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Brit Hume says media covering coronavirus press briefings ‘missing something’

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Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume appeared Monday on “Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream” where he addressed critics of the president’s daily coronavirus briefings and media coverage.

He said while some in the press corp play it straight, “too many of them are still trying to, you know, play the old game that you do… asking these questions intended to show there’s something that Trump said previously was inconsistent with somebody. So that’s fine for normal times. These are not normal times.”

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“Those briefings that are being held at the White House are really a fountain of information,” Hume said. “Some of it’s provided by Trump himself, although he spends a lot of time bragging and and saying what a great job you’re doing and getting into the tussles with reporters who ask him annoying questions. But even from him there’s real information.”

Hume criticized reporters for not asking questions that would inform their readers, listeners or viewers.

“But what I’m interested in, just as a citizen watching these briefings day after day is what do they tell us about the about the virus, really? Tell us about the pandemic. What do they tell us about how New York is doing and what is its death rates and its hospitalization rates? What is all this stuff telling us?” Hume said. “I think a lot of reporters aren’t asking questions about this stuff and they’re missing something.”

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Hume also commented on the notion that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo should be the Democratic nominee for president.

“He’s been kind of at the top of his game. And it’s not hard to understand why Democrats worried about [Joe] Biden, worried about his age, worrying about his evidence, senility at times,” Hume said. “Wouldn’t [you] look at young Andrew Cuomo and say, man, I wish he were our horse.”

Hume downplayed the “highly unlikely” scenario where Cuomo would garner the nomination.

Rep. McCaul on China’s handling of coronavirus: ‘One of the worst cover-ups in history ‘

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In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Rep. Michael McCaul said some in the U.S. media are helping the Chinese Community Party spread propaganda against the United States, cooperating with the “worst cover-up in history.”

“They’re trying to cover up what really happened. In my opinion, this is one of the worst cover-ups in human history,” the Republican congressman from Texas told “Fox News @ Night” on Tuesday evening.

McCaul said that the epidemic started in the first week in December, then continued into January, prompting the World Health Organization to “pat them on the back for their efforts.”

McCaul went on to say, “Now we have a global pandemic that originated out of Wuhan — they allowed millions of people to come to Wuhan to celebrate their Spring festival. Five million of them leading the area and traveling domestically and abroad – they went into laboratories and shut them down – destroyed laboratory samples and they detained eight of the doctors trying to speak the truth about what really happened in Wuhan.”

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McCaul said that the Chinese Communist Party is conducting a “systematic whitewash” to try to cover up what happened. McCaul said that, as a consequence, “it is now wreaking havoc all across the world, costing not only the lives of people but economic chaos.”

Meantime, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said Tuesday that China must be made to pay – literally – for economic damage to the United States caused by the coronavirus.

Hawley told “Hannity” that the U.S. government had offered to send medical teams and scientists to China in order to aid their recovery and find out exactly what happened in the country.

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“China said no … they have been lying about it and sitting on it for weeks and weeks and weeks and that has cost the world thousands of deaths, it’s cost us here in this country,” Hawley said.

The senator also called for an international investigation that will “hold the Chinese government to account” and fight Beijing’s state-run “propaganda machine” that he said has helped spread rumors implicating the American military in the pandemic.

Fox News’ Charles Creitz contributed to this report.

Devin Nunes: China’s authoritarian regime cannot be trusted

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Rep. Devin Nunes said on Thursday that after the House Intelligence Committee Republican’s long investigation into China, it is clear that they are an authoritarian regime that “cannot be trusted.”

The Republican California lawmaker told “Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream” that the United States needs important information from China to support the global effort to combat the coronavirus outbreak.

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“It would be nice to have good data about how they tested what were the symptoms, what are the different age groups and what were the symptoms that they came up with; what were the best treatments? These are all things you’re are not seeing,” Nunes said.

Nunes continued, “What you are seeing, as Secretary Pompeo said, is you’re seeing them blame the U.S. Army.”

Nunes said that China’s handling of the outbreak is “unacceptable” and claimed that the coronavirus originated there.

“They covered it up and they have caused a worldwide panic.”

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Nunes’ comments came after Chinese threats to disrupt the supply of pharmaceutical products the communist nation exports to the United States. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and Rep Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., introduced a bill Wednesday to cut U.S. reliance on pharmaceutical products coming from China.

“The Chinese Communist Party threatened to cut off America’s access to vital drugs in the midst of a pandemic caused by its own failures,” Cotton said in a statement announcing the bill. “It’s time to pull America’s supply chains for life-saving medicine out of China and make the CCP pay for contributing to this global emergency.”

