mcenany: thank you. reporter: the markets are down substantially after the president yesterday suggested in the east room but he might use tariffs to punish china over the coronavirus. is there any serious consideration being given to putting new tariffs on china, or was the president just spit balling yesterday? ms. mcenany: i won't get ahead of any remarks by the president, but i will echo the president's displeasure with china. it's no secret china mishandled the situation. just a few examples for you. they did not share the genetic sequence until the professor in shanghai did so on his own the next day. china shut down his lab for "rectification," they slow-walked that information of human to human transmission to the w.h.o. and did not let u.s. health investigators in at a very important time. i certainly will not get ahead of the president with that announcement. reporter: is the president seriously considering forcing china to pay some type of reparations? ms. mcenany: when it comes to retaliatory

secretary mcenany: thank you. reporter: what is the president's plan to get this ditch? out of its secretary mcenany: yeah. this president is the jobs president. a placesident got us to where we had the lowest rate of unemployment in this country, historic lows for black americans, ispanic the disabled veterans. as the president has noted and i is right, we had to put a stop to the economy. pause.a it wasn't some economic catastrophe that organically happened. decided upon by the president of the united states to stop the united states economy. to save 2.2 d more.n lives, perhaps somewhere in that range. because american lives, that's most.attered the president, when faced with the tough decision to put a pause on the hottest economy in history said american lives mattered most and that's what he did. i can tell you this, the resident that got us to the hottest economy in modern history, he's done it once and he can do it again. what's the plan? secretary mcenany: we'll work with congress and come up with a hopefu

mcenany: yes he is. reporter: he took some time away from the white house? ms. mcenany: he did. he self-quarantined with his wife but they are both back at work and healthy and happy and we are happy to see them around. someone at the pentagon summit in his resignation today. -- submitted his resignation today. can you talk about those internal watchdogs? ms. mcenany: he said it was glenn fine? that is the first i'm hearing about this. it was regards to the other -- i would note the president within his legal and executive authority to appoint new ig's. he said last week at some point it is within the decision-making eachss of these entities, department, whether to keep their ig or not. i would note that president obama had the president of firing ig's as well. there were 47 ig's who signed a letter claiming the obama administration hindered their efforts. so that is not without precedent. reporter: is the president's issue with the republican national convention should go forward no matter what the covid infection rate is by late august? ms. mcenany: the president wants to see

>> secretary mcenany: there is no secret that china stopped u.s.nvestigators from coming in, it was of paramount importance that we got into china, and that did not have been paid with respect to world health organization, they have some questions of their own to answer. the united states has emphasized about 400000000-500000000 per year to the w.h.o. compared to china roughly 45 million per year, but they have a very clear china bias. you look at the timeline that is scamming for the w.h.o. when you consider the fact that on december 31st you had taiwanese officials warning about human to human transition. the w.h.o. did not make that public. on january 9th they repeated china's claim that the virus "does not transmit readily between people."at was false. on january 14th, the w.h.o. reported china talking points about no human transmission and to the leadership on the 22nd of january, the 23rd they said, and this is incredible that the pandemic did not create a health emergency of international concern. and even on february 29th you had the w.h.o.

mcenany: that is the president's assessment. it was a grave miscarriage of justice with justice brett kavanaugh. there is no need to bring of the awful and false allegations that were made against justice kavanaugh. that was an embarrassment for the democrat party to have dragged the name of a respectable man through the mud. i will leave it at that. [indiscernible] there is word the decision to release michael: from prison -- michael cohen from prison has been reversed. is this intervening? ms. mcenany: no. i'm glad you brought up justice. there is a case of injustice that is yet to be brought up today. i would like to bring it up. that is the case of michael flynn. what we have learned from that should scare every american citizen. the fact you had jim comey admitting december last year that he violated a protocol by directing agents to confront flynn, something he would not have gotten away with under previous administrations. the fbi told flynn he didn't need a lawyer. agents he didn't think he was lying. and the information

