>> well, thank you very much for watching us today, we will be back here at 6:00 a.m. eastern on the virtual couch. have a great day. >> sandra: thank you. president trump bashing twitter after the site flagged his tweets with a fact-check warning. good morning everyone, i am sandra smith. >> ed: a very pleasant good morning to you, i met henry. the president accusing twitter of interfering with free speech and the 2020 elections after the platform as a warning to his tweets about mail-in ballots and alleged voter fraud. >> sandra: "the new york post" summing it up this morning with "tweet fight, president darius as twitter labeled him a fake news." >> ed: is also threatening to move the convention of north carolina giving the governor one week to decide whether or not the event can

proceed as planned. john roberts is running all that down. >> good one to you. as certain as the sun going down last night and then the sun coming up again this morning, president trump hitting it back at twitter last night and again this morning as it put a fact-check on a couple of his tweets regarding the potential for fraud with mail-in ballots. the president we did "twitter is now interfering with the 2020 election. they are saying my statement with mail-in ballots which will lead to massive corruption and fraud is incorrect based on fact-checking. twitter is completely stifling free speech and i as president will not allow that to happen. twitter firing back saying these tweets can take potentially misleading information about voting processes and have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots and this decision is in line with the approach that we shared earlier this month. the president this morning going after both social media platforms and doubling down in this issue of potential fraud

with mail-in ballots and a lengthy series of tweets saying "republicans feel that social media platforms totally silence conservative voices. we will strongly regulate and close them down before we will ever allow this to happen. we saw what they attempted to do and failed and we can't let a more sophisticated version of that happen again just like we can't let large-scale mail-in ballots take root in our country, it would be a free-for-all on cheating, forgery and the theft of ballots. whoever cheated the most would win, like why social media, clean up your act now. looking ahead to the national convention, the president yesterday giving north carolina's governor roy cooper a deadline of sorts to say whether or not charlotte can accommodate the convention or the rnc may have to go somewhere else. listen here. >> so in terms of soon, are we talking a week? >> we are talking a very short period of time. it's a massive expenditure and i would have to know i would say within a week, we would

certainly have to know. if he can't do it, all he has to do is tell us and we have to pick another location. >> georgia is vying to hold the convention if charlotte can't and also the mayor of jacksonville, florida, putting pitch saying we successfully hosted a usc live event at our big arena and we could host the republican convention as well. in a few wit hours andrew cuomo will be here to talk to the president. he's under fire for what happened in nursing homes in new york state and he pushes back on trump administration saying they were simply following cms guidelines. the meeting is close to the press as are all other meetings with the governor and the president. oh to be a fly on the wall. cuomo still pushing for that gateway tunnel project and the

president so far as resisting. >> ed: all in the family. >> sandra: the president's fight with twitter and eight newt gingrich joins us as the fox news contributor. good morning and thanks so much for being here. so jump in on this conversation, he uses this frequently and they have no chosen to put a fact-check warning up on his twitter feed and the president is fighting back now threatening regulations or even shutting down some of the social media sites. >> i think it has to be us great concern, that the three are all located in one of the most radical left-wing parts of america.

and they expressed that in their biases. what twitter called fact-check is not true. they went to left-wing publications to get a left-wing version. the president is correct, we have seen a lot of theft of vote, we have seen a lot of male being lost. there are all sorts of challenges with going through an all-male program for voting. for twitter, it's just false. and also dangerous to have institutions that bake that are prepared. at&t decided that they could censor what you set on the telephone and it's a very dangerous. i think twitter is going down a very dangerous path and if they are not careful they will become a regulated public institution rather than the totally free entrepreneur. >> sandra: it was a fascinating piece in "the wall street journal,"

published yesterday about facebook doing deep dive on its own practices and finding out just how divisive of an atmosphere that particular site is and it decided to shelve that research which brings up a bigger question. is this about the president or is this about the social media sites, and they say these tech giants are silencing conservative voices. >> well and they are bringing in people who are very far left. google has now just recently brought in and of women who have been advising the chinese communist party and who was actively opposed to google working with the american defense department. you look at some of these people, and they are totally out of touch with every day america and i think that at some point they are going to run a real risk of having some interventions that i don't want to see happen but you can have a free speech dominated by an institution which is determined

only to allow it side to speak. that's what all three of those institutions, facebook, google and twitter, they have a track record of becoming more and more anti-conservative so it's not just president trump, it's anyone in america who has a traditional value and a traditional sense of patriotism or a sense of american history. all of them are under siege in the social media groups. >> i want to ask you about joe biden's controversial remarks that have not seemed to go away for the former vice president. talk about picking a woman of color as his vice president, here he is, still responding to interview and a brand-new interview. listen. >> after your interview with the breakfast club, he told cnn that he thinks a black woman as a running mate as necessary. >> and he is entitled to his

opinion. for example, jim clybourn we just saw on the view and i said i'm going to pick the best person. >> sandra: will he be able to reshape these remarks were put this behind him mr. speaker? >> what we with vice president biden more and more frequently as he will probably end up putting this behind him. and it makes my question in my time that it's better off to hide and not camping at all.

and you just tell. i don't think he has the ability to decide forcefully. i think it will be very different >> sandra: it's always a pleasure to talk to y you. >> we are once again launching american astronauts from american rockets on american soil. this is a unique moment where all of america can take a moment and look at our country do something stunning again.

>> sending to american astronauts to the international space station in the first manned flight from u.s. soil in nearly a decade. our man on the ground is phil keating. phil, good morning. >> all systems for this historic launch at this point are a go. for the very first time a private space company spacex will be at launching american astronauts on board its crew dragging crack capsule. that is historic launch pad 39a over there over my shoulder and that's when it launched apollo 11 to the moon long ago. you can see the falcon nine rocket standing tall on top of it is the crew dragging capsule and that is the crew access armor later this afternoon, bob and ken and doug hurley will walk the plank, so to speak so hop in and strapped down and get ready for blasts off.

blastoff would be weather and this morning it was raining extremely hard to come up with lightning and thunder. for now it's cleared up. currently the weather forecast at lunchtime is 60% favorable. the two astronauts got in to and fully suited up, nasa is calling it launch america. that's the first time in nearly a decade. we met exclusively with nasa administrator jim brighton stein and he told us that personally, he's a little nervous. >> my concern is making sure that we've done everything we could possibly do to minimize the uncertainty and minimize the risk to be ready to go. of course we have done the flight readiness review and the launch readiness review, and everybody is a go.

>> even though there will be two astronauts on board, this is a test flight. there is just that mannequin in there and it basically went flawlessly. at the flight from the launchpad up to the space station, and we welcomed the board. as for the coronavirus everybody out at hawthorne, california, at spacex has been social distancing and wearing masks for weeks now and for hurley an end ken, they've been in quarantine for the past ten weeks like many americans. they've been training for years for this mission and as a countdown clock says, we are exactly seven hours and 21 minutes away from blastoff. it's a great thing for everybody and we will see that at

4:30 p.m. this afternoon. >> ed: unhappy for you, we hope it's a wonderful launch. much more coverage of this historic launch. we will speak with the former commander of the international space station lee roy child coming up later this hour. >> sandra: looking forward to that. meanwhile the death of an unarmed black man is sparking police protests and calls for justice. the action taken by at the police department after the deadly encounter. plus president trump squaring up with twitter after it starts fact-checking the president's tweets. howard kurtz will join us live on that. >> you would say there is no evidence for that at all. >> did twitter do something, should they take action? >> when things are patently not true, they should say so.

