the alamo, or vendors. if you missed the show, what do you do? do you have any fallback chimeric >> is a show like ours only on the weekend. class of 2020, congratulations. see you back here monday. >> sandra: the house and senate to vote on a $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill but also already facing a presidential veto. the good friday morning, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: very pleasant good morning to you. nancy pelosi admitting it faces very long odds and the senate because it an opening bid for negotiations while the top senate republicans dismissing this proposal calling it unsalvageable. >> we are open to negotiation, so when people say partisan, it wasn't partisan when they did it. then we are saying okay, here's

our offer, let's see where you are. >> it's in 1800 page liberal wish list. strikes me as hardly salvageable. it is a parade of absurdities i can hardly be taken seriously. >> sandra: john roberts standing by at the white house but we begin with chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill for us. >> the big tickets they will vote on is a $3 trillion package. a speaker nancy pelosi is calling the heroes act but she says has support from many leaders. >> governors, mayors, county executives and the rest, grassroots organizations who minister to the needs of the hungry, food stamps, the snap program is something we have

done before and it's very needed now. >> of $3 trillion bill putting was a moderate house democrats in an awkward spot. oklahoma's kendra horn says she is a no on the bill, he says he's concerned and from upstate new york as a freshman worth watching. has always within 1800 plus page bill, there were a few surprises in there including support for banking for marijuana and related businesses, $50 million were investigating links between pollution exposure and spread of covid, $20 million for arts and humanities funding. >> now she wants to write a $3 trillion bill with no one able to see, no accountability, and no input. this is not how democracy works. >> the house is expected to vote on plans for proxy voting and remote hearings for the voting in small groups and the need for regular cleaning.

promises to be a very long day and perhaps night on the house floor. >> sandra: mike emanuel, thank you. >> ed: hundreds of protesters descending on michigan's capital to defy the governor stay at home with orders. i mask factory until people there, should start reopening as. >> is the transition to greatness, the transition of the third quarter. the fourth quarter is going to do very well and next year is going to be if you have to get your governor of pennsylvania to start opening up, you have areas of pennsylvania that are barely affected and they want to keep them closed. can't do that. >> ed: chief white house correspondent john roberts live from the north lawn. >> good morning to you. people in pennsylvania today will be voicing their opposition to the continued closures at noon today. a protest planned for the state

house in harrisburg, pennsylvania, expected to draw a large crowd of people at the same time, the centers for disease control releasing new guidelines on its web site about the process of reopening. the guidelines don't really change anything. they present decision trees were individuals, businesses, schools, mass transit and more to follow. of the way that these work as you look at gating criteria. you satisfy the first step then you move on to the second and if you satisfy that, move on to the third and then finally get to reopening. you haven't satisfied any of those gating criteria, you stop and you go back and do it again. a lot of the criteria in general but each doctor does have a specific criteria to me. there is increasing anxiety about continued closures and the 36 million jobs lost so far will be permanent. the fed chair jerome powell warning on wednesday that a rebound could be slower and less robust than the president believes it will be. >> the issue is there's a lot of uncertainty.

to him might take just a few more months then we would like for the economy to recover. there is a sense, a growing sense that the recovery may come more slowly than we would like. but it will come. >> on hannity last night, peter navarro warning of the consequences of not reopening. >> the reality is if we don't open this economy back up, we are not going to have an economy. >> very important event of happening in the white house at noon, that's when the president is going to officially rollout operation warp speed. this is sort of a manhattan project style partnership between the private sector and the military to develop a vaccine as quickly as possible. the president will rolling out the principles vaccine expert who worked at glaxosmithkline, sort of playing the role and general christoph will be

playing the role of general leslie groves who held up the manhattan projects. i am hearing that after today's rollout, we are not going to hear anything from this group until they have a vaccine and clinical trial. so it's not that it's going to be shrouded in secrecy like it was, but putting their nose to the grindstone to come up with something as quickly as they possibly can. >> ed: an urgent task indeed. john roberts, thank you. >> sandra: meanwhile, president trump calling on former president obama to testify on the michael flynn case after recently declassified documents reveal top obama administration officials made requests that led to flynn's on masking. marc thiessen writing a new piece in "the washington post" on that matter titled "someone committed a crime in the michael flynn case. wasn't him." he joins us now, former speechwriter for george w bush at a fox news contributor.

and we will get more on your piece in just a minute but first former president obama to testify, what you think about that move? >> i don't think president trump wants to set that they can pull them up to testify because he is going to be a former president one day so i don't think it's a good idea in his interest. everybody was on this list of people who unmasked michael flynn's name in the final weeks and months of the obama administration most certainly ought to be held up to testify including joe biden. >> sandra: that's interesting. i know you get into that in your piece, but first, here is senator lindsey graham pushing back on the president's call to call on former president obama. >> no president is above the law, but we do have separations of powers, and i think it would be a bad precedent to compel a former president to come before

the congress. that would open up a can of worms and for a variety of reasons, i don't think that's a good idea. >> sandra: to your point over everyone on that declassified list, should be called to testify. these are some of the obama era officials that are responding. pushing back on these allegations against them. listen. >> i think our country is in very serious trouble. when you have such blatant political corruption at the highest levels of u.s. government. something i never thought i would see in my lifetime. >> it's a routine thing, it's appropriate and legitimate when you have a valid foreign intelligence target engaging with a u.s. person. to mix up with this all together for us going back to your headline. someone committed a crime in the michael flynn case and it was not him. >> there's nothing wrong with unmasking names, and start all the time. the trump administration does it all the time.

what's illegal and is a felony is unmasking someone's name and leaking it to the press. the newspapers, "the washington post" and "new york times" who reported the story cited current and former u.s. officials as the source of the leak. who were those u.s. officials who unmasked michael flynn's name and released those transcripts to the posed? until recently, we had no idea but now we have a list of more than three dozen obama era officials who made unmasking requests citing michael flynn, made those requests after the phone call with and was uncovered. so somebody on that list may very well have been the one to do it. we don't know for sure that it was the people on those lists. could have been someone in the fbi, could have been someone else with access to the intelligence, but it's a very small universe of people, and that is a very serious crime. it is by ten years in prison and

in and serious fines under u.s. code. it's a felony. we need to get to the bottom of this. michael flynn didn't commit a crime, the justice department has now withdrawn the case against him because what he pleaded to was not a criminal act. but the crime that was committed was leaking classified information to the press, and somebody needs to be held responsible. the people on that list are the list of suspects. >> sandra: to go back to your piece, you write "we don't know whether it was someone on that list. that is for u.s. attorney john durham who is investigating the origins of the russia probe to determine." you and the peace by saying the fact that those individuals have gone unpunished for three years while michael flynn has endured a legal is appalling. final thoughts on that this morning. >> john durham is digging into this. we now have narrowed the universe of people who knew that michael flynn was on the call. he is going to look into it and be able to see exactly what transcripts they dug up, what

documents they unmasked, and he'll be able to determine all that we will get a report from him. i will say that michael flynn has been under legal for the last three years and it turns out he didn't commit a crime. where is the person who leaked this or persons who leaked this have been living unmolested for the last three years watching this and that's an absolute travesty of justice. >> sandra: mark t with that brand-new piece in "the washington post" this morning, thank you. >> ed: republicans accusing democrats of playing politics as tempers flare over a brand-new round of stimulus spending. are they playing politics when it comes to getting the economy back on its feet? we will ask the chief whip next. >> it's not going to be a $3 trillion left-wing wish list like the speaker is apparently going to try to jam down the throats of her majority.

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>> sandra: senator richard burr ending over his cell phone to the fbi as authorities looking to add stock sales before the markets crash in late february as a result of the coronavirus. last month, it was revealed that several senators dumped stocks prior to the pandemic upending the global economy. including senator kelly leffler who has turned over records to the doj and the sbc and senator dianne feinstein who was questioned about stock trades made by her husband. him >> ed: house lawmakers will vote later today on a $3 trillion stimulus package but republicans already slamming the measure. they say it's a democratic wish list of sorts. so let's make sure that all this

gets covered. a top democrat getting his fair reaction on that. congressman, welcome. >> thank you very much, i appreciate it. >> ed: making the casing people are struggling to pay their rent right now, we have all seen these long lines, people in cars waiting at food banks to get food for their families, so why then load up this bill with benefits for illegal immigrants, banking for marijuana businesses, what does that have to do with covid? >> first of all, the issue is really intended to get at the mistakes that were made in the cares act. iin their families who pay taxes who didn't get any of that benefit and typically a mixed immigration status family. i do think there is an attempt to divert from the centerpiece of what this legislation is. it's not loaded up.

the centerpiece is a state and local government so they don't collapse. make sure they have unemployment benefits for those people who would still be unemployed by july 31 to significantly increase the amount of revenue or money available to stand up testing. i think that's the piece of it that is so critical because if we do more of that, it allows us to open the economy up in a much more robust way, which then would minimize the need for some of these benefits that have been the source of so much discussion and controversy. >> ed: art we write that the first cares act had about $100 billion for states? in terms of testing, every part of this apple has had more and more money for testing. how do we take the states which have already gotten money and testing which is gotten a lot of money and all of a sudden adds up to $3 trillion, is not a lot of money?