mcenany: good afternoon. today marks the 75th anniversary of v-e day, a triumphant milestone in our nations history and world history. 75 years ago today our brave , american forces defeated fascism in europe and through the selfless devotion of thousands of patriots, they saved the world. over 180,000 americans gave their lives in the european theater during world war ii. and i want to take just a moment to honor their service and their sacrifice. thank you to all of our veterans. you are truly, truly our heroes. now, as i move to my next subject, i want to begin by saying this. look, our rank and file men and women at the f.b.i. are heroes in their own right. they protect this country from domestic crime, and we thank them for their service. they work hard and once again, we owe them a debt of gratitude. but that is separate and apart from what i am about to address right now. the f.b.i. exists to investigate crimes, but in the case of lieutenant general michael flynn, it appears they might have existed to

kayleigh mcenany, press secretary.h. >> secretary mcenany: thank you to all of our veterans. you are truly, truly are heroes. now, as i moved to my next subject, i want to begin by saying this. look at, our rank-and-file men and women at the fbi are heroes in their own right. they protect this country from domestic crime, and we thank them for their service. they work hard, and once again, we owe them a debt of gratitude. but that is separate and apart from what i'm about to address right now. the fbi exists to investigate crimes. but in the case of lieutenant general michael flynn, it appears that they might have existed to manufacture one. as a motion filed by the department of justice yesterday explained, the fbi set out to interview general michael flynn when they had no predicate for any investigation of any crimes. over the past week, we learned from a handwritten note that the true intent behind the fbi's investigation of lieutenan lieutenant general michael fly michael flynn. that very day, jim comey sent agent

>> press secretary mcenany: the president is clear he wants churches to reopen and do it safely. he wants them to do it in accordance with guidance, laid out details and it's posted so you can take a look through it. he wants to see the church is open in a safe fashion. >> reporter: does not allow theft, white house to define these executive orders? >> press secretary mcenany: the president has been clear he wants to see churches reopen with in accordance to guidelines. the president would like to reopen and in accordance with the guidelines. >> reporter: the federal law, what allows the president override? >> press secretary mcenany: the governor will allow churches to boy, it is interesting to be in a room where they want to see the house of worship stay clos closed. >> reporter: i object to that. i go to church and i'm dying to go back to church. the question we are asking you and would like to ask the question of the president and dr. birx, is it safe and if it is not safe, the president trying to encourage that were does the president agree with dr. birx that we should wait?

newly appointed white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany had her first formal briefing on friday and told reporters she will, quote, "never lie to them." oh, really even the way you spell "kayleigh" is a lie. g-h? come on now, where'd those come from according to a new survey, new york governor andrew cuomo and his brother, cnn anchor chris cuomo, were as attractive to new york women as the jonas brothers said new york women, "listen, we've been locked inside for a long time. just keep that in mind when reading hotness surveys. in a radio interview last week, new york governor andrew cuomo was asked if he was still an eligible bachelor. though i think he made that clear at his last press conference a strip club in oregon is offering a drive-through experience for customers in the parking lot during the coronavirus pandemic you know it's bad when a strip club is following safety guidelines better than the vice president. although in his defense, i bet he wears a mask to a strip club. health officials in michigan have launched a free condom delivery service during the coronavirus p

you heard the press secretary kayleigh mcenany say that, well, dr. fauci will be testifying in front of the republican-led senate committee on health and education next week, led by lamar alexander. but that's not exactly the same thing. there's been a long tradition here in washington of allowing top administration officials, experts like dr. fauci, to testify in front of both chambers up on capitol hill, both houses of congress. and this white house is testing that tradition and saying that he can't do it. but it is notable that the white house is still looking to dr. fauci as one of its experts as we were, you know, talking about over the last couple of days, the white house has been going back and forth, the president has been going back and forth over whether or not he's going to hang on to this coronavirus task force. and he told reporters earlier today he is indeed planning on keeping the coronavirus task force going indefinitely, wolf. >> she said nita lowey, the chair of the house committee that was going to be questioning fauci and other re

