it's one of those things that everyone has to get accustomed to right now. do it in the best way you can. rob: that's right. good to see you, jillian. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> we just continue to urge every american to put into practice the president's coronavirus guidelines. it's working, america. and it's working because you are doing it. and we encourage you onward in that. steve: you just heard him. it's working, america. vice president mike pence sending a message of hope as coronavirus cases here in the united states have topped 466,000. ainsley. ainsley: yeah. steve, the nation is showing progress in some of the nation's hardest hit areas. new york the epicenter seeing 200 new hospitalizations on wednesday. that's 1200 less than the previous average; brian. brian: those are great numbers. this, despite new york, becoming

the epicenter of the world remain so as cases near 162,000. that's almost 9,000 more cases than spain, the country with the second highest amount of patients. hi, everybody. it's going to be a huge show when you see our roster of guests, especially. what i notice, too, a lot of the models that just use the numbers that they were given projected a lot of things more severely than it actually turned out. for example, in california, they have done an extraordinary job to date. they thought they were going to have 4800 beds needed. they actually only needed 2200. louisiana they said we are going to need 6400 beds. right now they only need 1700. for new york, as you know, governor cuomo constantly saying he needs more beds. he needs only 15,000 beds. the projection was 58,000. continue to do what we are doing. because the numbers and the models are going in the right direction; steve. steve: that's right, brian. you know, when people -- during the show today, we are going to talk about how some inside the

administration have said cracking down and closing the entire country essentially for at least a month was an overreaction. but, when you look at how the models are now being turned downward, that's a good thing. do you know what that says? that says to me that what we're doing is working. and the united states has rallied together in this time of need and we have figured out how to save lives. that lower estimate just is an affirmation that we have saved perhaps hundred of thousands of lives pause we're social distancing. we do it every day. that's one of the reasons why we are in three different studios right now. coming up on the program today we know you have got questions we have got dr. marc siegel. we have dr. nicole saphier. we have dr. oz. also general jack keane. we have got secretary eugene scalia. and because it is good friday, timothy cardinal dolan. if you have a question for him.

email him. these are trying times. he will address america's spirit. or you can find us on facebook. america together, a "fox & friends" living room concert with country super star lee bryce. he has something real special for us coming up at 8:45 this morning. ainsley: his music is incredible. he has been a friend of the show. he wrote a new song which is something you need to wait around for, because it is worth it. we also have a big lineup. as you said today is good friday. easter is on sunday. and that's supposed to be the big peak for deaths. that usually lags behind the number hospitalized. the hospital visits are down across our country. showing signs that we're all following the rules. so, good for you, america. an encouraging message for american workers. president trump promising that the united states will recover from the coronavirus pandemic. listen. >> we have tremendous stimulus.

we have tremendous stimulus plans. we are going to have a big bounce, rather than a small bounce. but, we will be back. ainsley: unfortunately that bounceback could be months away. >> the mitigation efforts seem to be bearing fruit. the numbers are enormously improved. let us hope we can open this economy in the next 4 to 8 weeks. brian: we have got to start doing what we are doing and that's to stand up a plan to open 00 economy again. provide relief forever struggling americans told to go home and stop working. lawmakers ramping up talks with secretary mnuchin the treasury secretary as democrats out of nowhere shoot down funding for small business. i didn't know small business was a democrat or republican thing, steve. steve: meanwhile the president is expediting help to farmers that provide our nation's food

tweeting, quote: i expect secretary purdue to use all the funds and authorities at his disposal to make sure that our food supply is stable, strong, and safe. we will always be there for our great farmers, cattle men, ranchers and producers. that's where we're right now. let's bring in our first guest to the day former ambassador to the united nations nikki haley. governor, ambassador, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning, hey, guys. steve: there is a story out in the new york -- rather "the washington post" that says the president wants to reopen the country for business activity on may 1st when the federal social distancing guidelines ends. but the question is how do you do it? where do you do it? as stephen moore, one of the president's advisors said, ambassador, donald trump's presidency depends on getting this right. because, essentially, we don't want to go over the hump and then have another hump.

the last thing you want is two peaks. so what do you think we do? >> i think the president and the administration are doing things right. what you want to do is make sure that the health and safety of people is number one. but you also want to have a second track where you are working on the economy. and that means that you keep going in the direction you are going with health and safety. and when we get to april 30th, then go and evaluate you know, have we reached the bench marks that we want to and what do we do to open businesses. the reality is you have got a lot of people who have already tested positive, who have already gone through it. are we getting them to donate their plasma. that should be the first thing. the second thing is where are we in the testing? where are the hot spots? what can we start to open up? i think to do this in a smart way, you have to have a health track and you have to have an economic track. i think both of those can move at the same time. but each is dependent on the other. so it will depend, april 30th, on where both of those stand.

i think he is smart to be looking at both of them at the same time. ainsley: ambassador, mitch mcconnell is trying to get more money for small businesses because that paycheck protection program they are going to run out of money. so many of these small businesses are going to the banks. banks are saying they are overloaded with paperwork. they need more money but that didn't pass yesterday in the senate. democrats did not like the republican bill. so here's the president talking about how our lawmakers need to work together. >> with congress to replenish the very successful, incredibly successful the way it's going paycheck protection program which is allowing hundreds of thousands of small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll, meaning it will keep those businesses open. we need both democrats and republicans to come together to get this legislation completed. and it looks like it's on its way but we need both. and it should be for people that

are working, for the workers. ainsley: mitch mcconnell said that his colleagues are treating the american worker as political hostages and they're playing games with a crisis. what's your message to the democrats? >> i think bottom line is, there is no reason to believe that they couldn't have passed mitch mcconnell's bill. it would help small businesses it. would help workers. if they have something else they want to do, go ahead and pass that when you get your support and when you get the ideas to do that we need to get this program done. we have small businesses they typically don't have 45 days worth of reserves there. they have people who have been loyal and worked with them that they want to keep. they can only do it with this program. so now is not the time to be playing games. now is the time to get money in the hands of those that want to keep employing people. want to keep their businesses open. and while you have got members of congress fighting over this, there is no time to waste if you have a small business. they need the money now.

brian: all right. as you know, there is very few people with more international experience than you, especially our governor, and have you got this experience and you also know this administration. now, there is a big push now as people starting to look around around say how did this happen? what did the w.h.o. do? senate foreign relations subcommittee and they're calling for the w.h.o. chief. i don't know if you have met him or not, to resign. after all what he said in martha china has done a wonderful job at containing this and try to rebuke the president for putting in the chinese travel ban, from not acknowledging the existence of tijuana. do you think it's time for this guy to resign he? came back at us and said if you don't want more body bags, stop politicizing this. what do you think, governor? >> i think senator rich has it right. he wants to do a full investigation. i mean, look at the timeline. you have got december 30th tijuana goes and tells the w.h.o. we believe and have

evidence that there is human-to-human transmission. then you have juan 13th. the head of the w.h.o. ted degree says we don't see any evidence of human-to-human transition. transmission. a week later decide if it's an international crisis. they don't make a decision that day. instead tedroz travels to china to meet with them. a week later he comes back and says they decide, okay, this could be an emergency but you don't need to limit travel and you don't need to limit trade. yet, the president does it anyway and tedros criticizes him for doing that the american people have every right to ask the w.h.o. questions. the american people deserve to know why taiwan was ignored and china was listened. to say those are real questions that need real answers. the idea that he went back offer after the president and said do

you want to see more body bags. i have dealt with those guys at the u.n. for a long time. that's what they do. they turn the tables whenever they are criticized. and they have to be held accountable just like we would hold any american agency accountable. this was a world pandemic that they could have stopped as soon as a month prior. we pay 22% of the w.h.o. doesn't mean who pace the most gets what they want. but it does mean we deserve answers and we deserve to hold them accountable and he has a lot of questions to answer right now. steve: no kidding. if we had just known so much more ahead of time we might be in a different spot right now. meanwhile, in the pages of the "new york times," which a lot of people aren't picking up. they are actually reading online. you have got an op-ed. and it is the headline is you say focus on your governor, not trump. what are you saying, former governor? >> well, what i said is in the op-ed is i say, of course, the president has to manage the

federal response. that's what a president does. but once he pushes that aid out, then it is up to the governors. the governors have to know what's in their warehouses. they have to know how to distribute it to the people. they have to know where the hot spots are. they typically know the vulnerabilities. they know their hospitals. they know their mayors. they know how to coordinate. have you seen governors on both sides of the aisle really shine through this process. and then you have seen some governors who have actually been somewhat complaining and not sure what to do. and, you know, it's just talking about the way that government was intended to run. when i was governor and we knew a crisis was coming, we developed those relationships with the feds. we warned them of what we were going to need, where our vulnerabilities were going to be. when the crisis hit us, the feds sent it down and we were in charge of distributing it. so this is the time now where the governors are center stage and the states that are doing well, those governors are going to be praised for it. and the states that aren't doing

well, those governors need to learn from those mistakes and make sure that when this happens again they are prepared. ainsley: you and your husband have served migrate state, south carolina, as you know where i was born and where my family still lives, and we thank you so much for your service. your husband is in the national guard in south carolina. tell the folks at home the news about what he is about to go and do. >> well, he was activated about a week ago, along with other members of the military to help in the covid crisis. you know, it's amazing he was deployed in afghanistan. now he is deployed to help with covid-19. and they are working to coordinate with hospitals to make sure that they have the beds available, to make sure that if they need extra space it is happening. it is once again the great men and women of the military are stepping up to do whatever is needed for their country. and this is what they do. they wait for the call. and when the call comes, no complaining, no questions. they get up and they do it. we are real proud of him.

