carley: that was the absolute highlight of the night dr. elvis francois singing and dr. robert williamson playing the fee an know. rob: love that carley. thank you so much. "fox & friends" starts right now. ainsley: the white house extends social distancing guidelines through the end of april. trying to slow the spread of the coronavirus as governors set new restrictions on out-of-state travelers. brian: all right. five states are now forcing anyone coming from new york, new jersey, and connected cut to quarantine for two weeks. out west in los angeles, good new york city the usns mercy hospital ship is treating its first patients. steve: meanwhile, across the other side of the country's the usnf comfort ins comfort is supk

today. over 2500 americans have died. it is 6:00 in new york city. good morning, everybody. today is what was going to be the 15th day of 15 days to flatten the curve or slow the spread. yesterday the president said, you know what? this thing is supposed to peak in two weeks when i was hoping we could open things up around easter, can't do that. so, anxiously, looks like we are going to be sequestered for another month. ainsley: yeah. he says he wants everyone to stay at home as much as possible and stay safe and that way hopefully we can wipe this out in the next coming weeks, coming months. president trump has agreed to come on our show. he will be with us at 8:00 a.m. this morning. is he calling into the show. social distancing will be calling from d.c. if you want to send in questions friends@foxnews.com. we also have dr. nicole saphier coming on the show. dr. mehmet oz doctor marc siegel. we have florida's governor ron

desantis and former speaker of the house newt gingrich, brian. brian: yeah. it's going to be great. soon we will convince the president it's great to have him. maybe use his iphone which we know he has. maybe he could join us via skype or face time. i'm willing to pay the bill. great to have him. no one can say he is not accessible through all of this. i wanted easter as aspirational goal. now april 30th. if something happenings in between go from there no. dark secret happening behind the scenes. he literally sat there for 90 minutes yesterday taking all questions. half of the press asking the quells were looking to play gotcha. the other half actually wanted information. meanwhile, an urgent warning for the white house experts. the u.s. right now could see more than 1 million covid cases and possibly 100,000 deaths as cases in new york near 60,000. may be a silver lining in the

pandemic epidemic. todd piro is live as emerging hot spots call for help. todd? todd: dr. anthony fauci making clear it's not a certainty we are going to hit the numbers brian mentioned but cautioned it could happen. >> i think it's entirely conceivable that if we do not mitigate to the extent that we are trying to do that you could reach that number. you could make a big sound bite about it but the fact is it's possible. todd: and with peak death toll expected in about 20 weeks trying to keep up. michigan governor saying her state could be in dire straight? couple of days. louisiana rivalling that of new york city. and with florida calling for tighter restriction us. the cdc clarifying travel warning for the tristate area. new jersey, new york and

connecticut. restrain nonessential travel for 14 days effective immediately. but there is a glimmer of hope with the rate of new cases across new york state dropping steadily since the state at home order on march 22nd here. the white house asking all governors and mayors to follow new york's lead in how it prepared for the large rise in cases. positive take away, guys, in the country's epicenter with close to 60,000 cases and close to 1,000 deaths at last count. back to you. steve: that's right. brian: todd, thanks so much. steve: on this monday, march 30th, this really ainsley and brian, is a make or break week because coming up on wednesday, it's april 1st. and the rent is due for a lot of people. and so, a lot of companies are going to have to decide, you know, who are they going to keep on the payroll. who are they going to have to let go. can they call their landlord? are they going to be able to get an extension on the rent? you know, it sounded like we would only be 15 days.

two weeks. but now another month, ainsley on top of this. ainsley: yeah. you are right. hopefully landlords will be verd so folks can get the checks. the checks are coming in the mail. steve mnuchin was on the sunday show yesterday saying expect three weeks. took a lot of questions from reporters. he is explaining why he decided to change 15 days today. then it was easter. then now he is expanding it until the end of the month. he said nothing would be worse than to declare a victory before a victory is won. this is why he is extending the deadline. >> the highest point of death rates. remember this: is likely to hit in two weeks. therefore, we will be extending our guidelines to april 30th. to slow the spread. we can expect that by june 1st we will be well on our way to recovery we think by june 1st

a lot of great things will be happening. i want every citizen in our country to take heart and confidence in the facts that we have the best medical minds in the world tackling this disease. we have the best science, the best researchers and the best talent. brian: and there is more signs, too, that things are on the way to getting better. what is happening out in seattle they were hit first we know and it got really bad quick. we know that getting better. showing the signs of slowing down and things we have been doing for the last few weeks are beginning to pay of o. in new york they think it's going to peak in a week right here in new york city. after that will be the first to get better. even though people don't want us in rhode island and don't want us in texas and new yorkers and they don't want us in florida. i get that keep in mind, the governor here working with our experts is working on an immunity test. he says when we get these rapid test that will tell us in 15 minutes. they can see a scenario in which we have the immunity test.

we get to go to work. and then we come back and certain amount of people will have certificates. in germany, they are handing out immunity certificates hey, he or she had it already and now they are okay. there seems to be a glimmer of a pathway back to life as normal, steve. steve: yeah. i think you are right, brian. i think, you know, we had heard from the administration they were going to decide today about how they were going to proceed with reopening the government. clearly the evidence right now shows that, you know, as to your point, it's going to be bad over the next week in the new york city area. but then it's going to get bad in places like detroit and new orleans, in the coming weeks. so you can't open parts awful though they were talking, ainsley, a little bit about the way to manage this would be to the people in the high risk groups. people over 65. people who have medical conditions. isolate those people.

i mean, when i go for a walk around my neighborhood. i can see the people in their house us. and they will occasionally wave and i will wave back. they are over 65. they know that's the safest way to keep safe. the other thing they are thinking about doing doing little experiments, they were, thinking about doing little experiments okay in clay county, kansas. there are zero cases of covid. could we do an experiment to see if we could slowly open things up. they had been talking about something like that. but right now it looks as if all bets are off right now as we wait for the end of this coming month. and then they will reassess again, ainsley. ainsley: there is some good news this morning. humana and cigna. a lot of you out there have these insurance companies. they will wave the co-pays, the co-insurance and deductibles for coronavirus treatments because a lot of people are going to the hospital thinking they have coronavirus and that's costing them i don't know whatever your deductible would be in some cases it would be $1,500 if not more. they are waiving that if you are

going there because of coronavirus. you mentioned the test, brian. abbott labs has developed new test kit it delivers results if you are positive in 5 minutes if negative 15 minutes. the fda approved it and four weeks normally that takes ten months or longer to approve it. brian: meanwhile, new york, the coronavirus epicenter approaching a grim milestone as nearly 1,000. ainsley: jump by more than 7,000 in one day. the total more than 59,000 cases, steve. steve: how are these quick surges affecting hospitals? joining us now on the phone is the vice president of medical operations for staten island university hospital in the new york city area. dr. theodore strange. doctor, good morning to you. i understand you are at bed

capacity right now at your facility. tell us the state of where we are on this monday morning. >> yeah. good morning to everybody and thank you for getting the story out there. this morning, we have seen the surge in staten island this week. staten island hospital is close to bed capacity. however, we are finding new areas to bring patients to. we are taking nontraditional areas and patients on staten island with having ventilators in place. appropriate ppe in place. and attempting and continuing to get the great heroic staff that's coming in. my colleagues who are doing the yeomen's work out there so although maybe at capacity right now. by the end of the day we will continue to take care of all the staten island that needs to be taken care of. ainsley: doctor, what about -- go ahead, brian.

okay, the comfort ship s. a is n new york today. 1,000 beds. this is for staff that don't have the coronavirus so we can open up more beds in hospitals like yours. what needs to be done? if you have a message for the president, we will be talking to him this morning at 8:00. what would you like to say to him? >> again, we are happy to have the extra hands and the extra beds. again, our goal right now is for staten islanders to take care of staten islanders. i know there is also a plan out here for 1,000 extra beds on staten island. i know that our leadership with dr. adolick and leader of the healthcare system in charge of the state has been involved with the governor and federal people to attempt to see how to decompress this and when we need to do it. currently our goal here in staten island is to continue to handle the patients we need to handle here between the two hospital systems on staten

island and work within our network which is what we are doing. again, we need to look at bed capacity the best way we can. brian: i was watching the governor yesterday. he said, look, this -- the number was doubling every three days, every four days, now it's every six days. he is beginning to seeing a lessening of the numbers of people but the number of people are still going up. do you feel as though staten island is close to capacity and in turn will this ship and some of these other places alleviate some of that and do you have the medical personnel you just don't have the beds? >> again, as i just said hospitals here. i'm sure doing the same thing. we have been able to shift our personnel currently to meet the needs of the community and we will continue to do that. again, i obviously think if the rise continues at the rate it

is, we will need help and support at some point in time. but, again, the government, our local healthcare system has been very forthcoming with respirators, ventilators and appropriate personnel and protective equipment. but, again, i agree that i think staten island being unique as one of our burrows in the city may need some help, i know some of our other burrows and hospitals like queens has been hit hard also. need to look at this locally within the region. comfort and some of here to other places like javits and college of staten island help us to help the people we need to be able to do. at this point as i say our leadership under dolick and and michael d do ddoing. can i tell you in our emergency room we only have. [broken audio]

get them beds today. steve: that's fantastic. doctor, before you go, of the people who come in walking the er and they say i think i have coronavirus and they may, how many of them do you send home because the symptoms are such where they are not having trouble breathing and not having tress pains and you feel they can recover in the confines of their own house? >> sure. so, you know, just to give you data. currently right now in house we probably have close to 100, maybe a little over 100 patients with the coronavirus in house because of their symptoms. every day we are discharging probably 2 or 3 people, maybe more for every one that we have admitted. you know, there is currently over 200 cases in house on staten island. we probably have had, at staten island university hospital we probably had 300 in staten island over 2,000 cases give you the relative number there we have admitted all 2,000 cases.

those are the patients that we know. those sheltering in place that have symptoms -- i'm a primary care physician also, i know patients at home who haven't been tested clearly have the virus. we don't even know that number. just to give you 2,000 cases positive we know. 200 cases in the hospital. ainsley: dr. strange, thank you so much for being with us and what you are doing there on the front lines. >> thank you for getting the word and message out there. everybody, please shelter in place, quarantine, it's the most important thing we can do right now. we will get testing to you. ainsley: may god bless you and everyone you work with. >> thank you. ainsley: hand it over to jillian for more headlines. jillian: stole this story out of arizona where a police commander is dead. phoenix police commander greg was killed when a suspect opened fire during a domestic violence call. he was the father of four. a 31-year veteran of the department and just months away from retirement. the two other officers are expected to recover.

the suspect was shot hour's later. the suspect's conditions is unknown. a man seriously hurt in a hanukkah machete attack dies three months later. joseph newman one of three people injured at the party last december. the suspect grafton thomas is facing expected murder and rate crime charges. he has pleaded not guilty. did you see this? this is really wonderful, music legends joining forces joining from inside their homes for a concert to benefit coronavirus charities on fox. alicia keyes kicks off the fox and i heart. performance of underdog. back street boys performing i want it that way in their own homes. mariah carey her hit always be my baby ♪ ♪ oh, darling, because you'll always be my baby. ♪

jillian: dave dedicating acoustic performance of my hero to everyone working on the front line to fight covid-19. the concert racing more than a million dollars for meeting america and first responders children's foundation. i'm sure you guys watched it. it was so beautiful to see. it was really cool. ainsley: it was. brian: it was good to see some live programming that was non-disease and number related. it was all for and benefit of and see so much talent on the sidelines right now. for me, the back street boys pulled off the impossible -- they are men by the way. they are no longer boys. they refuse to change their name more on that later. way to so*eufrpbg u soyinka syn. try again try again try again. i have a sense whatever they raised they will get more today. jillian: i'm sure. steve: that's great.

maybe so many people were on line trying to get whole foods to deliver at 3:00 this afternoon. you never know. all right. meanwhile, 6:17 in new york city on this monday, march 30th. is there a cure for coronavirus? this morning, there is no new hope. people moved off ventilators and out of the icu after taking a drug normally used to treat hiv and breast cancer. the new finding coming up next. ♪ ♪ [ "one more time" by daft punk ]

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drug typically used to treat hiv and breast cancer. what about other drugs being used. hackensack meridian health dr. bor bordis kind enough to jn us. what could you tell us about laron. >> i don't know the drug personally study we're seeing like several drugs we are trying to use right now in covid-19. it works predominantly toning down immune response so the lung doesn't get injured. i will tell you, anything that might work it's nice to get out there it's united states to use it in emergency situations. use it for compassionate use. even better to get it out in clinical trial. brian: right.

