>> laura: i'm laura ingraham and this is a special edition of "the ingraham angle." shutdown lockdown and i onto recovery.au we are approaching summer, so we wanted to use tonight to take a look back and find out how we got here.ac s of course they're my commentary week after week during the mmitial shutdown on to where we are today. the virus started spreading in america primarily in new york and a stark warning followed, flawed models about how many are going to get sick how many would become hospitalized, even how many would die from covid-19. along the way, i questioned the conventional wisdom surrounding the numbers driving the very draconian policies that would come about.

as we expose the experts pushing back on known and effective treatments, we discovered a lot here in "the ingraham angle." a majority of americans have been locked down for more than two months. our lives were turned upside down and many are fighting back. some states are finally opening up b again, slowly. but i getting back to work, families are able to see each other again. it's about time. so how do we actually get here to let's start on day one.ut what we still don't know, that's the focus of tonight's angle. if there are many important questions about this virus that remain and the answers are goinv to tell us whether the mediation actions we've taken, the sheltering in place and what we are doing now, were right or wrong, too much or too little. number one, the true mortality rate. as the guardian reported today, "we don't yet know how dangerous the new coronavirus is and we won't know until more data comes in. y

estimates range from below 1% in the young to over 14% among seniors or the medically compromised." here in the u.s. it seems that the more we test the lower the mortality rate, that makes everyone feel a little bit better, doesn't it? that a graph tells the story. number two, contagiousness. people are terrified they'rere going to get the disease by just walking by someone on the street or in the grocery store and going out to get milk by sitting next to someone at a doctor's office for just 5 minutes. but dr. richard martin hello, and infectious disease expert said they're still so much to learn about how the pathogen is transmitted between individuals. data is needed not only to better understand when those who become ill shut the virus, but also which body fluids contain the virus and how those may contaminate surfaces and even s the air surrounding them. there was also an important

study conducted by stanford researcher on the confirmed instance of the virus spreading person-to-person in the u.s. it was a woman in her 60s who returned to the u.s. from china in mid-january. offer 372 traced contacts, a study published found that she's only -- they've only detected transmission of sars -- the specific name of the disease, that's the coronavirus that we are talking about, in a single household contact with frequent prolonged interactions with the index patient. that's interesting. out of 372 t contacts, only one person who basically lived with her, her husband, got it. number three. why some people get sick and some don't. we don't know why some of those infected up on the experience mild cold like symptoms will resolve on their own while a significant minority of those

infected may have serious symptoms that lead to pneumonia and even death. one theory is that the severity of symptoms is linked to the strength of a person's general immune system, but that's just one possible explanation. number four, patient zero? we still don't know who the first patient was who contracted the virus in china. that's a key fact that a lot of researchers say is essential to the analysis of this disease. the first target was like late december, then it was december 1st and now reports take it all the way back to november 17th. this means that the coronavirus started spreading for weeks before the first cases were officially reported by china. and that brings me to the question, number five. trusting the chinese. as soon as word got out about this new potentially deadly virus, the ccp began to crack down on jo exahong a few hand " we don't know why some of those infected up on the experience mild cold like symptoms will resolve on their own while a significant minority of those sr infected may have serious symptoms that lead to pneumonia and even death. that's a key fact that a lot of researchers say is essential to the analysis of this disease. the first target was like late december, then it was december 1st and now reports take it all the way back to novemberer 17th. this means that the coronavirus started spreading for weeks before the first cases were officially reported by china. and that brings me to the question, number five. trusting the chinese. as soon as word got out about this new potentially f deadly virus, the ccp began to crack down on journalists for doing

their jobs. for example, "the new york times" reported in january that when a group of hong kong journalists went to the wuhan hospital that took in most coronavirus patients, the police detained them for a few hours. they were then asked to delete their tv footage and hand in their phones and cameras for inspection. and today, china announced that it was expellingn american journalists from "the new york times," "the washington post," and "the wall street journal." they cited ideological bias against china, fake news made in the name of press freedom and breaches of ethics in journalism. china's motivation here is obvious. it further allows them to deprive us in their own people of real information, accurate information on what the heck is going on and what happened originally with us coronavirus. >> i regret china's decision

