rob: too bad he is taken. married man. jillian: carley, thank you for that. carley: i will send it back to you on that note. jillian: on that note, we have got to go. "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day, everyone. >> well while we must remain village length, it is clear that our aggressive strategy is working and very strongly working. the battle continues but the battle suggests that nationwide we have passed the peak on new cases. hopefully that will continue and we will continue to make great progress. steve: we have passed the peak. there you heard the president talking progress as he is set to reveal plans for reopening the economy later today. getting americans back to work will. brian. brian: right now u.s. coronavirus cases passing 639,000. deaths almost 31,000 after new york's shocking increase topping

52,000. ainsley: working to get our nation back on track as sources tell fox news that covid-19 likely originated in a laboratory in wuhan, china. griff jenkins joins us with more on the shocking reveal, griff? griff: it is shocking, indeed. brian, ainsley, steve, good morning. multiple sources are telling fox news that this emanated from the institute of virology in wuhan not as a bioweapon but rather mistakes due to lax safety protocols resulting in bat to human transmission that person, patient zero, worked at the lab and spread it at a nearby wet markenot believed to sell bats. china sought to blame the market for the lab's failure as china quickly moved to shut down travel domestically from wuhan to the west of china but not on international flights. here's what the president had to say when asked about it. >> more and more we are hearing the story. and we will see. when you say multiple sources.

use the word sources but we are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation that happened. griff: this is not first time heard of problems in this lab. two years ago as china continues to suppress critical information still today. now secretary of state pompeo is saying it's time for china to cooperate as secretary of defense mark esper says this is costing us in our response. >> clearly, the chinese could have been more transparent earlier and shared much more of the data. we would have had a better understanding of this virus and then how to deal with it. i think we -- even today we see them withholding information. griff: these same sources also say the world health organization has been complicit in helping china cover its tracks. something the organization denies as the president temporarily halts funding pending annual investigation. finally further strange the u.s.-china relationship guys a new state department report yesterday raises concerns china

is violating zero yield nuclear weapons ban by secretly conducting tests in northwest china. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: all right, griff. thank you very much. china says we are following all the rules regarding the nuke tests as well. so while there is increasing confidence in this report that bret baier brought us exclusively yesterday, the one thing we know for sure is that china deceived the world. they suppressed data. they changed data. samples were destroyed at this lab. areas scrubbed. reports erased. one source told bret baier it was the greatest government cover-up of all time. meanwhile listen to the secretary of state mike pompeo talking about the need for transparence. >> the fact that china hasn't answers is telling. we need the chinese government to open up.

the world's scientists know exactly how this came to be and how this virus began to spread. it didn't just put americans at risk it put people all around the world at risk. it needs to explain what happened. steve: and so, brian and ainsley, you know, there are so many dots that still need to be connected but increasing confidence that it did come from a lab but not the way we had heard initially where china, brian, was blaming the wet markets that was to distract us from the fact that it came from the lab. brian: true. patient zero worked at the lab. went into the population in wuhan, infected the entire city. they evidently kept this information. there is a theory out there from president xi because they thought about the blow back. remember the doctor that wanted to come clean.

they put him in jail. he ended up dying of the virus. that's how terrible this is. we have a chance to unify the world against this menace which is china who jails millions of muslims because they just happen to be muslims in concentration camps. we should not be tolerating but for some reason we are. they have used the u.n. and the world health organization to gain influence around the world and now we -- they have poisoned 180 plus countries. they cannot be allowed to get away with this. gordon cheng weighed in. >> when you look at the initial cases, many of them, perhaps as many as a third actually have no connect connection with the wet market which is this theory that beijing has been reporting. when we look at that we have to say either there were two outbreaks simultaneously or the wet market is not the source. this notion that these escaped from a lab actually i think is supported by the vast majority

majority of the siption that we sescience that wesee out there. remember, senator cotton brought this up in january and the chinese government went crazy. how dare you. how irresponsible. a month later they're blaming us and blaming our military. but senator tom cotton and liz cheney said all along investigate what happened at that lab. and now the world is coming around to look at it. i expect them to push back today. but i hope the world can unify and demand transparency, ainsley. ainsley: sources say it was not created as a bioweapon. many are questioning that they say it was a way to common demonstrate better identifying identifying and combating viruses than the united states is. this is increasing confidence that the virus likely originated in this lab and not the wet markets. these are sources. we requested information about these sources, about this information, but there are

people in the intel community in washington. there are people inside the administration that are a little bit more skeptical about this report. so we have to, you know, cover that side of the story, too. but, what all source does agree with and the administration agrees with as we heard from mike pompeo there was clearly a cover-up of data and information. it's just a mat of finding out what that was and if it was created in a lab and if china tried to cover it up. the problem is it is communist china. let's get to the bottom of it. bring in congressman chip roy. do you think we will get answers out of china? >> well, you never can be sure that we're going to get anything out of china. they have been our adversary now for far too long trampling on the rights of people in hong kong. engaging in intellectual stealing property. they are not our friend. particularly troubling what we are now seeing these reports coming out which we suspected might be the case about

something whether it's been created in a lab or at least leaked or gotten out of the lab. i think it's particularly troubling that the world health organization seems to be complicit in this. $500 million in taxpayer dollars coming from the united states. hardworking american taxpayers organization seems to be complicit with china in covering up how this virus got released. we, of course know that the doctor in china who, you know, was out there trying to let the world know this was happening all the way back in december and then china trampled on his rights and abused him and put him into the kind of, you know, environment that we have come used to putting people in bad places. this doctor was, you know, actually trying to let the world know what was going on. i have introduced a measure to try to give him a congressional gold medal. i hope we can do that and move forward and hold china to account for what's going on over there. steve: well, congressman, no doubt chinese have covered things up for at least six days

which would have been very valuable in the world response to fighting this thing. but for the world health organization, this was the president's comments a couple days ago and again yesterday. for them to go ahead and pretty much believe lock, stock, and barrel what the world health organization was saying, that is why he has suspended payments for 60 to 90 days. the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, did not like that one little bit. she thinks there is going to be plenty of blow back for him. she said the president's halting of funding to the w.h.o. as it leads the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic is senseless. a weak person blames others. this decision is dangerous. , illegal and will be swiftly challenged. so it sounds like the speaker somehow is going to challenge the president over whether or not he has the authority to cut the cord on this for a while. >> my understanding is these are dollars that congress has given to the white house to deal with these kinds of things in a broader sense that the president has latitude to make decisions,

particularly on something like this where it is involving our national security interest. clearly impact our national security. and we are seeing that in realtime right now. i think the president is right to be holding the world health organization accountable. i love all the hand wringing i'm seeing from the hollywood elites upset. i have seen bill gates is pledging another $150 million. okay. good for you. it's about time you guys want to fund organizations like this that have not been looking out for the interest of the united states that have been acknowledging taiwan. that haven't been acknowledging front line. encourage the world health organization to step up and get it right. stop siding with the communists in china. stop against the interest in the united states. do what's right for the american people and the world. the president is right to be holding the world health organization accountable. i join jim jordan and colleagues on the oversight committee

second ago letter to the world health organization asking them what they knew. we want to get to the bottom of it. what did they know and when did they know it? when did they know what was going on in china. could they have quoten in front of the six or seven days that could have been so important stopping the spread of this virus and damaging the world and the united states. we need to get to the bottom of this and know the truth while we continue to make sure we make america safe and get our economy back again. i'm glad the president is trying to dos that a well. brian: president obama didn't do anything when the world health organization began being dominated by china. president bush was distracted by iraq when this guy was named leader of the world health organization. but now we don't have that choice. we have to come down on china's influence on the u.n. and the w.h.o. and it's amazing this is one time in which we can come together as a country on one nemesis, china, just like in 2016 the problem was russia. it wasn't one party. ari fleischer weighed in last night. >> it's also called leverage.

and if there is something that donald trump excels at is understanding how to move institutions, foreign institutions, international organizations that have a lot of anti-american bias. he does it through leverage. and the way that democrats and the media just instantly embrace this organization i don't understand, sean, for the life of me why they would rather blame donald trump first for everything than china and the w.h.o. to hold them accountable for that which they have done. that's the instinct of these democrats and the media. and it hurts the country. brian: congressman, have you noticed the president keeps saying we are going to be helping other countries through this. i think he understands the president. that this is an opportunity for the world to see us as the leader that we have been. in a time of crisis. do you also see that in congress? >> absolutely. first of all, ari is exactly right. he articulated that very well. the classic example of where my colleague and democratic colleagues seem wanting to to

side with the chinese communist instead of what is in the best interest of the american people and the world. we are seeing that right now unfold where democrat colleagues are holding up $250 billion necessary -- brian: unbelievable. >> i'm talking to them every day in my district. they are struggling for capital. hoping to keep their businesses alive. they can employ people and get our economy started again. meanwhile democrats want to play politics instead of providing the capital necessary to start businesses. we are trying to work hard to get through this pandemic. get the economy started and keep the american people safe. governor abbott in texas working hard. why are more important supporting the chinese than getting american businesses restarted? ainsley: a lot of people have those similar questions and when you talk to people who have lost their jobs or shutting down their restaurant, they can't provide for their families, they are waiting on that money, and we are giving $500 million to an organization that's supposed to keep our country safe. they are the reason for if this

originated in china. china is the reason for this. wire all affected by. this and the world health organization is supposed to be there for us. we can't get answers and we don't feel safe. and people are losing their jobs. now, let's get to this. the president is upset with congress for leaving washington. and he says he might be forced to adjourn the senate and the house and he says he may appoint his own political appointees. what do you think about this? >> well, i have got to look to the procedures in which he is talking about adjourning the house and senate in order to do it. but here's what i will say. congress needs to do our job. we need to get together and debate and get together in washington or figure out how to do it virtually but we need to do our job. we need to pass measures like we are talking about right now. we have got to fix the bills that are currently broken that are harming american businesses people can't get capital. we are encouraging people to stay unemployed. small businesses who can't get money. we need to get together and do our job.

