>> brian and ainsley, i wish you were here to share the nachos. i have a great day, we will see you tomorrow. >> sandra: a fox news alert, newly my newly declassified documents identifying more than a dozen obama administration officials involved in the unmasking of michael flynn and at the top of that list, former vice president joe biden. good morning everyone, and sandra smith. >> ed: and i'm ed henry. the officials who receive that list, former fbi chief james comey, the former secretary of treasury jack lew, former cia director john brenn john brennan, and president obama's chief of staff dennis mcdonough. >> sandra: those officials all making request that may have identified flynn as the american overheard and that december 2016 call talking to the russian

ambassador about lifting u.s. sanctions. president trump and republicans calling it proof the obama administration sought to undermine him from the very beginning. >> president trump: this was all obama, this was all biden. these people were corrupt, this whole thing was corrupt and we caught them. >> general flynn was just the tip of the iceberg, it appears to me what they were doing is a lot of them went wild after trump won. they got poisoned with this russia hoax. this inner circle of advisors were all listening to senior advisors and private phone conversation and this would amount to a serious abuse of power. >> this is an outrage if at least unethical, and we will get to the bottom of it. they had no business listening to anything that general flynn was saying about term policy. >> ed: fox team coverage,

trey gowdy here to react. john roberts is live on the north lawn, good morning. >> there were things that we know and things we don't know about this whole situation. first are the things that we know. in the end of january 2017 either on behalf of vice president joe biden, white house chief of staff dennis mcdonough, jack lew. the director of national intelligence james clapper, cia director john brennan and the fbi director james comey among others. now what we do not know is whether those individuals saw the unmasked information, that's according to the intercepts. we do not know who if any, he

has no doubt that this was all an attempt to get him. listen here. >> president trump: it was a great's political crime in the history of our country. if i were a democrat instead of a republican, i think everybody would have been in jail a long time ago. >> the inclusion of joe biden's name in the list is of particular interest because the other day he knew nothing about the investigation of michael flynn and then said he was made aware that the fbi was looking into him. >> president trump: he was on "good morning america" and he said he didn't know anything about it. now it just gets released, it was one of the unmasked areas meaning he knew everything about it. >> former vice president saying the breadth and depth of concern

across the american government including among career officials attempts to undermine the national security policy with the times foreign policy. this was looked into by john durham who was investigating the roots of the russia investigation. we will hold an event john roberts, thank you. >> several officials identified in that document have been evasive in that testimony for the men. >> did you answer senator biden's question that there is an investigation underway as to connections to either the political campaigns and the russians?

did you request the unmasking of mr. trump, his associates or any member of congress? >> yes. >> do you recall any u.s. investors asking that names be unmasked? >> i don't know. maybe it's ringing a big bell. >> sandra: let's bring in former south carolina congressman trey gowdy, the former chairman of the house oversight committee and fox news contributor. we just saw you in that line of questioning, asking what you ask then entering the answers answers that you heard then. what conclusions are you able to draw. >> if you have you are supposed

to safeguard this was on in the masking request made the morning of the inauguration. president trump's family members names were unmasked and that needs to be reformed, but you also have very nice witness list who starts investigating the leak of classified information. i would be curious as to how many people on this unmasking list have been identified by the fbi over the leak. >> sandra: we have kt mcfarland, the same time yesterday morning. her big questions are, who knew what and when they knew it. if indeed these requests were made for reasons other than national security, should there be and would there be.

>> i think there are three groups that provide accountability. not only did dave uncover the story, this is a country you want to live and where you can target your political opponents and family members up to the day they take the oath of office, that is not the cool country i want to live in. then there is law enforcement. unmasking a name and that's a 10-year felony. >> as john roberts pointed out here there's a lot we don't know in that point. he's pushing back on all of it and said he didn't know any of this was going on. >> i know nothing about those moves to investigate.

number one, number two this is all about diversion. this is an economic crisis and health crisis. he should stop trying to divert attention to the real concerns of the american people. the american people are worried with good reason. >> sandra: trey, can you hear me? all right. so did you hear joe biden in that new interview? >> i did. vice president biden, how many unmasking request did you make? he makes them on january 12th, if he's concerned about that national security, how many -- i bet it wasn't very many. how many did joe biden go to?

if you are that concerned about russia and national security, how many other unmasking request you make? >> sandra: now to the judge in this case, judge sullivan to argue against the doj's call to dismiss the case. and there's the department now says it cannot prove its case. but flynn had already admitted its guilt to lying to the fbi and the court had accepted his plea. so another judge that has taken on this case, and that's

handling previously the case? >> sandra, i was in the criminal justice system, judges don't prosecute cases of this judge may talk about perjury but he's going to need to resign his job and go back to the united states attorney's office if he wants to prosecute perjury cases. we don't have a special master appointed to investigate them. there's no question about that. you can't yell, you can't start fights, you do have the power to control your courtroom. and you talk about bias, you express an opinion, >> i have so

many questions as well. what is the end game here. the end game is to have a justice system and it's been a miserable four years for the fbi in particular but also the department of justice. despite all the headwinds from the democrat and d.c. media we have to have a better justice department. >> sandra: coming up later we will be speaking with one of the two senators who may be unmasking document publics. senate security chairman ron johnson will be our guest. >> ed: looking forward to that, fox news alert, a rare illness affecting children

likely related to covid-19 is now spreading in america. more than 100 cases in 14 stat states, and that's a new wave of coronavirus outbreaks. this testimony before house committee this morning. >> that ousted vaccine expert is expected to speak before a congressional subcommittee. and warning them and leaders will take decisive action there. otherwise he says he fears the pandemic will get worse, and that unprecedented strain on the health care system dr. bright

argues "without clear planning and implementation of the steps that i and other experts have outlined, 2020 will be darkest winter in modern history. although children are at lower risk, the coronavirus may be driving up cases of a rare condition called pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome or p.m. ris. experts believe it may be an uncontrolled immune response to the virus. >> as a body is doing its usual thing which is to make antibodies to clear infection, it is revving up that antibody level too high or in an unregulated way so that the inflammation affects other organs. >> now, p.m. ris was not a major concern when the coronavirus first spread from the china to

the u.s. west coast but on the east coast we are dealing with the european strain which experts believe may carry a greater risk for this apparent side effect in children. >> ed: we will stay on top of it, jonathan serrie, thank you. >> sandra: growing calls now to fire new york city's health commissioner after what she said about city police officers. when they asked for a supply of face masks. they are union leader now calling her remarks despicable and unforgivable. plus, joe biden's role in the unmasking of michael flynn. what the biden campaign is now saying. >> joe biden, just eight days before donald trump was taking office, unmasking the name of his national security advisor. lo and behold just a few days later it began to leak to "the washington post."