today to further foreclose the world 'stability to conduct theh free press operations. frankly, it would be really good for the chinese people during these incredibly challenging global times were more information, more transparency are what will save lives. >> laura: and speaking of saving lives, we still don't know what the fate is of the two citizen journalists who disappeared last month after questioning the government's response to the virus. i there just gone. question number six. china's relationship with the w.h.o. remember, china is cofounder of the world health organization and it provides an enormous amount of funding to it. they are now the second largestn donor at the united states. but somehow, they seem to be pulling all of the strings. cnn is reporting that the w.h.o.'s praise of trine'see response have led critics to question the relationship between the two entities.

perhaps one of the most overt examples of china's sway over the w.h.o. is its success in blocking taiwan's access to that body, a position that could have very real consequences for the taiwanese people if the virus takes hold there. so when you hear of officials here or journalists even, lauding chinese containment of the virus, take that all with a very large grain of salt. and remember, while we are wise to heed expert advice from trusted u.s. sources from time to time, that we should also remember there is a lot we do not know and a lot of information coming from china that we can't frankly -- cannot trust and that's the angle. can you believe that was more than two months ago? that was the first week of our national lockdown and still today, there's so much we don't know about the virus. what we do know is that this country needs to get back on

track, back to work, back to school, which brings us to week number two. starve the virus, not the economy. that's the focus of tonight's angle. by now, we've all become pretty efficient at avoiding dumb things, dumb things like hugging people, shaking hands at a time where we just can't do that, nonessential travel, 6 feet apart, grocery store, washing our hands, wiping knobs before you touch them. frankly not even touching knobs at all. >> our country has learned a aslot. we've learned about -- with wind about staying away where even this a little bit around. this disease or whatever you want to call it. >> laura: life in america is on a pause in an attempt to stop this virus. we have more than 80 million

americans who stay home do to stay stata mortars. that's undoubtedly slowing the spread of the virus, which is a very good thing. more than 550 americans have not succumbed to covid-19. we don't ever break them athi a median age or whether they had underlying conditions, but we will at some point. and of course we have "the ingraham angle" no everyon life lost is a tragedy. every life lost is irreplaceable.ra but we are testing a lot more people, it's a really good thing we are finding that more americans are infected, but as the president noted tonight, wen are gathering new data on mortality rates as well. >> the mortality rate is a big thing for me, because i think we areon very substantially 1%. that's -- it's still terrible, the whole thing, the whole concept of death is terrible, there's a tremendous difference between something under 1% and four or five or even 3%, so that's something that we are learning now and i think the number may be lower than people

think because of what i've been saying. >> laura: we are now just at the end of day eight with seven days more to go of our national timeout.t. the president with a multifactor analysis rightly raised the unintended consequences of a prolonged shutdown. >> can keep it closed for the next -- four years.. this is going away. we are going to win the battle, but we also have -- you know, you have tremendous or sponsorp ability. we have jobs, we have people get tremendous anxietyil and depression and we have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies, you have debt, probably definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we are talking about in regards to the virus. >> laura: along with the human death toll of the virus, as the

president discussed the economic carnage is mounting. one of my old friends from el salvador called me today and she was crying. her husband lost his plumbing job today. f her sister lost her marketing job on friday. >> we are going to save american workers and we are going to save them quickly. and we're going to save our great american companies, both small and large. this is a medical problem. we are not going to let it turn into a long-lasting financial problem. >> laura: of course some of the press, being the simpletons that they are, they want to make this struggle between b dr. anthony fauci of the cdc and the president. >> if we get to next week, we are deciding -- you'rere decidig what to do with these guidelines, whether to ease thep or reinstate them for another 15 days, will you follow the advice of dr. birx and dr. fauci if they say you should maintain --

