sean conley is issuing a statement that includes, quote, after numerous discussions, he and i had regarding the evidence for and against the use of hydroxychloroquine, we concluded the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks which, frankly, raises more questions than answers as the president had more serious exposure to the virus than we know about. and why would heg against the advice of his own medical experts? look, if it works for him and for other people, good. but it's very dangerous because at this point most of the

conley from another couple of patients, and i feel it is very responsible physician.e. number two, hydroxychloroquine, in the laboratory, looks like it does have some effects against covid-19, probably early on, and disdecreases viral spread on the risk of inflammation. but the studies have been done very. it depends on the studies. the latest one from france looks very good. the latest one from china doesn't look as good. there are huge studies going on right now. one from the nih, and another one in detroit. the one detroit is looking at health care workers who have just been exposed, that haven't been sick. that would be similar to the president's situation. the fda has warned about the risk of heart arrhythmia, but dr. conley would have taken that under advisement and he would look at the president in terms of risk benefits. he's in a high-risk group, he's over 70, he has other risk factors, so this was way back and forth. what people out there need to know is this is a conversation between you and your doctor. it's not patient saying, "i want this, i need this."

leave it that it's been many good getting your thoughts on this thanks so much for joining us david conley thank you very much appreciate them. tens of thousands of cruise ship stuff from maine trapped at sea 2 months after the pandemic crippled the industry they say they've been abandoned many are being paid while some have even held a hunger strike and the gallacher reports from miami. sailing the open seas dancing on deck and seeing the world from the comfort of a floating hotel that's what the cruise line industry is supposed to be about since the outbreak of the coronavirus that image has been tarnished outbreaks of covert 19 claimed lives passengers were eventually allowed to go home but crew members many of the migrants from poorer countries like the philippines of all but been abandoned crewmember caio saldana heart centers these videos from onboard celebrity cruises he's been moved from one vessel to another told he was going home only for plans to be canceled all of which he tells us is taking a huge mental toll there are still people there you can see there. but they are there t

and then heather conley, she's a senior vice president for in the arctic and cfi and the director of the program and author to outstanding studies on access to what we are going to talk about today. please, if you have questions no onto the link for this. and you can ask questions and we will talk as a group for about 20 - 25 minutes and then we will go to your questions. is a component on the link where you can ask questions. so please do that. i am the chair and director of the trans national press project. so let's get into first, the current situation with information and disinformation and then were going to get into a little bit of history critically playing off of thomases recent book active measures and then will of the future hiring so will start with the present and move too fast and then get into the future. thomas, when we start with you. as we look at her as you look at russian and chinese in the u.s. activities today, how would you characterize what is going on around covid-19. thomas: is a tough question. because what we see certainly, is politicians and top officials

sean conley says after numerous discussions he and i had regarding the evidence for and against the usef hydroxychloroquine, we accouncod the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the risks. we've seen the president's own fda recommend that you do not take hydroxychloroquine outside of a clinical trial or a supervised setting like a hospital. but clearly the president's doctor says they have felt that he needs to take it but they don't go into more detail, don. >> i'm looking at it and i said to producers earlier, do you think he's really taking it? i mean, it's sad that you have to question a president, but we never know if he's telling the truth, honestly. but you're right, it doesn't explicitly say it. all right, take him at his word that he's taking it, but it's very interesting that he would just let that out during a press conference. okay. dr. shaffer, the president's doctor says they concluded the potential benefits outweigh the risks. do you understand how that could be? what does that mean? >> well, good evening, don. when i heard the news, i, frankly, was disappointed a

now we recognize chairman conley. unmuted.y, you are now >> thank you very much and thank you for hosting this meeting slash hearing. i would like to make one point, madam chairwoman. as you recall, we did have inspected general horowitz before this committee about a month ago. , and i believed started ranking member mr. jordan. we had him just last month, but we haven't had them again. i want to thank our witness, christie, the department of health and human services. for bridging the committee on the important work her office is doing and highlighting the critical gaps in the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic. inspectors general are more critical to our nation than ever , as they oversee the distribution of the largest stimulus package in our nations history. $3 trillion and counting. and to ensure that our government is taking the right steps to save lives. hhscent report issued by details the severe shortages of testing supplies experienced by hospitals, the disorganized nature of the feder

