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Masks and practice social distancing. The communication around you are safe at home as a whole helps save slow the spread. Remember arm yourself with the mask. Its your best defense against a virus. This is real. People are dying. People are getting sick. People are going to the hospital. People in icu beds and, they are affecting their loved ones. Quite frankly i have lost patience with you on that regards. So this is not a political deal. Sandra as we headed to Independence Day weekend Casey Stegall is live in dallas for us this morning. At least 16 states have now either paused or pulled back on their reopening plans and arizona is now taking a much more aggressive approach. If the governor in that state has now ordered that bars are closed, gyms are closed, theaters, water parks and entered two big businesses. The latest statewide directive went into effect last night and also caps gatherings of the public at 50, and ten at swimming pools. This is in response to both an increase of new cases across the grand canyon state but also a growing number of hospitalizations. 84 of arizonans and patient beds are currently occupied, 88 of icu beds are full. This is real, its not going away anytime soon, and i would hate for any of you to see what we are seeing on a daily basis. So stay safe please. In addition to a growing list of beach closures, that you can add Los Angeles Los angeles beaches as well. The county board of supervisors voted to close all beaches, peers, beach bike path and Access Points all in an effort to discourage large gatherings. In the meantime in texas, browse across the state remain closed, only open in the delivery or carry out capacity if they meet certain requirements. That follows greg abbotts executive orders last friday. In response about two dozen bar owners and private citizens have filed a lawsuit, Travis County which is austin. The suit because the emergency order unconstitutional and argues that it suspends state law, a power that only the legislature holds. Abbott has said the bars were shut down because Public Health data shows that they were a large contributing factor in the spread of new coronavirus cases, especially among young people. Sandra . Sandra Casey Stegall live in dallas for us. Despite what donald trump may think russia is not a friend, they are a foe. They have been that way throughout the duration of Vladimir Putins tenure. It would be a helpful thing if donald trump would recognize that. I think it will actually serve to basically dry up that information. In terms of whether the president would have been briefed, at that point there is conflicting intelligence. Your reaction on capitol hill, to reports that russia offered bounties to at taliban fighters were killing american fighters into afghanistan. After republican lawmakers were briefed yesterday. Kristin fisher is live at the white house with more. The New York Times is reporting that President Trump received a written briefing about these alleged russian bounties back in february. Fox has not confirmed either of those reports but they show you the extent to which storm clouds are now brewing over this white house as democrats, one of the democratic lawmakers who was in that meeting explained earliers why shes having such a hard time understanding the president s position on this. The idea that he wasnt told or didnt know is really hard. Either he got an order, the staff didnt provide it to them. And there were dissenting opinions within the Intelligence Community about it. The director of National Intelligence says we are still investigating the alleged intelligence referenced in recent media reporting and we will break the president and congressional leaders at the appropriate times. This is the analytic process working the way that it should, and unfortunately unauthorized disclosures with respect to this allegation. After yesterdays briefing, two of them put out a statement and it reads we remain concerned about russian activity in afghanistan including reports that they have targeted u. S. Sources. Now it is going to be democrats turned to talk. They have scheduled a 9 30 a. M. News conference over on capitol hill to discuss what they have learned at this briefing earlier this morning. Trace . Kristin fisher, we have details live on the north on. I thank you. Sandra matt schlapp is here, Leslie Marshall is the Fox News Contributor. Leslie will start with you first because we know that democrats are getting briefed at the white house right now. We know steny hoyer, adam schiff and those are among those democrats are receiving a briefing and then we will hear a statement from that. What do you expect we will learn this morning . Im not really sure what we will learn because sadly everybody denies. The taliban denies, russia denies and even the president denies. What i want to hear and what democrats need to hear is that the president and the problem here is the Trump Administration has been variably ambiguous when it comes to russia. We certainly know that russia is leery as fundamentalism is rising, but again on the other hand if they accept these denials. And im fearful that the democrats wont be fearful with what the president say because i dont think the president will call out russia. We cannot assume a thing until we hear from them and get their side from what they learned at the white house this morning. Meanwhile, matt, the question is from the white house, who knew what and when. Nancy pelosi was asked that question and heres how she responded. It seems clear that the intelligence is real. The question is whether the president was briefed, and, where they concerned that if they did tell him that he would tell putin. Sandra to you, matt schlapp. This is a completely ridiculous attempts to once again go through, and the New York Times writes a scalding story, and the democrats, hilton call for investigations. What are they going to do, get a special counsel . This president has been tougher on russia than any other previous president and joe biden has been wrong. Nobody ever thinks donald trump isnt tough enough. The fact is, we dont know what happened in terms, and i can assure everyone listening to this. If hes going to engage, donald trump will be plenty chuffed to protect our troops. We will see what weve learned from white house this morning and these democrats as they come out to talk. Meanwhile the pentagon is saying no corroborating evidence. Dr. Fauci, dr. Redfield and others. They may be painting a rosier picture and the number of coronavirus cases. Pressure on the president to wear a mask or publicly as a symbol and obviously for health precaution. What do we need to see from the white house to put a firm stance out there . We will have to obviously deal with this virus for an extended period of time. There are so many politics wrapped around it and in the coverage of it. We want to, there is an average guy reading news, thats concerning. And what you see with a lot of these hospitalizations, about even doctors ive talked to, thats a lot of patients who did not go to the hospital and did not get medical attention. They have had a flood of people come to those hospitals including those who are affected with corona but they have other serious medical situations they need to take care of. Lets take this seriously. Especially those who are older and those who are lets be calm and rational. Sandra thats one set of numbers, and thats what needs to be done to get people back to school and get back to people back to work. Absolutely. This comes down to, and it should not be political at all. This comes down to personal responsibility. Anan end in addition to that evy social distance, we are showing states like texas and florida. We dont block if someone so certain she was to enter the establishment, we dont block if someone says wear a seat belt, we shouldnt balk if someone says wear a mask and social distance, it will go away quicker if we do this and we know we can do this as a nation. And we need to do it because we are looking at the numbers, not just mortality but the numbers of spread. We cannot and have not been able to get this under control as many states have shown, sadly. But mortality is the most important number. The fact is, when people die its a tragedy and we got to be looking at the number and do everything we can to get that number as low as possible. Thats why we should open up the schools. Keeping the kids home has actually been a very big mistake. Sandra we will hear from not only the lawmakers on that this morning but also the medical professionals, the scientists and what they see as necessary to get kids back to school. We will leave that they are but before i let you go i wanted to talk about the Supreme Court. We will see if we will get any more rulings this morning. This is senator john kennedy from the state of louisiana has that abortion law was struck down by the Supreme Court yesterday and i will get your thoughts on the other side. Listen. The chief justice today joined with four liberals on the court to strike down louisiana statute. Four years ago in a case out of texas, same statue, same issue, the chief justice voted with the conservatives. He flopped like a banked catfish. Sandra so thats the way he put it, i will get your thoughts this morning as we could get more positions from the court, some big ones could come down this morning but your thoughts on what played out yesterday. If i it were me i would start impeachment proceedings. He took an oath and he told us he would act as a justice to strictly interpret the constitution. What he has done on obamacare twice and what hes done on abortion is act like a leftwing politician. If hes going to be impeached out to resign, hes much more of a political hack than he is any kind of a terrorist. Sandra all right. Leslie . I think when you look at not only Justice Roberts record, but, i think he will probably see him side with conservatives on other issues. I think to impeach somebody because you dont like his decision, the Supreme Court shouldnt be a political litmus test left or right. Its so important that we vote for leaders that are going to do what we as americans and taxpayers felt was the right thing. Then what we felt with the was the right thing constitutionallys the rules. I dont its fair to say he was a liberal hack when you look at decisions likes the stb and others in which she clearly cited with conservatives. The liberal justice has not always stand together and thats why we always lose on these. Its not about your feelings. Speak a sandra we can leave it there. We promised we would kick off the show this morning with the debate and you got the debate. We await any possible decisions that could come down, they never tell the opinions that are coming out before hand but we will be watching that. Bret baier, Shannon Bream and judge napolitano are standing by on that. Thank you for the spirited debate. Have a good day. Trace i show down brewing in new york city. The reality of months and months of people being disrespected, the pain that people are gone through and the loss of life, we are in a very particular moment and theres no parallel in new york city history. Trace at mayor de blasio announcing his plan to redistribute 1 billion from that nypd budget to other social and Health Programs will pull people born putting the Police Programs will only hurt the city. Congressman lee zeldin joins us on that next. And another shooting in the protozoan turns deadly claiming the life of a 16yearold boy. A live report on the violence just ahead. Valences being brought to this place and we as a community are concerned. They had to shut this down. I dont know what this is, this turned into something else, now. There was a time when this represented the future. But this, this is the future. The future of communicating of hearing and connecting with life. And this, is eargo. No appointments no waiting no hassles. And they are practically invisible in your ear. Now you see it. Now you dont. If you have hearing loss now is the time to do something about it. Were here and ready to help you with your hearing loss. [narrator] this is steve. 