this is all an effort by attorney general bill barr to re-examine the flynn case. that's why these documents were made public. we are told by officials at the department of justice to expect more documents anytime now. >> dana: thank you. let's bring in karl rove, former deputy white house chief of staff and a fox news contributor. the president said he wants to stay out of it and bill barr is trying to run a process over the justice department. does raise a lot of eyebrows what happened to michael flynn or if there was a mishandling, should the white house wait and see how that goes or should they just press forward here since it looks so damaging? >> i let the process run. the more documents we have, the greater the insight everyone will have and the more the course of the administration ultimately it's going to be accepted. these are remarkable documents. the idea that -- they said

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broadcasters and this station. ♪ >> laura: now more of my exclusive interview with attorney general bill barraura: bill gates, the gate foundation, are in favor of developing agile certificates that would certify that individuals, american citizens, have an immunity to this virus and potentially other viruses going forward to then facilitate travel and work and so forth. what are your thoughts from a civil libertarian point of view about these types of, what some would say tracking mechanisms, going forward to reopen our broader economy? >> i'm very concerned of that slippery slope in terms of the continuing encroachments on personal liberty. i do think during emergency, appropriate reasonable steps are fine. >> laura: but a digital certificate to show who has recovered or been tested recently or when we have a vaccine, people who have received it. that's his answer on a reddit ask me anything. >> would be a little concerned about that. and the tracking of people and so forth. generally, especially going forward over along period of time. >> laura: a surprised at how wildly partisan a respons

he has people in his cabinet like attorney general bill barr who talk about the importance of the executive, who encourage the president's belief in having all of this power. but his political aides are much more cautious than the rhetoric you're hearing from that lectern. >> doctor, as i said, sitting here tonight we don't know how all these tests are going to get done. try as he might, peter baker couldn't get a clear answer on that in the briefing room.

interview with attorney general bill barr. >> laura: last week i believe you urged consideration oferal inmate population given the coronavirus. where does that stand now given the concerns about the spread of the virus inside state prisons and obviously federal facilities? >> where not going to open our prisons and let prisoners go. generally. our mission is to protect the public and we are not going to do anything that's contrary to that. where we find a president who is vulnerable because of their age and the medical condition that has served the substantial partr sentence that has not been prede a threat to the community, we are using every tool we have two put them in home confinement provided we think home confinement will not be more dangerous than staying where they are and also after a quarantine period where we can ensure they are not taking the disease into the public. >> laura: you have been criticized recently for focusing on the drug cartels during the covid virus. >> this issue of drug cartels, it doesn't feel like that is the front line concern of american right now.

attorney general bill barr now threatening legal action against state governors who have ordered coronavirus lockdown all right it's time to boost your news i q. tensions are once again heating up in the persian gulf after a brief confrontation on the seas between the u.s. and iran which resulted in president calling for the take down of iranian gunboats that come too close rachel blevins us following the story she's joining us now from the news room with the details to this rachel what's happening there well manella president trump is now arming the u.s. navy with the shoot down a new stronger order after a close encounter with iran has increased fears of escalation in the persian gulf trump took to twitter wednesday morning writing i have instructed the united states navy to shoot down destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ship. see his warning follows an incident last week in which the us claims 11 vessels from iran's revolutionary guard came within 10 yards of u.s. navy and coast guard ships in the gulf near kuwait while the navy released footage calling the incident da

>> yeah, bill barr indicated as much and he gave a memo and awh briefing, a memo that said if you cano to the grocery store and maintain 6 feet of social distance you can certainly go to church and your car and maintain the appropriate distance in this idea that governments are stopping people from attending church particularly on easter sunday is flat out wrong. bill barr defending liberty has also said these protesters, he made statements in support of the people who are tired of what's taking place and simple want to get back to work, want to get our country back on the right track. >> mike: governor jordan and congressman louie gohmert, thank you both. delighted to have you here. >> thanks. >> mike: as we inched closer and closer to the presidential election, the rhetoric from the left is only going to get worse. some of you are thinking, how? r speaking of which, someone might want to check up on joe biden during this nationwide lockdown. he is saying some very strange things. during a recent online fund-raiser, biden pushed a bizarre conspiracy theory. it was that president trum