brian: governor, now president of the united states, he has approval ratings at 49%. it's as high as it has been in this very polarized country. when it comes to these 5:00 press conferences, some even on the right are saying hey, mr. president, run them but end them quicker. because it ends up being so personal with him and the press. where do you stand on that? >> well, i think any time there is a crisis, a leader needs to do two things. one they need to overcommunicate, which he clearly is doing. and the second thing is they need to be able to show vision of what it is going to look like on the other side of the crisis. and i think that the president is good to show up every day and let people know he is on it. but, i also think he needs to let his experts speak. let them talk about it. i think he should go and set the tone. i think he should let them put out the data. they should answer any questions that the press has and then they should leave. i don't think they need to be too long. i don't think he needs to feel

like he needs to answer everything. but i do think we need to hold, you know, his members of the task force accountable. i think what would be really good is for him to have a health report but left of center have an economic report at the same time. now we're going to start to see both of those at the same time. but i think that there is a reason he has got a 44% approvl rating. people feel comfortable task force knows what he is doing. the vice president has done a great job leading that the president has done a great job with the tone and putting priorities in place. and now we just have to continue to pray for all of them that they continue to lead and get us through this. steve: all right. governor, ambassador, thank you very much for joining us from kiwah island in south carolina. if you have to be anywhere, it's a lovely place to be. ainsley: true. steve: thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you. steve: all right. meanwhile, 6:15 here in the east. attorney general bill barr has a stern message for critics who

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>> the federal government, the justice department specifically has 115,000 peopleho are dedicated to protecting the public safety. including preventing narcotics trafficking. and we are actually able to do more than one thing at a time. drugs kill 70,000 americans a year. and we have to make sure that during this period the cartels are not taking advantage of the united states. brian: yeah, that's 10,000 more than this current crisis would

kill in terms of americans. meanwhile, the administration's attention to stopping the flow of drugs across our border continues while also combating the spread of the coronavirus. here to discuss that acting cbp commissioner mark morgan. tell us what is happening with the drug cartels. have they stopped trafficking because we have a corona crisis? >> no. brian, i mean, thanks for bringing this to the attention of the american people. i mean, anybody that criticizes this attorney general right now for attacking a significant threat that that plagues this country will continue. that's ridiculous. what's the next criticism that he shouldn't focus on terrorism? as he said last year 70,000 people in this country died because of drugs at the hands of these disgusting, despicable cartels. yeah we should absolutely continue to focus on that. hallmark of cbp we can focus on more than one threat at a time. more people died because of drug

overdoses than the coronavirus. we need to keep this in perspective. brian: especially when people go through stress. if you have a drug problem you go through that again and drugs more readily available it makes it worse. mark, give us an idea what's happening at the border. with this crisis we basically close the border. give us what this is like in 2019 as opposed to 2020. who is being held in our facilities? >> well, brian, you are spot on. and that's what the american people need to understand. first of all, this president is taking aggressive containment mitigation strategies. is he doing so reasonably. the border is still open to commercial trade and travel. that's very important. that hasn't been closed off. but what has been closed off are people are trying to enter this country illegally that haven't been vetted. we don't know who they are and we don't know where they have traveled or come from. that's directly related to covid-19. last may, keep this in perspective, we were receiving 144,000 a month. that's over 35,000 per week.

and back then our facilities were overwhelmed. these people we were releasing them into the shelters and faith based organizations and into the interior of the united states. can you imagine if we had that flow right now in the middle of this global pandemic? back then last may cbp we had over 20,000 individuals in our custody. i checked the data right before i walked in to talk to you guys, we had less than 100. that is unbelievable. so that's a direct result of this president's containment mitigation strategies. that is hundreds of thousands of less people that are being released into the united states during this global pandemic. brian: mark, you told me something astounding in the break. most of them are mexicans, unlike the situation a year ago. so they go right back to their other countries. in central america or those triangle countries, they have te ahold of their situation it seems. have you guys restored the aid to those countries? >> yes. we have. the president actually did that a few months ago because they really had stepped up as true

partners in the last 9 or 10 months to really help stem the flow. you are exactly right. last may, you know, 65%, 75% were actually coming from the northern triangle countries, families. a lot of that has changed because of mexico and the northern triangle countries. what we saw then is it shifted from the majority come from the northern triangle country to now the majority are mexican nationals. we are still seeing that now even though ever since we instituted these travel restrictions we have seen the flow just the past few weeks drop by 50% of those trying to illegally enter. but the majority are still mexico sans. brian: border under control even under these dire circumstances. mark morgan, thank you so much. >> you bet. thank you. brian: you got it. mean while, it's a somber scene, churches across the country empty on good fry day. millions of americans and christians around the world prepare to celebrate easter sunday at home. jonathan morris is here with how we can all keep the faith.

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parents would try to keep kids quiet from 3:00 p.m. because those are the hours that jesus hung on the cross and died. now we are all living it in isolation and with fear and anxiety. those feelings that jesus had as he was going to the cross. ainsley: wow. what a great tradition. i'm going to start that with hayden. what a good idea. you had good parents. monday day thursday. foot washing ceremony in new york. every service pretty much is canceled. you have hear a few that are staying open and controversy there. on easter sunday, how can we celebrate. what do you recommend we do your families? >> well, there is no easter sunday if there is not a good friday. right? we all want miracles we all love the resurrection of easter sunday. that doesn't make sense if there wasn't suffering first. we would like the miracle notify suffering. if we look in the bible.

there is no miracles without going through a process like we even think about the multiplication of the loaves, something that we all know. jesus went and took the little that they h the two fish, the five loaves and then he multiplied them over and over again. the biggest miracle of easter sunday was a process. the worst process. it was him -- jesus being arrested. jesus suffering. thorns. during this time it's time to walk through the process of the miracle. doing things very simple. i think it's very important of getting up out of bed, making your bed. getting dressed even if you don't have any place to go. making a to do list. making another to do list which we will do for other people. doing exercise. and then, of course, praying. and this year maybe like no other year, we're able to pray in solitude and quiet and i think it could be the best good

friday and easter sunday that we have ever had. ainsley: i was passion of the christ recently you can't watch that movie without sobbing because the man you love the most went through so much for all of us. it's ironic that the peak of number of deaths? our country is supposed to hit on easter. what do you make of that? >> i hadn't thought about this before until you just said it. easter is about refresh your recollection. because of the cross. because of jesus' death, our death is also refresh your recollection. also resurrection. yes i want his reredemption. as sad as it is, for christians we believe in the refresh your n from the dead. if we work through process of these holy holy days we will see not only light but joy at the end of our lives.

ainsley: most churches are having services. sending sermons. go to your websites and your church websites and you can usually stream live. watch the minister or the priest praying and delivering a service. are you doing something like that? >> i'm doing my own facebook page and instagram. but i'm also following other people, right? and following -- this is a time when we can either get bitter or better. we have a choice to make. so easy when the churches were all open to say maybe i will go. maybe i won't go. the last 20 years the united states, the church attendance has gone down so much, ainsley, as you know. and i think this is time when we can say oh, wow, everything is closed, i better figure out what the answers to life are. i better look for it. i better find inspiration. ainsley: put on your sunday best or watch your service in your pajamas. >> no doubt. ainsley: happy easter to you. >> thank you, ainsley.

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staff how much they are appreciated. that says it in a big way in a red, white, and blue way. for more inspiring stories like this head to foxnews.com/america together. welcome aboard, folks. joining us right now from about 40 miles south of me in jersey, heat hegseth. "fox & friends weekend" co-host and author of the upcoming book "american crusade." pete, good morning to you. pete: good morning, guys. i wish i could have a flag that size outside my house. i tried but it's outside of code. steve: i saw the cover of your new book. you are caring one almost that big. pete, you know, in washington, it's all about politics, yet mitch mcconnell and the republicans were trying to get through another quarter of a trillion dollars increase in the paycheck protection program for small businesses but the democrats objected they would like to see half of it go to smaller community based banks.

just about 15 minutes ago we had nikki haley on. she took a look at what's going on in d.c. and had this message about what's happening. watch. >> we need to get this program done. you have got small businesses. they typically don't have 45 days worth of reserves there. they have got people who have been loyal and worked for them that they want to keep and they can only do it with this program. and so now is not the time to be playing games. now is the time to get money in the hands of those that want to keep employing people. want to keep their businesses open. and while, you know, have you got members of congress fighting over, this there is no time to waste if you have a small business. they need the money now. steve: they do need the money now, pete. here's the thing, after it goes through the senate. then nancy pelosi and the house will do something. even at this time of crisis, there are politics involved. pete: well, yeah. we saw it with the 2 trillion-dollar bill that democrats want to add. their wish list to this. and, you know, no emergency,

can't let a crisis go to waste. i think i talked to a number of small business owners yesterday over the phone. and they are trying to work through their banks to get access to this loan. a lot of the money hasn't been released yet. but they are confident it will be. they are also worried it may run out. this is in the back of the minds of people who do not want to furlough or lay off more workers. passionately. and they want to do right by their people in this truly man made economic crisis. so, democrats better be careful here because if you are going to play political games and try to make it about something else, pretty soon the american people see through that. i have think mitch mcconnell is very smart to say let's bring this 250 -- 2.0 small business bill forward because it's narrowly tailored to the people that need it the most. and if nancy pelosi wants to play games with it, i think the president and mitch mcconnell and others should be adamant about the fact that this is exactly what we need targeted to the people that need it. and, yes, we have a federalist system where the states have a

lot of control. and that's the way it should be. i love how the president has handled it that way. but when it comes to federal dollars. states are beholden to the federal government. so i support nikki haley's message here. they have got to get out of way and do it right. brian: right. it's unbelievable. small business is not a democrat or republican thing. small business. pete: exactly. brian: everybody agreed they needed to be bailed out. they didn't have enough money there instead they started jamming in all types of other things instead of doing a quick fix. it is so tone deaf. i think have you got to maybe get a governor in charge, a chris christie, of getting that money. making that argument. and start getting politics out of it meanwhile no politics involved with the usns ships the comfort and mercy one in california and one in new york. and one hospital corpsman was very emotional and talking about what it means to be deployed in new york city. let's watch. >> this mission has been really

special to me. my uncle actually responded to 9/11 with the comfort. he was a firefighter in the army at the time having this opportunity to be here and follow in his footsteps is motivation for me joining the military. it's pretty awesome. >> now they are starting to take coronavirus patients and helping out a lot, pete. a lot of people like you, joined after 9/11. we spent two decades after 9/11 fighting in other people's country. to defend our own, no doubt about that. when you are over there, sometimes the connection is less tangible. here she is in her own backyard

city in america wearing our nation's uniform helping citizens of this country. we often thought about that overseas what if i was in my neighborhood or my state, defending my state from a foreign foe or in this grace a virus adds a whole another level why you are in it and why you serve. clearly service is in this corpsman's d.n.a. god bless her. i think there is an extra charge into a lot of these men and women because they're helping their own right here on our shores. and after couple decades of being far-flung across the globe. >> you think about that so young if even born own uncle on that she ship serving our country infantry. here she is doing the same thing. what indelible difference in her life. now they are making in all of our lives. we interviewed ambassador nikkii haley on the show former governor of south carolina.