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Trace calls to defund the police, in new york city mayor defazio planta 1 billion from the nypd budget. On our next guest writing an oped entitled Defunding Police is great for criminals. And Foreign Affairs committee. Marriage bill de blasio wants to cut 1 million out of the 6 billion from the nypd budget. I will get your response on the flip side. And, we make sure that our officers are on patrol and where we need them around the city. But these calls all across america including new york city to defund, disband, and what you actually and americans want law and order. When they see insecurity and crimes they want an arrest. They support our Law Enforcement and they actually want our Law Enforcement more or less. What you dont want to end in our country, is for lawabiding men and women and others, even children when they have to defend themselves, to take matters into their own hands when you have an intruder in your house. Weve heard others say this, its late at night and its a great example, you call 911 and you dont want social workers, he wont Law Enforcement. So for so many reasons this is a bad idea to walk away from Law Enforcement and not have our backs instead of pandering to criminals. This is way up, i mean way up. This is a percentage of shooting, from 2192 so far in 2020. Talking about in shooting incidences, 342 increase, a 414 increase. Thats not just a hiccup, that is it a sustained and staggering increase. Congressman, you ar your though . For new yorkers, he went to mayor rudy giuliani, to reestablish law and order, to reestablish quality and life, and they allowed new york city to see its full potential, to be able to prosper. People want to live free and have opportunity, they dont want to see these Business Owners alluded to places, and likely saw yesterday i know bill hemmer posted on twitter, a George Washington statue being vandalized. So what people are watching at home, and whats going on, we want to see the leaders step up as opposed to getting a direction. These people he is pandering to what blew him off the stage. Youve got mayor eric garcetti, from the sheriffs budget, and the troubling thing about that from the ships to budget are things like the Gang Enforcement unit. You had a victims of gang violence, sex trafficking about the assaults we just mentioned an arson, all these different examples. What you need is the Justice System to be stronger and what you are saying is the weakening. At the beginning of the year, where people could rob a bank in new york and then get out and rob another bank in the day, its actually gotten worse. Thank you trace. We had toward the top of the hour. With they are set to testify on capitol hill, and getting back to school and work, with more on all that coming. Sandra all right. Fox business alert from wall street on this Tuesday Morning where stocks are opening lower after some big games yesterday. There you have the dow is down 81 points as we begin a brandnew trading day. Lets bring in stuart varney, anchor of varney and company on the fox business network. Good morning to you and thanks for being here. I love these moments where you i join your show and you join ours. Talk us through what we are seeing in the markets now where investors are trying to weigh what happens next. I think the point this morning is the reclosings, not so much for reopening but the reclose things. We have today is los angeles, closing the beaches for that july 4th weekend. New jersey not reopening july the 2nd for Indoor Dining. Arizona reclosing bars, gins and water parks for 30 days. So what youve got is the beginnings of a reclosing, a retreat from the opening up. I think that may well effect the overall performance of the economy because if you reek closing as opposed to opening up, you will tamp down on Economic Activity and i think at some point if this continues, if you really do have a serious reek closing operation going on, i think that will eventually translate into slower Economic Growth and probably into the stock market as well. Thats my answer to that question, sandra. What else do you have a question mark sandra as always, its a great answer to that question. But its complicated because if you do get a situation is worsening as far as the pandemic is concerned, you also have investors looking at the possibility of more stimulus coming from the federal government and that would be a plus when you are looking at the stock market. I love to be getting into some good news. The fastest pace is december of 2014. Is a very good sign for the overall economy because we do have the beginnings of a very sharp im not going to say boom, thats an exaggeration but a sharp uptake in the real estate market. Not commercial real estate, thats in trouble. But singlefamily homes are looking pretty good. We got ultra low 30year fixed Mortgage Rates. And thats extremely low historically. That puts a lot more people in line to buy a house, specifically millennials and youngsters buying their first home. Not all of them are desperate for money. Some have a great a reasonable amount of money put aside and im looking forward toward a nice bloom in real estate. I think its on the way very, very soon. I want to get one more point if i name. Thats new york city. I think new york city is in terrible shape. The news came yesterday that the entire theater industry is going to be shut down entirely until next year, next january. Thats a loss of at least 15 billion for the citys economy added to which, and that will make people very, very nervous about their safety coming back to work and live in new york city. New york city will not be returning to anything like normal for years to come and thats where i will end that one. Sandra thats quite a forecast from you. You dont think about the theater sales and ticket sales. To book their dinner out around that theater ticket and that is a significant hit toward the local economy. I want to and with that headli headline. Most businesses when asked do not expect prepandemic levels until the end of next year. You and i have been reporting on some good news and try to recover as businesses get back to work. Now, and frankly, i think its to be expected. The virus has caused such disruption to so Many Industries and so many people. Its not going to be like that is eight. We could all look at ourselves and our lifestyles, the way we work on the way we spend money, all of us have made some changes and all of us, many of us will stick with those changes. In other words not back to complete normality for some time to come. Its important to say it and thats reality. Sandra we have this reasonable and pleasant way of delivering the news. Dow is 25,000 and it just turned 90. Yes. Thank you. Fox news alert from seattle where a teenager has died and another is critically wounded, and that they have called for an end to the violence. Enough is enough. Its much more important that this neighborhood is not under siege and that, there are not people being victimized. It is absolutely irresponsible. And among that city officials themselves, they cannot agree on the best way to end the occupied protest from the part of the city. The police chief could barely hide her impatience, as you just heard of. Neither could she hide the awareness of the tragic irony we have in yet another murder in the area identified at the top. Two africanamerican men, they claim to be working for black lives matter. But seattle mayor jenny durkan seems to be in no hurry to remove the protesters and allow police back into the area. The president of the city council appeared to back her staying in a tweet i disagree with any attempt to politicize the shootings and use them as a justification to move back into the east precinct after spt made the choice. For now, the east precinct is surrounded by barriers and the protesters, the hard core that remain, appears to have no intention of leavings. And, and that is a battle of control over that precinct. Trace Jonathan Hunt alive for us and los angeles. 38 minutes past the hour and we are just Getting Started here in americas newsroom. A pair of huge develop and set for the top of the hour and more Supreme Court rulings are expected for 10 00 a. M. Eastern time with major cases yet to be decided at. And, Health Experts including dr. Anthony fauci, all of that is happening at the top of the hour with a lot of news just ahead. We will bring it to you live. Hey its me, lily from at t. Im back working from home and here to help. Hey lily, im hearing a lot about 5g. Should i be getting excited . Depends. Are you gonna want faster speeds . I will. More reliability . Oh, also yes. Better response times . Definitely. Are you gonna be making sourdough bread . Oh, is that 5g related . No, just like why is everyone making sourdough now. But yes, youre gonna want 5g. At t is building 5g on americas best network. Visit att. Com to learn more. Trace democrats still reeling from the Appeals Court ruling to dismiss the Michael Flynn case. They are bowing to get to the bottom of the alleged politicization of the Justice Department attorney general bill barr. In prayer he writes this in a Washington Times oped to quoting bill barr is a threat to the deep state, not the rule of law. For more on this bring in ian prayer. Thank you for coming on. I just want to expound o on the animal bit, but critics say that attorney general bill barr is a threat to the rule of law, your answer would be, what . My answer is, where is that coming from . We look at this narrative in the media and we always get these letters that get published in the Washington Post saying a thousand former prosecutors say bill barr. And you also look at the list, and these are career officials. Except for this one guy, donald eric li seems to have a personal ax to grind with bill barr and these are the folks they call up on capitol hill. The oped is called and think twice about why media attacks william barr and uses the Michael Flynn case. New evidence further supports the Justice Department decisions that no legitimate investigation. And that, but the call