>> ultimately i have to make a decision, but i certainly listen to them. i listen to a number of people. i have a lot of respect for dr. fauci and for dr. birx. and i will be listening to them and others that we have that are really doing a good job. >> laura: in the end, it's the president who is the one tasked with making the tough calls, that's what he was elected. in peacetime and in wartime he has the same as possibility. he gets a lot of input, he convenes a lot of meetings with a lot of smart people and he looks at the data in the projections, but the final decision always rests with him. we all know that in life there are inherent risks. we live with those every day when we into our cars, frankly when we just walk out the front door. it's always a balancing act in life and in politics between freedom and security, liberty and safety. but the president -- the president is never going to please everybody.

never. but america, at some point soon, he said, weeks, not months, will have to function again. we have to be a country together again and safe again. at times like this we need more, not less input from really smart people and it's times like this -- think of pre-iraq war. it's difficult to be the one questioning the consensus. phenomenal scholars like stanford epidemiologist john, or yale's david katz. they're taking a beating for even suggesting that we may need to reconsider some of our initial thinking about this virus and our response to it. they should be heard along with everyone else without censorship. a widely respected silicon valley forecaster and statistician has had a persuasive and well-argued piece on hope and optimism on the virus removed from the internet. then it was reposted elsewhere. he's being smeared right now by academics.

this is wrong and revealing. in therican people recent polling, and if it's accurate, they seem to appreciate the way the president has handled this crisis.ce day after day he stood before the press corps, not fun, answering questions for hours. his love and his respect for the american people, for our health care professionals, and our businesses, our workers, is evident. shines through.. he doesn't want our solution to this crisis to end up being worse than the insidious virus itself. that means everyone has to work together. everyone has to do his or her part. >> i will work with anybody to help the american people. i will. i don't care who it is, i will work with anybody if i feel i'm going to help the american people and the american worker. >> laura: can the democrats will have held up this latest

relief/stimulus bill for the last two days, can they say the same of what president trump just said? schumer and pelosi have been disgusting, what they've done to american families and american workers. there holding the country hostage. trying to extract policy concessions like wind and solar tsubsidies, mail in ballots, early voting for the fall, has nothing to do, zero to do with covid-19. >> we had a deal, i was pretty sure we had a deal last night if you a would've told me at a certain time, like about 9:00, i would've told you we pretty much have a deal. and then all of a sudden it changed. changed fairly rapidly and it was unacceptable -- would have been bad for our country. and they were asking for things that would have not been -- things that bore no relationship to what we are talking about. i say that's not the game, we can't play that game. >> laura: no, we can't,gsreki because this isn't a game. this is a country and we are trying to save people their

lives, and the process, our freedom, our constitution. we are trying to make ourr decisions here with the best information that we currently have, real data and again, the balancing freedom, security, liberty, safety. but at the end ofy, it all, we still want a country that has a strong chance of being prosperous and happy again. remember the pursuit of happiness? and that's the angle. coming up, what one expert, former fda commissioner said was the road map to recovery, was it really a guide to just controlling your life? plus, democrats perfect the art of fearmongering. that's ahead. ♪ fearmongering.

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they fast tracked approval for emergency use of the drug that we just mentioned first two weeks ago tonight to the cable tv audience in the united states. you never heard of hydroxychloroquine before we mentioned it. this is terrific news. >> the pharmaceutical company sent us -- has been working with us very closely and as alex mentioned a little bit, 30 million doses of the hydroxychloroquine to the united states government has been given. donated 1 million doses of it. -- it is also donating 6 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to u.s. hospitals. >> laura: we have exciting elements in the private sector regarding immunity testing as well, which would give us

critical information, namely who among us won't ever get covid-19 because of a natural or developed immunity to it? that is incredible. those folks, people who have that immunity, could obviously go back to work. that would be good for all of us. but of course, many of you, and i know you were because i heard from you, were crestfallen to have the president's decision last night to extend the shutdown to at least april 30th. and virginia governor ralph northam, he announced his closing down the state until june 10th, acknowledging today that this would have a devastating impact on the state's economy. he said it's going to be really hard. g you think? yes, it is. it's going to be really hard. marilyn disclosed indefinitely. governor hogan's stay-at-home order doesn't specify any end date there, so people are wondering when will i ever get

