so we had to pick chris dodd? why are you rewarding your old friend, who has a reputation! just keep the story going? how stupid is joe biden! lots! >> jesse: at least chris dodd will spend a lot of money on drinks and tips at restaurants. we absolutely know that. all right, don't go anywhere. more of "the five" coming up. ♪ it's best we stay apart for a bit, but that doesn't mean you're in this alone. we're automatically refunding our customers a portion of their personal auto premiums. we're also offering flexible payment options for those who've been financially affected by the crisis. we look forward to returning to something that feels a little closer to life as we knew it, but until then you can see how we're here to help at libertymutual.com/covid-19. [ piano playing ] ♪ >> katie: welcome back. during the outbreak causing panic for some but frontier airlines rolling out solutions for social distancing for an extra fee. the airline will eat the middle seat empty if you want to fork over $39, so greg we just gave the airlines a bailout. >> greg: s. >> katie: and charge

lou: first of all, chris dodd, of all people.ke any sense that biden would entrust -- other than his affection, apparently, for chinese money -- that he would entrust such an important role to someone with dodd's checkered career. >> yeah, i think that's certainly the question. within a few hours of the announcement yesterday, i started hearing from democrats saying this feels like a deaf ear appointment. joe biden has to deal with the issues of china not only the policy of the obama-biden administration, but also hunter biden's foray into making money in china on his dad's watch. so who does he pick? a guy who presided over the china money scandal in the 1990s that gave bill clinton and the democratic party a black eye. he's also trying to deal with these sexual assault allegations, and he's made a promise, biden has, to name a woman as vice president, and he picks one of the most famous womanizers, someone accused of sexually assaulting with senator ted kennedy a waitress at a restaurant that multiple eyewitnesses saw the attac

senator chris dodd actually he's the 3rd one in there. congresswoman lee survive chester the la mayor eric are said to be at our city. he is a first there and a former white house and senate consul de biden cynthia hogan. they are going to leave the process of looking for potential running mates they will coordinate with a network of vetting teams to provide background information. biden of course is says hill to this pretty soon and we'll pick a woman. let's take a live look at the embarcadero. it was a breezier off looks like it's a little breezy again but it was a pretty day let's check in on the forecast with bruce rodrigues debris site. >>hi there cath and yet those winds are continuing to how specially throughout the embarcadero and most of downtown san francisco for that matter i can actually hear the winds outside in my studio, you're my stay at home or cast. >>let's take a live look outside we are noticing today's daytime highs in the 60's for downtown san francisco right about where we should be for this time of year, but every

day of breaking news and we've got some more for you coming now from the world of sports state chris dodd goes you told us yesterday this was coming down and we talked about it has arrived the n.h.l. yes in the past hour the commissioner gary bettman did announce that they're moving forward with that 24 team playoff format we talked about yesterday right he said it will be all the details like we said the top 4 seeds get a buy in its conference and then there will be 8 teams that are seated bracket style but he said that it would all be in 200 cities now they haven't released which cities yet but there are some front runners i have for you it will be either they guess edmonton toronto dallas or minneapolis is a big one as well i'm thinking vegas dallas and i work. and they tell n.h.l. you know that's hockey right i do do you know that vegas is a desert right i'm aware. they're going to play hockey at a desert see the great thing now about technology right we've got these ice rinks that they can do inside the big arenas although they manufacture the i hate they don't have to wait for the b

chris dodd, the accusations against them.phere in washington in the early '90s where critics, i read it, analysts say it was open season on harassing women back then. women were scared. you're reaction to the blow back against tara reade now? >> well i think it is uncalled for. and you know, the democrats are such hypocrites when brett kavanaugh was going through nomination hearings, they were ruthless. democrats were ruthless. believe the woman no matter what. as if women, women can tell the truth and women can lie, believe me, and so can men t was ridiculous back then when all of these democrats said you have to believe the woman and they went after brett kavanaugh and it was ruthless. now for them to say, oh, you know, i believe in joe biden and you know, the main street media does the same thing. it is absolutely hypocritical. nobody knows except those two what actually happened. i think there is a legitimate complaint, needs to be investigated, but you know, we don't know. we cannot say for sure, only those two know for

mary garcetti, cynthia hogan who helped me right the women's act and is a very competent lawyer, chris dodd. they're going to be thoroughly looking a the a lot of qualified candidates, but when it comes to the vice presidency, looking for someone to be a partner in progress who is sympatico and ready to be president on day one. i said there are many women with the experience and the background to do that job and that includes women of color. but i believe we should have a government again, i'll say it again, that reflects the nation in choosing a woman for vice president is the beginning of that process. look, i just -- if we hadn't had the circumstances that occurred last election, we'd have a woman president now. i'd be out campaigning for the reelection of hillary clinton. >> let me ask you this. you and i in many meetings that you and president obama had around criminal justice eissues i remember when we dealt with the aftermath of trayvon and the obama/biden administration commuted more sentences of any presidents in decades of people that had been unfairly sentenced to long stenentenc