between flynn and the Russian Ambassador was legitimate from the start. Including violations of the logan act, your thoughts on that . The logan act, i dont think anyone has been prosecuted successfully under the logan act in over 200 years, its a joke. So i think that when you have the Vice President and the president , all the folks at the top looking and stretching for ways to investigate general flynn, that is a big problem in our Intelligence Community and our Law Enforcement community. It should be taken seriously just because it does or doesnt involve donald trump, but that is how intelligence investigations can be weaponiz weaponized. Trace that brings up the point, is it aimed at bill barr or is it aimed at what john durham can uncover and kind of get this dismissed over political reasons . I think thats absolutely right. They see the writing on the wall and they know at some point this summer, theres something coming out of this durum investigation. I think they are trying to lay the groundwork to impeach the investigation before the American People. Trace ian pryor, good of you to join us s so, so thank yu so much. Sandra we are moments away now from some major developed and taught in washington. More Supreme Court rulings expected for 10 00 a. M. Eastern time and they are sitting on some major cases so we will see what comes from that. And a doctor anthony fauci, other Top Health Officials are testifying before the senate onn the coronavirus pandemic. All that is happening at the top of the hour, so stay tuned for that. Wece will be right back. Can my side be firm . And my side super soft . Yes, with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. Come on pup, time to go. Can it help me fall asleep faster . Yes, by gently warming your feet but can it help keep me asleep . 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Tell your doctor about your medicines, and if youre pregnant or planning to be. Otezla. Show more of you. We cannot move forward unless there is complete compliance. They are requiring us to hit pause on the restart of Indoor Dining for the foreseeable future. Sandra okay. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy proposing Indoor Dining made coronavirus cases nationwide as we await testimony from dr. Anthony fauci and other Health Officials on the state of the pandemic this morning. Lets bring in dr. Peter hotels, dean of the International School of tropical medicine and pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of medicine. Good morning and thank you for being here. They will specifically be asked about getting kids back to school but first and foremost, where are we in fighting, this uptick in cases in many cases . Thats been partial success story, but here in houston and texas, some, a lot of our seven states we are seeing this very steep and worrisome rise especially in our metropolitan areas. Sandra what would those be . We are trying to do some surgical things, thats the term i used which means shutting down the bars and rolling back some of the restaurants. The question is, will that be adequate or do we have to take more aggressive steps in terms of reducing contact, and that really, trying to contain this. The numbers dont look very go good, and also that hospitalizations nicu admissions are starting to pile up. Sandra dr. Hotels, we are dealing with a lot of breaking news this morning and have to leave it there. Thanks for your time. Trace now democrats are talking about everything, just know about the russian situation they need to be taken with the utmost important and utmost concern. As my republican path colleague said to come up there needs to be payment from russia who is not a friendly entity, is not an ally, who has undermined elections and has done everything they can in afghanistan and other places in the world to undermine u. S. Sources. It is therefore very, very troubling when you have information that is a given, and that indicates that there are payments being made to specifically target u. S. Personnel, particularly Armed Services personnel. So i was looking forward to a briefing. I would have preferred the briefing, and i said this to mr. Meadows, that the briefing had been given by intel personnel, either from the cia or nsa so we could have the direct evidence from the Intelligence Community to how credible they assess the information. But i also agree with john bolton who said it was inconceivable from his perspective that there is not a cause for briefing on this matter of such importance. Apparently that did not happen. The president called this a hoax. Publicly. Nothing in the briefing that we have just received led me to believe it is a hoax. There may be different judgments as to the level of credibility but there was no assertion that the information we had was a hoax. I took to this briefing mr. Angle, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee and mr. Schiff, the chairman of the intel committee, mr. Smith, chairman of the intel committee, mr. Meeks and mr. Sherman who are the Ranking Members behind mr. Angle on the Foreign Affairs committee and then miss spann berger, miss slotkin, miss keating and miss cheryl. All of them have experience or particular responsibilities in the intel and National Security sphere. I thought this briefing was the white house personnel telling their perspective but i think we knew the white house perspective. What we need to know is the intelligence perspective and so i am therefore urging the white house and of the chief of staff to follow up on my request that we make sure that we are briefed by the Intelligence Community directly. Im sure that mr. Schiff will follow up on the Intel Community as i have urged him to do. So without further discussion let me know to mr. Schiff. Thank you. I just wanted to underscore a couple of points first. I appreciate the White House Joining us to be brief. But the right people to give the briefing really were not in the room. We need to hear from the heads of intelligence agencies about how they assess the allegations that have been made publicly. What can they tell us about the truth or falsity of these allegations and what can they tell us about steps they have under taken to vet the information we have . So in my view the right people were not in the room to give us the kind briefing that we did together. The second one i would make is, as we look at these and i will call them allegations because i cant confirm or deny any underlying intelligence, as we look at these allegations, number one, the president of the United States should not be inviteinviting russia into the d g8. We should be considering what sanctions are appropriate to further determine russias maligned activities, not further ingratiating russia into the community of civilized nations. I find it inexplicable in light of these very public allegations that the president hasnt come before the country and assured the American People that he will get to the bottom of whether russians are putting a bounty on the heads of american troops and that he will do everything in his power to ensure that we protect american troops. I dont understand for a moment why the president isnt saying this to the American People right now and relying on it, i dont know, i havent been briefed. Thats just not excusable. I shared that concern at the white house today that i think many of us have the which is there may be a reluctance. That could be, that may not understand his affinity and so if there is a problem with being willing to brief the president was something he doesnt want to hear, thats a problem for our entire nations security. We have asked for an in person briefing by the intel agencies and weve asked for any underlying documentary intelligence that they may or may not have. And we hope that that will be done soon as well as the full house briefing. Mr. Smith was with us as well who is the chair of the house Armed Services committee. Trace there you have steny hoyer along with chairman adam schiff. They are not happy about the briefing that we just got from the white house because they said the white house gave them the briefing end of the whole matter here is based on this these reports that russia was paying the taliban bounties to kill u. S. And Coalition Troops. The white house has maintained that for the last three or four days, at first the president was not briefed and then saying that he was not briefed because the Intelligence Community decided these allegations were not credible and we will bring you much more on this. We will keep continuing to listen to that house briefing coming up. Sandra . Sandra we will indeed. Several big events we are watching him fold on washington in this hour, we are bleeding some Big Decisions from the Supreme Court. Following yesterdays decision striking down louisiana law, and one major ruling we are still waiting on it is well court allow the release of President Trumps taxes and his financial records, thats a decision that we may get coming up. Plus top members of the Coronavirus Task force including dr. Anthony fauci, dr. Redfield from the cdc and others about to testify on capitol hill about the state of the coronavirus pandemic and how it is being handled. Its all coming up live and its happening right now so stay with us. But first, local politicians in cities across the nation facing intense pressure from demonstrators demanding Police Budget cuts. The latest in new york where potentially 1 billion in cuts to the new York City Police department is on the table, even as the city is rocked by rising crime and violence. A formal vote on those cuts is set to up in about one hour from now. Welcome to a brandnew hour of americas newsroom, a busy morning indeed. Im sandra smith. Im Trace Gallagher in for ed henry. Ed henry. Defund the Police Demands for action as citizens across the country respond to growing calls for police reform. New york mayor bill de blasio vowing to redistribute a billion dollars in Police Funding without sacrificing safety. They would achieve a billion dollars in savings for the nypd. And that the underlying issues that we know are the cause of so many problems in our society. Sandra joining us now, and our first to that, i in the firt debate that is happening across the country and we should know whats happening here in new york about an hour from now. Is a big deal. If you are talking about somebody like the new York City Police department, you got a 6 billion budget overall. And the decision has to be made by july, thats a huge decision in a city like new york. They have a lot of potential consequences no matter how you talk about how police would be different if there funding was different. You are talking about safety and security for a number of different places that the Police Department obviously needs that money. Whats more important on the National Scale is coming up with more standardized standards for Police Department across the board. Its the standards by which they are trained on that effort is ongoing on the federal level. Sandra Kayleigh Mcenany was asked where the president stands on all of this and here was her response. 