thank you very much. we are out of time. have the best weekend. see you monday. here is "hannity." ♪ >> welcome to this special edition of "hannity," the road to 2020. i am jason chaffetz in tonight for sean with just 95 days until the election. democrats are turning every issue into a political lightning rod. many on the left or even accusing president trump of being personally responsible for the spread of covid-19. just today, congressman james clyburn floated a conspiracy theory that trump didn't have a plan to battle the virus because it was spreading and blue states. in today's coronavirus response

hearing on capitol hill, dr. fauci painted a much different picture. he actually credited the president with saving lives. take a look. >> were you involved in working with president trump on deciding to ban flights from china? >> yes i was. >> do you agree with that decision? >> i do. >> do you think that decision saved lives? >> yes i do. >> do you agree with the decision, we saw spreading in europe and the president recommended we extend it to europe, did you participate in that discussion? >> i was actively involved in that discussion. >> do you agree with that? >> i do. >> do you think it save lives? stick i do. >> we saw the united kingdom have an outbreak. do we extend it to the united kingdom. do you agree with that decision? >> i do. >> to that decision save lives? >> yesterday. >> when you look at the 15 days to slow the spread initially it

started 15, were you part of the decision to implement that decision? >> i was very much involved. >> did it save lives? stick i believe it did. >> president trump both you and dr. birx to extend it, did you agree with that decision? >> yes i was very much involved and i agreed. >> did that decision save lives? >> i believe it did. >> jason: congressman scalise will join us in a moment. his colleague congressman jim jordan grilled fauci on whether or not the nationwide protests are causing the virus to spread. oddly enough, fauci tried to dodge the question in this tense exchange. watch this. >> do protests increase the spread of the virus? >> do protests increase the spread of the virus? i think i can make a general statement. >> half a million protesters on june 6th. that number of people, does it increase the spread? >> crowding together

particularly when you're not wearing a mask contributes to the spread of the virus. >> should we limit the protesting? >> i'm not sure what you mean. how do we say limit the protesting? >> should government limit the protesting? >> i don't think that's relevant. >> for 63 days, nine weeks it's been happening in portland. one night in chicago, 49 officers were injured. but no limit to protests. but boy, you can go to church on sunday. >> i don't know how many times i can answer that. i'm not going to opine on limiting anything. i'm going to tell you -- >> you have opined on a lot of things. this is something that directly impacts the spread of the virus and asking your position on the protests. >> jason: jim jordan is the right. fauci will comment on baseball, football, schools, bars, cruise ships, but he won't directly address the massive nationwide protests that are still ongoing. can't forget. democrats closed businesses,

churches, beaches, bars, restaurants and restricting who you can have in your home and whether or not you can even sing in church. joining us now in the reaction is house minority whip steve scalise, fox news contributor governor mike huckabee, and american conservative union chairman matt schlapp. thank you all for being here. congressman, i want to go with you. you did a great job of questioning. fauci just wouldn't go to certain areas. what was the mood within the room and what did the congressman leave at the end of the hearing with? >> jason, good to be with you. the mood in the room was very serious because we are making big decisions. we are seeing states make big decisions all based on data and the democrats are literally trying to mislead the country and say there's no plan and they criticized the plan when the president does things like shutdown flights from china. but then they say there's no plan if they see tests go up. they criticized the president for not having enough testing.

the president. we are almost 800,000 tests a day now which is a revolutionary number. then they criticized too many positives because more people are being tested. all he wanted was attacked the president and i think today i really wanted to question dr. fauci about the decisions that were made by president trump to take leadership to develop a plan and ultimately jason, to save american lives. dr. fauci right on the line on every question i asked him confirmed that the number one, president trump has a very solid plan and he works with the smartest doctors in the world oe president's plan is saving lives every day. jim jordan touched on the idea that if you can say you can't go to church but you can go to a protest, we know protests like any other large gathering spread the disease. going to church, you can do it safely where it won't spread the disease and there is a dichotomy and it's like they don't want to even acknowledge that that exists. >> jason: governor, i am sure you caught at least parts of that hearing. i've got to tell you, dr. fauci

wouldn't go and comment on some of the biggest issues of the day but it's not like joe biden is out there leading from behind, showing us what we should be doing either. >> i think what congressman scalise did was to show that there was very specific leadership on the part of the president and the administration. let's be real clear. the president is doing what a president to do. he's lead to a trickle leaving a lot of the detail decisions to local states and mirrors and that's with the tenth amendment says. where there is the need for a national decision whether it's closing traveled from china or restricting it to other country, the president has taken those actions. he's gotten ventilators available for states. it turns out he got more than anybody even needed. he said exactly what he supposed to do and i hope this campaign will hammer that message and i think what congressman scalise did today and that hearing was incredibly valuable in showing that there is not a big fight