so you don't have much information on that. you just heard about that. you haven't used it directly? >> that's correct. brian: okay. what could you tell us you've used and what could you tell us you have seen. >> okay. there is probably three big buckets of clinical innovation you are looking at. the first is kind of you who do you optimize the standard care. one of the things we are seeing in people who have to get ventilated because of covid-19 this use of prone ventilation. actually lay the patient on their belly while they are ventilated. lets the hungs expand so you can get more oxygen down in the lungs. that's been a big asset in trying to get these folks through their lung injury. second thing are clinical trials. we are doing clinical trials right now with antiviral drugs. the most common one is ren desivir. using that for both moderate and

severe patients. we have enrolled patients in both of those trials. looking at other antiviral drugs as well. brian: can i just stop threw? how is that drug doing? remedies sir, how is it doing? >> hard to say. folks who have gone home and folks still intubated and in the icu. brian: last drug you wanted to bring up. >> i said the other pieces we are using hydroxychloroquine as an off label use use it for intubated patients and nursing home patients. that's a group you don't want to get sick. don't want to it to spread because they're so vulnerable. and the other trial we are looking at right now that we hope to get launched later this week we have actually had it fast-tracked up until now is actually using hydroxychloroquine for what we

call prove lax sis or prevention for front line caregivers. brian: wow, so maybe you will give it to them you got it okayed. if the nurses coming in every day the nurses, the doctors, give it to them to make it harder for them to get it, lastly, just to go back a second, how does -- how is chloroquine doing? what have you seen? >> so, you know, it's really hard to say. we have had people been on it done well and gone home. we have a lot of folks who are, you know, still in the critical care kwr-pbts. we have right now across our hospitals 1400 patients. we have over 300 in the icu and over 300 on ventilators. we have been able to excavate 9 patients to date which is great. we are really excited about that that also means we have still got over 300 still on ventilators. probably using hydroxychloroquine recipe in some way shape or form in about

three quarters of our patients right now. brian: wow. we have got to have you back when you have more of a study, more of a sense of the study because people are looking for hope there and have you got to provide that or not. mix drugs omix drugs or push th. dr. vargas, thank you so much. >> my pleasure. thanks for having us. brian: hang in there we are pulling for you. we need farmers now more than ever to feed us. this morning, concern about the spread of coronavirus among america's agriculture industry. we are going to talk to a fourth generation farmer. they are next.

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♪ steve: america's agriculture industry under pressure to keep the nation's shelves stocked at our grocery stores. the fda assuring there is no disruption in the supply chain but some farmers are now voicing concern because these essential workers can't work from home, some are worried the coronavirus could spread within the industry. so, how are they adapting? joining us right now is a fourth generation rice farmer and founder of farm star living mary blackman. mary, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. thanks for having me. steve: you bet. you know. >>and mary, right --there is ane

delay. you are absolutely right. we have never seen farmers as essential as they are right now. when we are at home, one of the things that keeps us calm is the fact that we know we can go to the grocery store. supply the supply chain people more important now than ever. >> absolutely true and reminds me of world war ii. a farming friend's father was actually given furlough from the army to return home to farm because the government considered it that essential i feel we are in that time again. farm something essential. as you were saying when you go to grocery store food missing from the shelves i think people realize how farmers are critical to the health of our country. as farming colleagues from seattle said to me, we are

working so hard tirelessly to feed the need and provide nutrition to keep our country healthy. steve: and one of the things i know as a former future farmer president for clay county, kansas, i know farmers are pretty isolated when it's one person on a tractor plowing around for 8 hours. you know, it's hard to contract the coronavirus from anybody else until did you go home to your house. i do understand that apparently a number of the ag producers, for instance out on the west coast, mary are taking precautions when the people go to gather and harvest the fruit, there is a requirement now they have got sanitation stations. have you got to wash your hands before and after. >> absolutely. and, you know, farm workers are critical to the process. without farm workers we can't harvest the crops and brings them in to the supply chain.

so, we desperately need those farm workers and farm workers are people, too. we need to take care of our farm workers working very diligently to make sure that they are safe. that they are making the adjustment necessary to fight the corona and still be able to work their job and do it safely as possible. and this is from all aspects of farming, not just the farm workers but into the packaging plants, processing plants and to all operations. steve: well, our hats off to all of you. the cdc does say that the chances of getting coronavirus from food or the packaging very, very low. and that's what we need to know as we, you know, we're going to have another month, mary. we are all, you know, all isolating back at home. mary, thank you very much for joining us today down in the atlanta area. >> thank you for having me, appreciate it, steve. steve: you bet. all right. 90 minutes from right now,

president trump is going to join us live and answer your questions about coronavirus. so, email them to us at friends@foxnews.com. we also are on facebook. and your questions keep pouring in about covid-19 like can you catch it through your heating system? dr. nicole saphier is here with answers coming up. relief is on the way. when will you and your family get those checks from the government? we are live in d.c. coming up next. co sure. okay... okay! safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!! that's safe drivers save 40%. it is, that's safe drivers save 40%. - he's right there. - it's him! he's here. he's right here. - hi! - hi. hey! - that's totally him. - it's him! that's totally the guy. safe drivers do save 40%. click or call for a quote today.

ainsley: americans can expect checks in the next few weeks as the pandemic causes millions to lose their jobs. brian: well, i hope so. there could soon be a phase four coronavirus response bill to stimulate the economy, we hear. steve: griff jenkins is live in washington, d.c. with prediction from the treasury secretary. good morning to you,. griff: griff good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. the press secretary is expressing confidence in the recovery mnuchin doesn't know how badly the economy will be impacted by the virus but says we will beat it. >> we are gonna kill this virus. we are gonna reopen this economy. and this the third quarter of this year you are gonna see this economy bounce back with very large g.d.p. numbers and low unemployment back to where we were beforehand. griff: he expects those

americans eligible for the $1,200 check to begin seeing those funds directly deposited into their accounts within three weeks if they have previously filed with the irs electronically. and if they haven't, they can go to a web-based system to sign up to get the money faster than the traditional check in the mail. and mnuchin advised small businesses to go back and hire your workers. because they have been given a forgivable loan that the government will pay back. meanwhile there is talk, brian, already of phase 4 and other stimulus package. speaker pelosi saying quote there are other things we want to do that weren't in the last bill and schumer predicting odds are high there will be another one necessary but there is a bipartisan agreement on that here in washington. minority leader mccarthy says not so fast. >> i'm not sure we need a fourth package. bbefore we go to started draftig fourth package i would like for three packages we put out. more than $2 trillion. the largest we have ever seen to take care and get this economy moving.

griff: as far as the administration's strategy to reopen the economy in the president's extension of cdc guidelines unclear at this point but maybe you can ask him coming up at 8:00, guys? ainsley: we will do that thanks so much, griff. let's bring in dr. nicole saphier, she is with our fox news medical a team. she is a contributor to us. good morning to you dr. saphier. >> good morning, ainsley. you. ainsley: i'm sure you watched the president yesterday in the rose garden. is he extending this pause until the end of the month. dr. fauci weighed in on that. listen to this and we will get your reaction. >> the virus going up and mitigation trying to push it down. the decision to prolong -- not prolong but to extend this mitigation process until the end of april, i think, was a wise and prudent decision. steve: dr. saphier, do you agree with him? >> one of the things that i took home from that conference last night was that dr. fauci said

repeatedly that the mitigation efforts are working. that is what we needed to hear. we need to know all of this social distancing staying home and everything that we are seeing happening in our community that it's actually doing something. and he is right. it is doing something good. we continue to see our rate of hospitalizations eloning. meaning we are having fewer a day that have to be hospitalized. we have ramped up our testing and unfortunately i know this is a big hit to a lot of people. looking forward to easter deadline. i do think eloning it is what we are going to have to do. i also think in the same breath that president trump has said multiple times that we're going to be looking at this by not just a state-by-state basis but a municipality by municipality basis. is he going to continue to do what he believes is right for the country. we have to know by pro longing that day to april 30th. we need to stop looking at a date that may give false hope and going to do this as long as it takes to keep us healthy and alive.

and that he is going to get things open as soon as he possibly can. brian: well, i mean, one of the things that comes to mind is what governor cuomo talked about yesterday. immunity test. we can get these immunity tests along with a rapid negative or positive test. you might be able to walk into a workplace, do what they do when you go to give blood. take your temperature even if you work there, going in and going out. along with what germany is doing the immunity certificates. that might be the way forward. don't you think? >> well, you know, brian, i hesitate before i put a lot of confidence in that we actually haven't proven that once you have the infection and you produce antibodies to it that you are ever not able to be reinfected by the virus. it's a going theory and good theory. if you have antibodies circulating then you think you would be able to potentially fight off the next infection, however it, doesn't mean that you won't be contagious if you are to be reinfected again. i pause for caution.

i think it's a good idea and continue to look at it a little bit more. i do think the goal right now is to get people working and these rapid tests being improved they will get us back to work and proper people isolated instead of the large e. swath of the population. steve: dr. saphier, before the concern became we don't have enough ventilators, the concern was we don't have enough masks and the surgeon general came out and said you don't need to wear a mask unless you got it. we need to keep them for our healthcare providers. the fda has on a temporary limited basis approved the battle mask tearizing technology to clean n-95. apparently they can clean 80,000 respirator masks a day. if that works and this becomes something that spreads across the country that can help us with the mask problem. >> well, sure. the company referring to

battelle has just gotten emergency clearance as well through the fda to sanitize more than 80,000 mask as day. they said they can do anywhere from 1 to 400,000. vaporized hydrogen peroxide. getting more n-95s out to front line workers reusing them without being sterilized putting them and other people at risk. this sex extremely exciting news. they say they can do this up to 20 times. ainsley: dr. saphier, let's take some emails from folks at home who are watching from. cal, if one or two people get the virus in the high rise, county heating airconditioning system circulating air throughout the building spread the virus? >> this is a question that has made headlines recently because a small study out of singapore actually snowed there was remnants of virus into the some of the air ducts of the hospital system treating covid-19 patients. the truth is it is still likely

this is respiratory drop let spread instead of aerosolized spread. someone who has it coming from breathing or cough or sneezing. like in airplanes we have hepa filters and most of the high rise apartments the ac units do have a lot of filters going to filter out the virus. you know, is it possible that there is going to be some viable virus in there? maybe. i think it's extremely unlikely. brian: all right. let's go to this email from lee. i have heard that some drugs like aspirin may be lethal if the person taking them gets covid-19. is this true? we have heard that advil and other stuff. what do you think? >> right. so there is conflicting reports. i remind you this is all antidotal evidence when it comes to taking motrin, ibuprofen and other anti-inflammatories

exacerbating the chemical release inside of your body causing some of the severe systems in covid. it's conflicting, it's gone back and forth. i would tend to say that you want to stick to maybe tylenol asiacetaminophen and on the sidf caution steroidals. please do not stop taking baby aspirin before you change any of your medication regimen. steve: always good advice to talk to you, doctor. you are our doctor. dr. nicole saphier, thank you for joining us live. ainsley: thank you. steve: all right. it is 14 minutes now before the top of the hour. and jillian joins us. she is back in the studio. and she is starting with the weather. jillian: that's right. good morning to the three of you and to you at home as well. powerful weekend storms slam the south. homes and businesses are destroyed after this tornado

touched down in jonesboro, arkansas on saturday. at least 22 people are hurt. right now, support is pouring in for this doctor in the viral photo on your screen right now. see him touching hands with his son through a glass door as he treats coronavirus patients. the tornado destroyed dr. jared best of your recollection home. burks home. a new poll shows 1 15% of bernie sanders backers across the aisle and support donald trump than support the former vice president. only 9% of sanders' supporters say 24e8d be very enthusiastic about voting for biden. in 2015, 12% of people who voted for bernie went on to vote for president trump. the united states will not foot the bill for prince harry and meghan markle. president trump making that message very clear on twitter after the royal couple made a move from canada to los angeles. he tweeted in part, quote: the

u.s. will not pay for their security protection. they must pay. the duke and duchess say they have made privately funded security arrangements. they officially stepped back from roles as senior royals tomorrow. back to you. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian. president trump will join us live after extending the coronavirus guidelines for another month. is he going to give us update and answer your questions. email them in to us friends@foxnews.com. brian: and some of music's biggest stars taking us inside their homes for star studded living room concert for america. it's on fox. ways to donate still. carley shimkus has the highlights next. i will pause ♪ i walk alone ♪ there goes my hero ♪ he's ordinary ♪