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>> floyd lost consciousness and was later pronounced dead. four officers involved in that arrest have now been fired. the fbi is investigating and will have a report coming up next hour. >> meanwhile, president trump reacting after twitter flexed two of his tweets. he says "twitter is completely stifling free speech and eye is present will not allow it to happen." howie kurtz is the fox news analyst at media buzz. let's start simply with why now. >> it's no coincidence that on the very day and a congressional

staffer despite, this is like a make up fall: basketball, we don't like what the president is saying and we don't think it's true what he saying about mail-in voting. are you also going to start fact-checking nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and let's say the world health organization? that's biased by twitter and others. and twitter has also maintain this fiction, and now it's trying to outsource it to other outlets like cnn and

"the washington post." they have certainly been very negative by president trump. >> ed: this is just a bulletin board and they are not really repeat policing things. "wall street journal" has a story with an important context, about facebook privately doing the study where the scenes i executive months ago were looking at how it had become divisive, the platform, and looking at ways in which they can make it less divisive and then they eventually shut this down and didn't find way to make it less divisive so my question is, is that the medium, is of the messenger, is it both? who is to blame for the cesspool that social media can become? >> it certainly can be an ugly place. social media can be something of a box because it wants to make all this money, facebook and twitter, google, you name it. sometimes you have to make

difficult judgments about whether something is flat out false. i do have to say, i understand that the president's frustration here. conservatives feeling like the game is rigged against their point of view but when the president says of twitter doesn't clean up its act we will strongly regulate them or shut them down, president doesn't have an authority to close on a private company. right now this is just a couple of band-aids on a very deep wound that twitter is attempting and it's not going to stop the bleeding. >> ed: to your point, not going to be able to shut them down perhaps but they will get tax breaks that the group may be looking at. >> they get a huge handout for the federal government.

that's liability that's worth billions of dollars to them every year. they need to explain that we need some answers. >> china found no human transmission of covid-19, and i never heard about a fact-check on that. they had not done that for us a long time. conservatives feel like -- >> i don't think that's true, i don't think every conservative voice is being silenced but sometimes there are flat out lies. these companies, and that would be a better approach that would

have one standard, and these are serious liabilities for these companies. >> ed: the safest thing we can say is that 11:00 a.m. will be a big topic on your program. >> see you. >> sandra: new york governor andrew cuomo will be meeting at the white house as small business owners in new york city will press the governor to allow them to reopen. neil cavuto will be looking forward to that after yesterday's big rally. new clues on the search for a college student wanted by two murderers. >> my message is to peter directly. this behavior is out of the

ordinary for you and we know that this is not who you are. we want to resolve this in a safe way.

>> ed: fox news alert, the afghan government releasing hundreds of taliban prisoners as part of the fight to end the war in afghanistan.

in the tele- bank and get going. >> sandra: a look at wall street this morning, rally seems to want to continue this morning. businesses are reopening in this country and potential progress on the vaccine. neil, the opening bell will ring moments from now and it looks like we will see another solid rally. who survives and who thrives? >> they will more than just survive, and there's a lot of

pent up for what you are watching. streaming service begins today so that's getting a little bit of attention. the backdrop for this is just people confident now between dozen possible vaccine possibilities and there are those governments around the world that are working in concert. and that's an outright cure for the virus. that's what's really driving this. you are quite right to point out that bombs are expected along the way. and we don't know how sharp the

uptake. >> sandra: governor cuomo is meeting with president trump at the white house. and getting things open, and we are going to turn the page on covid-19. and how we reopen, and how smart we are. that's the new economy that will come out of this and the admission that some of the smaller shops, the smaller businesses won't make it. >> 1 out of 4 restaurants would not be able to reopen.

that's the big improvement, some of the businesses. there is no coincidence that the new york governor's would be meeting with the president, and we really can't see a robust recovery, particularly our new york metropolitan area, of course a center of the financial world as open as well. that could still be a couple of weeks off here and it may be something comes off of that meeting to telegraph the reopening sooner. again when we are back to work not all of us will be going right back. and, that's how other cities will follow suit. >> sandra: some of the president's big supporters and

republican colleagues, that's what will be a robust rebound. >> i think it's about the obama economist. that's what we call the economist. it's going to be strong, and that was a few months ago before the shutdown. >> obviously there was political implications, you have that obama economist jason furman making headlines for saying just that. also a warning to democrats that if this bounces back, final thoughts on that? >> remember what you are comparing it to, that was the second quarter. comparing data, and i've joked about this in the past, but i

ended up getting c's entities, but it's a huge comeback from that f report card. that's the same perspective, it's preprogrammed and i think the numbers would be a god awful. if they are not nearly so awful them will be off to the races. but fair is fair and we would be off to the races. >> sandra: great point. when you say off to the races, that's the daughter of eugene serna. and even predicted, she will

have a perspective. that's the first time in nearly a decade. they save a lot of money doing that and the fact of the matter is, this duo leading the effort, they are married to astronauts and well seasoned and going into space but between day and their spouses they've done is half a dozen times so there's a lot of experience there. we will watch the economic

advisors under president obama and as i mentioned, jason furman is making a lot of news on this. stay tuned for that. >> ed: a fox news alert on the manhunt for college student wanted for two murders in connecticut. investigators now focusing the search for the 23-year-old peter manfredonia in pennsylvania after new clues about his activities. alex hogan is live in new york city with the details. >> u.s. marshals stepping in with the fbi and police across state lines in the sixth day of this manhunt for peter manfredonia. now police are giving us a closer look at the bloodied timeline. >> please note that this case is active, ongoing and very fluid. we are asking if anyone sees the suspect to please call 911 and

do not approach him. >> isn't accused of attacking two men on friday. neighbors living along the chain of the vicious crime scene still can't believe what happened this weekend. >> i don't know how the people on the street are going to get over this. i just don't know. >> police say after the murder he held a senior citizen captive in the home before stealing the man's truck and guns but he crossed the truck about 70 miles away. he needed another ride and went to the home of a high school friend, shot him to death and then kidnapped his girlfriend. shhe dumped her later and she is okay.

they took him to a nearby walmart. police at that point are coming through some possible types of where he could be. if you can hear us, turn yourself in. >> ed: alex hogan, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: transcripts of phone calls between michael flynn and the russian investor are not classified as the new director of national intelligence face pressure to release them. new businesses a as a house and senate close in on an extension for the paycheck protection program. senator marco rubio is here to discuss all of that life, next. >> we are not going to get all back on our feet economically if we all set at home and watch

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>> ed: president trump urging republicans to vote against the bill. at this as kt mcfarland the director to release transcripts of michael flynn's phone calls. they have her acting chair. >> as we understand it, ric grenell on his way out, they declassified the conversations. did they believe she should be publicly released?