>> it is and this is a huge problem we are facing. we have an economy that has had to shut itself down, democrats and republicans agree they need to do in order to allow people to protect themselves by staying at home. i think the initial sense as we need to get money immediately to fill the media gap, but we now know this is a crisis we are going to have slightly longer duration that we thought it would, significantly longer. we have to match the resources to the size of the problem and that's what we are trying to do here. frankly, the hope is the senate will take a look at what we have passed and make their first mo move. the idea that we should do nothing i don't think is a reasonable decision to make. i'm anxious to see what senator mcconnell and the white house are interested in and we can work from there. >> ed: you've dealt with the

first part of it where they say it had little to do with fighting covid-19. you've made your case on that with testing and so that's going to be a fight that continues but they go on to say, this is speaker nancy pelosi's agenda for 2021 when she expects democrats will run the entire government and she will be the de facto president. they charge that she and you are doing joe biden's bidding by pushing this $3 trillion plan, and where they come up with that perhaps is on april 25th, joe biden did an interview with politico and said that the next stimulus plan has to be "a hell of a lot bigger than $2 trillion." why is joe biden calling the shots from the outside? >> he is an american running for president and he certainly has the right to offer his opinion. that's what we expect of people who are vying for positions of leadership to explain how they would lead. but let's face it, the problem is a big problem. it's a massive problem, and this is really not about the 2020

election. i go home and i see businesses that are shutting down, i see people who are not being able to pay their bills, i see local governments having to cut essential services. i work for those folks. i have to do something about it, and that's what i'm trying to do with this piece of legislation. him >> ed: we've only got a minute but this video you may he seen it has kind of gone viral, people getting frustrated. i'm sorry, an interview, but he was on tucker carlson and he is talking about businesses being shut down as you just did and he is frustrated with the stay-at-home orders. take a listen. >> we don't know what we are dealing with, fine. give me the choice then. let me go outside and rick's potentially getting sick or do i want to ruin my business? if it was me, i'd rather die from corona and have to start over. what's worse, losing my business

and livelihood for the chance of getting this disease? we honestly know so little about. >> ed: no one should minimize the pain and suffering from covid-19 but do you understand the pain and suffering people are feeling economically where they feel like the stay-at-home orders have gone too far? >> absolutely, i feel it, and that's why what we need to do is to provide this financial support for those people and those businesses has this legislation does so they don't have to make the choice between their own health and their own livelihood and just to be clear, when we are talking about individuals like the gentleman you just had on, is not only about protecting yourself, it's also about protecting the other people you come in contact with. this is a tough situation. i get it. we just have to be thoughtful and smart about it. >> ed: we certainly appreciate you coming in and taking the questions, appreciate it. >> thank you very much.

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8%, so why is it so ugly? keep in mind that it wasn't as bad in march because that's when the shutdown kicked in and we saw a lot of panic buying. and now we see the big lockdowns that had traveled all the way through april. we have to say that we are looking at states slowly but surely reopening. but will they? it's a big gap between demand to walk around and then of course demand to without your credit card and start buying. and we will see possibly according to some experts, 100,000 stores across the nation, some independent enzyme chain that that will not reopen ever. >> sandra: it's amazing the sum of the innovations you are seeing on behalf of companies to make their customers feel safe, one essential business nearby you give them their credit card,

they dip it into disinfectant and give it back to you. people are doing all kinds of things. meanwhile, a rant that has gone viral by a barstool sports founder as the opening bell rings on wall street on this friday morning. he is saying is we reopen, give people a choice. he is calling on leaders in this country to leave it to the american people to do what they have to do to stay safe, stay home if they feel that they need to, but needs to put food on the table and he said this. >> how are you going to put money in your family's table when the economy has gone? at the very least, i feel bad for people who are given the choice. >> sandra: he is basically making the case that the economy cannot sustain the shutdowns that were currently seeing as a dow opens 200 points to the downside. we've got pictures, the

protesters in michigan obviously but then you have in wisconsin bars that were packed almost immediately after the court struck down the stay-at-home order there. people are flocking out as soon as they possibly can, seeing images like this might just want to get your response to all of that this morning, what you're seeing and hearing. >> it's going from houses across the united states to court rooms, all kinds of amicus briefs being filed from both sides and it sort of this very difficult question. do you decide on letting people have a livelihood or do you side on lives? in michigan coming of a lot of people looking at some of the signs that they have been one of them said behind every small business as a family. on the other side, you have the michigan nurses association, 13,000 members there, and siding with governor whitmer in detroit and in michigan because they are on the front lines.

blood is a very difficult question here, and as we watch some of these states very slowly reopen and bars get filled, can you for sure say that people will social distance? in the end, you look at retail sales, a lot of people are saying this is the bottom, the markets look ugly today and monday through wednesday, the dow fell 4.5%, a little bit of recovery yesterday but we will see what happens here. people's 401(k)s, there were a couple of things that did see increases while furniture sales just cratered in apparel sales cratered. pajama sales are up 130%, so people hanging out. money is fungible, got to go somewhere. >> sandra: the daytime pajamas in the nighttime pajamas for folks that have had to stay home through all of this. want to end on "the new york times" article and get your thoughts on this as the

pandemic and states borrowed to balance books, the state budgets are a mess after all of this, final thoughts? >> it's a mess, and you will start to see layoffs at state government levels, that only adds to what we already have which is an eight week tally of 35 million people who have applied for unemployment benefits, so that picture you do have to ask yourself how long does that kind of vapor hang around? and we could see bankruptcies from all of this and more, i hate to end on a negative note but governors are supposed to balance their budgets, i just don't know how they're going to do it without more federal help and of course you are seeing with the democrats with their new stimulus bill and the white house saying they are not opposed to a new stimulus bill but the conversation continues about whether we will see more in trillions of dollars at the federal level coming to the state. >> sandra: you heard nancy pelosi say on that

$3 trillion bill this is just a starting off point as far as negotiations are concerned. always great to talk to you, happy friday to you and thanks for being here. >> ed: meantime, new jersey allowing beaches to reopen starting next friday in time for memorial day weekend. governor murphy announcing the brand-new guidelines. >> we are giving the shore communities and counties an eight day runway to take these general guidance points and make them work their communities communities. again, public health determines economic health. you are sure economy has a tremendous driver of local jobs and revenues. >> ed: talking about jobs right there, live in ocean grove new jersey, good morning, alex. >> good morning. after months inside, people can grab their towels and chairs and head to the beach. right now, the rule in a lot of places as you shouldn't be here unless you are getting exercise,

but come memorial day, all state land along the water, the ocean and lakes will officially open up but it won't look quite the same. these new rules mean no frisbee, no football, no contact sports at all on the table to keep visitors healthy. also means no arcades or rides on the boardwalk, no festivals or fireworks, have to limit the crowd sizes and keep up with social distance regulations. >> we do not want the lifeguard supervising and watching for social distance, we want them to keep looking straight out at the ocean. we are going to have some goodwill ambassadors up there that are going to be passing out materials, giving people notification on what you can do. >> governor phil murphy tweeted "the sure is -- it is more than just the identity, is the only

thing keeping some small coastal towns close. last night, saw a record-breaking number of visitors some of that is actually 6 million more than the year before. tourism stimulates the local economy but also generates billions in state taxes, so much so that each new jersey household saves $1580 a year. recently, the garden state also started reopening parks and golf courses paired the governor said communities will need to clean the showers, restrooms, and changing areas much more often or to some different beaches state will be given practice reopening is tomorrow, all of this to make sure public safety is paramount head of the kick off to summer. >> ed: important indeed. alex hogan, thank you. >> sandra: a new prediction that some of your favorite restaurants may never reopen. is ceo of open table saying it will force a quarter of all

restaurants out of business. many of those restaurants already shutting down for good as lockdowns force people to cook at home and order takeout. >> ed: turning now to capitol hill, house lawmakers preparing to vote today on a brand-new coronavirus relief bill. republicans call it dead on arrival. what they want to see in a brand-new package instead. congresswoman joins us next. plus joe biden saying people should not vote for him in november if they believe a sexual assault allegation against him. more on that ahead. >> in every case, what matters is the truth, truth is what matters, and the truth of the case is nothing like this ever ever happened.