back to normal to at the daily briefing today, a few moments stood out. >> scott gottlieb, your former fda commissioner wrote a road map for recovery after the coronavirus. he suggests -- the road map suggests that everybody wear a mask in public. is that something of a task force thinks it's a good idea? >> we haven't discussed it to that extent, but it's certainly something we could discuss, we are not going to be wearing masks forever but it could be for a short period of time after we get back into gear.oi >> laura: okay, wait a second. remember when -- didn't they tell us not to use masks or buy masks? that is completely changed. i guess we're learning new things all the time, everyone is going to have to wear a mask for the foreseeable future. we need clear guidelines there. the former fda commissioner, scott gottlieb, has the president's ear, is highly respected by many, including dr. anthony fauci. he sits on a number of big pharma boards, nothing wrong with that, and he works at a very prominent think tank in american enterprise in washington.

every american, especially those who are interested in making plans for the future, should carefully read what scott gottlieb is advocating vis-a-vis theur coronavirus. one of the things he said, breaks it down into four phases, it's kind of interesting, but one of the things he says, right now we are in phase one and phase one is essentially trying to, you know, contain this,ce mitigate this, what we are doing now. face two would be more stepped up social distancing, but maybe we could slowly pull back in a few states, we will see where that goes. it also mentions the tracking of u.s. citizens. now, this was actually brought up in the briefing today. where the government, i guess, would use gps trackers. again, this isn't scott gottlieb's list of proposals to get us back to normal. gps tracking of u.s. citizens to enforce the stay at home social

distancing orders. now, we expected that from russia and china. with the united states use those measures? the president, when he responded today, said, well, that's pretty severe. he's heard about this report, maybe he's read the report. we all understand as this is going forward that the president has a lot of balancing here. he's getting a lot of input from a lot of smart people. and we understand he needs to protect the lives of americans. that's critically important. health care workers. think aboutth them, they are feeling the strain. you've seen them on television, that's real. in many parts of the country -- not all parts but many parts, the stress, anxiety, the worry, the personal protective gear, some of them still don't have enough in some of them are getting sick themselves. that's really, really terrifying. can't break the system.

tonight we also know that the economic carnage is piling up as well. it's alreadyw being felt coast-to-coast, having its own devastating impact on working men and women. on their children. on the elderly.ct on the at risk and low income families. they are especially, especially way now. again, gottlieb breaks down our recovery into those three phases i talked about earlier. right now we are in phase one. and phase two we would be able to get on a modified track. states have the outbreak under control could slowly start to reopen schools and businesses, parks, but would still have to practice some social distancing, live in large gatherings, keeping elderly and the pavulnerable somewhat isolated. in this phase, testing would also need to be more routine and widespread than it is today. that seems kind of reasonable, but who knows how long that would take? we are testing more than any

other country in the world now, not by per capita standards, but we have just jacked that up,t alex azar has done a great job. other people at the white house have stepped in, but the goal to get even to face two, is it achievable by april 30th? is an achievable by june 30th? t there are a lot of things in this document. so what would it take for america, then, you might ask, face two is not even clear, to get back to normal life, the life you had before all of this? the days when kids actually went to school and people went to sporting events and graduations and weddings and restaurants and church. okay, here's during phase three. this is from the gottlieb recommendation. physical distancing restrictions and other face two messieurs can be lifted when safe and effective tools for mitigating the risk of covid-19 are available, including broad surveillance, therapeutics, orfa safe and effective vaccine. that goes back to the gps tracking.

now, we all want a vaccine. we are praying for a vaccine. brilliant, brilliant people are working on that right now, but anthony fauci told us that would be at least 12 months from now if not 18 months. that's how long the process takes. today johnson & johnson announced plans for a clinical trial of a covid-19 vaccine in september. that's when the trial would begin. but let me be clear, if gottlieb apostate's metrics are going to be the ones the white house uses, thinking about this, talking to a lot of other really smart people today, congress needs to come back into session like tomorrow. okay? if all of our scientific resources are needed to get this vaccine tested, done, designed, and ready to go as soon as possible so we can go back to being a free country, if that's the metric, then we all need to know that now.