between the science of what dr. fauci wants to do and what the president is doing. he's doing what he should do. the interesting thing the democrats either ought to be a national plan. but if he does say let's go unprotect federal property in places like portland, suddenly they come unglued and they say he has no business being there. when in fact he does. so that's the insanity of all of this. it's not about safety. it's not about science. it's not about making sure that we are safe from covid. it's about hating donald trump trying to make sure he is not president the next four years. >> jason: yeah, matt, it really is about politics is the governor was saying because if you go to the hearing, democrats are trying to rewrite history. they are trying to spin it a different way and remember it in a different way because i tell you what when donald trump was limiting travel from china, it wasn't in the front page news. they called them all sorts of things. a xenophobic all these types of things but this hearing really did expose that the democrats

are playing political games. >> thank god for steve scalise and jim jordan and several others of the republicans who are on that committee. a hearing is a place where we actually can listen and learn and i think it's critical. when nancy pelosi said this is the trump virus, that was when she said publicly what you're supposed to say privately. what they are trying to do with this whole chinese corona and i'm going to keep calling it chinese corona, jason, because they want to make it trump corona. they want to make it conservative corona. they think corona only spreads when republicans come together, republicans go to church on rally in tulsa. there's this coverage of outbreaks but when black lives matter or antifa or whatever tries to destroy federal property, this is all consistent with the first amendment and just fine and even tony fauci is playing into the politics of it. it's all about politics. the president did things we've never done in our history. we've never prevented americans from coming back into the

country over a health scare. the president make sure that if they tested positive is they wouldn't be able to come into the population until her health improved. we did the same thing with cruise ships. we shut down the economy. we shutdown schools. we shutdown churches. conservatives have concerns with those things but you can't level the charge against the president of the united states that he didn't take extraordinary, unprecedented historic steps to try to keep us safe. the reason why they're not giving him any credit is because it's all about beating him and i think the american people get it and i think the democrats are we overplaying their hands because our health should not be a political football. >> jason: i do think democrats are overplaying their hand. for congressman clyburn to suggest that donald trump didn't do something because there were democrats living in that state, it's just disgusting. it shouldn't be accepted. it was way, way over the line. gentlemen, thank you all for joining us on this beautiful friday night. we do appreciate it.

all right, president trump is now ready and willing to send another round of stimulus checks to americans but according to him, pelosi and schumer are now standing in the way. this comes as covid-19 jobless benefits are now set to expire. tonight no deal in sight. joining us now at the very latest is our own chad pergram. chad. >> hey, jason. we don't have a big meeting at 9:00 on the saturday morning in the speaker's office with the speaker of the house, senate minority leader, the white house chief of staff and the secretary of the treasury unless you're dealing with a big crisis. that's what they are wrestling with right now. they try to get some resolution, try to jump-start these talks. they are not going to have any aids in the room and that tells you a lot. under normal circumstances if there was an impasse like this, you likely stop talking. the coronavirus crisis is so severe they can't. white house chief of staff

mark meadows has he made multiple offers tile speaker nancy pelosi and all were rejected. meadow says the democrats are entrenched, aren't fudging. why, they may not have to. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says he has 20 republicans who oppose any big bill that the democrats want. democrats think they will hold the cards because any new bill will require democratic votes. pelosi indicated today that she thought they would eventually be a bill, although some republican sources are skeptical. there are differences between the sites. democrats oppose an interim bill for the end of planning benefits until there is a sense that a broader bill is within reach. the senate meets next week. expect senate republicans to set up a number of votes on unemployment benefits to make democrats squirm. here's what to watch for. more economic pain. the next set of jobless numbers are set to be released a week from today. if it's a bad number, they could jump-start these talks. jason. >> jason: chad, thank you.