♪ people on the front line ♪ skipping rocks on the river by the railroad tracks ♪ >> all-always be my baby ♪ don't let the sun go down on me. ainsley: fox and i heart radio teaming up to benefit coronavirus charities. here with the biggest moments of the night 24/7 headlines carley shimkus. i'm sure you watched it. we all did. carley: inspirational, entertaining and raised a ton of money for two very important charities. if you did miss it, a bunch of singers performed from the comfort of their own homes. viewers also heard from doctors,

nurses, tkpwroelsry store workers. truck drivers. all the people working so hard right now to keep us safe and well-fed. dave groll performed his song "my hero" and he dedicated it to those front line workers. take a listen. >> i would like to dedicate this song to all the people out there who are on the front lines that are doing their best to get us through all of this. ♪ there goes my hero ♪ watch him as he goes ♪ carley: you know, ainsley, this concert benefited feeding america and the first responder's children foundation two. very important charities. big shoutout to proctor and gamble and donation from fox this concert already raised over a million dollars. ainsley: the site was hard to donate for some people because we are having trouble with internet. hopefully people will go and donate more today.

what about tim mcgraw did you see this performance. >> he performed together his band but all from their respective homes. watch ♪ when i saw montana line and red lipstick i worked so hard for that first case ♪ a heart don't forget something like this ♪ carley: i loved that one. also got to see tim mcgraw's beautiful pool. ainsley: i loved seeing the houses. backyard dog over in the distance try position get the dog to come over. carley: that was fun. ainsley: daughter recording. he thanked a woman at the end i think it was his daughter. carley: i thought the same thing. ainsley: doctors that performed imagine at the end was special. carley: the didn't come from an artist whose name we know it came from two incredibly talented doctors. take a listen to this

♪ imagine the people ♪ living for today ♪ oh. carley: gosh, remember their names. they are dr. elvis francois, he was the one singing and dr. robertson playing piano both residents at the mayo clinic. they posted that video of them to instagram where it went viral for obvious reasons. imagine being a doctor being so smart and then having the talent on top of it. can you believe that? ainsley: he was on our show over the weekend. both of those doctors on the front line. see those emotional videos reminds you some people are doing really good things. we need to all stay in our houses and prevent the spread of this. ainsley: this whole concert was such a good idea because it was a family event but also it really honored healthcare

workers and all the people working to keep us safe and fed and then also the element of all the celebrities that we want to sees a well. it was so well done and so much money raised in this time of such great need. such a good idea. ainsley: thank you so much, carley. good to see you. ainsley: good to see you. ainsley: social distancing guidelines extended now through the end of april. what can we expect to flatten that curve? we'll ask dr. oz at the top of the hour and president trump is going to join us live at 8:00 a.m. with the very latest on how his administration is battles coronavirus.

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♪ steve: the white house has extended social distancing guidelines through the end of april. the president trying to slow the spread of coronavirus as governors set new restrictions on out-of-state travelers. ainsley: five states forcing anyone coming in from new york, new jersey, or connecticut to be quarantined for two weeks. here's a photo that shows healthcare workers flying from atlanta to new york to help patients in the big apple. all of them shaping their hands like hearts as you can see and a show of support. so sweet. brian: 74,000 new yorkers volunteered to help out. amazing. photos from the navy coming in overnight showing the first patients being treated on board the usns mercy hospital ship in

los angeles. that's awesome. the uss comfort dock today in the epicenter. over 143,000 cases in the u.s. more than 2500 people have passed away. keep in mind, too. hi, everybody, second hour. in one hour the president will be joining us. he has been working about 22 hours a day. but, keep in mind, too. louisiana says hey, don't forget about us. we are about up to maximum capacity now. and a lot of people are tracking back to mardi gras saying why did you have it because a lot of these problem in new orleans, people go right back to the mardi gras when this virus hit. and the governor yesterday came back and said, listen, we had one case at the time. we weren't getting warnings that it was this bad. obviously spring break we are paying a price, guys and mardi gras we are paying a price for that but we will see. things are going to get worse in new york for about a week we might be the first municipality, the first region to get better.

steve: well, you it clear 15 das ago today was going to be the final day and he was going to assess whether or not the country could slowly reopen. but it looks as if the worse of the worse could actually be about two weeks from now across the country, that is easter, and there is no way that you can reopen a country and so that's why we are on a one month pause starting today. we have got lots of guests and, brian, you mentioned a moment ago the president of the united states will be joining us in one hour. also, in about four minutes, we are going to be talking to dr. oz, and we have got dr. marc siegel and florida governor ron desantis. they actually stopped traffic on 95. at the georgia border yesterday. and that caused quite a pile -- or quite a traffic jam. also we got newt gingrich and, ainsley, we have the guy from diners, drive-s in or dives. he is starting a program so that the people in our food service

industry -- restaurant workers can apply for $500 grants. and he will be joining us this hour from northern california to tell us all about it. ainsley? ainsley: that is wonderful. that's great. the president also predicted he said that we could be well on our way to recovery by june 1st. we're going to ask him today some questions if you have a question for the president, you can write us at friends@foxnews.com. i'm concerned about schools. will our kids go back to school? i doubt it, guys. i doubt go back to school this year. talk to him about that and even easter. people will be celebrating easter sunday from their houses now. we won't be going to churches. churches won't be open in a few weeks when easter rolls around. battelle cleared to sanitize n-95 masks. they are able to sterilize 80,000 a day. the fda allowing drugs to be pushed of through quickly so companies can donate antimalaria drugs so folks in the hospital can be given these drugs. it's working in some people. others we're told it's not.

it just depends on the person. but at least it's better than nothing at this point. we will talk to the president about that as well. the white house is warning that we could see more than 1 trillion coronavirus cases and 100,000 deaths. todd: good morning to all three of you. dr. anthony fauci making sure it's not a certainty we will hit those numbers that ainsley mentioned but caution it could happen. >> i think it's entirely conceivable that if we do not mitigate to the extent that we are trying to do that you could reach that number. you could make a big soundbite about it. but the fact is it's possible with peak death toll expected to be in two weeks. michigan governor warning her state could be in dire straits in a matter of days. the governor of louisiana sounding own alarm with

fatalities per capita rivalling new york city. cdc clarifying travel warning for new jersey, new york and connecticut. urging citizen refrain from nonessential travel for 14 days beginning immediately. there is a glimmer of hope with the new cases in new york state dropping steadily stay at home on march 22nd asking to follow lead how it prepared for the large rise in cases. a positive take away from the country's epicenter dealing with close to 60,000 cases and close to 1,000 deaths. steve, ainsley, brian? brian: all right. thanks, todd. hey, let's bring in dr. oz. dr. oz, no show would be complete without your appear and and we know you have been working hard to keep us up to dated on what's happening. first off, when the president first came out and said easter is not going to be the day april 30th is. june 1st will be on the other

side of this. what is dr. oz thinking? >> i think these numbers are pretty accurate. easter was a bit ambitious in part because if you look at the evidence in china from the day they initiated their aggressively actions and social distancing and in china they can do it really aggressively. i think 23 or 24 days until they actually peaked. so that would put us in the middle of next week. let's say two weeks more until we hit the maximum number of new cases in new york city. hopefully other cities and states are taking precaution so they won't quite have the surge we have had. but new york city is a war zone. i'm going to show it on the show today but we have chapels filled with bodies because there is overflow. this is just a virus attacking a city aggressively. and i heard you earlier talking about mardi gras in new orleans. very small gatherings like that ended up making major changes in europe as well. people didn't appreciate how significant this was. we need to make sure we suffocate the virus. the only way we do that is do the aggressive measures we are looking at. two weeks people look around okay, we are past the worst of

it. the numbers are clearly heading in the right direction. i don't care about numbers and new cases. i care about number of people admitted to the hospital. and the hospital admission rates in new york are not doubling as fast as they used to. there has been changes in protocol if you are actually on the ground and talk to what we are not admitting everyone to the hospital because there is no room. generally speaking we are headed in the right direction if it can peak and descend rather this two weeks. that april 30th day looks very achievable. steve: right. dr. oz, you know, there have been a lot of criticism of the federal government not moving fast enough. now apparently the fda has okayed emergency authorization for some drugs that they are trying to figure out what the impact of it is. you know, maybe these are things that nurses and doctors could take preexposure or post exposure to keep them safe. what do we know on this monday morning? >> well, i interviewed french author who had released initial

paper arguing for example, hydroxychloroquine and azit throw my sin reduce the infectivity or amount of virus they h he released the paper friday night late that argues in fact with the first 80 patients he has followed sequentially with that regiment they did well. he had a death. and another in icu. very controversial physician and not everyone likes what he is doing. best data we have. not great data it's not randomized controlled dated attachment additional evidence from china. in china it's part of the protocol for treating covid-19 patients. maybe what the fda did was a wise move which is yellow lightly what we do very succinctly clinical trials. we will have data back by some time in april, i'm hoping. university of minnesota is doing it.

ideally we will have real data. in the meantime the fda did the right thing. arm physicianed. has to be prescribed by a doctor. tools best we have. let's see what happens. ainsley: dr. oz. let's take some questions from some of our viewers. this is from whitney on facebook. she said my is 15 years old mild reactive airway issues. no inhaler and a few food allergies. does this put him at higher risk? >> he should not be at increased risk. even with severe asthma we are not even sure if ins and treat asthma aggressively. the less driver. may have been exposed. what should i do? >> two week self-isolate. which means you shouldn't be in any crowded places. you have to assume that you are a ticking time bomb. you might have the virus. the data indicates most people do not contract the virus with close exposure. you don't know. don't take a chance. you might be infectious before

have you symptoms. in fact we know that's the case. isolate for two weeks. 7% of the time you will be free and good to go. steve: all right. meanwhile we have got an email from sally, dr. oz. the experts talk about the coronavirus turning into pneumonia. does having the latest pneumonia shot help you stay healthier if you are exposed to the virus? good question. >> vaccines and shots don't help you. that type of pneumonia it is a bacbacteria that causes it. at least if you know if you have pneumonia it's not from that. it's from coronavirus which helps doctors triage you better. big problem. we cannot test patients in hospitals still. i will be loud and clear. we will only beat this virus if we can test and get quick responses this abbott test will help us a lot. i know i'm dealing with it personally, patients come in and can't get a test result back for a week. you treat them as though they

have covid-19. even though 1 in 10 chance they don't have it. task force speaking to all the time keeps hammering on that issue. ainsley: new test you can get results in five minutes which is great. this is from noreen on email. she said i recently tested positive for coronavirus but i have no symptoms. how will i know that i'm cleared to no longer be in quarantine? is the two weeks from diagnosis simply enough to wait? will post quarantine testing be necessary? >> we don't have enough kits as i just described. unfortunately live that's not when we are doing. here's the deal. basically be free of a fever for three days. free of any other stofpls for three days. and seven days not if, and seven days since your initiation of disease. that's sort of the threshold we have right now from thinking that people are not infectious. that's the data we are getting from all over the world. yes some people still infectious

after that window but that captures the vast majority. brian: hey, dr. oz, we have the president coming up next hour. is there is a question that you wanted answer that you don't know? >> well, the question that i don't know if anyone knows but i would love to hear the president's response how long before a patient comes to a hospital and get a test back and get a result back in 24 hours. forget about 5 minutes or 14 minutes or 45 minutes. i know those tests are coming out. we need to get the results bang in a day. back in a day. the fact you are waiting 7 or 9 days. huge challenge in this country. waste resource and can't help the right patients. i know the pre have resource the task force hasn't been able to share yet. brian: you know we have the test you just don't know how long it's going it take to fan out the test. >> exactly. and we are holding our breath until we have an answer because

we can't manage otherwise. brian: you got it. steve: all right. sir, thank you very much. we know you are awfully busy. all right. good enough. by the way, because we do have the president coming up in one hour, if you have got a question for the president of the united states, email us foxnews.co friends@foxnews.com. we are also on facebook. meanwhile jillian is back at headquarters on the fox news channel very latest from phoen phoenix. jillian: two officers are hurt in a shooting overnight. phoenix police commander greg conkle was killed when a suspect opened fired. conkle was a father of 4. a 31 year veteran of the department and just months away from retirement. the two other officers are expected to recover. the suspect was shot hours later. the suspect's condition is unknown. we have another tragic story. the country music world pays tribute to grammy winner joe diffie who died from coronavirus

complications ♪ something women like about a pickup man. jillian: grand ole opry member was just 61 years old. fans and musicians mourning the legend eli young band tweeting you were one of the most iconic and distinctive voices on country radio. you will be missed by money. >> such a shock and loss for country music. trace adkins tweeting oh my god one of the all time great vocalists joe diffie was my friend. workers will walk off the job over coronavirus concerns. amazon employees are demanding this facility in new york city be shut down and sanitized after someone tested positive for covid-19. they also want to keep getting paid. instacart workers are you will calling for more sane advertising product sick pay and hazard pay for each order they

complete. military veterans are stepping in to help communities devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. the community in southern georgia are running a nonprofit food pantry to feed anyone in need. the group estimates over 2,000 carl's showed up to their event on saturday. there are over 2600 coronavirus cases in georgia. a look at you're headlines. send it back to you. ainsley: thanks so much, jillian. still ahead in about 45 minutes, president trump joins us live and he is going to answer some of your questions. send them in to us at friends@foxnews.com or visit our facebook page. brian: and florida cracking down on travelers from so-called coronavirus hot spots with highway road brock blocks and errant screenings yeah in america. florida governor ron desantis joins us with an update and why he thinks new yorkers and new jersey and connecticut people to stay out. about that one 'a-ha' moment.

