A lot to talk about. Democrats, republicans in states like kansas, california, texas, republicans trying to take back control to reopen from democrats. Well bring you those fights. President trump visiting factories in pennsylvania that make Health Supplies for Health Care Workers like n95 masks. We have the story. Newlyreleased documents that show Hillary Clinton campaign started it all for laying the ground work for the trump russia probe. At evening edit, we dont follow what the other media are doing or and we do what nobody else does. We dig into government documents and government footnotes. What the documents show look like a significant abuse of power under the Obama Administration and it began with the Hillary Clinton campaign. Thanks for joining us. Im elizabeth macdonald. The evening edit starts right now. Elizabeth welcome to the show. Youre watching the fox business network. Senate judiciary chair Lindsey Graham announcing Senate Judiciary will hold hearings in june into the origins of the trump russia probe. Senator Marsha Blackburn was with us last night. They are going to issue subpoenas. Ron john in Homeland Security will do his own hearings this is bun masking Campaign Officials and special counsel and origins of the probe. Senator graham is cool to president trumps demands that president obama testify. Senator graham is saying he would like to invite both obama and trump to come in. Welcome louisiana senator bill cassidy. Senator, should obama, thanks for joining us. Should president obama, should president trump, should biden testify . If they have something to offer, if they think they can add absolutely they should. Right now there is a lot of uncertainty. Were there people in the oval office ordering fbi to investigate the Trump Campaign . Thats the question. I would not, i would not want that to be my legacy. I dont think president obama does either. If he has something to add i think it would be pretty good. You know republican doug colins spoke on all of that. He spoke on newlyreleased documents showing obamas inner circle including joe biden, James Clapper, james comey, john brennan, Samantha Power, obamas chief of staff all individually tried to unmask Michael Flynns identity during the president ial transition. Unmasking is unconstitutional eavesdropping. Lets listen to doug colins here. Weve been talking about this for some years and really nobody wanted to believe at the highest level of Obama Administration, obama, biden, joe biden can hide in the basement. He cant hide from the facts here he was in these meetings. Moving it forward were starting to see it is all unof developing with the general flynn case, mueller investigation, it was all an attack on president trump, at the time candidate trump. Elizabeth so, senator, they couldnt get the fisa warrants to go look into what Michael Flynn was talking about. Instead they went to the nsa. These are not intelligence officials. These are political officials looking into it. Your thoughts. This gives americans pause. We want National Security but if there is politicalization of those authorities to go after political enemies that is what happens in venezuela. It shut not happen in the united states. That is what the americans people need to have this cleared. We, we need to have trust in our institutions not own always wondering i wonder if they are coming after me because im a political enemy . That is not good. Elizabeth officials in the Obama Administration asked for flynn phone calls before he talked to the Russian Ambassador, weeks before. James clapper refused to answer questions on cnn on who leaked to the Washington Post the flynn information. I mean u. S. Attorney john durham is reportedly investigating illegal leaks from the media. Thats at the heart of this, right . Who leaked it to the Washington Post. Who leaked it, but who was politicizing National Security information for their own benefit . No matter what party youre in, that should give you pause. Roy blunt says whatever happens becomes the new normal. This should not become the new normal. Only way to make sure it doesnt become the new normal, punish anybody that deserves punishment but make there be a price for doing it. Elizabeth a striking rise in the amount of unmasking requests under the Obama Administration and a striking rise in the number of fbi fisa warrants under the Obama Administration. This is meant to catch, you know, terrorists who are going to attack u. S. Cities, new york city subways which the nsa helped with that but this is now about using these powers to go after political opponents. For two years democrat adam schiff and officialing including James Clapper went on television, including places like cnn and msnbc saying there was quote, significant evidence of trump russia collusion but behind closed doors at house intelligence these former obama officials said we didnt have any evidence of that including James Clapper. I would like your reaction to these sound bites sir, after this. Watch. What a case officer of Vladmir Putin is. He knows how to handle an asset and that is what he is doing with the president. The russians offered help. The campaign accepted help. The russians gave help. And the president made full use of that help. And that is pretty damning. It is reasonable to ask if he could be working on behalf of russian interests and not u. S. s . It is a reasonable question. There is clear evidence on the issue of collusion. Have democrats found any evidence of collusion . Yes, we have. You can see evidence in plain sight on the issue of collusion. Elizabeth so you see that. The American