we need to vote. we need to appoint and get through all of the -- nominees that the president has set up. the senate needs to get them confirmed. we need to do our job. that's what we were elected to do. it's important we do that speaker needs to know this and we need to do the work of the american people. that means funding these businesses and getting our economy restarted. i'm glad the president is trying to lead and make us do. this. steve: well, the president is taking the lead. the anow. lateannouncement on how toreoped businesses across the country talking to the governors on a conference call later on today. he would like to reopen some parts of the country as soon as they are ready. he is going to be talking to the governors and said yesterday it sounds like 29 states could be close to doing that congressman, thank you for joining us today down there in texas. >> thanks y'all. y'all stay safe up there god bless. ainsley: god bless you. steve: indeed. 6:15 in the east. jillian joins us with the headlines from new york city.

jillian: that's right. good morning. we begin with this. the fight to get back to work spreading across the nation. thousands of protesters sick of living in lockdowns flooding michigan's capital to protest the governor's stay-at-home order. >> [chanting freedom] ainsley: similar scene in kentucky. chanting we want to work. >> i believe we should reopen kentucky immediately right now. folks that would kill people. it would absolutely kill people. jillian: the state confirming seven deaths and 88 new cases within 24 hours. nearly a dozen iranian military votes taking dangerous and provocative actions near u.s. military shifts in the persian gulf. one point iranian boats passed

within 30 feet of a coast guard cutter. the encounter was caught on camera. >> there is guns on 10. >> yeah, i know. jillian: secretary of state mike pompeo says the administration is evaluating a response. fresh often doorsment of joe biden elizabeth warren making big news overnight. warren says she would say yes if biden wanted her on his ticket. >> we both want the same thing. we want this country to work and we want it to work for everyone. so i'm in this fight to help in any way i can. jillian: joe biden has pledged to pick a woman as his v.p. so we will see what happens. and then there is this: a powerful tribute lighting up boston overnight. police, e.m.s., and firefighters rolling by hospitals across the city to thank healthcare workers. [sirens. this parade coming on the 7th

anniversary of the boston bombing three people were killed when terrorists set off explosives at the finish line in 2013. this year's race is postponed until september because of the coronavirus. that's a look at your headlines, i will send it back to you. >> all right. thanks so much, jillian, appreciate it. meanwhile 18 minutes after the hour. help could soon be on the way for our nation's farmers in the form of 15 billion-dollar aid package. we hope, fingers crossed. will that be enough? our next guest owns farms in two separate states. explain why it's so important to keep our farmers afloat.

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about access to good food because of this, i want to assure you the american food supply is strong, resilient and safe. steve: and that is what we needed to hear, reassuring words from the ag secretary yesterday as the administration looks to spend more than $15 billion on phase one of an aid package to help america's struggling farmers during the pandemic. our next guest is an agriculture economist and owner of day day e larosa farms damon joins us now. good morning. >> thanks for having me. steve: good to have you as well. it was good to hear sonny perdue yesterday talk about how the food supply is safe. when the government told us to stay home you will, for the most part this is working because people are going to wind up with money subsidy from the federal

congress. at the same time, we know that we're going to have food at the grocery stores because without that there would be craziness in the streets. >> yeah. the united states department of agriculture has had a policy since its inception in 1862 affordable and abun dantd food for the masses because that makes the country strong, and sometimes there are arguments about oh well we are paying farmers and we have a sur plussments times like this why managing for a surplus is good for a national security and food security is a national defense play. steve: absolutely. listen, i remember when i was president of future farmers of america in clay center, kansas, subsidies to farmers have been going on for 100 years. this is nothing new. but at this particular time, given the fact that, you know with your farms, you know, you have a lot of territory you cover. but it really doesn't take that many people to operate the farms. however, if those people get

sick with the coronavirus, and are unable to work for a couple of weeks or a month, you are in a jam. >> yeah. we have gotten really a food supply that is so dependent on so few people. we always say 1% of our population farms. but of actual production of substance, i mean of quantity, remember, 58% of our farms produce less than $10,000 of agricultural product per year. you are really talking about 40% of the 1% that are producing what we really see at the grocery store. it's very important to keep them solve vent and make sure they are out there working. all things about essential work and who can work from home. this is not a job that can you sort of do have a tv tray and laptop in your children's bedroom. brian: that's right. i understand you own the dairy farm that you grew up on. you have an operation in arizona and indiana. how hav have you been impacted y this personally, damian.

>> my farms grow al fall go and corn for dairy operation. that dairy operator is hurting right now as are dairy farmers throughout the united states of america slugging through an industry with low milk prices and capacity issue right now. steve, got a real issue with that bottle neck. i have been very defensive of america's farmers and they say they are dumping milk that can go to a food bank. there is no food bank in the united states of america that can receive 8,000-gallon of tanker truck of raw milk. not legal to sell raw milk let alone who can package that dairy farms are suffering because of the flow in the middle. a plant that's set up to process 25-pound bags of mozzarella cheese can't switch over and start bottling milk to give it to homeless shelters or food banks. it's a really complex food system that a lot of folks don't

just understand. steve: food chain we are relying on hats off to you and farmers across the country. it's not the farmers growing stuff it's the slow down with processing that's causing the problems. dame i can't believe, thank you very much for joining us and good luck to you. >> thanks for having me here and keep supporting american agriculture. steve: absolutely. will do. thank you, sir. meanwhile, straight ahead on this thursday. millions of tests set to roll out to detect potential immunity to covid-19. what does that mean when it comes to reopening the economy? dr. nicole saphier is going to break it down and she is coming up next. ♪

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>> abbott labs announced it has developed an anti body test that will determine if someone has been previously infected with

the coronavirus and potentially developed immunity, these tests could be available to screen up to 20 million people in a matter of weeks. ainsley: that's really good news today abbott labs ship 1 million coronavirus test nationwide to labs and hospital. identify whether a person has had covid-19 even without having symptoms. health officials say this could be a big step in the right direction. joining us now is fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier. good morning, dr. saphier. >> hey, good morning, ainsley. ainsley: good morning. they are also saying they are going to be able to screen 20 million in a matter weeks before the end of june, which is great news. and it's good news, especially for the hospitals, but for the folks at home that want to find out if they have had it, do you think they will be able to get those tests, you know in fact next few weeks? >> well, so let's talk about why this test is so important. we need to get people back to work. one of the ways to do that is to identify who has potentially

been exposed to the virus and who has not. although we can't guarantee right now that if you have antibodies that you are actually immune to future infections that is ongoing theory put out by dr. birx and fauci and cdc. that's why we want to know who has already been exposed to this virus. three companies have under the fda who have already test out throughout the country. abbott is potentially going to be the fourth. they are in the process of apply for emergency use. and they did say over 20 million tests, possibly, by the end of june. that's a great thing. i will say that i have one concern when it comes to this abbott test that they're looking for igg, which is a very specific antibody. that shows it's more that they were expoliciesed to the virus you know a little while ago. these other three tests they look for igm and igg. the igm is the first antibody that shows up in our bloodstream after we have been infected. if you are only looking for the igg, it's possible that you may get a false negative.

because someone may have recovered from this infection but they don't actually have those longer term antibodies yet. with hiv, people get a test about a month after they have had exposure, but then they have another test three months later because sometimes it can take up to three months before those antibodies show up. so my only concern is potentially would have false negatives with that test. however, i am very happy to see antibody tests being deployed across the nation. for people sitting at home who want to get an anti body test. you have to sit tight. they are not widely available. they are amping up production and going to become more available. right now really limited to public health officials, hospital systems. hopefully we can get them the outpatient system. you know, we did discuss briefly yesterday that rutgers here in new jersey has just gotten fda gave us approval for their saliva test. just actually look for the virus itself. not for antibodies. as long as we continue to increase testing. whether it's through the molecular testing. meaning that nasal swab or

saliva or antibody testing. that's how we are going to get people back to work. we need to make sure that we know who is infected. who is not. we need to clear people before they go back to work it. may be the future that people actually have a test showing that they are negative before they can go back to work. before they can do air travel or train travel or so forth. ainsley: yeah. like south korea. they gave -- scan your forehead to see if you had a temperature before you could walk into an office that's why numbers were low there or walk into any building. yesterday governor cuomo said this crisis won't be over until a vaccine is developed. the cdc director robert redfield said there will be a second wave. listen to this. >> i think we have to assume this is like other respiratory viruses and there will be a seasonality to it. we are going to have another battle with it up front and aggressively next winter.

ainsley: what's your reaction to that, dr. saphier? >> well, ainsley, i think i have been saying since the end of january that i think there is going to be seaso seasonality ts virus. cold flu and corona season all over again. i absolutely agree with what they're saying. the truth is this virus is likely here to stay at least for the next few years. what are we going to have to do because we don't want to close everything down again like we are doing right now. we need to take proactive steps. some of that something going we need people to be increasing flu vaccine and pneumovax vaccine. if people get those vaccines decreasing the amount of people that require hospitalization for flu. and then if we don't have the covid-19 vaccine yet, then that will make way. there will be hospital beds for more of our covid patients which is necessary. the reason everything is shut down we don't have the hospital or care capacity to care for all of the covid patients. if people are doing appropriate

measures to decrease their risk needing to be hospitalized for the flu and pneumonia and other ailments then absolutely we won't have to see such tight restrictions over the next course of this covid-19 round. and that's what's going to be really important. will resee school closures again? it's possible. but we do anyway during flu season. it doesn't happen as much as it is happening now with the covid-19 crisis. absolutely school systems shut down when there are high cases of lice, measles, which is a big concern of mine that we might be seeing toward the end of the summer. but i think, you know, it's going to be up to the american people to do everything they can to stay healthy throughout the next season and, you know, we're just going to have to continue increasing our testing and making sure we have some of those medications on hand that is starting to prove effective at treating the severity of the illness. ainsley: okay, dr. saphier. thank you so much. good to see you. >> thanks, ainsley. ainsley: we will see you tomorrow. americans aren't the only ones getting cash from the government. california's governor is giving stimulus checks to illegals as