and her husband she told us is going to be deployed help domestically with covid-19. which is wonderful. the banner on the problem afghanistan. he has served overseas. he is going to be doing the very thing. what is that for you? you have served our country. what does it mean to you when you know you are so needed right here every single shoulder is needed right here on the front lines in america? pete: listen, like i said, for a couple decades. even the national guard and our reserves were deploying overseas. in this case you are seeing a very proper orientation of what these men and women can do to serve our own citizens to put americans first and be there in this crisis. that adds a whole another layer. this virus is different. i fought invisible enemies that didn't want to wear uniforms and hid in the shadows and hid behind women and children in

insurgency in iraq and afghanistan. this is a verizon hidden as well. we don't know who it could hit less we know fellow americans. someone with the skills that can give back, what an amazing moment to be able to say hey, i'm raising my right hand for my country and doing it for my country men on my soil just like overseas, you are doing it because you love your country. it's great -- it's cool to see. steve: it is indeed, pete. you know, we have a lot of more viewers right now because so many people are not working. and they are home from school and whatnot. pete: yeah. steve: in addition to the fox news channel and fox business we have something new over the last year. we have something called fox nation, if you haven't heard about it go to fox nation.com. a streaming service so you can see all sorts of unique content. pete has just unveiled season three of battle in the holy land now available on fox nation. here's a clip of it. let's take a look and then

discuss. pete: right here where i'm standing is the front edge of the judea and sumaria heights which overlook israel proper. jerusalem the airport, tel aviv and beyond it on a clear day the mediterranean sea. 70% of israel's population and industrial base can be seen from this point. whoever controls the hills of jew dated a and sumaria controls israel. steve: and you know what, pete? this is perfect to be watching during holy week. here we are good friday. people are more interested. fox nation.com. what would you like to say about this? pete: yeah. this is a really personal and special project to me. i love the land of israel and had chance to do battle in the holy city jerusalem. battle in the birth land and now battle in the holy land judea and sumaria usually known as the west bank about settlements there and how both sides view it and what it means for the state of israel in that very holy land. listen, if you are like me and sick of watching garbage

television on netflix, go to fox nation. it works the exact same way and you are going to learn something, especially in this holy season. we'll went on the ground. we were there. we went to these settlements big and small. we went and talked to palestinian activists. we got caught in a floit ram la in two to three minutes -- i think we might even have a clip of it. it was two to three minutes about as dicey as when i was deployed. if we have a clip, we can roll it. pete: we are in the middle of it. it was a tense scene. and as we drove past the smoldering tires that had blocked the road a few minutes earlier, we soon discovered how things can get ugly quickly. unbeknownst to us the riot was still going on which had been triggered by israeli counter-terrorism raid into ram la the night before. pete: we were in between. we didn't have a gun this time.

we had one palestinian driver and a civilian car. they ripped the camera off our hood and smashed it yelling allah akbar. they are throwing molotov cocktails. we if our drivers had not made crazy moves we would not have gotten out. i remember thinking for a couple minutes i have no idea where it ends. it's a reminder of you who dramatic that part of the world is as they fight over some very holly terrain. i hope folk also check it out. brian: biggests this weekend and you have your special that's going to be on fox nation, too, right? pete: yes. brian: thanks,. pete: pete you got it guys, thank you. have a great weekend. ainsley: happy easter. brian: meanwhile, new york state has more corona case in the country than the world. signs point to stabilization. numbers keep going down for hospitalizations. dr. marc siegel breaks down the

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>> we are seeing rather dramatic need for hospitalizations. yesterday was something like 200 new hospitalizations and it's been as high as 1400 at any

given time. so that is going in the right direction i always remind myself when i say that that means what we are doing is working. we need to continue to do it. steve: well, another hopeful sign that the coronavirus curve is flattening in the nation's epicenter, new york as hospital admissions in the city now reach the lowest level sips the state shut down began last month. here to weigh in on those numbers fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. mark, so we're not over the hump yet are the governor says. >> we are definitely not over the hump yet, but starting to see a flattening in hospitalizations which is the most important number, steve. remember, deaths can lag behind that. people people dying hundred. people diagnosed two weeks ago and we have been trying to

struggle to save them on ventilators. there is a delay while we either save somebody or we decedent. hospitalization rate is a direct indicator of how many new cases there are there. we have so many asymptomatic cases or cases that have mild symptoms that we're missing that really, when we see severe cases, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg. but they tell us that the overall case rate must be going down if the number of hospitalizations is not going up. steve: yeah. but we cannot relax yet because the social distancing is what is bringing all the numbers down. tony fauci had this to say about what long lasting impact social distancing could have. listen, mark. >> i don't think we ever should ever shake hands ever again to be honest with you. i threw that out there to get people to start thinking much more about personal hygiene and the way that impacts the spread of a really deadly infection.

steve: yep. so maybe the end of hand shaking. >> well, steve, listen, as you pointed out before you came on, we are developing a herd immunity slowly where more and more people had it, they at any time know they had it. they will slow the spread. dr. fauci is right. we have to learn a new normal. it's not that shaking hands is bad. it's that it has germ geothermals. and you are sending germs to another person. and the same thing with standing too close and the same thing with not washing your hands. let's learn a new way of commune indicating where we show our caring by not shaking hands. steve: very good. marc siegel thank you for joining us on this good friday. still ahead the labor secretary and karl rove. ♪ limu emu & doug

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>> we just continue to urge every american to put into practice the president's coronavirus guidelines. it's working, america. and it's working because you are doing it, and we encourage you onward in that. ainsley: it's working, america. vice president mike pence sending a message of hope as coronavirus cases top 466,000 here in the united states. brian: yep. now seeing lowest level of hospitalizations. this is key, since the outbreak started. the state admitting 200 new patients on wednesday. compare that to 1400 new patients being admitted at any given time. so new york is doing it right.

steve: meanwhile, this all comes despite new york becoming the pirnght of the world regarding it as cases near 162,000. that is almost 9,000 more cases than spain. the country with the second highest number of patients. good morning, everybody, it is friday, april 10th. it is good friday. one of the holiest days in the christian calendar. thank you very much for joining us. we know a lot of are you sitting at home wondering when is this social distancing going to end? there is a story in the "the washington post" this morning that apparently the president would like to reopen the country for business activity on may 1st. but the whole question is how do you do that and keep people safe? there are hot spots like new york and apparently, you know, the administration feels that it would not be a policy where one size fits all but at the same time, have you got the chief of staff for the vice president, marc short, who says that when you look at the models, such as fewer number of deaths, with the

new number being about 60,000. the country has overreacted. according to the post. but, here's the thing. the model is lower because the country, ainsley, has done a really good job of social distancing. and how do you keep people safe? because you don't want to have -- you know, a peak and then everybody is back together and then you have another peak. a double hump they refer to it. that is the last thing you want. ainsley: we're going to be in this situation for another almost three weeks. today is the 10th, flight so we have until the end of the month to continue doing what we're doing. hopefully that will fix the problem. businesses can get back up and running like the president wants at the beginning of may. small businesses are hurting. that money is starting to dwindle because they allocated. it was 350 billion for small businesses and as of wednesday, 90 billion of that has already been allocated. so that's why our lawmakers are trying in washington to get something done so we can get more money to these small businesses. because they are all panicked.

if you got your paperwork in early, then you are already getting some of this money. but if you are at the bottom of the list and these banks say they're overloaded with paperwork, then there is a chance that money is going to run out. these lawmakers need to do something asap. we have a big show if you are just joining us ahead, dr. nicole saphier to answer questions, dr. oz, general jack keane, secretary eugene scalia. we have timothy cardinal dolan. plus america together a living room concert lee brice at 8:45. brian, cardinal dolan is going to answer questions. if you at home have one friends@foxnews.com. brian: that's going to be interesting. make sure you separate the dr. siegel questions from the cardinal questions because that's not his area of expertise. but it's going to be interesting. because a lot of people say that when it comes to mark short said about overreacting with the media located in new york and seeing what's happening here, and the governor every day talking about with his needs. and now it seems like he is

basically out of the woods in terms of beds needed. you wonder the rest of the country is wondering why i put my life on hold to this extent and maybe they need to see a light at the end of the tunnel. that's what i hope we will be talking about with labor secretary scalia. because he wants to stand up the economy as much as anybody. meanwhile president trump promising the u.s. economy will recover from the pandemic. even says better than ever. as unemployment lines grow coast to coast, because of what we told them to do. democrats, for some reason, are blocking additional money to small businesses. 2k3weu8ian turner joins us live from the white house as talks ramp up behind closed doors. so he would are going to find out what democrats want, right, gillian? >> gillian: we are, brian. it's also a little windy here this morning. so bear with me. i have some hair flying in my face. but at the white house this morning, as president trump's team is waking up. think are facing a pretty grim new reality as you mentioned.