11 people were shot and 12 hours this weekend and at 61 people were shot in democrat run chicago. And cancel culture which seeks to erase our history. We will see where all that goes this morning. I want to turn now where we just turned to our own briefing. He felt like he was receiving the update from people from getting their perspective, they want to hear from the intelligence agencies themselves on this rush of bounty story. Where is all of this this morning and we just heard the reaction . One is when you start debating and talking about intelligence, the raw intelligence behind some of this stuff, you are going down a road of that we as a country probably should not be going down. For National Security purposes. It seems like weve had some back up as far as people saying, yes. We did have this intelligence and, they at Security Council was debating whether what possible action to take if this evidence turns out to be true. But it discounted the inner agency dispute about the actual raw intelligence itself. The bottom line is you had the National Security advisor saying we dont discuss this. The president hadnt been briefed on it but we were preparing options for him and this should not have been leaked. So we are now in the process of getting to the bottom of where the intelligence came from. Sandra i want to make sure i get the exact wording of that statement. Robert obrien on the story, and that had not been briefed on the items, nevertheless the administration including the National Security Council Staff had said it, let me be clear. That was Robert Obrien yesterday. Brett wanted to move on now, as weve been telling our viewers this morning, a lot happening at a lot of breaking news expected. The Supreme Court after that decision came down yesterday, what are we watching for this morning. We have Shannon Bream and judge napolitano standing by as well. Your thoughts this morning what could be some major decisions from the court . Theres a host of options here but the main thing we are watching is where this court was headed. From some recent rulings youve seen john roberts, the chief justice assumed the role almost of Anthony Kennedy in the swing vote oftentimes siding with the liberal side of the court. That has some conservative Court Watchers scratching their heads, if it goes to also judge a core search and judge kavanaugh with some boats and rulings with the liberal side side of the court. So there is some analysis of where this court is as far as its head ideologically. The biggest thing coming out in just a few minutes is the decision on the president s taxes and whether there will be this effort to release them prior to the election. Sandra i was looking back at senator john kennedy and his response to the ruling yesterday talking about Justice Roberts saying he flipflopped like a banked catfish was his analogy there. You are getting a lot of criticism on the conservative side of the bench, and they will be looking at this very closely to see how the court responds to big issues. This all factors into an election that was just months away which still was the thought that, the president touts his judicial nominations and the Supreme Court justices. But the ability to look at how important these decisions are in the big picture gives some fire to both sides about how this is an issue for the election. So some decisions are pending from the current term and those cases include as you mentioned his financial records. Executive agencies, Religious School tax credits and obamacare contraceptive coverage and religious freedom. So obviously because of covid19 restrictions, but the president has been actively weighing in as we get these rulings, and talking about the balance of the court. And remember the obamacare one is the Little Sisters of the poor. The Bigger Picture on obamacare is how it can go forward and look for this to be a real powerful election issue. Weve already seen joe biden, and now the house is moving forward with bills that kind of bring that up again saying that the administration wants to do away with it. This ruling no matter how it comes down is going to really stir that up again. Sandra is the president on the obamacare to eat. That has been terminated by us in many states in the u. S. And they are asking the Supreme Court that obamacare itself be terminated so he can be replaced with a far better and much less expensive alternative. I also want to get this quote in there, this is paul krugman in the New York Times, this was published today. Titled obamacare versus the g. O. P. Zombies. The right wing politicians can provide that while dismantling and we have to hope that voters dont remember that they had been promising a plan but never delivering for more than a decade. I wanted to get your thoughts on all that. First of all the presidencies obamacare as a possibility to talk about and in a political advantage. But thats how we deal with that in the middle of a pandemic. It really stokes fear and rarely do i say this straight out but paul krugman might be right and that this political moment liens that way. So there is not a solution that republicans have come up to and santa, here it is, here is the alternative to aca or obamacare. With that, there is a lot of uncertainty sandra we are telling our viewers that dr. Fauci is about to testify on capitol hill, not only on the state of the pandemic and where we are as a country fighting this deadly disease but also getting kids back to school and back to work. The president. And thats where you stand and we still see some spice in some areas of the country. That really has people worried. Increased cases is one thing but its an increase hospitalizations and deaths. As you look at the cdc stats specifically in the big picture, many of these states are going down as far as the deaths but the hospitalizations and the cases are increasing and that has people wondering when is this going to stop . We havent even talked about what is going to look like getting kids back to school in the fall. Thats a big question mark. And i think you will see an evolution about Wearing Masks that is really important and that may be the administration will talk about that. I think you will see more and more Administration Officials say this is a way to get a handle on this. Sandra really interesting. We were just talking to a doctor and part of the story is they are putting and confinement isnt a good thing. Bret baier, i know you cant get the economy started without her kids going back to school. Sandra we will be watching that closely. You will stand by with that in the Supreme Court as we could get some news from there as well. Shannon bream is standing by and judge napolitano as well. Trace a fox news alert in the fight for freedom, the security law goes into effect. Details of the new major next. Plus even a founding father of our country is not safe. So where does joe biden stand on the issue, and how does it play in the 2020 race . Chris stirewalt takes a closer look after the break. This is a president that instead of bringing our country together, does everything we can to fit in the division in heat and country. This time next month without having to verify your income, without getting your home appraised, and theres no money out of pocket. One call to start saving 3,000 a year. Every year. One call. Then, sit back, relax and think about what youll do with the savings. 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Several opposition parties have disbanded in response because they are unsure how their activities will be published under the law signed by president xi. Sandra fox news alert, carl reiner has reportedly died. Best known for his wall on the Dick Van Dyke show, he won nine enemies and he has more than 400 credits to his name. He was 90 years old. They have become dominant images as the Campaign Season heats up, protests raging across American Cities and crowds to tearing down a vandalizing u. S. Monuments in some cities seems nothing is offlimits. President ulysses s. Grant who led the union army in the civil war. Thats a key issue in the 2020 race. We bring in fox news editor chris stirewalt. We are sad to see he has passed, and, we you are seeing this emerge as a major issue in the 2020 race. There is the legally acceptable way, and then there is a mob accuracy and angry mobs defacing and tearing things down which basically has no support. You have the people who have lingered after the folks who have jobs and families and things to go back to which have gone home, and it turns out we are trying to rip down a statue of the marquis de lafayette which is a good way to get on the news and occupy yourself while you are bored sitting in a pup tent. Its interesting because, you watch the statues being tore down across the country and he writes in the journal quoting, each evening on the news the American People watch their cities being looted and set on fire, shut up or occupied and more strict shocking is officials reluctant to condemn the open conduct on my criminality. Press corps dismisses trump as a liar, but he notes that this is all happening in cities long run by democrats and the longer the unrest continues the harder that fact will be to ignore. Its important for joe biden to come out and say, this is where i stand on all the stuff. Im sure they would like to talk about reparations, and im sure there are hosts of uncomfortable racial issues and waiting right into the middle of all of this stuff. President biden is like a hole in the water and waiting for this to go away. Sandra joe biden stands on trump tax cuts and he says this yesterday. Im going to get rid of the bulk of trumps 2 trillion tax cuts. The close loopholes by capital gains. This is where joe biden stands and hes making it very clear. This will be an ongoing issue for joe biden. You remember how is president barack obama use to sell tax increases talking to Warren Buffett and a healthier r folks, its sort of a no risk proposition. These are not people who are afraid, they were doing perfectly well under the previous tax cuts and they were doing well or maybe even better. And it gives us a chance to talk to the progressive populist base of the party and say im really going after wall street and im really going after people, its a no risk way to look like you are being tough. Trace i was curious to what you thought about them coming on and its amazing to me. They took it down very quickly and how does that play with moderate democrats in your assessment . All of this stuff doesnt play with moderate any things very well on either side. You have essentially small numbers of people, the populous left at the nationalist right would like this issue and want to engage and fight viciously about it. Id say the overwhelming majority, they have so many other things they are interested in before we talk about the racism of teddy roosevelt. Thats on the list of things that American Voters will be thinking about when they go to the polls. When you bring it up, what you are doing is saying to the people in the middle, i dont care about you and your concerns, im fixated on this ideological hobbyhorse that i must write every single day. Sandra okay. We are awaiting lots of breaking news. Trace after a unanimous vote to dismantle the minneapolis Police Department its now the publics turn to weigh in on the proposal. But several city council movers who support the plan may be kind of undermining the message. We will have more on that, next. In minneapolisst. Paul we had over a thousand buildings damaged or destroyed and the rights because they were not enough police here. They want to defund or dismantle the police. Can my side be firm . And my side super soft . Yes, with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. Come on pup, time to go. Can it help me fall asleep faster . Yes, by gently warming your feet but can it help keep me asleep . 