in addition to which i have to say that if kayleigh mcenany had told sam donaldson and me what questionssk, that would not have gone well, jonah. >> jonah: i think her behavior is indefensible and grotesque. i think what she's done -- you know, there's this clichÉ in washington that president trump wants roy cone as doj, as attorney general, what donald trump wants in a press secretary is a troll who goes on attack, doesn't care about doing the job they have, instead wants to impress audience of one and make another part of official washington another one of the essentially cable news and twitter arenas. it's only going to make things worse. chris: jonah -- josh, rather, in the time we have left. the white house press secretary is always a complicated job, they work for the white house but they are paid by taxpayer, they are public officials and kayleigh mcenany isn't acting like she's working for taxpayer taxpayers. josh: i disagree. what's missing from the conversation is context by which she is making the statements. i think any spokesperson in the trump world whether it's in the whit

mcenany: he's looking at the data. the admiral had the charts of everything governor's plan and said we will fulfill every governor's plan. governor desantis was reporting what he had seen at facilities and drive-through testing sites. reporter: with the restarting of with both sides of the u.s. and canadian border, you know how much trade is essential for communities. can you update us on the plan for reopening? and also a timeline for reopening the border? sec. mcenany: no announcements on that front today. reporter: thank you. when the release of the transcripts related to adam isiff's probe this week, there any information you can share as to what the doj has shared with the white house on whether it is investigating the obama administration officials on this matter? sec. mcenany: i don't have any updates because that is a doj matter. you did refer to transcripts and i think it is an important moment to talk about what was in some of those transcripts released prior to today. not this specific one you are asking ab

a safe way, in a way that don't harm ourselves and those around us. >> chris: and then, kayleigh mcenanybeen in the white house for a few weeks, started lecturing reporters, telling reporters who have been covering politics for many years, what questions they should be asking, in this case about michael flynn. take a look at this. >> if i write them out in a slide format, maybe we are visual learners and you guys will follow up with journalistic curiosity. why was lieutenant general michael flynn unmasked? not by the intel community entirely but by obama's chief of staff, by the former vice president joe biden. by susan rice. by the treasury secretary. i mean, this is extraordinary. >> chris: jonah, first of all, it's not extraordinary. unmasking is pretty routine. the effort by people amend administration to find out who a masked american person is. it happens in the trump white house, it happened i think 16,000 times the year before last. what's a crime is leaking it but unmasking isn't. in addition to which, i have to say that if kayleigh mcenany had told sam donaldson and me what que

we have got the white house press briefing getting underway press secretary kayleigh mcenany and herirst briefing. >> afternoon i have an announcement on hospital funding is appropriated in the third phase of coronavirus relief. the trump administration will distribute a total of $12 million and provided relief on payments to 395 hospitals across the country that have been hardest hit by the covid-19 pandemic. these hospitals have collectively cared for over 70% of the 184,000 americans that required hospital inpatient cares. 10 billion of the 12 billion will go towards hospitals training 100 or more, 19 omissions, hhs is distributed in additional $2 billion to the 395 hospitals in proportion to the amount of care that they provide to low-income and uninsured patients. this is consistent with our effort to ensure that americans who need federal government assistance and most receive it. will be releasing a breakdown of the states receiving this funding in the counties receiving the funding before your awareness, new york, new jersey and illinois receive the most by state while new yo

do we now know what plans kayleigh mcenany is talking about?s it these various exercises and afteraction reports that the "times" reported on last fall? >> reporter: well, i mean, this is what i can tell you about plans at this point, chuck. there were a number of different plans throughout the government. we don't know exactly which one kayleigh mcenany was talking about. we haven't been able to get any clarity from that from white house officials or from people in the press office here. but yes, i mean, to the point, there were plans in the government, but the problem was, was anyone following those plans? you know, there's people in the government whose entire job is to prepare for this. you know, sadly, some people would say the white house got rid of some of those people. but you know, i think even when the administration presents plans like mcenany said they will do tomorrow, the question remains, all right, so you had these plans in place, did you follow them? and if so, why was there such a shortage of ppe? why are we just now getting t

birx, and probably kayleigh mcenany. but the president will be laying out the new guidelines that robert redfield from the cdc just delivered to him on how to be open churches, so they can hold sunday services or wednesday services or whenever they might want to hold services, and do it in person. you know, you mentioned that a lot of people have been watching online. i've been watching my old church from when i lived in atlanta, buckhead church, online. while the services have been great, it's not the same as being there and feeling the pulse of the music or feeling the spiritualism of the crowd, or getting the sermon delivered right to you. so the president will be unveiling these new guidelines from the cdc now. will it allow churches to hold religious services in the way they have in the past, with people seated side-by-side and up there feeling the spirit together? probably not. do i have to be some measure of socially distancing. but there's been a tremendous amount of friction between churches and local government

