was his response. >> i'm not suggesting she had no right to come forward and i'm not saying any woman -- they should come forward. they should be heard. and then they should be investigated. should be investigated and if

there's anything that is consistent with what's being said and she makes the case where the case is made, then it should be believed but ultimately, the truth matters. >> sandra: so what more does joe biden need to do after breaking his silence first step this morning? >> first of all, the idea that joe biden should be given the presumption of innocence, i believe everybody should be given the presumption of innocence but he denied brett kavanaugh the presumption of innocence. there was no evidence of the charges that were made against brett kavanaugh and yet biden said that he should have to prove and know that senate democrats that he should have to prove that he didn't do it. he should have to prove that he is not a predator to do so why should joe biden be held to a lower standard? i don't think that's the right standard in these cases but that's the standard they set for brett kavanaugh. so why should joe biden get a presumption of innocence if he wouldn't give it to brett kavanaugh?

it's absurd. >> sandra: with a minute or so that we have left, i want to transition to this looming battle as "the wall street journal" writes about this morning in an op-ed, looming civil liberties battle, you had seen obviously the protests emerging throughout the country over that shut down. they headlined a battle between personal freedoms and public health, so what are we seeing on that front as we obviously see that shut down fatigue and people wanting to get back to work? >> it's funny because i'm watching these protests and how people in the media and in the nation's capital looked down their noses at those protesters. it's very easily for journalists who can telecommute and telework to look down their noses at people whose lives have been destroyed. we have 30 million americans filed for unemployment, worse than the great depression. faster than the great depression and these are people who work in restaurants, they work and hair

salons, they have normal lives in their lives have been completely destroyed. so of course they're pushing back. so we shouldn't be looking down on these people. we can't go on like this forev forever. >> sandra: has done for low 1800 employees. marc thiessen, always good to see you. thank you so much. >> ed: you just heard it, restaurant owners forced to close down on furlough their workers now working on plans to reopen and get back to business, what that could look like and how long it may take coming up

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going to kick off on sunday. it's expected to praise the president's handling of the pandemic and try to rally americans around expectations of a return. >> sandra: the coronavirus shut down taking a devastating toll on restaurants nationwide, some owners starting to work on plans to reopen and recover from this. joining us now is award-winning chicago-based restaurateur who joins us now. thank you so much for being he here. >> good morning, thanks for having me. >> sandra: i know this has been incredibly difficult for your restaurant group which so many know your restaurants, award-winning james beard award-winning restaurants. >> obviously chicago is no different. has an industry, 500,000 that

are truly on the brink of going away for forever. surveyed across the country believe they can reopen when this thing is over. that means 80% of restaurants might go out of business. i speak to operators in chicago every single day who are in various stages of fear and helplessness. everyone realizes this is not a three-month problem is we originally thought. is a year to 18 month problem because restaurants unlike other industries we have a entirely different problems. tables that are 6 feet apart, no business travelers, no tourists. chicagoans are tough. we are hopeful. we waited 108 years for the cubs to win a world series. we are resilient, but right now, we need help. >> sandra: absolutely. i know you personally as the owner of these restaurants have tried to help out some of your workers donating some of your

own money towards them so they can try to survive this. we are showing some of the scenes of your restaurant, the chicago restaurant scene is so big, one of the best in this country. what are you and your team doing to innovate and come out of this and to get people back into your restaurant and make them feel safe to do so? >> is started with we mobilized very quickly. we put a relief fund together for our employees. we put food boxes together on a weekly basis for everyone to make sure everyone extended everyone's health insurance and taking care of our team was that paramount concern. it's also important to keep our company solvent's they have something to come back to but to the end of innovating and looking towards the future, it started with us joining the independent restaurant coalition. which because despite her size has an industry, the largest private employer in the

united states, we really not had a voice in washington. we are fighting for right now stabilization fund for restaurants, dedicated restaurant recovery fund which is critical for recovery for all restaurants. was characterized as a savior but is decidedly not for restaurants. was written and you can ask any member of congress as a solution to a three-week problem, and if we were able to open in april here in chicago, i'd be sitting here today singing the praises. but really, it just acts as a loan that is only forgiven if you can bring all your employees back, and we can bring all our employees back because we are not allowed to open fully. so becomes an albatross around the neck of all of these restaurants. we have to now think about pray for stabilization fund, but at the same time, we are having to think of all of these ways to innovate right now and change the model so we can still