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Some of the work that has come out of that program right now informs very greatly how we will address Vaccine Development, particularly understanding the confirmation of the components of the virus that induce community response. In addition we will develop in our developing animal models become apropos about what you heard about children in school we have a program called heroes which is human epidemiology in response to coronavirus which determines the incidence and transmissibility among children. Very important issue we talk about opening schools and the impact that that might have. In addition, under the red x program, its including the rad acts up for undeserved populations. Third, to characterize and test therapeutics, the importance of this as we open up schools. The number of programs are very active that have already shown efficacy were not in some drugs as well as the number of Clinical Trials that are ongoi ongoing. One in particular is the first randomized controlled trial showing that the drug remdesivir dementias by about 32 of the time it takes to get to recovery and people with advanced disease. In addition we have another study combining this with an antiinflammatory agents. Next, we have vaccines at several have mentioned its extremely important to have safe and effective Vaccines Available for everyone in this country as well as globally. In that regard we put together myself and some of my colleagues and published in Science Magazine a few weeks ago but we call the strategic approach to coronavirus 19 vaccine and a development. Its not that comprehensive plan but it is a strong plan regarding the research. Its in the trial of various stages, and thats multiple candidates in countries. And parameters that are being funded and are being pursued. And others will be staggered along the way in the blood of the summer in the end of the summer or early on. There is the early clear preliminary data that we will at least know the extent of efficacy through the winter and early part of next year. There will hopefully be doses available by the beginning of next year. These are things we feel aspirational he hopeful about and we will continue to pursue this. Dr. Redfield, thank welcome. I want to thank you for the opportunity to visit with my hhs colleagues. The covid19 pandemic is most significant global Public Health challenge that we faced as a nation and within a century. In the United States daily cases are increasing. After an extended decline, we are seeing significant decreases in the southeast and southwest parts of the nation. This has continued to increase and the evidence tells us of these cases are driven by many factors to include increased testing, Community Transmission and outbreaks in the setting such as Nursing Homes and occupational settings. Hospitalizations now are going up into all states and as of this Weekend Daily death has now increased in the state of arizona. The cdc is closely monitoring both of these and have 48 teams with more than 14 14,140,000,000 staff deployed in 20 states and two territories. Infection prevention and control and can negation. Beyond providing the critical boots on the ground of the cdc is working with states and community in other ways. The cdc is speaking with the states, tribal and local Health Departments on a daily basis to develop strategies to stop covid while reopening schools. Both of these guidance have been updated since and over the past several months. As more information becomes available we will continue to disseminate that more broadly. That includes guidelines for Nursing Homes and testing options for high density infrastructure workplaces after a covid cases identified. Testing guidance for Higher Education in k12 and the Higher Education should be posted today at k12 later this week. His recommendations are consistent with pub previously published testing guidelines and are meant to supplement and not replace the guidance of local jurisdictions. The cdc continues to advance science around the covid19 impacted certain populations and those who are at heightened risk for severe outcomes. Our most recent analysis of the United States case data from the pandemic hospitalizations were six times higher in death 12 times higher among those with reportedly underlying conditions including those who have underlying conditions. It expanded the list of underlying conditions where the evidence is clear that we have put people at higher risk of illness. These conditions include chronic kidney disease, copd, having a weakened immune system, obesity, serious heart disease, Sickle Cell Disease and type 2 diabetes. Our analysis also provides further evidence that racial and ethnic populations are disproportionately affected by this epidemic. While data is the backbone of this response it depends on four core interventions. Contact tracing and timely isolation of known cases, and quarantine to break the transmission. We are not defenseless against this disease. We have powerful tools at our disposal. Social distancing. Where a face cover in public and be disciplined about the frequent hand washing. It is critical that we all take the personal responsibility to slow the transmission of covid19 and, i ask those that are listening to spread the wo word. With your support the cdc has awarded 12 billion to 64 jurisdictions, data monitoring station is underway and Public Health laboratories are building resilience. A number of contract tracers have grown, and the disease impacts us all. Its going to take all of us working together to stop it. Together i believe we can achieve the possible. Thank you and i look forward to your questions. Ranking member murray, and its good to see all of you again. First i want to clarify my current role. On march 12, secretary azar required that i lead the covid19. Although to be clear, i am maintaining my role of coordinating testing including the rad Diagnostics Program along with dr. Collins, to ensure that innovations are immediately translated into practice. In order to get back safely to work and school, the overarching most critical and essential actions we must first accomplish is to control the virus, meaning rapidly extinguishing any outbreaks in minimizing Community Transmission. All of us are concerned about recent data in several states and it now an in hospitalizations and deaths knowing what we know now about asymptomatic transmission and the fact that we are in a much better position today in terms of our mitigation strategies, ppe and testing, we can reverse these trends if we work together. First, we must take personal responsibility and be disciplined about our own behavior. Where a Face Covering whatever you cant physically distance. Or gathering without appropriate precautions and get tested. Shell the elderly, and follow the guidelines for opening up america again. The criteria are very specific and are as relevant today as when we release them. In addition this week we are initiating search testing and multiple communities of highest concern in coordination with state and local officials. Now back to schools and businesses. As dr. Redfield stated, the cdc will release recommendations on k12 institutions of Higher Education and reopening. This will be integrating testing, especially surveillance testing into a conference of strategy. As you asked me mr. Chairman if you are superintendent of the School System or president of the university, number one, apply the cdc guidelines in consultation with your state and local Health Officials so that testing is a part of your conference of plan which should also include prevention. Number two, i sure you are testing needs are incorporated into your state testing plans. As we outline the National Testing strategy each state has developed and will continue to build upon a customized state testing plan developed in full coordination with the federal government. The next is due on july 10th. The state plans are the allegation of certain scarce resources. For example in may and june the federal government has distributed nearly 26 million collection swabs and nearly 19 million tubes of transport media. Hhs also prioritizes for certain Key Laboratory tests like pointofcare tests according to state specific needs. There are also strategies particularly relevant to surveillance testing. For example, pooling examples, combining two or more samples and possibly up to ten into a single test makes sense where the prevalence of the response is low. And and 4,536 officers have deployed to support the pandemic response. Thats responding to care and compassion for that all of us feel. I think each and every one of these officers and their families, and that supplements our ranks during inevitable future national emergencies. Thank you for the opportunity to provide these remarks. Thank you. Welcome dr. Hahn. Thank you chairman alexander, Ranking Member murray and members of the house committee. I appreciate the support you have all provided for our efforts during this time of covid19. The fda has a vital role in the federal governments response to the pandemic. At one of our Core Missions is to advance a Public Health by helping to speed medical products that are safe and effective. And safe food and confidence that our decisions are based on medicine and science. And they ensure the continuity of health care in the food supply. Im pleased to announce that today the fda is taking action to a that, the Timely Development of a safe and effective vaccine to prevent covid19 by providing guidance to developers with recommendations on the data needed to facilitate manufacturing, Clinical Development and approval. We recognize the urgent need to create a safe and effective vaccine and we want to work collaboratively with industry, researchers and other partners to accelerate these efforts. While the fda is committed to help expedite this work we will not cut corners in our decisionmaking and we are making clear in our guidance one of the days that we need. This is particularly important as we know that some people are skeptical of Vaccine Development efforts. The fda strongly, including populations most affected by covid19 that specifically racial and ethnic minorities. Thats if elderly individuals. We also have guidance on women that are pregnant as well as pediatric assessments of safety and effectiveness. American people should know that we have not lost sight of