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>> florida is cracking down on incoming travelers as cases rise to nearly 5,000 statewide. the governor now implementing screenings at major airports as well as rod blocks on highways for travelers coming from coronavirus hot spots. here with an update is florida's governor ron desantis. good morning, governor, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. ainsley: tell us about these highway checkpoints, what you are doing at the airport. >> >> basically this is an extension what we had done when we had floridians coming back from china they would be screened for 14 days. then italy we added that obviously the president shut down flights from both of those places. given the new york city area is the number one hot spot in the world right now, when the new york governor instituted a stay in place order, we started

noticing a huge uptick in traffic out of the city. many of them coming to florida. we view that as problematic because we have in south beach, florida as you mentioned almost 60% of our cases are down in seat east florida. the region is shut down. schools are out. people are really sacrificing. and i think the fear is that while you are doing all of that to try to slow the spread. it would be really bad if new infections were just being air dropped for other hot spots. we are trying to get a handle on it. we can't prevent travel from an american citizen to our state. we understand that if we can tell them about self-isolation and request that they do and this if they comply i think we will be safer as a result. ainsley: governor, a lot of people from new york had trips planned for spring break we get spring break here in the middle of march. cancelled those trips and a lot of them went down to florida because they have family down there. are you worried the numbers here you will see similar numbers in florida in the next few weeks.

>> i mean obviously i hope not. that's exactly the fear, aeubszly, someone leaves new york city and stays with maybe patients or grandparents down here and the number one way to transmit this virus is through close contact in a household amongst family members. and so we definitely view that as a potential problem. this is what we are trying to do. what we say is when they come in hey if you are self-isolating. you need to self-isolate. if you are in a family residence. you need to be in a home. you shouldn't have close contact with family members because that will simply lead to more infections. ainsley: brian has his radio show getting a lot of callers down in florida tell your new york friends, tell everyone in the tristate area we don't want you here. they honk if they see those individuals. everyone is just walking on egg shells right now. we are all nervous about it. what about this cruise ship that cut through the panama canal and supposed to land there in fort lauderdale is that the going to happen?

i know a lot of floridians worried about that a lot of paoeufp infected on the cruise ship. >> not only that at love these are foreigners. we have done a really good job of working to clear hospital space. 33% of the beds are available particularly in south florida set up field hospitals in case you had a surge. we cannot have afford to have people using up valuable resources so i am in contact with the white house on this. i'm in contact with local county officials and both broward and miami-dade. yes, we view this as a big, big problem. we do not want to see people dumped in southern florida right now. ainsley: governor, after that press conference yesterday that the president had in the rose garden. any questions for him? we are going to be talking to him in about 35 minutes. >> one, i would say just keep doing what you are doing. in florida, we have been very proactive. i don't expect him to do my job for me. we have procured some of these

fast rapid test. we have set up our own field hospitals. the federal government has been great in support. i think more folks should do what they can on the state level and i think the relationship with us and the white house has been phenomenal as a result of that. just keep doing what you are doing. oh, one thing you could tell him and i asked him this. that new rapid test from be a hra*b. make use of this. have it in the nursing homes and protect our seniors better and get the most mileage of that instant test than any state. ainsley: that's wonderful. hopefully you will get a lot of those. thanks, governor. >> thank you. ainsley: you are welcome. a navy hospital ship is set to arrive here in new york here today. as another ship begins treating patients outs in los angeles. the commander leading this mission is going to join us live with an update coming up next.

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brian: well the usns comfort arrived in new york city. the navy hospital ship can treat up to 1,000 patients. easing the burdens of local hospitals dealing with the coronavirus. sister ship the usns murphy docking los angeles friday hospitals in the hard hit area. people in both these cities and states so happy to see them. joining us now military commander leading the mission. us north come commander shaughnessy from the north com command center. warn you we have a 3 second delay between us. what he has to say is so important. general, thanks for being here. could you tell me how the commissions work between the new york hospital system and you guys? >> yeah. thank you, brian. and, first, let me put a shoutout to the navy for getting ships out quickly well ahead of schedule. the way we are postured tie into the local hospital system.

so we'll be getting the direction from the local hospital system of what patients we should take and be part of the broader effort. brian: and broader effort not being anything coronavirus related someone who has appendicitis or heart attack. they might be going to your ship, right? >> that's exactly correct. in fact, if you think about what the ships are really designed for, they are designed for heavy trauma, really significant issues. and so we are postured to take cases. in fact we have some icu patients already on board. brian: from where? >> from the local california hospital system. they are actually being run out of santa fe is where they are running their command and control for hospitals. they have been directed to us. we are open for business and we are ready to help take some of the pressure off of the hospital

systems both in california as well as in new york city as the ship arrives a little bit later today. brian: fascinating. so, as it gets there, could you tell me, do you know what you are up against? have you been briefed from the area hospitals about the type of patients you are going to be getting? >> we sure are in fact we are -- i have a two star commander that's forward. we are very closely tied in with the local officials. with the fema officials. with the hhs officials. so we know exactly how we are going to tie. in in fact, it's also tied into the army expeditionary medical capability that we forward to new york center as well. operating out of the skwra*ft center with almost 1,000 bed facility there we are really trying to be part of this broader effort this whole nation effort. brian: general, it seems as though if i am listening to the briefing yesterday and listen to

the medical professionals which i do this is going to move. soon, new york and los angeles will not be the nexus and the epicenter of this are you prepared to move to? have you been told hey next stop louisiana, the next stop the next metro center? >> we sure are brian. iin fact, justst last night we got national coordination center tied into the white house task force, of course, to send some medical capability to jacksonville and dallas. so we have a navy medical out of jacksonville that's actually going to go to new orleans and dallas. and we will continue to respond and we will go where the nation needs us. brian: what does it mean to you to serve your country in your country as opposed to humanitarian efforts arpbgsdz the world -- around the world?

>> well, brian, i have been all over the world doing all sorts of different campaigns. there is nothing more sacred than being right here at home defending the homeland. we are not fighting the virus. our mission here colorado springs is to defend our nation. and we view it as our commander-in-chief has declared a war on covid-19. we are part of that as a whole of nation. whole of america approach. we are incredibly proud to be part of that mission. brian: how many medical professionals on board? how many beds is your capacity? >> well, we have about 1,000, each the mercy and the comfort. we have about 500 that are going to be part of the javits center. we have also we didn't mention washington yet. but we also have about 250 beds equivalent going in to the state of washington. and about 450 going down to split between new orleans and dallas. we are going to be need to be.

bringing medical capability but also look to see what are the other things we might be able to bring to this fight. brian: general terrence o'shaughnessy, you basically have the nation's perimeter handled. i appreciate you joining us and hopefully the job doesn't get too big for all of to you handle. it's going to be a very pe peris next couple of weeks thank you for being with us, general. >> thank you, brian. here to help our nation. brian: yep and feel good about it. thanks general o'shaughnessy. coming up on our show president trump will be joining news 27 minutes. he will be live here on "fox & friends." if you have got some questions. email them to us friends@foxnews.com. lawmakers talking about possible phase four of the coronavirus relief. former white house speaker newt gingrich has a strategy for the economic recovery he is on deck.

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♪ steve: americans can expect checks in the next few weeks as the pandemic causes millions to lose their jobs. ainsley: there could soon be a phase 4 coronavirus response bill to stimulate the economy. brian: wow. unbelievable. griff jenkins is live in washington with a prediction from the treasury secretary. hey, griff. griff: hey, brian, ainsley and steve. he says help is on the way and

is he preaching patience and confidence in a fast recovery secretary museumen says he doesn't know how bad ultimately the economy will be impacted by this virus. one thing is for certain we'll beat it and get back to where we were before this invisible enemy struck. >> we are going to kill this virus. we are going to reopen this economy. and in the third quarter of this year. you are going to see this economy bounce back with very large g.d.p. numbers and low unemployment. back to where we were beforehand. griff: he says those eligible for the $1,200 check also begin seeing those funds directly deposited into their accounts within three weeks. and if they haven't registered electronically there is a website sign up to get the money faster. then the check in the mail and mnuchin advised small businessmen who let their employees go to get back and hire your workers because they have been given forgivable loans that the government is paying for. meanwhile it's more than just whispers of a phase 4.

speaker pelosi said other things that weren't in last bill. she predicts odds are high another is necessary. but minority leader mccarthy says not so fast. he says before we go start drafting another fourth package. let's see how this largest stimulus package we have ever seen come into play to see if it will balance things back. as far as the administration's strategy to start reopening things. we have to learn more in the perhaps coming hours or days because it's clear the guidelines are until april. the virus and economy are attached at the hip right now. guys? steve: that's right, guys. thank you very much. we will be talking to the president of the united states about 20 minutes from right now. we will ask him all of that bring in newt gingrich, fox news contributor, former speaker of the house. former republican presidential candidate and he joins us from rome. newt, we just heard that there is a possibility even though it's going to be a couple of weeks before anybody in the country winds up with those checks from the federal

government, there could be a phase 4. you have an admonition of lawmakers considering a phase 4. whatever do you, don't put a bunch of stuff in there that is not related to cv-19. >> yeah. look, i think it's very likely that the house where the radicals are in control would love to blackmail the country. they tried on this last bill and failed. so they -- the they are salivatg at the idea they could produce a new bill with everything they have ever wanted in life and somehow blackmail the president into signing it. i suspect we will need a technical corrections act. because when you pass and three pills we passed almost $2,200,000,000,000 in federal spending. clearly some of those things will need technical corrections. but i don't think the republicans in the senate or the president should accept any kind of radical policies from nancy pelosi and aoc and that group in

order to get this stuff done. i think the country won't stand for it and i think they can make a very good case that what we need is to help the country not to enact the democrat party's platform. i would be very cautious. i do think we will need technical corrections act. just because i can't imagine writing 2,200,000,000,000 in three different bills and not have some things want to go back and tweak. first of all, until you see how it's working how do you know what you need more of? this is a huge amount of money being poured into the economy in a have a right of different ways and when you count the extra money the federal reserve has now liberated it may be as much as $6 trillion. ainsley: newt, how can we help our economy recover? i know you have the public health strategy for recovery. what is that? >> well, i think that you need to -- what used to be the called

the ink blot strategy applied to counter insurgency. you start somewhere that's strong and you gradually grow it out. so, for example, we have very, very strong hospital system in the dakotas in sanford health. we have relatively few people who currently are infected. you could focus on really tracking down just the people who are currently have the disease, isolating them. and the rest of the dakota economy could start back up. similarly in utah you have a remarkable system. inner mountain health. and they could leave the other hospitals in the utah in a similar kind of strategy. so i don't think you can take the lockdown you may need in parts of new york city, which by the way is not the same as upstate new york where there are some counties that have nobody who is infected. and we're a big country. we need to gradually reopen the country. and i think we do that by growing from the healthiest places back towards the places that are sickest.