survive until we get some sort of government intervention that works. we are doing a curated grocery bag to where stephanie is putting -- our chef partner -- is putting groceries in there that has a link to her on video cooking stuff from inside that groceries bag. that sold out last week. we are just sitting around a table every day trying to figure out new ways to innovate. >> sandra: a shout out to your executive chef. he's a good man in your restaurants are so critical to those neighborhoods in chicago, and we really hope to see you guys be able to reopen safely and soon. our best to you. >> thank you very much, i appreciate it. >> ed: fox news alert, big news just came in, house judiciary committee setting up a potential investigation into amazon and its founder jeff bezos saying they want to look into "possibly criminally false statements by amazon and

its officials on his business practices." members of congress now want him to testify under oath to see if perjury was committed. this comes after major reports in "the wall street journal" that amazon allegedly abused sensitive business information from third-party sellers on its site to develop competing products of its own. we are going to watch it and see if there's any impact on wall street and elsewhere back in a moment. the newday va streamline refi is the reason why. it lets you shortcut the loan process and refinance with no income verification, no appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. one call can save you $2000 every year. call my team at newday usa right now.

>> ed: after 9/11, the american government overhauled its national security policies to eradicate the threat of terror. how is all that going to shake out? a senior fellow at the razor

group foundation, host of the u none of the above podcast. thanks for coming on. how do you see you days ahead and how we navigate all of this? china obviously seems front and center in terms of how we may shift our national security priorities. >> absolutely. there are new stories coming out today about the trump administration wanting to hold china to account and for sure there's going to be a reckoning for -- with what actually happened to allow this coronavirus to spread, but what my article in foreign policy magazine was trying to get at is looking at the ways in which scapegoating or blaming the china might not be particularly productive. might end up in a place where we are trying to have a military response to something that doesn't really can't be defeated with military strength, so just like terrorism, this pandemic is kind of a nebulous amorphous

thing with the military response. is also a moment for american leadership to step up and show other countries how democracies can effectively wipe out a virus better than authoritarian regimes like china. china getting a lot of credit but the survey just put out showed of ten countries resurveyed support america's international leadership in only 20% to support chinese. the trick is people want an american-led world because the u.s. views themselves as a capable partner. and the moment we start alienating those countries and looking inward rather than outward, we can potentially squander that goodwill, squander that support, international support for american leadership.

>> ed: all interesting points. what you are advocating is we want to keep this more diplomatic, we don't want to revel to many feathers in china, let's keep the world order just fine, there a lot of people wondering why? because we were letting china get away with all kinds of things and then all of a sudden the supply chain is in their hands when we are in need. let's not hold them accountable, let's move on. might we be in the same place a few years from now? >> we need a serious postmortem done. we need to investigate and hold anybody who is for this accountable. this is an opportunity, a rupture for fresh thinking that is not a realistic proportionate

solution to the problem. i do think there needs to be accountability and a response, but just like we can't defeat international terrorism at lar large, promote democracy in china as a result of this moment and what we should do is focus on keeping americans safe and protecting the goodwill that we already have. >> ed: we want accountability front and center in this discussion. appreciate you coming on. >> sandra: joe biden breaking his silence denying those sexual assault allegations against him by a former staffer. what he is saying now. that's coming up. today, being on your side means staying home... "nationwide office of customer advocacy." ...but we can still support you and the heroes who are with you. we're giving refunds on auto insurance premiums, assisting customers with financial hardships,

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>> ed: in mere moments, former attorney general jeff sessions will be live speaking out on the newly released documents on the prosecution of michael flynn and what that might mean for james comey and others that's coming up brand-new hours of "america's newsroom." i'm ed henry. >> sandra: here rico, friday morning. i'm sandra smith that we begin with joe biden breaking his silence this morning, the former vp denying those sexual assault allegations against him by a former senate staffer. saying the claims are not true and never happened. here is biden earlier this morning on morning joe. >> is never, ever happens. i don't know what is motivating her. i don't know what is behind any

of it, but it's irrelevant. never happened, it never happened. period. i'm not going to start questioning her motive. i'm not going to get into that. >> sandra: we have lifelock steam reaction, dana perino is coming up that we begin with peter doocy live in arlington, virginia, for us this morning. >> good morning. joe biden said if tara reade ever filed a complaint against him, it would be at the national archive, so people should go and look at their if you filed a complaint against him it would not be in his senate records at the university of delaware, so he is not willing to unseal those. >> why not approve a search of her name and those records? >> approve a search of her name? >> anything that might be related to tara reade and the university of delaware records?