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♪ >> we'll be the comeback kids, all of us. all of us. it's incredible what's going on. i'm very proud of the people of this country we want to get our country back and we're going to do it and we're going to do it soon. brian: and we talked about from state to state how we are bending the curve and that's good. setting us up to maybe bring back the economy. but as we bring in brian brenberg, fox news contributor and chair of the business and finance program at kings college in new york city when they actually get back to work. brian, with the business leaders told him yesterday is i can't go back to work and ask my employees to go back to work unless we get testing. and the testing actually went down this week. what is quest and others doing

they are stopping the economy right now. >> look. we do need more tests and obviously people are going to go back to work they have to feel like they are going back with people who are healthy. so, i don't disagree with that look, we can't let the perfect -- the enemy of the good here. there are a lot of ways that businesses can get back to work even if testing hasn't come fully back online. you still have symptoms checks. you industrial temperature testing. we got to be creative here. we can't stall this forever. the economic news has been too bad for us to stall here forever. we have to get people back to work. so we have to find the alternatives that can work. that means businesses continue to have to have a voice in that not just the largest businesses by the way. but small businesses, too, on the ground who know their communities and customers. and they know what it takes to get back to work safely. steve: indeed. the white house team yesterday, brian, said that there are 29 states with not a lot of cases.

and they could be closer to reopening than big places like where we are here in the northeast. when you look at what is going on in europe right now there are some very promising signs. fringes, germany announced yesterday they are going to start reopening shops on monday. schools are going to reopen on may the 4th. then you have austria shops are opening. denmark reopen the schools. spain is allowing manufacturing and construction. people return to their jobs. and italy, italy, of all places, is starting to allow small businesses to reopen as well. so, you know, it's not like you flip is aswitch and suddenly everything is on. it's goes to be baby steps. but it's a step in the right direction. >> that's right. we have to be watching what's going on in europe because it can be something of a model for us. but, let's remember, too. america is different than these european countries. and we are going to find our own ways to do this which means we have to get started as well. we have to allow in those states where they are ready, we have to allow those local communities to

find ways to come back. we simply can't sit back and wait for the answer to come upon us. we have to go out and find it. and that means businesses have to be active. local governments, state governments have to be active in charting a pat, getting started and seeing how we can do this. ainsley: brian, people here in this country illegally, they can't get the stimulus money. there are some democrats that do want that to happen. if you look at the state of california. gavin newsom is saying he is going to give $125 million to the illegals that live in his state. listen. >> we feel a deep sense of gratitude for people that are in fear of deportation. but are still addressing the essential needs of tens of millions of californians. that's why i'm proud as governor to be the first state to announce a program for direct disaster assistance to those individuals. we're putting up $75 million in partnership with philanthropy. they are putting additional

$50 million to support our efforts. so a total of $125 million. ainsley: brian, what's your reaction? >> look, this is so troubling to me because, as i look around the country right now. and i see so many small business -- so many american businesses who are saying can't get the relief, i need to keep people on the payroll and to keep my business going. i just think we are in a moment where we have to think about priorities. we are spending money on this stimulus that we do not have. we do not have this money. which means if we are going to spend it at all. it has to be smart. and right now the biggest needs in this country are the small businesses who employ all of us. i mean, there are millions of jobs on the line here. americans, i think, look at these issues, and they say congress, progressive politicians fail time and again to deal with our illegal immigration problem. but then they turn around and wants to spend millions of dollars on new benefits. how about we fix the root of the problem. americans are generous. they like to step up in times of need. but they don't want to be backed into a corner and always told

you have to spend more money without dealing with the root of the challenges that we face. ainsley: okay. professor, thanks for joining us. >> good to see you. ainsley: good to see you, too. 47 minutes after the top of the hour and jillian has headlines for us. jillian: that's right. good morning. we begin with this. we do want to warn you it might be tough to watch. an absolutely horrifying video released of a passenger jet exploding into a fireball during a crash landing. the plane skidding to a stop in moscow last may after being struck lie lightning after takeoff. can you see passengers emergency slides running for their lives. 37 escaped. 41 died. the plane's pilot has been convicted of causing death by negligence. wow that is hard to watch. and take a look at this massive explosion at a paper mill caught on camera. ash and debris flying into the sky, landing on this truck's windshield. some employees suffering

respiratory issues from the death. not as many employees were there due to the covid-19 restrictions. wood chips, water and chemicals are mixed at that plant in maine. the explosion is under investigation. two florida doctors arrested for taking down a neighbor's trump 2020 flag. caught on doorbell camera climbing on a ladder and stealing the campaign flag right in front of their kids. their son is heard on the video begging to stop fearing they would go to jail. both are facing several charges, including criminal mischief, tropical depressioning and larceny. those are your headlines. send it back to you. brian: thanks some, jillian, appreciate it. thousands of protesters jam the streets of michigan. did you see this yesterday? backlash against the strict stay-at-home orders. they are ridiculous. and other states are getting just as angry. judge andrew napolitano on is this all constitutional? i have a hunch where he wants to start.

brian: thousands of protesters flood michigan state's capital over the governor's stay-at-home order. listen. >> instead of looking at essential and nonessential, let's start looking at what is safe and unsafe and start

getting people back to work. >> quarantine is for the sick not for the healthy. >> it's time to open up. >> we're going to take our liberties and we are going to keep them and we're going to fight for them. brian: the order is the strictest in the nation pushes back on family visits. can't even go to your own summer house. can't use a jet ski. can't use a motor boat but can use a canoe. bring in the host of liberty file on fox nation judge andrew napolitano. judge, these restrictions are ridiculous and thousands of people came out to protest. does it surprise you? >> it surprises me that it took them this long to come out, brian. good morning. >> blatant violation of the bill of rights. blatant violation of a right to assembly. purchase of a product that you decide is essential. if you go to a big box store in michigan, and you decide instead of buying cereal i want to buy

grass seed. instead of buying paper towels instead of garden hose have you violated the governor's executive order and theoretically because she has threatened to do this, she will shut down the big box store because they sold you grass seed and a garden hose instead of cereal and paper towels. these are not decisions for the government to make. these are decisions for individuals to make. and the sooner we take our freedoms back. the less likely the government will be able to continue doing this. if we don't take our freedoms back they might not come back. brian: it's getting tough now wasn't the only place there were protests. let me let you hear. this is governor whitmer has imposed as overstepping other authority. this is according to the protester. she has created a vague framework of emergency laws only confuse michigan citizens as a result we will not have strict enforcement of these orders. so they're not going to comply.

guess where else they're protesting? they are protesting in kentucky, ohio, north carolina, and virginia. and as more and more states go online and get their rights back, that is going to fuel, i believe, other states to go wait a second. this is getting ridiculous. have you got 29 states without a big imprint from this virus. don't you think that's where it is heading, judge? >> i do think that's where it's heading. you know, here in new jersey, the governor boasts, it boasted to tucker casual son right now the bill of rights is above my pay grade. the bill of rights is above your pay grade? you took a solemn oath to preserve, defend and protect the constitution of the united states which includes the bill of rights when these governors try to write law rather than enforce law that the legislature has written, they violate the federal constitution. they violate the state constitution. and in the case of governor murphy in new jersey who says the bill of rights is above his

pay grade, that's a felony of misconduct in office. it's an impeachable offense for a governor to either knowingly or negligently to crash civil liberties as these governors have done. >> i have spoken to cops. they hate what the governors are making them do. most of the cops i have spoken to their hearts are with the people. brian: got charges judge. thank you so much. great column today too. next hour cory gardner, joey logano and cailee mcenannie as press secretary. don't move. itment has always inspired us and now it's no different so, we're here with financial strength, stability and experience you can depend on

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>> while we must remain vigilant it is clear our strategy working and very strongly working. the battle continues but the battle suggests that nationwide we have passed the peak on new cases. hopefully that will continue and we will continue to make great progress. ainsley: that's great news past the peak he says. the president progress plans for reopening the economy today getting americans back to work. right now u.s. coronavirus cases surpassing 639,000. deaths nearing 31,000. and recoveries topping 52,000, brian. brian: yup. the president working to get our nation back on track as sources

exclusively tell fox news, covid-19 likely originated in a laboratory, not a wet market, in wuhan, china. steve: topics on the agenda this morning for griff jenkins who joins us live from washington. all right, griff, tell us how the president plans on announcing guidelines for reopening the government and what may have been going on in china. griff: well, the president is quite open about talking about these new guidelines. we will see more as this day develops. what he wasn't wanting to talk about tight-lipped what john roberts our chief white house correspondent asked the president about yesterday multiple sources are telling fox news. that this pandemic came out of the institute of virology in wuhan. not as a bioweapon but rather as a grave mistake made because of lax safety practices resulting in bat-to-human transmission. that human, patient zero, worked at that lab and then spread it at a nearby wet market where bats are not believed to be

sold. suggesting china sought to blame the market for the lab's failure. now secretary of state pompeo says it's time for china to start talking. >> the mere fact that we don't note answers that china hasn't shared the answers i think is very, very telling. we need the chinese government to open up. they say they want to cooperate. one of the best ways they could find to cooperate would be to let the world, in to let the world scientists know exactly how this came to be. exactly how this virus began to spread. griff: it's unclear the u.s. will get that cooperation. it's not the first time we have heard about this lab. and chinese suppression of critical data. officials raising concerns as early err early as two years ago warning of dangerous testing that could pose a pandemic risk. same sources also say the world health organization is complicit in helping china cover its tracks, most notably down playing the human-to-human transmission threat early on. something the organization denies as president trump temporarily halts funding pending an investigation. and, guys a global pressure

campaign is building, holding china's communist party accountable for this spread. the u.k., germany, taiwan, india and brazil joining the administration in condemnation and demanding answers. answers we will get coming full circle guidelines as many states look to open up soon. guys? ainsley: all right. thank you, griff. let's bring in colorado senator cory gardner on the senate foreign relations committee. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning. ainsley: good morning. i want to get your reaction to what griff just reported on on this lab and what sources are saying and also this is a headline from the a.p. this morning. china didn't warn public of likely pandemic for six days. according to this article. internal documents show that chinese officials secretly determined there was a pandemic. within the next six days they hosted a banquet for tens of thousands of people. millions of people in china started traveling for the lunar new year celebrations six days later on january 20th. that's when they warned that

