Struggling to reopen over the next several weeks. Thousands of businesses are battling to stay open. But the house of representatives not reopening for business. Like democrat House Speaker nancy pelosi said it would. Supposed to open on may 4th. Now thats not happening. The president mocking the democrats saying that the democrats are on vacation. House minority speaker kevin mccarthy, says he expected a plan for the house to reopen. With us, secretary of the va. Wall street pro, Dennis Gartman, and Rnc National SpokespersonLiz Harrington. Well be talking about exactly when the states will reopen. The constitutional fight there. The new drugs, vaccines and hope. More news on antibody tests as well and more news about the evidence that supports the claims of tara reade who accused joe biden of Sexual Assault. What tara reade is now demanding joe biden do. If he doesnt do it, why critics warn it will undercut bidens credibility. Thanks for joining us. Im elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Elizabeth welcome to the show. Im elizabeth macdonald. Weve got a fox business exclusion system robert wilkie, on the White House Coronavirus task force. He is Veterans Affair secretary. Great to see you, sir. Good to be back with you, liz, thank you. Elizabeth lets get right to it. I want to get your take on what is happening now. The push by the white house to send all 50 states enough tests to screen nearly 3 of their residents. The federal government should be the last resort for needed test kits. That is what the president is saying. What is your reaction to this . I certainly support the president s action. The standards that some are trying to impose on us are probably impossible. I think the president said in his last conference he could test everyone and then somebody would ask, why he didnt test the second tranche. What weve done at va, because we have a smaller population within our hospitals, we have tested all of our veterans in Nursing Homes. That is about 7,000. We have conducted well over 80,000 tests but we focused on the most vulnerable veterans out there and what we found because the president told us to engage in Public Health measures early on, of those 7,000, less than 5 actually have the virus. Majority of those veterans are in the northeast and in other hot spots in the midwest. Elizabeth sir, am i correct in saying that, that 400 vets have passed away . You also have 2000 veteran affair workers who are sick, 20 have died. Is pushback on what is going on at va. You havent been at the briefings. What is going on there. You havent seen many of us, hhs secretary, several of my cabinet colleagues. Were there when we are needed, ive done two or three. Because of social distancing youre seeing fewer and fewer of us every time. You used statistics. We have had sadly 471 veterans pass away but we have not been overwhelmed at va. 6900 veterans tested positive out of nine 1 2 million. Of those 6900, 3900 have gone beyond 14day limit we can say theyre doing fine and returned home. So were doing pretty well in the sense we only have 500 veterans with the virus who are in our hospitals. And that has allowed us to engage our fourth mission. We are in 38 states now. We have open beds to the public and all of our va regions. We are in Nursing Homes all across the country. Because we are there to provide the general public, the american people, with the safety net should they need it. Our people are doing heroic duty elizabeth so, there was pushback about this study. Yes. Elizabeth about the effectiveness of hydroxychlorquine. I think 368 vets took it but the media misreported this because, correct me if im wrong, these veterans were in the last stages of the illness . It does not work on preexisting conditions, this malaria drug, if youre, if it is a severe case, the drug will not work, is that a correct assessment . Yes. You have used more truth in about a minute than most of the Mainstream Media has done in the last two weeks. First of all, it wasnt even a va study. We gave information when asked about, about 350 veterans. Sadly those veterans were in the last stages of life and because this president has been about using every available means to protect life and to extend life, we were able to use the drug in consultation with the veterans doctors, in case it did work. What i will also add is that we have seen it work. Weve seen it work, in fact most of us who are at va, who served in the military have taken it throughout our careers. The day that i addressed this study for the first time on national television, the governor of new york was asking the president in the oval office for thousands and thousands of doses of it. But your assessment is correct t was not a Clinical Trial t was not peer reviewed. Someone put together facts without even investigating the underlying conditions of those veterans who received that drug, just threw it out, said, some we were putting veterans at risk and disgustingly, some people said we were using veterans to experiment. And that is as vial an accusation that i have seen in the, almost two years that ive been the secretary of the department. Elizabeth