>> there is nothing. they're not there. i don't understand the point you're trying to make. there is no personal records by definition. >> now a g.o.p. spokesman says this, the most transparent thing joe biden did this morning was admit that he is hiding documents so they can't be used against him, and now the operator of the national sexual assault hotline says this. we appreciate vice president biden finally addressing tara reade's allegations and they deserve a rigorous investigation and we urge vice president biden to release any and all records that may be relevant including those at the university of delaware in addition to any senate records at the national archives. he says he doesn't know any complaints from any woman against him and says he's never asked anyone to sign a nondisclosure agreement and he doesn't know what is motivating

tara reade to speak publicly now and it doesn't sound like he plans to call her and find out. >> i don't remember any type of complaint she may have made. was 27 years ago, and i don't remember, nor does anyone else that i'm aware of, and the fact is i don't remember. i don't remember any complaint ever having been made. >> have you or your campaign reached out to her? >> no. >> biden says no one that worked in his senate office with tara reade can verify it for accusation of sexual assault and he said it does not sit with the atmosphere of his office at the time. >> sandra: okay, peter doocy, thank you. >> ed: for more on this, let's bring in dana perino, one of the sharpest communications minds and one of the sharpest minds we know, good morning. how do you do? >> watch yourself, might cut

you. >> ed: i'm trying to suck up to you right now. >> i think the interview was pretty tough and i think if you are a democrat, the republicans are going to trash it but if you are a democrat, you might think he did better than you think he might do. he did leave himself open to this attack about the university of delaware papers and an investigation and why wouldn't you let people go and look, she said she filed a senate complaint, let's go ahead and look at the senate complaint though they are going to be very vulnerable on that point because that's where the battle will be joined, and i imagine either they will be a review of the documents then they will be missing or they will be a review of the documents i will get this complaint and will see if it actually exists or there might be nothing there, so those are three options. the other thing on the politics of it, people are going to point to the fact that the democrats have worked themselves into this box. you compare these allegations to

what brett kavanaugh was alleged to have done and how the democrats thought that brett kavanaugh's yearbook was important to decide if he was a versus actual official documents for the united states senate, that shows a lot of hypocrisy and the republicans will be able to ride that horse all the way to town. >> ed: and then democrats also have to deal with the fact that joe biden himself in 2018 said in the context of brett kavanaugh, believe women. to her credit, make a press joe biden on that. let's listen. >> are women to be believed unless it pertains to you? >> look, women are to be believed and given the benefit of the doubt and then you have to look at the circumstances on the facts and the facts in this case do not exist. >> do you regret what you said during the kavanaugh hearing? >> what i said during the kavanaugh women was that she had a right to be heard and the fact

that she came forward, the presumption would be she's telling the truth unless it's proved she wasn't telling the truth. >> ed: take it where you want but it seems to me they are shifting goalposts when he said she had a right to be heard, no, you said believe women. >> right. and that is vital be very interesting to see over the next few days, watched as see if any of the prominent democrats start to break ranks with him. that statement that peter doocy had in his package about the rain spokesman saying there should be a full investigation, that is not a high-profile democrat but it's inching a little bit closer and if you have somebody like elizabeth warren decide to break rank, you could see something we've never been seen before in american politics at least in the modern age about a scramble. however, i do think joe biden dealing with this on may 1st

rather than october 1st if he does secure this nomination and goes all the way through, then it's probably better for them politically to deal with it now than later. >> ed: one of the women, has this op-ed at foxnews.com has biden's travels, hillary waits for the call, biden could choose clinton as a running mate and allow hillary to run in his plays good and the only candidate who would be able to pull off such a last-minute switch. she has a team and the resources and the experience to be the nominee. was in the hill, not foxnews.com. your thoughts? >> i think hillary clinton is not going to be his vice presidential choice if he wants to win the election. in basically, we are reliving that election. we've proven that donald trump was a much better choice than hillary clinton to voters in 2016. how will the world could that be different in 2020? i know she won the popular vote