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>> sandra: a bill to reform fisa passing the senate with bipartisan support with provisions extended through 2023. the bill renews some provisions and adds more legal protections

for some people targeted by federal surveillance amid concerns over the past use of fisa courts. now the bill goes back to the house before it can be sent to the white house. >> what speaker pelosi is moving forward with is clearly a very partisan bill. this is not in the spirit of anything that's been bipartisan, and i can't see that moving forward in its current framework in any event. >> ed>> ed: the treasury secrety steven mnuchin on a new $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill set for a vote today. republicans call it dead on arrival and joining us now is congressman kathy mcmorris rodgers. we heard both sides saying throughout this pandemic that we are coming together, working together to help the american people, what went wrong? >> nancy pelosi decided to go on her own, she decided to do a democrat grab bag of their

priorities and wish list that includes funding for illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities, and environmental justice grants, what does that have to do with coronavirus? it's unfortunate because this is a time when we should be pulling together as republicans and democrats for the best of our country, for the best of our community. so it's really disappointing, and i agree that it is dead on arrival. >> ed: the senator from louisiana john kennedy has said it is as dead as fried chicken. on the other hand, is it really unsustainable position for your party right now and over 30 million people are unemployed to say we don't like nancy pelosi's bill, but we don't have a bill of our own? >> nancy pelosi is spending money for the sake of spending money. we have already come together republicans and democrats with president trump and authorize nearly $3 trillion worth of spending. in that hasn't all been spent, it was prioritized for fast relief for small businesses. also included support for the

state. i come from the state of washington, washington got 2.9 billion. governor inslee has yet to determine how that money is going to be dispersed. seems to me we need to spend the money that's already been authorized so we can better understand what that continued gaps and needs are in our community from a government perspective. >> ed: on the question of the money being spent, i've talked to several restaurateurs here who are struggling to survive right now. i'm sure this is playing out in all 50 states in some form. and several of them have noted that they are now having a hard time getting people back to work because they are making more money on unemployment right now. how do you deal with that? how do you fix that? >> that is unfortunate. i've heard the same kinds of stories. when we pass the $600 per week supplemental, we made it very clear that if an employer offered back a job to that employee, that they would not get that supplemental if they decided not to come back to work, but this is clearly the

big challenge. we have restaurants, small businesses that due to no fault of their own were forced to close, lay off employees. we need to get this economy up and going. we need to get people back to work. i come from an area that we have not seen the surge where the numbers. i have one county that has seen zero cases and yet they are economy has been shut down for two months. spokane county, the largest county in my district is united around a plan with the public health officers, with the leadership and spokane county and yet our governor is saying no. >> ed: on the other hand, there were very hard hit counties in your state in some ways the pandemic started hitting the state of washington very, very early on as you know better than i. governor cuomo of new york is saying states like your state needs more money. let's hear what he has to say and give you a chance to respond, watch. >> washington has already acted, had a lot of business incentives, great.

but we need our health care institutions, we need our schools, we need our police and firefighters funded. the bill does a lot of good. funds local aid to make up for those shortfalls. >> ed: you made a fair point that in your home state of washington, he was talking about washington, d.c., at the beginning but still has unspent money from previous stimulus bills. but other states like new york, the governor says he's going to have to lay off cops and firefighters which we certainly do not want to do in the middle of a crisis and make this unemployment desperate situation even worse. so is there some reasonable compromise here to help states? >> we need to continue to look at the gap. i am sure that congress will take further action. coming from washington state, we did have the first case of coronavirus and the seattle puget sound region. my borders idaho.

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>> sandra: mayor bill de blasio defending new york's finest concerning the war of words between new york pd in the health commissioner. over some derogatory comments about city police officers. my next guest is among those who want her fired. resident of the sergeants benevolent association and joins us now. thank you so much for being here. want to get it out there immediately what she is reported to have said. "the new york post" reported that she said i don't give two rats -- and a word i wouldn't say on television -- about your cops. this is when nypd were pressing to get more protective equipment read what do you think about what you're hearing and how do you weigh in this morning? >> i'm not surprised. i came out with statements that

the best way to stay healthy was to avoid criminal justice so we have a health commissioner. what i find disturbing in this conversation as it happened two months ago, if the mayor himself was made aware of it which means the department knew about a few months ago. nothing was done. it's over two months while we had a pandemic, we had almost 7,000 nypd members that were similar in the area of 41 people on the nypd. this is not the same, but the nypd did not have any equipment. we were very ill-prepared and you think about that from a city who is a number one terrorist target and while this is a pandemic and not terrorist, our response would have been same. looking into the facts in order

to make a statement. very quickly judge the nypd within 30 seconds of a video. >> sandra: let me stop you there. make sure that you're talking directly into your microphone because we want to hear your words, it's a little difficult to understand you. i hear you obviously going after mayor bill de blasio. he goes after you in this sound bite, we will play that for our audience, and you can respond right here. >> what the spa is saying, what they are authorizing is absolutely unacceptable. he should apologize but he never does. that language is misogynist and unacceptable, and i've learned long ago that so much of what comes out is divisive and meant to set the city back. >> sandra: so how do you respond to mayor

bill de blasio's words they are? obviously very critical of you, and he did go on the record saying that the health commissioner should apologize if she made those remarks. how do you respond to the mayor? >> the mayor is deflecting from the real issue. the purpose of my statement was we were talking about -- it would have been swept under the rug and multiple events in a city in new york. what he's doing has detracted from the real issue by trying to put the blame on the fda. the criminal justice system, he ignored it for the truth of the matter is, this mayor wants -- my sources are telling me that he leaked this information. >> sandra: we are going to continue to follow this story. there's a lot of details, a lot of he said and she said, we will continue to follow it we thank you for coming on this

morning. >> ed: fox news alert now, the president calling on former president obama to testify in the michael flynn case. we will get reaction top of the hour.

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the law, but we do have separations of powers, and i think it would be a bad precedent to compel a former president to come before the congress. that would open up a can of worms and for a variety of reasons i don't think that's a good idea. >> sandra: we have complete team coverage for you on this story, senator john cornyn is a member of the judiciary committee. griff jenkins is life in washington with the very latest. >> here come wide ranging multiple hearing starting first week of june into all things related to the russia investigation. judiciary committee chairman you saw there lindsey graham says it begins with the government's decision to dismiss the flynn case in a deep dive into the unmasking of plan including the list of top obama officials who made those requests. then they will address the fisa abuses covered by inspector general michael horowitz on the surveillance of carter page and

then finally, the look at whether a special investigation was justified to begin with. former acting attorney general sally yates and former dni james clapper. they won't come voluntarily, graham says he's prepared to subpoena them. others who could get called, former fbi director james comey and deputy director andrew mccabe. this is president trump tweeted who he thinks should appear saying "if i were a senator or congressman, the first person i would call by far is former president obama. he knew everything. do it, lindsey graham. just do it. no more mr. nice guy. no more talk weird" but graham issuing a statement, "i am greatly concerned by the president that would be set by calling a president for oversight. no president is above the law, however the presidency has executive privilege claims against other branches of government." but he also added in that statement both presidents are

welcome to appear and it would make great tv. i inquired with his staff they are willing to call vice president biden. in they are not commenting. >> sandra: griff jenkins, thank you for that. >> ed: let's bring in john cornyn as promised, also a member of the judiciary committee. a senator, then morning. sometimes, there is these washington games, we should get this person to testify, maybe they won't testify. with the american people want to know this morning is are you confident they are going to be answers about what president obama knew and when he knew it? >> there has to be answers. this is a scandal if we weren't involved in the covid-19 crisis, this would be a scandal of the biggest thing since watergate. but we need to get the basic facts, and i think chairman graham is approaching this in a methodical and careful way so that not only congress, but the american people will know what the facts are.

>> ed: and you make your case because there were a lot of democrats and others in the media saying this is a conspiracy theory and you just said no, it's bigger than watergate. in a minute or so, tell us why it's bigger than watergate. >> first of all, you see a series of events occur from the time that president trump was elected designed to undermine his presidency and try to remove him from office, convict them of a crime. we've seen impeachments, criminal investigations, you name it. and now we find that a number of obama era individuals have unmasked an american citizen whose name was collected during the course of the surveillance of foreign intelligence surveillance and then leaked to the press in order to undermine the president and in order to justify this special investigation. and this is a very serious matter. >> ed: you are legally allowed to unmask someone, get the name

of someone he was an intelligence report but as you know clearly, it is illegal to then leaked that name to the press. someone among the pictures we just showed, james clapper and vice president biden, somebody leaves the name of general flynn. you see john brennan and all the others, james clapper is one of those folks on the list. he was on cnn yesterday asked if he leaked it, something interesting happened. >> so asking for names, nothing wrong with that. unmasking in and of itself, nothing wrong with that. leaking classified information and by definition these phone calls were classified, that's a problem, correct? >> absolutely, it is. >> and if anyone did leak the contents of these conversations with or without the name, that would be a problem, yes? we've lost the shot, i wonder if we can get him on the phone. >> ed: we have all had those kinds of technical difficulties but are you confident that if

lindsey graham does bring in james clapper, the video feed is going to work and we will an answer under oath? >> absolutely. i would just make the distinction that it isn't okay to just unmask american citizens names collected as part of foreign intelligence surveillance willy-nilly. has to be for a purpose and that purpose has to be a bona fide purpose to be able to understand the rest of the intelligence product that you're viewing, but it is important to point out as well that it is illegal to leaked classified information. so the question is, did they properly and legally unmask and then secondly, did they leak the information? i think this is going to be an area that u.s. attorney durham and the justice department is going to want to look at very closely because this is very, very serious. in >> ed: you mention the prosecutor looking at all of this, one of the folks who could be under the microscope of course john brennan. quickly show him and give you a

chance to respond. >> when you have an administration whether it be the white house, attorney general, acting head of the intelligence community, all acting in concert to try to advance the personal interest of mr. trump and to misrepresent the facts and abuse the authorities within the intelligence community and the law enforcement community, i think this is very, very serious. >> ed: we show in the clip before when he was asked some months ago about whether he knew anything about unmasking and he said i'm not sure. there was this evasive answer. is john brennan going to face some heat here? >> maybe he needs to have his memory refreshed, and we need to know exactly what the facts are. there is no bona fide purpose that i can identify for this many people to request the unmasking of general flynn's name because the sole reason to do so is to be able to understand in context what