it's not like at the end of april we are told another two months, no. if we need to know this hard news, i think people need to know this t news tonight. and congress has to -- hasas toe here to help figure this out. americans i think our extremely understanding. they want to do their part, we all do. but in just talking to a lot of folks today from all different walks of life, people's patience is not going to last forever. you can't blame them, they're under an enormouss amount of stress and they don't have jobs. congress needs to get involved, get the actual specific metrics that the administration is using to determine when we can have our country back. in every one of the states also now under a stay in place order, there should be an urgent meeting of the state legislatures. the governor should be required to explain in every state in detail the factual and legal basis for his or her actions.

they might be perfectly valid, they might be based on the perfect perfect projections and data. and if the projections are even worse than we thought, we the people have a right to know. it's only fair. give us the facts, give us the metrics for restarting the country, then we can decide whether they are achievable in a reasonable amount of time. some people are going to lose their homes. many are going to lose their businesses than others, they're going to lose everything they worked their entire livesss, fo. they deserve to have a complete understanding of the actions being taken by the government. one of my favorite emails of that it came from an old high school friend i hadn't heard from them i don't think it maybe 17 or 18 years. a laura, just as scared as anyone about coronavirus. but we don't have much of a democracy if every difficult decision is made by technocrats and the media. the people and their representatives have no say in the matter. i thought about that a lot. i guess i couldn't really blame

him. protect your health and that of others. wash your hands a lot. use a glove to touch outside surfaces, socially distance. it's appropriate, the right thing to do, help those around you who are homebound or just depressed. there's a lot of lonely people out there as well. but let's rememberd. that capitalism will and is, frankly, delivering the therapies and we hope in the future, the cures for this wretched virus. so let's not kill the free market in the process of killing the virus. every time a company closes, the floodgate of anxiety and pain is opened for its workers. we want to stay safe and free. and those are my thoughts ons te end of shutdown day 14. coming up, the doctors told us to flatten the curve and then the left use that to flatten your lives.mi up next, the moment americans started fighting back. stay there. ♪ n

♪ >> live from america's news headquarters, , i'm jackie ibanez in new york. at the coronavirus death toll in the u.s. now nearing 100,000. according to johns hopkins coronavirus resource center, more than 90,000 americans have lost their lives to covid-19 and another 1.6 million have tested positive. the memorial day weekend authorities were keeping social

distancing roles to keep a resurgence of the disease. it law enforcement in several states spending their memorial day hunting unsuspected killer and police say 23-year-old man from the university of connecticut killed two men and abducted one of the victims girlfriends. if she was later found safe in new jersey and he was last spotted in pennsylvania and families pleading for him to turn himself in. i'm jackie ibanez, now back to the ingram angle from all your headlines come out log on to foxnews.com. ♪ >> laura: my thoughts at the end of day 29, america in shutdown. all right, we know too many americans continued to die today of the novel coronavirus, but we also witnessed a flattening of the covid-19 curve and thus it was not surprising that we heard the strongest indication yet that the white house is ready to green light a reopening of large parts of the country.

>> the plans to reopen the country are close to being finalized. certain states, as you know, are much different condition and under much different place. it's going to be very, very close. maybe even before the date of may 1st. >> laura: i think where talking a couple days, we can read between the lines there. it's clear that the president never contemplated mandating a one-size-fits-all approach to reopening.e he didn't do that for the shutdown after all, he let states decide. because that would be insane, because new york is not the same as other states. remember, it was two weeks ago that governor cuomo and health experts were fearmongering that the entire nation would soon look like new york. the horrific images of refrigerator trucks lined up outside hospitals coast-to-coast. of course, that was insane and we called it out at the time, because we knew that was not correct. for weeks we've also told you