but if joe biden puts hillary clinton on the ticket, i think president trump would win the popular vote, that is not a winning ticket. they need to look forward and they need something new. >> ed: last question during your hour this afternoon expecting kayleigh mcenany to give her first briefing. you've been there, there she is, your thoughts and your advice? >> i remember my first briefing very well and i did not have the benefit of being a lawyer as she is. i also did not have any television experience as you can remember because you were there in the briefing room at the time. she's a very intelligent person, she studies very hard, she is trying to have a tone to advocate for the president and defend the president while being the press secretary to all americans coming from the rnc. as a different role. i've a feeling she'll do a very good job today and reporters who have been clamoring for white house briefings to return to remember that because if you want this to work, i'm not

saying not ask tough questions, i think that having white house briefings is a good thing for the country overall i think it would be helpful for the president as well because it makes you focus the mind, it makes you work really hard if you know that your press secretary has to go up there and answer questions at the podium. >> ed: never got mad at me. there was a long pause there. >> we should pull the tape. except for i look terrible. >> ed: looked great, we appreciate you. >> sandra: president trump meanwhile saying that he has seen evidence that coronavirus originated in that wuhan lab, but cannot share exactly what that is. a number of cases as deaths continue to decline. john roberts is now live from the north lawn on that and more this morning. >> good morning to you. the office of the director of the national intelligence

issuing a press release confirming that the intelligence committee is looking into the origins of the virus and whether or not it was an animal to human transmission case or if it escaped from a biosafety level for laboratory in wuhan. there is an increasing degree of confidence among u.s. officials that the laboratory was the source of the virus. now that the intelligence investigation has been made public, i asked the president what the intelligences telling him him. listen here. >> my question is, have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the wuhan institute of virology was the origin of this virus? >> yes, i have. and i think that the world health organization should be ashamed of themselves because they are like the public relations agency for china. >> i asked the president what gives him a high degree of confidence that the virus came from the laboratory and said he could not say, that he is not

allowed to tell, but the president also appearing to question the intelligence committee consensus that the viruses naturally occurring and not engineered in a lab for the president said they are looking at that separately. the president also weighing in yesterday on new revelations regarding the investigation of general michael flynn, the very first national security advisor. the president suggesting he may not have to pardon flynn because he believes that flynn has been exonerated. the president also leaving open the possibility that he could bring flynn back to the white house in some capacity. >> i think he's a fine man. it's something nobody's asked me but you're asking me for the first time, i would certainly consider it. i think he's a fine man. of >> kellyanne conway said it's more likely he would bring him into the oval office to talk to him. we may hear more about this in

kayleigh mcenany's very first briefing at 2:00 this afternoon and full disclosure, you saw there in operation the husband-and-wife team of john roberts. >> sandra: i watched it all live yesterday afternoon. you are a power duo. great to see both of you. >> i don't know about that, but thanks. >> sandra: you're a good team. >> ed: turning a little red there. that's cute. the senate set to reconvene next week has concerns amid the safety of the pandemic, is there unnecessary risk? what chad pergram's hearing about all of that coming up. plus, former fbi chief james comey under scrutiny again over the investigation of michael flynn. the forming attorney general says he believed he should have been let go from the beginning. he joins us live and there he is next. >> jim comey, i don't believe he was bound by the rules. he thought he was above the rules, i did not feel good about

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>> you say the notes, you see them say don't end cross fire razor. why? to harass and embarrass a general who has served for over

three decades. >> sandra: that was canceled to the president kellyanne conway earlier reacting to the newly unsealed documents revealing fbi agents push to keep the investigation into michael flynn open. our next guest said he felt then director james comey should have been replaced from day one. former u.s. attorney general jeff sessions joins us now. thank you so much for coming on the program this morning. a lot of questions, we will start first with what was your general take away for those documents that have now been released and what it it tell us about the fbi's handling of the michael flynn investigation? >> one thing it tells us is very important that james comey was directing this route he was personally engaged in this effort. secondly, it's clear that they set up a plan to trap him into perjury, a perjury trap as it's called. i don't like that. i don't think that was a proper