brian: sweden has decided to take their seniors and put them under shelter in place and have continued on as if nothing is wrong while doing the social distancing. but went to work. how close are you watching sweden. norway and denmark are doing what we are doing. sweden is doing their own thing. >> sweden has come closer to what i'm describing. the swedes have been very targeted in what they are doing. the result is their economy is stronger and they have fewer people infected than either denmark or norway. so you can have an intelligent strategy. look, if you look at singapore, tijuana, south korea, there is pretty good reason to believe that the right kind of targeted strategy can actually contain the disease while keeping the economy running. and i think it's very important to recognize you have a bad economy for very long, that has its own health consequences.

but, both in increased suicides and increased alcoholism. there are a lot of side effects of a bad economy. we want to balance this between controlling and defeating the virus, which we will do. and relaunching the economy step-by-step, recognizing that this is a little bit like a war time mobilization. this isn't like traditional economics in peace time. but i think there are a number of states where you could again to reopen and even inside some states that are hard-hit. there are a number of counties where you could begin to reopen. and there are also a number of big companies doing a great job and they involve, sometimes, a half million employees. and i think as long as they follow the right procedures, as long as they work to protect people's health, we want them to recover as rapidly as possible. steve: absolutely. newt, you know, everybody wants the country to go back to work.

but the worst thing that could happen is parts of the country open up and then it comes back for phase 2, a different kind of phase 2. a coronavirus phase 2. and that would be a disaster. i'm sure that's why the president made the calculation yesterday, you know what? we are going to take a one month time-out. >> sure. look, i think, first of all, we are a continent wide country. you have to think about is the rules you need in downtown new york city which is the hardest hit place in the united states, are those the same rules you really need in the upper peninsula of michigan or that you need in parts of utah or parts of arizona that are rural? and all i'm suggesting is we can gradually begin to bring back the economy we can do it when it n. a way that's controlled and good healthy economy simultaneously. you are not going to have an on

off switch. not be able to say let's do nothing until the disease is defeated. that would take too long. the economy would have too many side effects and you couldn't sustain the pain level. you are going to have to figure out how you gradually squeeze out the disease every place that's strong go literally i think very carefully and very slowly and recognize that public health is our first priority. but everywhere that we can follow a traditional public health strategy of identifying and isolating the handful of people and some of these states you are talking about 65 or 70 people. if you can isolate them. take care of them not have them spreading the disease open up the rest of the state to go back to business. gradually over the course of the next 60 to 90 days we would like to -- we want to reopen the whole country. >> mr. speaker thank you so

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♪ ♪ steve: the restaurant industry has been deeply affected by the cv-19 pandemic. the national restaurant association estimates the industry has lost more than 3 million jobs and over $25 billion. our next guest is doing something to help offering grants to restaurant employees who lost their jobs or took a

pay cut. celebrity chef guy fieri joins us from california where it is 4:50 in the morning. and i'm sure he is delighted that he is up and about. guy, good morning to you. >> hey, bud, good morning. listen, i will get up at any time in the morning to support my brothers and sisters in the business. and you hit the nail right on the head, man, to another level. we have got over 3 million employees in the restaurant business that are without jobs. and i mean everybody is without jobs, which is devastating but in my wheel house it's the restaurant industry. and when i got together with the folks at the national restaurant association and said let's raise big money and help these folks the best way we can. they have been serving us for years in the restaurant business, let's serve them. that's what we are doing. steve: you know, guy, i was thinking about your show, diners, drive-ins and dives which if it's on, we always watch it. and i was thinking about how many of those people who you have chronicled over the years

right now are out of work. probably most of them. right? >> it's tough. you know what? know, a lot of communities everybody turns to that restaurant for the donations, for theirant isn't operating. it's not just the employees aren't making money. it's not that the owners out there. it's the community is looking for it. but, this is hard hit. i mean, have you got these mom and pop joints on diners drive-ins and diners we have done 1200 plus locations and more to come. we can do them forever. but, yeah. an industry that's really -- it's people-driven. and a lot of these folks are living paycheck to paycheck. they are, you know, they are not many of them are salaried. a lot of them are hourly. and, very hard hit group. a lot of single families. a lot of students. it's just -- it is just an interesting -- everybody looks at it they make tips and do

great. you know what? they are the ones really paying the price. we are raising a lot of money. we are at so far this morning we are at 8.3 million on our goal of 100 million and pepsi is involved. uber eats, constellation brands. you name it, we have heavy hitters jumped. in ecolab. a lot of these folks have donated big money. we are on our way and need help and a lot of people who need support. 3 million right now. anticipating this go from 5 million to 7 million restaurant employees out of jobs. steve: fantastic. so, rather than a loan. you are talking about on a first come, first serve basis awarding -- >> -- exactly. steve: awarding grants. the way people are watching right now. let me give the guidelines. you have to have worked in the restaurant industry at least 90 days. primary source of income is from the restaurant industry. experienced decrease in wages or job loss on or after march 10th.

those are the general qualifications. and then how do people apply and for the people who are watching, how would they then donate to be part of this, guy? >> it's a simple website. rerf dot f.us. here is the beautiful part, steve, if there is a beautiful part. national restaurant association we started talking about this. donate here, donate there the great thing about this program through educational foundation about taking donations and dispersing money. 100 percent -- 100 percent of the donations go directly to the employees. there is not going to be administration fees no. bs or red tape or blah blah blah blah blah. 100 percent of the donation. that's a beautiful thing to think of is that there is no admin fee being carved off the top or anything. this is going to go right to them. it's a great way.

find out all about it. find out about donating and find out if you are employee and looking to get support. fantastic website. real quick, real easy. i will tell you something. the national restaurant association has really stepped up, as well as our partners. boston beer company got involved. i mean, you look at when all the people restaurant business has done for all of us and me included, it's opportunity to start helping those folks. the folks that don't ask. steve: all right. exactly. well, guy, thank you very much for getting up so early. i'm sure there are people who are going to donate and there are people who are also going to apply. for more information they can go to our website, friends@foxnews.com. guy fieri, thank you very much. >> you are the best, man. thank you very much for having me. i hope everybody is staying safe. steve: all right. thank you very much, sir. all right. a huge hour straight ahead. president donald trump is going

to join us live with a realtime update on the white house response top of the hour. (woman) somebody would ask her something and she would just walk right past them because she didn't know they were talking to her. (deborah) i just could not hear. i was hesitant to get the hearing aids ... hear everything. (avo) call 1-800-miracle to start your 30 day risk-free trial and schedule your free hearing evaluation today.

brian: the white house extends social distancing guidelines this happened yesterday afternoon through the end of april the president trying to slow the spread of coronavirus

obviously as government said new restrictions restrictions on out of state travelers. steve: five states are forcing anybody coming from new york, new jersey, or connecticut to quarantine for two weeks, keep the people in those states safe. meanwhile this photo shows healthcare workers flying from atlanta to new york to help patients in the big apple. all of them shaping their hands like a heart, in a show of support ainsley. ainsley: so nice of them these brand new photos coming from the navy coming in overnight showing the first patients being treated on board the usns mercy hospital ship. that's the one that's out on the west coast in la. meanwhile the usns comfort is expected to dock in new york today the president sending off the ship to assist hospitals and the pandemic epicenter of new york. there are over 143,000 cases in the united states, more than 2,500 people have died. good morning to you everyone. thank you for joining us if you're just waking up it's 8:00

on on the east coast we're expecting the president to join us within just a few minutes, if you still have questions you want him to answer e-mail them at friends@foxnews.com. and i'm being told the president is -- steve: let's bring in, go ahead ainsley. ainsley: okay so good morning to you mr. president thank you for joining us. president trump: well thank you, ainsley great to be with you. ainsley: great to have you here we watched the press conference yesterday at the rose garden and you announced to extend this pause until the end of the month. you also said you think the peak is in about two more weeks. do we have enough equipment to handle that peak? president trump: well we should. we're delivering so much equipment, nobody has ever seen anything like it. it's the war. we're fighting a war and the federal government is really stepped up and most governors are very happy. i get on calls and a lot of the governor calls where we'll have all 50 governors plus, where we have some territories also, but we have 50 governors and i'll tell you what if you could listen to those calls

you'd nevada hear a complaint and sometimes the news will say we've got information and they have no information at all but you know, they try and build wars between people, but no. we have a great relationship with the governors, because of what we're doing. we started off with an empty shelf. there was just like we had no amunition when the general walked in and said sir, we have no am you mission in my first week, well we didn't have newly-released much in terms of medical product either and we built something really good now, we have on-store as we need them , we have 10,000 ventilators , we have massive plane loads of things coming in we have 51 planes you saw that ups and fedex yesterday , we have 51 planes coming up, loaded up with material from all over, and no we're doing really well. it was, it's tough stuff. this is the tough deal, but it's incredible today we're opening up a hospital, 2,900 beds in new

york city, and we in addition to that we're doing four medical centers in new york city, we're doing new jersey, we're doing louisiana, we're doing florida. we have all over the country we're doing things, it's incredible what's happened with the army core of engineers and fema. steve: mr. president, today was going to be the 15th day of 15 days to slow the spread and today was the day you were going to make the determination on how to open up america again, because i know you want to get america back to business, but what have you seen over the last 48 hours that had you reassess that strategy and say do you know what? i think we need to take a month off? so much that i've seen. i listened to experts, we have dr. fauci, we have as you know, we have deborah birx, whose fantastic also, dr. deborah birx , the two of them plus many people behind

them and the worst you could happen is you do it too early and all of a sudden it comes back so that makes it more difficult so we're doing a great job. new york is really in trouble, but i think it's going to end up being fine. we're loading it up, we're stocking it up both new york city and state. we're dealing with the mayor, we're dealing with the governor and the relationships are very good. i mean, you hear it they be complaining if it wasn't so we're giving them a lot of things they never thought they be getting including hospitals. we're building hospitals for them and we're building them in three and four days they're mobile hospitals but they're very complex and very big, and when you have 2,900 beds that's a big hospital so we're doing a lot of things and we don't want to do it too soon but we're thinking that around easter that's going to be your spike, that's going to be the highest point, we think, and then it's going to start coming down from there, that will be a day of celebration, and we just want to do it right so we picked the end of april, the last day, april 30 as the day where we can see some

real progress and we expect to see that and then by a little short of june, maybe june 1, we think it's a terrible thing to say but we think the death will be at a very low number. it'll be brought down to a very low number from right now from where it's getting to reach its peak. brian: mr. president yesterday you spoke for 90 minutes. when you go out there you take endless amounts of questions and the one thing i think a lot of people are telling me over the weekend is seeing democrats and republicans getting along in some cases like you with governor cuomo, we watch your presser, we watch his presser on a daily basis we get a lot of news. one thing i didn't hear you address and if you did i'm sorry but he talked about immunity tests and giving people in new york an immunity test and germany seems to be doing the same thing where if you had it and got rid of it you're immune perhaps and you can go to work and if you go to work maybe

they can take your temperature like they do when you go to give blood. president trump: right. brian: can you see this being the way to normalcy? president trump: well, i can. i think it's going to be a big help and we're very close, as you know you probably listen ed because i talked about it yesterday, where they're refining the final steps and they are having some tremendous success and they are also, you know, we have a lot of things happening right now. as you know, the hydroxychloroquine, which is a malaria drug and also arthritis drug, very powerful drug, and we're going to know within days, you know, we're testing that as an example , brian, which is going to be very exciting if something positive comes of it but that's being tested very strongly in new york. we have 1,100 people on that drug, together with z-pack, and you know, the z-pack, you know what that is, and so i think we have a lot of interesting things

happening. the labs, you see abbott came up with a test where you can literally, i mean, it's in minutes you see whether or not you have the problem and that's something that nobody thought could happen and they came out of, it's a great, great company, great laboratories and they came up with something that nobody was even thinking about two weeks ago or five weeks ago, so that's going to make a big impact and yet we've tested more than any other country. we inherited a broken test. the whole thing was broken and we rebuilt it, and you know, this i wish it was done before and i'm not even blaming anybody nobody could have predicted something like this but we're now testing hundreds of thousands of people, we've tested more than anybody in the world by far. when you look at south korea, we'll do more in eight days than they do in eight weeks and that's not a knock on them, plus our test is a better test. it's a very sophisticated test and so we've tested more and that's why we have more cases, because if you look at some of the countries with one 1.5