A release announcing the bill says it would task an FDA registry with tracking drug ingredients, ban the federal government from buying drugs with a supply chain that originates in China, require drugs to be labeled with the name of the country where they came from and provide benefits to manufacturers who make their drugs or medical equipment in the U.S. The bill would go into effect in 2022.

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Nunes predicted that many countries will want to break the supply chain that has been centered in China.

“We’re not going to want to have to rely on China for anything that is paramount for the survival of our people or to our economy.”

Nunes said that the reorientation of the supply chain from China to the U.S. has already started with Trump’s trade sanctions and tariffs against them.

Fox News’ Tyler Olson contributed to this report.

Tulsi Gabbard blasts ‘hypocrisy’ of DNC and their media partners for not letting her debate

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There’s a lot of “hypocrisy” within the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and from media partners hosting the presidential debates when it comes to giving female politicians a fair shot, 2020 presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said Monday night.

In an interview on “Fox News @ Night” with host Shannon Bream, Gabbard, D-Hawaii, said that “American voters have a right” to ask questions about the DNC and their partners’ methods when making the rules for the debates

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Gabbard – the last remaining woman in the Democrats’ presidential race – has been shut out of the party’s next debate with a rule change that makes it mathematically impossible for her to claim a spot.

Under the party’s most recent set of debate rules, any candidate who had won at least one delegate in the party’s first 25 nomination contests had the right to take the stage.

Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) waves to the crowd at the She The People Presidential Forum at Texas Southern University on April 24, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Sergio Flores/Getty Images)

Gabbard gained two delegates in American Samoa’s caucuses on Super Tuesday.

But on Friday, the DNC announced new criteria requiring candidates to hold at least 20 percent of all awarded delegates by the time of the next scheduled debate in Phoenix, Ariz. on March 15.

“You hear a lot of talk. We just celebrated International Women’s Day and the progress that women are making around the world,” Gabbard remarked. “But when it comes to actually making sure that – in this presidential primary – that the only woman candidate left in the race, the only woman of color, and the first female combat veteran ever to run for the presidency has a voice, the DNC and their corporate media partners say, ‘No thanks. Actually, that’s not what we want the American people hear.'”

Gabbard told Bream that the DNC’s inconsistent rule-changing is a “greater disservice” to voters who will “not have the opportunity to make that best-informed decision about who our next commander-in-chief should be.”

“Because, we’re not seeing these other candidates bringing to the forefront the issues that I am about the need to bring this — sea change in our foreign policy, to stop waging these wasteful regime change wars toppling dictators in other countries, the new Cold War nuclear arms race, all of which are not making us any safer,” she told Bream. “And, instead, redirect our taxpayer dollars towards really serving the very urgent pressing needs that the American people here at home all across the country are very concerned about. Things like the coronavirus, for example.”

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Does Gabbard believe that either Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden are equipped to have discussions on the issues she cares about?

“They’re not,” she stated.

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick slams Biden for aligning with ‘goofball,’ ‘lightweight’ Beto on gun control

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ripped former Vice President Joe Biden early Wednesday after he implied that former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke would lead Biden’s gun control effort if he is elected president.

Patrick tacitly alluded to O’Rourke’s notorious “hell yeah” promise during a Democratic presidential debate that he would seize AR-15s and other weaponry from otherwise law-abiding gun owners.

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“He [Beto] said he was coming to take our AR-15s,” Patrick told Shannon Bream. “I have one, I want to invite him to my house first and see how that goes.”

During a rally in Texas Monday night, Biden invited O’Rourke on stage and claimed it wouldn’t be the last time the public sees him.

“You’re going to take care of the gun problem with me,” he told the former U.S. representative. “You’re going to be the one who leads this effort, I’m counting on you. We need you badly,”

“Joe Biden says a lot of dopey things, you have a whole list of them and play them a lot,” Patrick told Bream. “The dumbest thing he has said is he’s going to put Beto O’Rourke in charge of getting our guns. I’m telling you, that just added two or three points to President Trump’s victory in November if it’s the ‘Biden and Beto Show’.”

Patrick predicted O’Rourke will become the “anchor” around Biden’s neck if the former vice president closely associates himself with the controversial former Senate candidate.

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The lieutenant governor added that while O’Rourke is now essentially a Biden surrogate, Patrick himself is a Trump campaign surrogate and chairman of his Texas campaign.

“What I say reflects not just on me in Texas but on the president — the president has good surrogates,” he said. “You have to be on air all the time.”

“When Biden surrounds himself with people like Beto O’Rourke, he’s taken on a real goofball, a guy who’s a real lightweight and he proved it in this race.”

