Transcripts For FOXNEWSW Fox Report With Jon Scott 20200503

FOXNEWSW Fox Report With Jon Scott May 3, 2020

Mark. Reporter good evening President Trump is at camp daiftd this weekend hes due back in washington tomorrow only hours before the senate is expected to get back to work as well. The house has postponed its planls to return at least for right now citing Health Concern and last night human and Health Services offered to deploy Rapid Testing kits to hill but now this is rare both parties are say thanks but no thanks we have with a joint statement from leader mcconnell and House Speaker nancy pelosi showing testing capacities scale up nationwide and Congress Want toes direct resources to frontline facilities where they can do most good the most quickly. Now white house spokesperson said today thats fine the administration trying to help and administration defending its decision not to sending dr. Anthony fauci up to capitol hill to testify before the house. Fauci no surprise is has become a household name since the pandemic began, House Democrats say they invited him to testify before at appropriation Sub Committee to discuss the Administration Response to the outbreak. But the white house say reason pew come is not going because it was not made clear to him why house wanted to hear from him. We act in good faith. We want to provide these witnesses when they are requested. We want to make sure that it is one the right timing because these experts do have is day jobs that are very important to keep American People caisson a healthy. And in addition to that, we want to make sure that the subject matter of the hearing matches the individual theyre requesting. But democrats are accusing white house of playing politics with public and going up to capitol hill later this month to testify before the republican controlled senate. Meantime the investigation into how the coronavirus got started continues. A Senior Intelligence official tells fox chief White House Correspondent jon robertss that the majority believe it was in a chinese lab this release was accident not intentional. There are still reports of no smoking gun, though. Qhows says it is possible that u. S. Can impose additional commitment punishment on china bow no final decision has been made. As we mentioned President Trump at camp david back here in d. C. Tomorrow participating in a fox news town hall tomorrow evening and then hitting the road jon, going to be heading out the to arizona on tuesday. Jon. Jon Mark Meredith at the white house. Thank you, mark. Meanwhile chinese commune fist Party Tactics shifting now to resemble classic russian Disinformation Campaigns. U. S. State Department Official says its all in an effort to pin the blame for the the coronavirus on america. Rich edison has more. Reporter official Chinese Government spokesman pushing russian propaganda. The u. S. Establish multiple biolong call laboratories in former ussr countries but kept a mouth shut regarding function, purpose, and safety. Story ends up in state run media like c imrks tn becomes multipronged Chinese Government narrative state Department Officials took notice they say chinas covid19 Disinformation Campaign is evolving quickly shifting to elevate and amplify russian disinformation. The head of the state Department Global Engagement Center telling fox news, quote, ccp ploying government approach using political, economic, military and Information Tools to advance its influence and analyst say that Chinese Government campaign is becoming more regressive. Negative messaging is a new dimension to its Information Operation that were seeing unfold today, and that may become more prominent in its influence campaign in the future as well. Bay yin is adopting russian government tack tucks lerchging automated box and trolls on social media to create a feedback loop of disinformation. And a using american platforms banned in china to do toc officials point to Chinese Government spokesperson tweeting earlier this week that the Trump Administration should investigate when covid19 originated in the u. S. Suggesting that American Government is hiding that information. Officials here say while the approach evolves goal is king the in beijing portray china as a Global Leader while the United States and the west take care of their own citizens or help other countries. At the state department rich edison, fox news. Jon big news in terms of a covid19 treatment wblg the f de says it will allow emergency use of a drug called remdesivir to treat patients. Steve heir is live outside in atlanta with more on that. Steve. Reporter jon a bright spot on friday with fda fast tracking remdesivir to sped recovery and cut time from 15 a down to 11 days and most researchers think it will be used in combination with the series of other drugs. With covid19 infections the virus revs up and creating inflammation so with remdesivir we can hopefully knock virus down earlier. But that inflammation may go on so we want to use a immune modulator to get that inflammation down as well. Reporter meantime more States Reopen their economies 12 now, and 12 more states by the ends of the week, florida has opened several beaches. Texas is opened a number of restaurants with social distancing and other restrictions in place, new jersey has opened its state parks and golf course this despite the fact that that state is has hit