people whether it's india, china , or others they have very big countries but we test more than anybody else so we will find people that have it that don't even know they're sick in some cases, so we have more cases than anybody, but we're doing really well and we also have a very low relative to other countries, very low mortality rate and there are reasons for that. ainsley: mr. president, we had dr. oz on our show earlier, we were asking him, we said the president is coming on are there any questions you have for him after you watched the press conference yesterday. this is what he had to say. >> how long until when a patient comes to the hospital and we get a test on them we can get a result back within 24 hours? forget about five minutes or 15 minutes or 45 minutes. i know those tests are coming out but we just need to be able to get the results back within a day. it would help tremendously. ainsley: can you respond to that mr. president? president trump: well he's 100% right because sometimes it's two or three days. now it's getting down to a day

we think it be less than that but when this new test comes out we'll be able to give it as they sit, we literally will be able to know exactly what's happening and it's a very sophisticated result too. it could be even a step better than what we're having and what we do, you know it's a rough test. it's a pretty rough test. i took it and i will tell you, there's nothing pleasant about it, but the new test is easier, simpler, and quick. you're going to know your answer right away so that's what we're looking for and that's coming out very soon like almost immediately. steve: you know, mr. president, today is monday. president trump: this week it could be this week yes. steve: okay, today is march 30. coming up on wednesday, it's going to be april 1 and this really is a make or break week, mr. president, because a lot of businesses are going to have to say okay, the rent is due. am i going to be able to pay the rent? am i going to have to talk to

the landlord, who am i going to have to playoff? who am i going to be able to keep because this is such a make or break week for the people looking in, i know yesterday you were talking about the importance of we're going to get through this altogether, but there are a lot of people who are worried about their finances right now. president trump: well, i agree, and nobody more worried than me for the whole country and look, a thing like this has never happened. so we have the best economy in the history of our country by far. we've had the best employment numbers we've ever had with african americans, asian americans, with hispanic americans, everybody, the best you've heard in 100 times. we had the best we've ever had and then one day, they said by the way there's a virus coming in and everyone is saying what's that all about? and in one day, we had to shut it down and by the way i don't know if you saw yesterday, but the question i've been asking a lot of people have been asking, if we didn't shut it down, because i used to say a lot of people said well could you just have kept it going?

you know, like the flu, like a bad case of the flu, a really bad case beings and the answer came in yesterday through dr. fauci and through deborah bi rx, and the answer came in, if we did that, in other words if we just kept the business as usual, didn't do anything to stop it or impede it, could have been 2.2 million people could have died. 2.2 million people would have been between 1.6 they say and then they showed you the numbers , 1.6 and 2.2 million people it could have been more than that, so that's when you realize that what we did last week with the $2 trillion bill was very worth it, but if you get anywhere near a number like that, now we're trying to keep, i say we want to do something where we have the least death and that's what we're doing and the people in this country have been incredible with social distancing and everything else they're doing. they've been incredible. i'm getting letters from people

that have found my family again. they were doing all sorts of things and now they are with their family in the home and not going out and a lot of things are happening and we're getting a lot of letters. we found our family again. we found what life should be, so you know a lot of things are happening but no the people of our country have been incredible this is in 151 countries as of this morning. i mean who would think of that? 151 countries. it's all over the world and it's a very sad thing. it's a very vicious thing, but if we didn't do anything, could have been 2.2 million people could have died. that's a lot. brian: mr. president as i mentioned earlier, i remember when bush 41 and when 43 asked bush 41 and clinton to get the other thing after some catastrophes people were hearten ed by it and saw democrat s and republicans working together, when they see you and cuomo working together, but then you see speaker pelosi come out and

say president trump's denial at the beginning of this was deadly the president fiddles people are dying. what's your reaction to that? president trump: well you know, it's a sad thing. look, she's a sick puppy in my opinion. she really is. she's got a lot of problems and that's a horrible thing to say especially when i was the one and i've gotten from fair people , you know, a lot of accolades and i don't want the accolades but it's just serves a fact, when i stopped some very very infected, very very sick people, thousands coming in from china, long earlier than anybody thought, including the experts, nobody thought we should do it, except me and i stopped everybody. we stopped it cold. it had never been done before in the history of our country and dr. fauci said the other day, if those people came in, if i didn't do that, you would have had deaths like you would have never seen before, and you know, she doesn't mention that and that was early and don't forget she was playing the impeachment game. her game where she ended up

looking like a fool. she was doing nothing but all she did for the first long time was impeach, impeach. this went on for years, if you think about it. that's all she did. she didn't do anything. she couldn't get bigged passed. she's controlled by the radical left by aoc plus three and for her to make a tam like that i thought it was a disgrace, and i think that it's a disgrace to her country, her family, i think that it shouldn't be, and i guess now when she says oh, i prayed for the president, i pray ed for the president so much , well, i don't think that's true. what a statement to make, what a horrible statement to make. ainsley: lindsey graham was asked about it and he said she's one to talk. this is not fair for her to say that she was fiddling by delaying a stimulus package but i want to ask you on that note about working with democrats and republicans. you're saying we've got this 3,000 bed hospital that's opening up the navy ship comfort

is ariving today. you mentioned the four medical centers here in new york where the epicenter is. how much of this is you, is the federal government and how are you working with governors and what responsibility do they have? we interviewed ron desantis earlier and he said he doesn't expect you to do his job for him president trump: well if you look, i mean, the ships are us. when you say me, i'm talking about the federal government and the ships are us and you have one in los angeles too and by the way, gavin newsom, the governor has been very nice and we've had our disputes on the forest fires and borders and a lot of other things but gavin newsom has been fantastic in his praise for what we've done. the federal government has done far more than if anybody else was president. if sleepy joe was president he wouldn't even know what's going on, you know that. everybody knows that. we have taken this thing and done a hell of a job, and like in ohio yesterday we got a sterilization for the mask machine approved. it was stuck in fda. i called up dr. hahn of fda, he's a terrific guy, highly successful, he came here

recently we got it done in one night. we got it approved and it sterilizes masks. i've always wondered these very expensive masks they just throw them away and i said why wouldn't they be sterilized? well they have equipment to make it so you can sterilize them up to 20 times so think of the savings, and the medias it of it so we've done a tremendous amount. i can not imagine any president being able to do more than we've donald again, i started with empty shelves, because the supply line the supply line wasn't built and what we've do with fema and what we've done with the army corps corps of engineers and i mean, to throw up a hospital 2,900 beds in three days, and this is a sophisticated hospital. this is not like nothing. this is not a couple of tents. this is an amazing thing, and we've been given a lot but we've also then you hear nancy pelosi, whose you know, somehow there's something wrong with the woman because she knows what the we've

donald then you look at san francisco, how her area where she lives has become like a slum it's a slum and she should focus on that. of course she lives in a beautiful house over the ocean, but her area that she's in charge of has become from being one of the best in the whole country its become a slum and they don't do anything about it. they leave it there. in fact the federal government we may get involved and take over that area, and clean it up and the homeless are being, i mean, everybody it's such a mess , it's so bad, and yet she will sit there and complain. all she did was focus on impeach impeachment. she focused on impeachment and she lost and she looked like a fool, and frankly, it unified our party, and i have to say this , it's never pleasant, but my poll numbers are the highest they've been because of her so we'll see how it turns out but she should never say a thing

like they said. steve: well mr. president one area of criticism toward the administration and the federal government generally is the fact that you've got governors like governor cuomo calling for more ventilators. it was announced, i think in the last 12 hours or so, that gm will be producing 10,000 ventilators per month by summer, but of course, you really had to hold their feet to the fire by invoking the defense production act. why did you wind up doing that? because it sounded like for the longest time behind the scenes, things were going great, until they weren't. president trump: well no, i've been using it a lot to talk to people. they know i have it. it's great leverage. we don't want to be nationaliz ing our country. we don't want to be taking over it's a terrible symbol to say and i used it with respect to general motors, and they've been great since then. they've been great. they were not doing what we thought they should be doing and

we were not getting along, and all of a sudden we got along great. i have two other companies that have become great, once i told them we're going to use them. they've been doing a great job. now, we've been doing a great job. don't forget a ventilator is like an automobile. it's very complicated machinery. it's very expensive. they can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000. you know, very different machines, you have some extreme ly complicated and sophisticated and you have others that are simpler but you're talking about from five to $30,000. it's very expensive and very complex and we delivered 4,000 ventilators to new york to their warehouse which happens to be located in edison, new jersey. it was signed off, they were delivered, and they weren't used and we said a number of days later, why aren't you using these ventilators? i don't know what happened but we delivered thousands of them and we've delivered them to a lot of people. there's a whole question about that.

i think new york should be fine, based on the numbers that we see , they should have more than enough. i mean, i'm hearing stories that they're not used or they're not used right but what we find anywhere from two to 4,000 that have been sent and aren't used, we've done a job. now we're still getting more ventilators. we're going to have after this is over, we'll be selling, they will be selling ventilators for $1 a piece. we'll have a lot of them but we have to build them because for the most part, the whole world is short on ventilators and i spoke to boris johnson the prime minister of uk and the first thing he said to me is we need ventilators. he was tested as you know positive which is very bad, and he's a friend of mine, he's a great guy and i spoke to him, i called him to say hello and he said donald, we need ventilators that's the uk. italy needs ventilators. spain needs ventilators and they are being hit really hard, those two countries but they

need ventilators and we're making a lot of ventilators now but they're being made and eventually it'll be, they will be a dime a dozen but right now, you know new york had a chance to get 16,000 ventilators a few years ago and they turned it down. they should be getting it. the states should be getting it. we should be a backup, and we've become not a backup, the opposite. the other thing we're doing is sending things directly. we're not sending it to our big storage areas. i'm saying go directly. send it directly where they need it. don't bring it into our factories and our plants, bring it in directly into the site, the hospital or wherever it's going, and that's for ventilator s and other things brian: i just have something to report i'm sure you know, but it looks like benjamin netanyahu because he came in contact with someone who tested positive looks like he's going into quarantine for i imagine the protocol is the same in israel for a couple of weeks we'll watch that which brings me to the international stage and i'm just wondering it turns out

according to the washington post , russia, iran, and china are going through a sophisticated disinformation campaign essentially blaming us around the world for our bad response and for actually causing the virus using the same principles they used to infiltrate our 2016 election. we're the best at this. how are we going to let these countries get away with that and do we have a counter-strategy like the truth to tell the rest of the world? president trump: number one you don't know what they're doing and when you read it in the washington post you don't believe it. i believe very little when i see it. i see stories in the washington post that are so fake and are so phony. i have stories that are such fake stuff and that's number one brian: but you know china has already done this. president trump: i said they do it and we do it and we call them different things and i make statements that are very strong against china, including the chinese virus, which has been going on for a long time. i wouldn't say they were

thrilled with that statement, where they said our soldiers did it. they said our soldiers did it. i said you mean the chinese virus? and all of a sudden they call and they say let's talk nicely. yeah, sure that's every country does it but they build it up and we handle that and they probably handle it but countries do that but when i read things in the washington post i can tell you stories that they write that are just the opposite. they will do anything they can to hurt this presidency, and yet , here we are with the best numbers we've ever had. i don't even understand it, when you can get such fake news from the new york times is a totally dishonest paper, they are dishonest people. washington post same thing. i'm trying to figure out for three and a half years, who is more dishonest and corrupt? the washington post or the new york times. when i figure it out i'll let you know we'll have a special. ainsley: mr. president, you said we're going to give it 15 days that's today. then you said easter and then

you said yesterday that was aspirational. now you're saying the end of this month. if the physicians, if the experts if your task force says at the end of the month we need to continue to do this , we need to continue to take a pause to the next month, what will your response be? president trump: well i'll use my head and make a decision but i'll rely on experts. that's what they do. they've been doing it. anthony and deborah have been doing this for many years and i'm going to rely on them but i think hey the worst thing we can do is declare victory. we've seen this. declare victory and then not have victory and then have to do it all over again. we have to get this thing gone, this virus. we have to beat it. we're at war. this is a war. i say it all the time the invisible enemy which is true. we are in war with a horrible thing and we're going to win it and we're getting close to winning it. we're getting close. the people of this country have been incredible. now new york has a big thing

going, they are a hotspot, louisiana which was really not touched until recently and then all of a sudden it blew up, and that's a hotspot and we have some hotspots, parts of new jersey have been dealing with governor murphy and he's terrific. we really have a very good relationship. he's a democrat i'm a republican i mean, i get along with many of them and because i'm doing a good job. they wouldn't be getting along with me if i wasn't producing. we're building hospitals for people for governors all over the country. look you just mentioned california. we have a ship moving there too. in fact it's already opened, and you have a great scene today you'll have the beautiful ship coming up the comfort coming up from virginia, three and a half weeks early it was going to be up there in four weeks and it's now coming up today and i imagine the governor will greet it but that's all done by us and by it's fully stocked and its got great doctors and nurses and everything on it. it's a beautiful sight.