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>> sandra: federal agent serving of search warrant on richard burr at his home. agents are reportedly seizing a cell phone as part of the investigation into stock sales made during the early days of the growing virus outbreak. he has denied any wrongdoing and has requested an ethics review of those sales. >> ed: a fox news alert now, we finally know who was on the

list of top officials in the obama administration asking to unmask the identity of americans and foreign intel reports revealing general michael flynn's name. they include the former vice president, joe biden, and good morning sir. the masking requirements are to protect individuals. what makes this so illuminating are so many of these requests that we are talking about are made after the election. joe biden made it scarcely a week before donald trump is sworn in. there's something really smelly here and i think trey gowdy pointed out, the one crime that we know happened with

general flynn was the leaking of his name. and remember, at the time in january 2017, president obama signed a directive making it easier to share intelligence across the apartment departmentl these unmasking request. if you increase access and basically reduce the mask protections it's inevitable it's going to be leaked. i think the vice president has some serious questions especially considering that i first he started to pretend he didn't really know -- he had just heard about it. he took an active step on unmasking. >> ed: and to be clear the photos of the people that you are showing, it's illegal for them to seek this information but it would be illegal then to take that information and lick it to the media from intel reports. "wall street journal" editorial, it seems everyone but the night janitor wanted to know who mr. flynn was talking to.

the timely media leaks take the story into the obama white house and the peaceful transition of power is a hallmark of american democracy or at least it used to be. it's not going to be an opportunity for the administration that lost the election to cripple its successors as they take power. everyone but the night janitor was seeking access. if one person says the chief of staff wanted to know who was in there, why were all these people come up that seems the basic question. why did so many people need this info? >> that is the question. and why does the chief of staff or the vice president need to know this? it beggars belief, so all this happened and it was all innocent and, the best thing that has ever happened in this case is ric grenell declassifying information. so now we know we can hold people accountable. as we point to that idea about leaking it, that's not just a

theory. the name was leaked, we now have a more narrow suspect list. >> ed: to be fair to the biden campaign they say these documents have absolute nothing to do with any fbi investigation and they confirm all normal procedures were followed. any suggesting otherwise is a flat out lie. is that pushback from the biden campaign complicated by the fact that the vice president himself gave more than those answers? >> i think absolutely it's complicated by this. then why this flurry of activity in the sort of two months after the election? i mean that's the context that we have to look at. it seems to have only a political basis and i think that they are really caught by the leaking -- they are caught by the dissemination of this information may be -- >>

finally, is the time frame critical that the requests to unmask all that we see here, largely happening between the election and inaugural day after they had surveilled carter page and others to get inside the trump campaign. where people in your estimation trying to cover their tracks? >> yeah, i think so. there is an email from susan rice on the day of the inauguration trying to say everything is aboveboard to cover herself. look. they never expected any of this to be out there but as you say it's all part of one thing. it's all part of the fisa warrants and so forth. a lot of these people believe that, they flouted a lot of rules and norms to try to get him or get his people. i think they owe a big apology to general flynn.

>> bill mcgurn, thank you. >> if they do not ease their coronavirus restrictions, will this propel reopening in the lone star state? plus, the opening bell would be ringing as usual, those 33 million americans filed for on employment benefits and we will see how the markets react to that brand-new news this morning. >> president trump: if that's all going to come back and it's going to come back fast. i'm with that we are spending money and borrowing money. g:zpzñ

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come out show the worst may not be behind us. >> still got nearly 3 million people filing for unemployment benefits. if you look at the unemployment claims and people collecting on employment right now, it is at 22.8 million people. and that is also a new record. part of the problem is there has been a backlog and people actually being able to get their unemployment benefits because the state unemployment systems have struggled so mightily. these are people's lives, and they are hankering to get back to work. one of the reason the markets has been weak yesterday and even this morning, the federal reserve chief jay powell pointed out that the highlight is uncertain. the real downside risk is, the longer a lot of these areas of the country should stay shut down, you have businesses that

take on a defensive position. they start not just cutting staff temporarily but permanently and you have businesses that are focused on slow growth and they are being very conservative and that slow growth can beget slow growth. it could turn what could be a short-lived session. that's one major concern that you have to think about. >> sandra: and to put that behind us, to your point, a lot of the numbers that we see coming out today are backwards looking and could be backlogged. but looking forward as the markets do, they have been saying this, with maria about what the future looks like for

the u.s. economy. >> president trump: we have to get back. we have to bring our country back. i to call it a transition to greatness. people are starting to get into that right now but, it will be a transition quarter and we will do well in the fourth quarter. all of the things that we've done, this will be one of the best economic years we've ever had. >> sandra: saw a very optimistic forecast from the president. meanwhile, ken paxton the attorney general has now issued the brand-new warning. they have to loosen their restrictions or there could be legal action. he tweeted this out, these letters seek to avoid any public confusion as we reopen the states. i trust that local officials will act quickly to correct any orders that unlawfully conflict with texas law. so the ag they are saying open

your doors. we have put out guidelines. we are face masks, social distance, but get those doors open or else. >> one of the lawyers for the state wrote to these towns and the cities. although they require in individuals to wear a mask when they leave their home they are free to choose whether to wear one or not. looking outside of the people's republic of china lost in, let me quote. the great poet charlie daniel, he wrote about texas. they just want everybody to leave them alone. i would suspect that texans are going to defy as you are even seeing in new york city the bluest of the blue, the most liberal of cities in the nation, they will defy those orders if

they feel like local officials are cracking down on their freedoms. by the way, i wouldn't want to get into a city versus county fight. they went straight for alameda county when some alameda official try to keep them from reopening his factory there so, don't mess with texas is what i would say to san antonio, austin and dallas. >> sandra: but stay safe while you do it. >> if i'm out running in the street and a 50 feet us away from somebody, you better not shake her finger at me. >> sandra: i've seen you tweeting about that. thanks so much degen, we will see you on fb n. >> ed: all right, let's get her some decaf. in the meantime, i wore in new york when the health official rejected a plea for medical mask. place are now calling for the health of commissioner to be fired for her reportedly

off-color remarks about new york's finest. david lee, good morning. according to a report today in "the new york post," the doctor responded to a request from the nypd chief of department terrence manahan for half a million surgical masks saying, "i don't give two [bleep] about your cuffs, i need them for others." he did offer to provide the department with 50,000 masks and, since that conversation happened, many members of the nypd have died from the virus. he called the report "a little bit disturbing and he would talk with health commissioner. the new york city health department has issued a statement saying in part "things

are set out of frustration but no harm was rushed to anyone. at the commissioner apologized for her contribution to the exchange in the apology was accepted. the head of the new york police union is joining the chorus of lawmakers and others calling for the commission to be fired and he called her remarks "despicable and unforgivable. and that daily briefing should be starting within the hour. the reopening of new york city is still weeks away but tomorrow for regions of the state are expected to partially reopen. construction, manufacturing and retail with curbside pickup can get back to business but they must take precautions to prevent the spread of the disease. and lastly, the latest statistics for the daily death toll in new york, 166 additional fatalities. governor andrew cuomo points out that these are not numbers, these are families. >> ed: absolutely.

david lee miller, thank you. >> sandra: and ousted hhs vaccine official will be testifying before congress. congresswoman debbie dingell will be taking part in that hearing and she will join us live, next. >> making the wrong decisions about when, where and how fast reopen could result in the loss of precious lives that could be otherwise saved and in the recurrence of a covid second wave that, god forbid could be worse than the first.