that the covid models were all wrong. the mortality numbers are far below, thankfully, initial projection. projections that we have to remember spurred governors to institute the stay-at-home orders in most of america. i think it's fair to say that closing businesses and schools undoubtedly both saved and ruined lives. throughout the crisis, ordinary citizens in courts are now starting to challenge and reject some of the heavy-handed and arbitrary moves by state officials. michigan governor gretchen whitmer, kentucky governor steve bashir, both democrats, are coming under increased scrutiny for their recent shutdown moves. the angle has urged the statehouses of both states to come back into section to challenge these actions but so far even though these are republicanhe majorities in both states, they are m.i.a. we did, however -- now this is good -- see signs of life in

pennsylvania today. were by a vote of 107-95, republicans passed a bill to overturn democrat governor tom wolf's strict business shutdown rules, which were far more severe than the federal guidelines. it's about time. now, they're thinking is that since the virus will probably be a threat for months or years, it's important that we have a vision. it's important we have a plan to get back to work. california governor gavin newsom thinks he has a plan to get his state back to work, kind of. but could it actually be a a pln to k avoid a return to normalcy back while, in the golden state, more than 780 have died due to the coronavirus and as tragic as any and all loss of life is, and it sure is, that figure is astonishingly low for estate of 40 million people. compare that to the numbers in new york.

a state with half the population and more than ten times the covid deaths.s. yet today, gavin newsom insisted that the state could only begin to reopen if six distinct conditions were met. they are quite involved and perhaps not realistic. we are going to get into more of that with home depot cofounder bernie marcus. by the way, we hinted at this with hannity, if, like me, you really miss major league baseball or the nba or other professional sports, college sports, you're looking forward to college football in the fall like i am, well, don't look for any help from gavin newsom. >> large-scale events that bring in hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of strangers altogether across every conceivable difference, health and otherwise, is not in the cards based upon our current guidelines and current expectations. > laura: well, look, californians are just going to

have to decide for themselves, how much of their freedom,m, thr work, their schooling, their leisure, the family time that they're willing to sacrifice going forward for the promise of safety from a virus that so far, we did the math, has killedro .002% of the state's population. and those are my thoughts at the end of day 29, america in shutdown. coming up, what would happen if joe biden were president during this covid crisis? well, i'm going to reveal who would really be in charge if uncle joe took the reins. it's scary, next. ♪ j ♪ it's only human to find inspiration in nature. and also find answers. our search to transform... ...farm waste into renewable natural gas

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♪ >> laura:: what would joe do? that's the focus of tonight's angle.

like a rarely seen endangered bird on its way to extinction, joe biden was spotted earlier this morning on abc's "good morning america." so how would joe lead america through the covid crisis? >> i would tell the governors, this is dr. fauci, listen to the scientists, listen to what the facts are. this is -- this president has to focus on what's going on here. i'm getting really frustrated with -- not you come up with this. the whole notion that n somehow there is -- we can just open, we can -- >> laura: what? subject, verb, direct object. no wonder they want to get the interview short and campaigning for joe virtual, the poor guy. but what biden seems to be saying if you can unpack it is he would farm out critical decision-making to others like dr. fauci and other unnamed scientists. while the idea of world by the expert class may be appealing to

people like george stephanopoulos and others in the media, in the end, it would mean that americans would be poorer and less free. no work unless it's approved by experts. a no worship services, no ball games, no concerts, no travel to see herd family or friends. not, at least, until we have a vaccine. oh wait, vaccines, as we heard the other day, they have to be many vaccines as in plural. since the virus is mutating. except, some bad news. your kids are out of luck as well, because the vaccine wouldn't be ready by september. >> the idea of having treatments available for a vaccine to facilitate the reentry of students into the fall term would be something that would be a bit of a bridge too far. >> laura: parents acrossom america let out a collective

gasp. how is that based in science? with all due respect to dr. fauci's expertise, no one elected him to anything. there are devastating consequences of keeping childrea away from school for extended periods of time. especially at risk children. within talking about this i think for five weeks now. so, do the experts in medicine think about the risks to children and to parents who, if they have to work as essential employees, they can't afford tutors or nannies? >> i don't have a good explanation or solution for the problem of what happens when you close schools, it triggers a cascade of events that could have some powerful circumstances. >> laura: well, i'm glad he was candid on that. of course it's the case. because he hasn't thought that through. the ripple effects. that's not a job. >> are scientists, a physician,