People have seen that for two years. Senator, there is still the belief out there that all of what they just said is true and behind closed doors obama officials saying no, we didnt have evidence of it . Yeah, again it is incredibly concerning. People wonder why folks dont trust political institutions. You see that sort of cynicism, that sort of cynicism knows apparently one thing but for political advantage pursues another. There should be something beyond political advantage that should be the truth. Loyalty to the American People to give them the truth. We see lots of examples of that. This is particular bad example. I hope it comes back to haunt them. It will come back to haunt institutions here in washington, d. C. Elizabeth yeah, senator. So when you look at it, weve been digging into the documents and doing timelines of this, you know, we have mounting evidence that the fbi did not have the goods in the trump russia probe. They knew it by january 2017 and then it is sort of like they moved on to go after flynn. Do you see that as well . You know, i can accept that i think we have to establish what the narrative is. I think senator graham and senator johnson kind of uncovering that narrative, john durham going after that narrative. That is it what we need to fill in the gaps. I dont want to jump to conclusions like they did on the left going after trump. I would like to know what the truth is. The truth is important. We need to restore faith and confidence and we need to punish anybody that did something wrong. We get there by first learning the truth. Elizabeth what effect will this have on joe bidens campaign . I dont know. I think that is going to be for the American People to judge whether or not political, apparent politicalization of National Security secrets is something that should be punished a the ballot box. Well wait to see what mr. Biden has to say. He has to defend it. He needs to be forthright. Lets hear what he says. Elizabeth senator bill cassidy, thanks so much for joining us tonight, we really appreciate it. Thank you, liz. Elizabeth coming up later in the show we have newlydeclassified house intelligence documents that reveal Hillary ClintonCampaign Officials began the big push to set the media narrative on trump russia collusion just three weeks after donald trump was inaugurated president. House judiciary debbie lesko joins us on that coming up. Elizabeth welcome back, were getting to the reopening. In michigan, heavily armed protesters again turning out. Many of them, really upset with the states stayathome order, mingling in with the crowds not armed. All of this unfolding amid a case there that has national attention. A local barber in michigan, carl menke, refuses to close his barbershop after the administration and Governor Gretchen Whitmer suspended his operating license for defying her shutdown orders. The local barber reopened his barbershop, after he was turned down for unemployment three times. He went a month 1 2 without a paycheck. Welcome byron york a great guest and author. This is big showdown of a fight between a little barbershop and the State Government of michigan. You know were going to have to have, this whole Coronavirus Crisis created a new air of the law. I think well have to have some guidance what powers state governors have in these situations, that you know, whitmer has been saying, look when i issue an executive order, it is not a suggestion, it is the law. Even though, you have majorities in the house and majorities in the senate, the statehouse and senate, who oppose what she is doing. So there is going to have to be some sort of resolution here. She has been one of the most aggressive, gone the fartherrest, some people think she is auditioning to try to be joe bidens vicepresident ial pick. It will create big legal questions when this is over. Elizabeth you know, this is how crazy it is getting for people in michigan. Watch this local sheriff in michigan explain on his Facebook Page why his department will not be enforcing government Gretchen Whitmers executive orders because theyre arbitrary and really confusing. Listen to this. Youre asking my men and women to enforce orders, like i said 78. Some of them rescinded, others are in whole or in part, to make it more confusing you have pages and pages of frequently asked questions that seem to give the, you know, the law, or the lay of the land but are not in the executive order. Elizabeth its so confusing. This is not just this sheriff having to deal with this. Fights like this are happening across the country. Majority of the states. Your reaction to what the sheriff just said . Most people would be own the sheriffs side. Theyre trying to do themselves if they feel they need to be careful or stay inside, theyre doing so. So i think that a lot of Law Enforcement people in michigan view some of these things as guidelines. They want to take part in education, help tell people what would be best practices, but they dont want to be arresting and cuffing somebody for Walking Around or for trying to get a haircut or for doing some reasonable, normal, legal activity. Now all that said i do want to say one thing that is kind of a personal opinion but when you have protesters showing up with ar15s, other serious weapons in the state capital, you know, there are differences all around the country which state capitals will allow firearms inside and under what circumstances it is really, really not helpful to their side to be in this sort of paramilitary getups with, you know, major weapons in their hands. Elizabeth critics are saying that is an intimidating