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dingell, congresswoman, good morning to you. >> it's good to hear you. and i know this virus has been very difficult on you and we are thinking about you and, we appreciate you joining us this morning. quickly let's get to dr. bright. i'm there will be a resurgence of covid-19 this fall greatly compounding the challenges, a seasonal influenza including an unprecedented strain on her health care system. without clear planning and implantation of the steps, and how is at just around the band? >> what i understand about this hearing, what happened with dr. bright, his job is to make sure they were prepared for a pandemic.

so things would have been like to start producing ppe and making sure we had certain medicines. we invested a lot of money to make sure we were ready for pandemics and we clearly weren't in this country. i am worried about what's going to happen in the fall and wint winter, and we could have spikes again, and it could be worse than what we are experiencing now. so what do we need to be doing to make sure that doesn't happen? he was not listening to two from everything we have been told and what do we need to do to correct that so we are in investing in a national stockpile, getting the medicine we need and we are preparing? >> we obviously can be pressed by lawmakers in both parties to make sure that all of that is vetted. my question to you is, dr. fauci testified this week as well under oath. when pressed about a second wave, i heard him and i listened closely. i checked my notes.

he said if we have a second wave but his hope is "we can deal with that very effectively. dr. fauci has been held with someone that people trust. he said if we have a second wave we will be better prepared. do you not believe him? >> i want to know what we are doing. are we stocking the national stockpile? but let me tell you something. people are frustrated. they are angry, they want out and they don't like being locked up. when i went back to washington last night i had to move four times sitting in the area waiting to board the plane because people aren't physically distancing or wearing masks. it's upon all of us and if we continue to mitigate this virus. i believe in individual rights but i want to know how you balance individual rights with the common good. and if we don't all do our part plus make sure that we are rea ready, we will see peaks again

and that worries me. we talked about the balance in the economy. >> president trump: i do. i think it's a political thing and it was up to some people, let's keep it closed for a long time. okay, a long time. it's never going to happen. >> ed: congresswoman i don't have to tell you how hard hit your in michigan has been, but when parts of other countries, like l.a. county saying, we have stayed home orders for three more months with some modifications. how do you get the economy reopened? you have hard-hit people as well economically in your district of michigan, don't we have to find

a better balance here? >> we do have to find a better balance. let me tell you something pointblank, i have spent the last eight weeks talking to uaw, and the dealers. as to how we keep the strong auto industry. at the number one goal needs to be how we keep the faith, i would reopen safely with new protocols and how we keep jobs safe protecting public health first, and how do we keep those jobs there? it has begun. i worked with the government, it's slow, but people have to listen. one of the biggest worries of the president is will people follow the protocols and will they listen to what they have to do. we all have part of this. so, look. i'm surprised the president put me on the reopening of america committee for congress because i have been working on this, but i'm also going to tell you. i am really scared about people

going back into the plants and i hope we are doing the right thing and i hope everyone is going to listen. because if i have seen people die. three people i know have died in the last three days, this is real. how do we keep jobs safe, public health, safe and existing? >> ed: congresswoman, i'm so sorry for the loss you experienced with your friends. we will have more news in just a moment. the united states postal service is here to deliver your mail and packages and the peace of mind of knowing that essentials like prescriptions are on their way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will.

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topping the list, the former vice president joe biden. i met henry, good morning. >> good morning everyone. it was the latest twist in the saga of president trump's former national security advisor. and mincing no words on that revelation. >> president trump: it is a disgrace for what happened, this is the greatest political scam, hoax in our country. people should be going to jail for this stuff and hopefully a lot of people will have to pay. >> good morning. it turns out the power to unmask

americans is actually a very specific select power and only about a handful of government officials in each of the 17 intelligence agencies has the authority to do it. the office of the director of national intelligence does do some self reporting. we got the latest numbers representing the trump administration so let's dig into that. the trump administration has requested in 201,910,012 requests, and 2018, 16,721 request. 2017, 9,529 and in 2016, 9,217 request fulfilled for trump administration officials. the sheer volume of these numbers fixed to just to retain the process of unmasking has

become and also what a crucial tool it has also become for national security officials to do their job. now senate judiciary chair lindsey graham asked this morning why all of these obama era officials were seeking to unmask general flynn. take a listen to his question. >> why are they asking to unmask the incoming national security advisor the trump administrati administration, trying to follow that, that's outrageous. according to the former director of international intelligence james clapper, he says the reality says the officials don't know the identities of the people they are seeking to unmask and that is the whole point of unmasking. take a listen. >> you don't know who it is in advance.

it's legitimate. is it for example an insider for someone in the government? it's important from the standpoint of potential jeopardy to national security. that helps to understand what's going on. >> sandra: at the take away from these numbers is really that national security officials and every presidential administration makes a whole lot of unmasking requests. the intelligence committee officials who fulfill those requests spend a whole lot of time and this happens on both sides of the aisle. >> ed: thank you jillian. >> sandra: your general thoughts, are these the initial engagements? >> i think those are pretty

serious implications, they are seeking the unmasking of mike flynn. including treasury secretary jacob lew. what conceivable use code the treasury secretary have had in trying to look at the tapes relating to mike flynn's conversations. it's really a little bit hard to see that. they emerged early in the term presidency, and these unmaskings took place from november 8th after donald trump was elected through january. at no point was a president-elect of the united states informed that this was going on. instead, it dropped into the press and the news in early january as leaks, with the mike flynn story contributing to the idea that there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. we then spent two years on the

story which was investigated by robert mueller, and none of that was ever proven. it looked in retrospect as though it was a mainly bureaucratic attempt to undermine the trump campaign and presidency but now with the names of political appointees and the obama administration, it does look like something resembling an act of conspiracy to undermine the trump work took place before his inauguration and then for several years afterwards. i think that's going to politically be very difficult for joe biden to explain away over the next six or so months. >> sandra: he's obviously pushing back on those claims. we will get more republican action, reaction to that and just a moment. but here's the latest cnn polling on the biden/trump matchup. when it comes to the general election, joe biden is still leading by ten points but in key battleground states it shows that donald trump is now leading by seven points.

it's an interesting development there as we watch that and we continue to see these questions asked of lawmakers as we learn more about the unmasking of michael flynn. here is senator rand paul on that. >> what possible national security reason would there be to unmask flynn? the question is, or could they possibly think. was flynn saying we are going to do something that was illegal or could threaten our national security? and why was everybody in the obama administration listening to the phone call finding out and knowing that it was general flynn? >> sandra: you bring up the americans trust in your piece in "the wall street journal." here is a bit of it. the michael flynn debauchery. the american system lost trust in that system and defaced our institutions. it has been quite a display of raw institutional firepower by the beltway's of the best and the brightest. one might ask, what didn't they know about the world law and

when did they stop knowing it? they became what they thought mr. trump was, sub-birders of the american system. your piece brings into question what the american people should conclude, about what they continue to learn went on? >> that's right, sandra. i think it does relate to some of those poles in the battleground states. the american people for the longest time have had basic distrust of washington, many have. remember the phrase inside the beltway? and we suggest that the interest of people inside washington and what we have seen here, you remember inspector general michael horowitz with a large report on what the fisa applications at once did to carter page the steele dossier

which has now been debunked as preposterous, these things were executed by people who were entrusted to run the most powerful institutions in america with the intent to protect the people of the united states. but if those institutions are being used against individual citizens, you have at least half of the country breaking trust with official washington. and at that point. you have a very difficult situation where people do not believe that people have any way to trust the people who run these institutions. it's up to attorney general bill barr to try to clean this up and we may see with john durham's inquiry let later this year and there are indictments of carried these orders. >> sandra: lindsey graham was reacting earlier on fox & friends. >> this stinks to high heaven and again not to have a national

security reason to unmask an american citizen who is involved in a conversation with a foreign foreign entity. what they are about to do is the most disturbing thing i've seen as a lawyer in decades. that was lindsey graham reacting with a few seconds we have left, that leads you to wonder. they are able to determine that this was not legitimate national security concerns. what level of accountability could we see? the people carried out these things lost trust in the american system, and that system includes elections. the american people are watching all of these events are going to absorb them and decide for

themselves and that was for the past three and half years. we appreciate your time this morning. thank you. >> good to be with you. >> ed: fox news alert we are now awaiting the opening statement from ousted hhs vaccine specialist richard bright. he's talking about the administration's virus response and we will go there live as soon as he starts talking. plus, could baseball be what america needs to help us return tto a sense of normalcy? cardinal dolan joins us later for america cheering together. how people are keeping the faith during this pandemic. ♪ fifty years ago, humpback whales were nearly extinct.