>> secretary mcenany: the house is acting in good faith. we don't have time during the middle of the pandemic. it's not the time for that. it's not the place for that. and the phone calls, they should be able to give the subject matter to the best use of dr. fauci's time. as you noticed in the senate, dr. fauci will indeed be asked questions by democrats. >> reporter: in a previous life before you were a press secretary, you work for the campaign. you made a comment i believe on fox in which you said president trump will not allow the coronavirus to come to this country. given what has happened since then, obviously, would you like to take that back? >> secretary mcenany: first, let me note i was asked a question on fox business about travel restrictions. i noted what was the intent behind the travel restrictions, we will not see the coronavirus come here. we will not see heroism come near with travel restrictions. i would turn the question back on the median and ask similar questions, does fox want to take back they proclaimed the coronavi

white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany racking in her first briefing in the last 30 minutes or so. she says that the president encourages to follow the federal data guidelines so that ultimately it is not his call. >> the president is resolute in saying that the states take the lead. it is up to governors to decide what is best for their state. >> bill: more from that's coming up throughout the hour, these numbers are staggering, 30 million americans that filed for unemployment in the last six weeks. governor scalia joining me from washington, thank you for coming back on this friday afternoon, and good day to you. >> it's good to be back with you, bill. and those are hard numbers to see, 30 million. >> bill: if i could come i want to rifle through a number of topics that we have here. 30 million so far, how high is the forecast for that number? >> well, we don't know. we know that the filings are slowing down, bill, we also know that this has been a very painful time for those people and their families. obviously, the president acted very quickly to get enhanced federally supp

ka kayleigh mcenany doing the press briefing. felt like a traditional white house press secretary giving a briefing. very short but concise answers for the most part. she clearly had a couple of points she wanted to get out there. she brought up michael flynn on her own. nobody else wanted to do that. i think at one point that was -- that is notable. so she clearly had some politics she wanted to accomplish. some to do lists there. but for the most part, i think gave a very, katy, normal white house press briefing, if normal is defined by what we were used to with white house press briefings that go back over the last decade if you will. but, you know, it's day one. it is notable the effort and how much they're going out of their way to try to defend michael flynn and the biggest head scratcher of it all is but he plead guilty. and that's somehow is a lot of people say, that is the part of this that is like i don't think that exonerates him, right? like that's the, you know, the notes are add to the notes from the fbi. add to the

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. >> kaylee mcenany. again, no one suggesting every single american has to be tested in order to reopen. that's sort of a false premise. but i am wondering what is your perspective on testing? you spoke about the need for more testing today at the hearing. >> that's right. last week, the united states ran about 1.6 million tests, which is a huge improvement over what we saw in march, and even in early april. but it's still not to the level that many spertexperts recommen. recommendations start at 3.5 million tests per week and go up from there so there is a gap to close. and i think our first priority should be putting together a plan, and identifying how we will get from here to there. i think understanding what the timeline is and what our expected future capacities will be is really important for helping to guide our next moves. and so that's one of the recommendations i made at the hearing today. >> sanjay, i mean, is the federal government still, you know, are they still doing anything about -- i mea

>> dana: fox news alert, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany is set to hold a briefing at any moment. this is after the nation's leading infectious disease expert dr. anthony fauci warned that reopening too soon could lead to serious consequences. hello, everyone, i'm dana perino and this is "the daily briefin "the daily briefing." >> my concern is that in some areas, city states or what have you jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently. my concern is that we will start to see little spikes that might turn into outbreaks. >> dana: that from dr. fauci who testified remotely to a senate committee today. i'm the head of the cdc also warned during that hearing, we are not out of the woods yet. one day after president trump said america has prevailed over the pandemic, but first, fox news has confirmed the acting director of national intelligence has decided to declassify information about obama administration officials who requested the unmasking of michael flynn and their name co