you're viewing from an intelligence point of view. i think the former head of the cia is nervous that the facts are going to be revealed, but i think the truth will set us free. >> ed: let's turn to the other business at hand. we have over 30 million americans as you know unemployed right now because of this pandemic. you've already passed several bills, i get that. nancy pelosi has now crafted a $3 trillion bill. we talked about some of the things that are in it. republicans like yourself complaining there's a lot of mentions of medical issues but then marijuana, banking for marijuana. the stimulus check for illegal immigrants. we had a democrat on earlier saying some of these folks here are here illegally but they are paying taxes so it's okay for them to get a stimulus check. where is this headed when nancy pelosi crafts a $3 trillion bill with provisions like that? >> first of all, sounds like she's having trouble getting

democrats in the house to vote for it because they realize this is not a serious effort to respond to the covid-19 crisis. so far, we've been largely successful displacing political considerations and trying to rise to the occasion and address the covid-19 crisis. working with to come up with what the next bill should look like. i'm confident there will be a next bill but it won't look anything like what nancy pelosi has floated out there. >> ed: is it sustainable for your party to say we are taking a pause here when over 30 million people are unemployed, use a new bill is being crafted. what is the timeline and when can we expect action in the senate? >> there is no arbitrary timeline but a lot of the money that we've already voted for it isn't even out the door yet, so we want to see how what we've done is working and then we will respond to the additional need. we did that before on the paycheck protection program, and we will do it again. >> ed: we appreciate your time today, thank you.

>> sandra: fox news alert out of michigan this morning, the states legislative session postponed now, hundreds of demonstrators turning out thursday at the capitol. some of them armed protesting against governor whitmer's stay at home orders. >> we are not stupid. we know if we have covid, we stay home. we don't, we have a country and the united states of america where businesses -- we are losing them. >> sandra: mike tobin reporting live on that from chicago this morning. >> as we speak of the representatives for republican majority legislature and gretchen whitmer are in the michigan court of claims written as we show you pictures of these repeated demonstrations that have resulted in the capital from all the tensions in michigan, but the central focus of the arguments in his hearing today is that governor whitmer overstepped her authority when she extended the state of authority in michigan by

executive order. it expired on april 30th. the legislature refused her extension and therefore the order because they wanted some input. she then went unilateral to keep the state of emergency, republicans in both chambers responded with this suit. and that was pretty much the same argument that ended with people in wisconsin is dreaming back into bars after the state's supreme court struck down the stay-at-home order without a blanket policy from the state, there was a lot of confusion as local governments were making decisions on what can open and what cannot. the health and safety policies may now differ mile by mile. >> just because republicans said it can be a free-for-all, that doesn't mean we have to throw out good judgment out the wind window. >> cook county illinois where chicago is located is now the top spot in the nation for coronavirus cases passing queens county new york by 373 recorded cases. should be noted that cook county has twice as many people so the

per capita figure is off. meanwhile, illinois is preparing to move into phase three of the reopening plan, that means things like retail and hair salons can reopen with a lot of precautions as you become familiar with low capacity, face masks and social distancing and things of that nature. >> sandra: we will continue to follow all of it. >> ed: a potential breakthrough in fighting the coronavirus. a vaccine candidate showing promise in a small study. we will break it down with dr. marc siegel coming up and joe biden with some strong words for potential voters who believe taylor reads accusation against them saying they probably should not vote for him. we will get reaction to that from fox news sunday anchor chris wallace. >> she has a right to be heard but then it should be vetted and the truth ultimately matters. and i give you my word, it never, ever happened.

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>> truth is what matters, and the truth of the cases, nothing like this ever ever happened. i think they should vote their heart and that if they terra reade, they shouldn't vote for me. i wouldn't vote for me if i believed terra reade. look at her story, it changes considerably, but i don't want to question her motive, i don't want to question anything other than to say the truth matters. >> sandra: that was joe biden with a suggestion for potential voters as he continues to deny those sexual assault allegations against him from former staffer terra reade pier at the presumptive democratic nominee is saying if you believe reade, you probably should not vote for him.

so let's bring in a chris wallace, fox news sunday anchor, big weekend coming up but first, your thoughts as you hear biden continue to deny those allegations against him, but saying to voters vote with your heart. you believe her, you probably shouldn't vote for me. >> i think it's a pretty skillful answer in the sense that on the one hand, he wants to absolutely flatly deny the truth of the allegation, the very damaging allegation, shocking allegation that tara reid is making against him that he sexually assaulted her in the halls of congress, but on the other hand, while he wants to deny her allegation, he doesn't want in any way to dismiss the allegations of women in general. so you heard him there as he was beginning to say it didn't happen and then said i don't want to question her motives and then say if you believe her, vote against me. it's one of those things of i

flatly deny the accusation, but i'm not in any way going to go after the accuser. >> sandra: does this issue go away for him or does this linger on a through 20 election day? >> i think as it now stands, it goes away in the sense that he has told her story, it's a shocking story, a disturbing story, but she doesn't have any real evidence of it, so it's a classic he said, she said. now, if she is able to find something that provides more backing to her case or if somebody else were to come out and tell a similar story, it's worth pointing out nobody else has come out and told a similar story. yes, there were stories in 2019 about him touching women's shoulders and getting too close to them and they were feeling uncomfortable but nothing anywhere close to the level of sexual assault. there were another case of that,

it would add a lot of weight to it but i don't think in this story by itself continues on for another almost six months. they are either has to be more substantiation of this one or another case of a separate woman telling a similar story. let's also be clear, president trump is not -- does not come in with clean hands on this either. they're obviously have been a number of women who have accused him of sexual assault. so i don't know that people are going to be fed or upset by even the allegation of sexual assault will say that's it, i'm not going for biden, i'll go for president trump instead who has also denied similar allegations. >> sandra: but to that issue, i believe all women is what he continues to be pressed on and you just wonder, you look back to nancy pelosi the last time she was asked about it, she said i'm done answering this question. she said she believes that he

has sufficiently answered that question. i suppose that's now for voters to decide. chris, you have a good show coming up this weekend and you have an economist on this weekend that i love to hear from him. he had such a big picture approach but he is so in the weeds when it comes to the market but really good at taking that big picture look at what's happening with the economy, really been taking people step-by-step through this reopening process and what it ultimately means for the u.s. economy. >> i'm very excited about talking to muhammad myself. he of course for seven years was the head of the largest bond fund in the country. he is one of those people like warren buffett, peter lynch he was just a legendary investor, and we had steven mnuchin last week, the treasury secretary and he and the president are talking about this v-shaped recovery, a sharp downward movement and then

a very sharp and fairly quick recovery. i want to ask muhammad about that. i also want to ask him about how quickly we are going to see jobs come back. is it going to be a different economy posed virus than it was before, and i also want to ask him about this huge $3 trillion bill at the house looks like it's going to pass today. clearly, isn't going to go into law, it's going to get blocked in the senate and they are going to have to negotiate something, but does he believe that there has to be some kind of huge government stimulus or does he side with republicans who say let's slow it down a little bit and see how the trillions we've already thrown at the economy, how they work. >> sandra: i know you've got the colorado governor and dr. tom frieden on as well so we will be watching the sunday, great to see you this morning, thank you so much. >> thank you, sandra. >> ed: growing questions now

over a federal judge's decision to appoint an outside lawyer, how much is politics handling this case? we will talk to andy mccarthy straight ahead. plus, a republican senator under investigation for insider trading. how he is dealing with the fallout, that's coming up. >> distractions of the hard work of the committee and the members in the security of the country is too important. look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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>> sandra: fox news alert, republican senator richard burr stepping aside temporarily as chairman of the senate intelligence committee amid an investigation into his stock sales during the initial coronavirus outbreak. senator lindsey graham on that. >> he is stepping down until the investigation is over. he wants to make sure the committee can function without any distraction. i applaud him for that decision. i have every confidence in richard burr. he's one of my best friends. i don't believe he's done anything wrong. >> sandra: senators kelly loeffler and dianne feinstein have also turned over financial documents to federal law enforcement. mark meredith has more on all of this from washington this morning. >> good morning to you, senator richard burr stepped down as intelligence committee chairman only hours after news broke that the fbi used a search warrant to seize his cell phone. at the center has been facing a number of questions over his decision to sell some stock only

days before the coronavirus rock the stock market. the senator says the decision to temporarily stepped out as an effort to protect the committee's work and that the investigation by the feds would be too much of a distraction. an advisor to the sender sent fox news a statement late thursday writing "the senator has also been actively cooperating with the government's inquiry as he said from the outset. a senator burr has been focused on an appropriate and thorough review of the facts of the matter which will establish that his actions were appropriate. he has also been actively cooperating with a government inquiry as he said he would." as a senate majority leader discussed the relevance with bret baier late last night. >> i think he did the right thing for the committee and for our republican conference good i think him for doing that and at some point obviously, i'll be naming a new chair. >> senator rubio. >> i'll be naming a new chair sometime shi soon.