nearly 17 million americans have lost their jobs over the last three weeks and are asking the government, looking to the government to provide unemployment assistance. president trump vowed yesterday that he is going to oversee ultimately what he is calling the biggest bounce back in u.s. history. take a lynch. >> we have tri stimulus. we have tremendous stimulus plans. we are going to have a big bounce rather than a small bounce. but, we will be back. >> gillian: labor secretary eugene scalia says his focus right now is blue collar workers any future relief packages will lay the ground work to restore blue collar jobs as quickly as possible. take a listen. >> we want to lay the ground work now for a blue collar bounceback. we will continue. at the department i know here at the white house to be laser-focused on american workers and jobs until this is

done. >> gillian: former ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley weighed in on our air an hour ago and slammed lawmakers still squabbling over the details in emergency needed emergency supplemental. >> now is not the time to be playing games. now is the time to get money in the hands of those that want to keep employing people. want to keep their businesses open. and while, you know, have you got members of congress fighting over, this there is no time to waste if you have a small business. now, another really important element of the american economy we can't leave out is american farmers, in that last relief package from congress, there was $9.5 billion sent to the u.s. department of agriculture to disperse to those farmers. president trump said last night in the briefing that he has instructed secretary sonny perdue to get that money into the bloodstream of farmers immediately. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: that sounds good, all right, gillian turner not far from the white house, thank you very much. in that report we just heard her mention the labor secretary

eugene scalia he joins us live from the d.c. area. good morning to you, mr. secretary. >> good morning. good to be with you. steve: you know, yesterday i spoke on the phone with kansas labor secretary garcia and this strikes everybody. her family down in wichita has had a restaurant there for decades. they are closed. everything, you know, everybody is on unemployment. the state of kansas as you know has a very low rate of unemployment in a regular week. maybe 1300 would apply. over the last week, 55,000 applied. they have had to quadrevion do you mean pell the call center. this is all hands on deck at the state level as well as the federal level to make sure that the people who file unemployment can get their money and ultimately get the stimulus as well, right? >> yes. the states are working very hard to get these payments out. as you know, one of the key provisions in the cares act, which the president signed two weeks ago. was this enhancement to

unemployment compensation benefits that are ordinarily made available by the states. additional $600 a week that's being made available. and the states are working very hard to make that money available. i think now seven states are making that available to people who have lost work as well as to gig economy workers. independent contractors aren't normally eligible for unemployment compensation. this legislation does make t. available for them to. ainsley: talk about the bounceback. we heard the president saying the economy will turn around. do you agree with him and how are we going to do that? >> well, i do agree. i share that optimism. these are such challenging times for workers and their families and we recognize that. the program that we were just talking about is one reflection of the efforts here in washington to address it but at

the same time, i am mindful of just how strong our economy was five weeks ago. you know, at the start of march, we put out one of the strongest jobs reports we have seen in this country in 50 years. that's where we were. that's where we want to get back to. as i mentioned last night when i spoke at the briefing, we had a blue collar boom and now we want a blue collar bounceback. think we still have the fundamentals there our economy is hurting now not because of underlying weakness in the economy but health emergency. we need to tackle that you have been so good at urging your viewers to take these measures to beat the virus. but then we do want to get back to work. and i think we have the foundation, the fundamental and the presidential policies in place to be optimistic about that recovery. brian: so, mr. secretary, we see denmark begin to get back up online. austria get back online, germany get back online. taiwan is back online.

singapore is back online. are you studying those countries to see how to do it even though we are so much bigger and with such diversity? where -- what model are you looking at for americans getting back to work? >> well, we are certainly looking at what other countries have done and looking at what this country has done in the past, too. we look back 100 years ago dealing with the spanish flu. there are lessons to be learned there we know a couple of things. first, that discipline right now remains extremely important. we know that we will need to get back before this virus is entirely gone from among us. and we have to plan for that. we know that might not be the same date in every location. that we're all back to work. we will need to plan accordingly. but we also know that we can't wait too long. we want to bounce back. it does get harder the longer

people are kept from work. we have to keep that in the balance as well. brian: absolutely. steve: sure, as labor secretary, you know that a lot of people want to get back to work as quickly as possible. and, regarding that story in the "the washington post" this morning that apparently the administration, the president in particular, would like to have essentially american business reopen, maybe in stages by may 1st. but there are going to be hot spots, it can't be one size fits all yep, we are open for business again. explain as much as can you what's going on behind the scenes to get us to that place. >> well, obviously there are a number of different components to this. the health component and public health policy is critical to get right. the measures that have been put in place to tide workers over are so important to them individually. the paycheck protection program, which you talked about a moment ago for small business is one of

the things in this recent legislation that i like most because not only does it provide income to workers during this difficult time it keeps them died to their employer. so that when we are ready to reopen, that relationship still exists. that's something we have been talking about. obviously there is an interest in extending that program. and then we are talking about health and welfare of people when they return to work. that is something that we are going to have to looks after. it's important to us now at the labor department and as we reopen we want to make sure it's an environment that's safe and healthy. ainsley: mr. secretary, there was headline this morning saying some folks, some americans are going to get those stimulus checks today. cacan you update us on when peoe will get that money? >> there are a couple of different streams of relief coming. first, as i just mention, there

is paycheck protection program. and there is more than i think 140 billion in loans already approved through that program. and those loans are now being made available to small businesses. brian: right. >> that will continue over time. then we have payments coming from internal revenue service. i believe those will be coming next week is what secretary mnuchin has said. and then finally there are these stepped up unemployment insurance payments going to people who, unfortunately, are out of work. those already have started in some states. and we'll have more states coming online in the days and weeks ahead. brian: mr. alicia secretary i know this is mowsest mostly treasury. put out money to small businesses and i know they are grateful. tough understand some of these restaurants and health clubs the 75-25 doesn't work out. if they have to give 75% of the money to labor, they are not going to have any money to pay their bills and pay their rent and pay their lease and pay for equipment that they rent. so if the money is there, there has got to be flexibility given to the banks to allow small

business to use it because right now, if they are going to put all that men to labor, they are not going to have a business to go back to. so do you see some flexibility there? >> -think treasury department and small business administration which have been running this program have shown a lot of flexibility. there were some adjustments to the application form made early on that made it easier for people to apply. i just think the program has been functioning extraordinarily well. its biggest challenge has been really its popularity. brian: not in those two areas. these restaurant owners can't live with 75% going to labor. many of these people don't want their part time jobs back. so, you can't give them the money and tell them to give it to people that don't want the jobs and then ask them to keep the lights on and turn up with a diminished seating capacity when they come back. it's not going to work. >> well, we will keep looking for the right balance there as you say, the small business

administration treasury are running that program. from my perspective labor department those relationship with workers, the business to come back but also to have those workers still tied to them and keeping those strong relationships is really going to be very important to getting the economy going again. steve: all right it. is great to have the secretary of labor from the united states mr. scalia with us today. sir, thank you very much. ainsley: thank you. >> thank you. steve: 7:15 now in new york city. jillian mele is joining us from our fox world headquarters. jillian: we begin with a fox news alert. indianapolis police officer shot and killed in the line of duty. brianne was responding to a domestic disturbance call when someone inside the home began firing. one suspect is in custody. >> we mourn the loss of a true hero whose name will forever remind us of the honor, the courage and the strecket of our

police officers. jillian: officer leaf was just 24 years old. she was the daughter of a sheriff's deputy and a 911 dispatcher. she leaves behind a young child of her own. she also served in the army national guard. now that he is the presumptive democratic nominee for president, joe biden is trying to woo bernie sanders supporters. he plans to expand medicare and forgive some student loan debt if he is elected president. the fox news poll shows the former vp in a tie with president trump if the election were held now. both were 42%. >> nikki haley's husband is being deployed to help fight covid-19 in south carolina. the former u.n. ambassador spoke with us about it earlier in the show. >> he was activated about a week ago along with other members of the military to help in the covid crisis. that is once again where the great men and women of the military are stepping up to do whatever is needed for their

country. jillian: michael haley and the state's national guard make sure they have all the necessary splice including beds. that's a look at your headlines, send it back to you. ainsley: i love those pictures. they are so sweet. he is doing good work. they both are for the state of south carolina and our country. thank you so much, jillian. take a look at this, a simulation showing just how far droplets from a single cough can travel and linger in the air. look at that that's a grocery store. dr. nicole saphier says this is why social distancing is essential right now. she is going to explain next. e s your worst symptoms which most pills don't. get all-in-one allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. and i like to question your whii'm yoevery move.n law. like this left turn. it's the next one. you always drive this slow? how did you make someone i love? that must be why you're always so late. i do not speed.