attorney general bill barr now threatening legal action against state governors who have ordered a lot of virus lockdowns plus there's an internet boom happening in india facebook already swooping in and spending billions of dollars on that country's telecom giant alliance geo we're going to discuss that all right it's time to boost your views you. tensions are once again rising in the persian gulf after a brief confrontation at sea between the u.s. and iran now that close encounter resulting in president calling for the take down of iranian gunboats quote harassing u.s. warships artie's rachel blevins is following the story she's joining us now from the news room with the details on this rachel well manella president trump is now arming the u.s. navy with a shoot down and destroy order after a close encounter with iran has increased fears of escalation in the persian gulf trump took to twitter wednesday morning writing quote i have instructed the united states navy to shoot down and destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ships see his warning fall. it was an incident

what was one in a rush to hide as bill barr put it underneath our bed. one day when the history of these days are written maybe we'll regret the overbroad nature of much of what we're forced to not do. and amidst this uncertainty, we will select a president. one thing we should all agree on now is the need for a framework that ensures an orderly election. we can ill-afford a national limitation of what we saw in wisconsin last tuesday. people standing in close proximity. some wearing masks are some not, waiting to exercise the franchise. all americans deserve an alternative to showing up in person in the midst of a pandemic. and this is not an issue whose resolution should be guided by whether one party benefits or the other. rather, the objective must be to provide for the greatest number of citizens to safely participate. people have already died. for our right to vote. but nobody in the united states should have to risk death in order to vote. might the violation be to enable mobile voting by cell phone or internet connected computer. my next guess th

basic liberty and freedom and civil rights in the right to go to church and be able to work and bill barr had a great decision a couple weeks ago, shannon he said if you can go to the grocery store and maintain 6 feet social distance you can go to church in your car and not be harassed by the government for doing so and that's what they're protesting and i think that's part of the tradition of the great country and what makes us a special place and makes us american. >> shannon: were up there with american flags and all kinds of other goodies as they take the h the protests and as things change in ohio very soon and we think we will see how the rollout goes for reopening their economy. congressman, great to have you and thank you. press tonight by the white house and crushing oil prices, president trump sees this as an opportunity. check it out. >> if we can buy for nothing, we will take everything we can get. if only thing i like better than that is when they pay you to take the oil. this is a great time to buy oil. >> shannon: he was asked about scouting oil tankers headed this way full

bill barr weighed in today. i'm curious what you make of this thunder on the right to diminish and get back to work. >> it's amazing, brian, when you watch his allies on twitter talking about how this cure is worse than the disease and they have to reopen the country. everybody has to get back to work. this is -- these are people he listens to, and they sent bill barr out there because they deem him some legitimate and credible voice. as you said, a top infectious disease expert in our country's arsenal, of course. he doesn't know what he's talking about, describing people hiding under their beds. americans who are exercising these social distance protocols without any tools from the government -- no masks, no wipes, no gloves, no nothing -- are doing the hard work of slowing the spread so that our health care system can function. and the president cannot reopen the economy. they like to talk about it that way. when he left the podium today, a bit chastened, i was surprised, even though what he said before he le

speaking of attorney attorney generals and lawsuits you now have bill barr saying d.o.j. is looking into suing state governors right and this is actually interesting because this is all over the clashes between president donald trump as you mentioned trying to open up the states and the state governors saying no and how kind of to respond to the whole coronavirus most of it you know with most if not all states are on lockdown and both trump and barr say that businesses they need to have more freedom to operate and trump says that some governors have gone just way too far actually even accusing governors of keeping their people on quote house arrest now we have the cd see who is as far as that's who we look to as far as you know seeing this research and one that's going to peak as far as this outbreak but there's new surprising coming out that it's a for a form of national defense scientists at the los alamos lab in new mexico now these scientists they consistently beat the c.d.c. when it comes to forecasting infectious diseases in particular like the bird flu ebola unfort