and this has been that's a difficult decision to make for people. we don't want these sorts of things to be politicized. >> to your point about transparency, the president is saying this is worse than watergate. you are now in charge of the senate intel committee and we are focused on surveilling foreign terrorists and not americans, how do we fix this. >> and they are part of a plot to harm the united states the issue here is not that the process itself is problematic but that it was abused, and that

individuals for example we now know that working at the fbi at the time, they omitted exculpatory information and they lied to the court, they left things out and they in fact doctored and altered material to present to the court. they misled the fisa court to get their hands on a warrant. the issue is not the process but the way the process was abused. the issue was, but understand this. that could be a proper story as well. >> briefly do you agree with the president that we should hold up the fisa bill in-house until we make the fixes you are talking about or should we get the fisa bill through and deal with it later? >> it's so important because it should be used as leverage to

prevent these abuses from happening in the future. i understand why legislators and the president and others would want to because sometimes you use the let because it's valuable. there are some american citizens that has been radicalized and is to actively coordinating with a terrorist organization, we need to know what they are up to. >> finally on the economy, you've been the leade leader on. as you know small businesses are saying some of them haven't gotten the money. >> i'm not sure about the more money part of it, i know there's over $100 billion remaining in ppp. but now the issue becomes, businesses are saying because of different stages of reopening,

and they need more than eight weeks to spend this money, that's something i agree upon. but i think there is clearly a need for businesses to have more time to use their ppp money to hire people. that part that we calculate as payroll should be the cost of protecting those workers and buying personal protective equipment, not just to meet local mandates but also to keep your employees safe. those are the kind of things i hope we could see very soon. >> thank you sandra for coming on. >> the dea gets a leg up on track in the cash. we have a live report on just how much money they have seen so far. plus the countdown is on to

spacex launching the first manned mission from u.s. soil in nine years. former commander of the international space station will be here alive to weigh in on today's historic event. >> it is truly a privilege to be part of this, to witness this historic moment and see where this journey ultimately takes us.

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mission we are all about to witness? >> this has been a long time coming. and it's been historic for two reasons. this is the first time in nearly nine years that u.s. astronauts that's a first time that u.s. astronauts will launch aboard a commercial spacecraft. spacex of course, first time they are flying with astronauts on board, and this is an exciting day. >> sandra: an exciting day indeed. the nasa administrator jim bryden stein said he texted the two astronauts on monday and told them, "if you want to stop this thing for anything reason, just say so. i will stop it in a heartbeat if i need to. they both come back and said we

are go for lunch. >> there is a lot of flexibility built into the back end of this mission but that's intentional. i want to reiterate that it is a test flight and the goals to get them to the international space station and test the systems i get them home. if they can do more work than that while they were on the iss then certainly that's okay. but this is a test flight. >> sandra: give it some context about what this must be like for these two astronauts that are taking this mission. >> this is very exciting. they are both very qualified and i know they are excited to. i talked to them briefly just before, maybe about a couple of months ago and they said they had ne no reservations. there is an old adage for test pilots saying never fly the a model of anything but if you are test pilots and of course you fly the a model. of course there is risk in the first flight but this is a system that has worked before,

the falcon nine rocket has launched many times. this will be the first flight of this version of the dragon spacecraft and spacex certainly has a lot of experience with its heritage spacecraft that has launched cargo to the iss over many years here, and i have full confidence that this is going to go well and i'm really looking forward to it. >> sandra: love to hear all of that optimism. mr. chow, if you could come and tell us about just seconds before launch. obviously the weather will be launched on the way up until lunch time this afternoon in the 4:00 eastern time hour, but tell us about the seconds before this happens. what goes through an astronauts head? >> i will tell you, the first time is in a spatial getting ready to launch, it's all very familiar because you literally spent hundreds of hours in a simulator training and then it became very real at the about the one minute point when the launch control center called and said, close and lock your advisors, initiate oxygen flow

and have a good flight. that's when the adrenaline shoots into your veins and you are ready to go, then you are keyed up and waiting for lunch. >> sandra: i can tell you are excited about this, and we are all as well. thanks so much. >> ed: we are excited to watch that and come up more states easing restrictions, president trump is set to meet with governor cuomo this morning at the white house with a hash out a path forward. plus twitter fact checks the president for the first time ever and he calls in an attempt to metal in the 2020 election. judge andrew napolitano on deck with that. we're getting a super competitive interest rate on our money. we're able to invest through the same exact platform. i got approved for a loan and it was a game-changer. truly sofi, thank you for helping me prepare for whatever the future has in store.

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>> sandra: fox news alert, growing signs of a rapid economic recovery shaping up across the nation as a president trump project's great economic comeback. when he meets with new york governor andrew cuomo, happening a little bit later at the white house. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," and sandra smith. steve linick good to see you. president trump moves to revive the economy in several states easing more restrictions the the today which marks up for the transition away from strict lockdown orders. >> sandra: minnesota given the go-ahead for churches to reopen their doors. at colorado and florida allowing imprisoned dining at restaurants. plus barbershops and hair salons

giving the okay to operate services and parts of california along with and person shopping and dining. lots to cover there. we have jonathan serrie with the latest signs of hope. >> minnesota is allowing them to reopen at 25% of their maximum occupancy or 250 people, whichever number is less. here's how it works. if members of separate households will be expected to maintain a physical distance from each other of at least 6 feet. this agreement represents a compromise between the governor, catholic bishops and some lutheran clergy who were eager to resume indoor trade services but other houses of worship including many protestant churches and some synagogues have decided to play it safe. colorado restaurants can open today under strict social distancing and cleaning guidelines. tables are limited to a maximum

of six people. outdoor seating is strongly encouraged. friday nevada plants to allow multiple businesses to reopen, bowling alleys and malls and swimming pools and water parks will be able to operate at 57% capacity. as statics salons can operate under an appointment only model with employees and customers wearing face coverings. looking ahead to next week on june 4th, and he mentioned that meeting between new york governor cuomo and president trump, the governor wants to discuss plans to revitalize the economy through construction pragu projects to e infrastructure, essentially killing two birds with the same stone. >> ed: a big infrastructure needs throughout the country.

>> sandra: president trump struggling to get past that controversial comment he made. >> first of all, it was a mistake. and i was smiling when he asked me the question. i shouldn't have been such a wise guy. he was being a wise guy and i responded in kind and i shouldn't have done that. it was a mistake. >> sandra: let's bring in a progressive radio talk show host. a good morning to both of you. nice to have you both on this morning like the good old 18 days. leslie, i will start off with you first because biden has now had a couple of times to walk back those remarks. i will initially say, i was a wise guy, and he was responding

in kind. how is he doing this? >> the african-americans are called into my radio show or have responded on my social media sites are basically saying if you listen to the interview in its entirety some of them actually understood what led him to the point to make that remark. even if they were offended by it. and quite frankly what i'm hearing from the majority of those people in the democratic party is that they were offended by the remark but they would still vote for the vice president anyway because i feel legislation wise he would be better for the black community. and that's what he said it, he was pushing him specifically as he would anyone else sitting in the interview hot seat on those specific issues for the community. >> sandra: brad? >> look, joe biden was the wise guy. he was being candid with the

vice president and also pushing them. guess joe biden thought this would be a softball interview, and he said a racist remark using urban slang and it is what it is. you don't have to listen to the entire interview to get the meaning and attempt on my content of what the vice president meant. it was shameful and regrettable, but now they are making excuses for it. >> sandra: he did say he made a mistake. now in a new interview he is further responding, and now he's wondering whether he should apologize for making such mistakes. >> the vast majority of people and all the data, they think they know me. that's a good news. the bad news is they know me and the hard part is i have a real faults, everybody does.