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how far the droplets released from a cough can spread and linger in the air. so what does this mean for us as we try protect ourselves against coronavirus? let's ask fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier. good morning, dr. saphier. >> hi, ainsley, good morning. ainsley: good morning. is this real? >> well, you know what? i always love a good animation like this. because this makes it a little more tangible why we have been saying to people keep your distance. i do think this an mailings is a animation is a bit dramatic? yes. the concept is real. whether it is only spread via droplets or if it gets aerosolized. there has been a lot of back and forth and unfortunately we still don't have a firm answer. the world health organization tells us it's only drop let not aerosolized some research out of nebraska seems to think otherwise. best case scenario for me i

think we should always think worse case scenario and let's say this does aerosolize. that means that these particles can linger in the air and the testing that we have shown is that sometimes these particles can linger in the air for up to several hours. now, that being said, that is just in the perfect environment with no draft, no breeze, no humidity, no nothing. which is not reality. but the truth is, there are going to be more virus particles in the air if you see someone sneezing, coughing, if they do a violent sneeze, they can actually project virus particles several feet await a minute someone even projected up to 27 feet. i think that's a bit much. but, our six feet rule right now seems like a pretty good one. so think about it this way. if someone has the infection and they're coughing and they are sneezing, they will create a cloud of respiratory droplets and free virus particles. that cloud can linger in the air. some of the research is showing it can linger in the air for a few hours. i'm not necessarily sure if

three hours after someone leaves that you can actually catch the virus, it's probably not a lot of viable virus particles hanging around but the matter of fact is there are virus particles hanging around and this is why it is essential to continue the social distancing and try to keep that 6-foot distance between you and other people if at all possible. and if you can't, you really should wear a mask, just think of it as bad pollution. these little particles all around you it's better if they get stuck to the mask. important thing is don't touch the mask when you take it of and then touch your face. you have to wash your hands right away. ainsley: this is why it is important to look at that mask when you see that simulation even if it is a little far fetched. gosh, a good reminder for all of us. have a good weekend and enjoy easter with your boys. >> bi, ainsley. ainsley: coming up golfers have a new jersey country club help heroes on front lines. pro-golfer ernie els on a

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>> the front line workers out there are really the ones that are out there fighting this fight. you know, we just did a little thing to help support them. we are a part of the community. we really need to help our local hospital. i would encourage everyone to help their local hospital and medical workers. steve: that was country club manager david bachmann on "fox & friends" last week calling for people to help support their local hospitals. since then, 60 clubs, i believe in 13 states, have now followed his lead and even professional golfers are lending their support to clubs help. here with more on their efforts

spring brook new jersey country club manager david bachmann. he is on the top next to me. you have got pro-golfer ernie els right underneath me as you can see he is outside for better cell service and we have got the ceo of entertainment sports partners rob guley joining us diagonally from me. good morning to all of you. >> good morning. >> good morning, steve. steve: david, start with you, you were on "fox & friends," this was just something you were doing out in the morristown area. you had no idea this was going to snowball like this, did you? >> no idea. steve. i have to tell you the response since we spoke last week was amazing. almost immediately following my conversation with fox, ernie els reached out asking how he could get involved to bring clubs across the country together in the mission of supporting first responders in the local community. steve: so, david, explain exactly what you are doing with this and what other clubs are

now doing when it comes to collecting things for the hospitals and first responders? >> okay. in the last 11 days, we created a national charitable organization called clubs help. clubs help brings country club managers and/or a key person together with a key person at a local hospital. we discovered that there was a need, local hospitals had a need and we had members at our clubs who were looking to support and they needed a vehicle to do that. so we put together clubs help.org for that vehicle and now we are putting those two groups together via the website. steve: right. so, ernie is going to be with us in just a second. rob, why did you guys get involved? >> well, we were sitting around like everybody else around the country and thought we could

really do something to help out. everybody wants to help and if you can't do anything, from the home, where would you take that effort? so what we did was decided to activate this network and use everybody that we know to help and get this all started and so once we got ahold of david and his crew and saw what they were doing, we said let's go ahead and create a website and let's activate the golf industry. we raised a lot of money in golf. the pga tour just passed the 3 billion-dollar mark. we thought people would be able to help. not just money and donations but the ability to be able to network with your club and help get supplies and stuff that are so desperately needed to these hospitals and to these front line workers. and we felt like we could help put that connection together and create a national organization and that's what we have done with club health -- clubs help.org. steve: all right. ernie els, tell us a little bit

about why you wanted to take part. i mean, you are very busy down there in the palm beach area up through jupiter with your els for autism foundation. why did you want to get involved in clubs help.org? we just lost him. rob, you could actually help me with that. hold on, rob. i think we have got ernie back. ernie, can you hear me? >> you know what, it's just one of those things where we are trying to use cell phone technology on a tv show and it's not always perfect. rob, how did -- okay. we are going to try this one more time, ernie, tell us why you got involved. >> i don't know if you guys can hear me but i just want to say it's a great initiative, rob, my manager came up with this great idea and it's a great cause, we

want to help the people in the front line, and one of my partners has already done 6 million bars to help out the association. so this is a great clause. please all the clubs around the country, find a way to get in. it would be great. steve: yeah, and ernie, there are a lot of people who are golfers. >> thank you. i can't hear you. all good and we wanted to get involved. thank you so much. steve: okay. you know what? that's probably as much as we are going to hear live from ernie. so, david, you know, it started just with your club there in the morris town area. now it's nationwide. if people would like to at their local level get involved, how do they do that? >> visit clubs help.org. there is a way to donate directly there. members of clubs, i have a webinar later on today through

national club association. so we're going to get the word out to clubs across the country. you could text 71441, text clubs help to 71441 that will give you a link to the website and follow one a link to the webinar where you can learn more about that. steve: that is great. >> steve? steve: i want to thank a couple of his national organizations that have really jumped in and helped us get this off the ground club like envision help as ernie said gary erickson the founder and ceoer and his wife kit at cliff bar have been amazing. front line workers have been working 12-hour shifts they need a quick piece of energy and they activated immediately for us in new york city and they have been amazing firehouse subs and blake walker and chris crawford put 60

of their clubs in and the below and company owns part of the dallas morning news has built a website and helped us. you just can't thank some of these organizations like the american hospital association, the golf association of america and national club association. the whole tour and the pga of america and pga tour are all jumping in to help us out. steve: indeed. just the fact that ernie els one of the greatest golfers of all time is involved as well, that really is going to help you guys. david and eastern and rob, we thank you very much. and once again the website is clubs help.org. all right. we have information by the way on how you can help across the country plus more stories of people going extra lengths to help each other during this pandemic. you can find it all at foxnews.com/america together. and we apologize for the satellite differential but it's a cell phone thing.

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>> but i think our country from an economic standpoint will end up being stronger than ever. we have tremendous stimulus. we have tremendous stimulus plans. we have things in the works that are going to, i think, fire up the country. i think what's going to happen is we are going to have a big bounce rather than a small bounce that is certainly the hope bring in karl rove senior advisor and deputy chief of staff to george w. bush. fox news contributor and outstanding columnist for the "wall street journal." i know that's what the president wants but how much is riding on

how we come back how much we come back and when we come back. >> a lot rides on it. it's not a simple equation though. it's not like how quickly do we get back and how big do we get back. it's, to some degree, people understand we are in a very bad situation economically because of a virus. so they are going to be looking to what the president is attempting to do and they are not going to hold him, you know, it's not like we have got to return to yesterday today, but they want to know that we are moving in the right direction and it's going to have a huge impact on the fall election. presidents who are in recessions tend to lose, presidents who are not in recessions tend to win. and but we have never been in a circumstance like this where the country has suffered economic contraction because of a virus this close to a presidential election. ainsley: yeah, he has about seven more months to hopefully turn this economy around. is that enough time?

>> well, look, again it gets back to it's a perception that we're going in the right place and people are not going to hold the president responsible for being in a bad economic straits. that is the virus. their question is going to be does he seem to be doing the things that are reasonable and prudent to get us back to economic health as rapidly as possible? and that's a different judgment than is everything great for me today? maybe it's not great, but i know the president is doing the right thing and we are moving in the right direction as a country. that's more important. but it's going to be tough. no ifs, ands or butts about it. he has had two new challenges, the challenge of confronting the coronavirus and now restarting the economy. steve: carl, would it be safe to say that donald trump's presidency and re-election hangs on how he handles this? >> well, yes. as long as this is both things. people are going to judge him on the coronavirus handling. they are going to judge him on the economy. and, again though.

think about it from the perspective of the ordinary american. they are not saying he caused the virus. they are not going to say he caused the contraction. they are going to say how does he seem to be hand links this and does he seem to be moving us in the right direction? good news for him is critics on the other side. vice president biden is not a particularly effective critic on the coronavirus. and he has got a lot of weaknesses in both how he approaches the issue and in his own record. i mean, remember, it is the obama-biden administration that failed for reasons that i find completely inexplicable, failed to replenish the national strategic stockpile of masks and protective gear for our first responders and hospital workers when they ran it down in a previous challenge to the country. when those stocks were reduced, they didn't rebuild them, which is why part of the problem that we have today in providing the equipment for our first responders, our hospital personnel, our medical professionals, the personal

protective equipment and the masks and so forth because the stockpiles that we had for exactly this kind of a moment were run down previously. and then, of course, this new ad that the trump campaign has released on china i think is particularly devastating because at a moment when trump was taking a very tough stance biden was attacking him calling him xenophobic and racist. and now in retrospect it was one of the reasons why we are in better shape than we would have been if we had not taken that tough step. brian: absolutely. it's going to be interesting. because joe biden seems to be a big fan of china and caught on tape many times doing it. i don't know if that's going to work on his behalf. karl rove thanks so much. >> you bet. ainsley: thanks, karl. >> thanks, ainsley. brian: let's go out to jillian. what's going on in the news? jillian: good morning we are following a number of stories. ousted uss theodore crozier could be reinstated according to the navy's top officer? >> i am taking no options off

the table as i review -- as i review that investigation. i think that's my responsibility to approach it in a way that's with due diligence to make sure that it's completely fair and as unbiased as i can possibly make it. jillian: crozier was fired after writing a scathing letter slamming the navy's response following the outbreak on his ship. crozier and 400 sailors have tested positive. one of them rushed to the icu when found unresponsive. new photos showing lori loughlin's two daughters podsing as rowing recruits in the college admission scandal. prosecutors releasing the plured images after the actress and her husband asked a judge to dismiss their case. the couple is accused of paying half a million dollars to get their daughters into usc as recruits. though neither daughters were ever in the sport. both have pleaded not guilty, trial begins in october. now to the top three stories trending on foxnews.com. first up attorney general bill