way to do it. thirdly, and he said this publicly some months ago, he bragged about the fact that they got around normal procedures at the white house. before you interview a high level governmental official, you normally call the white house counsel for the chief of staff reared the fbi did not do that, he bragged about it, he said he would've done it under the obama administration for the bush administration. he said he took advantage of the chaos of this administration to basically ambush general flynn. that is not right. he should not have done that, and it is too typical of his actions, grandiose mind-set that lacked disrespect and discipline for rules and procedure. he saw himself as the sum of so many things that were beyond propriety, and i think it revealed a lot about him and i think it does help the people see that general flynn kindness

could well have been mistaken and not the kind of basis for a perjury some people say. >> sandra: we obviously hear you keeping a lot of criticism on james comey and we have heard that from you before suggesting that he thinks he's above the rules, you've also hinted that you suggested to the president day one of the trump administration to have james comey be gone. you just said that these notes go back to comey. talk more about that and his involvement at the highest level of the fbi during this time. >> the notes -- this all happen before i became attorney general and just after the president took office. we know also that he took notes of a personal meeting with the president, took those notes and detailed deliberately and then leak them to a friend to leak them to the media to force the appointment of a special

counsel. that is an unthinkable thing for a disciplined professional leader of the fbi to do. the fbi has to gather facts. it's not that they had policy disputes and trying to affect an agenda. also one of the most dramatic things of course was when he took over and declined to prosecute hillary clinton himself which is a decision fundamentally given to the prosecutor's, it's unthinkable that the fbi director would announce any prosecution, much less one of that magnitude. so i think the president was right to remove him. i think he was justified, i talked to a lot of people before i became attorney general who i trusted who knew the department of justice, i have watched the department of justice carefully. i concluded that he was not the person that needed to be continuing as the fbi director,

the president basically later made that decision and he has discussed that and i certainly supported it. >> ed: certainly, you are consistent this morning with your criticism of james comey and the fact that that memo you wrote to the president with rod rosenstein essentially the two of you going to the president saying that he should be fired early in 2017, but what about the people underneath james comey? one of the president's frustrations with you because you are running for the senate now and he is not supporting you as we all know and you can address that is that you didn't do enough as attorney general to clean up the fbi. you called for coming to get out but the president believes you didn't do anything to clean all of this up. >> we cleaned it up basically entirely. we got a new fbi director that the president supported and nominated malan that i felt would be good, he's doing a great job now. rate change of the top of the fbi, he achieved that pretty

quickly after taking office, and i think we absolutely did. all the top officials in the department of justice were also replaced by people mostly many of them were nominated by the president himself, so we worked hard to do that. what happened was a special counsel was appointed, some of that was by james comey's manipulation and it just took so long and was so painful. eventually, they totally cleared him, the president was totally cleared, and they didn't even raise it in the impeachment matter because there was no basis for the claim the president had colluded with russia. and that was certainly a well-established fact. >> ed: i'm trying to also get at the fact that you put out a campaign mailer recently saying you are president trump's number one supporter and as you know, the chief operating officer of the president's reelection

campaign put out a note, we can only assume your campaign is doing this to confuse president trump's loyal supporters of alabama into believing the president supports her candidacy in the upcoming primary runoff election, nothing could be further from the truth. i'll give you a chance to respond to that but when you say is attorney general you cleaned up the fbi. >> i want to respond to that. i don't know what brought that on, but they can't tell me not to say i support the president. i support him, i was the first one to support him. i campaigned all over the country with them. i believe in his agenda. that's why i was the first one to support him in campaign with them tenaciously. so i am a supporter of the president and his agenda. >> ed: you were the first to endorse him but i've got 15 seconds, the relationship is broken now, right? with the president. >> we are going to have a good relationship as months go by because i respect him and we are

going to help him be successful, i've always thought to do that, i've always worked and taken care not to undermine anything. >> ed: we certainly appreciate you coming on today, thank you. >> sandra: thank you. all right, remdesivir showing promise as a potential covid-19 treatment. a government study now showing that it can help coronavirus patience recover faster from the virus. at some public health officials are saying that the drug will not end the pandemic. we are going to take a closer look at that next. i came across sofi and it was the best decision of my life. i feel cared about as a member. we're getting a super competitive interest rate on our money. we're able to invest through the same exact platform. i really liked that they didn't have any hidden or extra fees. ♪ sofi has brought me peace of mind. truly thank you for helping me prepare for