yeah. So this, what is happening in the coronavirus outbreak it is triggering credibility crises across the country. Americans, will just say well not listen to you anymore, well not believe you anymore if you make false statements, misstatements like that without checking the facts. Lets get to this. 23 states struggling to reopen. Imhe models forecasting 74,000 deaths last we checked. There is concern if we push to reopen soon, you will trigger more cases, more infections. Your reaction on the push to reopen . We have to be cautious. I happen to sit at the table with dr. Fauci and dr. Birx and listened to the president s instruction. We have a vulnerable population. About half of our veterans are over the age of 65. Of the 7800 veterans who are in our Nursing Homes, more than half are from world war ii and korea. They are among the most vulnerable americans. I will not reopen va to normal business until we meet the standards put together by the president s task force and we abide by those standards. There are a lot of placeses in the country, liz, where the virus has not taken hold. Well certainly look at those first but we will follow the guidelines set by the president. Elizabeth mr. Wilkie, thank you so much for joining us, va secretary robert wilkie. We appreciate your time, sir. Come back soon. It is always good being with you, liz. Thank you. Elizabeth same here. Thank you, sir, for your service to our country. Next up well stay on roughly half of the country, 23 states doing a reopen. Texas doing a limited reopening. Antilockdown protests in dozens of states. Well bring in wall street legend Dennis Gartman on the road forward. What you need to know about later in the show. Tara reade has accused joe biden of Sexual Assault. Calling on joe bidens to release his staff records in last 36 years. It will show the complaint form, separation letter. That is what tara reade says. Tara reade is throwing down, saying possibly more staffer complaints against joe biden. Rnc National SpokespersonLiz Harrington is this coming up. Stay there. Because when caught early, its more treatable. Im cologuard. Im noninvasive and detect altered dna in your stool to find 92 of colon cancers. Even in early stages. Tell me more. Its for people 45 plus at average risk for colon cancer, not high risk. False positive and negative results may occur. Ask your prescriber if cologuard is right for you. Im on it. 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We have major antilockdown protests continuing in dozens of states. The president says he agrees with attorney general bill barr who is directing the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department and all u. S. Attorneys to be on the lookout for states and towns violating Constitutional Rights and Civil Liberties of state residents in their lockdowns. Your take what is going on in this country right now, dennis, and your forecast for the economy . First of all this is a problem weve never had before. Hopefully we shall never have it again. Hopefully we come up with a vaccine not in the near future. News from england today was very beneficial, very supportive. The news out of gilead was less than exciting. So well have a vaccine but my concern the economy is not going to rebound as quickly as the president would like to have us think it shall. We talk about a vbottom. I think well have something more like a w or even an l. The propensity of people to go into airplanes, restaurants, to run to stores as soon as there is an ability to do so i think will be greatly diminished. So im not nearly as enthusiastic as a lot of people are. And for the first time in quite some period of time i went short of stocks this afternoon, marginally. The operative word is marginally. Elizabeth operative is marginally. I get it. You tend to stay own the safe side. Ive been following you for years. 40 of americans have immediate Family Member out of work. Cbo reporting 40 of the u. S. Economy gets hit or possibly wiped out. This is really dangerous territory. Americans are asking how much longer are we supposed to stay in lockdown . Whats the standard . Are we waiting for the fatalities to fall below a certain number for hospitalizations to evaporate . What is the standard, thats what they want to know . I wonder what the standard is. The governor here in virginia has early on locked us down until june 10th, if you can believe that. Clearly there will be some reduction in that over time. It has to be, because people are, starting to get quite antsy. Do we expect to continue to remain locked down through the middle of june . I hope not. The number about protests taking place out there i think are reasonably to be expected and likely shall continue to be. Let us hope when we bring, when 23 states or 24 states, however many there are, unlocking their economies do so, that we dont have a resurgence but i suspect that the economy will bounce back quickly to begin with and level back off after that. I am afraid there is a number of bankruptcies that will occur, number of closures will occur. Like i said im not nearly as optimistic as most people want to be and as the president would like