Tom Steyer: The critics are right, President Trump won Democrats’ Nevada debate

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Following the latest presidential debate in Las Vegas, billionaire 2020 Democratic hopeful Tom Steyer on Friday acknowledged that the Democrats did not perform well, leading to a political victory for President Trump.

“I think the people that are saying that Donald Trump won the debate are telling the truth,” Steyer told “Fox News @ Night” late Thursday. “I think that the Democrats on stage were so busy attacking each other that they forgot that the actual job is to tell the American people how we’re gonna do a better job for them than Donald Trump can do.”

Trump continued his four-state trip out west Thursday evening with a wild rally in Colorado Springs, Colo., as he openly celebrated Democrats’ intraparty squabbling at the Las Vegas presidential primary debate.

In the wide-ranging event that resembled a casual conversation at points, Trump also assessed that “Mini Mike” Bloomberg “didn’t do well last night” and declared Amy Klobuchar’s presidential campaign dead because she dejectedly asked former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg at the debate if he was calling her “dumb.”

Trump again called Buttigieg “Alfred E. Neuman,” after the scrawny fictional character, and advised Klobuchar, “You don’t say that, even if it’s true!”

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) president Dana White took the stage briefly at the outset of the rally, saying he wasn’t a “very political person” before adding that he’s known Trump for more than 20 years — and that Trump has remained a “loyal” and “good friend” even after becoming president.

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Steyer claimed he is the right person to unite the Democratic Party and build a coalition of minorities, including Asians, African-Americans and Hispanics.

“I think we’re going to come together around somebody. I think that somebody is going to be me. And I think this party is going to come together and pull together the coalition. That’s the biggest coalition in America and show in November and beat Mr. Trump handily.”

Steyer failed to generate much momentum after the Democrats’ early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, but he’s poised for better results in Nevada and South Carolina, and he credits that to more than just money.

Steyer has pumped over $200 million into his campaign, but he has also been on the ground in those states. According to a RealClearPolitics average, Steyer has been polling fourth in Nevada and third in South Carolina, both ahead of Buttigieg. Steyer said he wanted to finish in at least second place in those states.

Rudy Giuliani rips Bidens and media: ‘They are lying and lying and lying and the corrupt media just repeat it’

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The president’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani responded to those upset following Attorney General William Barr announcing that the Justice Department will review information about Ukraine from the former mayor of New York City, saying he is not receiving special treatment.

“Not only am I not I’m not getting special treatment. I’ve been getting terrible treatment,” Giuliani sad Wednesday on “Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream.” “This should have been investigated three years ago. If President Trump had gone on the stage and said, ‘I pressured the president of another country to dismiss a prosecutor,’ there’d be an investigation the next day.”

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“In fact, they tried to say President Trump said something like that about two months ago,” Giuliani quipped.

Giuliani told Bream he revealed “facts” regarding the allegation that the former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter committed multiple crimes in Ukraine, China and Iraq 10 months ago but that “nobody paid attention.

“They are lying and lying and lying,” a frustrated Giuliani told Bream. “And the corrupt media just repeat it.”

Barr confirmed Monday that the DOJ is reviewing the information through an “intake process” to gauge its credibility.

“The Justice Department has the obligation to have an open door to anybody who wishes to provide us information that they think is relevant,” Barr told reporters. “But as I did say to Senator [Lindsey] Graham … we have to be very careful …with respect to any information coming from the Ukraine.”

Giuliani told Bream he had a “smoking gun,” which on “Watters’ World” Saturday host Jesse Watters summarized as “a ’roundabout’ — an international wire to avoid detection disguised as a loan.”

Bream pressed Giuliani on the claims put forth with the former mayor telling the host to listen to his podcast.

“Look, Biden is so guilty. It is so obvious this was a bribe,” Giuliani said. “You have to be a fool not to see it.”

House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., sent a letter to Barr seeking answers to the “channel” set up to vet Giuliani’s information, which CBS News reports is the U.S. Attorney’s office in Pittsburgh.

“Whether or not you are in league with Giuliani and his associates, DOJ guidelines and regulations exits to protect you and the Department from even the appearance of a conflict of interest or any impropriety,” Nadler wrote.

Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Ted Cruz: Dems need Senate impeachment witnesses because they failed to prove their case

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After key swing-vote Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., came out against additional witnesses ahead of the impeachment trial vote, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Friday said that now the possibility of additional witnesses has “plummeted” and President Trump will soon be acquitted.