then the next day in the january the fifth, 2017, president obama met with director conley, deputy attorney general of vice president biden, national security adviser susan rice. in the meeting, they briefed obama on the russian investigation. on january 5th, 2017, the very same day as the oval office rethink with obama and biden, trand the obama administration think existence of the december 29th, 2016 football with the russian ambassador. however, that late and had not been publicly reported. also in january 5, obama's chief of staff requested to unmask flynn. according to a deputy attorney general, when she met with obama on the day, obama already knew about flynn's goal with the russian ambassador and she was surprised that obama knew about it already. on january 11th, 2017, you in an investor some of the powers, requests to unmask flynn. she requested this be done 700 goes after the election. she would explain why she did that. then on january 12, 2017, vice president biden requested to unmask flynn. the same day the existent influence fall, the russian investor was leaked and ran into

know that is murder, and we want swift justice. >> we just lost the feed from commissioner angela conley at an incredibly opportune time. i'm sorry we lost that feed. she is the county commissioner who represents the area where george floyd was killed. she lives and was speaking to us from about five blocks from that location. raising an interesting point tonight, that in the context of this curfew, which we have assuming that local authorities are trying to enforce here, there's supposed to be a curfew that should result in nobody being on the streets in minneapolis/st. paul about 25 minutes ago, she is raising the issue about the fact that community members have created a space at the location where george floyd died, and they have been holding that intersection peacefully, as a nonviolent site, as what she describes, basically a sacred site. and there's, to the extent that the curfew is going to result in a removal of those people who are holding that space, that could also not be a flashpoint but could be an important psychological touchstone in terms of what we're going to watch hap

so we remain vigilant massively we offer mentoring with targeting- using little conley remaining quite attentive to the situation but the curve is quite good and i hope they will continue down this path and tradition and everywhere else in the world. at and- started to ease lockdown in tunisia. on monday we saw somee shops and businesses were starting to open the doors so what do all of those thoughts and what feedback to getting from the feel about how things panning out. or are you seeing signs of concern. no to tell you the truth as always a period of uncertainty at the beginning of each phase. the first three days of- last week. we have the time to re adapt ourselves to organize ourselves between the different authorizations to open up and the things. as to where we can start working in order from last thursday but we remain. vigilant for the time being there's no real rush to war the results are good. when it comes to recoveries and junior cases. we've been repeating the same message to offer the citizens to keep the right mind set to remain vigilant which has worked and we can se

conley. dr. conley, the surgeon general, anybody in his public circle that is a public health exper, x or purports to be, is to do what we all do in the profession, do no harm. that is not what dr. conley is doing. he should put his medical license above whatever personal agenda he and the president has. >> it is unfortunate. ronny jackson, respected in the obama administration, just embarrassing himself now every day out on the campaign trail, just like he embarrassed himself with his physical of donald trump. everybody knew he was lying then. mike barnicle, i'm sorry, but i have got to believe that donald trump is lying right now about taking this drug that his own administration said actually can kill you, doesn't give you the positive effects and, in fact, can cause situations, especially in people that are older like him and obese like him, and can cause real health damage to those type of people. it is bad for donald trump, but more to the point, because i don't believe donald trump is

new york city on production like disney's frozen on broadway has been canceled completely they've conley is the executive graphic effects for juicer it whetted digital and the fax company that worked on lord of the rings planet of the apes and avatar he says plans to resume major productions are an encouraging sign. well we're working closely with the government to help open up the borders or work within the restrictions and guidelines for bringing movies back into new zealand and this is a positive and encouraging sign we look we're looking at other opportunities for more movies to come into musing very soon so what we're doing is we're looking at a variety of new different techniques that employ both to affect post production techniques and shooting techniques that elevate the standards of hygenic practices on set so will be the test case if you will for those types of movies but we do have practices in place now that encourage social distancing among crew persons among the actors and we're hoping that there will be you know a variety of digital solutions that we can employ to help fin

but to professor conley's point were we have to be clear in giving them a language and discourse about how to talk about these ideas in the classroom. >> the other thing is my -- i don't know if this is actually true, but my census that a lot of students -- their only engagement around religion on campuses is about jewish groups and muslim groups disagreeing. and now it's, you know, nobody wants to touch that stuff with a ten foot pole. and so, you know, i pitched a class on american zionism and all of my colleagues went -- you know, of course they would let me teach it. back up they're sort of looking at me going you're opening up a bag of worms that you really don't want. and so i think my sense is that, you know, question nwe cannot s underplay how much that conversation has hijacked any sort of serious engagement around will arou around religion for fear of inflaming beliefs that exist and it's so poorly managed to begin with. >> i'm early american so -- [ laughter ] >> awesome. >> i take religion very seriously. so my question sort of comes out of teaching as well, and i'll sort o