public health official. i don't give advice about economic things. i don't give advice about anything other than publicut health. >> laura: fauci later tried to clarify things saying he wasn't necessarily saying that a vaccine is needed to reopen schools, but still. we all know that the only experts that would inform biden are experts approved by the left-wing media. for instance, stanford phds who studied this virus and criticize the shutdown. they're just ignored. they are not experts at v all, forget the phds. the virus we know is killing americans we love. but it is still far less deadly than originally thought. >> this is a virus that induces an immune response and people recover.. the overwhelming majority of people recover from this virus. >> laura: keep that in perspective, i'm glad dr. fauci reminded us of that today. we've known this though for almost a few months. we've known that new york and

new jersey, few other states, accounted for a large percentage, 45% of all deaths and that new york likely ceded the nation with the virus. we know that under governor cuomo's leadership, senior citizens died because sick patients were sent back to their elder carere facilities, ended up infecting others. but now, new york expects the rest of america to fork over billions to bail it out as it stays down indefinitely. shuts down indefinitely. how is thatel going to work? now, i dare you to readwn andrew cuomo's 51 page plan to supposedly go forward post-covid. i would just give you a synopsis. at mike bloomberg will be in charge of tracking and training thousands of contract tracers.st only 3 out of 10 regions meet all seven state requirements right now to start reopening, and it names bill gates as a partner in reimagining education.

now, most of new york isn't opening anytime in the near future. and if you o don't open a month where is that tax revenue coming from to keep schools and services at least doing something, online, providing -- where's the money coming from? wait for it, it's coming from you, the taxpayers of course. this is about remaking america under the veil of a virus. it's a naked power grab in the middle of a pandemic. and it's disgusting. thank goodness president trump decided to let states chart their own coursen though towards reopening. because now you can kind of see for yourself what life will be like under a biden administration. what would joe do? well, he would do pretty much what new york has done or california has done. lockdown until the experts set you free. lockdown until may be bill gates gives his imprimatur to a

vaccine. our health care decisions will be informed by the w.h.o. and thus dictated by china. the new normal, under democrat rule, will be socialism for all. crumbs for the masses. as for the elites who helped along the way, help this whole situation unfold, well, their lives are not going to change at all. they stoke fear and they move goalposts to overcome your common sense. that's what they've been doing all along. house democrats unveiled their own plan to remake america today, a $3 trillion grab bag, which we will expose later. it includes everything from diversity mandates to aide for marijuana dispensaries. keep all of this in mind as joe biden stumbles through carefully curated interviews. given his obvious limitations, he'll be nothing more than a figurehead president, we've said this before.jo he'll be shuffled from event to event with an emphasis on ceremonial duties. but this weekend at biden's remake is getting mixed reviews. according to a morning consult

paul, biden's net favorability rating among women slid six points this april. and then there's this. only 54% of democratic voters want the party to keep biden at the top ofot the ticket. whoops. a terrible sign for the democrats in november. the democrats will keep this panic parade going througha at least the election. what else do they have but fear itself? meanwhile, i envision a lot of banners with slogans such as this. from 2020, we trust you. freedom, not shutdowns. or maybe, yes to america, no thanks to the new normal. and that's the angle. my final thoughts on this memorial day when we come back.

>> as we honor their memory today, let us pledge that their lives, their sacrifice, their valor will be testified and remembered for as long as god gives life to this nation. and let us also pledge to do our utmost to carry out what you must have their wish. that no other generation will ever have to share their experiences and repeat their

sacrifice. >> laura: afterwords after a very difficult time for our nation. thanks for watching the special edition of "the ingraham angle." good night. ♪ >> hello, welcome to "hannity" mike: this is a fox news alert. stock market futures pointing up because some late breaking news on the vaccine friend, the first human studies of the experiment of coronavirus vaccine making it one of the shots being tested on people globally and it can produce up to 100