in moments, laura's last part with their exclusive interview with attorney general bill barr.> brian: as promised, here's more of laura's interview with bill barr. >> i've heard from friends, their moms, dads, elderly, very afraid during this coronavirus crisis. they have been contacted by robocalls, mail solicitations. being encouraged to give away their life savings to protect themselves against coronavirus. a lot of fraud going on out there. what are we going to do to protect them from that? >> very early we set up a fraud task force. we had all 93 districts in the department of justice with a lead prosecutor heading in that area. we set up a main task force, justice department that has a hotline where people can call in some of the information is on the justice department website, it's a very good website that tells people what's going on, and we've been prosecuting people. >> what are typical scams like? >> to get your 1,000 or 2,000 check government, put in your credit card information, banking information, and so forth. we have a new kit, send in money. >> has anybody b

now that's simple, easy, awesome. >> harris: attorney general bill barr is directing federal prosecutorsn the look out for state and local directives which could violate americans' constitutional rights during the pandemic. barr says in a memo, "if a state or local ordinance crosses the line from an appropriate exercise of authority into an overbearing infringement, the department of justice may have an obligation to address that overreach in front of a report." the president defending bill barr's move. watch the president. >> i think you want to see, like everybody, people get back to work. he doesn't want people to be held up when there is no reason for doing it. in some cases, perhaps it's too strict. he wants to make sure people have their rights and retain their rights, very importantly. >> harris: meanwhile, illinois and pennsylvania are facing legal challenges over their governor's authority and shutting down their local economies. governor pritzker of illinois had this response after a judge ruled part of his order was an overreach. >> frankly, it is insulting, it's dangerous, an

so let's do focus on bill barr. let's focus on what he is doing. >> final question, have you been in touch with the bind for president effort about any potential vetting of you or your finances or papers or background? >> i will tell you, i am focused on the pandemic and the issue at hand today, obviously, the house just voted on a package that we just sent them. i am on constant calls with my colleagues in the senate, in particular, my democratic colleagues and that's my focus. i am fully aware of the conversation that seems to be having about who is, maybe, will be talked of as a consideration. i am honored to be considered and that's it. if i'm being considered. >> is that to say are you being considered or should we take that as a no? >> i don't know. i don't know. i don't know. and again -- it's. >> okay. >> and that's not my focus. yes, i don't know. >> senator kamela harris, democrat of california and we know a proud graduate of howard, go bison, a good plug to work in there. >> thank you, brian. >> also our

. >> the attorney general bill barr is siting the trump's opposition to mail-in voting opportunities while we're in the middle of a pandemic. sglilts >> it's not the right time to experiment with the way voting is conducted, that is by mail-in and other techniques. but i think we can adapt our election practices to accommodate public health concerns. >> this administration doesn't want vote-by-mail to happen. it's not an experiment. many people are doing it. >> the country's been adapting towards mail-in voting, early voting for decades. this sounds like a very partisan statement from bill barr who seems to think changing the way we do elections is a threat to republicans. this is something president trump has utter ed as well, saying you could have levels of voting no republican could survive. more than 30 states have eethler mail-in voting or no-excuse absentees. what we're talking about in this election is ramping up the process that already exists to make absentee ballots more readily available. there are another 18 or 19 states that don't permit no-excuse absentees. the question

here's attorney general bill barr. >> the chinese are engaged in full court blitz of stealing americanechnology, trying to influence our political system, trying to steal secrets at our research universities and so forth. >> who's the bigger threat to america's election security? russia or china? >> in my opinion it's china. and not just to the election process, but i think across the board, there's simply not comparison. jesse: last three years on saysed with russia but how many died from russia hacking campaign and how many american job were lost? china is a much bigger threat. they've stolen our factories and trade secrets, shipped deadly into our beautiful land and now we lost precious time while they covered up virus and said it wasn't contagious this is ten times worse than russia election interference and left is silent on china why? it rather blame the american president. >> tens of thousands of people who will die in the or have some hope have already died more are still going to die because of donald trump incompetence and lack of leadership. >> they'll kill people to stay in