president trump is now blasting democrats for playing politics with the lives of the american people. watch this. >> the democrats do not care about the people of our country. they don't want to do what you should be doing for the people of our country. whether it's unemployment or anything else. and all they care about is the election and they are going to lose the election. democrats are playing for november 3rd. we are playing for the good of the people. it's a disgrace that they are not negotiating. but they are only looking to play a political game. i happen to think it's a bad political game. i think it hurts them. >> jason: chief of staff mark meadows is also criticizing democrats for playing politics, and speaker nancy pelosi is clearly frustrated. have a look. >> you met last night with mark meadows, the chief of staff. you certainly know him previously in his capacity as a member of congress. do you trust him? >> in these negotiations. >> what i trust is our meeting

the needs of the american people. >> do you trust him as a negotiator, speaker? >> it's not an appropriate question. aspirate i will say -- how is it not appropriate if you are negotiating hi with him, you must be able to trust him. >> i when i have to trust him? he's a representative president trump. that's th who the president sen. >> jason: i thought it was a good question and she can't answer it. joining us with reaction is former obama advisor austan goolsbee and fox news contributor charlie hurt. austin, i want to start with you because i thought it was a fair question my think it shows in part speaker pelosi's approach to this. i don't understand why democrats instantaneously want to take a continuing resolution off the table, one that may be just days in length in order to score some political points to try to

create this narrative that republicans can't get things done. why do democrats do that don't they understand people just see through this crap? >> well, you've got two different subjects. let's think about the continuing resolution. you mean let's have a short-term extension of the unemployment as it exists now. >> jason: well yes, for just a few days. she said, the democrats said they wouldn't even consider it. unless they think there's a bigger deal. of course they want a bigger deal. republicans are opposed. >> i know why. it's because -- no, no, it's because the state unemployment offices have shut down the computers for this extended unemployment. most of the state say that it would take them two weeks to get the programs backup. a one-week extension or a three day extension does not exist. that can't happen. the democrats that it doesn't make any sense to do that. >> jason: but that's not what

she said. what they said was his democrats is that they would not do it unless they thought there was a bigger deal to be had, charlie. >> yeah, what we are looking at here is a typical situation we've been through literally the worst economic collapse this country has ever seen. it's on par with the great depression if not worse and democrats see it as an opportunity in an election year to score political points off of it. i understand there's always going to be politics and decisions made by politicians trying to show up their opponents and to expose their opponents' weaknesses but that's not what's going on here. democrats are trying to use the political process in order to crash the economy, to keep the economy cratered. it's why they don't want to open back up. it's why they want to continue all of these measures that have led to the cratering in the first place.

because they want donald trump to go into the election with the terrible economy. it's the only way that they hope they can win and actually think they are right about it. if they can manage to keep the economy cratered, that gives them some hope of winning. >> jason: austan, react to what charlie just said. >> well, at the beginning i was finding some common ground. at all.piracy part i think is the democrats went along with the president to pass the cares act which was the biggest built of the u.s. government has ever passed. they're not boycotting the president. if they were trying to tank the economy, they would've never agreed to do $.6 trillion of rescue and relief money. they actually want to help the millions of people who have been unemployed. the problem here is been the president. i don't know if he doesn't want to be there or what.

he's not getting involved in a detailed way, saying here's my specific -- here are my specific ideas of what i want to do. he is now a deathbed conversion to let's extend unemployment. they have been saying for weeks they don't want to extend the unemployment, that they want to reduce it or may get zero. so i think the republican party in the congress is confused at what the president wants to do. i think inside the administration, they probably can't agree and that's why we are going back and forth on th this. >> jason: as we sat at the beginning of this, we showed a clip. this simple question, do you trust donald trump's chief of staff, mark meadows. she couldn't and wouldn't answer that question. this is the silly season i do think charlie the political -- she looked like she was trying to be polite. >> jason: she said she couldn't trust him. she couldn't answer that question. charlie, the silly season. going into august. members want to go home.

i watched him for eight and a half years. there is going to be a plan at some point, isn't there? >> i think there absolutely will be but the problem here is that the federal government simply cannot spend its way out of this economic crisis. it will not happen. it cannot happen. the only way to get the united states out of this economic morass is to have people go back to work and get the economy going again. that's the only way that happens. anything that congress does that undermines people going back to work goes towards destroying the economy. that's the problem here. that's what i think that president trump and republicans and democrats. i've given up any hope that they are in any way loyal opposition. everybody in washington should be focused on that one single thing, getting the economy going again. not just spending a bunch more

money that we don't have. >> jason: yeah. i believe opening the economy and getting kids back to school, those of the big two. austan and charlie, thank you so much for joining us tonight. we really do appreciate it. coming up, we will bring you the latest of joe biden's many blunders on the campaign trail. plus, who will biden pick to be his vp? one possible contender is already distancing ourselves from past controversial comments. we'll explain as the special edition of "hannity" continues. what i'm worried about is that if you're not expecting the shock, and the markets fall dramatically, you might panic. and in the midst of that panic, you might sell and run to cash. at the very moment, you shouldn't. at the very moment, prices are at their low. that's my fear. i'm not worried about the country. i'm not worried about the financial markets, because in the long run, i know they'll be fine. i'm worried about you. i'm worried about how you will personally respond to this crisis.