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>> ed: fox news alert, we are about to hear from dr. rick bright and you can see is currently listening to the opening statement for both sid sides. now the republican ranking member, and dr. bright is going to warn of what he considers unprecedented illness and fatalities in the fall, if there's a second wave of the coronavirus, covid-19. it's interesting because the testimony we heard earlier this week from dr. fauci for example, and he stressed if there is a second wave, the u.s. government will actually be much better prepared the second time around and it seems to contradict at least partly what dr. bright is about to say. >> sandra: dr. bright has been an open critic of what the president has cited.

and we have heard these words. 2020 will be the darkest winter in modern history. so we will take his opening remarks when he begins. this of course is the second big hearing. >> that's right. she had keep this up and come they are in that committee room again. this is another example of how things have changed, and, that's a staffer, and dr. bright and sandra is about to testify with the mask on. >> sandra: just to give you an idea of what's happening in the hearing room, she began by, she

went on. there was a disastrous federal response to the pandemic and she said dr. bright's warnings were "ignored" and he was fired. >> i read through this entire 63 page complaint and, the hydroxychloroquine, in my counter to that, that was unproven scientifically. he gave warning for face masks,

and then he also highlighted that he felt there were missed opportunities. dr. bright was tasked with barta in 2014, for such national pandemics specifically influen influence. now specifically, why weren't we prepared for this before the novel coronavirus even existed, why didn't we have more in our national stockpile and why did we have these efforts already in place for once we saw the novel coronavirus here in the united states? >> that's a good question and we hope that he gets it. you can join sandra and i offer the testimony from dr. bright. in the meantime, let's dip in and look at what's happening with democrat pallone of new jersey. >> personal protective equipment, testing supplies and

they fight it out on the open market. for months the president has refused to develop and implement a testing program in four months we've been promised that millions of tests were right around the corner. the premises have been hollow, and it doesn't help that the president proclaimed about testing earlier this week. and i quote we have met the moment and we have prevailed. dr. rick bright has come forward and made it serious allegations including lack of urgency is. this management and failure to procure necessary supplies for public health and scientific integrity. his claims lay at the heart of his to this committee's concerns regarding the response to the covid-19 pandemic. the perspective of dr. bright who is discussing the

preparations and response to this pandemic. the failures we've seen simply cannot persist. and we've been demanding answers and information from the administration on testing, contact tracing, food safety and food production workers and attempts to undermine science and public health. to date we have yet to receive any sufficient responses from the trump administration. congress has already passed 40 major coronavirus response packages that were improved by the work in this committee. now it's a sense of urgency and, as that continues, that's the

support needed to combat the coronavirus crisis. a legislation will strengthen testing and contact tracing by finally requiring the administration to do develop comprehensive plans with clear benchmarks and timelines and public reporting of key metrics. this will allow transparency so we can see if the trump administration is fulfilling their promises and holding them accountable if they are not. we also provide $75 billion to support robust testing, and they simply can't beat this virus and that will shore up the public infrastructure for the long road ahead. our priority is health and safety of the american people. i want to thank you madam chair for bringing him here and

hopeful this hearing will help us better understand the failures of the trump administration so that collectively we can find solutions that will help us finally get a handle on the virus. that's the only way we will be able to protect the american people and safely and competently reopen our communities. and i think you will come chair. >> i'd like to recognize the gentleman from oregon, >> sandra: as a lawmaker from new jersey wraps his comments, we will continue to hear from various lawmakers as we await dr. bright's official testimony there in that room. dr. nicole saphier still joining us. we are expecting to hear from dr. bright, dr. safire. calls on the trump administration to increase their efforts to combat this virus and a number of considerations he's going to lay out including ramping up our efforts to get more protective equipment out there. and, he supposed to focus on

testing. this has been a key criticism on a number of administrations. are we where we need to be as far as testing in this country and the need to reopen? >> dr. bright has a lot of valid points that i think americans want to know the answers to. and the truth is, at this moment they are not prepared for a massive second wave. and they will have ample enough ability to test but access to supplies, and i think that is one issue that dr. bright is bringing up. will there be enough testing? because he's absolutely right,

dr. fauci has already warned about a potential second wave coming and, the ppe availability is infinitely better than it was a couple of months ago, and we were caught a little blindsided by this but the ppe, although i do believe in some areas of the country are still somewhat limited, i know that the production and manufacture has ramped up as well as we brought production of it into our own country so we are not dependent on any foreign importing or exporting at a think that will be a key issue here so we are only dependent upon our own supply, not necessarily some of the supplied lines outside of our country which is what we dealt with earlier on in this pandemic. and there are lots of measures

to make sure they are able to accommodate. >> sandra: not dr. nicole saphier, great to hear from you this morning as we await dr. bright's testimony, we appreciate your time. thanks so much. >> ed: in the meantime, fox news alert on the unmasking of michael flynn. we are about to get brand-new information from the white house as we learned that obama tops the list of obama arrow officials west u.s. intel to identify the person caught up in surveillance and talking to the russian ambassador. plus daylight emerging between the president and dr. fauci on the reopening of schools and the economy. is it dangerous not to follow the advice of a top health expert? the top expert at the white house kayleigh mcenany is going to join us, straight ahead. >> president trump: so anthony is a good person, very good person. i have disagreed with him. we have to open our country. now we want to do it safely, but we also want to do it as quickly as possible. with newday's va streamline refi

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identifying michael flynn. good morning to you. what is the president and the white house saying about all of this this morning? >> there are very real questions about what is the biggest political scandal in history. namely, the fact that more than nearly 50 times, this wasn't intelligence officials entirely, it was political officials. why was the secretary of treasury, why was the chief of staff, why was the u.n. ambassador? this is extremely alarming. michael flynn had fourth amendment rights and here we have the former administration putting a target. and, they are saying this is

kind of standard practice and it is legal we should point out. we leaked out that classified information, and what was the motive there? what was going on? >> the motive was the entrapment of lieutenant general michael flynn. it was written down that the fbi was closing this case because michael flynn was no longer a viable candidate. we have this oval office meeting and sally gates, when sally yates learned about the conversation with president obama and she was so shocked about what she was learning that she could barely process information, is what the reporting says. beyond that and this meeting, you have jim comey bringing up the logan act. a statute not ever used in its

entire more than 200 year history to prosecute an americ american. what was the entrapment? and, as we know as of yesterday, we are now taking on this judge who has been openly critical of president donald trump to argue against the motion to dismiss this case. what is the reaction from the white house on that? >> well, the judge should follow the facts. that clearly shows the outlines and the doj document that this case was corrupt from the very beginning. they were about to close it, and there was serendipitously good news that they were incompeten incompetence.

they go into michael flynn's office and kurt encourage them not to have a lawyer and trap them. when they left even andy mccabe said there was no lie here. so this was very corrupt from the beginning and there was no lying to investigators had been comic that had been alleged. >> ed: a part of me one second. we have been waiting for dr. rick bright, we will have you on the outside of this and here's his testimony that we will hear from kaylee on the other side. >> i have a batch leisure comic bachelor's degree and phd in molecular biology. i've led teams of scientists develop drugs, vaccines and diagnostics in government, private industry and nonprofit organizations. i'm here today in my private capacity and the views are my own and not those of the department of health and human services. i joined barta in 2010 and for the past two and a half years until april 21st of this year i had the privilege of serving as director.