they are turning my strength and my honor to a liability. >> so can he move past this? yes he can. most african-americans are democrats statistically, and many label themselves as moderate and joe biden is a moderate. there have been some that were actually on his side with boston. i'm from boston and a lot of people in the african-american community were dead set against it, the same reason the vice president was at that time back in the 70s. he looks at the voter turnout they had it, he's doing very well with the black community and i honestly don't think although i was offended by this

remark, i don't think that remark was going to change that. one is the central part five. >> any group, any person, any vote counts. i have to agree with the president when he initially said what do minorities have to lose, now they know what they have to gain. the president has done an amazing job for minorities so there is no reason why they shouldn't be looking for the president to remain in office because he's actually delivered for them. >> sandra: you have heard the president make that case especially when the economy was zooming along. that shows trump and biden and a statistical tie. you found former vice president

joe biden in a statistical tie leading by three points in the republican stronghold. he's a leading biden 44-41% and it's important to note, a right-leaning organization, and i will get your reaction. the most recent poll there finds a wide gender gap with biden leading trump, and your response was? >> i'm not surprised with the women. we've seen in the past recent months gallup and quinnipiac showing 60 and 61% disapproval between females of the president. i'm also not surprised about this not just because of utah but because of what's snapshot of what's going on in the

country. we are very divided and those who are very much against the president and very much for the president and that's where we stand. what we will also see is that -- again i'm not surprised. people that are more moderate for republicans, and that's what they feel. president, what is the latest polling telling you? >> as we have seen, the world has changed in 90 days.

polling has been unreliable right up through the election. if she just concentrated on the electoral states that she needed to win, things might have been different but they weren't. with regard to women, women make up 55% of the total electorate. that doesn't go very well against minority women. the president knows where he got to the presidency, and that's how they keep what we had it back in 2016 and improve on it and i think the president can make a tremendous argument. you have to ask yourself, the question now for women and men will be, he's got a record taking us through the pandemic

very well. one size does not fit all, and women are most concerned. >> you look at how much had changed, and thanks to both of you for being here. great to see you. >> ed: fox news alert, no protesters in minneapolis clashing with police over the death of an unarmed black man. the demonstrations were sparked after the video surface showing a police officer kneeling on the man's neck. now, the four officers involved have been fired. jonathan hunt has more details now. the police chief acted very quickly but protesters wanted to see even more action. >> it seems that having viewed the video and studied other evidence, the police chief in minneapolis felt he had no choice. the video is disturbing to watch

and it shows a black man, george floyd, on the ground. a white minneapolis police officer pinning him there. the officers need pressing down on the back of floyd's neck. at various times during the video, floyd pleads with the officer is telling them he can't breathe and repeatedly saying, please, please. the video shows floyd appended down for 5 minutes as bystanders asked the officers to let him put breathe, and eventually floyd stopped speaking or moving before an ambulance arrives and he has taken away. for minneapolis police officers were on the scene at all have been fired. >> it's the right decision for our city, at the right to decision for our minneapolis police departments. we stated our values and ultimately we need to live by them. that's essential for accountability now and going forward.

>> the minneapolis police department is conducting an internal investigation but the fbi is now also investigating. >> what are they talking about what might play out today? >> hundreds marched from the intersection where the fatal arrests took place in minneapolis, ending up at the police precinct where the offices were based. police vehicles throwing rocks, smashing, and in riot gear they eventually responded firing tear gas and what appeared to be foam bullets, a slightly different than rubber bullets. the family of george floyd who had been arrested for questioning about an alleged forgery case spoke out.

>> it is unbelievable. unbelievable to see someone suffer in the way that he did and have so many people around asking them to basically allow them to live. >> as you heard earlier the mayor of minneapolis has been forceful in his condemnation of the officers action saying among other things, "being black in america should not be a death sentence and." >> sandra: several authorities meanwhile dario in narrowing their focus in the insider trading investigation involving four u.s. senators. and an all out all-out manhunt as we will have an update on

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>> sandra: the justice department closing its insider trading investigation, and it sent markets into a massive tailspin. the senators came under scrutiny for transactions made around the time congress was getting classified briefings on the depth of the threat. the feds are now narrowing their focus on north carolina senator richard burr. he and his wife stole between $1.7 million worth of stock. >> ed: fox news alert, the search intensifying for connecticut senior on a run. peter mann for dona family and police are pleading with them to turn themselves in. >> peter, we have talked to your family, talk to your friends and your roommates and all of them have said the same thing. that this behavior is out of the

ordinary for you. we know this is not who you are. >> ed: let's bring in fbi investigator bill daley. bill, good morning. we will run down some specific details but what stands out for you big picture? >> certainly the point that up to this point this individual has been a very classic, successful student at the university of connecticut and something, we don't know what it is, came from this multistate manhunt. having said that, it's very difficult to say what may have triggered that and that's something to look at afterwards but i think right now the focus is, how do we keep this person from harming anyone else and turn himself in? that would be the best solution. >> it to your point about dealing with the here and now and the reason there's so much concerned about the dangers, if you look at this map about the rampage essentially starting

friday, a deadly assault in wilmington connecticut and then onto derby derby connecticut sunday morning for homicide, then onto pennsylvania sunday morning as well, spotted on the tracks, took an uber to walmart on tuesday as you follow that. as a whole swath of several states from massachusetts down to pennsylvania and new jersey where he could be. what does that map tell you and what have you been hearing from news reports that stand out? >> we first want to look and say, how comfortable is he in that environment out there in pennsylvania? he's visited there before, these areas are what led to -- that would give an indication as to what his next steps are. whether it's to go to a place where he feels comfortable or where he needs to act a bit more rationally, and eventually he

will need either some money or some food or some water or gas for the car so there will be some additional juncture in the public needs to be a ensure that they are safe. first of all the state police and others and local authorities may be the one who come across him first. >> ed: and his lieutenant aiello with a direct plea to this young man, watch. >> peter, i want you to know that we are continuing our investigation. the one thing we are missing right now is you. we want you to be able to tell your story. we are here to listen to you. your parents, your friends, all of us back here in connecticut want a peaceful end to this. >> peaceful they say because we are told he stole several guns along the way, real concerned about what kind of weapons he has.

how effective is that normally when law enforcement makes that kind of direct plea? >> is always difficult because it's the level of irrationality the person is that the time. whether they've come down from that momentary rampage that they have, and there is a way for them to get out of this without endangering himself. of course, it's very difficult. i do think it's important to say, you really take those steps to turn himself in peacefully and let the justice system prevail without taking additional human lives and anyone else in the public. >> okay, we will keep a close eye on it. thank you. >> sandra: the pandemic interrupting the international drug trade. how law-enforcement is taking advantage.

plus president trump threatening new regulations on social media after twitter begins fact-checking his tweets. judge andrew napolitano will be here to weigh in on the looming battle over free speech. look, this isn't my first rodeo...

