Differently when it comes to cases and death. But consistently experiencing economic damage. In michigan, rising star Gretchen Whitmer finding herself increasingly challenged in court and in the court of Public Opinion over the extended lockdown. Tonight fighting off accusations trying to take over the power to get special treatment for the vote after the governor cautioned not to travel this holiday weekend. My husband made a failed attempt at humor last week, knowing that it would not take a difference, he jokingly asked if being married to me mind to move him off. Shannon breaking from the white house, a new director of national intelligence, and newly does classified transcripts on Michael Flynn, and russian abbasid or sergey kislyak, not the only thing declassified itsf pretty well the new dni release . If so, when . Hello, welcome to fox news night. I am Shannon Bream in washington. We begin with what is next for those flynn calls. Good evening, kevin. It was highly anticipated. Or to hear some, it could shake the very foundations of both the flynn case and the russian probe. We are talking about if, and a big if John Ratcliffe decides to make the files public. Among a major trope of documents declassified by the acting dni Richard Grenell or the transcripts of that december 2016 phone call between former National Security advisor Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Sergey kislyak. A Senior Intelligence official telling fox news that key documents offer a very significant understanding of how intelligence was manipulated to support and launch the russian investigation. We are told it was widespread and reporting. And mr. Grenell would soon be taking a senior role in the trump reelection campaign. Refuted by both grenell and the campaign on twitter as fake news. Also tonight, former Vice President and presented nominee joe biden has changed his twitter avatar. It is a photo of him wearing a mask. That from the visit to the cemetery yesterday, which was hillary by some, because as you know, biden has been quarantined for two months, and standing outside during that ceremony, but what made it noteworthy was the fact that the president retweeted brit humes comment which said this might help explain why trump does not like to wear a mask in public. So there is that. And finally i want to share this with you, responding to senator chuck grassley, the republican from iowa making a request for the recent termination of a pair of inspectors general. The white house said that it followed the law and its notification to congress and use the very same standard as president obama did. Chuck grassley says without sufficient explanation it is still fair to question the president s rationale. Shannon. Shannon so much news, but you packed it all in there, kevin. Thank you so much. Excellent job. The meeting into a potential campaign focus for joe biden then how he could backfire, but the fallout continues over the Presumptive Democratic nominees controversial comments about black voters. Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich has a story for us tonight. Good evening, jacqui. Good evening, shannon. Some calling it a risky plan from the Biden Campaign as he takes on President Trumps strong spot. In the three years in office, President Trump has a lot of bragging rights when it comes to the economy. We have made america wealthy again. And leading former Vice President joe biden on economic issues. So bidens plan to take on trump in his strong spot has left republicans ready for battle. Especially after a top obama economists predicted a thirdquarter recovery like we have never seen. According to politico causing high concern among top democra democrats. But biden has a different outlook. Surge is relative, but you are still going to end up as all the economist say with an incredibly high Unemployment Rate and a lot of people in real trouble. Arguing the response caused staggering unemployment and leaned on his own experience to make his case. The campaign will also highlight how the pandemic disproportionately impact the people color. And higher in the protection director to focus on disenfranchisement. But after controversial comments this weekend. If you have a problem figuring out if you are for me or trump, then you aint black. I cringed, no question about that. Trying to get back his good graces with the voting bloc, and both val demings and the kingmaker joe clyburn. Would not have supported him if i did not think that he was best suited to be the next president of the United States. Its just that simple. In the meantime a potential vp contenders and some hot water. Gretchen whitmers husband tried to use her title to jump the line getting the vote launched before the holiday weekend. Claiming that it was a joke and given her ban on voting early in the pandemic and acknowledged it did not land well. She said she was not laughing either, shannon. Shannon the deep state is heating up, Jacqui Heinrich, thank you so much. The dire predictions about reopening in places like ohio, georgia, and texas thankfully not coming to pass, and the recovery tends to sprout, democrats are reportedly dreading this general election scenario, found on politico today, trump could be poised to benefit from the dramatic numbers reduced during the on partial face likely to coincide with the four months before november. That realization has Many Democrats spooked. Lets begin with the economic data, and good to have you tonight, sir. We look at most recent fox news poll and, who do you trust to do a better job in the economy . The voters we surveyed still give President Trump the edge over joe biden. And they are so frustrated to feel that way. And heres where the presumptive nominee joe biden himself has to say. If you are losing tens of millions of jobs, and are well over 30, millions and millions of jobs and you gain back a quarter of that or half of that, there is still growth. But you are going to have to end up as all the economist say with an incredibly high Unemployment Rate, and a lot of people in real trouble. Shannon how does the President Campaign against that . He may have a rebound of some kind and people are hopeful on that front. But we will look at historically bad numbers. Building the greatest economy in 50 years as the president says and the republicans are saying, it is an obama economists, we will have the v shape recovery, which i called a Great American comeback. I think it will happen and it is going to be strong and robust and hopefully like where we were a few months ago before the shutdown. It is interesting that states that are opening back up, back to work begets the states that are kind of still closed and in some ways hoping for a bailout, back to work actually works. Thats the best stimulus there is, and well see what the economist talked about. Its interesting that the democrats right away go to politics. Why cant we all just be for what is good for the country. It is good for america if we have a strong recovery, and we get back to where we were just a few months ago. Thats good for the country. But the democrats think politically, because of their animosity to the president is just so strong. And thats unfortunate. Shannon we go across the ideological spectrum that they are good americans, at that one to see the country back, and people regardless of how they vote and registered, most of them are welcoming not backing. So