this was serious. what's your reaction? >> well, it goes beyond that remember, there are scientists who china -- chinese communist party there are journalists the chinese communist party disappeared. not only did they not inform the outside world what was happening. they proactively took out the very people who were trying to blow the whistle in china about what was happening. this is disturbing. it needs to be thoroughly not only investigated but china has to tell the world why they acted the way they did and why they withheld information that could have saved lives. brian: senator, this is so obvious to be a problem of china and the rest of the world. but i don't see democrats equally outraged as we see republicans. why are they silent on this? i know they are more comfortable criticizing the president. but this should be a rare opportunity to go after the people who caused the problem and that's the chinese government. >> well, i don't know if they have been silent. they have been very critical of the president's effort to look

into the world health organization. they have been very vocal about their claims that the president is hurting the world health organization even though the world health organization was backing up china in its efforts to cover this up. look, if the democrats were serious about actually getting to the bottom of what's happened, they would confirm admiral garrard to be our permit representative to the world health organization. for about three years they have blocked his nomination. so they seem to care more about partisan politics than they actually do about finding results for the american people that can save lives. steve: that's right. speaker nancy pelosi put out a statement yesterday that said she was going to challenge the administration on suspending the w.h.o. funding. senator, the headline yesterday out of the president's rose garden chat with the nation was that, you know, he is on the verge of announcing today the guidelines on how we reopen the united states. at one point they talked about how there are probably 29 states

that could actually open sooner than later. places like where brian, ainsley and i are in the new york, new jersey area these are hot spots. it would take a while longer. andrew cuomo said if you are out and about near people have you got to wear a mask. what do you think about the way the president has called in business leaders. how do you think he is running this operation toward trying to get things back slowly to normal? >> i think it's very important the american people be brought into this conversation immediately. that transparency is absolutely key here. the number one conversation, question i'm getting in my tele town halls recent tele town halls and meeting i'm having with the chamber of commerce organizations. they wants to know when things are going to open back up and back to normal and how that's going to work. yesterday with the news that a number of people had been appointed business experts, public policy experts. it was a level of comfort that people had, excited that we are going to start this conversation

as we continue to address the health emergency itself. ainsley: president keeping saying the cure can't be worse than the virus itself. we don't know details what the guidelines are going to be going forward. he is going to announce them i believe today there will be an announcement today. are you getting any word of what some of that might be? >> i'm speaking to the president later on this morning i'm sure that this is going to be a phased opening. i mean, the bigger events. big crowds, those kinds of things maybe later on as we put the pieces together. spacing at restaurants. metering at different business places. that's probably going to be the theme. what we don't want to do is put ourselves in a spot where we have this waive come back in and then a surge we avoided comes back and hits us all. so i think the american people need this information as quickly as possible. businesses need to understand it. and it needs to be a transparent process. brian: senator, have you got to tell me about the protocol. what do you want to see big office building, small restaurants? are we going to have testing on the forehead? are we going to get thermometers

when we walk in? do you think we need rapid testing to give us something in 10 minutes? do i need the local restaurant to have that testing at the diner? tell me what it looks like in your mind for the people of colorado. >> well, we are going to be guided by the public health experts that have gotten us to avoid the surge that we were afraid of in the early models. and so we will continue to work with. they testing absolutely is key here. i would like to see testing so ewe bic tuesday going forward that you can go buy your big gulp at 7-eleven and get your covid-19 test. every business has in their first covid-19 test. if they have employee sore throat they are able to get that in a matter of minutes to get results. that's where we need to be and needs to happen soon. abbott just made a big announcement yesterday about a rapid test they are going to be moving forward forward with we need the fda and others to provide that emergency use authorization so we can get these technologies to the market as quickly as possible. we're going to see those metered

approaches to big buildings that i think the american people are ready to do their part to solve and they have done it health emergency. now they are ready to figure out what will be a normal life going forward. steve: yeah. that's critical for so many of us. not only though, senator, are we worried about getting back to work, we are worried about our personal health when we get there and apparently 20 conservative groups wrote letters to nancy pelosi and to mitch mcconnell and asked them to take action to protect companies from what they refer to as frivolous coronavirus lawsuits. and the worry is that, you know, you are called back to work. you might wind up suing your employer or there could be frivolous lawsuits against hospitals, nursing homes, grocery stores, things like that. these are the things that are open right now. the worry is it would put undue strain strain on the rest of the system. what do you think about that. >> absolutely.

one of the very first tele town halls that i did to talk to people about congress' response to covid-19. there was a business owner from colorado on this call. the first question he asked am i going to be sued if i have an employee that gets infected that should have been home or could have been home or decided to come in to work and i didn't know they had a sore throat? so that's a huge question. something we have to talk to our colleagues about. because there is a big amount of concern out there. ainsley: senator, will you explain what the president -- i heard yesterday he wants obstruction. is he asking everyone to return back to washington. is he threaten to forcefully adjourn both houses and then appoint his own people. how will that work? is he able to do that? >> i understand the president's frustrations. look this whole argument over the world health organization democrats have blocked his appointment to the world health organization. we know who that is. it's admiral garrard. we see him every day on the news testing czar at hhs. he has been very active in this

covid-19 response. yet his nomination is being blocked. i understand the president's frustration with how many of his nominees have been blocked. including important nominees. so the united states actually have a representative. have you got a leader of the w.h.o. who nominated the zimbabwe dictator to a position at w.h.o. you have a leader at w.h.o. who nominated a very controversial russian figure to lead an element of w.h.o. there were calls for him to be fired several years ago because of that leadership. and now we don't even have a u.s. representative on the w.h.o. because he keeps getting blocked. look, article 2 -- section -- article 2 section 3 of the constitution has some very vague powers that i don't think quite frankly have ever been used. there is very little agreement, i think, that the president could do what he said he would do. bottom line is this though: get these jobs done. confirm the nominees. make washington congress functional instead of dysfunctional. stop the partisan bickering. we need to solve the health

emergency. we need business to us snap back once this emergency is over. that's what we have to focus on. quit the fight. brian: senator, lastly, on small business, which makes up 80% of our economy and struggling in a way which none of us have ever seen before is hoping to get some aid. the ones that are aid to get through and meet the criteria have eaten up the aid. getting close to 350 billion that was allocated. i think it's going to be out by tomorrow. and you cannot get democrats to vote on this without getting something that they want. and that is more hospital funding. and some other areas which sound fine but they are not running out of money. the small business section is. what leverage does the president and republicans have to get this done if democrats are just going to sit on their hands? >> you know, in colorado, 99.5% of our businesses are small businesses. they need relief now. our efforts are to complete employees on payroll. to keep people in their jobs to make sure that they can have

their employer i based health insurance to block the funding for them to unconscionable. these are programs that they agreed to just a few weeks ago unanimously. look, hospitals need more money. states need more money. there is no doubt. but to say it's either my way or the highway. if i don't get mine. you don't get yours. that's petty, it's childish. do the job that congress is sent there to do. find the solutions that people are expecting. solve this crisis. and that means helping put people and their jobs and keeping them there. brian: 10 seconds real quick, washington. just real quick. senator, would you go back to washington right now. >> absolutely. brian: you would. >> absolutely i do. brian: all right. thanks, senator. >> thank you. steve: all right. it is 7:13 now here in the east and jillian joins us with headlines from the iranian --

the ocean -- rather, the sea not far from iran that is causing a lot of trouble right now. jillian: okay. yeah. so let's get you caught up on this story we are following. nearly a dozen iranian military boats taking dangerous and provocative actions near u.s. military ships in the persian gulf. at one point, the iranian boats passed within 30 feet of a coast guard cutter. the encounter was caught on camera. watch this. >> there are guns. >> i know. jillian: secretary of state mike pompeo says the administration is evaluating a response. turning now to extreme l one of the dozens of tornadoes to hit mississippi this week was so severe its mark can be seen from space. look at this. the national weather service rereleasing the satellite image of tornadoes scar ef-4 traveling 67 miles with winds up to 170 miles per hour. the tornado outbreak across the south killing at least 34 people over easter weekend.

mississippi mayor reverses course drive-in church ban. that coming after attorney general william barr issued a statement siding with the churches. last week police broke up churches at two greenville baptist churches issuing $500 fines to each of the congregants. the mayor says church can go on as long as people keep their car windows up. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. jillian: thanks, jillian. the $350 billion lifeline to small businesses is running dry as democrats hold up additional aid. our next guest advocates for small businesses across the country. and calls nancy pelosi reckless. his powerful message for congress coming up next. a lot has changed in the last few weeks. but one thing hasn't: breakfast. and, if that feels like a little bit of comfort, it's thanks to... the farmers, the line workers and truckers, the grocery stockers and cashiers, and the food bank workers,

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brian: covid-19 funds running dry for small businesses today as republicans accuse democrats of stonewalling additional aid because they are stone calling additional aid. speaker pelosi and chuck schumer actually wrote a letter and here is a quote from it. one of the most selfish moves in political history. that's what they called the move last week by mitch mcconnell to ask for more money. now joining us is the ceo of the job creators network frederick or tease. the way i understand it $349 billion. it's basically been allocated out. meaning so far it's doing what it is supposed to be doing the paycheck protection program. so they want to replace with 600 billion. and the democrats came back and said no. we need more funding for hospitals. we need more funding for states. well, that might be all well and good but they are not running out of money this moment. this program is.