only bill barr and sidney powell pushing was the reason we were able to get this information. >> marthaat happens now is a question? we seen all of these individuals go through this process and there really hasn't been any accountability. will that happen now? >> we keep talking about it and will try to persuade jerry nadler and the oversight committee to actually have hearings, bringing in michael horowitz. we talk about the truth and the facts that are starting to come out and then we wait frankly for john durham's investigation to be completed and see what happens. i hope to prosecute someone. i still think jim comey is the big problem here, he was the guy in charge, the guy with the arrogant attitude and he was the guy that sent these agents over to interview him. we are going to try to trap three star general who served our country for so long. i still think jim comey should be someone they look at real closely but we will have to wait and see what mr. durham comes up with. >> martha: jim jordan, congressman, thank you very much and good to see you tonight. joining me now is k.t. m

bill barr i think has handled himself exceptionally well.e put out a great memo today about ridge liberty. he said d about religious liberty. he said if they can go to the market, they can go to church without being harassed and fined by local government. i think john durham is doing his work. we'll have to wait and see. but i have been impressed by the way the new attorney general, not so new i guess, he has been in office for over a year. but the way he has worked for the president of the united states. lou: we are all very hopeful. i have to ask you this last question if i may. house speaker pelosi refusing to open congress to:put it back in session until may 4, and saying she might change her mind if there were an emergency. is she not only tone deaf but utterly blind to what's happening in this country? >> there are task force meetings in washington and all over this country. but the task force that's supposed to meet is the united states congress. where is her plan? she is great at criticizing the president, even though i think he's do

and things to the president and his attorney general bill barr, this deep state reckoning is going on right before our eyes. it's sad to see, but at least people believe in the law. this is not how we should be treating a 33 year devoted veteran who loves his country and his son. this is not the last shoe to drop. here with thedr very latest of l these details, investigative reporter, contributor john solomon. we set it over and over again that this happened to general flynn. >> yeah. there is no doubt. d i remember in the fall of 2017, sarah connor and i were approached by senior fbi officials who said, i believe flynn was set up. these notes now show that a senior fbi official had misgivings about the way they were treating flynn that may be what they were really trying to do is lure him into a lie soo that they could either get him prosecuted or fired. he actually in his own notes says, we are playing games here. he has a concern that the fbi is playing games. that's all about politicalization, abuse of power. these are very chilling from a serious documents. >> sean: you have foll

. >> john, the attorney general bill barr addressing social distancing, calling the current measures draconian. this is what he said. he said i think they have been patient and i think we have to be very careful to make sure that the draconian measures that are being adopted are fully justified in their not alternative ways of protecting people. and i think when this period of time at the end of april expires, i think we have to allow people to adapt more than we have, not just tell people to go home and hide under the bed, but allow them to use other ways, social distancing and other means, to protect themselves. that was a quote from him. that's what he said during the briefing. the president saying he will be sitting down with many different people to discuss how to reopen. but with so many different voices in the administration, so many people in his ear about, you know, ways to look at this, i mean should we expect to see more tension in the run up? >> yes, i think we should. and i think that that is a striking statement by the attorney general who obviously has zero credentials

laura has a sitdown with attorney general bill barr, which has been absolutely outstanding.st, focus on the coronavirus and our response to it, let's bring in the ma'am it does it all, fox's chief breaking news correspondent located safely on the west coast, where it's always sunny. trace, what's up? how's it going in california? >> brian, breaking tonight, the people behind the university of washington ihme model, which is not always been correct, but cited numerous times by the trump administration, told fox news moments ago they believe the worst is now behind us. in other words, their modeling shows we've hit the peak in the number of deaths will now begin to go down. going on to say we need to start looking toward recovery and how to bring our economy back. meantime, the remains of a great deal of focus on the number of cases and deaths, but when we talk about flattening the curve, it's all about the percentage of increase in the number of cases, so take a look at this. from april 6th to the sundstra sundstrand, cases across the country, from the 7th to the 8tk today, a