our responsibility to maintain regulatory independence and ensure that our decisions related to all medical products included covid19 vaccines, the American Public can have confidence on that and i will continue to uphold that personally. While Vaccine Research is ongoing Rapid Testing in Therapeutic Development can aid in the safe return to school, college and the workplace. And thats not reliable from the market. We accelerate the development of treatments, called the coronavirus intelligence program. We have seen some of the consequences of that program such as the authorization of remdesivir and other therapeutics that might be a benefit to patients with covid19. We are working day and night to provide guidance to, and we are now preparing for the next phase of addressing this evolving crisis. They constantly evaluate whether they are promoting public heal health, and im glad to answer questions about the review. I want to think that more than 17,000 fda employees who are working night and day to help expedite medical products but also provide the necessary oversight with the appropriate science and it data. We know that the virus remains with us and they are doing the critical work that will get the country to the point where americans judge it is safe to return to work and school as as possible. Im incredibly proud of the dedicated men and women who have been committed to defeating this pandemic. I can assure you the fda will continue to provide leadership, expertise, guidance and information as we continue to address this unprecedented challenge and fulfill our mission to protect and promote Public Health. Thank you. We will now begin around of fiveminute questions. And dr. Fauci, i assume im 1 od we understand that there are health risks for children going back to school but we have concluded that the risk of is a greater risk if they dont go back to school. So what would your advice be to a School Superintendent about what he or she should be thinking about as children go back to school in a few weeks to keep them safe. Thank you for that question. It is an important question but i think we need to point out that it will depend on the dynamics of the outbreak and one of the things we want to emphasize, and continue emphasizing his take a look at where you are in the particular area of socalled opening america again. Are you at the gateway, phase one, phase two or phase three . The cdc, and thats the checkpoints. To use the Public Health act efforts and if we add here to guidelines of what we hear in many of these presentations that we just heard about the physical distance and the community, the use of masks, and some things like that, that will help to keep the level of infection in the community down which will then make help keep the children back to school. If you are in the area where you have a certain amount of infection dynamics, there are things that can creatively be done about modifying things like the school schedule. Alternate days, morning versus evening, allowing under certain circumstances online virtual lessons. Of those of the kind of things that we need to consider but also importantly always make the goal that it is very important to get the children back to school for unintended negative consequences that occur when we get them back to school. Dr. Redfield, one of the concerns would be for children generally speaking but havent been damaged nearly as much as adults, particularly elderly adults by this virus, they might carry the virus to teachers, administrators, parents or grandparents at home. It seems to me that the availability of treatments, that reduce the risk of sickness and death could be very important in increasing confidence in going back to school. You mention some of those in your testimony. Are there others . What would the availability of treatments be this fall and specifically what about socalled antibiotic cocktails at the time that were developed by ebola and approved by the fda . That would be a great question also for dr. Fauci. I want to make a small statement and hed like to add to it. Clearly we have remdesivir and clearly we have evidence that steroids can improve therapy and as you mentioned we have convalescent plasma that steve han could comment on, using the antibodies from individuals that have gotten better from covid and are currently under evaluation. I have just a minute, so lets go to him and have him answer the question as well. As i mentioned, remdesivir has been mentioned, steroids were mentioned. Convalescent plasma we have evaluated the safety and it has been found to be safe and over 20,000 patients who have administered it. We are awaiting the safety data, and i think the antibody data will allow us. We are already well into that treatment. Monoclonal antibodies are synthetic antibodies that will provide the theory is will provide protection against the infection of the virus and we are hopeful that those studies by late summer or early fall will provide information about their effectiveness and safety. So you are optimistic that there will be more than one treatment this fall for teachers, administrators and older adults . Yes, sir, i am optimistic. We all very much appreciate your work. Dr. Fauci, last time you testified before this committee, you warned us of needless suffering and death of the states reopening too early and just over a month later now we are seeing a Record Number of cases. We do not have enough tests, and this is the beginning and our strategy hasnt worked. I want to ask you, thank you very much for that question senator murray. Several of the states, in the states, and more than 50 of the infections are in the area. The things we need to do, we have to make sure that when states start to try to open again, they need to follow the guidelines that have been very carefully laid out with regard to checkpoints. What we have seen in several states are different iterations of that. Perhaps maybe in some going to quickly and skipping over some of the checkpoints but even in states in which the leadership, in the form of the governors and demers did it right with the right recommendations, but we saw visually in clips and in photographs of individuals in the community are doing it all a nonphenomenon. Meaning locked down or opened up in a way where you save people in bars and not wearing mask and not avoiding crowds, not paying attention to physical distancing. I think we need to emphasize a responsibility that we have both as responsibilitie individuals a societal effort to end the epidemic that we all have to play a part in that, and i think if you look in the individuals, what we saw our people that because they think they are invulnerable and many people think they are not, but therefore they are getting infected has nothing to do at all with anything else. When in fact it does. Because when a person gets infected they may not be symptomatic but they could pass it to someone else, who passes it to someone else, who then makes someones grandmother or grandfather, sick uncle or a leukemic child on chemotherapy and got sick and it died. We have to get that message out that we are all in this together and if we are going to contain this, we have to contain it together. I would assume that means that it would model Public Health behavior and make make a mask. We recommend mask for everyone on the outside and everyone who comes into contact in a crowded area, you should avoid crowds with possible and when you are outside and do not have the capability of maintaining distance, you should wear a mask at all times. Thank you. Dr. Redfield, last week dr. Julie gerberding who served as director under george w. Bush testified to our committee that if she were in charge of one of her Top Priorities would be the creation of a National Vaccine plan that addresses science, filament, allocation, uptake and monitoring of a vaccine saying we know this is in our future and we are not ready for it. I could not agree more and that plan has to detail how the federal government will scale up manufacturing and coordinate the supply chain so we avoid the missteps we sell the testing period and make sure that Vaccine Distribution addresses Health Disparities and a lot more. Dr. Redfield, do you agree that that is needed . Senator, i think its very important that we have an integrated plan for the sexting. When can we expect to see one . I will ask dr. Hawn if he would like to comment. I know recently they had a vaccine plan at least from the fdas perspective, i think thats important in building Vaccine Confidence. Is the cdc writing at comprehensive plan . To keep building on the efforts that we have to rebuild what i call Vaccine Confidence which is critical, then on top of that we have a very defined plan for distribution of this vaccine and prioritization of this vaccine. Will it be a couple weeks or a couple months . Do you have any estimate on when we will see that plan . Is currently within development in the group and i would anticipate we will see that plan in the near weeks ahead. Weeks, not months . The cdc has been working on this plan literally for probably the last 1012 weeks. Mr. Chairman i would just say we need to know what that plan is, the American Public needs to know what that is and communities need to know what that is so i would hope that we urge that to be public as soon as possible. Thank you senator murray, senator burke . Thank you, mr. Chairman. After working on pandemic policy for 17 years im reminded this morning that tony fauci has been doing it twice as long as i ha have. I urge my colleagues, Pay Attention to what each of these individuals say. Somethings are predictable. If congress is a fullfledged partner and funds things when there is an urgent need and theyve developed and have better countermeasures today, platform site then could address vaccines at a much faster pace than what we are doing. We spend more time with the blame game then we do with focuses on how the future should look. While all of us, members of congress and people within government which we could get back to normalcy. Your agencies and members of congress are also charged with making sure that we not the future so that future generations have better protections than what we have and that is why i applaud the chairman for his white paper and i would encourage every member of that dais to be brutally honest with us about where changes need to be made and where they dont need to be made. Dr. Redfield, i think you would agree with me that testing and surveillance on this has not been the best performance by cdc. I dont want to dwell on where we come up short. Share with these members and myself, what can we expect over the next several months from the cdc that will be different than what the past has looked like . Thank you senator for your question. I think the cdc will continue to work with the state and local and Tribal Health firms to build your capacity. Predicted Data Analysis and laboratory resilience, workforce, very appreciative for their Emergency Response fund that congress provided. These are Critical Infrastructure issues that the reality are and the cdc, we need to have a much