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norm conley. there we have it. very much at the highs of the session. huge jump for the dow. up 551 points. stay tuned "after the bell" will be all over the spacex launch. melissa: 33 minutes to lift i don't-off. we're back above 25,000. second straight day closing above the 25,000 milestone for the first time in more than two months as a historic mission is about to launch at cape canaveral. how exciting. i'm melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane. welcome, everybody, to "after the bell." it is an exciting hour we have ahead, if the weather cooperates in the state of florida. as for the stock market as melissa said, good day. the s&p and nasdaq shaking off earlier losses closing near the highs of the day. there is optimism out there about a economic recovery and also about hopes for a vaccine. so, optimistic day. we will get to the launch. we'll spend a lot of the hour on it. first fox business team coverage of our top stories. lauren simonetti on the markets for us, blake burman in washington who has the latest for the president who is in florida for the launch and k

>>from the seat of her >>2 recent conley soaps and the caravan of affection morning, she turns 100 years old this is making me cry. wish to receive a happy birthday. >>she loves motorcycles and served as a chief petty officer for the u.s. navy in alameda during world war 2 those people. >>i have put a lot of their lives into the service. those people part of the service. on jerry disabled. >>neighbors also part of the celebration. completely caught teresa off guard. i thought it was going to be a very quiet breakfast with my daughter, her husband. in my care taker. i did he had no idea about this other snapped in fact i was about to take a nap. >>instead the mother grandmother great grandmother and great great grandmother marked a century of life in grand style train may likely we had a big birthday plan for going on coronavirus we i had to cancel it. >>i just want to make sure that she knew that you know is taking over mission reached a major milestone in one day knowledge father, what was the tea has been to her family to her community to our country, although teresa suffered a mild he

sean conley, said this.erous discussions he and i had regarding the evidence for and against the use of hydroxychloroquine, we concluded the potential benefit for treatment outweighed the relative risks. it does not say the doctor actually prescribed it. if you were the white house physician right now, the food and drug administration says don't do it in that setting, the president is not part of a clinical trial, would you say, sir, i'll give you a prescription for this, or would you say, sir, think again? >> any time you prescribe a medication, you're doing a risk analysis. just about every medication has risks. you think about all the commercials you see on tv and the long list of risks that sound terrifying, but when you look at the benefit of the medication, with the risk benefit analysis, you do decide you do prescribe the medicine. you're looking at two separate decisions, one is the risk benefit of taking it, the other is the risk benefit of not taking it. in this case there are competing studies, a

. >> the coronavirus has been spoiling a lot of parties days, but teresa conley's wasn't one of them.n her 100th birthday, teresa thought she was going to have a quiet brunch with her daughter and son-in-law at their antioch home. >> in fact, i was about to take a nap and my daughter said you can't there's something going to happen outside. >> reporter: that's when her normally quiet life got a little louder. >> she's one of our sisters, our grandmother. she's one of us. so it doesn't matter what, you know, we'll do it. >> reporter: an honor guard of firefighters, police and veterans on harleys woke the neighborhood up with a little rolling thunder. teresa served in world war ii, mostly in alameda and achieved the rank of a navy chief petty officer. but that's about all her family knows about her service. >> truthfully, we don't know a lot about what she did. she took an oath of secrecy, and she won't share. >> reporter: five generations of family and friends offered their drive-by affection as teresa tried to maintain the stoicism that is the hall mark of the greatest generation. >>

>>turning 100 years old is quite the accomplishment still teresa conley was not expecting much fanfare i thought it was going to be a very quiet breakfast with my daughter, her husband. >>my chair t shirts to isis family had to cancel it. i just want to make sure that she knew that you know is taking over mission. >>reached a major milestone in one day knowledge. >>instead of the match she planned to take teresa spent the morning outside of her home in antioch watching members of the local american legion post police firefighters and members of her congregation at saint ignatius church of any option. >>drive-by for her birthday party she's in good physical shape. she's able to walk or memory a sharp as a tack. she truly has been blessed and is a blessing for us, theresa is a california native and served as a chief petty officer for the u.s. navy during world war 2 spending most of her service time in alameda. >>she has 2 sons a daughter and is a great great grandmother, they're treating me like a italy to ford >>recess still ahead beautiful weather draw, hundreds of people to new york

