Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Americas News Headquarters 20200509

Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Americas News Headquarters 20200509

You, im gillian turner. President trump says that restarting businesses and reopening the country, after the devastating april jobs report that revealed over 14 of americans are newly unemployed. We go now to david spunt. He joins us live from 1600 pennsylvania avenue with a look ahead at President Trumps reopen strategy. David. Hi, gillian, good afternoon to you from a chilly afternoon at the white house. President trump was supposed to be at camp david this weekend meeting with advisors. Plans got changed. Hes going to be meeting with senior military advisors at the white house in the cabinet room later this afternoon. The white house not specifically saying, gillian, what this meeting is about, but it comes after punishing numbers came out, as you mentioned, the worst jobs report in u. S. History. 20. 5 million americans lost their jobs last month, pushing that rate to 14. 7 , the highest since the great depression. Fox news has told a phase four stimulus package wont pick up for another month or so. Republicans in the house and senate dont buy it. They want a package now, arguing theyre into the sending enough to state and local governments. They met with 19 members of congress to discuss the jobs numbers and how to move forward, making it clear hes taking his time. So were in no rush. Were in no rush the democrats the democrats have to do what they have to do, but i would say were not looking we want to see what they have, but i cant say that were in a rush. Now, the white house is pushing back on allegations that it shelved new c. D. C. Guidelines for reopening the country, which eventually may slow down the president s mandate and timeline herement now, this morning, c. D. C. Director Robert Redfield put out a state i want to read to you, the reopening guidance shared prematurely was in draft form and had not been vetted through the interagency preview process. This is a it eiterative, and i not yet comfortable releasing a final work product. Also, coronavirus getting somewhat closer to vicepresident pence and President Trump. Katie miller tested positive for coronavirus and also a naval aide, a valet to President Trump tested positive and director stephen hahn is in isolation. The president , vicepresident , and stephen hahn have tested negative. And ivanka trump, her personal assistant has tested positive, but ivanka trump has tested negative. Gillian we know that katie millers husband steven works at the white house and no word, david, as you mentioned from the white house whether he has tested and what he has tested, but well keep everybody uptodate on that, thanks, david. Sure, thank you. Gillian several white house staffers and members of the secret service who work in close proximity to the president on a daily basis have now tested positive for covid19. We know that. Fox news also confirmed one of them as david just mentioned for us is the vicepresident s press secretary, katie miller. Joining us from break down testing efforts at the white house and across the nation is director of harvards Global Health institute, doctor, we always love speaking to you. Thank you for taking time again out of your very busy weekend for us. We appreciate it. My pleasure, thanks for having me on. Gillian so, first question is about these white house staffers and then well open up the conversation to testing more generally. The white house says theyre now going to test everybody who comes into close proximity with President Trump to prevent higher probability of him contracting the virus. That sounds great, but tell us, is that even a realistic goal in the sense that you can test somebody once and know theyre fine that day, but if theyre going to see the president the day after, are they going to be testing white house staffers every single day and is that what theyd need to do . It just tells you how difficult it is to maintain a completely safe environment and obviously, keeping the president and the vicepresident safe are of the highest priority and so, i think they probably do need to be doing daily testing, but even that isnt going to be 100 foolproof because we know you can have the virus and test negative. Its a pretty good test, but its not perfect. So i understand the strategy theyre using. I think its the right strategy. But its a reminder that even in the white house with daily testing of all the staff, its not 100 in terms of making sure that no one who is infected gets near the president. Gillian is there any way to get to 100 . Or youre just saying take it off the table, its not something that anyone could realistically do . Again, the goal is 100 i dont know how we can get to. You can get pretty close. The way you do it, you limit the number of contacts to the president , i make sure to test those people. You keep those people reasonably quarantined, they should not be going to restaurants or bars, not that bars are even open, but keeping them in relatively confined spaces and i think you can protect the president , im not saying its impossible, but 100 is pretty hard, but you can get really close with lots and lots of testing. Gillian now when we look at the rest of the United States, were kind of split states that are staying shut, states that