more robust investment in these core capabilities. But we are going to see is, because of the congress acting, the cdc has provided 12 million to the local and state. So there is enhanced testing, weve mentioned its complicated here. The virus is so asymptomatic for so many, and that will require. Those plans as mentioned by the admiral, we have received them for june and july and we are working with the local jurisdictions. They will have them in the middle of july for the plans for the rest of the year and we are working sidebyside with them with basically enhanced surveillance and enhanced Contact Tracing isolation to begin his outbreak under control. I hope some of that money will be used to upgrade the systems of the cdc which are antiquated. I agree with you there. And the court capabilities particularly of the ones that you have been very supportive of, and that is in progress. It cant happen too soon. And i do think it is fundamentally critical. The data personnel that we have and we thank you for your efforts there, as we need to hire those individuals strategically we will continue to do that. To make sure that the premier Public Health agency in this country has a personnel and data systems that it does need, i will say the other big issue we have to correct is make sure that our public, health, have that. I think you have used your authority in a very effective way. The fda has arisen to the challenge during the Public Health emergency and meeting the agencys gold standard. You specifically mentioned innovative trials and Clinical Trial designs in the use of realworld data which is the use where the fda has gained ground during the response to covid. This is maintained after the Coronavirus Response is over. Critical issues that you bring up, some of the things that you bring up on the review side, and we will continue. Part of our review of our actions today, so made action review will inform how we move forward. Particularly around our supply chain and demand for medical products and innovative design trials as you mentioned. I would hope that you are a number member would allow and the how that might affect us in our country. It is exhibiting what we call every assortment capability. In other words when you get a brandnew virus that turns out to be a pandemic virus, its either due to mutations or the exchange of genes. They are seeing it in swine and picks now that are characteristics of the 200 2009h one and one of the original 1918 and many of our flu viruses have remnants of that as well, as well as segments from other hosts like swine. When they all mixed up together and they contain some of the elements that might make them susceptible to being transmitted to humans, you always have the possibility that you might have another in swine flu type outbreak as we had in 2009. Its something that is still in the stage of examination and its not so called an immediate threat where you are seeing infections but its something we need to keep in our eye on just the way we did in 2009 with the emergence of the swine flu. Its called g4 is the name of it. Thank you. Senator sanders . Thank you very much. Let me ask a question that has just bothered me lately. All of you and i think most americans understand how important social distancing is. We are told over and over again, the chairman told us at the beginning of this meeting, stay apart, at least 6 feet apart if you can. Just the other day however, American Airlines announced that they were going to fill up all of their planes and other airlines have done the same. So you have people going from new york to california, five or six hours sitting inches across from each other. Then you have buses where people are packed in like sardines. The question is why hasnt the government whether its the cdc or department of transportation issued guidelines prohibiting of what they all know can be common sense. I would be glad to make a comment on that. Thats something that is a concern and im not exactly sure what into that decision making. I would hope there would be something to mitigate that, and avoiding crowds and wear a mask. I think in the confines of an airplane that becomes even more problematic. I understand the mask thing but doesnt it sound a little bit silly and a little bit in violation of everything youve been talking about . People have that have been sitting next to each other for five or six hours, and the president issues a lot of executive orders. Why havent we stopped. I appreciate your question and i think its a critical area. I can tell you when they announced that the other day, obviously there was substantial disappointment with American Airlines. A number of the airlines had decided to keep the middle seat thing. I cant say this is under critical review right now, but we dont think its the right message as you pointed out. We think its really important i just hope very much that the cdc or the agency basically tells his companies that its unacceptable behavior endangering the lives of the American People. The institute of health indicated that if 95 of American People were to wear a mask we could save some 30,000 lives. A number of countries have provided lowcost or free masks to all of their people, something that i believe in. We do support an effort to greatly increase the production of highquality masks masks in this country and, if anyone else wants to jump in on that . It protects you and its people protecting each other, anything that furthers the use of masks, whether its giving out free masks or any other mechanism, im thoroughly in favor of. I just want to echo that in our Opening Statement, again, i called on the environment that i have. And i agree with you on that, would you be supporting the increased production of highquality mask and basically disturbing free of charge to every household in america . Because i think that will save tens of thousands of lives yes, sir, i agree that that is important. That could be distributed around the country, and when im not in uniform, i wear them. They are white and they are very effective. My very last question, and thats a good safe vaccine and that vaccine may not end up may not be able to afford it. I happen to believe that we should make these vaccines and as you know, the federal government and our tax dollars are going to the tune of billions of dollars, and after that kind of investment can get a vaccine regardless of their income. Anyone else want to comment on that . Yes, senator. Good, thank you all very much. Thank you senator sanders. Senator paul. Fatal conceit is Central Planning which can never fully grasp the millions of complex individual interactions occurring simultaneously in the marketplace. It is a fatal conceit to believe any one person or small group of people has the knowledge necessary. I think government Health Experts during this pandemic need to show caution in their prognostication. Its important to realize that a society meekly submits to an expert and that expert is wrong, a great deal of harm may occur when we allow one mans policy, and that allows men and women to be foisted on an entire nation. Government experts who continue to call for schools and day care to remain closed. And and they show that Young Children rarely spread the virus. Lets start in europe. 22 countries have reopened their schools and have seen no discernible increases in cases. In the red line is where the schools open. No spike when schools are open. And thats a single choice of child and adult infection. They remain over 25,000 kids in their study and found that only. 16 got and when you look that confirmed cases for staff there was very few staff. The ymca has also put forward statistics, 40,000 kids at 11,000 sites and there are no reports of clusters. There is converging evidence that it doesnt transmit among children like the flu. Just yesterday the American Academy of pediatrics says i have to get kids back in school. Mounting evidence that children are less likely to contract the virus. Ultimately this all comes down to the fatal conceit that central planners, and what they can and cant do. Perhaps our planners might think twice before they weigh in on every subject and perhaps our Government Experts might hold their tongue before expressing the opinion, whether we can play nfl football for major league baseball, not in october. Perhaps our experts might think twice before telling the whole world that a Covid Vaccine likely wont provide herd immunity, we dont know. Why weigh in with these opinions that we have knowledge of . These are forecasts that may well be wrong. Perhaps our experts might consider the undue fear that they are instilling in teachers that are now afraid to go back to work. No one knows the answers to these questions and we shouldnt presume that a group of experts somehow knows whats best for everyone. Only decentralized power and decisionmaking based on millions of individualized situations could arrive at risks and behaviors, and and this all begs the question, when we tell people the truth, that its okay to take the kids back to school . Dr. Fauci, every day, virtually every day, i dont hear much certitude at all, i hear, well maybe it depends. Around the world, and we have so politicized this and made it politically correct, and that reduces the rarity of the science that is honestly giving your opinion. And the w. H. O. Has now screened it with us because you said something that is not politically correct. You cant do this and you cant do that, you cant play baseba baseball. And we wouldnt ban school in october, and the question is cant you give us a little bit more on schools so we can get back to school, theres a great deal of evidence that is actually good, good evidence that kids are transmitting this. We are opening our schools. Mr. Chairman, that was well over 5 minutes, i agree with what you say about this idea about people having to put, and we also extrapolate a position. If you were listening and i think you were to the Opening Statement in response to one of the questions, i feel strongly we need to do whatever we can to get the children back to school. I think we are in lock agreement with that. What id like to clarify very briefly, when things get into the press of what i supposedly said, i didnt say. I never said we cant say a plaa certain sport. What happens is people in the sport industry, they ask opinions regarding certain facts and i give it, and i agree with you, i am completely unqualified. The only thing i can do is to the best of my ability give you the facts and the evidence of associated with what i know about the outbreak. The Top Health Officials have been advising the president and the white house on reopening plans and getting kids back to school and getting people safely back to work. Lets bring in a Fox News Contributor dr. Nicole saphier. Trace gallagher is here as well. I want to ask you first about some of the headlines are emerging from the this morning. There is no guarantee we will see a safe and effective vaccine although he is cautiously optimistic as weve said before that we will have one and possibly first dose is being administered early next year. We