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>> sandra: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell calling lawmakers back on monday while some are worried that they will not be protected from the coronavirus we've been talking about this and there are questions from some lawmakers themselves over whether this is the right time. >> that's right, there is a lot of consternation in one of the reasons is because the region had 2,000 new cases on thursday. washington, d.c., itself had the deadliest day yet with coronavirus, 19 deaths in the district of columbia. mitch mcconnell has not said whether or not he consulted with a capital attending physician or if the capital attending physician gave him different

information for what was given to the house of representatives and when they reconvened, keep in mind this is more than just senators. means staff and u.s. capitol police officers, this is what worries democratic senator from maryland. >> i am very worried about all the capital staff and putting their health and lives at risk, and i want to make sure that senator mcconnell puts in place adequate protections to make sure the senate doesn't become a vector for the coronavirus. >> the house and senate rarely agree on a much including when each body should meet during the pandemic, originally planned to meet next week but democratic leaders retreated. and expressed concerns about the house returning as numbers in washington, d.c., are dropping yet. and it's little surprise that in congress returning to session as a democrat versus republican issue. >> gotten guidance from the

attending physician, and i'm a physician and i agree with what we are going to be doing starting monday in the senate. >> on monday, they will have one confirmation vote. it's a low level nomination and also hearings this week, one on the crisis facing airlines and also we hearing about testing and a confirmation next week confirming john ratcliffe, the congressman republican representative from texas to be the director of national intelligence. >> sandra: chad pergram, thank you for your reporting on all of that. >> directed billions of dollars towards the development of therapies and vaccines. we have accelerated treatments including remdesivir which is reportedly showing encouraging preliminary results. >> ed: president trump speaking about an experimental drug as a government study now

shows remdesivir help patience recover faster. a professor of internal medicine and infectious disease physician at the university of nebraska medical center and also lead researcher on the clinical trial, thanks for coming on. what do we need to know about where we are with this? >> i think the important news is that this was a randomized trial in the sense that we are starting the trial here at the university of nebraska in conjunction with the nih and after we start the trial again in omaha, we end up getting another 70 different hospitals around the country and outside the country in 58 days, have over a thousand patients that received either remdesivir or placebo. and what we found enough preliminary analysis and a couple of days is that the

patients that received remdesivir had a statistical significant decrease in the time to recover. that means they had recovery in terms of four days difference compared to placebo and what that means is a patient that received the medication had a shorter time to remove oxygen so four days receiving support for ventilation, so very important findings because as you can imagine, it's about a third of the time of the whole process of being severely ill. these are patients that had pneumonia, these kind of patients that were enrolled in a trial so this is a very motivating finding because it really makes an important improvement from the clinical evolution of these patients. and on top of that, i just want to complement with the

remdesivir for improving survival as well but it's a trend at this point. >> ed: that is good, but we also heard positive things about hydroxychloroquine and then we heard maybe it's not as good as we first heard, so let's look at this from politico, they said five reasons to be cautious about remdesivir, this isn't a cure. we still have not seen the actual data, administering it is complicated, it is not yet available for wide use, which i assume we'll address you are trying to get there and manufacturing it is tricky. i know you can't answer all five in the next couple of moments but pick two of those, there is skepticism, please address it. >> good questions. i am skeptical but that's part of being who i am. i am a physician and a scientist so i'm skeptical about everything but i think there is no other trial in the entire

pandemic that has had this type of result. first of all, no hydroxychloroquine trial had that bubble of success. many other drug that has had a significant result as we've had in our analysis. so these are not comparable. at this time with the science and the significance of the results that we have, that being said, i do agree that we have a lot to learn, that is just the beginning, it is so significant that we found that we had to bring out to the public in effect it was so important for us that we had to change the design of the trial at this point removing the placebo in the trial because we didn't believe it would be able to just have patience not receive it. so this is what we have now. things will change and we have a lot to learn. this is not a cure, this is a treatment.

so we have to be very cautious but optimistic at this point. >> ed: of positive steps forward but still a lot of work to do. we certainly appreciate your time, thank you. >> sandra: struggling manufacturers meanwhile looking to washington hoping lawmakers will make some big investments in infrastructure, is spending more money the right way to dig out of this hole? we will have that next. helps you take advantage treamli of some of the lowest mortgage rates we've ever seen. one call to newday can save you $2000 a year. one call can lower your payments by this time next month without verifying your income, without getting your home appraised, and without one dollar out of pocket. it's the quickest and easiest loan newday's ever offered. one call can save you $2000 a year, every year.

