them i definitely salute them and give them a big old round of applause. jillian: anything you can do to eat up some time and have fun with your family. rob: very imprison. carley, thanks so much. that's it for us. jillian: have a good day. rob: "fox & friends" begins right now. >> we can begin the next front in our war, which we are calling opening up america again. and that's what we are doing. we are opening up our country. we must have a working economy. and we want to get it back very, very quickly. and that's what's going to happen. i believe it will boom. brian: finely a blueprint and a fox news alert. president trump says the nation is ready for the next step state by state in the war against covid-19. the white house releasing guidelines to reopen the economy in three phases. carley: thi

ainsley: this as people are rallying against the stay-at-home orders. protests breaking out in michigan, virginia, wyoming and north carolina to name a few. folks demanding to get back to work, steve. steve: that's right, ainsley. in the meantime, 2500 americans have died within a 24 hour period. the deadliest day of the pandemic yet in the united states. now, deaths are topping 33,000 people. and that is a grim number. but, nonetheless, recoveries as well going up. good morning, everybody, it's friday, april 17th. i know sometimes it's hard to tell what day of the week it is, tgif. it is friday. good news on the economy. you know, yesterday the president talked a little bit about reopening things by may 1st. he also said it sounds like there are about 29 states could do it right now. the dow jones futures are up about 700 because jill gilead.

the companies that make drugs, one of the drugs is showing real promise with people in chicago hospitals. they did a trial there who had severe coronavirus symptoms. and this seems to really be helping them. so it looks like, ainsley, we have some things to help people if they get it. ainsley: yeah, brian and steve, i'm sure you were getting messages from friends yesterday. oh my word we are in this situation because of may 15th. in new york they are saying our governor is recommending may 15th. schools stay close. social distancing and stay away from friends and that kind of thing. it's such a juxtaposition governors are trying to protect people but at the same time we all want to protect our freedoms and many people want to get back to work it. really is up to the governors and that's what the president was talking about yesterday when he was suggesting these guidelines. >> our country has suffered; therefore, my administration is issuing new federal guidelines that will allow governors to take a phased and deliberate approach to reopening their

individual states. we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time now that we have passed the peak in new cases, we are starting our life again. rejuvenation of our economy again in a safe and structured and very responsible fashion. brian: this is pretty consistent. the president of the united states is saying from day one hey, states, we have got ourselves a pandemic. i hope you are ready for it. if you are not, i will back you up. some in the beginning saying wait a second, this is fema, the white house should be handling this. then they realized i am in control. i do know my state than the white house possibly could. and it seems to work with a conference to conference calls. democratic new jersey governor, new york governor, the california governor and

thankfully thought as bad as they originally said. the president is looking at this up and down. i'm going to give you rough parameters. you can ad-lib through. this you tell me what's going on, i will back you up. but here's what you can tell everybody that we are going on, we need to see a light at the end of the tunnel. this is probably the most positive press conferences i have seen in quite some time. so in phase one, roughly this is what they are saying, you have got to stay in place. maximize the distance. we get it. socialize in groups where 10 people -- don't go over 10 and minimize the essential travel. but it gives you a little bit of freedom while not trying to blow this thing up. they also say listen, there might be times when there might be a blow-up in certain areas. have to attack it. the you will have to have the beds and testing available and we will handle it and move on. we can always make adjustments. i think this is really strong, especially when you have 29 states who said we are pretty

much ready to go. i like these regional things you set up. east seven states. on the west coast you have three states. the midwest is setting up theirs. this way there is some consistency if you don't like pennsylvania well i will run to new york. now they are saying hey, guys, we will be in this together. help each other out. we will exchange equipment. i love it. steve: right. and to ainsley's earlier point when she said she got the call from her friend who said we are going to be locked down until may 15th. that's the alliance of the seven states throughout the northeast. something we didn't mention at the beginning of this phase one is how does a state get to phase 1? and they made it very clear. and by the way these guidelines came from birx and also dr. fouchy in cooperation with the cdc. to get to phase one. you have to have a decrease of the number of coronavirus cases in your state over 14 days and then you can go to phase one. so, brian outlined the first part. so let's talk about phase one