went on to hear a lot from the various centers and we know that this has become very political in nature and, the chairman of that committee, a republican said this in his Opening Statement. Listen. Unfortunately the simple lifesaving practice has become part of the political debate. It says this. If you are for tromp, you dont wear a mask. If you are against trump, you do. Thats why i suggested that the president occasionally wear a mask even though in most cases its not necessary for him to do so. The president has plenty of them buyers and, the stakes are too high for this political debate about protrump and antitrump mask to continue. Sandra dr. Safire, i want to get your view on this. Theres a lot of emotion going on, and people on both sides of the aisle are making very good points. The bottom line is people seem to be very concerned about americans, and going back to talk about the vaccine, dr. Fauci, would be irresponsible, we are cautiously optimistic. And there is a lot of vaccines in Clinical Trials right now, and there are encouraging responses there, and we dont know if we are for sure going to have one. Remdesivir and the monoclonal antibodies, it does look like we are having some progress towards treatments as well as dexamethasone which we heard earlier this month, we still need more studies to prove efficacy in all of these, but its a lot better than what we were a couple of months ago. And we know that wearing a mask will decrease the transmission of the virus. My recommendation is if you cannot maintain social distancing right now it would be a good idea to have some sort of mask. Each of the president be wearing a mask . Well im not going to tell him he needs to but yes, we do like to lead by example. I know why the president isnt wearing a mask, is being tested constantly and those around him are being tested. So therefore there is a logical reason why he is not wearing a mask but again, its just about what the messages that we are trying to give to the American People. There are some people who would follow in his leg because as we are seeing a sandra have increased viral transmission because of younger generations going out and having happy hours and it being closeknit together in these indoor spaces. Unfortunately, sandra, people are not willing to give up their happy hour and they would rather us give up our medical care. And we have to do what we can to slow the spread of the virus that we are causing unnecessary lives. They are not going to the hospital because they have a heart attack trace up on that note you make a very Important Note about people indoors and gathering. We know enough that you just dont want to share with people or contain spaces inside and get to see these states like florida and california where they are shutting down the beaches again and you wonder why. You wonder again, people keep saying, we are following the data. And we have spring break cases in florida where all the kids were gathered with any spreading happening of these things and yet they continued to close open spaces and push people inside. Whats the theory behind that . Trace, thats a great question and one im eager to answer. You are absently right, outdoor transmission is exceedingly low. Lets think about those pictures that we saw in arizona over the weekend its not about being on the river that you are going to transmit the virus but it is the car ride to and from the lake, the bus rides to and from the lake that where those transmissions. So the problem is when people were mass gathering, and we shouldnt be shutting down beaches or doing any of those things, and we have a decreased amount indoors. Sandra thats an interesting discussion. Thanks so much, doctor. Trace reaction that russia paid taliban fighters. Reaction from the white house is next. 300 miles an hour, thats where i feel normal. Having an annuity tells me my retirement is protected. Protected Lifetime Income from an annuity can help your Retirement Plan ride out turbulent times. Learn more at protectedincome. Org. Fox news alert, a new reaction to explosive new reporter that russia that russia and offered bounties to taliban fighters for killing Coalition Troops in afghanistan. The ap announcing that Top White House officials were briefed on the intelligence back in 2019 and that it was part of President Trumps written daily intelligence brief. Kristin fishers life for us in the white house where democrats were just briefed. I handful of democrats that were out the white house this morning said everything was not good enough, that they received no new substantive information and and they were offered bounties to kill u. S. Troops in afghanistan. They led me to believe it is a hoax. That was no assertion that the information we had was a hoax. The white house maintains that President Trump was never briefed about it until after the New York Times broke the story on friday. They say the intelligence was never elevated to the president s because it was not verified and because of his dissenting opinions within the Intelligence Community about it. The pentagon was also caught off guard by these reports and the Spokesman Says that that dob has collaborating evidence to validate the recent validation found in opensource reports. Therefore we continue to adopt measures from harm from potential threats. One of the biggest threats, and the idea of leaking information and not even knowing whether its true or not in the process and playing it out in politics is dangerous to all americans who serve in air and military anywhere in the world. It will be very interesting to hear what President Trump said, and as of now, there are no plans to see or hear about that. Kristin fisher, they are life for us in the northland. Lets bring in carmens and ro rose. There are people on both sides of the aisle. Not enough but certainly both sides of the aisle asking that very question. When did this administration know this information, was it elevated to the president and if not, why not . And why have they not taken significant action. Late we are talking here about the leading global power with soldiers lives on the line. When the soldier signed up for them terry made a promise to us and we made a promise to them that we will have their backs. Thats all we are trying to get to the bottom of here, how can we support and defend our soldiers. They are saying there is no corroborating evidence to stand up to New York Times reporting on this . You know intelligence is always about balancing uncertainties. When this evidence was presented for this intelligence was presented to the administration, the question from my perspective is how far did they take it, how seriously did they take it and and and then what do we do. Thats calling for russia to be labeled by the state Department State sponsor of terrorism. I am a supporter of dad. These are tangible legitimate things bipartisan in nature and that is something that we should be doing so we dont play geopolitical footsie with russia. Keep in mind this is not something to be viewed in a silo, this is the same nation that attacked our elections, the same nation in a chemical attack against britain, and invaded the ukraine. They are not our friend and so lets stop treating them like it. We support that congressman, we have a concern that many of us have witches there may be a reluctance to brief the president on things he doesnt want to hear. If theres a problem with being willing to brief the president on intelligence he doesnt want to hear, thats a problem for our entire nation security. So he says its not good enough. What they heard at the white house today, they want to hear lawmakers and says the full house should be briefed from the intelligence agencies themselves. What went down, what are you asking for congressman . First of all going back to this notion that we should not look at this issue in a silo, i have learned enough and seen enough about the actions of russia to determine that the action needs to be taken, should not be invited into the g7 so on and so fourth. My take less stock into these congressional briefings because those things leak like a sieve, but we do have to get to the bottom of it in a confidential setting. Under no circumstances should we ever play politics with National Security. 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Mayor jenny durkan on the other hand is preaching patience same in a series of tweets that shes negotiating with all sides and adding right now i am at city hall doing the work and she went on and another tweet, i will meet with teeth best to continue our work to move forward on many ideas including how we reimagined policing and Community Investments and how that is reflected in the budget. The Occupied Zone has shrunk since it was first established when Seattle Police left the precinct, and not just for protesters but also for seattles homeless and mentally ill. And it has become a target for those who vehemently disagree with for the name of the black lives matter movement. That traces a clearly volatile makes and a situation that city officials want to end but they cant seem to agree on how that can be done peacefully and quickly. Trace . Jonathan hunt live for us in l. A. Sandra a massive cut to the Police Departments budget. So while the move make things worse . Im excited to say i have a plan that can achieve a real reform and real distribution at the same time and insurer to keep our city safe. The course structure the university of phoenix offers it just suits my life perfectly because i am a mom, im a wife. And i was able to complete those Short Courses five to six weeks and then move onto the next until i reached my goal. Sandra fox news alert now, i major move in an effort to defund the police as we await a key vote on big budget cuts for new yorks finest. Right now the new York City Council is set to vote on mayor de blasios plan to movement 1 million to use and social services. I. Aisha hosni is live at new yorks city hall this morning. Good morning. The hearing just got underway moments ago. And that is what exactly what they want. Thats not a guarantee, and things are calm right now. Earlier this morning though there were a few scuffles between police and protesters and, thats 1 billion and that would be diverted to youth and Community Programs which is exactly, and they said this will result in only, recent 114 people that were shot across the city. The city protest organizer said there are people here who most certainly not believe even if there are demands and if they are waiting to see what happen happened. We believe in a peaceful escalation of tactics and we know how to be very disruptive and theres a lot of us out he here. There are more demands coming down the pipeline. We are keeping an eye on things and keeping an eye on the boat and we will let i you know what happens. If you could kind of paint a picture for us exactly where you are in new york and how long this has been going on, and thats whether or not they leave if they get what they were asking for. Thats a city hall park, and theyve been camped out for about a week. 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