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>> ed: quick heads up that andrew cuomo is addressing the media as he typically does every day, right now talking about how hospitalizations continue to decline here in the state of new york. has been the epicenter that continues to be more positive news then we had seen before. also expecting if we get it, will get back to it, an announcement about public schools in the state of new york. there are reports that will remain closed for the duration of this academic year but it is possible that they may try to bring back students earlier to

try to make up for some of that. we will watch that and keep an eye on it if there's any big news. >> sandra: i will find out in a minute. equipment manufacturers for your coronavirus will cause long-term damage to their industry, companies reporting weak demand so now looking to d.c. for some help helping an investment in infrastructure will keep them afloat. at the association of equipment manufacturers, you can correct me if i said your name wrong otherwise we will go on. the question that we are asking this morning, and spending more money the right way to get us out of this? i know that you were pleading for more relief for your industry. >> the vast majority of equipment manufacturers are open on the job while keeping their employees healthy and safe. however, an order for us to stay in business and for our suppliers to stay in business, we need to significantly

increase the demand for equipment and that's why we are looking to congress to prioritize a significant investment in infrastructure so they can create not only construction jobs but well-paying manufacturing jobs across the country. >> sandra: the question is what exactly would that do long-term? what sort of hit are you looking at your industry? we are showing pictures of john deere because john deere and caterpillar are two of your biggest members, so what is the long-term out of this looking like for your industry? >> obviously demand has become an increasingly severe challenge for your industry, also looking at supply chains that are under tremendous stress but the good news here is that we are ready to go right now. equipment manufacturers are ready to leave the economic recovery and we believe that by investigating an infrastructure which we sorely need and will help drive economic recovery. we will also invest in equipment

manufactured and put more americans back to work so we see that as a win-win for our industry and for our country. >> sandra: there was a survey done on 205 executives from companies like john deere and caterpillar, 68% of those that responded say the impact on their supply chain is moderately negative. a 42% say the impact has been very negative, and then a big 91.3% say the drop in demand for equipment has had the biggest negative impact, 58% saying things will improve by the end of the year and that's an important aspect to all of this when you look out and you hear some of the economists and you hear the white house talking about the economic rebound that they expect, is that in line with what you and the ceos in your industry see and expect? >> i think it will be, but the

key variable here is how quickly could we get at least are part of the economy up and running that says we are ready to go, but we need demand in order to make equipment, so we can get congress to prioritize investing in infrastructure, we believe the outlook for our industry for the rest of the year will change dramatically for the positive. but until we address that demand and also the supply chain issue we are looking at a pretty dire year for the equipment manufacturing industry. >> sandra: it is a very important aspect of our economy into our economic recovery, so it's an important discussion to have and we will surely see a debate on in washington. thank you so much for your time this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> sandra: remember this sunday 7:00 p.m. eastern time, bret baier and martha maccallum will be angering america together returning to work, a town hall with president trump. have you lost your job due to

the coronavirus pandemic and want to get back to work concerned about the safety of your workplace when you do return? what are questions that you have? send us a video of that to town hall at foxnews.com or log onto fox news facebook or instagram pages, send in your questions and you might get an answer from president trump himself. we look forward to that 7:00 p.m. on sunday. >> ed: in the meantime nascar getting back on track with the race is scheduled later this month. what changes will be see to keep everyone healthy and safe? we will look at it. ♪ limu emu & doug

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>> sandra: an update from the governor of new york just a few moments ago during his daily press briefing. as expected, made an announcement on new york state public schools officially closing them for the rest of

this academic school year, also announcing the closure of new york state colleges and universities. they will also be closed for the rest of the academic year. a decision has not been made on summer school. he says to expect an update on that. furthermore, he said it is going to be up to the schools to start figuring out how to safely reopen and welcome children in the fall summit update from the governor of new york just a moment ago, schools officially closed at the public level for the rest of the academic year. we will continue monitoring th that. >> ed: nascar telling drivers to start their engines once again. let's bring in fox news headline 24/7 sports reporter, interesting, going to have seven races, interesting and exciting, want to see this come back but what kind of safety measures are they talking about?