i was there when they sent it up but they sent it out three and a half, four weeks early. steve: we saw that live on the fox news channel the other day. mr. president, you've just mentioned the governor of new york. that of course andrew cuomo. there's been some speculation that because he's handling the coronavirus threat in the new york area the way he is, i just saw a poll this morning, his approval rating on handling this is in the 80s. there's some suggestion that, you know, wouldn't he have been a better candidate for the democrats than joe biden i saw the new york times editorial yesterday. what do you make of that kind of talk? president trump: well one of the reasons his numbers are high on handling it is because of the federal government, because we give him ships and we give him ventilators and we give him all of the things that we're giving him, steve and we're giving him four hospitals and

four medical centers and all of the things that we've done, so i mean, one of the things that i think he'd admit this , one of the reasons he's been successful if i said no we're not giving you four hospitals and we're not giving you four medical centers and we're not sending you ships then he's got to, and we didn't give them thousands of ventilators by the way and millions of masks, because we've sent them a lot of stuff. well one of the reasons he's successful is because we've help ed make him successful. now if he's going to run that's fine. i wouldn't mind running against andrew. i've known andrew for a long time i wouldn't mind that but i'll be honest i think he'd be a better candidate than sleepy joe i wouldn't mind running against andrew. i don't mind running against joe biden. i watch these critiques of me and they're highly sophisticated critiques, where they're written out, joe biden has said, and then they put this very highly sophisticated statement out. i said joe biden didn't write that statement and joe biden doesn't even, i guarantee didn't even see that statement, so no, i think probably andrew be better. i'm telling you right now, i

want somebody at this country that's going to do a great job, and i hope i'm going to win and the polls say i'm going to win. now it's every poll says i'm going to win because you say he's gotten good marks but i've gotten great marks on what we've done with respect to this. i've gotten great marks and even from almost every democrat governor, so i've gotten great marks also, but we want to answer make sure we have a great president and somebody that's capable. i personally don't think joe biden is capable. we'll see what happens. i wish him luck. brian: and he's going to give statements from his basement studio, but let's talk about the $2.2 trillion bill that you just signed into law friday, that's going to help everybody out. what i found that's coming out so consistently from people in all walks from working class to upper class, is how distasteful it is the crap they filed in

there. for example, the do you know mr. president after they got it? you know i know they jammed it down your throat but do you know hours after they got that, after they got their money, they told 100 plus that their last paycheck will be on friday, so they're still getting rid of the people. how can this stand? president trump: because this is the democrats. it's the way they play so just so you understand you do understand all of you, but your audience, maybe most of them understand it too i suspect. we need their votes we have to get their votes they have the house. if we don't get their votes we can't do it so they have the house and they come into us at the last minute pelosi and we actually had a deal done with schumer and everybody and it was a much better visually a much better deal. look the big picture is we have $2.2 trillion and can go up further because we're going to help boeing and the airlines and a lot of great companies and everything stay, because companies that were in great

shape three weeks ago all of a sudden are, you know, struggling for survival. these are companies that never thought about survival. what happened is the democrats come to us with pelosi and her group, her super radical left group. they come to us and they want all sorts of things. we want to change the voting laws. we want to change this. we want windmills, all over the place to ruin everybody's house and farm. we want to do all sorts of things, and radical left, we want the green new deal. they wanted the green new deal. they didn't even know how to define it. i said how do you define the green new deal and they had no idea how to define it and i said which aspect do you want? no more cows, no more airplanes, no more flying you shouldn't be approving because we're going to save the airline so we'll save this bill but you want the green new deal which says you can't fly any more. one car to a house and it has to be electric? i mean these people wanted everything. they wanted things that were so ridiculous and had nothing to do with putting people to just

essentially lost their jobs, putting them back to work. so it's a disgrace. now if we don't approve it then you don't get your deal and we walked and we did everything you have to do and we put them down, by the way if you would have seen this a week before we signed it you wouldn't have believed it and that's why i took an extra week. we wasted a whole week and they have something i'll tell you right now on the unemployment and unemployment insurance where they wanted it delivered a certain way, and i said you'll never get it that way, because the machines, it goes to the states and then the states with 40-year-old equipment are supposed to send it to people. i said it's going to be very very hard for many of the states to send this money, because they are getting hit with too much money and they don't have the equipment and the computers to take care of it many of them not all of them but they wanted it sent this way and i said to the people they are doing a bad thing but when you start reading about it in a week and the people didn't get their money you're going to see that it was the democrats that did it i mean at least i have to say it before the fact, because it'll

blow up because i'm right on things, you know that's what i do. so but we needed their votes, brian. if we didn't have their votes, we had to take care of people. brian: it's the republicans, kentucky even got money for sunscreen research in kentucky. i'm not sure if that's mitch mcconnell related but it looks like republicans piled some stuff in too. you tagged that money for a water project. what is that about? president trump: well, when the democrats do their thing, and when they go out and they do things then the republicans do things, and we had a beautiful, it was beautiful, and then she got involved and she wanted all this nonsense and much of it was nonsense and some of it's okay but it doesn't pertain to people that lost their job and all we do have complicate a bill but money distribution was such a big factor, and they are just doing it the wrong way. it's a complicated way of screwing it up and that's what they wanted and that's what they

always want. they like to see things a mess, and they're a mess. hey look what's going to happen, i think the republicans are going to take back the house. when we take back the house keep the senate and keep the presidency, you'll see things much different. this will never happen, but in the meantime, they have a majority by a number of votes in the house and the one thing with the democrats, frankly i think they are lousy politicians because their policies are no good. they want open borders. they want sanctuary cities, they wanted to fund sanctuary cities in this bill and guarantee me be were going to fund sanctuary cities in this bill, we got it out, there was so many things but they want the open border policy now people don't even fight me on it. i've been fighting you know we're up to 161 miles of wall, and we'll have 500 miles pretty soon toward the end of the year, toward the end of the year we'll have we're getting close to 500 miles of border it's going to be what a difference and by the way the numbers are way down on the border. what a difference the wall makes

, at 161 nobody comes through that area. they can still walk around it, it's a long walk, but nobody comes through the area where we have the wall. its going to be a great blessing once it's up and it's going to be some time next year we'll have over 500 miles of wall. its been an incredible thing. that was not easy to get and now they don't fight me on the wall any more because they know it's a bad subject for them political ly it's a very bad subject and especially since this happened we know you have a strong border, and it's very good. so we needed their votes so they had to agree to things that i hated to agree to them but we would have never had the deal. we took a lot of them out. ainsley: people are hurting they need that money. so mr. president we've been asking throughout the entire show for people to send in their questions, this is from one of our viewers his name is brian. he says why are airports still open with millions of people still traveling from hotspot cities? do you plan to close them? president trump: so we're going to be hopefully before we close

things we're going to start to open things, we think we'll be opening things very soon, airports when you close them and reopen them it's a tremendous deal. it's a tremendous deal in addition you need them for emergency, you have emergency flights. i know there was a situation where people were flying down to florida and you know, we're not putting quarantine, we thought about quarantine, people recommended quarantine a week ago and we studied it and i decided not to do it. we think it's fine, and there's tremendous testing going on also for people going down, sometimes there's testing on both ends but closing it up and reopening them is never easy. it's never very easy, ainsley. steve: also mr. president we got an e-mail from a woman by the name of wendy who says as an er nurse, my co-workers and i are putting our lives and those of our families in direct harm from coronavirus patients.

most of us do not qualify for the stimulus bill and yet our expenses have increased tremendously. have you considered any type of hazard pay for those of us in direct contact with the virus , mr. president? president trump: we are looking at that and we're looking at that as either an amendment or something but you know, these are incredible people. i see it just watching. i see it all the time where these people are walking into wards with so many people that are so sick, and you know, it's like the percentage of them having a problem is relatively high, even when they have the equipment, they have the good equipment because they're getting more and more of the good equipment but these are really brave people. actually they are warriors in a true sense. we are looking at different ways of doing it primarily through the hospitals because we're funding hospitals, and these are generally hospitals that she's talking about, so we are doing it through funding, through the funding of the hospitals, we are asking the hospitals to do it and consider something including bonuses, and i think

they are entitled to it. if anybody is entitled to it they are. brian: yeah i look for politicians to fight for them to get money as opposed to some other force to get money an e-mail from kevin for you, mr. president. if there is another relief bill, how can we stop lawmakers from dipping into it again for special interest projects. man we were just talking about this. do you want to expand? can we stop the next one? president trump: it's just a common facts. they have a majority in the house and therefore you need their vote and they want to get certain things. i will tell you this. if you look at before and after, the things they had in there were crazy. they had things levels of voting that if you ever agreed to it you'd never have a republican elected in this country again. they had things in there about election days, and what you do, and all sorts of clawbacks and they had things that were just totally crazy, and had nothing to do with workers that lost their jobs, & companies that we

have to save, so look, it's an amazing bill because it gives us great flexibility on saving the workers and saving the companies and that includes small businesses. you know, massive amounts of money are going to be put into small business and it's going to help and look, we want to keep the businesses open and we want to keep the jobs going, but if you would have looked at this bill before and after you would have seen tremendous, we thought we were going to walk away from it. we thought we would have to walk away. we did walk away a couple of times actually but we thought we would literally walk away and start all over again they had so much junk in there and it was junk. much of it was junk. ainsley: mr. president, this is an e-mail from anthony who says i have an essential business truck drivers operators are concerned about being exposed as they allow customers into their trucks and cabs. are there any discussions about extending masks to other industries? president trump: well they can do that and some people are doing it. a lot of people don't want to do

that. it's a very unpleasant thing, walking around with a mask all day. i think truck drivers it depends if they are in the cab by themselves they should be in great shape, a truck driver if he's in the cab you've got a lot of safety so i don't know when he says people are going into his cab i'm not exactly sure what kind of a truck that is but i know a lot about trucks. steve: mr. president, speaking of truck drivers and people who work out on the roads, you know right now, with the price of oil below $20 a barrel, because of the price war with producers and the fact that a lot of us simply are not driving the cars any more, people in the oil & gas business are really hurting, and i know you have touted energy independence by the united states for a long time, but you know, they're in some deep separates right now. president trump: will you're right because russia and saudi arabia are fighting, and they've driven down the price of oil and i never thought i'd be saying

that maybe we have to have an oil increase because we do. the price is so low now they're fighting like crazy over distribution and over how many barrels to let go, and by the way, right after this call, i'm speaking to a gentleman named vladimir putin. that's my next call. in fact, he'll be on the phone very shortly, and i'm talking to him about that among other things, because you know, getting along with russia is a good thing. i used to say during the campaign, and then these lousy politicians, they will say russia russia russia. well we have problems with other countries more than russia, frankly. we have problems with and potential problems with other countries too. so no i'm speaking to him in a little while. we're going to discuss that that's one of the subjects we're going to be talking about is energy and you know we don't want to have an industry that's wiped out, and by the way, bad for them and bad for everybody. this is a fight between saudi arabia and russia having to do

with how many barrels to let out , and they both went crazy. there are a lot of business right now. they are storing it in ships. steve: mr. president, pardon me. whose idea was the phone call and what else are you going to talk to him about? president trump: well i'm going to talk to him about that and we're going to talk about trade and we'll talk about trade a lot they would love to be able to do trade with our country. its been very much hindered by the nonsense that's been going on, russia russia russia, which has turned out to be a total hoax when you look at what happened with comey and mccabe and you look at all of the things that happened with mueller and the mueller report, the whole thing turned out to be a hoax, and it really stops us from getting along with other

countries. it's an important country, and we should get along with all countries if possible, and by the way we have the strongest military because of what i've done over the last three years, we have the strongest military in the world. nobody even comes close, but we should get along, because ideal ly we don't have to use it. we should be able to get along with countries. there's a lot of things that russia is involved with, that china is involved with and nobody talks to these people? i spoke to president xi the other night, two nights ago we had a great conversation having to do mostly in that case with what we're doing with the virus and i'll be speaking because russia has a big problem with it too with the virus, so we'll be talkingut literally, that's my next call. brian: yeah, i know you're not concerned about speaking to people that have shown to be enemies of our nation, for example, russia they earned the right to be sanctioned, they are poisoning people, you know what they are doing in eastern europe, rattling the cages of their former soviet union countries and in the middle east killing refugees in a in discriminate fashion as well as

creating havoc in iraq, but when you talk to vladimir putin he's going to ask you to lift sanctions and what are you going to say when he asks that? president trump: i'm the one that put the sanctions on, brian , nobody else. i put the sanctions on. i've been tougher on russia than any president in the history of the country. i put the sanctions on, and they have a lot, yeahs he'll probably ask that. in the meantime he's been asking that for two years, so that's what i do, but i was the one that sanctioned it. they are very heavily sanctioned they don't like that, and frankly, we should be able to get along but when you say about lifting sanctions you make it sound like i'm the soft guy that came along. russia got away with murder. everybody got away with murder against us. china took $500 billion out of our hides for years under obama and bush. for years, 500 billion and now they are paying us billions of dollars i tariff them. nobody even thought that was do able. they are paying us hundreds of

billions of dollars, so you know , i know more about sanctions because i'm the one that put them on russia, and nobody as an example, the russian pipeline. the russian pipeline, you never even heard of the russian pipeline until i came along and how about this. brian: the sanctions are real. president trump: there's nobody else. brian: absolutely mr. president think about how venezuela, madur a would have been history had they been out of venezuela. president trump: i'm not saying they are babies or perfect. we might discuss that too by the way. i'm not saying they are proprietary but they also fought world war ii and lost 50 million people. they were our partner in world war ii. germany was the enemy, and germany is like this wonderful thing, well germany makes advantage of us on trade for years. they pay far too little in nato. they are paying 1% but they are supposed to pay 2% and nobody talks about that. it's sort of interesting.