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the president fighting back today saying, republicans feel that social begin platforms totally silenced conservative voices. we will strongly regular or close them down before we will ever allow this to happen. let's bring in judge andrew napolitano. good morning and thank you for being here. this debate over social media and, the short answer is yes, the longer answer is the president is right, and the president is also understandably not happy about his about has been fact-checked would. twitter is privately owned or publicly held to come but privately owned, not owned by the government. so the first amendment which guarantees the freedom of speech and of the press since it only

regulates the president does not regulate twitter. twitter can take down, modify or correct any user it wants including the president of the united states. as for his threat to regulate or put twitter out of business, that of course will require legislation. that of course will be legal issues of foreign effort that will be aimed at silencing some of that has the freedom of speech. under supreme court opinion that the president likes, citizens united, twitter has freedom of speech just like you and i am the president himself. >> this is the twitter spokesperson yesterday reacting to this.

voting processes and has been labeled to provide additional context around mailing ballots. this decision is in line, so judge remember that. that is of their own choosing. we always knew that, and president trump gets his message through to voters. fact-checkers is only a screen, and what about the president's accusation that this is political interference? >> i don't know what it means by political interference, it certainly interference and much of what you just read from his

campaign manager is demonstrably true. even if they are disguising it organizing it if you will come in they are of, we are correcting an error because we are worried people may not vote if they follow what you suggested to them about voting by mail. so this is the level to which politics has come today. argue however loud and long you want, where these in-your-face comments will be made and used it to advance a candidacy or to harm a candidacy. the president can say what he wants about twitter and they can say what he wants about him. >> so what you have heard in defense of the president by his republican colleague sticking up for him saying, is there going

to be fact-checking of his presidential opponent joe biden? are they going to fact-check democrats? >> that's a very big question. but twitter will use our credibility and make themselves the target if they only fact-check president trump and not joe biden and not other leading nationally known political figures who regularly use their platforms. so that criticism in my view is perfectly valid and not to be made and should be responded to. >> sandra: i will finish up by throwing "the new york post" cover on the screen from this morning, judge, i'm sure you saw it. it reads, tweet fight. the president furious as twitter labeled him fake news. judge andrew napolitano, great to see you.

>> all the best. >> ed: a fox news alert, coronavirus lockdown, and that gives a unique opportunity to see his millions in illegal cash. william la jeunesse is all over the story this morning from los angeles. >> when the virus stopped people here and also stopped drugs from going north and cash from going south. cocaine from south america goes through mexico but as central america closed its borders to prevent the spread of covid-19 it also stopped the flow of drugs and migrants. because the u.s. is is out has essentially its border you have more on defense than in jail. that means getting drugs into the u.s. is harder. less clutter. fewer lanes of traffic to blend in. fewer mules or migrants to carry and few american low drivers to pick this up at stash houses.

>> one could think of it as finding a needle in a haystack. so what reducing the nonessential travel has done, it's me to haystack smaller. >> of drug prices are up. math 200%, and the cartel's other problems are getting cash south. it's hard to launder money when businesses are close so drug money is piling up. march through may, the dea seized 10 million in cash in l.a., double the same period last year. >> don't forget, you are subject to search whether you come north or south. it's just a question of how big that haystack is on that particular day. >> also because of the ban on nonessential travel you don't want to be the only drug dealer out there driving around at 11:00 at night, so the bottom line is the virus has disrupted the quick flow of capital and

goods, legal and illegal. back to you. >> ed: we are still getting your arms around all the impact. >> senator mitch mcconnell raising hope for a new coronavirus stimulus package. what that may look like and what will it take to get republicans, democrats and of the white house all on board. moneyman charles payne has some ideas coming up next. >> the only way to rescue this economy is to get back to normal. we now have a debt the size of the economy and that hasn't happened since world war ii. we can't keep on doing this. by this time next month.

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>> we may need as i said, one more plug here at the federal level to help us get through this period. but it will be very carefully crafted and it won't be

$3 trillion left-wing wish list. >> we are stressing a look far different, and let's bring in charles payne, making money over on fbn. good morning. >> good morning. that was certainly, and particularly for small businesses. we had three major firms, though small businesses need protection there. that's about getting and, the sound bite means the gdp was 119%.

his limited room for how much more they can do. the news in the comments yesterday was him saying he gave a timetable and in about the next month they think there might be one more bill. quickly i want to get to that. the economy is up to transform the private economy as joe biden recently put it after they win the election. and it could split the g.o.p. on congress and the grass roots heading into the election. the question perhaps being that nancy pelosi, but if she gets 1.5 trillion or something else, she will declare victory. >> she might, but i wouldn't put it in the idea that it's

nancy pelosi getting 1.5 trillion. and you are right, and we will try to get some form try to get credit for it. if that's the political side of it. we got something and we can see a light at the end of the tunnel. so let's not stop. >> that's the key part of the economy. this is about whether or not the stimulus -- whether it's a government or who's getting the credit and which party, by getting help to the american people on housing. in terms of mortgage relief, and

there are a lot of people hurting. i'm surprised there wasn't a bigger jump there in terms of people who needed mortgage relief. >> i wasn't. i have to tell you, no matter what data you look at, we saw mortgage applications up to the six weeks in a row, the purchase homes up 54% since mid-april. and refi's are up to 160%, and that's on top of a new home sales filter that blew away wall street 30% better than the experts anticipated. there are some strong areas in this economy, one of them happens to be housing, and it looks like we are picking back up on that. it's critical, but for many americans it's the centerpiece

of their wealth. >> the other big question is confronting the nation. >> he is hoping for a big rebound. perhaps 450 points, and it's hard to believe they were in this conversation but the bottom line is when the dust settles, we want to make sure that people, i can't wait to speak with judy eugene scalia about that. it looks like we have phase one for the white house is grand scheme to come back, how far away as phase two and can we get there without a vaccine?

the lsu tigers coach o will be joining us next. and disney world is looking to reopen.

>> a welcome development for sports fans across country, ncaa division i says college football and men's and women's basketball athletes can resume on-campus voluntary voluntary workouts starting june 1st. so what precautions will be taken to keep the student safe?

let's bring in lsu head football coach, and i know you are happy to back. >> we are so excited, we can bring players in, and make sure everybody is safe. and then on june safe eighth, we know louisiana, that's bigger and stronger and faster about safety is the number one priority for most of our playe players. >> absolutely. we had the a chance to cooperate, what an enormous thing for the branding from lsu,

and that makes this football season even returning, and looking at tackle football. >> i think and i believe that everyone is ready for football. >> that's the safety about players but i can't wait. >> he was describing the back to school seeing that they are at baton rouge as vibrant but

different. how confident are you at this point. they've done a tremendous job of wanting to have a football season, and wanting to follow the rules. we are wearing the mask down here at work, we are competing, and they follow the rules. >> sandra: at the sports columnist for the advocate, the big paper down there in the state of louisiana, and it's hotter than ever. but the recruiting efforts, and not being able to meet with those recruits in person.

what has it done for your ability to recruit for next season? >> a lot of zoo meetings. obviously, ever since the coronavirus started, and we found our coaches that have done a tremendous job with face time, and they called us, and our national brand is hot because of the season with lsu. we need to stay elite, and we will preview the season. >> as i mentioned, we got a lot of lsu fans that i mentioned right now. >> and we have both full eddie as our defensive coordinator, and we have a 4-3 defense. we are looking forward to that.