>> dianne feinstein's office as she has been questioned by law enforcement about stock trades made by her husband and that she turned over documents as part of the inquiry as well. they also said documents to the justice department and the senate ethics committee. there is a law that prohibits lawmakers from giving nonpublic information and stock trades, a fairly recent law signed back in 2012. >> sandra: we will see what moore comes from that, mark meredith, thank you. >> ed: earlier this week, the judge overseeing the michael flynn case appointed an outside lawyer, now we are learning the judicial record of that could undermine that position. once writing that the government has near absolute power to drop the case. let's bring in andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney and a fox news contributor. good to see you as always. so the man judge sullivan has

brought them to take another look at the flynn case has previously argued that the government has near absolute power to drop in any case all, which is essentially what william barr wants to do. >> john gleason was a very fine prosecutor. he was a prosecutor in the eastern district of new york, he was notoriously aggressive in the government's position, and it would be common for him to take a position that happens to be the constitutionally correct position that the government, the justice department has unfettered discretion, discretion, unreviewable discretion in our system to bring charges, to persist in charges and decide whether to dismiss charges. is not surprising that when he was a federal judge, he would take that position as he did, and i suppose it is sadly not surprising that now when he is more of a political person as a

private lawyer, he is taking a political position and one that really doesn't have a legal merit. >> ed: the former watergate prosecutor has said on fox that basically judge sullivan must grant this motion from the doj to dismiss the charges. not, it's going to be overturned by the court of appeals. do you agree with that? >> i actually think that it's possible the justice department will go to the court of appeals before that even happens because what the judge is doing right now is lawless and it may take the court of appeals to tell him to knock it off. >> ed: era sydney powell, the attorney for michael flynn on hannity. >> extremely disappointed and saddened by his reaction when the same rules should be applied in the michael flynn case. we have been the victim's house astonishing brady violations for four years now.

the fbi knows that its agents made up of the purported false statements and in the special counsel operation made up the purported false statements on the filing. the government is the only institution that has lied in this case. in general flynn was honest with the agents. >> ed: when you hear that litany of problems with how all of this played out, why are there so many people out there, some of the president's critics willing to dismiss what was done in this case? >> part of this is trump just makes people crazy, and people who were formerly sensible, i don't know why you would let anyone do that to you and to your brain, but that does seem to happen and to try to give judge sullivan his due, he did a lot of work on this case, and he took flynn through an extensive colloquy where he was pleading guilty because he was guilty. we didn't know at the time that he was being pressured, now a

paper trail for that that they would prosecute his son if he didn't plead guilty, but i can understand the judge having that, i used to have lots of those but then you try to put that aside and you have to do your job according to what the rules are, and the judges job here is to make sure general flynn gets to process. and due process is not optional. the judge thinks the defendant is guilty, it's a fact of life that most defendants are guilty. the court's job is still to make sure the defendant is not victimized by an overbearing government and that's what happened here. >> ed: finally the question of what john durham the prosecutor taking a look at all of this, the unmasking of general flynn a moment ago, we played james clapper on cnn yesterday asked whether he was involved in this leak. the video went down has been ill always technical problems this day and age and what's going on during the pandemic. he later came back and was pressed on that point. let's hear him, james clapper

and give you a chance to respond. >> the idea of the leak which is something also being focused on here, that would be illegal, correct? >> if it was classified information, absolutely. >> put out this famous column on january 12th where he mentioned the phone call between michael flynn december 29th phone call. did you leak that information? >> i did not. >> ed: he says no, we want to be fair to james clapper and everybody involved, we simply don't know who leaked it, but are you confident that john durham who is an actual prosecutor when you get these folks under oath as we learned in the house and tell investigation on russian collusion for example, all kinds of people went on tv and said i've got evidence there was collusion. then they went behind closed doors and had to raise the hand and you know all about this is a former u.s. attorney, they told him much different story. is john durham going to finally get some answers? >> he is going to get some

answers but i wouldn't underestimate how difficult the leak investigation is. the problem and the government is that information that is sensitive is very widely dispersed, much too widely dispersed for my taste and it ought to be and what ends up happening in a leak situation is there are so many people who have access to information who shouldn't have it. becomes hard to nail down who was the one. not an impossible investigation, but it's a tough one but i want to underscore i am not saying that he did it. he has presumed innocent just like everyone else is, we will have to see what he comes up with on this matter and more overarching lien on the whole russia gate matter. >> ed: in terms of unmasking, it seemed like everybody but the night janitor and the obama administration was involved in unmasking. >> that's true. i'm curious why isn't there a record of the unmasking of general flynn in connection with

the only conversation that really is essential here, which is the december 29th conversation? if you look at the record we got, we got lots of information about unmasking general flynn, but there's nothing that relates to that particular call which i find very curious. >> ed: curious indeed, appreciate your time. >> sandra: thank you. the cdc issuing a brand-new guideline now for reopening america's schools. so what is going to happen in the fall? a lot of parents asking that question. details on what you need to know next. and new help in the fight against the coronavirus. dr. marc siegel will be joining us live we have a lot of questions for him next. so they can pay for things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills. discover all the ways we're helping members today.

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the parents have concerns about allowing their kids to go back to work. dr. marc siegel is here. i should say, they are concerned about sending their kids back to school. many parents are concerned that if their kids don't go back to school, they can't go back to work. safety first. what did you think when you saw the new cdc guidelines for reopening as a parent, i read through every word of it myself. looks like it is going to be a big process to get our kids back into school. >> absolutely. is going to start with something as being in place. cdc wants to make sure that the social distancing guidelines are set up, that employees and teachers at schools are wearing masks, that there is a big disinfection that goes on, deep cleaning going on, hand hygiene is observed at schools, and then once that is in place and they determine that is in place, then they are going to go to the next phase which is ongoing screenings of students and

teachers when they come to school for symptoms of covid-19. they will have a very liberal stay-at-home policy of if you're sick stay at home to try to separate out anyone who is sick. a couple of things that are really missing here, not that they should be or shouldn't be in it. no mention of testing because they could use testing to augment screening, but they didn't put it in the guidelines. you came in contact with someone who had covid-19, if you have mild symptoms, are they going to have the ability to test, but they do say and there they will have the ability to send you to health authorities and will have consultations with local health authorities keep track of it. so presumably, they'll be able to test. nothing about students wearing masks by the way, just employees on the teachers wearing masks. >> sandra: but in that first phrase, what caught my eye was the third question, if you can safely reopen your schools is are you able to screen students

and employees upon arrival for symptoms and history of exposure? how do you do that? do you hold up a thermometer to every head as they enter the school? >> it's going to be more about a history. and it really should depend on what region of the country we are talking about. has there been a recent outbreak there, how many cases are there in the community and obviously new york has been a big hot spot but what if you're in an area of the country where there haven't been cases. screening is clinical tool. it's a medical professional asking questions. have you had loss of sense of taste, have you had problems with g.i. symptoms, are you having shortness of breath or fever. we have gone through all of this and these are the questions. fever alone isn't going to be enough. a lot of times, covid-19 presents without a fever. >> sandra: i want to go back to reopening businesses. we'll go back to school is in

just a second but these are the questions they are asking, are you ready to reopen and should you consider reopening? cdc guidelines as little reopening be consistent with applicable state and local orders. of course, that's a necessity and then are you ready to protect employees at higher risk for severe illness. any know to that, do not open. these are going to be critical questions that businesses and similar to the school questions as well have to ask themselves if they can safely reopen their doors, dr. siegel. >> i had a bit of a different reaction to the businesses on the schools specifically restaurants because as you know -- i am very optimistic that schools are reopening, and i hope they are, but when it comes to restaurants, i want to point out that a lot of these things they are talking about in these guidelines are already in place. take out services for him to remain, more social distancing. you reopen the restaurant, you're all going to only have a certain portion of it, maybe one-third opened up first.

all employees will be wearing masks. anybody that is six days at home for a prolonged period of time until they are over it or until they are tested. so i think the restaurants are already set up for this model, and i think this model can be used for other small businesses as well. >> sandra: i hear your optimism, dr. siegel but when it comes to schools, this conversation is being had by parents all over the country right now. can you really picture that and how do you accurately social distance? i have to leave it there, i know you have a final thought. go ahead. >> you were bringing up a really good point, the challenge of keeping kids separate at a school is very, very difficult. but i feel that schools are going to have to reopen because i want to point out in ending here that almost all the cases among kids are very, very mild, so i'm not so worried nationwide about this causing severe cases. we talked about on this show severe cases.

they can incur. we have an inflammatory syndrome. but overall kids are getting mild cases. it is a sign of any outbreak whatsoever, of course the school would then close. >> sandra: okay. we can be helpful at least. dr. siegel, thank you so much. >> ed: meantime, drivers get to start their engines once again pretty soon, nascar such a race for the first time in months. what can you expect on sunday in south carolina? we will ask nascar announcer mike joy next. ♪

>> ed: nascar back on track this weekend holding its first race in two months because of the coronavirus outbreak. taking place at darlington raceway in south carolina, 3:30 p.m. eastern on the fox broadcast network, nascar's president says this is all about honoring the health care workers who have stepped up and missed their own lives to fight the pandemic. >> the real heroes in this entire fight against covid-19 are the frontline health workers, so we thought it fitting to honor them. >> ed: let's bring in a fox nascar announcer mike joy. good morning. >> good morning, how are you? >> ed: i'm fantastic and pump that we are getting some sports started. you must be excited. >> varied. it's been a long 70 days since we were last at the racetrack.

the racetracks have been idle for 50 of those 70 days and now they are ramped up again producing cars and ready to get back to the track has nascar has now rolled out a schedule that will take us through mid-june at least. one that we will get to that, this being the first. what do you anticipate in terms of not having a crowd they are? everybody knows i'm a baseball fan is going to be a little different in baseball stadiums when you don't have a crowd there, different for the players, different for the fan experience, what about for the nascar fan? >> less so. i know a lot of football teams practice and empty stadiums, but they sometimes type in the crowd noise during practice to replicate a real game and there is such a thing as home-field advantage, and the crowd gets into the game and does have an effect. less so on auto racing because the noise of all of those cars, there's only one track on the circuit because of crystal tennessee where you can hear the fans above the roar of the cars.