i'm sure he rubbed the president the wrong way and now we have kayleigh mcenany, newly minted secretary known kayleigh for years. we can pick apart some of the things that she says, he has her out there and she's been a fighter for him for years and i think he's -- >> howie: more on that. vice president getting hammered over visit to mayo clinic. >> you can look him in the eye wearing a mask, the governor wearing a mask, everyone else wore a mask but not mike pence. >> of course, it's not. they know it. howie: so mike pence criticized for not wearing mask. he said he had been tested and he didn't feel the need. why was this such a media controversy? >> well, it was a media controversy because it was an unforced error on the vice president's part. the easiest thing in the world is to just put on the mask and that way he could have avoided the conversation and avoided the scrutiny and the fight that played out afterwards, there's also the argument put the science aside as to whether a mask 100% guaranties prevention against anything and if you want to lead by example then you have to lead

and the second thing, kayleigh mcenany was trying to make this into a first amendment issue, the right to worship and support the first amendment. the president called the media the enemy of the people. time and time again and i think the message was completely modelled because when the president said i can override the governors as you pointed out. if president cannot override the governors and then when kayleigh mcenany was asked about it, she didn't really answer the question. she said she wants the governors in accordance with the guidelines to open up, that it's safe to epiup churches if you follow the guidelines. what does that mean if a governor believes that because of asymptomatic spread or because churches are too small and can't have the distancing or perhaps don't have the opportunity to do services outside, that this could be an issue. and lots of governors are opening up churches. there are some governors with high amounts of covid left more skeptical about it. this isn't about faith, this isn't about the first amendment. it is about public health and it is about trying t

kaylei kayleigh mcenany saying they wanted to help.remy diamond, cnn, the white house. >>> be sure to watch the "the pandemic and the president" jake tapper takes us through the past four months, week by week, sometimes day by day. he looks at what the president did and said, what he did not say and do and how the u.s. end the ended up with more cases and deaths than any country in the world. >>> dr. fauci has a big fan in warren buffett. the billionaire praised dr. fauci at his shareholders meeting. >> personally, i feel extraordinarily good about being able to listen to dr. fauci, who i'd never heard of a year ago. but i think we're very, very fortunate as a country to have somebody at 79 years of age who appears to be able to work 24 hours a day and keep a good humor about him and communicate in a, in a very, very straightforward matter about fairly complex subjects and tell you when he knows something and when he doesn't know something. so i, i'm not going to talk about any political figures at all or politics, generally, this afte

let's see how she decides to do it, kayleigh mcenany. kaitlan collins, you do your job very well and i appreciate your services here to the audience, especially late on a friday night. have a great weekend. >> always. you too. >> all right. thank you. >>> news today on operation warp speed. the president says he's not overpromising on a vaccine, but he's hoping to deliver hundreds of millions of doses by the end of the year and the sky's the limit on the cost. we all hope that this is a good bet, that they have the vaccine right. and by the way, to be fair to the science, it is easier for them to figure out the proteins and the way to create the preventive medicine also known as a vaccine. to prevent something like this than it is for them to figure out what's happening with it in due course as it spreads as a function of infection. that may seem counterintuitive, but i've now vet the that with five or six different epidemiologists, disease scientists and doctors and they say they may have a jump start on the vaccine, and that placing th

i think that was the question there, as you saw kayleigh mcenany and dr. birx have been backing off the president being pretty strong when he said, you know, they can call if they want to, but it doesn't make a difference what these governors say because we want these clutches and these other places of worship to be reopened. if you feel like you've got a certain outbreak of covid cases maybe wait another week. then you saw the press secretary there saying if they feel they can do it in accordance with the guidance, if they feel that they can. she was saying it was a hypothetical if it was going to be pitting governors against the president. but the president did not seem to be making that case at all, chris, when he was out there. he was pretty adamant about this. what's notable about the background of this, people are debating does he have the authority to do this if some places don't up their churches. the justice department, if you notice, i've been paying attention to them in the last few weeks, have been talking about churches and other places pushin