its single highest death toll since pandemic gain at so far in many areas where economies have reopened, the levels are still far below free pandemic level when is you look at data like restaurant reservations, sales figures and traffic, still much lower, so while people and many more place dos have the right to leave their homes to open their businesses, many still now too weary to do so. Jon back to you. Steve in atlanta, steve, thank you. Jon new york state the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak here in the United States reporting 299 covid19 deaths on friday. Thats a slight upfrick the previous day. This as state is beginning to see a dip in the number of new cases. Aishah hasnie with more on that. Aishah. Governor cuomo announcing additional measures today to protect those essential workers on the frontlines mta shut down subways for hour it is overnight to disinfect trains every day heres the governor. Im not going to say to essential workers you need to come every day the food workers need to come nurses need to come doctors need to come and by the way i dont know if i can tell you for sure that the trains and buses are clean. Cuomo announcing state will do Antibody Testing for all transit workers so far 15,000 residents have contested 12 testing positive, new york will also district 7 million more masks across the state to vulnerable communities like nursing home it is that governor plan, of course, facing tough criticism for thousands of resident who died in Nursing Homes. Former governor told New York Post cuomo handling of Nursing Homes was of, quote, a disaster is and called for independent investigation. Meantime northeast continues to be the deadliest region for co visited 19 new jersey logging more daily deaths than new york for two straight day this is week. And yet it has less than half of the population of the empire state, and those numbers are now going down, and meantime jon, people struggling to put food on the table, new york is now promising to deliver 25 Million Dollars to food banks across the state. Jon. Jon Aishah Hasnie in new york city, aishah, thank you. Controversy in california, governor gavin newsom there feeling heat over his decision to close the beaches in Orange County after thousands ignored stay at home orders and crowded shore. Christina coleman live from Huntington Beach, california with the least latest on that. Christina. Reporter hi jon even a gorgeous sunny day here at the beach the beach is closed it is empty and there are a lot of people who are not happy about it. Today there was a small group of people protesting here, at the pier and yesterday larger crowd yesterday between 2500 to 3,000 people protested here and Huntington Beach against governor order to shut down Orange County beaches. Many also pushing for an ease on the state stay at home order. Local lawmakers say all a though image show crowded beaches in Orange County last weekend during that heat wave here, many people were still practicing social distancing. And at the beach, with city leaders in orange counties dana point tiled injunction against governor beach closure today city officials in Newport Beach announce theyre going to to support that litigation. Today a City Attorney for Huntington Beach says theyre going to continue to fight the governors order in court he says beach here is a great outlet for people faceing economic stress or get families out of the house in a safe and spacious environment during this tough time. I mean there are a lot of stresses put on families now in Huntington Beach. The beach going to the the beach has been escape for them it has been a relief for them and change of scenery for them. From their daily lives stuck at home so this is put a tremendous amount of stress on our community. Yesterday a judge denied hungtsing ton beaches request for injunction against the governor order. The city are will continue to fight the governors directive at their next scheduled Court Hearing on may 11th. Governor newsom announce that closure of Orange County beaches after learning an estimated 80,000 people showed up to the beaches in the area last weekend. This after weeks of social distancing. We can screw all of that up. We can set all of that back by making bad decisions. We see the images we saw last weekend, and concentration, thousands of people. We can start to see a spread again. And Orange County sheriff says that department will not be enforceing this beach closure by making any arrests. He says instead they will focus on educating people and a voluntary compliance, jon. Jon coming up 40 minutes from now speaking with Daniel Erickson hes the coowner of accelerated urgent care in california. And he says physicians like himself are being censored by social media platforms like youtube because of their opinion it is that coronavirus safety restrictions should be loosened. Well break it all down later this hour. In italy millions will go back to work on monday the first step of phase two of the coronavirus crisis. But the country Prime Minister warns if the curve starts to increase, the lockdown will be reinstated there and in spain for first time in seven weeks outdoor exercise is allowed as restrictions ease. Amy kellogg is in florence italy with more on the pandemic internationally. Reporter jon European Countries are taking different approaches to lifting their