barr says the russia investigation into president trump's 2016 campaign was, quote, one of the greatest travesties in measure history. barr telling our laura ingraham there is, quote, something more therein and promising to get to the bottom of it. and next a field hospital in washington state dismantled after treating no coronavirus patients. it will be redeployed to a state facing a more difficult battle outbreak. james woods trolling alyssa milano over anti--gun tweet. milano recent search in gun sales. recent stories and. >> morgan: foxnews.com. that's a look at your headlines. send it back to you. ainsley: thank you so much, jillian, janice dean joins us live via skype with the severe weather that's going to be hitting us all for easter. hey, janice. janice: this is going to be a multi-day event. we have the cold front in place. much colder air behind this frontal boundary along the frontal boundary is where we are

going to see the threat for strong to severe storms including large hail, damaging winds, isolated tornsdz. here in the northeast i also want to make mention we had snow in maine. we could see upwards over a foot in parts of new england and very cold air behind it as well as strong winds, 40 to 50 mile-per-hour gusts. we have wind advisories in effect across portions of the northeast, including new york city, philadelphia, and d.c. the more important area of concern as we go through the weekend, saturday and sunday, we have got over 70 million folks that could be affected by severe weather, including large, damaging life threatening tornadoes. so i need all of you to know where and when you are going to get your watches and warnings and make sure that you tell everyone you can across these areas that they need to be paying close attention to their local weather forecast and local watches and warnings. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. steve: great advice. keep an eye on the sky. j.d., thank you very much. meanwhile, a dozen minutes before the top of the hour. america's military is ramping up

its response coast to coast in the battle against covid-19. we're going to talk to iraq war vet and u.s. senate candidate from the state of michigan, john james, about the latest mission in his home state. he's next. ♪

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>> hey, america's military is escalating the response efforts coast to coast. naval hospital ships comfort and mercy treating 89 patients so far. much shorter capacity. the engineers given construction contracts for alternate sites and 29,000 national guard troops deployed nationwide. played a big role. joining us now react john james

john, great to see you. >> thanks for having me back on. brian: michigan right now. what could you tell us right now we see 21,540 cases and 1076 lost their lives. do you have the situation would you say under control? >> absolutely not. michigan is -- we are doing everything that we can we are mobilizing the national guard. and michigan is actually the number three nation of hardest hit in cases and deaths. african-americans in detroit are disproportionately negatively affected because of generations of disinvestment and lives on one side and neglect from the other. we have folks in the national guard doing everything we can. we thank you from the botto frof our heart. we know what it's like to deploy nation stand up people who can't stand up themselves and fight the inviivel enemy. we need to do everything we can to take care of our guardsmen. right now our guardsmen are on

orders where they fall one day short of healthcare benefits they would need in case they fall victim to the covid. we need to make sure we fix. this pee put our guardsmen in harm's way we better make sure we take care of them. brian: michigan donating money to the mime prairie care facility in detroit. awesome. a lot of theories, why disproportionately to minorities especially african-americans? >> african-americans have been let down by both parties for generations. and as a result, too many of us are left fighting for our lives. we need better data. we need more resources now. we are doing everything that we can and like we said, like you said earlier, back on june 6th. i made a promise. i made a promise after seeing that $10 billion was spent in this election cycle on convincing fox news decks that candidates care. i believe that we need to put

love into action. today on good friday my lord and savior died for my sins and i'm far from perfect he taught us, jesus taught us toe could to hed the hungry, to help clothe the naked, help take care of our veterans and heal the sick. we are able to give 50,000 to homes all over the state of michigan and 200,000 right here in detroit to help people who are vulnerable. brian: unfortunately we have to go. look forward to talking to you again. again ahead on that very theme cardinal timothy dolan and rtnger lee brice all coming your way the final hour. fastsigns designed new directional signage, and got them back on track. get started at fastsigns.com

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becoming the epicenter now of the world as nearly 162000 cases overall, that's almost 5,000 more cases than the next country that's spain, who has the second highest amount around the world, but there is good news. only 200 new patients yesterday, that curve is bending down. dr. mehmet oz is all over this host of the dr. oz show. dr. oz, do you have a positive feeling even though we did hit a all-time high in the number of deaths yesterday? >> i have a very positive feeling and especially talking to the folks on the frontlines the icu director, people in the emergency rooms, the number of people who are coming in really sick is going down so yes hospitalizations which is probably the best barometer for most of us are those are going down but we can fudge those by admitting people that are sick because you don't have any room but getting admitted to the icu, you need to be there if you're getting admitted and those numbers are going down, number of people putting breathing tubes into is no longer increasing, these are all

good signs. the system is still completely overwhelmed because last weeks patients are still there, so you just the box cars are getting backed up, but it's all heading in the right direction, and as happened in china and i'm confident it'll happen here, next week we'll start to see slow declines in the number of people in hospitals getting more discharges but that'll translate into the icu into places we have the biggest shortages, ventilators and dialysis machines will become less of a problem. ainsley: i know you spoke to that doctor over in france about hydroxychloroquine and you've been on fox continuously talking about this and the controversy in our own country and i understand the leaders in france are meeting with him because hydroxychloroquine was not being given to the patients over there that were dealing with this virus. what's the latest on this and i think there's a trial going on here in the united states? >> there is a trial sponsored by the nih, thank goodness it's a large trial, 500 patients, several centers and that's just

getting going that is fantastic because we'll finally know for sure when that trial is complete whether or not hydroxychloroquine works, and which patient it's best for , and exactly what dose you give, it'll work out a lot of the kin ks, what medications you combine it with but it's months before we have that data and we have to be in the trenches fighting right now. that's what doctors in america need, so i got an e-mail this morning at about 5:30 i'll summarize it for you. i spent the last two hours going off with my team but he met yesterday with macron and this is the data he shared. i'll post it up on dr. oz.com, again this is not published information. it's just a summary of what he has learned from his first 1,061 patients, and it's unique patients, a big cohort so when people say a small little study here and there just a lot of people. it's not randomized i'll emphasize that. it didn't take another thousand patients and gave them nothing. he argues that's unethical so he won't do that in france but the man is world famous for his

work and i think we at least should respect him enough to look at his data. as controversial as he maybe, when the french premier flies and meets with him at his hospital for three and a half hours, obviously they care about what he says, so we have to analyze it as doctors but here is what he did. he took these folks and put them on the hydroxychloroquine that we've been talking about and an antibiotic, zithromycin, and 92% of patients had a superb outcome and they didn't have persistent virus for 10 day, and they weren't infectious because we don't want people going around infectious an they don't make the virus less contagious and the other thing he said is if they weren't completely better in 10 days he considered that a poor outcome. now there were five people who died and there were 10 people who went to an icu from the 1,000 folks so those are normally speaking those be pretty good numbers again they were healthier patients but he said forget that those aren't my endpoints.

they are if they aren't really doing well and out of the hospital and doing great in 10 days i consider that a failure. here is the things i want to focus on. there was a correlation with some blood pressure medications in particular the receptor block ers there are many viewers taking these blood pressure medications. that's the same receptor the virus uses to get into our body and in this trial in 1,061 patients the individuals taking those medications had a worse outcome, with longer virus and they were in the hospital longer so it's something that doctors need to start following up on. we've been debating it. this is addition all information , and it might be a concern there. secondly, there were very few side effects, and that's a good issue because its been a debate about whether it's a concern or not and all the doctors keep writing me saying i've been prescribing medications for years without any concern not sure why it's a problem now. this data reinforces in the thousand patients there were no issues with these medication medications and finally the level of the hydroxychloroquine in the blood, which we don't check here, was correlated with the

average outcome, so, those are things we should keep in mind and in clinical trial going on should check those things now they know what to aim for a little better but also validating ideas for physicians taking care of patients. steve: so perhaps it could be something good for a lot of people and you will keep us post ed like nobody else has. dr. oz i want to play a sound bite from ben carson, famously, brain surgeon. he had this to say on the story last night about some numbers that people need to remember every day. one of the things we don't seem to talk about a lot, the number of people who have recovered, which is going to be about 98% of all of the people who get it. now they are going to do quite well, and we need to really start talking that up, and start talking about what we can do, not how we're going to be harnessed because the fact of the matter is, if we destroy the

economic infrastructure of our country, we're going to lose a lot more people than we lost from this virus, so we can't operate out of histeria when people are hysterical, they don't do logical things. steve: so dr. oz there you've got dr. carson talking about that. this morning we have been talking about how the administration it sounds like would like to reopen the country to business may 1. one of the president's advisors, the chief of staff to the vice president, marc short, said that because when you look at the models we've had fewer deaths the country has overreacted, but i think the fact that we, you know, we mobilized and we are doing such a good job with the social distancing that's why ultimately the number has gone down, isn't it? >> i think we did what was needed to do. we reacted, by pulling the emergency brake, we didn't have a choice, no one could have predicted whether we have 60,000

, 600,000, or 2.2 million which is a number being floated, so we did what needed to be done , but now we got to move from the operation which was a massive procedure, into the recovery room, medically speaking and then ben carson who is a neurosurgeon and will get his metaphor and forget about 98%, we think at least a quarter of the people who got the virus didn't have symptoms so even more than 98% did well and those folks and all of the people who they infected are going to have to get back on the horse and go back to work. we need to have a strategy in the recovery area and that's going to include testing. i got a note from abbott last night, they're making about 2 million of these quick tests a month, at least by may and june, and they are already making 1 million a week of the test that takes six hours so we're getting testing, it's taking a while but it's coming. we'll use the testing and then we have to get folks to be aware of how important it is to pull themselves out if they get sick and anyone they've been talking to, if we do that correctly, together with some of the

medical advances that we're starting to see now, we should be able to stay ahead of it otherwise this is going to happen, steve, over and over again. a month and a half from now there's an outbreak and cleveland, ohio where i was born and they want to shut the state down because of this problem. the way to deal with this cannot be to shut the state down. we could do better than that usually. once in a while like in new york you have no choice but oftentimes you'll have other options we should give those to elected officials. brian: real quick, there's a second vaccine underway, with trials in the u.s. , and what could you tell us about the antibody test that dr. fauci referenced yesterday? they said it'll be coming in the coming days or week, big difference but what do you know about both those things? >> so i actually had the doctor who was making the next vaccine that you referenced and it's a very clever idea, taking advantage of ideas that were already baking and looking at them for sars many years ago and they matured them but the idea is you put the vaccine into your skin. two reasons that's important.