mcenany said russ vought was in the oval office today. asked why the tweets needed to get to his attention, she tried to make this a case this was matter of transparency. we heard from nancy pelosi, the house speaker on this matter, she believes this is health issue, mail-in voting as it relates to covid-19. by the way, meeting at white house between president trump and two more governors, the democratic governor of kansas and republican governor of arkansas. that meeting expected to take place at any moment now. connell, melissa, back to you. connell: blake, thank you. blake burman. melissa: here now to discuss all of this is bill mcgurn from the "wall street journal." he is also a fox news contributor. so, bill, it is interesting, as you look at all the headlines as they flew by just now president trump and various governors talking about reopening, it seems like in some ways he is become both cheerleader and maybe flogge are in chief, handing over specifics to them as he ushers the nation back into reopening but a lot of ways he has gi

so kayleigh mcenany will be in the room about 3:30 eastern time. meanwhile the coronavirus leaving millions of college students in limbo. major universities and announcing plans to cancel most on-campus classes for the year as others shorten the calendar. we will try to sort that out in a moment could also there is this from a moment ago. well, there was that, right. that is joe biden speaking at columbia law school's graduation today. we will continue to talk about that one with martha maccallum shortly. she will join us next on that. historic flooding in the state of michigan after two dams failed. we are alive on the ground where officials say this is a life-threatening matter. back in a moment on all of that as we continue next. ♪ robinhood believes now is the time to do money. without the commission fees. so, you can start investing today wherever you are - even hanging with your dog. so, what are you waiting for? download now and get your first stock on us. robinhood. ibut that doesn't mean ayou're in this alone. we're automatically refunding

look, kayleigh mcenany was not alone in feeling that way about president trump early in the campaign. much of the republican establishment was trying to downplay his chances, looking to other people, jeb bush, marco rubio and others, we all remember kellyanne conway looked for ted cruz, she said critical things about the president. kayleigh mcenany was trying to make her way in republican politics and republican media, and that was a fairly standard position. it is uncomfortable now because she's the white house press secretary, i would expect that when the president is asked about it, he will find some way to gently chide her, and she will find some way to talk around the things that she said, but that's a little bit par for the course when you have a family fight and somebody wins. every individual republican who previously criticized president trump now faces a choice, which is do i want to participate in this now, do i want to support the president, do i want to work for this president? she has chosen yes and that's gotten her a pretty good job. >> politics can be messy, can't it?

and the reason kayleigh mcenany didn't answer that question is because she couldn't. the cdc is giving recommendations. they are of course free to issue recommendations. but it is up to the states. this is a core state function. it's like the state has every right to tell a church or a synagogue, you have to have fire alarms in your building, you have to have fire extinguishers. this is something that state governments do. the federal government does not have the ability to override that or change it in any way, because the federal government's powers are limited under the constitution and this isn't one that they have. >> so, no precedent that you know of for anything like this. >> no. this is a political act by the president to appeal to his base and make people who are looking like -- who are asking questions about it, like these reporters, like a bunch of heathens. but all these people, all the reporters are doing is pointing out what the president is saying, that he can require this sort of obedience from governors, is simply not true under the law. >> let's look

. >>> breaking news in our politics lead, new white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany just helder first official briefing in the bush or obama administration, the press secretary holding a briefing was not a big deal. it happened nearly every day. but the trump white house, of course, has become such an aberration that a press secretary holding a briefing is actually notable, breaking news, for the first time in more than 400 days, the white house press secretary actually deigned to take questions from reporters on live television. this afternoon makayleigh mcena said the president is considering punishment for china for mishandling the coronavirus. >> reporter: in the first briefing by a white house press secretary in 417 days, kayleigh mcenany made a promise to reporters. >> i will never lie to you, you have my word on that. >> reporter: after cnn reported that the white house is considering ways to punish china for how it handled the coronavirus outbreak, macenany said the president wasn't contradicting the u.s. intelligence community when he claimed he's seen evidence that s

but as it turns out, mcenany has voted herself by mail 11 times, 11 times in the past decade.bay times, she has mailed in her ballot in every florida election she has participated in since 2010. most recently in the florida primary back in march, which the president did, as well. when asked last week why it was okay for the president to vote by mail, mcenany has responded that he is, after all, the president. mcenany responded to the tampa bay times story writing absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason. it means you're absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person. president trump is against the democrat plan topo lit size the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason, which has a high propensity for voter fraud. this is a simple decision that the media fail toes grasp. not necessarily sure that we fail to grasp it. there is a reason, by the way. this is a pandemic that just killed 100,000 people in the last three months. however, florida does not have absentee voting. in fact, anyone can vote by mail in the state without providing a