and threatening message. The fights to reopen breaking out between government officials in states like kansas, wisconsin, texas, california, Top Republican lawmakers in kansas moved to take back control of how the state reopens from the democrat governor there. Over in texas the attorney general is saying to dallas and austin, listen, your stayathome orders are much more strict than what we on the statewide government level is saying. So its president wild what were seeing right now, byron, in terms of the states now fighting with their local counties and communities. I dont think that is necessarily a bad thing. Just as we knew nationally, there will not be a one size fits all policy fits all states, it would be terrible idea to impose it, we also know between states or inside states there are significant differences between and urban area, suburban area, rural areas. Youre not going to have one policy that fits everybody. And also i do think what youre seeing here as well, depending on the governor, youre finding some legislature saying, wait a minute, were not chopped liver here. We should have something to say in the law, in enforcement of the laws we, the legislature wrote. You will have these conflicts going on. Elizabeth you know, byron, separate story. The president is really pushing hard on a Public Private partnership for vaccines. He is going to enlist the military to help out in that endeavor. Were seeing gilead, remdesivir may work in a cocktail with other drugs. Gilead moving to make generic in other words theyre seeing good news on cures and vaccine front. Gilead is working to make a generic version of it. Roches antibody test, 100 accurate. Convalescent plasma treatments working. Johns hopkins, mayo clinic finding that as well. Were seeing good news on that front. Are you seeing that too, you know, there is positive news there . Look, there are a lot of very smart doctors and researchers in this country and the world and they have been learning as we go along, have been improving the way they treat people who have coronavirus. I think one of the most heart rending things we saw when reports came out several, several weeks ago about how, how use of ventilators was not effective in many cases, physically repositioning the patient was much more helpful. It was tragic, you thought people who had been treated before they came upon that. So, treatments are improving every day. When you, when you look at this, this flattened curve, it is actually going down nationally. Part of that is reflection of just better treatment. Elizabeth byron york, great to have you on, come back soon. Love having you on. Thank you. Elizabeth up next, the latest twist by the judge on the Michael Flynn case, ordering the appointment of a retired federal judge to argue against dismissing flynns case even though that retired judge already prejudged flips case in an oped for the Washington Post. Saying doj dismissing the flynn case, quote, weeks of improper political influence. Were going to bring on former federal prosecutor jim trusty to ask him if Michael Flynn can ever get a fair hearing. Thats next. Limu emu doug [ siren ] give me your hand i can save you. Lots of money with Liberty Mutual we customize your Car Insurance so you only pay for what you need only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Elizabeth welcome back. To the latest twist in the Michael Flynn case. Judge many met sullivan just ordered ordered retired federal judge john gleason to argue against dismissing Michael Flynns case. Welcome former federal prosecutor jim trusty. We love having you on, jim. Great to see you again. Can flynn get a fair hearing . This judge gleason just coauthored a oped for the Washington Post prejudging the flynn case. Judge gleason said doj dropping the flynn case wreaks of political influence. He coauthorrd that piece. Can flynn get a fair hearing. He might but doesnt want a hearing. Motion to dis, a very rare a federal judge will go against a motion to dismiss, but were in unusual but not unconstitutional territory to start with. Reality is, i mean, judge could have signed off on a docket entry yesterday that said this case is dismissed per the governments discretion. That is not happening. That is bad news start no matter what this is heading towards some form of hearing. I dont think even though mr. Gleason in his oped piece opines the judge can ignore the motion to go to sentencing, im not convinced judge sullivan will go along with that notion. Judge sullivan cite as case in the order makes it really clear you cannot undo the executive branches decisions when it comes to prosecute or not prosecute that could be good news, but picking mr. Gleason after the oped can be troublesome. If youre representing mr. Flynn, he picked one lawyer on record saying something we dont think is right which the judge can ignore a motion to dismiss and go to sentencing. That is rough stuff to have to talk to your client about when it looked like the fbis misconduct was being acknowledged and the case was finally going away. Elizabeth judge sullivan also is asking judge gleason to consider whether to hold Michael Flynn in contempt for perjury, apparently because flynn under oath first pled guilty to lying and then reversed said he never lied to the fbi about his contacts with the Russian Ambassador . Right. I mean look, there is a motion, there is a declaration in association with the motion to withdraw his guilty plea where he specifically says, im an innocent man this is after the judge conducted what they call a colloquy, a conversation to get him to accept he was guilty. In othe