our directors with private industry and other governments to address national security threats. today the world is confronting a public health emergency unlike any we've seen in over a centu century. we are facing a highly transmissible and deadly virus which not only claims lives but also disrupts the very foundations of our society. the american health care system is being taxed to the limit and our economy is spiraling downward and our population is being paralyzed by fear stemming from a lack of a coordinated response and a dearth of accurate and clear communication about the path forward. americans yearn to get back to work to open their businesses and provide for their families. i get that. and what we do it must be done carefully. with guidance from the best scientific minds.

i fear the pandemic would get worse and be prolonged. they will be likely a resurgence of covid-19 this fall and it, it will be greatly compounded by the challenges of seasonal influenza. that could be the darkest winter in modern history. each of us can do our part now. on tuesday dr. fauci delivered a message and the voice of his clear and trustworthy as he encouraged us to act with caution as a return to our daily lives. we should listen to him and other scientists sharing expertise. waiting for a cure and a vaccine which i believe will, there are things that we must do immediately.

we must increase the public education about the basics, washing hands and social distancing, appropriate face covering. they are simple but critical steps to buy valuable time until there is vaccine. we need to ramp up production of essential equipment and supplies including raw materials and critical components. shortages of these increase the risk of our frontline health care workers and they deserve the best equipment to protect themselves. we need to facilitate equitable distribution of essential equipment and supplies and finally, we need a national testing strategy. the virus is here. it's everywhere. we need to be able to find it, isolate it and stop it. we need to have the right testing for everyone who needs it. we need to be able to trace contacts, isolate and quarantine appropriately while striving to develop a cure. initially, our nation was not as prepared as we should have been, as we could have been.

some scientists raised early warning signals that were overlooked. and pages from our pandemic lay book were ignored by some in leadership. there will be plenty of time to look back to assess what has happened so we can improve, but right now we need to focus on getting things right going forward. we need a comprehensive plan that everyone knows and everyone participates in. congress has taken important steps to repor support the respe and there's much more we can do. with your help we can get through this crisis. working cooperatively with our global partners we can and will succeed in finding a cure for covid-19 but that success depends on what we will do today. we will either be remembered for what we did or for what we failed to do to address the crisis. i call on all of us to act to ensure the health, safety and prosperity of all americans.

you can count on me to do my part. thank you. >> ed: okay. you are listening to dr. rick bright. we are going to dip back out of this. we want to point out it wasn't just negativity, he pointed to success he believes is coming, he said he believes there will be a cure and a vaccine that will come down the road and spoke about some promising signs but also said he fears the pandemic is going to get worse and will be prolonged. he predicted unprecedented "illnesses and fatalities." so let's bring back the white house press secretary. he had a chance to lay out his concerns. let's get you to react to anything there but specifically when he says the pandemic playbook was ignored, your response? >> it sounds like mr. bright hasn't been paying much attention at all. in fact when he talks about the pandemic playbook, we actually put into play the pandemic preparedness document with

recommendations long before the pandemic ever came. it sounds like he hasn't been paying attention when he suggests that american should sl distance and wash their hands. these are all things that he said millions of times at this point, when you count everyone at the white house who has been saying it. it sounds like he hasn't been paying attention, when he talked about building up a stockpile of respirators and equipment, maybe he isn't aware of the ventilators and billions of gloves we've delivered and the many more pieces of ppe. it sounds like this one is a reacting and making suggestions that have long been put into play. on the notions we are not letting scientists speak, maybe he's not aware that every sunday morning you hear oftentimes from dr. fauci and dr. burks who are consistently out on the airways. maybe he has mist of those appearances. >> obviously dr. fauci expressed his concerns and has testimony

of the day with that. so the president's push for that would be in contrast to where dr. fauci stands now. how hard does a president plan to push to reopen our schools, whether it be at the grade school or high school level or the university level? >> he wants to see schools open and is also wanted the governors to make clear on their plans. he went with some heads of universities about how to safely reopen so we are providing guidance on that front. there are millions of parents across the country who are happy to be educators while also working at home and also being moms and dads. we want to alleviate that burden and want kids to get back to school. >> ed: you said a moment ago that the president does listen to scientists. whether it's dr. birch or dr. fauci. let's get beyond the criticism that dr. bright leveled and let's get at whether or not you

agree as white house press secretary whether his medium to long range view into the fall and winter. he says that he thinks we are going to be headed for the darkest winter in american history. you agree or disagree and why? >> so let's talk about where we are currently. i talked to dr. burks and he noted to me as we increase mobility we are not seeing an increasing cases. in fact she showed me some grant micrographs and showed me that mobility is going like this, but cases are going like that so there's actually an inverse correlation in what we are seeing with some of the states reopening and that's encouraging to see. where we are now is a place where cases are coming down and mortality is coming down and we are looking forward to the fall. no one knows what we will face in the fall but we do know we are prepared for this. we have testing available to do strategic testing.

we have those being produced in 100 days and we are ready for what lies ahead. we are at a place where we can reopen this country at the very moment. >> sandra: a look at the dow this morning, there are 36 and a half million the outbreak began. the president is talking about a sharp rebound in the economy. they are wondering if the worst is behind us. so what can you tell us the president has been saying about the jobless numbers? >> the president has said the third quarter will be a rebound quarter and the fourth quarter he sees and thinks it will be very encouraging. the next is he thinks it will be blooming. he recognizes a pent up demand that is there. with pumped trillions of dollars of stimulus in, and the

president's encouraging things like the payroll tax which will help alleviate the burden on employers to create jobs and it will be a pay raise for every american that is working especially low and middle income americans. he has plans to shore up the economy and recognizes the pent up demand that is there. he brought us this once and will do a second time. speak >> ed: in terms of what comes next and in terms of congress and dealing with the economic crisis, the fed chairman as you know yesterday, part of the reason why the markets have been reacting, the fed chairman's of the service could cause permanent economic damage. as you know the president and the republican leader mitch mcconnell said they don't in the short term want congress to intervene and they don't want this to play out for a while. so why is this president in contradiction with the his own fed chair? >> let me first note that what the democrats put forward is

entirely unacceptable. it's a wish list, a big payout to donors and to lobbyists and it's an unacceptable prospect. with pumped 3 trillion into this economy so far, and we make sure that we move forward with the smart save for not a democratic wish list. >> sandra: does a president believe that any stimulus, additional stimulus is needed for the american people and, does he believe any more money needs to go to the american families that are struggling? >> he has mentioned that payroll tax cut several times but he is very much opposed to the democratic bill that is put out.

and not allowing us to talk about very good and smart health care. proposals like this are nonsensical. he's open to talking about phase four. >> especially given the breaking news reacting in real-time to the testimony on the hill. in the meantime, talking about reopening the economy, baseball bringing communities back together. the players association currently negotiating whether they would have a successful season. cardinal dolan joins us live, next. at newday usa. newday's va streamline refi is the quickest and easiest refi they've ever offered. you can lower your payments by this time next month without having to verify your income, without getting your home appraised, and there's no money out of pocket.