“Democrats are gonna vote for additional witnesses. And then the reason they are is that the House managers, I think, haven’t proven their case. And so what they want to do is just keep it open as long as possible,” Cruz told, “Fox News at Night,” predicting what would come after Alexander’s announcement.

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“They want to engage in a fishing expedition and just keep extending it,” Cruz said.

Alexander announced late Thursday night that he would not support additional witnesses in Trump’s “shallow, hurried and wholly partisan” Senate impeachment trial, seemingly ending Democrats’ hopes of hearing testimony from former National Security Adviser John Bolton and paving the way for the president’s imminent acquittal as soon as Friday night.

“If this shallow, hurried and wholly partisan impeachment were to succeed, it would rip the country apart, pouring gasoline on the fire of cultural divisions that already exist,” Alexander said. “It would create the weapon of perpetual impeachment to be used against future presidents whenever the House of Representatives is of a different political party.”

Republicans have a 53-47 majority in the chamber and can afford up to three defections when the Senate considers whether to call additional witnesses Friday — a question that is considered by a simple majority vote.

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Cruz said that there has been more than enough testimony and the House managers have not proven their case.

“The simple fact that resolves this case is that a president has the authority and in fact, the responsibility, to investigate credible allegations of corruption,” Cruz said.

“The Senate’s going to follow the law, we’ve given both sides a fair trial, the House didn’t have a fair proceeding, it had a one-sided partisan proceeding, we let both sides present their case, we’re going to apply the law. I think by the end of the weekend, the president is going to be acquitted,” he added.

Fox News’ Gregg Re contributed to this report.

Trump: ‘I have great confidence’ some Democrats will vote to acquit in impeachment trial

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President Trump told Fox News on Thursday night he has “great confidence” that some Senate Democrats will vote to acquit him of high crimes and misdemeanors following the conclusion of the impeachment trial, in an interview set to air in full on “Fox News @ Night.”

“I got to watch a little bit,” Trump told Fox News’ Peter Doocy in Des Moines, Iowa, where he held a campaign rally Thursday. “It’s very boring. I call it the impeachment hoax, and that’s what it is, it’s a hoax.

“It should have never taken place, should have never been allowed to happen, but I have great confidence in Republican senators and probably some Democrats, from what I understand, Peter.”

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Politico reported earlier this week that Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Doug Jones, D-Ala., were weighing whether to vote to acquit the president on at least one of the two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Trump spoke to Fox News as the question-and-answer portion of the trial drew to a close Thursday evening, potentially teeing up a closely watched vote sometime Friday on whether to call additional witnesses and seek additional documents. If that bid by Democrats were to fail, the Senate could vote to dismiss or hold final votes on the verdicts for both articles later that night.

Fox News’ Peter Doocy and Chad Pergram contributed to this report.

Shannon Bream signs new deal to remain at Fox News: ‘I am ecstatic’

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Shannon Bream has signed a new, multi-year deal to remain at Fox News, the network announced on Thursday.

The “FOX News @ Night” host will continue in her role as the network’s chief legal correspondent in addition to anchoring the highly successful 11 p.m. ET program.

“Throughout her tenure, Shannon has cultivated a relationship with the FOX News audience that is both informative and insightful. Her extensive knowledge of Washington politics and the intricacies of the Supreme Court have led to the ongoing success of ‘FOX News @ Night’ and we are looking forward to further utilizing her expertise throughout 2020 and beyond,” Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and President Jay Wallace said in a joint statement.

Shannon Bream signed a new multi-year deal to remain at Fox News Channel.

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Since joining Fox News in 2007, the Washington, D.C.-based Bream has covered every election and major Supreme Court story, including the battle over the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. As Fox News’ chief legal correspondent, she leads all news breaking out of the Supreme Court across all of Fox News platforms

Last year, Bream anchored a one-hour special entitled “Neil Gorsuch: Justice for the Republic,” which featured Justice Gorsuch’s first TV interview since being appointed to the high court.

In addition, Bream has landed news-making interviews with President Donald Trump, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

“After nearly 13 years at the network, I still feel lucky to walk through the doors at Fox News Channel and deliver the news to our viewers,” Bream said. “From breaking down the latest headlines on ‘FOX News @ Night’ to explaining the complexities of the law, I have had the opportunity to report from the front lines of the major stories emanating out of Washington.

“I am ecstatic to continue doing what I love and look forward to an exciting year ahead.”

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In addition to her other duties, Bream also hosts the Fox News Podcast, “Livin’ the Bream,” and recently authored “Finding the Bright Side, The Art of Chasing What Matters.”

Bream’s “FOX News @ Night” finished December as a Top 10 cable news program in the key demographic of adults age 25-54, according to Nielsen Media Research.