>> brian, that's exactly right it. is actually officially out of money as of last night, in fact, and that's why the president asked the senate to go back and ask for additional funds to make $600 billion for the program. but it is actually officially out of money. which means that banks can't even accept applications anymore because once those appropriations are gone, which again, they are gone as of last night, they can't even accept applications. so $250 billion was asked for last thursday. and, brian, just to put things into perspective. every hour that passes we are losing 33,000 jobs basically per hour. so, when we see the jobless claims this morning. and i think it's going to be closer to that 7 million number. that's talking 24 million jobs right from an unemployment standpoint. this is ridiculous. there is absolutely no reason why pelosi or schumer should be taking these positions and, look, at the end of the day, schumer has the money to be able to. has the power to do it. shameless quite frankly that they haven't done that.

i urge them today and anybody who is listening who is a small business owner, who is a -- you know, has friends or relatives that own small business. i urge them to pick up the phone, email, whatever it takes, but call schumer, email them, text him, whatever it takes. buff we must get that funding done today. not tomorrow, not a week from now. not may 4th. come back. brian: right. i want you to hear what nancy pelosi said yesterday to your proclamation. >> we want it to work for everyone. what we were finding out in just the first hours of it is that the initiative -- it was not working for these, shall we say underbanked. why would they want to cut that whole layer of people, mostly women, minority owned businesses, native americans, rural america, veterans, all are participating in those initiatives. brian: what is she talking about. >> yeah, brian. that's just ridiculous there were definitely bumps in the program, right? we got to put this in

perspective. within one week's time, in fact, less than one week's time the treasury put together a brand new 350 billion-dollar lending facility for the banks. are there going to be bumps along the way? yes. they weren't targeted to exklute the mind as she calls the underbanked or under served. that was completely ridiculous. but the bumps have been solved. money was flowing. thought issue is that schumer is holding it up. holding up since last week. so it's been seven days now. so, again, those 7 million jobs, roughly, that we are calculating that we're going to see this morning of additional unemployed going to push up to 24 million. all of that is on the shoulders of schumer at this point. again we urge folks to go out, blow up their phones, blow up the emails. we got to act fast on this. brian: yeah. do i want -- i'm hoping they come back. start loosening up regulations on bigger cities with the higher rents. they have got to find a way to get free with some of that money to pay their leases or they are

not going to have a business for the funded employees to go back to. hopefully they will show flexibility in that and that will be clear when congress finally gets back to work. alfredo, thanks so much. >> thank you, brian. brian: you got it. meanwhile, is he one of the top drivers in nascar. great personality. joey logano is racing to help people during the pandemic. when we come back, we will show you how. ♪

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ainsley: is he a nascar cup series champ with wins on some of the most famous tracks in racing. with the seasonal on hold. our next guest is turning his attention to helping those who need it the most. the joey logano foundation is launching a 1-million-dollar covid-19 relief fund and already making a big difference in the

charlotte, north carolina area amongst other areas as well providing meals and medical supplies and financial support. nascar driver joey logano joins us now. hey, joey. >> hey, how are you? ainsley: great. great. tell us what you are doing. >> we got a lot going on. but, really, obviously our racing season came to a screeching halt just like a lot of other people's jobs and we have got to look at the moment as an opportunity. and what sits in front of us. what can we do? we wanted to make a huge impact. and trying to come up with ideas on how to do that. then we stopped and said now is not the time for ideas. now is the time to find what other people are doing already and try to just poor some fuel on the fire that they got going. did i take time to figure out and get a plan in place. but we wanted to make action now because now is the moment. now is the time that everyone needs help in trying to push things through. we partnered with elevation outreach which is a part of

elevation church down here in charlotte, north carolina. and we formed a million-dollar fund and they do such a great job of vetting out so many different organizations and trying to hit, you know, different pillars, whether it's education, whether it's feeding people. there are just so many different areas that need help right now and if we have the opportunity to help, now is the right time. so, it's been a lot of fun to make a big impact. we all hope we can get through this as quickly as possible. but, more than ever, we need to unite. we need to be together as a country and try to push through this as quickly as possible. ainsley: i love that you are using this time to help other people. i mean, you could just be sitting on your sofa and watching movies. many people are doing that and that's okay. but you were using your fame and your fortune to help other people. elevation church they have really taken off. i grew up in south carolina. one of my friends is a worship leader there. and i am so proud of that church when i listen on the radio and i hear their music because i know it's from the carolinas. you go to that church.

tell us about your faith. >> well, honestly my faith grew a lot because of elevation church. my wife took me there seven, eight years ago. and fell in love with it just like so many others have. and when that see what god can o for you. this is the moment. like i said, this is the opportunity for us to go out there as christians and be powerful and move some people. you know, talk about the opportunity that sits in front of us right now. it's easy for us to look at negative situations and look at all the negative things that come out every single day. but, tough challenge yourself to find a silver lining somewhere in there and there is. you know, for me, yeah. i'm not racing right now. i'm not making a lot of money, i need to figure out where the opportunity is and where the silver lining is. and for me i look at i'm spending time with my family, you know, with my son that i wouldn't otherwise be able to spend much time with.

my wife is 36 weeks pregnant. i'm helping around are the house. there is plenty to keep myself motivated and keep going and stay fresh so when we do get back racing we can power ahead and knock out a bunch of races in a short amount of time. ainsley: that is great. if she has the baby soon, you will probably be there for and it get to enjoy and help her at night. maybe you will get up for a feeding. >> i will be exhausted by the time the season starts. ainsley: i know, exactly. it might be easier to be on the road. joey, god bless you, if people want to donate it's joey logano foundation.com? >> yes. that is it. all the information is on there. all the different organizations. we have already put out half a million dollars of this-million-dollar fund. we are planning on doing that over the next few weeks. we have given a thousand meals a day over last week. you know, teamed up. meals up with feeding america. giving a million meals away. just some great things going on.

we have some great partners helping us do this and it's been fun. you know, whether it's other organizations or just individuals that have piled on and helped us keep going. it's been incredible. ainsley: thank you for what you are doing and thanks for being bold in your faith. god bless you and your family and your wife with the pregnancy. >> thank you very much. stay safe. ainsley: you are welcome. you too. for more stories of people like joey going the extra lernts to help people in this pandemic go to foxnews.com/america together. it's 33 minutes after the top of the hour. nancy pelosi slamming president trump's decision to freeze funding for the w.h.o. calling it dangerous. new white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany says it is about holding them accountable. and she joins us live next for her first interview. usaa has beh them for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve you for a hundred more.

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♪ steve: it is 7:37 on the east coast on thursday, april 16th. it was last week that kayleigh mcenany was named the brand new white house press secretary and she joins us live right now from washington, d.c. kayleigh congratulations. >> thank you very much. steve: well, you are starting your job at a time when there is plenty of news. two days ago the president made it very clear that he was unhappy that the world health organization was pretty much paiparroting exactly what chinas saying regarding the origins of the virus that originated in wuhan. and now that he has suspended the funding, the speaker of the house nancy pelosi put out this statement saying the president's halting of funding to the w.h.o. as it leads the global fight against the coronavirus pandemic is senseless. a weak person blames others, the speaker says. this decision is dangerous, illegal and will be swiftly challenged. if i had to guess, i would think

she is talking about the fact that congress appropriated the money, gave it to the administration to give to the w.h.o. and now they can't stop it and she is going to challenge it. what's your message to the speaker? >> she is completely wrong on the law, of course. this was not a direct appropriation to the w.h.o. in fact, it was given to the executive branch to give to international organizations. the president has full legal authority to do what he is doing. and he should do it. you know, speaker pelosi is so off base here. this has nothing to do with blaming others. this is about holding the world health organization accountable for its china virus. back on december 31st. taiwanese officials were warning the world health organization about there is human-to-human transmission with the coronavirus. they did nothing. all the way until february 29th the w.h.o. was opposing travel restrictions, the same ones that dr. fauci has said saved american lives. this president took bold action and there was an international organization that put american

lives at risk and as president trump said yesterday, very likely caused a 20-fold increase in cases around the world. our money is not going there. american taxpayer dollars will not fund that this halt is completely merited. brian: so, kayleigh now we understand the president is going to put a blueprint out for our economic revival to get us back on our feet. in the blueprint, what role does testing have? because it seems as though if the report something correct 200 plus business leaders were saying i can't do anything, as much as i want, to without testing. where are we at with that? >> look, i was on that call with the business leaders and the president and the business leaders praised president trump. it was, i think, kind of misreported in the way that they suggested that the business leaders, you know, forcefully made that point. in fact, they said test something important. something the president acknowledges and has done. we have had 3.3 million tests conducted so far. fast tracked authorizations for more testing.

we're in a strong place, brian. and i can assure you that the guidance being put out today is in line with what the experts are saying. it's in line with what the data is showing. plan to put this economy back on track. put the economy back on track to the hottest in modern history that president trump created and also protect american lives and we have the perfect president to do it. ainsley: i know nancy pelosi, chuck schumer and steve mnuchin are going to get on a call and resume talks. they have talked in the past. where do those negotiations stand. we are being told that loan money or the grant money is running out and businesses, there are many who haven't gotten it yet. >> yeah. this grant money is very important. it's undoubtedly running out. and this money it's important to know goes directly to small businesses to fund payroll. average american workers across this country depend on it. i don't want to get ahead of the specific congressional negotiation, but i will say, this ainsley. this is democrats yet again not putting the american worker, the american people first. you have nancy pelosi who is standing in front of her extensive ice cream refrigerator on late night television while

have you president trump in the white house. i'm with him in the oval office working tirelessly for the american people. these are the democrats who held up the funding initially that 2 trillion-dollar stimulus bill. they held it up over a green new deal. you had nancy pelosi tearing up the state of the union while president trump was sounding the alarm about the coronavirus. these democrats are fundamentally uninterested in working for the american people. they need to get back to washington. get out from in front of that ice cream freezer, nancy pelosi, come here and work with this president. steve: let me ask you about, this kayleigh as white house press secretary you would be the person who normally briefs the press. however, the president with the coronavirus task force and his daily briefings, he is doing it everyday by himself. how long are these going to last? a lot of people have told me they like it. it comes at the conclusion of the day and it's nice to see where we're. but, you know, sometimes they at an hour. sometimes they are two hours. how long can we keep it up?