we have to play further down the road and we have alabama at home and, as we know the sec every year is tough, it's the best place to play. but i do believe we will have an excellent team, something you and the lsu fans are going to be proud of. >> i enjoy your optimism, i just want to run the number past ye year. washington university says the cost of no college sports this fall, they are putting a price tag of $4 billion. what would it mean for the program if they are not able to get up and running. >> the money we get from the tv contract and as you know the hotels are full, but it would be

a big blow to not only on universities but the economy. i do believe we need football. >> sandra: there's nothing like gumbo after a big victory down in baton rouge. coach, we really enjoyed having you on the program. best of luck to you this season. us closed-door meeting in the oval office and we will keep you updated on that. we will talk about it with devin nunes, the former chair of the house intel committee comin$ up. newday's va streamline refi is the quickest and easiest refi they've ever offered. you can lower your payments by this time next month without having to verify your income, without getting your home appraised,

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take care, and be well. to learn more, call one eight four four cosentyx or visit cosentyx.com >> ed: a fox news alert come alive to the white house where the president is about to meet with andrew cuomo. they are expected to address infrastructure plans but they have a somewhat contentious relationship. as you know we are monitoring for any developments and at this moment, thick meeting is close cameras. in the meantime it's president trump versus twitter. welcome back to america's newsroom, it's a brand-new hour. >> sandra: a good morning everyone, i'm sandra smith. the tweet fight kicking into high gear, about mail and voter fraud.

potentially misleading, and it's an attack on free speech and election the meddling. here's kellyanne conway on fox news earlier. >> if there's very little respect for democracy. the democratization of social media has brought forth and bunny nonvoters have a platform on social media that allows them to feel free to express themselves. >> chief white house correspondent john roberts is live with more from the white house this morning. >> sandra, good morning to you. after twitter yesterday put a couple of fact checks and a couple of tweets of the president said about the potential for fraud in massive mail-in voting. the president tweeted this morning, or last night, twitter is now interfering in the 2020 presidential election and they

are saying my statement on the mail-in ballots is incorrect, based on fact-checking by fake news cnn and the amazon "washington post." twitter is completely stifling free speech and i as president will not allow it to happen. twitter firing back today saying "these tweets contain potentially misleading information about voting processes that have been labeled to provide additional context around mail-in ballots. this decision is in line with the approach that we shared earlier this month. this morning, the president issuing a veiled threat to go after twitter and other social media platforms, tweeting within the last hour that "twitter has now shown that everything we've been saying about them at their other compatriots is correct" fake action to follow. the president also taking aim at the fisa reauthorization and reform bill which is scheduled to be considered in the house today. the president tweeting "i hope all republican house members vote no on fisa until such time

in our country is able to determine how and why the greatest political criminal and subversive scandal took place. what's ironic about this is the bill was written by attorney general bill barr and passed the republican-controlled senate but the department of justice became concerned about there were amendments added in the senate which would weaken the ability to pursue terrorists and spies and that the house is now poised to amend it further. the attorney general is now recommending that the president vetoes a bill, and so far the president has not suggested that he will veto it. what's interesting now is the house minority leader kevin mccarthy who was a supporter of the bill has now asked democratic leadership to withdraw it. we don't know where they stand on that, but we should find out soon. >> sandra: okay, john roberts live at the white house. >> ed: for more on this, devin nunes. congressman, good morning. i want to get to that veto

threat but first let's get to what's really behind it. the president is upset, and he's upset about the unmasking of general michael flynn. we had michael rubio, the acting chair on the program a while ago. he says he wants to see the transcripts come out and he wants to see as many documents as possible. you want that out there? what else might be coming? transparency is key, and i just heard that john roberts report, the key here is we had a compromise and it's really unworkable i think for law enforcement. it came back over here to the house of representatives and you have to remember, the democrats for the most part are not even hear because they are going to institute this proxy voting.

so we can't even debate, and that's the whole reason to have a legislative branch of government. if we can't debate something as important as spying on american citizens and spying on political campaigns, it looks like the democrats don't want to be here because of the political problems that they know because they their party was directly involved in the scandal. >> ed: okay, a lot to unpack there. let's start with the substance of what the party is alleging. they said hold up the fisa bill, the surveillance bill, until we get to the bottom of what happened. quickly the president says it's worse than watergate. what specific crime can you point to that makes this worse than watergate? >> we have criminal details.

and that's a conspiracy by law enforcement. i believe that john durham, and i don't know if he's considering our referrals or not, but there's plenty of laws that have been broken here. >> ed: that would include the leaking of general flynn's name after it was on mast one would presume. let's get to the fisa reform question which is the issue of the day. so the justice department and assistant attorney general stephen boyd is saying here are your concerns about what might have gone wrong before. but to draft legislation in the senate thereafter made significant changes, the house is now poised to further a amend the legislation. we are as concerned as you are

about the changes, and they have gone after foreign terrorists. you make this point about what went wrong and hold this attorney general back, and that's a records component which was originally called to 15. larger fisa that allows them to target terrorists, that's still in operation. and that's the agreement that they made with the attorney general. we go back and rewrite that law and we went to the senate and it

was changed. staff aren't even there. and those aren't even workable changes. on top of that you need a workable bill, and you have the press who is denying this, and you have the tech oligarchs letter we are talking about later, really quick on proxy

voting, this is a focus and a delay of urgently needed action to meet the needs of workers and their families during the coronavirus. we got 30 seconds, your response on why you think she's trying to push through proxy voting. >> really quick, i'm standing here in the biggest democracy in the most powerful country on earth in the u.s. capitol. i haven't seen one democrat this morning. we are asking people, grocery store workers and people in agriculture, they are all going to work. where are the democrats? they want to make massive changes to cover up the scandal that they participated in and spying on the president's campaign, and they want to hold conference calls and allow people to sit at home in their basement and then vote on this? i think this wasn't being censored by the tech oligarchs and the mainstream media, i

think the american people would say, no. if there's something wrong here. the problem is censoring is having a tremendous impact on our population. congressman, i perceive coming in. >> sandra: fox news alert come up massive protest in minneapolis over the death of george floyd after a police officer pinned him to the ground with a knee to his neck. >> prosecute the police, no justice, no peace [chanting] >> sandra: protest eric quickly turned violent and demonstrators seen trashing a police precinct leading officers in the right gear to hurl canisters into the crowd. video shows on unarmed black man george floyd handcuffed with his neck pinned to the pavement and he later died at the hospital.

family members reacting after realizing the man in the video was her cousin. >> that's a phone call that i got, letting me know it was my cousin. >> i don't want to see someone suffer in the way that he did and to have so many people around asking for them to basically allow him to live. >> police they are saying that the 46-year-old floyd appeared to be suffering medical distre distress. four officers were fired after that encounter and the fbi is now leading that investigation. >> ed: in the meantime a brand-new forecast alarming the biting campaign. for taking the bus numbers ever