one there's no velcro and needle s going into the skin. they are very stable so they can make lots of them and ship them all over the world without having to preserve them and the headaches of that but more importantly, the skin is very reactive immunologically so you take advantage of the body's natural desire to react to the skin by making rapid antibodies to protect you against this virus in the future. i think it's one of the more promising concepts and with regard to the antibody testing this is essential, brian because if you don't know how many people were sick you don't know how ready your population is to go back into work without a problem. it might be that 30% of new yorkers have been infected we just don't know it. literally looking at people coming off ships, half the people had the virus were asymptomatic, so until we do antibody testing and can figure out who actually was infected again, the antibodies mean you were infected in the past, we don't think you are now, it means you're immune you're not at risk of getting it again we don't think so that would empower us to open up our country not worry about it.

ainsley: okay, dr. oz thank you so much for joining us. steve: thank you. ainsley: have a great easter with your family it's 10 minutes after the top of the hour let's hand it over to jill juan with headlines for us. jillian: let's begin with a fox news alert an indianapolis police officer shot and killed in the line of duty,brianne was responding to a domestic disturbance call when someone inside the home began firing one suspect is in custody. >> we mourn the loss of a true hero, whose name will forever remind us of the honor, the courage and the strength from our police officers. jillian: officer was just 24 years old the daughter of a sheriff's deputy and a 911 dispatcher and she leaves behind a young child of her own and she also served in the army national guard. >> overnight the u.s. attorney general describing the russia probe as an act of sabotage. listen to this. >> the people who abused fisa have a lot to answer for , because this was an important

tool to protect the american people. they abused it. they undercut public confidence in fisa but also the fbi as an institution, and we have to rebuild that. >> bill barr calling russia probe one of the greatest travesties in american history and an attempt to sink the president's candidacy and barr is promising to get to the bottom of it. >> now, to extreme weather monster storms hitting parts of the country look at this in maine, snow dropping overnight. some areas seeing nearly six inches. in india, communities continuing to clean up after a tornado ripped through one of several slamming the midwest. the severe weather is not over more than 70 million americans are in the path of storms brewing this easter weekend. >> country music legend dolly partonon shares a poem on staying home during the pandemic look at this. this too shall pass as all those will if the virus don't kill us the stay-at-home will, the kids are board and restless,

they scream and yell and the teens and tweens are just plain mean. >> dolly is also helping restless fans get to sleep by reading bed time stories every night on her social media pages. those are your headlines. ainsley: that is so sweet. steve: she's not working 9-5, nobody is. oh, my goodness. all right, thank, jillian. straight ahead president trump is reportedly close to unveiling an economic task force to help get americans back to work, but as the country continues to fight the invisible enemy, how can strategies from the military be used to reopen america? we're going to talk to retired four star general jack keane about that when he joins us live , next. my psoriatic arthritis pain? i had enough! it's not getting in my way. joint pain, swelling, tenderness... ...much better. my psoriasis, clearer... cosentyx works on all of this. four years and counting.

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brian: as the battle that we're fighting here against the virus rages in the u.s. and around the world, our adversaries, china, russia and iran are taking advantage of the global pandemic to weaken western democracies, and disinformation against us, let's bring in the four star general, senior stack military commander, general jack keane. general, what are russians, what did russia and china do on the intelligence end to hurt us? >> yeah, well let me first say, all three of these countries are suddenly exploding covid-19 at our expense, but none of their activities are putting us on a path to major confrontation, i want to ensure our audience about that. first of all disinformation is one of their main stays and that is, they want to undermine the people's trust in their government. they are also pushing back on the sanctions that have been imposed and wanted them removed based on the humanitarian effect

of covid-19 and the other thing is, they are underscoring the fact that the united states has the largest outbreak of covid-19 and that's due largely to the in competence of the united states government, and that is what is surrounding the disinformation campaign and they are also posturing in terms of trying to create goodwill in terms of their rhetoric but also delivering supplies and equipment and people and particularly russia and china, iran is not involved to other countries and then the last thing they're doing russia has tied up the president in ukraine a little bit because of covid-19 and the focus he has to have on his country. he got him to agree to negotiate with russian proxies for the first time but interesting enough, the people b auked on it and iran is posturing here to take advantage of what they believe the united states has turned into and i think that is why the united states picked up on a plan for them to conduct a large scale attack inside iraq, excuse

me and it may have be thwarted by the president acknowledging that was in the planning stage and also, china, because taiwan has been so successful dealing with covid-19, and they've been critical of mainland china, they've upped all of their military activities around taiwan but then again, i want to say that none of these activities put us on any path to major conflict, or war, with the exception of possibly some limited conflict with iran which would not lead to war. brian: so that's who they are trying to say but let's now look at reality. china may be experiencing a second wave number one. number two the russians act like they don't really have a coronavirus problem. they got a huge problem, and vladimir putin has already paid the price, in what respect? >> well, yeah, covid-19 is hitting russia, like it is any other country, and of course, they're dealing with it is absolutely uneven, they have all of the resources of their government and private sector

the way the united states has in coping with it, growing unrest in the country. in april, president putin was supposed to have a referendum of consolidation which would give him the presidency indefinitely. he is now called that off because the popularity for president putin is tanking, and that obviously is a good thing, as far as the united states is concerned, because putin gets up every morning trying to put a finger in the eye of the united states. brian: the other thing is iran is saying hey, world, we have the u.s. release the sanctions. we're getting killed here by the coronavirus. should we? >> no, absolutely not. look, we offered them humanitarian aid, brian and they turned it down. we've got to keep our foot on the pedal here, with sanctions, and there's one sanction that we should impose and we have given relief to russian power companies, ross adams, namely,

and the reason is dealing with nuclear power plants and the reason is the united states is dependent on foreign you're u ranium, and we should impose sanctions on ross adams and others like that and absolutely close the door on the iranians. they have never been on their heels as much as they are now and we've got to keep the pressure on them. brian: at least in my lifetime and finally when it comes to reopening our economy there's principles in the military that you want to bring forward that could help us in the civilian world, show flexibility, show perseverence, and decentralize the execution. so for example, what happens in philadelphia wouldn't exactly be needed in charlotte, north carolina; correct? yeah, that's absolutely right. different places, different time , changing situation. you have to have flexibility to adapt to a changing situation, assess the risk, and then

execute vigorously, perseverence is about overcoming the impediments, the obstacles, setbacks and failures, but you persevered nonetheless, and you have to have the spine to overcome your fear, because you're never going to be able to make decisions based on perfect information. there is always risk involved and we'll see that as we begin to make decisions about putting people back to work. there's so many risk involved in that there likely would still be spread involved until we absolutely get a vaccine to shut it down but nonetheless we've got to make those decisions. brian: and be strong emotional ly to get through this , because it's all unprecedented. general jack keane thanks for putting it all in perspective have a great weekend >> yeah, you too, brian. brian: great job. meanwhile coming up straight ahead, nikki haley says the american people deserve answers from the world health organization, and china, over their response to the pandemic. what does geraldo rivera say? we're going to ask him next, plus america together, a fox &

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>> on january 14, the head of the who says we don't see any evidence of human-to-human transmission. then you go a week later and they have an emergency meeting to decide if this is an international crisis. they don't make a decision that day. instead traveling to china to go meet with them. the american people deserve to

know why taiwan was ignored and china was listened to. steve: there you've got former u.n. ambassador nikki hailing calling out the world health organization for putting too much trust in china, as coronavirus cases surge worldwide. his reaction, fox news correspondent at large, geraldo rivera. geraldo no doubt china was not forthcoming and it sounds like the world health organization let us down too. geraldo: first of all it's great to see you and i hope all your family is doing well. i send love to everybody. steve: thank you, you as well. geraldo: go back to november, december, the chinese knew exactly what was going on. you know they portrayed to the world there was something serious but not grave going on. it's clear that they understated , low-balled what was going on. they locked out the world so you have no way of knowing what the

true statistics are with satellite imagery and other surveillance on the chinese that shows, for instance, that the amount of funeral urns far exceeds the official number of chinese that's dead and how is china a nation four times our size have one-fourth of the fatalities that the united states does. it's clear that the chinese were not being frank and then you go on to january, and what ambassador hayley was so right to point out, january 14, the chinese telling the world health organization that there's no evidence that the virus is transmitted from person to person, and it is exactly how the virus is transmitted, and you would know that almost immediately, back in november/ december you had to know how exactly this virus was transmitted. this is not a mystery, and then you go forward to the world health organization tilting toward the chinese and their point of view, in almost every instance, and i think that

there's a lot calling it the chinese health organization, rather than the world health organization, and there's some truth to that. i think the president of the united states is right to be skeptical of the world health organization, and certainly, of his friend, president xi, and the chinese. i believe when this is all said and done, adding to the fact, steve, that china is the source of so many of our key pharmaceuticals, we are dependent on china, china lied about how this thing got started , how severity was, and as a result, the world, china lied and the world died. steve: well there you go. geraldo thank you very much. we're a little shorter this week because of some breaking news, we thank you very much. best to you, erica and your familial over america. geraldo: thank you. steve: meanwhile, 8:31 here on the east coast it's a somber scene churches all across the country empty, ahead of the good friday, as americans are staying home this holy week amid the pandemic.

archbishop of new york, timothy cardinal dolan joins us with his message of hope for the future, next. plus america together, a fox & friends living room concert with country music star lee bryce, just about 15 minutes from now, it's a song you aren't going to hear anywhere else, live. >> ♪ ♪

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(vo) was that a pivotal historical moment ♪ we just went stumbling past? here we are dancing in the rumbling dark so come a little closer give me something to grasp give me your beautiful, crumbling heart we're working every dread day that is given us feeling like the person people meet really isn't us like we're going to buckle underneath the trouble like any minute now the struggle's going to finish us and then we smile at all our friends even when i'm weak and i'm breaking i'll stand weeping at the train station 'cause i can see your faces

there is so much peace to be found in people's faces. i love people's faces. ♪ ainsley: on this good friday we look ahead to the celebration of easter sunday which for million s of americans and christians around the world won't be happening in church, it's going to be happening in our hopes and over live stream. joining us with a live message on this holiday of reflection is the archbishop of new york, timothy cardinal dolan. good morning to you.