if you look at russia, russia lost 50 million people at world war ii. 50 million. they were fighting along with us , they were our partner, and now we don't talk to russia, we talk to germany. i mean, look it's fine. i want to talk to germany. my father was born, germany is in my heritage, it might be in your heritage. i'm not saying anything wrong. i'm just saying how come we talk to some people, we don't talk to others? where does it go? so and it is true as you look, take a look at world war ii. take a look at the staggering losses that and they were fighting with us. brian: then you have the cold war. ainsley: mr. president let me ask you a question a lot of people are concerned about, i'm getting a lot of text messages from family and friends and people on facebook have questions about these drugs that you're testing? i know you're in the middle of the trial. people are scared and when you have a loved one in the hospital and many of us do in new york and fighting for their lives they want to know which drugs are the best. i know you're looking at these

anti-malaria drugs, and you're looking at remdesivir and an hiv and breast cancer drug doctors think might help. which therapy is showing most promise? president trump: first of all we'll have a vaccine i think within a little bit less than -- ainsley: that's because we're worried about a resurgence? president trump: we're doing really good with the vaccines but that's not for right now. i have friends in the hospital one has two problems, he's heavy and not so young, not exactly a youngster and he's in a coma, so you know, this is tough stuff. so the hydroxychloroquine is something that i have been pushing very hard, i got the very early approval from the fda, it was going to take a long time and dr. steven hahn, the head of the fda gave us a very quick approval, a 24 hour approval because the drug has been used and the other with the

z-pack, and zithromycin, so i think that we'll have have a good idea over the next three days because its been used now in new york at my request, 1,100 people, its been used, i think that's better than testing in a laboratory but you know the doctors tell me no, some doctors tell me no, but whatever it is it is, and i got it done because i said look some of these people are very sick and they're not going to make it let's do it. let's get it done. it's like right to try. i got that approved where people that was trying to get approved for 50 years they couldn't and i got it done people that were terminally ill weren't allowed to use potentially good drugs because they weren't approved so i have it where they can use them and by the way the results have been unbelievable. they travel to asia, to europe to get drugs and we gave them hope but it's more than hope because these drugs are in many cases they've been working and saving lives. its been a great thing called right-to-try.

so this is sort of that. somebody's really sick or dying , and we try this , and i can tell you, it's a big sample. 1,100 people, and let's see what happens, we're going to start knowing about this stuff in a very very near future, very near steve: well that sounds very promising. mr. president, i think i've heard from a lot of my neighbors that they are, they like to see your press conferences toward the end of the day just to know where we are in this fight against this invisible evil, as you referred to it. i'm sure that you have looked at what other presidents have done in times of great challenge like this. with the american people watching right now what's one thing, i heard you say yesterday , we're going to get through this together. what's one thing you want the american people to know about the next month which starts now. president trump: well, i think it's going to be a month of

achievement. i think it's going to be a month where all of the hard work that they've done because that's hard wok, although some people would view it as they really have learned a lot about themselves and their families, but it's hard work to stay in place, to distance yourself, nobody has ever heard it. washing hands a lot is good. i've always washed my hands a lot, but people some people probably didn't, but washing hands is good. i think a lot of this stuff by the way is going to stay with us for the future. dr. fauci told me that if people kept this going, the flu be much less severe if people would practice the same kind of thing between the distancing and the washing hands and you know another one is not shaking hands i was never a big lover of that. once i became a politician, you either embrace it or you can get out of politics very quickly because you're not going to do very well, but it's possible that a custom like that like in japan what they do is they nod their head, they do a little bit of that stuff, but they don't

shake hands and you know, they were a little ahead of their times so let's see whether or not that sticks after this is gone, but the big thing is it will be gone, it will be gone hopefully sooner rather than later, and hopefully, we will keep the deaths down to the absolute minimum number. there is tremendous death but we'll keep them down to the minimum number. if we didn't do well, the number s be many times what they be the way we're doing it so that's the big thing. i just hope we'll have a tremendous success. brian: and mr. president a lot of people as you mentioned the families are together for the first time, the college kids are home, high school kids are home, grammar school kids are home, the family is doing the home schooling for the first tomb and i'm just wondering, you do have a family. you've got barron is supposed to be in school, and melania is home, how do they keep themselves occupied in the white

house? have they been watching netflix or fox nation solely? president trump: well barron isn't so unhappy. they said you can't go to school i wouldn't say he sat up and complained about it, but you know, we're working with the school and the school gives lessons through the computers and through every other means they have. they have a lot of different means and all of those kids where barron goes, they are learning. that's another thing. i think education is i think it goes back. i think what can be better than being in a school, but education is even changing when you see meetings are changing all of the teleconferencing. i did a g 20 and a g 7 by teleconference, meetings that we would have met the leaders of countries and i did it by teleconference so its been a great experience and the problem is the result is and the thing that we just have to cherish is

life. you look at what's going on, its been just so horrible to see it. i've never seen, i grew up near elmhurst and i look at elmhurst hospital in queens and i've known it and i can tell you all about it, what it looks like, what color it is and elmhurst hospital in queens is like literally a big source. it's terrible what's going on. it's body bags all over, they are bringing in refrigerator trucks to put the bodies in, refrigerated truck, big van, big trucks are coming in, no. it's a very sad thing, but we're going to beat it and we're getting much closer than further , and everybody has done an incredible job and we'll have a victory and don't forget with 151 countries out there going through the same thing, but they don't have in many cases they don't have money and they don't have things that we have. we have the greatest economy in history and all of a sudden one day, they said everybody has to stop, nobody can go to work, we

have to stop and we think of this , we're paying people not to go to work. it was always the opposite. we paid people to work now we're paying people not to go to work and with that i have to go to work too. ainsley: mr. president, before you leave one last question, could i ask you, how can we pray for you? president trump: well, i would love that. i would love to say how the evangelical community, the christian community and communities of faith for the most part have been on my side you saw that in the last election and i think you'll see it even moreso in this election, but when people say that to me it's always a great honor, ainsley. i know how you feel, and it's always a great honor. ainsley: the bible is clear we need to pray for our leaders and we are many in this country are clinging to god right now so thank you, mr. president and thanks for joining us. president trump: thank you very much ainsley and thank you, steve and brian. i appreciate it and it's great being with you always. it's like the old times, but this is a serious deal, and

we'll get it taken care of. we will win and it'll be fairly soon. brian: yes. steve: all right, mr. president thank you very much. president trump: thank you all. steve: now let's bring in fox news medical contributor dr. mark siegel he joins us as well. dr. siegel what's your headlines from our 54 minute chat with the president? >> well, steve first of all, he's very concerned about what's going on in some of our hospital s he talked about elmhurst again and how struck he is by elmhurst and what they've gone through and he's very saddened by this. you can see his emotions in a very stirring phone interview you just did but he's optimistic and also saying we're going to beat this and he's showing courage and conviction. on top of that he brought in very specific details that i was very glad to hear. this point of care test he's talking about that abbott is putting out is absolutely a game changer, steve. if i have that in my hands and i

did can test and tell you in five minutes whether you have covid-19 or not i can figure out whether you should be isolated or whether you should be in quarantine, who you're in contact with. this will help us gain control over this and he said it's going to be out very very soon. he also talked extensively, ainsley, asked him about hydroxy chloroquine which a lot of people are optimistic about healthcare workers many are taking it as a preventive when they go into the battle, if you will, into the battle, and he said 1,100 people are being tested with this in new york right now and that means over the next several days, we're going to figure out what the actual effects are, even though it isn't strictly a clinical trial. it's a very good idea to be given it to so many people see ing what the impacts are and the last thing i want to mention is he talked about supplies coming into new york. the comfort coming into new york javot center having a 3,000 bed hospital, masks he said something i never thought of very very smart point which is

we can take n 95 respirators and sterilize them and reuse them it's a very good thing so supplies hopefully we're heading towards a reduction of all of the deficiencies of supplies and more personal protective equipment for our healthcare workers. brian: dr. siegel when the numbers start going down in new york as much as they went up first they are expected to go down first in new york and when we try to get back to normal can you see a scenario where before we enter buildings we have our temperature taken on our forehead, maybe we walk around and we have enough n 95 masks with that and we go to work and if somebody tests positive, then we do some deep cleaning on that floor, or that office, and we abandon it and go somewhere else could that be the graduate way of getting back to work? >> yes, brian and i would add to that something that we got to add to the equation. we have another test coming out, a blood test, that will help us tell whether you're over this infection, whether you have

an immunity to it. that's going to help guide us. right now we're saying let's test another nasal swab and if you have one or two negatives go back to work. that's an imperfect science but once we have the blood test coupled with the other tests i've been telling you about the rapid five minute test, we're going to be able to say okay, now you're over it. now you have immunity and now you can get back to work so we're going to be able to use technology to guide us but brian you're talking about the epicenter here in new york and we have to go a little slower here and get more control over it in new york. i think the other associated point that the presidents been making is what about other areas what about the 19 states that haven't been hard hit? why can't we focus in on the epicenters and really gain control over them while loosening things a bit in other places? ainsley: dr. siegel, easter is right around the corner two weeks away. if people self-quarantine now, what's your opinion of getting together with family members, someone was asking that and i probably would not do it but do you recommend that for that are okay with it if both sides have

been self-quarantined? >> i don't think they should, ainsley. i think it's too soon. i think that the president was very optimistic in bringing that up because he wants to create a positive spirit, but this is evolving situation and i think that more hot spots are occur ring and its becoming more of a problematic situation day by day. i think it's better we don't have gatherings right now and that easter be unfortunately enough time to change any of that but clearly, online, interactions any way we can in smaller numbers is advic able. we have to keep in mind that we have the american spirit to think about here and hope and prayer and compassion and courage. all of that can not be diminished by this virus. steve: that's right and dr. siegel as well, some of the things the president has said over the last 12 hours is that they do expect the virus to

hit its peak in the next week or two, which puts it right there, during easter and so that's troubling. we've heard and just a quick answer if you would. we've heard that the next week is going to be pretty rough. >> now we understand that we don't have to -- we aren't

getting charged for the deductible. that's great to know. steve and ainsley, see you tomorrow. >> fox news alert president trump extending social distancing guidelines through the end of april saying the u.s. could see coronavirus deaths peak in the coming weeks. good morning, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: good morning. the u.s. is the hardest hit country in the world. 143,000 covid-19 cases, more than 2500 deaths. cdc advising people in new york, new jersey and connecticut to avoid all non-essential domestic travel for two weeks. more states mandate restrictions on travelers from coronavirus hot spots. what the president had to say about the extended shutdown. >> president trump: if we didn't shut it down. i used to say -- a lot of