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>> president trump: biting can wear a mask but he was setting outside with his wife, perfect conditions. i thought it was very unusual that he had one on and, your second question was? i couldn't hear you. could you take it off because i can't hear you? >> i will just speak louder. speak to you just want to be politically correct. >> sandra: now joe biden's calling of the president. carl, where is all this going to go next? >> well, not very far. this is the kind of thing that will be here today and gone tomorrow with no lasting real consequences. but both men would be able to be

advised. i understand where the president made the comments he did with biden wearing the mask outdoors with no one around, but then he said the reporter in a crowded room was wearing it out of political correctness, i think the president ought to be happy that somebody's wearing a mask so they can't infect people. on the other hand, biden once again overreacts and calls the president a fool. that's a kind of thing that immediately causes the partisans on trump's side to rise to his defense and doesn't do anything really with the people in the middle except to say that democratic presumptive nominee for president is throwing a this great insults. so if joe biden wants to defeat the president's got to find a better tone and better message than simply grabbing the closest steps that he cannot throwing it out the president. a >> sandra: speaking of twitter, he changed his picture to picture of him wearing that black mask. in this new interview, while some are speculating he's trying

to send a message by doing all this, he says he's just following the doctor's orders. here is joe biden. >> he's a fool. he's an absolute fool to talk that way. every leading dock in the world is wearing a thing to wear a mask. the president is supposed to lead and not engage in falling. >> sandra: he takes on the president very clearly in that interview for not wearing a ma mask. >> the president as surrounded by white house doctors and others, and i suspect, adhering to the profile of keeping your social distance. we did see a glimpse of the president wearing a mask off camera and the press pool was not taking pictures but again, this is much to do about nothing and biden has better things to

talk about than this if he wants to defeat the president. if he keeps doing this kind of thing it's such small ball and personal and sophomoric that he's not going to be making up the ground that he needs to make, those people were up for grabs in this election, sort of like what president trump has done but don't necessarily agree with how he's done it. this does biden know good and reaching those people in my opinion. and that brings us to the big picture as we make our way toward election day. he is a political headline this morning. why are you not burying him? a rising threat over biden, and i read that headline as i now pull up the fox news polling on the question, who do i trust to do a better job on.

and health care. it was debated and argued for through the course of the campaign, and it has been previous poles and i suspect it will be again. the key question is what happens in the weeks and months after the two conventions when people's attention turns more firmly away from coronavirus and more on the campaign? and look. the president and his challenger has been looking at many of the same states. for example the president got and, pennsylvania and north carolina that would break

out the boats come up those two states break other votes by congressional district, and it could be anyone that would know that's going to be how it turns out today is getting themselves. biden had a bigger lead at the end of march then he asked today and the president does have a financial advantage and the question is whether his super pac is going to be spending money now while his campaign is it very clearly signaled. they think they have the resources for september and labor day on but the big question is will everyone be working it in tandem while they read each other's body language or not. it's going to be a barn burner of a race and the candidates each and every day after the conventions is going to matter a lot in the minds of that relatively small group of people who were really up for grabs in the selection and the like --

>> sandra: can you put my boat in the water, is the fact that his wife as a governor of the states to move up in line and the harbormaster reportedly said, that just puts you in the back of the line. anyway she has confirmed that that did happen and here's how she explained her husband's actions. >> my husband made a failed attempt at humor last week when checking in with the small business that helps with our boat and dock up north. knowing it would make a difference, he jokingly asked if being married to me might him up in the queue. obviously with a motorized boating prohibition in the early days of covid-19, he thought it might get a laugh. >> sandra: failed attempt at humor, that move got a lot of attention and she ultimately responded there. final thoughts? >> first of all her office

responded at first by saying we are not going to talk about this and second of all, this is pathetic. this does not pass the smell test. does anyone really think that harassment was bringing up the fact that he she was a first spouse in michigan -- he was of her spouse in michigan, and he was attempting to get his boat to the front of the line so it was in the water early. she's taken a problem and made it a bigger problem by failing to issue at street. i apologize to the people of michigan and now she's made it worse by making her look like she is too clever by half. >> we will leave it at that. karl rove, great to see you. >> one quick thing, you really enjoy that lsu interview but i don't think you should be trash talking ed henry see in the states when you said that they were only even money against immaculata high school girls jr.

varsity gum that was tough on your man henry. >> ed: he did some research for that. >> sandra: wow, karl rove. >> ed: i don't know how i'm going to pay you back, but i'm going to. >> sandra: okay, go tigers. >> ed: was some are almost here americans are getting slowly more comfortable traveling but one could derail getaway plans. grady trimble has more from the fox business network. good morning. >> good morning. there are different rules for self quarantine in different states. in florida right now for example anyone coming from the new york tri-state area, new new york, new jersey and connecticut as well as louisiana is asked of quarantine for two weeks. in other states like maine, nevada and hawaii to name a few all people coming in from out of state are asked to quarantine themselves for 14 days. so the question is, is this

enforceable? a man from new york was arrested last week after visiting hawaii violating the order there and posting about his travels all over instagram. in other states those fond of violating the rules could face thousands of dollars in fines. but for everyone punished for this there are likely thousands and thousands of other people refusing to quarantine and not getting into any trouble for it. >> i am fully prepared to come back home and clean and stay inside and that's what i've been practicing the past two months. >> i had no idea there was a travel restriction. asking people to quarantine for 14 days is absolutely ridiculous. >> florida remains were in effect even as the state is in the first phase of reopening. states could face pressure to do away with these restrictions as a tourism season ramps up but this is certainly something to keep in mind as many people are starting to plan their summer getaway.

>> ed: absolutely. sandra? >> sandra: fox news alert, chaos on the streets of hong kong. now, police are taking a new approach to national security laws. plus new national intelligence chief john ratcliffe facing pressure to release those transcripts of michael flynn's calls with the russian ambassador. so should those be made public? martha maccallum will join us live next on that. >> let's see the whole thing. was there any reason to launch the entire russia hoax? was there any reason to keep the american people and president trump at loggerheads with each other? if you have any questions at all, call us, email us, visit us online.

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>> ed: transcripts of michael flynn's phone calls with the investor have been declassified now. john ratcliffe will actually try to make the transcripts public. >> i hope he releases these calls, this one phone call has been the excuse of the obama administration and the intelligence chief, that the media have used as the sort of fulcrum of the whole russia probe which i think with a total fraud from the beginning. and if we find out what's in that transcript, and let the american people decide. >> ed: is joining us now is

martha maccallum. >> if this transcript comes out we might learn a whole lot more. >> both sidney powell and the legal team for general flynn want this transcript released and soda susan rice, on the other side of the equation. also, i think kt makes a great point there. when you go back to sort of the data points that were being used to launch this russia collusion instigation, this is one of the most important ones. this phone call with ambassador kislyak. we also know the fbi director at the time james comey told president obama that his concern was that there were so many of these phone calls. i asked katie about that last night and she said, you know, there really weren't. it looks like there were more calls than they were because the main call was made from the dominican republic. there was a bad connection and there were several like, i can't

hear you, i call you back. at least that's what general flynn said happened at the time which made for three or four calls and potentially another call somewhere along the line. but it's interesting when you go back to that and you listen to jim comey saying to president obama and susan rice, what i'm concerned about is the frequency of these phone calls. >> and yet some of the reporting has suggested in early to mid-january during that presidential transition of 2017, jim comey and the others that the fbi knew that there wasn't anything criminal on the phone call, they were going to pursue the logan act or anything like that in terms of the contact between glenn and the russian ambassador, and yet what happened once president trump took office two or three days later, the fbi had a little knock knock at the white house to talk to general flynn even though they knew they weren't really going to pass press

charges. and that's what peter strzok said, and it's like oh, let's get this investigation open. as jim comey told everybody, in a very self-satisfied way of that interview, we just decided they were pretty disorganized over there so we thought we would send a few agents into see what we could get. that was done on the thinnest shred from what we have seen of evidence. no evidence, nothing derogatory found in interviews and it was kept open because of the kids pe call. i think that the transcript will come out, john ratcliffe of course the new director of intelligence, and you heard

kt mcfarland say she believes they will release the call. >> here's what he said and we will get you quickly to react. >> we are now at a point where i think it will be released but other things will be released as well. that such a political narrativ narrative, -- the trump team certainly thinks it's going to show a lot of wrongdoing. let's see it, i don't think there's any there there. but we have john durham who is this political figure, and let me know between now and the november election. >> he's got his hands full and has a lot on his plate. and now we have the american public and a lot lies in his

corner. >> absolutely. martha maccallum, we appreciate you coming on this morning. great to see you. back to the white house, right now the president is meeting with new york governor andrew cuomo with that to men and what they are discussing. plus, a top obama economists making a bold new prediction saying the country will resound fast and it will rebound in a big way, right before the election. why jason furman feels this way and he joins us live, next. >> thank god we had a solid economic foundation when this invisible enemy hit because the deregulation and the energy dominance, the tax cut and the job creation, more jobs created thin people to fill the jobs.