for the employers. if you are an employer and get to that phase one. you should encourage as many people as possible to work from home, telework. can you return to work in phases, which is good. probably be an a schedule and b schedule. people are staggered. people are social distancing at work. minimize nonessential travel, and consider special accommodations for vulnerable personnel. and, ainsley, that is also one of the things throughout the demographic in our country that is vulnerable. people with pre-existing conditions, vulnerable to covid-19. for the most part, they are going to be isolating as long as they can to protect themselves. ainsley: that's right. and then there is also -- he also had guidelines for phase one for specific types of employers, like schools. he says that schools and bars need to remain closed. he says visits to senior facilities and hospitals, you don't need to do that unless you are living there or you need a hospital visit for yourself.

large venues that operate with strict protocols and meaning if you go to a large venue, you need to social distancing. you need to stay what is it 6 feet apart from each other now. elective surgeries can resume. that's good news for the medical community for folks that sell medical devices and people who need heart surgeries and cancer treatments. gyms are going to open with strict protocols. i was surprised about that one. if the gym is open, you still have to social distancing if you are going to work out. a lot of people, y'all, need to work out because they are going crazy at home. suicide rates are up. i even read an article that domestic abuse is up because people are stuck inside with their spouse and temperatur teme flaring. and people are drinking all day. brian: beach time. how are you supposed to get your deltoids to maximum potential if you can't get to the gym.

ainsley: i don't think they are worried about that. we will get our beach bodies back next year. brian: by the way, if you own these health clubs now it's time to hire deep cleaning crews. look at your floor plan and see if there is proper distance. when you go back, you don't want any hesitation to hurt your business any more because as we will talk about later, we stop with the small business loans because the democrats do not want to come to the table and fund small business loans. so everything is going on hold, including many gyms. the president forming a bipartisan council of lawmakers to help americans get back to work as talks continue on adding more funds to the relief plan. griff jenkins live in washington. griff, what's the problem here? they agreed on funding small business loans now what's going on? griff: good morning, brian, ainsley and steve. the problem aaccording to the sba and capitol hill is doing a terrible job of digging another one. 5 million people lost their jobs

bringing the total to 22 million. the president says the paycheck protection program is now depleted urging lawmakers to move fast to save small businesses struggling. >> exhausted is a good thing, not a bad thing. it went quickly it. is so popular. what they want is people want to keep this going. and we are doing it to keep the small businesses open and keep the workers paid. we are negotiating with democrats and they should frankly approve it quickly. griff: this as the president forms a bipartisan advisory council including a republicans and two dozen democrat senators and it features two dozen bipartisan house members. speaker pelosi, meanwhile, says this. >> negotiate, negotiate, negotiate. that's what we do as legislatore are hopeful they will come back with something that strikes a balance and we know we need to

do. griff: majority leader mcconnell adjourned the senate frustrated and focused on stand alone bill 250 billion for just the ppp. en democrats want 250 billion total for hospitals and state and local governments. minority leader schumer is reportedly talking constantly with secretary mnuchin, but even if they strike a deal, guys, it's very unclear that mcconnell would actually accept it. right now the earliest we see any movement is monday. but it's putting financial advisors all across the country in a tough spout. they are telling their small business clients keep applying that process because they hope more money is going to come. as we know, every minute counts. and whether you own a health club or any other small business, you are trying to figure out what to do. you are also trying to figure out if you can keep the doors open. brian, ainsley, steve? ainsley: hard to believe that loan money has already run out. president trump defending decision to halt founding to the world health organization over its hand links of the coronavirus, brian. brian: all right.