are opening, trying to open their economie economies. You say there are protests against governments keeping businesses closed, excuse me,but you say to the folks, dont hate the stayathome orders, hate the lack of testing policies that got here in the first place. Even the president at the white house, testing is not the only thing we need, but its a critical part of take keeping the workplace safe. Thats the strategy we should should go using. Not Everybody Needs to be tested every day, but we need a lot more testing as a key part of keeping people safe. We can open up and get our economy back and make sure people dont get infected and die in large numbers. We can do both, keep people safe and open up the economy, testing is the really fundamental part of that. Good reminder there, good point that maybe the white house on this is leading by example. So when the president talks about testing not being a universal necessity, look at what the white house staff is i am i mplementing to keep him safe. A number of Young Children are getting the sort of secondary inflammatory diseases resulting from covid19. We know that one five yearold has now died in new york. Tell us about what you see in this sort of new developing piece of the puzzle. Yeah, so one of the bright spots of this terrible pandemic and one of the sort of Silver Linings has been that kids have generally done very well. They do get infected, they do spread the disease, but they certainly themselves dont end up getting very sick and its very, very rare when a kid dies. When a child dies of anything, including covid, its a tragedy. What were seeing, were learning a lot about this virus, including it sets off an immune reaction in kids can cause a lot of difficulties. Most kids still end up getting through it okay. I dont want people to get excessively worried. Its something we have to watch, if kids end up getting sick, thats something well have to pay a lot of attention to. Gillian and obviously, a devastating game changer not just for americans, but for folks all over the world. Docto doctor dr. Jha, thank you for coming on. Thanks for having me. Weve heard from david spunt that they want to hold off on bailouts before they see how the first ones worked out. Good night guy reschenthaler, good to see you. Are you looking at waiting to see how its done before spending more . Leland, yes, i am. For two reasons, number one, we havent spent all the money from phase three, the cares act. We have money to be disbursed. Lets take a wait and see approach and see where the money is deployed before we go to phase four. We dont want to incentivize the blue state governors from keeping the economy shut down and theyre going to turn around to the federal economy or the federal government say we need to be bailed out an of theyve destroyed the economy. We should take a nuanced approa approach. Leland when you take a look at your state of philadelphia in terms of the Unemployment Rate. About a 14 Unemployment Rate in the United States. Last seven weeks, 1. 71 million jobless claims filed in pennsylvania. Thats 26. 2 of your labor force. Those people conceivably have gotten the initial stimulus checks, 1200. Right now theyre sitting on the unemployment roles, any reason to get them something else. Whats happening in pennsylvania, were number one for claims in unemployment. Yeah, were only the fifth largest state. The reason being the governor has taken a draconian approach, used a one size fits all model might be good for philadelphia, but not for the rest of the state. He announced a shutdown through mid may, hair salons, barber shops, gyms, restaurants, he put a ban on over a group of 25 meeting. These go too far. What the governor should do, protect those in nursing homes. Weve had roughly 3600 deaths in pennsylvania, 1200 have been in nursing homes. The governor failed to protect the most vulnerable in our society, those in nursing homes. Instead he turned around and just decimated our economy and really, really was hard on Small Businesses. So pennsylvanians are ready to get back to work. We can do that and still protect those in nursing homes. Leland we have a map to put up in terms of what is and is not open in pennsylvania, while we talk about this. Obviously, your state has been very hardhit as you point out. The area you represent had as abouten particularly hardhit when it comes to tourism and the other industries that you have there. What options have you talked about on this task force about Holding China responsible and getting some type of payment back from them. I was at the meeting yesterday with the president and leader mccarthy. What i wanted to focus on with china, one, what happened in the early days of the virus. I think that china and the World Health Organization worked hand in glove to fight transparency to see what we didnt get to what happened in wuhan. What we have to do, we have to move our supply chain back to the United States. If we can secure those supply chains that will go a long way. Leland moving supply chains takes years. Whats the option to actually get some type of cash or real concessions out of the chinese, at least on paper, it doesnt seem like theyre even leaving up to phase one of this trade deal that the president touted. One thing we can do. I think the supply chains will move nfaster that. If were not getting good concessions in the trade deal