>> yeah, you know, i will leave that to the president. but this is the best way for the american people to hear directly from the federal government, directly from their leader during a pandemic it. is shameful that cnn did not take the first part of the briefing. they have made that a trend. it is shame of that msnbc cut away from the briefing yesterday as president trump praised american workers for making ventilators. the american people want to see their leaders. and this briefing is the mechanism to do it. a news organizations across the country that choose not to cover it and instead put on partisan individuals to put a lens on the news instead of hearing directly from their leaders, it is shameful. they should change that the american people want leadership and they see it with president trump and it is driving the news organizations across the country crazy. brian: kay l.a. kayleigh. you prestigious people sports from big business revitalizing

our economy and getting us back to work. mark cuban is going to be one of those people will be on with us shortly. can you give us an idea how this is going to organize and how their input will be utilized? >> yeah. i heard the conversation and, look, it was a very candid discussion where people and business leaders across the country both political parties gave their opinion. this is america coming together. this is putting partisan politics aside. coming together and saying hey, i'm going to work with you, president trump. here are my ideas and president trump takes them on his counsel and comes up with the best plan for this country. i would urge congressional democrats to do what business leaders across this country from both political parties have done. put your politics aside. come together for the american people. that's what i heard on that call yesterday. and i hope nancy pelosi and chuck schumer will follow the lead some other members of their party who may not be in congress but in the world of business. ainsley: how is that baby? >> she is so good. my little 5 month old so sweet i love her to death.

ainsley: is your mom still on the road with her. >> she is with my mom. i have a great family and i'm so blessed that god blessed me with this cute little one. ainsley: congratulations on the big gig. >> thank you so much, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome, kayleigh, hand it back to jillian who has headlines for us. jillian: in the fight to get back to work as you guys know is spreading across the nation. thousands of protesters tired of being on lockdown flooding michigan's capital to protect the governor's stay-at-home order. in kentucky protesters disrupting the governor wants coronavirus briefing chanting "we want to work. and we our other tucker carlson pressing the governor of new jersey on why more than a dozen men were arrested for gathering at a synagogue in the state earlier this month. >> what authority did you nullify the bill of rights in issuing this order? how do you have the power to do that? >> that's above my pay grade, tucker. i wasn't thinking of the bill of rights when we did.

this. jillian: judge andrew napolitano joined us earlier with the reaction to that response. >> the bill of rights is above your pay grade? you took a solemn oath to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states which includes the bill of rights. jillian: the governor says his lockdown order was based on the scientific data. washington state is joining the growing movement in freeing nonviolent inmates to prevent covid-19 from spreading. governor jay inslee officially signing an order to release up to 950 inmates. at least 10 criminals and five employees are infected with the virus in the state. they join more than a dozen other states releasing criminals with low level and nonviolent crimes. how about this? the nfl could play games in empty stadiums to particular off season opener september. the nfl is planning for everything from playing without fans to playing in full stadiums. we know there will be a push from the government to open things up. but, remember, the other leagues

have to go first. the league could also let a limited number of fans into the stadiums to preserve social distancing and play a shortened season. i know everyone, you know, wants their games back. we will see what happens. we will follow it for you. in the meantime, some of the top stories trending on foxnews.com right now, first up, speaking of football. the first nfl player testing positive for covid-19 los angeles rams center brian allen says he felt symptoms weeks ago when he realized he could not smell or taste anything. next, former mlb pitcher roy halladay had drugs in his system and doing acrobatics in his plane at the time of his fatal 2017 plane crash. and finally overnight. world prime minister will shinzo abe state of emergency to cover the entire country amid the coronavirus outbreak. that's a look at your headline us. to read these stories and more download the fox news app. i will send it back to you. steve: you can. we all do. all right, jillian.

thank you very much. still to come on this thursday telecast, new signs of hope in the nation's epicenter of the outbreak as new york city and the governor of new york claims fierce of overwhelmed system never came to pass. dr. marc siegel on the new developments and the doctor is coming up next. ♪ ♪ ) ♪

>> healthcare situation has stabilized. the fears of overwhelming the healthcare system has not happened. we can control the spread. that is great news. steve: there are you got new york governor andrew cuomo yesterday saying despite 752 new deaths in new york. hospitalizations are flattening out so does it mean the epicenter of new york is controlling the spread? here to react fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. dr. siegel, in the very beginning. >> good morning, steve. steve: we heard all the experts talk about how, you know, we're going to eventually go up and we're going to spike and then we're going to level it off. and the whole idea was as we go up, we could not overwhelm the hospitals. and, yesterday, the governor made it pretty clear that has

not materialized. and that is very good news. >> that's very good news, steve. i think initially the hospitals were somewhat overwhelmed. i have been talking to key people in my own hospital nyu langone health. things have stabilized. we have the covid under control. created additional ward at the orthopedic hospital for people getting better. four of those in total wards. people are getting better. we are looking to see where they go. looking for placement. are they going to go home? when are they going to go home? do we have enough ventilators. the governor is saying is he sending ventilators other states. 100 to michigan. he said in a tweet yesterday. the number of hospitalizations in new york state now has started to decrease, which is really good sign that the number of cases are going down. that's a fixed number, steve. if you have 18,000 hospitalizations, which is about what we have, we think we have 200,000 cases here. i have got to tell you we have got a lot more than that that were never diagnosed.

but when the hospitalizations are going down, that means the overall cases are going down. we're starting to get a handle on this. our systems are working. javits is not full, the comfort is not overwhelmed at all. only some patients there we built up a system which would have handled a lot more patients than we ended up getting. the system has worked here and it is working well now. only big issue is healthcare workers still being at risk of getting sick from the virus. steve: absolutely. you know, dr. siegel, as the president announces the plans to reopen the economy, guidelines are going to come out later today it sounds like from the cdc and fema. the worry is that we would have another spike. and, once again, it goes back to people are going to get sick from this but we cannot overwhelm the hospital. and that once again, going forward, up until we have a vaccine is probably job one, right?

>> so, yes, steve. two points on this. first of all, i think the president is right to be focusing on hot spot regions. which areas have them? which runs are emerging? can we stay ahead of that? can we tell which regions are going to get it next in a way that new york had? can we use new york as a model to treat other cities in the country. the way to do that though is with more testing. the kind of rapid testing we have been talking about on the show here whether it's the is live tessalivatest or abbott rar checking the community for antibodies to see who is exposed. who is getting over it. we need that in a hurry. we need point of care testing to use community wide so we can say hey, here's where it's coming next. otherwise, we are going to be behind on that. steve: yesterday, the president made it clear it sounds like there are 29 states that are closer to reopening than -- like a hot spot like new york or new

jersey. that's because number of incidents of covid-19 in those spots is relatively low. right? >> that's right. and, again, we are monitoring them closely. some of them have more rural areas where people are social distancing and more easily than we had in new york. we had to really learn that here. the other issue is that we want to consider the collateral damage here, steve, remember, if we keep everything closed, we are going to have more depression, more anxiety, more medical problems. steve: okay. >> so reopening areas is something to consider to decrease collateral damage. steve: it is indeed. all right, dr. siegel, thank you very much. we'll be right back. t few weeks. but one thing hasn't: breakfast. and, if that feels like a little bit of comfort, it's thanks to... the farmers, the line workers and truckers, the grocery stockers and cashiers, and the food bank workers, because right now breakfast as usual

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>> we will be the comeback kids, all of us, all of us. it's incredible what's going on. i'm very proud of the people of this country. we want to get our country back and we are going to do it and we are going to do it soon. brian: there you go. president trump set to reveal plans for reopening the economy today. the blueprint ready to go, getting americans back to work. steve: right now u.s. coronavirus cases surpassing 639,000. deaths nearing 31,000. recoveries topping 52,000, ainsley. ainsley: that's right, steve. the president is working to get

our nation back on track as sources exclusively tell fox news that covid-19 likely originated in laboratory in wuhan, china. griff jenkins live from washington. griff, china just responded to our reporting, what are they saying? griff: good morning, china's foreign ministry is adamantly denying and citing the w.h.o. saying there's, quote, no evidence that it originated in the lab and basis for such claims. same world health organization who tweeted on january 14th that there was, quote, no clear evidence of human to human transmission as pandemic began to rapidly spread worldwide. to recap, what the multiple sources have been telling fox news is this was not a bioweapon but a grave mistake made because of lack of safety practices in this lab result to go --

resulting to bat to human transmission. suggesting china sought to blame the market's for failure and secretary pompeo is demanding answering. >> the mere fact that we don't know the answers, that china hasn't shared the answers is very telling. we need the chinese government to open up. they say they want to cooperate, threat world scientists know exactly how this came to be, exactly how the virus began to spread. griff: unclear the u.s. will get the cooperation particularly after what we just heard from the foreign ministry spokesperson, this is not the first time we heard about the lab and chinese suppression critical data officials released information that could pose pandemic risk in this lab. it's not just the u.s., guys, the global pressure campaign building right now as the uk, taiwan, india and others are asking the same vital question

this morning, what did china's communist party know and when did they know it. brian, ainsley and steve. brian: good luck trying to get to the bottom of that and hope the world joins us. griff jenkins, thanks so much. let's bring in dr. memeh oz, you know the people and know the scientists, do you believe that there's validity to this? does it make sense to you that no one passed, no one bought a bat in wet market, ate it and contaminated, do you believe there's something to the whole story about a lab? dr. oz well, i have not been following the story on the lab but i can tell you i spoke with the virus hunter who was in china in january and they authored a paper that helped a lot of the rest of the world figure out what it looked like, he does not think it was made in the lab because of the scientifics evaluations of the virus itself. this is going to be a long

mystery that i suspect will never be answered and i encourage people to search for it but looking at what the scientists that i trust have done, they would argue that this is some wild bizarre combination that humans have never thought to create even if you had the ability, you wouldn't have done it this way. steve: memeht, we have a sound bite, here is the president with regard to covid-19. >> all of american societies engaged and mobilized in the war against the invisible enemy. while we must remain vigilant it is clear that our strategies is working and strongly working. the battle continues, but the data suggests that nationwide we have past the peak on new cases. hopefully that will continue and we will continue to make great progress. steve: and so while the president says we reached the

peak, dr. oz, today apparently compliance will be released on how the states can reopen one at a time. the president will get on a conference call with all of the governors an different governors have different approaches. i know down in georgia governor kemp has used technology to try to figure out how to do it, right? dr. oz what i love that we are creating regional alliances. governor kemp, you will see on the show has been a leader in the area. the tech capital of the southeast will be different in the northeast. by the way, head of president bush's secret service that was with him the day that 9/11 happened. he had dejavu all over again with covid-19. the cops, police officers can't go home, they are clearly not