>> ed: who was going to win? >> affiant knew that. >> ed: was going into this? it's obviously very hard after two months hiatus to figure out who's been been concentrating in his ready to go but what are you expecting to see? >> here's what i'm looking for. joey look on two of the first four races before the season got suspended. can he recapture that momentum? these set ups on these cars are being done by the team engineers, and who gets it right? because the very first lap they turn on the track will be the first lap of the race, no qualifying. will that hurt a driver like ryan newman who has not been in the car since his last lap in the daytona 500? how about the won the spring race of darlington way early in this millennium and he's been retired for two years, now he's

going to be starting 12 in his very first lap will be at speed under the green flag. so we get through the first lap, we are going to have a good strong competitive race. the engineers that have the best set up will have their cars out in front and then it's all in the driver's hands. >> ed: several races to come this summer. we'll be watching the sunday 3:30 p.m. eastern, thanks for coming on. 3:30 p.m. eastern as we said only on fox. sandra? >> sandra: we are looking forward to that, fox news alert from the white house, president trump is set to speak about the development of a coronavirus vaccine. we will hear from the president shortly. details top of the hour. t simpl with their va streamline refi, there's no income verification or home appraisal. and this refi costs you absolutely nothing

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welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." >> sandra: good morning, everyone. president trump naming a former pharmaceutical executive and a four star general to oversee what he is calling operation warp speed. one day after ousted vaccine expert testified before congress saying that the health and human services department was "dismissive of his warming about this pandemic. pushing back on those claims. >> this president initiates a vaccine manhattan project, diagnostic manhattan project, and by the way, whose job was it to actually lead the development of vaccines? dr. bright. so while we are launching operation warp speed, he is not showing up for work to be part of that. >> sandra: a fired up secretary there, chief white house correspondent john roberts' life from the north lawn with more ahead of

the president who will be speaking at noon eastern today. >> a lot of people in this country fired up, we've got protest today in harrisburg, pennsylvania, protested michigan a little while ago, one of those rolling horn honking protest came through washington, d.c. the key to getting the country back to normal according to most experts is the development of a vaccine and an hour time, president trump will unveil operation warp speed which is the government's private public partnership in order to get a corona vaccine as quickly as possible. the president will be introducing the principles of operation warp speed, to edelman, the former head of glaxosmithkline's backseat development division and general gustav who is in charge of the armies command based at the redstone arsenal near huntsville, alabama. he will serve as the chief advisor to the project, general perna will be the ceo. the goal of operation warp speed is to identify the most

promising vaccine candidates being developed and then scaled up productions of that when a viable vaccine emerges, there are already doses of that vaccine ready for distribution to the public. president trump has set a target of having 100 million doses by fall. that will likely go to the most at risk populations. 200 million doses by december then by january 2021, enough doses to satisfy the majority of the population of the united states. here is kellyanne conway on all of that this morning. >> we are going to have the military in this private sector and the health professionals working on vaccines, fda has cut through so much red tape and regulation on president trump's watch. normally what would take years to approve in a matter of weeks, that's why this is called operation warp speed. >> here's a difference between what's going to happen here and what typically happens. typically, you go through phase one, phase will do, phase three trials and then rick could take anywhere up to a year to 18

months, you say we've got a viable vaccine, now let's scale up production of it to the public has access to it. with this program will do is identify a number of candidates, and it could be one, could >> dana: , could be more than that and say these all look like they've got promise and now we are going to scale of parallel lines of development here so that by the time we get through phase three trials were partway through phase three trials and one candidate or more has been identified, we already have enough vials of that vaccine to distribute to the public so they won't be that typical lag time. now, could a vaccine not appear? it is possible but dr. anthony fauci the other day said it is more likely than not that we will find a vaccine so we will see what happens in the rose garden at 12 noon but the president will be pretty bullish about the chances. >> sandra: operation warp speed. we hope to hear a lot more on that coming up, john roberts at the white house, thank you, john. >> ed: the house that devote today on a $3 trillion stimulus

package but the bill is a nonstarter with senate republicans who said it is packed with noncoronavirus related spending. here is senate leader mitch mcconnell. >> the house gave themselves no assignments for two months except developing this proposal. yet it still reads like the speaker of the house pasted together some random ideas from the most liberal members and slap the word coronavirus on top of it. in unserious product from an unserious house majority. >> ed: good morning, jonathan. there seems to be a problem for house democrats and that is not just mitch mcconnell, you have moderate democrats who won a trump district to help give the democrats a majority saying they're going to vote no on this because the price tag is too high and maybe some of the provisions like stimulus checks were illegal immigrants might be too much for some members to take.

>> i expect speaker pelosi will get the votes to get this through, and there might be some control for these provisions the more theatrical provisions will feature an attack ads towards the end of the year but it's easy to take shots at this bill and pelosi and forget the fact that directionally, she has a much more in common with president trump that mitch mcconnell does. mitch mcconnell has been telling his members he had a conference call with senators a couple of weeks ago where he told them to push back on the white house, he's been expressing concerns about the debt. do you think donald trump cares about the debt right now? not in the slightest. he wants a big stimulus deal, and yes, they will be discussions i'm sure some of the stuff about funding for the arts and other things. that's dead on arrival, but directionally, i think we are heading towards a really big phase for deal ultimately. >> ed: how quickly? you are right that both parties

have been spending a lot of money and not caring about the debt. on the other hand, the president, larry kudlow at the white house and mitch mcconnell are on the same page on one point which is to take a pause right now. politically, that might not be palatable with voters who say we want to get some action, but what is your sense about pelosi marking off $3 trillion? where did we wind up or is it going to be a trillion and a half, something like that? >> i wouldn't hazard a guess to where we have the final figure, but i don't think president trump i mitch mcconnell around the same place. president trump is much more inclined to go big and to do another set of spending and doesn't have the concerns that mitch mcconnell does about discipline. president trump wants to get as much stimulus out there as possible to get the economy back in an election year, and he is just not on the same page as mcconnell no matter what you're hearing publicly out of the white house. >> ed: election year as well

as joe biden being a likely democratic nominee, we had dan kildee on a little bit earlier talking about how joe biden had been pushing the democratic leadership to go big if as you suggest with $3 trillion, take a listen. >> he is an american running for president and certainly has the right to offer his opinion, that's what we expect from people who were vying for positions of leadership is to explain how they would lead. but let's face it, the problem is a big problem. in >> ed: a big problem to deal with building the economy but something in axios caught my eye this morning, you did a focus group were reported on in iowa where the focus group participants say they are less focused right now my national politics and more plugged into what is going on regionally watching with our governor is doing and this point it struck me, "not a single participant has watched a joe biden virtual event or heard anything from him beyond a tweet. this is something that they talked about in "the new york times" a week or

so ago saying he's got to get out of the basement and connect with voters in iowa. they are saying they're not seeing him at all. >> there is just an objective fact that even people close to biden will acknowledge this which is that president trump, his campaign is absolutely demolishing him online. is not even close. he look at engagement, fund-raising, they are absolutely obliterating him. and the question is, is that going to be decisive in november or can joe biden get away with basically having a pretty low profile, doing some debate and sort of being the representative of the generic democrat in an election that is a referendum against donald trump. >> ed: jonathan swan, we appreciate your time. sandra? >> sandra: thank you, ed peered in washington issuing a stern warning to beijing accusing china of trying to

steal american intellectual property and medical research connected to the coronavirus. rich edson is live at the state department with all of that this morning. >> this is the latest issue the state department is highlighting to warn about the chinese government during this pandemic. a secretary of state mike pompeo says the u.s. is coordinating with its allies in a transparent way. meanwhile, he says "the prc, people's republic of china, continues to silence scientists, journalists, and citizens. to spread disinformation which has exacerbated the dangers of this health crisis. the secretary is just returned from a day trip to israel this week where he charged china's government with obfuscation and hiding information about the coronavirus. the senior state department official says the department has been focused for years on this type of behavior from china's government and that the world is now paying more attention to it because of the pandemic. secretary pompeo is also

applauding an announcement from a taiwanese company to manufacture semiconductors in arizona at the state department says will power everything from artificial intelligence, 5g equipment, and f-35. the administration looks for ways to move the u.s. supply chain away from china. the chinese government's response? we urge the u.s. to abandon the obsolete cold war zero-sum game mind-set and correctly view exchanges and cooperations with china in the field of science and technology, economy and trade, and work to enhance china-u.s. mutual trust and cooperation. the state department is also pushing allies to move away from chinese equipment in their next generation network, the 5g network. that is an ongoing campaign and thus far has had mixed results. >> sandra: rich edson at the state department, thank you. >> ed: meantime the president calling for an fbi document that details michael flynn's interview with federal agents

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>> ed: the fbi is now joining the search for a missing colorado woman. was reported missing by a neighbor after failing to return from a bike ride that happened on mother's day. she was riding near her neighborhood more than 100 miles west of colorado springs. anyone with information on this case is asked now to call the fbi tip line, 719-312-7530.