we can increase tariffs from china and get compensation that way because at the end congressman if we increase tariffs, its the americans that pay the tariffs, not the chinese, economics yes and no, theres free trade and theres china. If we retrade from china it will bring the jobs back to the United States and put our supply chains around the world. Increasing tariffs on china are increasing the price of the goods we need. Supply chains, you can do what you can, but you cant build a new mask factory in one, two, three months in the United States and cant build pharmaceutical chains. Youre talking about raising the prices to consumers and so many of them are out of work. Two things, weve retooled a lot of our Manufacturing Centers to make masks and ppp, never underestimate the entrepreneurial nature of the American People, secondly, youre right, it might be a shortterm hit, but weve taken a shortterm hit. And unemployment we take more of a hit is the answer . No, in the longterm what we do is stop the exploitation from china. We cannot allow them to control our pharmaceuticals. We cannot allow them to control the economy. And here, leland, theyre taking a lot of our intellectual proper we need to bring supply chains back. Okay, all right, well continue another time. Thanks, congressman appreciate it. A lot more tomorrow, fox news sunday. Chris wallace has an interview with treasury secretary steve mnuchin, a lot of these issues will could many up. And media buzz, a look at the doj, dropping those charges against Michael Flynn. More coverage on that as well. 11 a. M. Eastern tomorrow, gillian. Gillian well, former president obama speaking out, delivering Harsh Criticism of attorney general bill barrs decision to drop criminal charges against general Michael Flynn. He was fired from senior top intel and National Security posts by both president s trump and obama. Mark meredith has more on what he said and the ensuing fallout over attorney general barrs decision. Good afternoon. Former president obama discussed this on a phone call with staffers. Trois some of it was given to yahoo . And flynn had pled guilt to lying about his communications with the Russian Ambassador. The Justice Department announced thursday it plans to drop the case against the former National Security advisor. Obama says he was shocked by the news. Thats the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic, not just institutional norms, but our basic understanding of rule of law is is at risk. Leland now, President Trump praised the Justice Departments decision, he also praised flynn this week, calling him an innocent man. The white house says it believes the fbi was trying to target and trap flynn during its conversations with him. Not surprising though, the reaction up on capitol hill is split down party lines. They fixed the whole jury against flynn. He was set up as bad as anybody ive ever seen. Im glad the charges were dropped. Hes been exonerated, but they want to try to cover up the fact that however high this went. I dont think theres any question of so much of what theyre doing right now is being done because they know the country of necessity is focusing on life or death. I think that this is an effort to distract the public attention. Leland but this story isnt going anywhere, a lot of democratic lawmakers are asking the Inspector General to look at this, even after the flynn case may be dropped by the department of justice. Gillian he can bet on that. This may be the most polarizing issue in washington d. C. , its not going anywhere, thanks so much, mark. You bet. Gillian leland. Leland it took two plus months, but two men are behind bars and facing murder charges in the shooting of an unarmed jogger in georgia. Steve harrigan, what were learning, hi, steve. Leland, greg mcmichael, a former Police Officer, and his son were in court. Charged with murder of a 25yearold black man jogging through a suburb in southeastern georgia, Ahmaud Arbery. Theyre facing charges and this languished a long time. 74 days, no arrests made until a video surfaced, was leaked and appeared on a local Radio Station that appeared to show the two mcmichaels pursuing arbery in a pickup truck. Each of them were armed and arbery was not. One got out with a shotgun and there was a scuffle. And the arbery family says that this is a modern day lynching. We want the Georgia Bureau to investigate the entire case from top to bottom and why people did not do their job as if you put the shoe on the other foot, why didnt we have equal justice and due process for the benefit of Ahmaud Arbery like you would have had if there was a young white man laying dead on the ground. No action from local police for 74 days, but once the Georgia Bureau of investigation did get involved, they made two arrests within 48 hours. But state Officials Say the reason for the delay needs to be investigat investigated. The family deserves answers. The community deserves answers. The state of georgia deserves answe answers. Greg mcmichael says he and his son were chasing what he called a suspected burglar and says the shooting was in selfdefense. Leland, back to you. Leland some Big Questions about the d. A. Initially assigned to the case as well. Steve, thanks so much. In michigan, three people are under arrest and charged in the killing of a Security Guard. 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