lets look at some other stories. Yes, and it is not about the leaders. Shannon lets talk about some other hot stories out there today, we have the resignation of glenn fine, and acting ig at the pentagon, and a number of democrats who say, listen, they keep dropping like flies, congresswoman Jackie Speier tweeting this, cleaning house, all right, getting rid of the mr. Clean, and replacing the independent watchdogs. She has a list, michael shaw, michael watkinson, christi grimm, steve linick, alexander vindman, and to remind folks, and oh, glenn fine resigned. He was not fired. But the democrats continued to say that the president does not want accountability or transparency, what do you say . And the acting Inspector General . She has not been fired, of course, mr. Alexander vindman was not Inspector General, he was munched out because of the impeachment thing. And the president is entitled to have the people he wants around him to do the things he told the American People he was going to get accomplished. Thats fine. Anand i will point out, you remember who the Inspector General was for secretary clinton during her tenure at the state department . No one can remember, because she did not have one. She did not have one for her entire tenure, no Inspector General the whole entire time. Maybe if we had an Inspector General we would have a little bit more information on what really happened. We had to do a committee on the benghazi tragedy where americans lost their lives that night. She never once had an Inspector General. And its a little strange to hear the democrats complain as much as they do. This president has been faced with more attacks from more places than any president ever, and he is entitled to have the people in Office Supporting his administration so that he can get done what he told the American People he was going to do. Shannon we continue to have more developments in the Michael Flynn case, and acting, now going, there is officially a dni, John Ratcliffe, your former colleague on the hill, but ric grenell, he declassified a number of things. Now at the shift in the house until committee, sending a letter when he was acting saying he was the classifying and publicly available any transcript concerning conversations between Lieutenant General flynn and former ambassador kislyak. He later tweeted, the ic does not have all the transcripts, and it was not our product. It is fine that adam schiff does not know this, but starting the declassification for the few we received, they should be released in full, even though the public deserves to see it. Do you think that they need to see the transcripts . I really want to see that call, and just as importantly i want to see the three oh two, the notes taken when the two agents snuck in the white house to trap general flynn, because there is a 302 after the meeting that was changed by peter strzok. So i want to see the kislyak call, and a 302, and the one that has been changed. I want to be able to compare all of that. I would love to see all of that, John Ratcliffe is going to do a great job. Ric grenell did a great job as wellpaid but i hope that john makes all of that Information Available to us so we can do the comparison. In the American People deserve to see and certainly Sidney Powell and general flynn deserve to see it as well. Shannon quickly, the reporter over at foxnews. Com, she says that grenell has completed the declassification of other documents including senior officials telling fox news was very significant understanding how intelligence was manipulated, and a clue on what we can expect . I dont know specifically what they are talking about there, but we know in three months, i said this last week, comparing it, and doing an outstanding job and looking forward to the document, the effort is Important Information that we have learned about how this has all started, the trumprussia thing, and jim comey was the denominator through it all. I hope that he will still give him a strong look. Shannon and the American People want to know the truth and transparency across the board sounding like a good idea. Congressman, great to have you. You bet, shannon, thank you. Shannon the fate of the National Republican convention scheduled in charlotte is up in the air tonight, following what amounted to a president ial veto threat to North Carolinas democratic governor. Rick leventhal following that story for us tonight. Good evening, rick. Hate, shannon, if charlotte is out, atlanta could be in. Georgias g. O. P. Leaders are already talking to the rnc about it. In the states republican Governor Brian Kemp says he would be honored to host a collection even though she is completely against it. And scheduled to be held august 24thaugust 27th with about 50,000 people were expected to pack the house before the pandemic hit. North carolinas democratic governor roy cooper has leaked you have to to allow the rnc to occupy the space because of the coronavirus concerns demanding the president to give an answer soon. All he has to do is tell us and they will pick a different location. And a lot of locations want it, but i like North Carolina because i love that state. And it wouldve been a Perfect Place for it. But he has to say, you know, when thousands of people come to the arena that they will be able to get in. The president s right to say that the government governor needs to assure us before we lock in all of the hotel rooms and bring in the revenue that you will let us have the convention. I say that it is okay for political conventions to be political, but Pandemic Response cannot be. Covid cases are still rising in North Carolina with three opened restaurants and hair salons last friday, but it is taking a slow measured approach to ending the lockdown. In georgia, which started reopening a month ago, cases have mostly flattened. But switching venues and state so close to the event would be highly unusual and unlikely, because of the logistics involved including reconfiguring the arena space, blocking out hotel rooms, setting up the media on protesters and the extent of security. Preparations underway for the past two years. Still floridas governor says, bring it on here. We definitely want to work. So the doors open. We want to have the conversation, whether it is rnc, dnc, whatever, because i think it will be good for the people of florida. Texas has also offered to host a convention, but the decision will have to be made very soon. Shannon we are standing by. 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Under that scenario, which assumes no additional measures are contained for the spread of the virus, roughly 4 million patients will be hospitalized and 500,000 would die over the course of the pandemic, those figures are far below many of the earlier estimates that came out as the nation started to shut down. Including one from researchers at Imperial College back in february who projected the coronavirus would be ten times deadlier than the seasonal flu, killing 2. 2 million americans in a worstcase scenario. A month later, dr. Anthony found she made that same claim. Speak of the seasonal flu that we deal with every year has a mortality of 0. 1 . If you count all of the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around 1 , which means it is ten times more lethal than the seasonal flu. We go one big reason for the change in projections is the massive increase in testing reveali