social distancing. using technology and testing, they are working with other great groups down there. they are figuring out how to have officers quizzed, they can get set immediately for testing, they have a help line and talk to doctors if they want to and paining it easy for people when they are diagnosed with covid-19 to get themselves home safely and not contaminate a bunch of people and up in massachusetts they have a different model where they have a bunch of folks who are public health advocates, go in there and talked to people who have been diagnosed and keep them safe. we need to keep privacy but the models of success will involve us customizing what that looks like as far as the population. it's not really about dates. people want to know about dates it's going to happen. it's about data. we have the data we will be able to figure this out and i think we have counties in this country that could be safely reopened but we should not just open them and say good luck, we should be

collecting the data, using the technologies and using the testing we have now enough of i believe in order to figure out who has problems and who doesn't and learn from that. that will educate all the other decisions we are trying to make. ainsley: i think we are all getting questions from viewers, i'm sure you're getting the most, dr. oz, since you're a medical professional, you're a doctor about when we will go back to work, when the antibodies tests will come out and lab is launching -- they will distribute antibody testing and could secure screen up to 20 million by the end of june. so tell us when we will all have access to that because i know the first batch is going to hospitals and when we are not in the hospital, we still want to know when we are at home if we have the antibodies? dr. oz right. this is a national priority to get the antibodies test. kudos to avid for getting this done. they told me 4 million this month. we don't have 4 million people in hospitals in enough. we will have enough to start testing other folks.

this is why it should be free. people should be incentivized, go get testing. the symptoms are myriad and cryptic. get everyone tested. we may find out that a number of people went through this. the number that you quoted earlier, 50,000 people recovered, maybe it's actually 5 million people who recovered. we have no idea. let's figure that out because we can answer real questions that america has, whencan we go backa restaurant, with we just don't know because we have no idea who has been sick so far. brian: a couple of things on remedies if you want to get people back to work, how about a cure? remdesivir has positive qualities, two-thirds that take the antiviral drug have had success and the governor yesterday thought about you was asked about how hydroxychloroquine, he says,

yeah, we are using it but limiting it because we don't want to run out of it and studying it. how do you feel about remdesivir and number 2, are they studying it? >> remdesivir is a great drug in theory. i'm hoping it pans out in their clinical trial. i'm hoping it pans out. other antivirals. hydroxychloroquine, based on the remdesivir trial from china, may not be the virus, they believe it's the main impact. it may have impact by reducing inflammation that gets the body to overreact of the virus. that's the cause of the really bad complications and when the virus gets your body to fight a civil war it start shooting itself instead of the virus.

all of the drugs have opportunity. it's hard to tell. clinical trial based at nyu. the data will come from the university of minnesota. i had the principal investigator on the show and it's a nationwide trial. it's self-reported an not perfect, and the good news is we can get people i have covid-19 and risk of getting covid-19. they mail you the pills, start the protocol, tell them what happened, did you go to the hospital or get better and based on that they will give us the data we need to make decisions. you go to droz.com we put link or go to university of minnesota site and i love that you guys had her on. state trial. the biggest rural healthcare providers in the country will start doing the program, the clinical study. this is unprecedented stuff but

it's fabulous, we will get answers. steve: yeah, speaking of governors, dr. oz, governor cuomo in new york said that if you're outside of your house and you're in a public place where there are other people nearby you need to wear something over your face, and you know, i heard people say, how long do this mask business going to really last where people are, you know, i see people walking all day long now outside by themselves wearing masks, how long is this going to last? is it going to last until we get a virus -- rather a vaccine? dr. oz i don't think so. here is what i think is going to happen. i'm gathering together different parts of the puzzle that i'm seeing. i think we should get our businesses back and most of us can take a hit of wearing a mask until we get things done and at that point we will find out how many people are sick and how many folks are safe now to

interact. if the incident is as low as complications in young healthy people as we have believed, they can starting to out there and live their lives more normally without being penalized for folks middle-aged like me and we have to stratify. so let's figure out what works for every part of the country and not make the decisions now. you know what bothered me yesterday, i learned that boston university canceled the fall semester. that really bothered me. how do you know right now if april before you have been trying to reopen if you need to close your your school through the rest of the calendar year. it signals that you want to do the right thing but that's not the right thing for everybody. you're hurting people that you're responsible for by making -- i'm a doctor, i want you to be safe. i want to air on the side of

being overly cautious but not at the expense of making decision that is don't serve us. number one target for me is education. i'm not sure that we are helping this problem that much by taking kids out of school and we are definitely paying a price for it. ainsley: yesterday i had a friend say i think schools will be closed until january and you had terry mccullough, he says he doesn't think the convention wills happen the way they were supposed to happen, maybe an online thing or something like that. this is what the mayor of los angeles is saying about sporting events, listen to this. >> until there's either vaccine, some sort of pharmaceutical intervention or immunity and science is the science and public health officials say we have many miles to walk before we will go back in those environments. nothing i've heard would indicate that we would be large thousands of gatherings of people any time soon or probably till the end of the year. ainsley: that makes a lot of people upset. what do you think? dr. oz i don't think we know the

answer to that question. kudos to them. covid-19 testing free. i just saw a link this morning. i think he's making a lot of wise decisions about what's happening now, but how do you know -- who has a crystal ball to predict what we will find out with antibody testing? what if you get a solution that does work pretty effectively and turns out to dramatically mitigate impact of the virus in parts of the population? what if we get comfortable with technology and testing that governor kemp launched in georgia and other states are pioneering? we don't need to get ahead of ourselves. people will be rooting for the sporting events not to open. i'm agnostic to it. i'm not going to risk my health for it but everyone should make a decision when it's time to make a rational decision. let's focus on may first,

getting states open and learning from their experiences. brian: yeah, no reason to be doom and gloom shutting down sports until 2021. ucla will never recover from that. they lost the revenue from spring sports and they will lose football. all the other sports will collapse. to say a statement like that and not think about the ramifications when you have no idea what's around the corner, to me is beyond to fail. ainsley: california was one of the first states to get this. brian: i know and they are doing great with it. dr. oz, thank you. ainsley: thanks, dr. oz. dr. oz we both played college sports. you know how important it was to our lives. there are a lot of people who got to where they got by playing sports at all levels. we don't want to throw that away. brian: absolutely. cincinnati canceled soccer program because they couldn't revenue this year and look for that to happen all across the country if we can't get this thing together. thanks, dr. oz, appreciate it.

let's go out to jillian, jillian, you have some other news, international news and what are the iranians up to now? jillian: here is the story, nearly dozen iranian boats taking dangerous and provocative maneuvers in the persian gulf. at one point they passed 30 feet of coast guard cutter, the encounter was caught on camera. take a look. secretary of state mike pompeo says the administration is evaluating a response. fresh off joe biden and elizabeth warren, warren said she would say yes if biden asked her to be on her ticket. >> i'm in this fight to help in any way i can. biden has pledged to pick a woman as his vp, so time will tell, we will keep you updated.

a mississippi mayor reverses course on drive-in church service. last week police broke up services at two greenville baptist churches issuing 500-dollar fines to each person. church can go on as long as people keep their car windows up. in kentucky 5 church goers are suing the governor for violating their rights when they received quarantine notices on their car after easter service. those are your headlines, i will send it back to you. steve: we have a feeling that was coming. thank you very much, jillian. thousands of protestors flooding michigan's capital yesterday to protest their governor's state at home order. we will speak to one of the organizers fighting to get michigan back to work coming up next ♪

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[inaudiblesteve: you can see ths taking to the street in michigan to protest democratic governor's extended stay at home order. restrictions on purchases, family visits, even whether or not you could ride on a jet ski. she helped organize the protest and joins us right now. michan, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve, that's exactly what it felt like. only in michigan if you keep abortion clinics open and ban the sale of american flag, that's exactly what we are facing here. steve: well, you know, she said that the rallies put the health of a number of michigan residents at risk. what do you say to that? >> you know what, thousands and thousands of people showed up to michigan yesterday peacefully and instead of listening to any of them and offering any kind of hope she came out and blamed

them and really just doubling down she opens her mouth and i thank god that we have president trump at the helm of this ship of america because with leaders like governor we are lost. our demands are not even great. what we are asking for is talk about what is essential and nonessential and just looking at what is safe versus unsafe and we know there are certain businesses and workers that should be able to safely get back to work right now. steve: i was talking to my friend, tony, yesterday, he and i go for a walk every day. he's from michigan. one of the things he told me with regarding governor

whitmer's area, around detroit is a hot problem but in other parts of the state is largely rural and it's not a problem and so it seems like she was trying to apply a one-size-fits-all application that wasn't needed. according to my friend, what do you think? >> that's exactly, i agree with your friend. [inaudible] steve meshawn. you dropped out for the last few seconds k. you repeat what you said. >> if you have a boat that has a motor on it, you can't take your

boat out on the lake. you can't go fishing. it's okay to use a kayak or canoe but you can't go fishing. steve: right. but one of the things -- and you know, meshawn, he has made it clear, when you're around other people you need to social distance, 6 feet away and suggest that you wear face coverings and things like that. when you are not out on a lake by yourself or alone on a boat, you agree that right now at this point in the pandemic people need to social distance, right? >> absolutely. this protest was not about social distancing and it really wasn't about the shutdown which is what she keeps saying. this is really about getting michigan workers and small business owners back to work safely. we would like her to take a look at all of the many ways in michigan to figure out -- you can't go to the store and buy paint and paint your house.

you can't buy them in the store. we just want her to take a closer look at the things that we can do that are safe to get back to work and to start getting -- landscapers want to go out and cut lawns. steve: well, thousands of people took to the streets around state capitol in state capitol. here is the governor responding to all of those people honking outside. >> i support your right to free speech and i respect your opinions. i just urge you don't put yourself at risk and don't put others at risk either. i was disappointing to see people congregating not wearing masks. we know that this rally endangered people. steve: but you felt meshaw, in that you had to have your voice

heard even though you were inside your vehicle with the windows rolled up. ultimately you want to get back to work for as many people in michigan as possible. tell us about your business and how you've been impacted with the stay at home order? >> well, this isn't about me at all. this is about thousands an thousands of people. [inaudible] >> we had people -- we had people -- >> steve: right. >> governor whitmer is ignoring all of them. if you have thousands of people showing up and instead of listening to them, you block them. she made ridiculous claims. she talked about -- >> steve: all right. >> she talked about seeing a confederate flag. those were incredible harsh

words to use when you have people trying to come to get the attention of their governor and they just want her to offer them hope. we need whitmer to be a leader. steve: stay at home order runs to at least april 30th. meshawn maddock, thank you for joining us from your home. that's the new normal of how we interview guests. thank you. weeklies jobless claims report. it's a number that you're going to want to see and it is coming up. plus mark cuban joined the white house council on the economy. he will join us live as well. "fox & friends" coming up.