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>> ed: baseball as we noted before is up to bring the country together in times of

tragedy in the 2020 season could begin as early as july. could it help americans start to return to a new sense of normal? joining us now is a big baseball fan, timothy cardinal dolan. >> hello ed henry, thanks for having me on. i always enjoy it and you remind me of baseball because i think of your splendid book on jackie robinson. >> ed: i do as well. people should not be surprised that you are a fan of the st. louis cardinals but that's because you grew up in misery. but did i do my homework right? >> you may remember, but i was at home standing next to my dad at the barbecue pit and listening to carrie announcing on kmox radio so i can remember

it as if it was yesterday. i am a st. louis cardinals fan and i think of that every time i put my cardinals beretta on but ed henry, you also know i'm loyal to our beloved yankees and mets as well. i see people in social media saying, i miss baseball. it's a simple thing to say and it's true. other people retweet that and say, i miss my grandma. i miss my job, i miss all kinds of other things. so we have to have up healthy perspective and we want sports to come back but, we are missing the public masses. i do miss baseball, and one of the great charms of baseball, ed, is that it's able to bring

us together. so when i say i miss baseball, i say i miss the memories of my grandpa, i miss the memories of my dad. i miss the memories of neighbors. to me, one of the mystical dimensions of baseball is that it's good company. there are other sports that i enjoy as well whether it be hockey or football or basketball, you kind of have to be riveted and undistracted and watching that. because it's pound, pound, constant. baseball, no. i could be sitting at my desk going through mail, and baseball is good company. it brings us together. there is a solidarity in baseball and i think they are missing good company now and baseball provides it. >> ed: we will have to help go

to a game when it all comes back and have a beer and a hot dog. but in all seriousness, in the serious nature of the pandemic what do you tell people who want to know how they can have hope and how they can get through this? it seems like people are getting closer in their fate. >> you are right. we all believe in a god who can bring good from evil and we all believe in a god who can bring life from death. let's count on them. because he told us not to be afraid to come up he told us fear is useless, what is needed is trust and this is the time for that faith to kick in. it's kind of easy to have faith when we are skipping down fifth avenue and everything is open and we are saying hi to everybody, but it's a little more difficult now. >> ed: we are being tested now indeed. colonel dolan, we appreciate you being so helpful. >> thank you ada, i'll take you up on that beer and hot dog.

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call newday right now. >> ed: fox news alert, a brand-new fallout. welcome back to america's newsroom, i'm ed henry. >> sandra: good morning to you eddie. the judge in the flynn case making unusual move of calling a retired federal judge, one who has been openly critical of the justice department motion to argue against dismissing the charges against michael flynn and to consider whether flynn should be held in contempt for perjury. all of this is coming as we learned that former vice president joe biden was among the obama officials who requested flynn's unmasking. here is what white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany told us on "america's newsroom"

last hour. >> more than nearly 50 times, and why were political officials like the former vice president, his identity be revealed. why was the secretary of treasury, why was the chief of staff, this is extremely alarming. >> sandra: chief white house correspondent john roberts is live with more on all of that. good morning. >> ed>> good morning to you. so far no news, that emmet sullivan yesterday announcing he is tapping former judge john gleason to argue against the justice department's motion to dismiss the flynn case. judge sullivan has to sign off on the doj decision which would also vacate his two guilty pleas but sullivan is holding off. he first invited outside parties to file amicus briefs, so called

friend of the court briefs, regarding how he should proceed and now he's appointing gleason to make the case on why he should not follow the doj request. also they have been tasked to investigate a new charge to weather for the perjury by leading guilty in the first place. he was given a choice by the fbi, plead guilty or the fbi would go after his son. trey gowdy reacting to all of this this morning. >> you talk about bias and prejudice, the prison he has picked has already expressed an opinion on the outcome of this case. >> what congressman gaudi is referring to there is an opinion piece on "the washington post" in which judge gleason wrote about what the doj was doing in terms of asking judge sullivan to dismiss the case. he said it "the record reeks of

improper political influence so it's no secret where judge gleason is coming from on this. >> there is a new tweet from the president, good numbers coming out of states that are open, opening. the vaccine work is looking very promising before end of year. likewise, other solutions. it seems like bullish on the reopening, so what more are we hearing from the president on that this morning? he's been tweeting. >> bullish but also cautious. there's a growing divide between people who are increasingly frustrated with portions of the economy with many states continuing to be closed and the frustrations among people and fear among people who are afraid that if you reopen the country there will be an enormous outbreak of coronavirus. the president with a tenuous political balancing act, another 3 million people today claiming unemployment insurance for the very first time and that makes

36 million in total. every week the economy is close to wrists more permanent economic damage but at the same time the risk of another flareup of infection carries potable risks with it as well. he is with the president told fox businesses maria bartiromo about all of this. >> president trump: i want them to open when they count and when they want to. most them are opened, or opening or considering it and i think we have to get back to work. we have to get our country back and we have to take it back, it was artificially closed. >> president is headed to allentown, pennsylvania, and it's interesting that at the same time the president leaves the white house, a protest is planned on the steps of harrisburg, pennsylvania. sandra? >> sandra: john roberts reporting live from the white house. >> ed: the president things politics is playing a role when it comes to reopening businesses

in some blue states. listen to the exchange he had. >> do you think your critics want you to keep it close to going into the election? >> president trump: i do. i think it's a political thing. it's a long time. and watch the united states, it's never going to happen. >> ed: joining us now as dana perino, thinker and cohost of the "the daily briefing." your thoughts about how this has split along party lines, and that's three more months. >> i can think of three things and i will try to use time

wisely. we wanted to threaten the curve especially, and epicenter, and, especially in dense places like new york city and los angeles, and i think this isn't all politics. we will do some different guidelines and we will see that for example in florida and georgia. jared polis the governor of colorado is there with the president. those are the party nominees, and colorado for example is very much reopening along the way with data responsibilities i

think in some ways, they have to figure out a way to let them do that. there will be politics along the way but in two or three weeks if the data continues to show, we will all be in a much better position and try to get the country back to work, and that will help all of us whether we we are in a red or blue state. that's been done largely, and we are also told her that we can have the hospitals overwhelmed. and people rally together there as well. the ppe was sent to, the ventilators that you mentioned, and yet now we keep hearing, we have to go longer, even here in new york city, mayor de blasio says maybe september. >> have used an analogy actually when this first started. imagine you have a trainer and the trainer says you have to have two sets of squats. then you get to the end and it's like actually we have two more squats. then as they say another 15 da

days, maybe another 15 days. but when the mayor of los angeles says, we will keep the sucker down for the next three months and doesn't explain why, or what's the reason? i can absolutely understand the frustration there. so from the leaders, it has never been more important. >> ed: let's flip it to 2020 and the presidential race, the key battlegrounds that john roberts is laying out. joe biden knocking the president's trip today to pennsylvania and he's going to allentown to a medical equipment factory which seems to be at the heart of the crisis. joe biden basically saying at a time when we should be uniting our country president trump is trying to split pennsylvanians into dueling camps, casting democrats as doomsayers and hoping to keep america grounded. republicans as freedom fighters trying to liberate the economy and this is a false choice, just his latest tactic in his mission of dividing americans.

is it the president dividing americans or is it joe biden dividing americans? you've been inside the white house and post 9/11, he wanted to talk to real americans particularly in this case at a medical facility. >> that could be -- the president is one, showcasing america at its best, coming together doing these things. it's an election year so it is the president of the united states. the president has to send out these missives and his criticisms from his home and his basement and he is not able to actually get out there like the president is. i'm sure he's very frustrated. i think of joe biden wanted to get out there he absently could. i don't think that this reopening is going to be as important in the long run, but

if you look at for example something that biden did this week, he said that alexandria ocasio-cortez will be in charge of his climate policy and energy policy going into the election. if you think about pennsylvania as a battleground, and, i want to meet these personal trainers with these extra squats. >> it's tough. >> ed: dana? >> sandra: we continue to watch that hearing on capitol hill. he's testified before the house panel earlier and you heard his warning of the darkest winter in modern history. he's been openly critical of the

trump administration response, and that suggests he's a disgruntled employee. and he collects the $285,000 salary, taking taxpayer medical leave working with partisan lawyers. we will bring you news as we get it. >> ed: it sandra fox news alert, more than a dozen officials were involved in the unmasking of general michael flynn and we will talk to one of the lawmakers who made that information public. ron johnson, chairman of the committee will join us lives. plus, "the new york times" also doing some damage control after one of its reporters urges the