. >> secretary mcenany: hi, there. i wanted to allow our preparedness. plan has been referenced, it was insufficient, wasn't going to work. whatever administration did, and leadership of president trump, is an entire 2019 pandemic preparedness report. beyond that we did a full exercise on pandemic preparedness in august of last year, and had an entire after action report put together. in other words, the obama-biden was superseded by president trump-style pandemic preparedness response. >> president trump: it was much more complete, and it was a lot tougher. we were given very little when we came into this administrati administration, and they've done a fantastic job. i think we're going to have a vaccine by the end of the year. i think distribution will take place almost simultaneously, because we've geared up the military. you will see that tomorrow. anything else? >> secretary mcenany: we have a full update tomorrow at the briefing, line by line, how prepared we were for the pandemic thanks to the leadership of president trump. >> president trump: you

the white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany on saturday saying that they simply wanted to help but they accept the decision of these leaders in congress to deny this help from the white house. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >>> be sure to watch the pandemic and the president by the cnn documentary unit. jake tapper takes us through the past four months week by week, sometimes day by day. he looks at what the u.s. president did and said, what he did not say and do, and how the u.s. ended up with more cases and deaths than any country in the world. >>> well, coming up, britain's government is defending its response to the coronavirus epidemic. the hindsight is giving us a clearer picture. we'll talk about it next. >>> plus the last patients have been discharged from spain's largest field hospital. it's a rare sigh of relief for a country that has had little news to celebrate. adversity came to town and said, "show me what you're made of." so we showed it our people, sourcing and distributing more fresh food than anyone... we showed it our drivers helping grocers restock their

eric: there it is i, kayleigh mcenany making that pledge yesterday.he briefing in which she appeared was the first in over a year in that room. mcenany hinted the press conferences could become a regular occurrence now that she is the press secretary. there is one controversy brewing in washington, the white house decision to block dr. anthony fauci from testifying before a house panel on the administration's response to the pandemic, calling that, quote, counter productive at this time. but we are told that dr. fauci will appear before a senate health committee hearing set to happen in about two weeks and we have the press secretary herself, kayleigh mcenany, joining us from the north house of the white house. thank you for joining us this afternoon. as you know -- good to have you answer the questions. dr. fauci as you know has become a messenger of truth and reality, some say they're afraid the white house is trying to muzzle them. he is set to appear before the senate. why was the decision made to have him not appear before the house. >> let me ex

elizabeth: that was president trump's press secretary kayleigh mcenany, talking about a double standard that trump administration did this, to an incoming biden administration, heads would explode. let's welcome hill media reporter joe concha. >> president sea seems to have s secretary he always wanted in kayleigh mcenany, she has the ability to throw things back at media they are wrong, in times and cases. or hyp hypothetical, right. what happens. i would not have used heads would explode. i would say protest pitch fork store would have run out of protest pitch network fork, bote is, unmasking is one thing, if you want to make argument that it is routine that is fine, but from a media perspective why is this that unmasks of flynn ended up in pages of "washington post," why did andy mccabe leak on "wall street journal," then after leaking and lying, did he go off into b obscurian? no he was hired by cnn to be legal expert on all things intelligence in terms how you act from moral perspective with a certain ethics code, which just amazing, he talks about this on tv, and james comey, admi

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i pointed out to mcenany that the president had thousands of false or misleading statements, that heht lies to the american people, she's pledged not to lie in that briefing room, and does she believe the president never lied before. this is what she said. she said "his intent is to always give truthful information to the american people." well, that is not the end result of much of what the president said. that was a whopper of her own, i suppose you might say when it comes to the white house press secretary. but, brooke, what this boils down to is the president is trying to silence fact checking. he doesn't want the people at various news organizations or social media platforms to stamp what he says as false when he says false things. >> so, piggybacking off one of your points, brian, i know he's the president of the united states, but can he legally do this? >> legal experts are raising serious doubts about whether this could survive legal scrutiny. a number of legal experts have said this could be unconstitutional because it risks infringing on the first amendment rights of compa