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♪ >> jason: welcome back to this "hannity" special, the road to 2020. president trump is working to mr. law and order, as democrats and liberal cities continue to back the anarchists. today he made it clear that portland has to get its act together or else. watch this. >> we have told the mayor and we told the governor, you better get in there and do your thing and they finally after -- they should have done it 60 days ago. a lot of people have been hurt. a lot of law-enforcement people have been hurt and they

should've done it 60 days ago so now they have freed up the park, cleaned out the park. they are moving their way. if they have any other problems, we are going take very strong offensive force. seems to be cleaning up and if it doesn't clean up, we are going to do something very, very powerful because we have no choice. not that i don't want -- i don't want to do it but we have no choice. >> jason: the president is making portland a big campaign issue. >> joe biden in the radical left's outrageous campaign against law enforcement is the major reason violent crime is surging and democrat run cities all across the nation. you have a democrat run city, you have a city with problems. if joe biden is elected president, the chaos and bloodshed will spread to every community in our land. you'll have a portland everywhere. look at portland. it's like from, from 100 years ago. >> jason: and amid the surging

crime and major cities across the country, the left continues to work towards defunding the police. a new story on foxnews.com states that assume to be released report will show that almost half of police departments nationwide are getting their budgets cut. in other news about your security, the trump administration has just gotten a big win. the supreme court has denied a request to halt construction of the border wall. joining us now for reaction, dhs acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli. thank you so much for joining us tonight. i would like you to first react to the supreme court clearing the way for some $2.5 billion of pentagon allocated funds to be used for the border wall. >> two enthusiastic thumbs-up. the president has told us and he has directed his administration to press ahead aggressively but

always within the boundaries of the law, always within the boundaries of the law and the supreme court acknowledged today and is left the building of the wall continue. we passed 200 miles more than a month ago. we will pass 300 miles well before the end of the summer and we will pass 400 miles not long after that. we will certainly get well over 400 miles by the end of the year. just as this president promised. supreme court has kept us free to do it. customs and border protection and the army corps of engineers are pressing ahead hard to make it happen and today's win was a big one to make sure we stay on track for that goal. >> jason: it will and it will be most helpful, having been on the border is much as i have, it will be a huge help to the border patrol, no doubt about it. i also want to get your reaction to the story that you can read about on foxnews.com, this idea that have a police department's are getting budget cuts in this time and age right now. i've got to tell you, it's going

to be devastating to the country and its residents. they are supposed to be protecting the citizenry. you can't just go and cut their budget and not expect to have a consequence. >> you know, that's why police become police officers. they want to do good and protect their communities. of course you have the every so often bad apple but there's no professionaprofession on earth t have that. for purely political reasons, you have left-wing governments, city councils, mayors and so forthcoming these budgets. let's be really clear about who's hurt the most. where do you need policing the most? you needed them most of the poorest communities, the communities a better most crime-ridden and they are disproportionately minority. this president is upset about it. he fights that continuously, as you know. he passed criminal justice reform. it's a balance. he's very tough, very tough on crime. he also knows we need to get it right. he didn't want his predecessor

wouldn't do o on the reform sid. and now we have all these left-wing local governments that are trying to cut their police departments. we have seen it in new york. we are seeing it all over the country and its bad news for the communities that need it the most. >> jason: it's amazing to me that democrats level of government, government employees and more government, except whe, then they just want chaos and they are okay with rioting and domestic terrorism. that's the way i see it. that's what i see is going on. i need you to comment. give us the latest about portland because there was a transition based on what the governor was doing with the state police. where's the line? one president trump might step in with the national guard. is it getting better and will it solve the problem? >> well, violence was declining this week and then last night the state police did what we have been asking them to do for months and that is to show up. they didn't show up.

they began doing the policing that the portland police wouldn't do around the courthouse on the federal facilities and lo and behold, into months, we had our first night without violence last night. and this is i told you so moment really but we have still got to get through the weekend. weekends are always tougher for mayor rioting and violence standpoint. we will see her tonight and tomorrow night go. we are going in the right direction. part of the reason we were positioned to go on the right direction is because president trump supported us in advancing officers into portland to protect that courthouse and protect the federal facilities and frankly i think the state and local governments were just embarrassed that we were holding out the way we were and doing our job and performing our mission were everywhere else in america, even other cities where the president is at odds with the mayor, we still cooperated the professional law enforcement level but not in portland. governor brown is change that. it will give her that credit.