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>> ed: fox news alert, the labor department saying 3 million more americans applied for unemployment benefits, a slight decline for the week before but the numbers have been piling up. good morning we talk about the 3 million market that is beating expectations, or worse expectations i should say. they thought the number would be better than that but they are

talking about 2.98 million, and since the coronavirus has affected the economy, we are talking about 36.8 million people that have filed for unemployment help from the federal government. this is about 24% from the total workforce if you look at the latest labor numbers. it's horrible losing her job but if you want to look at sort of a silver lining for this, you can see that the jobless or unemployment claims peaked to the week of march 28th and they have been steadily declining every week after that. the president told our mornings with maria on fox business that he believes since we had the biggest economic shock in history that his position to the rebound accordingly. >> president trump: we have tremendous job capacity and i think what will happen is next year will be one of our best years. i feel that we will transition in this third quarter, fourth quarter is going to be good and next quarter is going to be incredible.

>> the president and his economic advisors believe that as the economy opens up you will see fewer unemployment claims and he believes that under the 3 million mark, just a hair under it was a milestone for them, a turning point. and they do believe that as a economy opens up they will jump-start the economy comic economics in each state as they go along. >> edward lawrence at fbn, thank you. a nonprofit report finding almost a million people could be at risk in new york of eviction due to job losses, a moratorium is in place. landlords can sue for nonpayment once the order is lifted. the nonprofit is asking city leaders to enact a plan stabilize houses. >> sandra: meet the press anchor chuck todd is apologizing after his sundays show. the edited statement made it

appear that they decided to drop charges for political reasons. >> we did not edit that out. we didn't include it because we only saw the shorter of two clips. we should have looked at both and checked for a full transcript. it's one that i wish i had made and i'm argosy very sorry for the mistake. >> we should note that his apology was lengthier than that, but for the sake of tv that's what he put on the shift screen. how is that apology being received? >> it's good, and you have to focus on how lame the explanation was because as you heard todd say his staff said they only looked at the shortest cbs clip and the not the longer

cbs clip. the attorney general was taking place a couple of days earlier so the most benign explanation was it was short of journalistic sloppiness. but i'm a little suspicious of that. these media mistakes always seem to go again, donald trump and his team. >> sandra: what does this do how way to his credibility on that of the mainstream media in general? >> no question that the nbc show has taken the hit. it's people haven't been following it. history is written by the winners and it largely depends on his writing the history. it upheld the rule of law and, if you could argue that the attorney general's reasoning, lots of people have and not to play that part of the answer

lately. >> sandra: and now we have "the new york times" reprimanding one of its own reporters for going as far as calling for the cdc chief to resign. this is a brand-new interview and this is donald mcneil saying that we completely blew it for the first two months of our response. if we were in a headless chicken phase and yes, it is the president's fault, it's not china's fault. this is not someone whose grasp of the sciences even third grade level. "the new york times" said he went too far. >> this was the mildest of wrist lapse, not even a formal reprimand. the time saying we went too far, and we had a talk with him. he said we should stick to the facts and not give his own opinions. don mcneil has been a health reporter for the times for decades. he's not a commentator or columnist or someone is paid to be a pungent, and here he is

calling for the director of robert redfield to resign on the grounds of incompetence and i've never seen anything like that. he went way, way over the line. pence, trump and redfield, and i think he got off pretty like comic lately given how egregious this was. >> sandra: quickly hears don mcneil in his own words. >> week completely blew it for the first two months of our response. we were in a headless chicken phase. >> sandra: in response, he said mcneil went too far in his personal reviews. his job is to report the facts and not to offer his own

opinions. final thoughts? >> a person is not accustomed to be on tv can make a mistake and put something out. and they have those same confidence towards analysts and people in charge. >> sandra: howie kurtz, great job jan this morning. >> ed: a brand-new development in the senate ukraine investigation. the senate homeland security chair joins us to talk about his committees next step. plus thousands of people are expected to protest. an hhs whistle-blower, he is saying about our ability to deal with another outbreak later this year. >> without better planning, 2020

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prepare. it's been a tense start to the hearing, and republican suggesting this was premature. and that's a research and development authority. it's the most specific and troubling whistle-blower complaint that i've ever seen. it was a right person with a right judgment at the right time. he was not only ignored, he was fired for being right. >> the panel's top republican, a medical doctor said there were much bigger covid-19 issues that they should have been

addressing. >> i asked, why is this the first official hearing that we are having on this topic? this is a disappointment which would be an understatement. frankly i'm concerned it took five months to have a hearing on this novel coronavirus. >> lawmakers are now questioning dr. bright and right off the bat he was asked about his concerns going forward. >> the window is closing to address this pandemic because we still do not have a standard centralized coordinated plan to take our nation through this response. >> wright says without better coordination the pandemic could get far worse. he calls him a disgruntled employee. >> sandra: we will continue to monitor that.

>> ed: a fox news alert noun newly declassified documents identify more than a dozen officials involved in the unmasking of general michael flynn. my next guest is one of the two republican lawmakers. and the republican fund-raiser is chairman of the homeland security committee. >> "the wall street journal" editorial is pretty blunt. and that was unmasking general flynn. what you thought about what was going on inside the white house? >> reverend wright famously said to come think the chickens are coming home to loose. we started with the four footnotes and i asked attorney general barr, and, any

russian disinformation in the 2016 campaign was bought and paid for by the hillary clinton campaign. then, ric grenell released transcripts of all those interviews with people, and now be unmasking showing just a flurry of activity at the tail end of the administration. that, i have always felt, there has been a concerted effort to sabotage this administration and it began the day after the election went according to these folks, the wrong person one. i think we are starting to see you what we are kicking into overdrive is the russian hoax, even though the end of january,

they knew full well that there was no evidence of collusion. all these administration officials are saying, they have no evidence and yet james comey engineer the special counsel and unfortunately, hampered this administration. >> ed: that is of course between the election at the inaugural, was it that obama officials were assuming hillary clinton was going to win when you talk about, sort of covering tracks and what not? and all of a sudden they were worried that the intelligence activity and surveillance of carter page, was finally going to be exposed. >> they were concerned that all the activities, president obama left office and said this is the

first administration with no scandals. are you kidding me? what about lois lerner and the irs scandal? what about the exoneration of hillary clinton which, by the way, i've always felt one of the reasons they went overboard to exonerate hillary clinton is because president obama knew full well that she was using a private server. and according to the statute, 793f, having knowledge of someone is handling your gross negligence, that makes them legally vulnerable as well. there are a lot of questions of this unmasking revelation has created, a lot of questions need to be answered from vice president biden all the way up to president obama. >> ed: vice president biden is the one who is likely as democratic nominee for president, also pushing for answers about his son, hunter biden. if the democratic leader chuck schumer has put out the statement attacking you saying,

we are in the middle of public health and economic crisis but instead of holding oversight, senate republicans are choosing to pursue a diversionary partisan conspiracy theories to prop up president trump. you are the chairs, we noted, of the homeland security theory. that's at a time when we are and i'm the middle of a pandemic. >> first with a minority leader schumer doesn't know what is talking about. that's a roundtable on all of these issues, it was briefed by director gaynor, and they talked about him testifying before the committee in june. so totally active in that standpoint. the blue star strategies, that's a democratic led consulting firm which is representative of a corrupt oil company of which hunter biden was on the board. unfortunately we weren't able to

hold a vote for andre tele schinkel who worked for blue star because of trumped up charges with possible disinformation. again, we found in the interim that it was part of the steele dossier. hopefully, my staff right now is getting together some timeline and writing a report that hopefully we can make public early from summer. >> ed: in the last 30 seconds we have are you planning to seek testimony for example from hunter biden? do you know where hunter is? >> we haven't made a decision, right now we are trying to get information on the documents of the democrat led strategy firm that represented charisma and quite honestly there was one memo. and a lot of questions need to be answered.