lock downs. Italy is going back to work partially on may 4th that is monday and even those businesses that are not in the initial grouping allowed to get back to work are getting. A bit in rome experimenting with plexiglass between tables new reality perhaps for a while. Monday factories are back to work here. Restaurants, only for takeout, and then every two weeks there are clusters of things slated to open back up. Depending on how the curve works big question about how long italy famous beacheseseses will remain empty and gdp and eu internal marshal called for marble a plan for the Tourism Sector clearly will take a beating this yearn spaniards allow to take sporting outings today some of them took to beaches last week the lid lifted on children getting outdoor exercise now adults do it too but there are designated hours for it finally Retail Therapy was in the air at shop and austria opened up today ahead of many of their european neighbors and while france do something of a partial reopening on may 11th they have state emergency to be continued until july 24th. Jon. Jon amy kellogg, amy, thank you. More than a dozen democrat senators are now calling on Trump Administration to provide coronavirus testing to migrant who aring being deported. This in response to a report that the u. S. Deported dozens of foreign nationals who tested positive. The lawmakers say that u. S. Should have treated those individuals before transferring them to make sure they were no longer contagious. Straight ahead how the Democratic National committee is now being pressured to investigate the Sexual Assault allegations against its presumptive president ial nominee joe biden and scandal is dividing the party. 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. Were also offering flexible Payment Options for those whove been financially affected by the crisis. We look forward to returning to something that feels a little closer to life as we knew it, but until then you can see how were here to help at libertymutual. Com covid19. [ piano playing ] jon presumptivetive nominee joe biden from a former staffer assaulted her in 2003 and we have more on that it from new york city. Jackie. Reporter jon, reid is disputing accuracy of a all report by Associated Press that says she never accused joe biden of explicitly sexually harassing or Sexual Assaulting her when she complained to senate personnel. Reid reportedly told the ap she filed a limited report sayings i remember talking about himmenting me to serve drinks because liked me legs thought i was pretty and it made me unkivel. I know that i was too scared to write about Sexual Assault also saying that main word i used and i know i didnt use Sexual Harassment i used uncomfortable pep and i remember retaliation, reid later retweeted that article writing this is false without specifying which part of it shes disputing, ap changed headline adding editor note that the adjustment for clarity to incorporate quote from reid and doesnt have a copy of the alleged report despite keeping her employment records and nobody from biden office said they were aware of one in a bid for transparency relating to claim but did not call for sealed documents held by the university of delaware to be released. He said those contain no personnel records. New york times editorial boird called for unbiased panel to review those sealed records writing mr. Biden served 36 years in senate turned over nearly 2,000 box and more than 400 gigabytes of data to university of of delaware most of it hasnt been cataloged but dnc saying fox news bidens was already vetted as president obamas vp. Tonight biden again denied reids claim. Women have a right to be heard, and the prez should investigate claims like they did and uphold those principle bus in the end in every case the truth is what matters and this case the truth is these claimses are false. Tara reid has not responded to our request for comment. Jon. Jon jackie, in new york city, thank you, jackie. North korea releasing images of its leader kim jongun making a first public appearance in nearly a month after weeks of rumors that the north Korean Leader was gravely ill or maybe even dead. Brian has a look at that story. Reporter fox news cant in definitely verify that clearly posts an end to whole conversation about about whether kim jongun is actually alive that said the video has prompghted plenty of fresh speculation about his health and why exactly he did disappear for nearly three weeks from the public eye. If there was a time to appear, this was it. May 1 at that factory its labor day a hugely important holiday on the north korean political calendar. Kim jongun would normally be at events like that so important for him to be seen there alarm bells went off when he didnt show up for an a yule event two weeks ago. At first glance he looks all right aside from appearing a little stiffly in some places. Observers, though, are honing in on a couple of details that suggest he does have some fresh Health Issues including fact that he was driven around in a golf cart also when hes waving if you blow the video up you can see a mark just below his right wrist. Some doctors have speculated that is from a medical procedure maybe even a puncture a doctor might have made to access his arteries while replacing a stent. All we know for

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