Elizabeth tonight the battle to reopen. With us Sidney Powell, also on the battle between the fbi and mike flynn. House judiciary want a probe fbi corruption, republicans there. We have with us tonight former congressman Jason Chaffetz and byron york. Lets kick off the show with senator rounds from south dakota. Great to have you, sir. Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity to visit with you. Elizabeth your reaction to what the president is saying and the fight to reopen . Two dozen states pushing to reopen. There is a push back against that. There is a fear cases will spike higher if you do that. What is your take . We have to do both. We have to keep our workers safe. We have to use some good ol common sense but we have to open up our economy as well. In this country we can make that happen. Im convinced right now if we have the proper equipment and testing and weve got aways to go on testing but if we get the property equipment and proper testing, if people use common sense, keep the separation out there, we can reopen the economy, get things rolling again, and at the same time keep our employees safe. Elizabeth you know, sir, the senate is back in action. The house is on recess still during a pandemic. Critics are saying firefighters, cops, cashiers, Grocery Store clerks, pharmacists, doctors, nurses theyre fighting to get this economy and the health of the country back on track. Why is the house still on recess . Nancy pelosi is now quote, saying, you know the president should not be doing his press conferences, you know, slamming the president on that. They want to bring in dr. Fauci and dr. Birx to testify. Your reaction to all of that . First of all i think dr. Fauci will be before the senate. It will provide good, ample opportunity for both sides to answer questions. Remember in the house they have done everything they can to try to discredit the president and the administration. What they should remember when you go to impeach a president , you make an enemy. When that happens there is no way he will help them create more controversy. What is the president is focused on getting the economy going again. He opened up, he told us in the senate that he wants to do whatever he can to work with us. The fact that dr. Fauci is it coming to the senate would suggest that he thinks the senate will treat them fairly, ask, good, hard, but fair questions. The house will have to learn the hard way this is a case of a pandemic which it takes all of the country to win. We have to be pulling together on this. Right now i suspect the president doesnt think the house is necessarily pulling in the same direction as the rest of the country is. Elizabeth you know, senator, lets show timeline the reaction of the Trump Administration to the covid19 outbreak. If we can show the viewer what really happened because there is pushback saying why didnt the president get testing done faster, why didnt he react fastter . It should be noted that china did not release genome sequence of this virus until late in the outbreak, also is yet to release the virus samples so doctors and researchers and met experts can build drug therapies and vaccines off of it. Your take on the big pushback against the president and Trump Administration saying you were too slow off the mark, you gave false comfort, topspin, false security for the American People, you shouldnt have done that, your reaction to this . The president suggested very strongly, i agree with the president , that china should bear the blame. In this country, there is always an opportunity for us to say in hindsight we think we could do better. That is a good goal but you have to play with the cards that are dealt to you. When china did not release, when they knew this was a problem, they didnt release that information, it put the entire world behind the eight ball. That is exactly what happened here. When china did not come clean with what was going on, since they did not share the rest of the world there was a serious pandemic going on, they didnt tell us exactly what was popping that put everybody behind the eight ball. In our country we had the same problem the rest of the world did. The president worked very, very hard to bring everything together. His team has been open to the suggestions weve done. Whenever we see something to improve upon, they have taken our emrecommendations and act on them. I think of number of things we made requests opening up fema. They opened up fema and used logistics already in place. They did it immediately upon our request. I went back to him, talked to him literally what is happening in the food market and food processing. We asked for emergency orders under the defense production act. Within two days the defense production act was activated. We had assistance for some of those meatpacking plants that were shut down and needed help reopening. He has been very responsive to our requests for additional assistance. That is what you want in an administration. You want to have the good line of communication. Elizabeth yeah. What is happening now is the fear of bankruptcies are going to be on the rise. We have j. Crew filing, Neiman Marcus is in trouble, jcpenney has been in trouble. Weve got International Travel maybe not come back until 2021. That is what the treasury secretary says. Weve got the u. S. Government borrowing fiscal year four 1 2 trillion, maybe five trillion dollars. You know, we have the house still in recess during a pandemic, worth repeating again. Small Business Paycheck Protection Program is running out of money. California took a big chunk of that. Talk to us about wendys running out of meat for burgers. There is a meat shortage happening right now. Can you talk about that. We actually went to the president and advised him our Beef Processors were telling us they were in the middle of a real problem here in their production capabilities. I sent a letter to the president and asked him to open up the defense production act. The reason for it was because our pork processors were sharing with us, the market folks were telling us by the end of last week they expected 45 of our pork production to be shut down. They expected the 25 of our beef production facilities, their capacity would be shut down as well and that is exactly whats going on. We have got some in storage, and weve got plenty of livestock. The challenge is we have a bottleneck at the processing and we need to got those facilities up and operating but they had to be operated safely which meant we needed to have the defense production act put into play so at the could get the emergency equipment they needed to keep their employees safe. Nobody wants them to operate without a good, safe, Work Environment but we have to have our food back in production again. Elizabeth yeah. The president responded literally within 4 8 hours. Elizabeth understood, the democrats face the trial bar, the trial lobby. You know there is a need for some kind of liability for protection for businesses to reopen. Mitch mcconnell has been talking about that, democrats pelosi and schumer pushing against it. They do want safe working environment the for workers. That is the big fight still now underway. I want to get to the optimism. It is not just remdesivir, Gileads Remdesivir looks like a promising drug. It lists japans fuji film unit is pushing through, look at this, the drug to over 40 countries, for covid19 trials. Roche is working with an arthritis drug, an antiinflammatory treatment to stop the cytokine storm. We also hear out of the netherlands they have a Monoclonal Antibody that destroys the virus. 