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brian: back with fox news alert. weekly jobberies claims, you knew it was going to be ugly and it is. 5.2 million as the economy wheel s off coronavirus. the new numbers less than the previous last week's jobless claims. 6.6 million filing for unemployment. overall we lost 22 million jobs over 4 weeks. all the jobs gained back since 2009. let's bring in dallas mavericks owner mark cuban. >> brutal. it's painful and indication particularly given that mostly a lot of the jobs are disproportionately small companies. it means stimulus didn't get to

small businesses in time. and so that's going to be a never-ending challenge, you know, there's just no good way to spin this. brian: right. there's no doubt about it. i think the 1200 hit maybe money for people make under $75,000 saturday so they are getting that this week. loans are getting out over the next days. there's no question about that but we are also paying people not to work, right, mark, how many small businesses are you a part of? >> more than 200. and we are paying a lot of people not to work and there's other people who have decided to take unemployment insurance because it's actually a better deal and i can't blame them, but part of the challenge is the ppp loans. the goal of ppp loan was perfect, bring money to small businesses to retain people on payroll and didn't get quick enough and exacerbated some of

the claims that we saw today. brian: we have spoken about before that allows to keep people to keep the lights on as well as pay employees. i sense page 47 of 52 talks about that. i think they will build flexibility there. do you get that sense? >> i hope so. it's been challenging. the money for small businesses is coming so late that they're cut in between. they are trying to rehire people but by the time they bring them back, the 8 weeks runs out and the 8 weeks runs out before they can go back to business, so they're in nowhere land and it'll be a challenge for small businesses and that's leading to some small businesses telling employees they are better collecting unemployment insurance. that's the exact same experience with some of the companies that i'm helping. brian: right. and we have to be able to do that because it's hard to tell people you are usually friends with, hey go, take less money and not work for me as oppose

get more money for unemployment when you them and their families. this is not good numbers to business owners like you. mark, let's talk about instead of sitting on the sidelines, you're in it now, you're there to help. >> yeah. brian: when you go into the councils with the president's advisory group, what's your message from here on end? >> just what i told you, we have to get help to small businesses, whether they are sports related as the term -- determined by the sports council. any topic you want to bring to me, here is the information, here is where you send the information and we will review it all. and so what i just mentioned, brian, how do you deal for small businesses with the in-between time between getting the ppp money, bringing your employees back and then not being able to go back to work because of the quarantine, how are we going to help companies get past this intermediary period and they have been receptive and that's the part i will be focusing on. brian: if i could go to target,

if i could go to cvs and dick's sporting goods, mark, we have to start standing up the businesses, what should we do? we know what direction to walk down the aisle, we know to keep our 6 feet. how do we get businesses to open up again, what's your advice? >> you know, right now we have to be patient. we really do because what would kill a business more than anything else would be a resurgence. to try to go back thinking we have it all right and then all of a sudden, you know, your town, your area becomes a hot spot again and that's why trying to get the ppp money and all the stimulus money to work, that's critical, because that's the thing that's going to allow us to buy time. what we've learned is every week we buy, even though it's painful, we flattened the curve a little bit more and reduced the number of instances of the coronavirus, and so if we can buy little time by maybe stretching out those 8 weeks to 12 weeks or maybe adjusting it so you don't have to bring people based off of the first

day you applied, you can push out when you bring people back, if we can anticipate when we can can go back to work, 2, 3, however many weeks, then we can make it work and start to see unemployment numbers start to decline. i know everybody wants to go back to work. i want to go back to work, my employees want to go back to work but the worst thing that could happen is resurgence and that's the challenge. there's a happy medium but we have to make all the numbers work and all the timing work with loans an stimuluses. brian: of course, the protocol with temperature test and instant test would allow me to mark into mark cuban business and i don't a fever and protocols just like after 911, let's talk -- >> brian, there's still asymptomatic carriers and that's the challenge. the asymptomatic carriers are the ultimate challenge. you have to have them for everybody and turn them and track them and that's going to

create privacy issues and we have to work through these and i'm excited to be on the calls with the president. these are exact type of conversations we will have to figure out and testing was definitely a topic on the call yesterday. brian: testing can actually take place and people can make money by selling tests to companies and to states, but mark, let's talk about sports for a second. >> sure. brian: i saw the mayor say of los angeles, hey, no games, no concerts until the end of the year, really? are you buying that? are you accepting that? >> yes, honestly. until the scientists tell me otherwise, look, again, brian, like everybody, i want to get back to normal, i want to get back to work but the science is the science. me as an employer i'm not going to put my employees at risk. the bottom line is if i wouldn't let my children do it i won't let my employees do it. that means december, great. personally i think it'll be before that. personally based on the things that i've been reading from

scientists and doctors on therapies and vaccines. i think we will have therapies sooner than that and that would allow us to get outside and do things. the progression needs to be open out doors sports first, golf, tennis, swimming so we can test the waters. that i'm fine with and then once we learn from that and see what happens, then we can go into crowded environments whether it's concerts, things, whatever. i'm a big fan of science, i'm a big fan of american scientists so let's see what they come up with first and learn from it and go from there. brian: i want to test the 10 mavericks and the 10 spurs and watch them play without a crowd. >> amen. brian: i would be happy in june. >> amen. brian: we would get there. i look forward for your updates. you're trying to help stand up america. you will be on next thursday at 2:00 o'clock on fox business, america works together. virtual town hall to answer all your questions on the impact of the coronavirus and the economy.

you can submit them written and video questions, investedinyou at foxnews.com. mark, thanks again. >> thank you for having me. brian: you got it. halting funding to w.h.o. is dangerous but tammy bruce says it's a long time coming. she's on deck

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bruce. tammy, the numbers are shocking and as we just heard from mark cuban, everybody wants to get back to work, but we can't right now because, you know, we would like to have a date but we look at the data and right now is why the president is trying to figure out how to reopen the country. >> tammy: well, exactly, the important thing to remember the numbers and dynamic is artificial. we have the virus which is a natural disaster but this is not unemployment because of collapse of infrastructure and weakness of the american economy. the president has said he made the economy great again once before but he will make it again. clearly the balance is health dynamic and we must begin and i think the president is on the road to this to find a balance between the economy and keeping people safe, the dynamic of the damage to people's lives with

the economy being down and all of these people out of work begins to rival the nature of the impact of the virus itself. steve: absolutely. it all started with the virus and clear it started in china and you listen to the w.h.o., one of the reasons the president has decide today suspend payments for 60 to 90 days because the w.h.o. wasn't really telling us what was going on. >> tammy: there's a new fox report that's a bombshell out yesterday, everyone should read it. it's on my twitter feed as must read that indicates that our government now believes that it started in the lab in wuhan and the world health organization was active in helping china cover that up. we now have almost 29,000 americans dead, over a hundred thousand dead people worldwide, so what the spending bill -- nancy pelosi is saying, oh, you

can't -- you can't stop this, it's illegal. the fact of the matter is the spending bill involved in this gives the president broad discretion and that institute a review and the money should be allocated to other -- any international concern that we have so it would be spent, but not necessarily with the world health organization and this is -- this is the kind of responsibility we have as a nation in order to hold back that kind of an entity accountable with so much death and destruction. steve: right. exactly. well put. tammy, thank you very much for joining us live on the breaking news day. >> tammy: my pleasure, thank you, dear. steve: straight ahead a new antibody test in state of california and our next guest is leading the study and says could be a key to restarting our economy. stay tune.

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ainsley: researchers from usc partnering with la department to test antibodies and our next guest is leading the study and says could be key of starting economic engine. joining me price school of public policy dr. nirash. first question why would this be a game-changer, the antibody

tests? >> so this would be a game changer because the only way to win the war against this virus is to understand the virus and understand the enemy. so what the study is trying to do is use the antibody at the times to figure out how many people in our population have the virus attack and how many people have had mild infections, how many people have had more severe infections and, in fact, how many people have died from the virus and we also want to understand how this attack is progressing, so over time are more people getting infected with the virus and how fast is that happening and leads to understanding when the epidemic will end and reopen the economy. ainsley: when it comes to getting the tests, who should get them first? >> so right now what we are trying to do get a direction of la county and test individuals,

so these are just ordinary average people because understand how this virus attack it -- attacks the whole population and people in the frontlines, they could be lucas oil challenge cup -- healthcare workers, grocery workers and eventual eventually we want tests to be available to everyone because everyone wants to peek inside immune system and figure out whether they have antibodies and give them protection. ainsley: maybe critical people first, essential people first, dr. sood, thank you for what you're doing for us and the country. appreciate it. >> thank you, thank you for having me on the show. ainsley: you're welcome, more "fox & friends" minutes away. i'm searching for info on options trading,

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country, we are hoping will be back on the couch sooner or later. >> he was so positive with that message yesterday and dr. oz was so positive with antibody test, hopefully our country can get together soon and get a lot better. >> sandra: fox news alert, china pushing back on claims that the covid-19 pandemic started in a wuhan lab as president trump plans to release his plan for reopening the country. good morning everyone, and sandra smith. >> ed: and a very pleasant good morning to you sandra, i met henry. there is "increase confidence" that wuhan tried to contain the virus and all this is getting an the economy back on track and backlash it grows over some of the shutdowns in various