>> sandra: the cdc issuing brand-new guidelines down to help schools and workplaces decide when they can safely reopen. our next guest issuing his own guidance for reopening the economy in his "new york times" article titled how to reopen america safely. months ago, i called for a long lockdown. now he must minimize collateral damage. let's bring in a physician, professor of public health at johns hopkins university. author of the book the price we pay and a fox news medical contributor. thank you for being here this morning. so many questions for you and first off, what strikes me when reading through your piece has how much your thinking on this virus has evolved over time. what have you learned particularly when it comes to the spread of this virus? >> going into this pandemic leading up to it, we really did not know exactly what we were working with. there were a lot of unknowns using data from overseas and

since the virus has taken hold hand during the early phases of the plateau, we've learned a lot from the data. we learned that masks are a far more effective than we thought, and i was even skeptical as a surgeon who is wearing a mask most of my life. we learned that nursing homes are super high risk, half of the deaths in new jersey in about a third nationwide. we learn that businesses can accommodate this in some situations and start using distancing and hygiene, which work. those are effective strategies whom we've learned there was a big age distribution and we've got to protect those who are at highest risk. >> sandra: a lot of interesting things there. let me dig into the portion on going outside and wearing masks because you as a doctor as you just mentioned were skeptical about the universal call for wearing masks. as a doctor, you said people won't wear them right, there will be openings in them, but

today, you think that is necessary because it stops the spread of those droplets and stops them from getting to you the person wearing the mask itself. explain that a little bit more as we all try to go outside riding our bikes going for runs, should we all be wearing masks? >> it's funny. having worn a mask most of my adult life as a surgeon, it is interesting the first time and then you get used to it and you don't even know it's there and it turns out it is very effective. i talked to doctors in china and asked them how have they been able to manage containment of this pandemic after two outbreaks in areas which has about 10 million people each. that country is over a billion people and they believe it is because of universal masking. a hit not only creates a barrier from projecting droplets. remember, some people spit when they talk and some people don't even realize it. but also the contamination of surfaces, the barrier from the

droplets that come your way. removes the stigma for those who really need to be wearing masks, and it also is a reminder not to touch your nose and mouth which we on average do nine times according to studies each day. >> sandra: one of your other things as we should spend more time outside. talking about the lower risk than being indoors. explain that one especially is here in new york we are about to see an 80 degrees day. >> that sounds terrific. not all businesses can do some of their activities outside, but many can. some restaurants, some retail activity ranging from school activities and sports to family activities. things that can be outside right now should be outside as long as we have a viral load that is concerning. may not be that he'd itself, may be more humidity and the uv light in combination, but we have learned that there is an association with climate. the southern states got far less

of a pandemic than anticipated, and that's because it appears there is that association with climate and it appears to be seasonal. with that said, we've got to watch out for the fall. we only have this virus for a third of our cold season. imagine the entire cold season rude it is not something we have to accept that we have to take these mitigation steps. >> sandra: i will finish on your remarks in "the new york times" piece in late april, the united nations world food program reported that 250 million people may face starvation. you are writing about the costs of shutdown. in there are other serious consequences as well, deferred medical care, domestic violence, loneliness. at the same time, the coronavirus will persist, we must take proper care and how we reopen less we discount human life in the race to prosper. really interesting that as a doctor you say how important it is to reopen talking about the costs, but as a physician, your primary concern is saving lives. final thoughts.

>> there are public health outcomes associated with a shut down, and that's what we need to anticipate, and those things are slow to measure, they play out in the data late, but they are domestic violence, drug abuse, health outcomes, deferred chemotherapy, these are all things that are important. we told people stay at home because we didn't know what we were dealing with. we faced thousands, maybe millions of lives because of it and now we need to reopen carefully. >> sandra: is a really fascinating piece in "the new york times," you really hone in on this, not just two options full shutdown in full reopen, there's a safe way to do this in between, so i urge people to read it. thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you, sandra. >> ed: meantime, a house party ends and armed robbery leading to arrest warrants for two nfl players. plus, republican whip steve scalise joining us now with live reaction is the house gets ready to vote on a

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>> a senator mitch mcconnell said, it is dead on arrival. the president was never even consulted, they never worked with republicans so clearly, she didn't take this serious and wanted to just throw out a big socialist spending bill and a grab bag of all kind of crazy things like paying illegals, doing bailouts to states that were already failed before covid-19 to just throw $500 billion to states that it already wrecked their economy. why don't we be smart about helping businesses to get back up and running, families that want to get back out and get their chance at the american dream again and safely do that. you are seeing so many states safely reopening, 36 have already done it. my home state of louisiana is reopening in phase one today safely. people know how to go out and be around other people again in a safe way and start getting the economy going again but look at some of the studies that have come out recently.

johns hopkins, stanford and others talking about the negative impact people's health of shutting in. talking about over a million children that will die because they weren't getting immunizations, protecting a measles outbreak in six months because people are taking care of their health right now because they are being shut in. there's another cost of this that has also got to be recognized and you look at states that are safely reopening, that's where our focus needs to be is helping people get back out safely so they can go about their ways of life again. >> sandra: i'm sure you would acknowledge there are some essential pieces of this like helping out the meat industry as we do face and meet shortage in some capacity in this country because of the shutdown. congressman dan kildee joined us earlier today on this program and he points out not only that, but also the critical testing aspect of this bill that he says is essential. >> that's the piece of it that is so critical because if we do more of that, it allows us to

open the economy up in a much more robust way, which then would minimize the need for some of these benefits that have been the source of so much discussion and controversy. >> sandra: nancy pelosi said this is a starting off point, mitch mcconnell says it is highly likely there will be a new bill. what ultimately would you support and what kind of help do you think needs to get out to the american people and businesses as you know millions are struggling? >> may be nancy pelosi and some of those others forgot that we've already voted to pass over $2 trillion in relief including billions of dollars that we passed for testing. you can see every day we are given about 300,000 more tests a week. we need to keep working on that. you saw the president yesterday in pennsylvania touting a company that is making ppe here in america, so we are bringing a lot of that back from china. why is it nancy pelosi working

to hold china accountable? for some reason, she called china a distraction. no, china created this and hid from the world what was happening and they are holding back our ppe being made over in china so we are now making more of our own things here that can save american lives that we spend billions of dollars already that was passed in bipartisan legislation. how about they work with us on making that money worked properly to get more testing, to get more ppe made in america and to help families get back on their feet again >> sandra: that's where the focus should be, not giving hundreds of billions of dollars to failed states and billions of dollars to people who are here illegally when americans were sitting at home and may be losing their jos don't want to see that happen to our economy. they know we can safely reopen. >> sandra: so that's the aspect of the plan that you don't like. when it comes to the politics of this, nancy pelosi, "the wall street journal" editorial board takes up the proposal in this new piece this morning and i want to get your response to it.

pelosi's presidential platform the latest $3 trillion house bill and joe biden's real agenda for 2021. talks about them introducing this and having little to do with fighting covid-19. writes this is nancy pelosi's agenda for 2021 when she expects democrats will run the entire government and she will be the de facto president. how do you respond to that, congressman? >> nancy pelosi wrote most of this bill in her kitchen in san francisco. there were no hearings in washington, there was no outreach to republicans, so clearly, they didn't take this serious because they knew it wasn't going to pass so they do take cues from joe biden. given his occasional press conferences, he did say he wanted more than $2 trillion in the next round, so lo and behold the bill shows up just two days ago, that's $3 trillion. is that any surprise, but that's not the way you make policy and that doesn't help families get back on their feet, doesn't help

small businesses stay afloat. you've seen the reports, 25% of all restaurants won't reopen. they were serious things happen that are devastating people. we have got to safely reopen. like the 36 states that have proven how to do it. cdc today updated guidelines on how to safely reopen. that was the initial concern. let's show other people how we can safely reopen. >> sandra: the doctors that we have spoken to this morning it will take time to assess how those reopening us are going over the next weeks and months. lastly, considering a plan that would allow the chamber to vote remotely amid the coronavirus, where would you stand on that. >> this is a dangerous

precedent. you are talking about changing over 200 years of voting president in the united states house of representatives we nancy pelosi today again and again and unilaterally did not reach out and work out with republicans. she is changing the rules today so that literally just 20 members of congress can constitute a quorum. that's crazy. how to 435 elected members, she is now passing the rule that literally has democrats turning their voting card over to nancy pelosi. how scary of a thought is that? i'm not turning my voting card over to nancy pelosi. i don't know why anybody would vote today to allow that to happen to have only 20 members on the floor constituting a quorum to do business in the people's house of representatives. it's never happened before in over 200 years and that means through world wars and other pandemics, the spanish flu, showed up to work. today we are here working safely and all the protocols of social distancing are in place so why she chooses to do this now where she can literally hold the votes of other members of congress,