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mike pompeo putting out a statement telling economist that hong kong is no longer -- china's boutwell as the tension with the u.s. and china continues to grow. remember hong kong was transferred to china back in july of 1997 after over 150 years of british rule. now pompeo the secretary is saying "the state department is required by the hong kong policy act to assess the autonomy of the territory from china after careful study. i certify to congress today that hong kong does not continue to warrant treatment and, no reasonable person, a high degree of economy from china. hong kong and its dynamic enterprising and free people, and sound policymakin requires s

they provide a model with authoritarian china and it's now clear that china is modeling hong kong after itself. this is going to be watched very closely all around the world. >> sandra: we will continue to watch that. meanwhile an optimistic forecast predicting a sharp rebound in the months ahead, one that could give president trump a major boost and is reportedly sparking panic in the biden campaign. a top economist is predicting an election scenario, democrats are dreading. our next guest telling politico "we are about to see the best economic data we've ever seen in this country. thanks so much for being here. he grabbed a lot of headlines on the days after that piece came out and you didn't say that to

politico, he said those words to a group of bipartisan top officials who quickly became concerned and confused according to the report? >> yes. and let me just be completely clear. the economy incredibly far down. in april it was a very clear point and over the next six months it will move itself from very, very bad, which is where it was in april, two very bad, or if we are lucky, just that. towards the end of the year. so i'm not that optimistic about what the overall state of the economy will be, i think we have unemployment. the point is you will watch that unemployment rate come down from say 20%, to 12%. that will only be a little bit out of the way of the deep hole that we were in to begin with. >> sandra: you lead out the

case, whether the chance to get a chance to brag, there will be two ways to look at it. president trump will be saying that we created one or 2 million jobs last month which is the most jobs in a month and others will point out very correctly, i think arguably more correctly, that we are still 15 million jobs short of where we were before the coronavirus struck. and it so we will be in the situation that is like the financial crisis that we were in a decade ago, and that will be an improvement on where we were a couple months before it as opposed to the financial crisis where we never saw even a period of rapid improvement. >> jason, so many will be quick to say that this is not an apples to appleapples-to-applesd

as an economist, wouldn't it be important to point out >> financial crises are of long grinding slow recovery. natural disasters, the economy snaps back very quickly. this is a combination of the tube, it's a little bit like a natural disaster and we still see some of that snapback. and how what we do depends on what we do. if we don't do anymore policy we will be in a bunch of trouble. we need to help people who have been most impacted, and we need to stay at it and not assume that everything would be fine. the data would say don't worry right now, but when you look at

the depth, and that's when we would see that to date. >> sandra: at the piece also makes out we are making this whole particular case, and are we advising them in anyway? >> i'm not advising them, i certainly know a lot of the people there and i've spoken to a lot of the people in the white house as well. i'm an economic policy person and i want to see better economic policy in this country, i think better academic policy will be for example preventing states from another round of layoffs, and that's what happened because of the budget deficit that they've had because they don't get relief. >> sandra: before i let you go because we are running out of time, i wish i had you longer but do you see the economy as a

robust based on that term policies in place before the pandemic hit? because we had a stock market that was hitting record highs, we have the best employment levels that we seen in generations. >> i woul i broadly saw the eco, and the question is what steps are you taking to move forward. and that will take us down if we don't. >> to be clear we are getting the robust economy, you are giving credit to the previous administration? >> i give credit to american businesses, to american workers, certainly think obama left the economy in very good shape, i

certainly think some of what president trump did temporarily boosted the economy and a sugar high type of way that was never going to be lasting. the most important thing is what do we do to strengthen the economy going forward and just pretending everything is perfect, i don't think it's a good strategy to make everything as perfect as we would like it. >> sandra: as an economist, you don't look at that in different ways. those tax cuts that were put in place, then we see a result and the economy. jason, we would love to have you back. >> happy to come back. >> sandra: rate, we will have you back. spilling in the meantime less than five hours from now nasa and spacex are set to launch a rocket carrying two astronauts to the international space station. a great moment for america and jose fernandez joins us next to

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>> some breaking news, mike pompeo now declaring hong kong as no longer -- and here's what it means. susan li from the fox business network. at >> we just heard from the secretary of state mike pompeo in his assessment about whether or not hong kong, and let's bring up the quotes. this is the informed part, this means they can enact sanctions there, and you heard mike pompeo after careful study of the reporting period, i certify the congress today that hong kong does not continue to warrant

treatment under u.s. laws in the same manner. in the meantime and under the streets of hong kong, we saw protests kick off with hours of chaos, and the protesting of china's ongoing encroachment of hong kong's economy. thousands again turning out to protest a new national security law which would allow beijing to impose new security measures without hong kong's input and then installing chinese military personnel on the streets to enforce it. remember come hong kong was promised 50 years of economy after the 1997 handover. now, you're in the u.s., we heard politicians from both sides of the aisle really pushing for the white house to respond and we heard secretary pompeo and president trump did say yesterday that he would have something to say about this, whether or not it's in the former sanctions for individuals or corporate entity is, i think that remains to be seen. we have that signed into law

last year. now let's go to what china is saying, if washington rashly takes action over hong kong, it can accelerate u.s.'s decoupling of the world. and that will also generate negative impact for president trump and reelection efforts. also the financial center and a lot of invest. say it's fast eroding. >> ed: that could have a real impact on the markets and china is claiming it will have an impact on the elections. sandra? >> sandra: okay. we are awaiting the president, he set to depart the white house a short time from now heading down to cape canaveral to watch today's historic spacex launch. we will have coverage by the way of that this afternoon. meanwhile the president is meeting with the new york governor andrew cuomo at the

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>> ed: how about karl rove digging up some dirt on me? you are a proud lsu tiger. i want to send him up into space. i'm going to dig up some dirt on him. he got this launch, and i'm thinking maybe i will send

karl rove on the next one and we do it next time. >> sandra: karl rove coming out of nowhere with that one, right? it was a fun show. >> ed: it was. >> sandra: fun to have coach o pay looking forward to this launch. stay tuned to the fox news channel for that. you can food it will take us through it. looking forward to it. "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: we begin with this fox news alert. we are awaiting president trump's departure from the white house, where he could stop and talk with reporters, as he is wont to do, amid an explosive battle with twitter. the president is accusing twitter of stifling free speech and attempting to interfere in the 2020 election. he also fired off a warning today, "republicans feel that social media platform's totally silence conservative voices. we will strongly regulate or close them down before we can ever allow this to happen."