>> important safety measures here. i think it really sets the tone for the sport world in a very big way, nascar needs to get this right and think about this is phase one of reopening the sports world. take a look at what nascar will have to adhere to. you only have team members allowed. six people team members including the driver allowed. there must be social distancing in the work areas. they are required to monitor team members health during, before, and following each event. in going to be random temporary checks for everyone in the garage area. everyone in the facility must keep a contact tracing log and motor homes will be spread around the racetrack. >> ed: necessity the mother of invention, we've always heard that and they need to get a lot of races in at a short time so fans for years have been saying let's get it during the week.

>> what a treat. so we are going to have seven races over 11 days between darlington. three at darlington and then for four add charlotte motor speedway. you get to other sundays, and then that's it. so the others are five-week days. we are going to see the truck series go as well as the expended a series. going to have two races in just a couple of days apart at darlington to get going. >> ed: you talked about this taking off other major sports which is great to combine all of it because for years, it's been seen more as a niche sport not up with nba and mlb and now some more fans will try it out. >> we are starving for sports. smashing record ratings for the nfl draft because we want sport so badly. this is a huge opportunity for nascar to pull people in. i'm also curious to see how media policy is going to work. more than ever, it's important

that we have sports media involved in the actual coverage of sports because it does take people to tell the stories of what's taking place in it all comes together in a very big way now. so i'm sure there's going to be limited media access, but we do need the media they are. this is a big business and we need to advertise it. >> ed: fans are not going to be there for these early things, going to have to make sure it is on tv and radio and all the rest. 1 day before, there is something else happening. >> churchill downs, such great news for the kentucky derby was supposed to be tomorrow. got postponed until september but churchill downs will begin its spring racing meet one day before. so little by little, six weeks ago we entered a tunnel. seemed very dark, no idea where the end is. right now, we are starting to see a reflection of light at the end and that's important. >> ed: great stuff. is also about hope as well and people are starting to feel that. appreciate you coming on, thank you. >> sandra: thank you.

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♪ >> sandra: texas letting letting stay-at-home orders expire, allowing restaurants, movie theaters, and retail stores to be open today with limited capacity after the

lone star state saw its deadliest day yet in the coronavirus pandemic. casey stegall is live in arlington, texas, on the reopen and how it's going. hey, casey. good morning. >> center, good morning. yeah, you got different rules or different businesses. we are in a mixed used shopping centers, like most unities have come with a variety businesses pray that mexican restaurant is going to be allowed to open for the first time at 25% capacity. you pan over, you've got a gym over there. that's going to remain closed. those can't open just yet. it all away around here, we've got retail and also restaurants that are finally going to be open today for the very first time. right back over here, in this little strip, those are those more intimate services. you got a salon, a barbershop, a spa. those are not open. that happens likely mid-may. movie theaters, museums, and libraries also among the group cleared to open with limitations, but all of this

does come on the heels of a spike in deaths and new positive cases all across the state. 50 people died in the last 24 hours. the highest number since this outbreak began, bringing the total death count to 782. texas has nearly 29,000 total cases. so the governor has stressed the importance of infection control protocols. >> we will open in a way that uses safe standards. safe standards for businesses, for their employees, as well as for their customers. standards based upon data and on doctors. >> many local communities even implementing their own rules. for example, like requiring people to wear a face mask or covering when they're in public. sandra? >> sandra: good stuff. we will continue to watch that, casey stegall. thank you. and it is hard to believe that -- go ahead. >> ed: you know where i want

to go! i didn't mean to interrupt. shout out your mom. i know she's watching. she loves coffee cake, and so do i. if you heard me talking about that and said bmw bakery in northern new jersey has the best coffee cake. when this is over i'm going to check it out and send one to your mom, i promise. >> sandra: you are into this coffee cake business! all right, we'll talk more about it on monday. >> ed: happy anniversary! >> sandra: thank you so much. "outnumbered" starts right now. fox news alert, the month of may kicking off with new questions on the coronavirus response, as at least 2 21 states are looseng stay-at-home restrictions todayg texas, which is allowing stores and restaurants to reopen at 25% capacity. but dr. anthony found she is cautioning leaders around the country not to move too quickly on reopening. >> if you follow the guidelines, there is a continuity t