norm conley. there we have it. very much at the highs of the session. huge jump for the dow.p 551 points. stay tuned "after the bell" will be all over the spacex launch. melissa: 33 minutes to lift i don't-off. we're back above 25,000. second straight day closing above the 25,000 milestone for the first time in more than two months as a historic mission is about to launch at cape canaveral. how exciting. i'm melissa francis. connell: i'm connell mcshane. welcome, everybody, to "after the bell." it is an exciting hour we have ahead, if the weather cooperates in the state of florida. as for the stock market as

conley. >> what's amazing, sanjay, is we're sitting here having a conversation whether 15% or 20% of dying from coronavirus is greater than his chance from taking hydroxychloroquine. it's pretty stunning we're even at a moment where such a conversation is out there. i think this is moment to kind of take a step back and have people understand the gravity of the exposure he had and the situation he is in. >> no question and dr. rhiner had some really interesting insights here that are going to be unique. he's been in this situation and taken care of the vice president and offered insights, but you're absolutely right. i think the concern, i think, and i think jonathan would agree with me is what are people hearing tonight? maybe i have an exposure, i'm at risk, i'm going to go out and get this drug. i mean, if it's good enough for the president why isn't it good enough for me? dr. rhiner makes a good point, he can get ekgs when he wants and monitored closely, but what's going to happen now? there's no evidence still it works. there will be trials coming out looking at prophylaxis whic

sean conley, physician to the president, revealing in a new memo that he concluded the potential benefitm treatment outweighed the relative risk. >> vice president mike pence on tuesday saying that he is not taking hydroxychloroquine, even though his press secretary did test positive for the virus. so he is not following the president's lead on this questionable decision to start taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure. president trump, though, even as he dives in head first into this hydroxychloroquine pool, he is not following the advice that public health experts are saying could help prevent the spread of coronavirus, and that is the issue of wearing a mask. the president on tuesday was noncommittal about whether he will wear a mask when he visits a ford manufacturing facility in michigan on thursday. ford, though, has said that it did inform the white house that anybody who goes into that facility is required to wear a mask. we'll see whether the president follows that directive. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >> so, let's bring in dr. dennis carroll, who joins us n

angela conley, thank you for joining us. don, don't go away. as you can see, demonstrators are protesting what happened in minneapolis. and they are protesting around the country as well. i know you are in washington, d.c. tell us what is going on in the nation's capital. >> reporter: a passionate and boisterous crowd. this crowd has been growing exponentially by the minute. they have been chanting songs and sayings. what they have been doing is a ritual they have been exercising over the past hour or so, chanting the name of a young african-american who died at the police and then would say die his name. freddy gray, and others. but they are frustrated and don't want to take it anymore. i want to give you a sense of the crowd. it has been growing exponentially over the last few minutes. there is a police presence. they tell us they expect to go marching down the street towards the white house. police have told us they are going to maintain a present. so far it has been peaceful. the organizers said they want to keep it peaceful. they called pe

conley agreed that the benefits outweighed the risks. the president should be taken at his word. >> so why promote it and why not wear a mask? a proven way to prevent catching this virus. >> by the way, the fda has warned against using it because not only is it unproven to help, there are also signs that it can hurt some patients who take it. those questions as the president launches a new threat against the world health organization. he says the u.s. may pull funding if the w.h.o. does not meet certain demands within 30 days, and moments from now, expect a fiery senate hearing on the economic toll in this country from the pandemic. fed chair jerome powell, treasury secretary steve mnuchin will be grilled, really, it looks like by both parties on the stimulus, how it's rolled out, who it has helped, who it has not helped. we'll cover all the angles. let's start, though, with john harwood at the white house here. as we've often seen, the president makes an unproven claim or even one that fights the science here, and the message machinery

and then heather conley, she's a senior vice president for in the arctic and cfi and the director

conley put out a statement saying he had consulted with the president. and he sort of suggests he agrees with the decision. doesn't directly say he prescribed it or, you know, recommended it, but said that he will be monitoring carefully and, you know, the president has, in fact, continued to test negative in these daily tests he's been taking and that he's asymptomatic. but i thought it was a very revealing clip you just showed that he says basically the one study he's citing from the va must have been made by trump enemies. i think that's very revealing about his mindset. if anybody puts forward information that contrasts with what he believes or what he thinks is right, automatically, they're consigned to the trump enemy list. it must be they have something against him as opposed to doctors trying to get the best information they can get. >> yeah. so, dr. patel, take us through what we know. and if there are still outstanding questions about this drug and its potential use it when its come to hydroxychloroquine. the president is saying this study, thi