kayleigh mcenany is now taking questions in the white house briefing room. to take that live. >> he decided that coronavirus task force is here to stay. they've done great work. i've witnessed it. i'm in the coronavirus task force meetings. and they've gotten our country through this. they were supposed to be 2.2 million deaths and we're at a point where we're far lower than that, thanks to the great work of the task force and the leadership of president trump. >> reporter: whose idea was it initially to wind it down? >> again, i'm not going further. the president has at or arounsw four times today. >> reporter: a question about masks, the president wearing a mask yesterday, i wanted to ask about that. the white house's view, what is the white house's message to the american people? does the white house, does the president believe that people should be wearing masks as they try to get back to some semblance of their normal life? >> as we put out, it's recommended but that's the choice of the individual as to whether they wear a mask or not. the president, th

tell us what you found out. >>. >> reporter: yes, before kaylee mcenany became president trump's mostnt and modest defenders. actually on our network a couple of times, she criticized him pretty harshly, saying he had made hateful derogatory racist statements when he launched his campaign with those comments about mexican, he made about the first campaign rally. at times, she says he didn't deserve to be polling so high and said this was not welcome rhetoric in the party. let's take a listen to one of those statements from her. >> how sick are polls of people in new hampshire right now? >> probably very sick especially when they see donald trump is number two and doesn't deserve to be there. donald trump has shown himself to be a showman, i don't think he's a serious candidate. >> kaylee, this is your guy, he's number two in the polls. >> hey, i don't want to poll for this guy. to me a racist statement is a racist statement. i don't like what donald trump said. i don't like what al sharpton said. at one point does it expire and be something that it's not? >> yes, so all those comments

eastern.00 and later a white house briefing with kayleigh mcenany, we will have that live here on c-span. thefinally, democrats on house judiciary committee will hold a discussion on the trump administration's response to the spread of coronavirus in prison than jails. watch that live at 4:00 eastern. online at c-span.org. >> sign up today for c-span's news weather -- newsletter, word for word, providing new updates daily to the coronavirus pandemic response from state governors, the white house task force briefings, and important updates from congress. easy, gooday, it's to.org/connect -- go to c-span.org/connect. ofspent on coverage congress, the white house and policy events from the presidential primaries through the impeachment process. and now the federal response to the coronavirus. you can watch c-span's public affairs programming on television, online or listen on our free radio app and be part of the national conversation through c-span's daily washington journal program or through our social media feed. c-span, created by america's cable television company as a public service

. >> today, white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany iefed reporters on the epidemic and george floyd. kayleigh: we start by acknowledging the tragic death of george floyd and the president put out a statement last night that at his request the f.b.i. and department of justice are well into an investigation as to the very sad and tragic death in minnesota of george floyd. i have asked for this investigation to be

. >> i was just going to say that you will notice that today during the breathing, kayleigh mcenany, that was the first time that we really saw every member that was in the briefing room wearing a mask today. >> neil: yet, but not kayleigh mcenany. >> true. >> neil: all right. wild. all right, i want to go to mark cuban on fast-moving developments. internet sensation. all right, mark, when you look, we were not talking about long ago about the economic numbers that, when the economy is stopped and people are sheltered in place. things are going to crumble. well, they are. the president seems to be saying that this is as bad as it gets. is this as bad as it gets? >> i don't know. on the one hand, he is right, because looking at small numbers, but when things start to turn the corner, it is going to be enormous, so it is going to look really good from that perspective, but what the actual economy is going to do, and gdp and employment, growth sales and absolute numbers, i don't know. >> neil: so, let me get your sense of american slowly trickling back to work. getting back to open up.

wait until we show you what press secretary kayleigh mcenany has asked of the left-leaning mainstreamne. she is asking them to want to apologize for the outbreak themselves? it will make your head spin. the question is, democrats want to investigate the administration on the covid-19 outbreak. the question is, should they investigate themselves because what were democrats doing earlier in the year? did they do anything? was their hair on fire about the pandemic? conservative commentator kristin tate weighs in next. stay there. 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 ] here's the thing about managing for your business.s when you've got public clouds, and private clouds, and h