1000 drug trials pushing on vaccine there is optimism, hope here, reaction to this story . Absolutely there is optimism out there with regard to remdesivir, there is a possibility of having that working as a therapeutic in the very near future. But along with that, the vaccines being developed as we speak, we put additional money into the cares act which we actually funded a process where rather than having pharmaceutical companies putting up money for the manufacture of large doses we said, look, let us put up the money for the large doses of the best prospects out there so that if they do prove to be effective and safe, that well already have a supply of those vaccines red did you to go. That is in the works right now. And so were looking ahead. Were optimistic were going to get something successful with regard to vaccines. That really means that people will understand that even if they get this virus, or even if theyre, if brought into contact wit, that with the appropriate vaccines they wont necessarily get it. If they do get it, it will not be as as severe as it has been otherwise. Turn this into something similar with the flu epidemic rather than something as severe as covid19 has been to our elderly. Elizabeth senator rounds, thank you so much for joining us. Great to see you, sir. Appreciate the opportunity. Elizabeth okay. Same here. With us tonight, coming up on the show Sidney Powell on the push by house judiciary republicans to get Christopher Wray at the fbi to investigate corruption at the bureau and do something about it. Also byron york, on the pushback against senator Elizabeth Elizabeth warren who pushed against Michael Bloomberg saying Michael Bloomberg release the nondisclosure agreements with women in his work place alleging misconduct saying, staying mum about joe biden and his fight with tara reade. Coming up next a former california gop chair, as protests breaking out in north carolina. Protests breaking out coast to coast. Stay with us. Its best we stay apart for a bit, but that doesnt mean youre in this alone. Were automatically refunding our customers a portion of their personal auto premiums. 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Well you need to protect the vulnerable and realize there has to be a balance in life. Covid didnt replace all the other problems in america. It added to them. You see in england where they talk about 18,000 additional cancer deaths because they cant got treatment. The same is here. You have citizens frustrated because they see here in california jails being emptied, crime going up, yet theyre told to stay in their house. Yet theyre going broke. I have been a Small Business attorney now for three decades. When a restaurant, Family Restaurant goes out of business their savings is wiped out. A check from washington, d. C. Or sacramento isnt going to make the difference. So there has to be a balance. It is not one or the other. It is balancing it all. Elizabeth all right. Let me just back up. The Imperial College of london initially said 2. 2 Million Deaths for the United States. They ratcheted it dramatically down, cutting that prediction down, that estimate down i think about 80, 90 . The Imperial College of london said you dont need to shut down the economy. Do targeted quarantines. They advised against that. Now we have the media misreporting a fema model that was never meant to be a prediction, never meant to be a forecast of 3,000 deaths a day. That was not a hard and fast number. What is going on here . We see misreporting constantly happening and people got up in arms, and shutdowns continue. This is a dangerous disease, we understand it. The americans are dealing with it. What is also really dangerous is the bankruptcies that are flowing in, 34 Million People and now possibly on the friday jobs report out of work. Your reaction . Yeah. 100 . This drive to make the news with big numbers is not a good thing and so what you have people are frustrated. They longer trust the government. The cdc said back in 2014 ebolo could have 1. 4 Million Deaths in four months and wound up with 30. They are frustrated that, these people have reallies. These people in washington, they get to keep their job and they get paid but that isnt happening out here. Why here in california when they shut down a county which has no deaths and no cases . Sonoma and napa, two really important counties, the Wine Industry of california have had a total of five deaths. That is where the frustration is setting in. All this misreporting is causing people not to believe the media and not to believe government. That is a bad situation which is why we need better balance. Elizabeth yeah. Especially when you see Orange County releasing sex offenders, california releasing 14 murders and people who were accessory to murder. We see Washington State a group there pushing for 2 3 of the prison population to be released. I want to get back to the American People who want to work, we want to get back to work. Listen to Governor Cuomo of new york saying a shutdown is not sustainable. Watch this. When i say the situation is unsustainable, it is unsustainable on many levels. It is unsustainable economically. It is unsustainable personally. A lot of anxiety is now all through our community. We see it in increased alcoholism, increased substance abuse, increased domestic violence. Elizabeth okay, here is what is also going on. The majority of states have not seen a decline yet. Theyre at a plateau. Were not on the other side of the curve yet. 1 3 of the states are seeing increase in cases happening right now. Again and again, can you reopen safely . Can it be done . Governor cuomo of new york says what were doing now simply not sustainable. It isnt sustainable and poverty by the way is the number one indicator of mortality. We have to stop the one size fits all. It is not even constitutional. Where you have rural land and you have few cases you should allow them greater leeway than los angeles and new york but right now los angeles and new york are dictating the entire of american policy and that wont work. That is where jobs will be lost long term and this economy will be weak for years unless we adopt a more, less of a onesizefitsall and a more practical policy. Elizabeth you know what is putting stress on right now . The firstresponders, and fire departments, the firstresponders and the police departments. Listen to patrick lynch. In new york city he runs the Police Benevolent association. He says, quote, the nypd needs to get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business all together. The cowards who run the city given us nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages leaving cops on the street corners to fend for themselves. He is talking about the ramshackle approach by new york city mayor bill de blasio. Critics in the media are saying that of the mayor. Your reaction . Yeah, 100 . Here in california you have das openly say they will not enforce that or force police to engage in that sort of thing, because, a, it is not productive, and b, not solving any issues. You cant have the biggest city run the Rural Counties as well in addition to running the country into the ground. The question is whether politicians will come together . One side seems to want this as an issue but we need to get to a point whe