us to be. Elizabeth this country has been through pandemics before. Yes. Elizabeth everybody realizes you have to do things safely and not cause anymore infections or fatalities. Look at these images of crowds on beaches. Thousands turned out in southern california. California governor gavin newsom said yesterday he will send in Law Enforcement to californias beaches to insure Public Health restrictions like social distancing. We know that deaths in l. A. County doubled last week. Here is interesting, dennis. More people began ignoring shutdown orders two weeks ago based on smartphone locations. That is what the university of maryland found. Just 31 appeared to have stayed home in people they looked at, down from a National Average, National Average week prior was 33 . So people are ignoring the shutdowns and going out. Look at the 538 map from nate silver. This is when u. S. States peaked. You will show, see the warmer, Southern States still having a problem but youre going to see where the peaks are already met and where theyre still trouble. Your reaction to all of this, dennis . Warmer Southern States are not as warm as they like them to be. Virginia it should be in the 70s or 80s. Today it was 68 degrees. Hopefully warmer weather will curtail the virus. Supposedly warm Southern States are not nearly as warm we like them to be. So much for global warming. Elizabeth Dennis Gartman, thanks for joining us. We really appreciate it. Thank you, liz. Always an honor. Elizabeth okay, same here. We have the optimism, the hope for you. The race for the cure and vaccines picking up around the world. More than 1000 drug trials were tracking right now to fight covid19 in more than 100 countries. Again this is about hope. Were bringing it to you, and weve got the latest from the Worlds Largest vaccine maker. It is in india. Now ramming up to make 40 million doses of a vaccine before this fall, possibly by june. That story is coming up next. Stay with us. You wouldnt accept an incomplete job from anyone else. 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Americans are scared, fighting for economic lives, fighting for their health and their lives, they want to see more testing going on. It looks like the white house is picking up all of the weight there. As house of representatives still not back in, not coming back to work. Your reaction . Those of us in medicine, doctors and nurses we like to work and we dont really understand the idea of taking off. We take care of each other, we give each other breaks. We like to work. There is a lot going on in the country right now. By the way this is not the only problem in america. There is other issues. So i talked to people in the administration and they are working harder than anyone i have ever seen work in government right now. I think we shouldnt leave them alone. Elizabeth yeah. I hear what youre saying. I mean the president , keeps saying he did inherit a broken system. We know that, the Pandemic Response in the federal government, the National Stockpile was depleted of masks after h1n1. You know, it is not, what he was left with to deal with was not state of the art, not cinematically pictureperfect. Like trying to fix a Freight Train racing down the tracks at 100 miles an hour. That is what is happening right now with what the president is trying to do. I covered pandemics, i covered epidemics, i covered the anthrax attacks. I listened to disease experts consistently testify before Congress Since 1980s, that another pandemic is coming. Your reaction to that . The number one issue coming out of the covid problem is preparedness. I have not heard anything moving our supply chain, moving our medication, ppe manufacturing back to the United States. Where is the great journalism where the ceos are pressed why they moved things overseas and what is their plan to move it back to the United States . That is important work. I think that should be the work of congress right now. Elizabeth yeah. That is exactly right. Bring the supply chains back home. That is what Health Experts have been saying. Economists have been saying that. It cant happen again. Virus outbreaks will happen again. Lets get to the hope, lets get to the optimism. The race for the cure and vaccines picking up. More than 1000 drug trials now happening around the world to fight covid19 in more than 100 nations this is about hope. Your take on the largest vaccine maker in india, the serum institute, ramping up to make 40 million doses of the vaccine by the fall, developed by oxford university. What is your reaction to that . Clinical trials already begun. Theyre saying sometime may, sometime june, the trials could get underway and vaccine could come rapidly . Your take on this . It is clear there is a race to get the vaccine. The First Company that get as vaccine may put a lockout on every other country. Virtually do that by they control the supply chain. They may immunize everybody in the country before they share it with the world. The dr. Gottlieb, former fda commissioner highlighted that in the wall street oped this weekend. There are seven trials for vaccines in human, around the world. Three in the