that is a dangerous precedent and frankly, i wouldn't want to have to go home and explain why i turn my card over to her but a lot of democrats today are considering voting for a bill that turns their voting card over to nancy pelosi. >> sandra: that's where you stand on that. congressman steve scalise, great to see you this morning, thank you for being here. >> ed: meanwhile, police in southeast florida now issuing arrest warrants for two nfl players accused of armed robbery at a house party this weekend. phil keating is live in miami with the details. >> to nfl players, two sore losers and two young men who quite possibly just blew millions of dollars of future income and potentially just ended their nfl careers. both men grew up here in miami and according to police, both arrived wednesday night for a poker party, but they arrived without criminal plan. in defensive back deandre baker who was drafted in the

first round last year is now wanted by the miramar, florida, police for four counts of armed robbery and four counts of aggravated assault. the same charges will be filed against seattle seahawks cornerback who was created by the washington redskins in march. according to witnesses at the party, the two players and a third unnamed accomplice allegedly stole a total of $12,000 of cash from the people at the poker table and several of their watches. $61,000 worth of expenses including a rolex all while yielding a semiautomatic firearm. also according to the affidavit, baker told the unnamed accomplice to shoot a man who had just walked into the room. no one ended up being shot. all three vehicles then sped away. in a very short statement from the nfl, he wrote "we are aware of the matter, but will decline further comment at this time." witnesses also told police that at that poker party, there was

actually a previous poker party two or three nights earlier that baker and dunbar attended where baker and dunbar allegedly lost about $70,000. when these men surrendered to police or when they are picked up by the police and arrested, they will be held without bond until their first court appearance. >> ed: phil keating, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: fox news alert now from the white house where the president is set to speak moments from now with the latest developments on the coronavirus vaccine. we will bring you the president's remarks live when he begins. that will happen straight ahead. but first, president trump wants former president obama to testify at the michael flynn case. why one top republican is pushing back on that demand. that's next. >> that's a good idea but we will do a lot of oversight over all things crossfire hurricane.

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>> ed: president trump raising more questions over the michael flynn an investigation now inquiring about the whereabouts of the fbi's missing 30 to report that typically summarizes witness interviews with fbi agents. officials say the documents disappeared after flynn met with federal investigators way back in january 2017. let's bring in a former director of the department of justice, good morning. this 302 document is something i've covered for a long time with various fbi stories. as someone who worked at the justice department, how frequently do 302 reports just go missing especially in a high-profile case? >> not that i can remember. this is the first time i've ever recalled that and this is a big issue. the fact that records from the fbi, they cannot be stressed that this thing has now gone

missing, this reminds me of the missing tapes and watergate which i think this scandal probably is more inflammatory then. >> ed: devin nunes a couple of days back suggested there was something bigger going on here than just a file missing, let's listen to him and i'll give you a chance to react. >> that report was doctored, maria, and that report no it was doctored because the lovebirds, we have the texts of them doctoring the report. but the original report that was used to brief the united states congress meant that report is missing, it is gone. we can't find it. that's something that general flynn should have. >> ed: was this a mistake or was there something more sinister going on? >> i can't imagine that this would be a mistake. we are talking about possibly the most high-profile investigation in the history of the fbi and to lose a 302 like that just doesn't seem likely to

me. seems like this is something that is intentionally lost, shall we say. >> ed: president trump has not been shy about trying to point the finger directly at his predecessor former president barack obama using that hashtag, democrats pushing back on that. the president went further, tweeting out yesterday "if i were a senator or congressman, the first person i would call to testify about the biggest political crime and scandal in the history of america by far is former president obama. he knew everything. do it, just do it, no more mr. nice guy, no more talk. of course senate of the senate judiciary committee and pledged to have hearings on this but poured cold water on the president's idea, watch. >> i think it would be a bad precedent to compel the former president to come forth to congress, that would open up a can of worms and for a variety of reasons, i don't think that's

a good idea. >> ed: does graham have a point that this is not just a bad precedent but something that could backfire on donald trump is a former president down the road? >> i agree with senator lindsey graham. there's two problems, very likely that obama would have a susceptible executive privilege defense and set the precedent. every president going to call in the previous president before congress. but i want to say this, the way the mainstream media has covered this is amazing to me. could you imagine in the same situation was reversed and you had dick cheney and the lighthouse unmasking members of the incoming obama team, the press, democrats, everybody, it would be a collective freak out but you don't see the mainstream media covering this like if the shoe were on the other foot. >> ed: thanks for joining us. >> sandra: some businesses

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>> sandra: a missouri restaurant coming under fire on social media for charging a customer of coronavirus surcharge. the restaurants or will not owner saying that it offsets the rising cost of food from suppliers. other businesses also adding a little extra to the bill as they struggle to stay afloat. carley shimkus' fox news headline 24/7 reporter and joins us now. in a surcharge. to the question is would people be willing to pay this as long as they could still get food from restaurants? >> that is definitely to be seen because this has caused a firestorm on social media.

in that missouri restaurant that you mentioned is defending itself now after somebody posted a picture on twitter of a receipt that shows a $2.19 covid-19 surcharge. the restaurant owners as the person who posted the picture doesn't even live in this area and may live in california and hasn't heard any complaints from his actual customers but he's getting inundated with negative reviews from people who live in other parts of the country. he says that he added a surcharge because of the rising cost of food and quite frankly just to make ends meet. >> sandra: here is geico steak house responding to all the attention it's getting for the surcharge saying, "we are not trying to hide the surcharge. we chose this option rather than changing our prices on our menu. this way we can adjust the surcharge weekly. please understand we can't control the rising cost of meat, seafood, poultry, and produce

prices, so basically asking for a little forgiveness from their customers so that they can stay in business. >> they were real reasons for the surcharge. they are not hiding it and also, that's how business works. the cost of something goes up, customers are going to have to pay more for it. and the cost of groceries rose nearly 3% in the month of april. that is the highest jump since the 1970s, so people are struggling and you really copped a feel for these restaurants that were already hurting and then got hit with a rising cost of food on top of all of this. >> sandra: there's been a lot of reaction on twitter. i know you posted some of them. objects to it, some restaurants are adding a surcharge for the customer shouldn't have to pay extra to make up we are lower than normal sales. but it's interesting how some people really support the decision. stacy says, "i appreciate those businesses who don't increase their menu item prices to charge this nominal surcharge because a lot of people feel like you

charge this now and when we come out of this, that will go away unlike higher prices for food. finally, there's another restaurant in western michigan who has chosen to do this, listen here. >> we are not doing this to get rich. we just want to see her staff taken care of and make sure people are fed. >> it averages about 82% per meal more just to put that meal out. when it started, we were running $50 per case of burgers and it was up to 55, 62, 66, 72. >> sandra: first of all, really makes you feel for these restaurants and some of the struggles they are having. we all hope they can survive. >> it's not just restaurants. dental offices are charging for ppe and salons are charging a sanitation fee but you read that reaction and people really are getting into it on twitter, expletives flying, some people saying it's ridiculous and other saying it is perfectly understandable so controversy on

social media, must be another day ending and why. >> sandra: i like the one tweet we had of the person saying if you don't like it, you can cook your dinner at home. that's also an option. >> sandra: carley shimkus, always good to see you, thank you. >> ed: thank you. moments from now, president trump set to make remarks on the operation warp speed, that as the administration's effort to fast-track a vaccine, how close are we? a live report on that next. >> private sector, public sector will be fully engaged in the development of this vaccine at warp speed, the fastest and broad reaching project of its time since the manhattan proje project. here's huge news for veterans with va loans.

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our west coast newsroom with the latest. william, good morning. >> unlike drugs that treat the illness, vaccine strain you are adaptive immune system to recognize and neutralize the virus and remember it, and those soldiers and scouts stay in your body for years waiting for the virus to return, and they kill it again. typically development takes eight years. the administration believes it can get at least one vaccine in eight months using a process called shingling, overlapping the attending phases one, two, and three for safety and kaczynskefficacy simultaneously. former pharmaceutical executive and army general. >> i think by the early fall we will know which is the likely winner. will have strongl strong vaccine candidates. >> eight are in human trials, including motor or not, pfizer, and no video, and oxford university. each are in or about to begin phase two for expanded human

testing, including hundreds of volunteers, followed by johnson & johnson, and a french company. >> we have many candidates, and we hope there are multiple winners. multiple shots on goal. this will be important, because this will be good for global availability if you have more than one successful candidate. >> ed: the president is optimistic he'll get 100 million doses by fall, and this operation warp speed, t developing a just a vaccine but support for the vials and the way to distribute it fairly using the military. back to you. >> ed: william la jeunesse, thank you. sandra, obviously the faxing is so important, first and foremost, to keep americans healthy. to get people in stadiums you need confidence of a vaccine, something the president's pressing on right now. >> sandra: absolutely. will hear from the president a short time from now, get an update on all of that. ed, great to be with you this week. we'll see you back here monday morning. the 21 starts now

"outnumbered" starts right now. >> melissa: fox news alert, we are awaiting president trump president trump's remarks from the rose garden as the white house is set to announce the leaders of a new public-private partnership to help fast-track a coronavirus vaccine. it is being called operation warp speed. the president yesterday said there should be a vaccine by the end of the year when the event begins we will take you there live. and another fox news alert, lawmakers returning capitol hill today to vote on democrats' latest $3 trillion relief package. the white house already threatening to veto the measure with senate majority leader mitch mcconnell