>> hi, ainsley, fox & friends, dolan and friends with steve, brian and ainsley, nice to be with you on this good friday morning. ainsley: it's always nice to have you here, let's start with an easter message for the folks at home. >> sure. easter is going to be special this year. what strikes me, ainsley, is the word "emptiness." some people might think, well hey wait a minute that's not an easter message. easter is fullness, the fullness of life and goodness and hope and life, right, but before we can be full we got to be empty. the essence of easter sunday morning was what? the empty tomb. the empty tomb. the broken dead body of jesus was not there. he had risen from the dead when they went to venerate the body the angels said what in the world are you looking for the living among the dead? jesus is living and jesus is alive. the tomb was empty and i say that ainsley, because look, you know better than anybody, you've been reporting it faithfully, so often, there's a sense of

emptiness, in our city and our country and this planet, we call our temporary home. there's an emptiness, we've lost people, we can't see families and friends, as the churches are empty. now we could be depressed by that, or we could say do you know what? god wants to fill that emptiness , and the best way he does that for us as christians is by the death and resurrection of his only begotten son, jesus. we got to be empty before we can full it. that was the message of lent right? we got to empty ourselves of sin s and excesses so we can fill us with his grace and mercy. my jewish friends, happy pass over by the way, my jewish friends tell me, that's why god led them through a desert. why? because the desert is empty. it's barron. they didn't have anything, they had to depend on god for everything and he filled them unfailingly. i think that's my easter message

if that makes any sense, ainsley ainsley: beautiful. brian: card until, i know you spend your whole life listening to other people's problems and answering their questions and you're about to answer ours, but if you wouldn't mind answering this question. out of everything you've done in your career, you are now speaking to empty pews, speaking to millions of people, but who aren't there, because we're streaming a lot of your masses, and we'll stream it again in two days. what is it like for you not see ing people, but knowing they're watching? >> yeah, it's eerie. we're not used to empty churches especially this time of the year they're out the doors flowing on to fifth avenue, and that gives a sense of community, that gives a sense of excitement. when i look out, because the church of course is jesus, his presence in the world, but the church is also people. these church buildings, brick-and-mortar, they're great. we need them we love them we want to get back into them but

the church as st. paul tells us in the bible be the living stones and that's our people, and when they're not there, that's eerie, and there's something missing, darn it, but again that's the emptiness i was speaking about to ainsley, god can fill that and i'm hearing that he is. i'm hearing people say i hope they don't get too used to not to be at mass on sunday because we're getting so many complement s about the live streaming and the telecast, the radio, the technological ways that we have to keep in touch with our beloved people. boy that's not as good as being there, but we'll have to count on it for a while. steve: well cardinal, i'll tell you, you're right about this is good friday. we're at the end of the lenten season and its been, i've gone through a lot of lents , as you have. i've never seen one where because of all of the sacrifice, the bishops and some locations have said do you know what? it's okay to eat meat because you have already sacrificed so

much on friday. i know so many more people are praying, and so many more people are sitting at home thinking about what is important to them in their lives and that's great, but other people are looking to the future and we've got a great e-mail from a woman named eunice , and she asks you, when mass does resume, how do you envision the sign of peace and in the catholic church we shake hands. will social distancing policies be enacted through the local archdiocese? cardinal? >> we may have to,eunice, the recovery, the return for which we all long after this pandemic is going to make some changes all over the place. our friends here on fox are telling us about that, eunice, political, social, sports and i think religion too. we may have to change some of that. that sign of peace that greeting is a beautiful part of mass, where we reconcile ourselves to one another before we approach

the altar as jean us jesus asked us to. it could be done in different ways, with a bow, with a smile, we might be able to return to the shaking of hands, or embracing, i don't think we will right off the bat, but i think that it's a good of those that we got to kind of settle on as we get back to normal. brian: maybe a chest bump. ainsley: no, not in church. [laughter] okay this is from angie. angie says what do you say to people who don't believe in god, and/or blame god for what is happening with the coronavirus? >> well there's a lot of people that are saying that, angie, and if they are throwing that in your face, why don't you say listen, i'll tell you what. you could be angry at god for the coronavirus. if you're grateful to god, for all of the good, heroic selfless people who have risen to the occasion, and are taking care of those who are sick. we can't have it both ways.

our faith in god is there, tested in times of adversity now , and affirmed in times when things are going fine. we're not just good friday people. we're not just easter sunday people, we got both, okay? there's darkness, there's light, there's death, there's light. god is there in both. we're not fair weather friends, and i'd remind these people, angie, that that's not how god has revealed himself in the bible. that he causes these evils, that he sends these diversities. he kind of let them happen because there's freedom in his creatures and in his creation but he cries over them as much as we do, and he gives us the grace to get through, and something tells me that you could, that this could be a time when people's faith is tested, some might lose their faith. i'm thinking more people are going to cling to it.

i could remember, angie, when i was meeting, this had to be 15 years ago with a remarkable holocaust survivor, and we had a beautiful conversation, it was part of the presentation, and i asked her how she kept her faith because she was deeply observant jew, and i said how did you keep your faith and she said well, do you know what? every morning when i got up and saw the sun, i said well, god hasn't given up on his creation, the sun is up and i said to myself if god hasn't given up on creation, neither am i, and she said i kept going, a day at a time. there is one of the proofs of god's existence, that is inspir ing for us these days. brian: right. cardinal you're really good at this , you got all the answers always great to see you. >> i'm asking questions myself, get me on jeopardy, will you?

ainsley: [laughter] brian: i'm going to do my best. all right, cardinal dolan. ainsley: we love you, happy easter. >> we love you, thanks. brian: happy easter. all right, coming up straight ahead, we'll take a break, country music star, lee bryce, brings america together and performs a live living room concert with a song you have never heard before, only on fox & friends. >> ♪ ♪ stop dancing around the pain that keeps you up again, and again. advil pm silences pain, and you sleep the whole night. advil pm

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>> good morning the new numbers on the pandemic of the coronavirus now killing more americans than heart disease and cancer, this as a vaccine trial begins in the united states. surgeon general jerome collins will be our guest top of the hour join ed and me, for america's news room, on this good friday. brian: the hit smash song went double platinum and has been nominated for single of the year by the academy of country music, i'd vote for it and his new song , is out today and here is a sneak peak of the brand new video, let's watch it together. >> ♪ well i want to trade his whole world, for one of them

girls ♪ brian: but first lee bryce joins us to bring america together for a live, living room performance right here on fox & friends. lee, welcome back. >> lee: man, thank you so much for having me. this is awesome to be here! brian: i know, you're going to be on fox nation tonight full exclusive concert is going to be awesome but first thing i'm curious how does a guy like you keep busy in times like this? are you writing? what are you doing? >> well you know, you'd think that it's a little less work because we're not on the road, but man, you know all of the new things we're trying to do to stay in touch with fans, and i'm making a record right now, producing a record, writing songs, and getting to know your kids very deeply is a whole other level. so its been a good time to be home and have some connected family time but i've been working for sure. brian: well, what are the ages

of your kids? >> oh, man, so 11, 6, and my little girl is 2.5 and they are bouncing off the walls. [laughter] brian: so tell us about one of them girls. i know it's out today. we just saw a little bit of the video. >> man, it's just a song about, well the video says a lot. it's a strong woman whose a single mother in the video so it even takes the song to another level, and she's also a firefighter, so she's a first responder, and there's just a thing about the kind of girl that all of us boys are really looking for , but man it just feels good and it feels good riding down the road and i wrote it the night before we recorded so it's kind of like a cinderella story, we're excited about it. brian: i remember the first time that i heard rumor was actually on our show and it's a runaway hit obviously and i just heard that song, it sounds

fantastic but you have something else. tonight we're going to watch a night with lee bryce and hear it a live stream concert on fox nation so i want everyone to go to foxnews.com that's tonight at 8:00, on fox nation, but lee, tell us about the song you're about to sing? >> well, man, you know, today is supposed to be the day that i play my single. it's coming out today and we're so excited about it, but i wrote a song a couple days ago, with some friends of mine and we were just in the midst of what's going on right now, and i think music does a couple of things. sometimes people want to hear a song and forget about what's going on and have fun and they want to smile and just kind of zone out but then there's sometimes that you just want to dive into your emotions. brian: all right, so let's hear it. this was a couple of days ago? so let's hear it and get the whole thing in. lee bryce, debut, written a couple of days ago.

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>> that's where he came from and that part of it put me in a space where i thought, hey world, leave me alone for a

minute. >> we are not alone and we will get through this together and come apart. lee brice, thank you so much. and angel and brian, have a great easter weekend. >> you, too. >> to >> sandra: president trump says a country is at the top of the hill when it comes to the coronavirus and the u.s. will bounce back as the administration as a target date for opening the country up again. good morning this morning, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: and i'm ed henry. more than 406,600 americans have contracted the coronavirus and new york saw its highest single day death toll for a third time. but hospitalizations are dropping significantly, a good sign a social distancing is working. the president says the nation is cl