this is a win-win for the president and this administration governor brown and her state police. it makes portland look pathetic, more pathetic. be that as it may, they did what we asked. took them a long time to do it but as soon as they did it, it started to work. >> jason: it's amazing, just how have local law enforcement do their job. it's amazing that it was a heavy left and ask. thank you for joining us this evening. we really do appreciate it. coming up next, we have the latest on the case against ghislaine maxwell and we have more to come on this very special edition of "hannity" coming up. this isn't just a wifi upgrade.

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♪ >> jason: welcome back to the special edition of "hannity." newly unsealed court documents or providing new insight into the case against jeffrey epstein's alleged madam, ghislaine maxwell. some documents show previously unknown communication between epstein and maxwell, while others suggest bill clinton traveled to epstein's infamous island. joining us now with the latest updates is fox news' trace gallagher. trace.

>> good evening. ghislaine maxwell claimed she hasn't been in contact with jeff's jeffrey epstein for more than a decade and yet court documents from a civil case back in 2015 contradict that statement showing that maxwell and epstein had lengthy email exchanges, including in 2015 where epstein tried to counsel her on how to defend yourself against allegations of illegal behavior. telling maxwell she has "done nothing wrong" and she should "go outside, head high, not as an escaped convict. go to parties. deal with it." the judge says in the current case she has sought to muddy the waters. she is accused of helping epstein recruit and traffic underage girls for sex and the documents show one of the accusers, virginia giuffre, remember seeing former president bill clinton on jeffrey epstein's private island quoting "you know i remember asking jeffrey what is bill clinton doing here? saying that epstein laughed it off, responding "welcome he owes me a favor."

giuffre goes on to say she didn't know if epstein was serious. jason. >> jason: trace, thank you. new today, president trump responded to the divisive and politically charged eulogy delivered by former president obama yesterday at congressman john lewis' funeral. during which he attacked president trump for the use of federal forces to help with the surging violence in cities across america among other topics. and linked actions taken by president trump and his administration to those of segregationists george wallace. happens to be a democrat, by the way. speaking with reporters this afternoon, president trump said "well, he did a bad job for minorities. i did much more for minorities than he did." joining me now at their reaction, radio talk show host larry elder and civil rights attorney leo terrel. leo, i want to start with you. do we really think

president obama solved the race relation problems? i was in congress while he was the president for eight years. i didn't really see an improvement at all when it was obama-biden. >> let's be honest, he caused more problems. that's when black lives started, ferguson, riots. let me be very clear to all those democrats. president trump is done much more than obama, biden and the last eight years. this is what president trump has done. lowest black on appointment rate. he has funded historical black colleges. that's a fact. he signed an executive order on justice reform bill and more importantly, the first step act ended with the crime bill of joe biden created in 1994. i challenge democrat, send me an email, write down all the things obama and biden did for blacks. it will probably be an empty sheet of paper but send it to me because president trump has a record to run on for african-americans. send it to me if you're a

democrat. there's nothing on it. >> jason: how would you react to that, larry? >> well, jason. at the john lewis funeral, barack obama compare donald trump to bull connor. for the young ones out there, bull connor is that southern law man who would seek water hoses and dogs on civil rights workers and as leo pointed out e first act, allowing young black men to have their sentences looked at and reduced. obama compare donald trump to george wallace. that man stood in front of the university of alabama and said segregation now. segregation tomorrow. segregation forever. donald trump wants to give urban parents the right to opt out of an underperforming government school and go to any school they want they can get in. slight difference. once again you have barack obama pulling out the race card because he knows that if he gets black people angry and guilty why people stirred up, they will

go in there and pull that leveler for barack obama. says these kids were fresh side and hopeful, he says if you can be born anywhere anytime where would it be and when would it be and he said right here in america. it's b.s. that he sells election time for votes and it's disgusting and offensive to all the people who fought and died to make this country as perfect as we are trying to make it today. >> jason, one last point. >> jason: i've got to go. i've got to go to a commercial. i have a heart out. thank you for joining us on this friday night. we always love having both of you on. thank you very much. more "hannity" right after the break. stay with us. guys, are you tired of frequent nighttime bathroom trips? well, force factor prostate helps reduce urges to urinate, plus fully empty your bladder and promote a normal prostate size. don't settle. choose force factor prostate,

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