>> ed: stay healthy. sandra? >> sandra: chilling video showing an intruder standing over a sleeping teenaged girl and the hooded suspect is still on the loose. what police are not doing to catch that guy. plus, judge sullivan's latest move in the michael flynn case and what he may now be hoping the president will do because of it. >> i believe judge sullivan is trying basically to force donald trump to issue a pardon, if he wants mike flynn to go free. and that's not right. 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.

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this case to argue against the doj's motion to dismiss the charges against flynn. our next guest thinks that judge sullivan may be trying to force president trump to pardon flynn. sol wisenberg, joins us now. so why do you think the judge is trying to force president trump to pardon flynn? >> whether he's intentionally trying to do that or not, it's going to be the natural consequence of what he's doing unless the department of justice tries to remedy. the fact is the case law that binds judge sullivan in the d.c. circuit is very, very clear. the court cannot refuse the government's motion to dismiss because the court does not agree with that governments reasons. he really doesn't need any briefing on this. he's just not happy with what the department of justice

justice did. remember in the ted stevens case where the judge did a phenomenal job, in the ted stevens case, and that was granted by this judge. now he's talking about a delay that might go several months. >> he will be just fine. when you look at what is considered to be unusual moves by judge sullivan and how unusual are these moves?

originally, he said i want to hear from everybody, i want to hear from amici. and he picked former judge gleason. i have no particular product problem with that and, that somebody who argues against department justice. the problem with judge gleason is he wrote this op-ed two days before he was picked, saying that the judge didn't have to accept the motion to dismiss. that's wrong and he misrepresented what the law is. the judge has virtually no discretion here and there is no suggestion at all that what the attorney general barr did is corrupt, in any normal definition of the reward of corruption. they just don't like it. people don't like it, certain members of the board don't like it because i don't like trump and they don't like flynn and

that's too bad. they don't get to make that decision and no federal judge makes that decision. the thing that was bad about appointing gleason is, they are looking at whether or not i should hold in a contempt. that's and he should never be the one giving advice on that. the flynn case, is it over until the judge says it's over? he writes, in that there has been nothing regular about the departments at effort to dismiss the flynn case and the record reeks of proper political influence. i hear you saying that they force the president's hand in a pardon for flynn but what does the words in that opinion

piece -- by now the federal judge brought on by judge sullivan, tell you about the end game here? how does this all end? >> well, he has a right to his opinion. but when you're talking about the end game, judge sullivan's wants to string this out as long as possible. the most protection with for general flynn, the thing that will protect him the most is a pardon. let's say that judge sullivan grants the motion tomorrow and let's say that president trump doesn't win reelection and you have a democratic nomination. it's still within the statute of limitations to charge general flynn with perjury for the statements he made under oath in his plea hearing.

the most protection for general flynn is a pardon. i think we might as well get it over with fairly soon. it certainly would be justified. >> sandra: sol wisenberg, great to speak with you this morning. thank you. >> great to be here. >> ed: protests are planned now at michigan's capitol again as some residents call for the governor to lift lockdowns finally. the warnick officials are giving ahead of that gathering, coming up. hose at work, principal is by your side. we're working hard to answer your questions. like helping you understand what the recently passed economic package can mean for you. we're more than a financial company. we're a "together we can get through anything" company. now, more than ever.

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>> ed: fox news alert, hundreds of people expected to protest today at the michigan capitol over the governor stay at home order. mike tobin live from our midwest

and his bureau with more detai details. good morning. >> good morning ed. despite the rain, demonstrators are gathering to push back against gretchen whitmer is locked down in that state and the extension of that lockdown. the republican legislature had refused to extend the emergence date, emergency declaration so witmer did it by executive order and therefore kept the locked in place. legislature filed suit in the michigan court of claims on the demonstrators are now out in force. the michigan demonstrators were among the first and most dramatic, the republic senate majority leader said demonstrators use weapons to intimidate, they should be picked up, take in down town. if they are not followed, enforcement action is possible. witmer just does not want to see a social gathering. >> i don't particularly want to see people congregating. it, but if people are going to come down and demonstrate, do it

in a responsible way. >> the supreme court of wisconsin just ruled on a sub similar set of circumstances. they said the governor does not have the authority to extend the lockdown without legislature. >> today, what the state of the plan, there is no question among anybody that people are going to get sick. we presently lead the midwest and having the fewest cases per capita and republicans own that chaos. >> local governments put some restrictions in place, and that's a ruling that you could open immediately. >> a florida woman jumping into action, how she saves her neighbor in an emergency.

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>> sandra: bone chilling video out of kansas, video now showing an intruder and during a home and watching a teenager sleep. just now we are learning about an arrest in this case. alicia acuna is live in denver with the braking to veltman. hey, alicia. >> hi, st. tropez wichita policing the main interest in this case. this is the case that comes with some super creepy video. it was recorded around 2:30 in the morning last friday. 15-year-old robinson was asleep in her home when the ring system newly installed by her mother recorded this. a 14-year-old boy, police say, wandered around the family home going from room to room and chillingly also stood over her and watched her sleep. the teenage girl says she woke up to see somebody standing over her and screamed, and the suspect ran off.

she told the local wichita police station, "it scared me because of the fact somebody was sitting over me, watching me, they didn't know." also at the time and though much of mother and two euros sister. police say the suspect likely entered the home through an unlocked door and was inside for several minutes and stole a tool. detectives say they tracked on the suspect after receiving a tip from the community. aniyah says it felt like she was in a scene from a movie when she opened her eyes to see someone staring at her. aniyah's mother got a call about the intruder. she told tv, "i said i'm on the way, because i'm not thinking about the weapon. i was thinking he was going to get a beat down." no one in the home was hurt. the suspect's name is not being released right now, sandra, because he is a minor. however, he's being held on charges of aggravated burglary and theft. sandra? >> harris: alicia akonia reporting fo from denver for us this morning.

that wraps three hours of "america's newsroom," ed. >> ed: hitting the ground running. looking forward to see you again early tomorrow. >> sandra: thanks for joining us, everyone. we will see you same time tomorrow morning, 9:00 eastern time. thanks for joining us. "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: would begin with a fox news alert. we are awaiting new remarks on president trump who is now set to depart the white house right about now en route to pennsylvania. a medical supply distributed there. this, after newly declassified documents reveal the names of obama euro officials involved in the unmasking of former national security advisor michael flynn. it happened during the transition. period right before president trump took office. they include now presumptive 2020 democratic nominee joe biden. here's the list. along with former fbi director james comey, former cia director