sean conley in the white house and the president, but the precedent it sets and will it encourage other people to want to try to use it for coronavirus. >> and let me bring in dr. scha schafner. you're a health official, a medical expert. does it bother you, do you think that there's something inherently wrong with it, does it send the wrong signal? >> jake, the issue, let's clarify some of the issues. the va study studied the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating rather sick people. and it was not exactly as you said, a prospective, controlled trial. and it is possible that the sicker patients received the more medication than did the people who were less sick and therefore these retrospective studies are a guide but they are not definitive. and as you said, more careful studies are needed. that said, the hydroxychloroquine is now being used in order to prevent infection. and there, the scientific basis is virtually nonexistent. so it's an idea for which there is absolutely no evidence. and what we wouldn't want is suddenly many people across this country, inspired bit chief

>>turning 100 years old is quite the accomplishment still teresa conley was not expecting much fanfareht it was going to be a very quiet breakfast with my daughter, her husband. >>in my chair t shirts but to resist family had other plans. >>for the plan for to cancel it. i just want to make sure that she knew that you know is taking over that action reached a major milestone one day knowledge. >>instead of the match she planned to take teresa spent the morning outside of her home in antioch watching members of the local american legion post police firefighters and members of her congregation at saint ignatius church of any option. >>drive-by for her birthday party she's in good physical shape. she's able to walk or memory a sharp as a tack. she truly has been blessed and is a blessing for us, theresa is a california native and served as a chief petty officer for the u.s. navy during world war 2 spending most of her service time in alameda. >>she has 2 sons a daughter and is a great great grandmother, they're treating me like a italy to >>well there are covid-19 outbreaks at meat proces

conley, sorry. to say look. you are not at risk really but let's take this to see if it works.dra? >> sandra: we await the president's remarks in the roosevelt room. john roberts, thank you. >> ed: as we wait for the president, joining us is tom bevan. he is trying to grab the megaphone at the white house in the middle of the presidential campaign here. he's got his treasury secretary testifying on capitol hill about the economic pain that americans are feeling and you had sherard brown from ohio, a key democrat. framing a question, how many workers have to die in order to prop up the stock market and the gdp. you can see that treasury secretary pushing back there and saying this is pretty unfair to frame it that way. it gives you an idea of what the president is facing as he tries to get the country reopened. >> it does. this is now, the battleground is over the public health crisis and of trump's handling of it and the economic product like a crisis that is going on that we see unfolding day in and day out. trump is cooked clearly on the side of pushing to get this economy re

conley and president trump come together and make that decision, the media should stay out of it. they have nowhere to be in between the doctor and the patient. this is a typical politicizing of a medical issue. stuart: i think we will leave it at that. i'm sorry to cut this short, but you know, i think you said all that has to be said. well said, too. dr. marc siegel, come back soon. okay. >>> check futures. flat to slightly lower day, pretty much across the board this morning. no major movement in stocks as of right now. we've got, what, about eight minutes to go before we open the market. all right. >>> quick programming note. how about this one. next thursday, may 28th, we are hosting our very own america works together virtual town hall here on "varney & company." i will be joined by dave ramzi, ken coleman, chris hogan of the ramsay solutions team. send video questions to ininvestedinyou@foxbusiness.com. >>> alibaba did well during the lock down. american buyers joined alibaba in droves. we discuss it moments from now. stock's up. >>> new york city mayor bill deblasio is now

katerina conley evacuated to a hotel. >> we quickly packed our two dogs, a couple changes of clothesnd ourselves. we had to do what we had to do as far as finding a place to stay, otherwise we would be sleeping in our vehicles. >> the devastating flooding complicated by the coronavirus >> evacuate the area. >> authorities working to get residents out of harm's way leaving many heading to emergency shelters to balance their safety with social distancing. >> first it was stay home, stay safe order but it feels like get out, stay safe, so feels like this really weird conflict so do coronavirus rules apply or what's the right way to be responding. >> reporter: forced to flee from one of the worst flood disasters currently hitting mid michigan. >> we're going to be the right thing in the midst of a crisis and help people get out. >> reporter: real dangerous situation with rising waters there is good news they are going to get a bit of a reprieve today because the forecast is for sunny and 70 degrees today and tomorrow after that, more rain may be coming savannah, back to you. >> to be fog