our next guest applauding the move in a fox news op-ed saying this: the u.s. should demand answers to three specific questions: steve: here now with more is hoover institute's lonnie chen. lonnie, good morning to you. this is a op-ed you have up on foxnews.com. of the questions, you say the first question the united states needs to ask the world health organization is why did the w.h.o. ignore an email from talk juan kneetaiwanese health offict the virus could be transmitted between humans? why is that important? >> it's important because very early on you which talk juan taa knees this is go from human-to-human. this is not what we were hearing from the chinese at the time. why did the world health organization instead of looking into this. instead of investigating,

instead of trying to get the word out hey, maybe this virus can go from human-to-human. why did they instead simply focus on repeating what beijing was telling them about the virus? this is a very important question that we have got to get to the bottom of because it affected the rest of the ability of the world to respond to the virus in an effective way. ainsley: your second question, lanhee did they make make several claims about the coronavirus that were either inaccurate, misleading in january and february? >> countries still had an opportunity to build a response to coronavirus but, instead, the world health organization was focused on repeating some of these falsehoods or exaggerations that were coming out of china. for example, the issue of human-to-human transmission we talked about already. the second thing the virus was spreading in a slow fashion that was another challenge. the third thing was going up

against president trump's travel ban from china, which we now know was effective but, at the time, the w.h.o. was saying don't do travel bans. why were they saying these things at the time and then repeating the claims coming again out of beijing? brian: also, why was china lying the whole time? after all, yesterday, they just revised their death rate which was laughably low. they basically doubled it 50%. how much more are they going to be telling us in the future? ask questions why did the w.h.o. wait as long as it did to take decisive action? in the meantime as late as march they were praising china's actions. you want an answer to that, right? >> all along the w.h.o. even in the past even before coronavirus, think were really late to the game on a lot of these previous pandemics. ebola, for example back in 2014. in this situation, they didn't even declare public health emergency until well after we had seen symptoms in the first victim in wuhan, well after this

had spread broadly across china. and then they don't declare it a pandemic until the middle of march. so why were they so slow to do these things? what was the rationale and reasoning for that? we need to figure that out. brian: lanhee the chinese first time since 1976, their g.d.p. struck 7%. people thought they were going to start coming out of this. they are not close. if you think about it, now, you have japan saying let's have a national movement to pull our manufacturing out. is there legitimate fear in china that this could be a global move because the u.k. to germany on down have expressed their disdain for the way china has handled this? >> well, i think there is great concern about that. the other issue is there is no predictability anymore coming out of china. the one reach why you had a lot of people here in the united states and elsewhere who were building their supply chain through china because they said look at least it's predictable. now we don't even know that anymore. what you are seeing in the united states, you are seeing it around the world is an effort to

shift those supply chains out of china to other places where they know they rele reliably can cooe and cooperate honestly. steve: going forward, the united states cannot rely on china for things like face masks and pharmaceuticals and things we are woefulfully short of right now. thank you for being with us. >> great to be with you. steve: 6:15 hear on the eas15 hd jillian joins us from our world headquarters. jillian: good morning to you. we again our headlines with this fox news alert. breaking right now, the city of wuhan, where the coronavirus outbreak begin is upping the number of people who died from the virus by 50%. officials there now adding nearly 1300 fatalities, bringing the total to more than 3800. they say many weren't originally counted because they died at home. we will keep you updated with any new developments there in the meantime, we are following.

this the governor of new jersey is ordering an investigation into nursing homes across the state. after 17 bodies were found in a makeshift morgue. a tip leading to a disturbing study at the state's largest nursing home. >> i am also outraged that bodies of the dead were allowed to pile up in a makeshift morgue at the facility. new jersians living in long-term care facilities deserve to be cared for with respect, compassion and dignity. we can and must do better. jillian: 19 people at the center have died from covid-19 at the end of march. more than 100 residents now infected. overnight, the city of indianapolis lighting up blue to say goodbye to fallen police officer prean lee. hundreds of masked police officers social distancing ago they lined the speedway. the tribute ending with a gun salute and taps enden with the

officer's bravery. officer lee shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call. service was in her blood. her father was a sheriff's deputy and served in the national guard. she leaves behind a 3-year-old son. look at that photo. a new york mother meets her newborn son for the first time since giving birth in a coronavirus related coma two weeks ago. [applause] jillian: she is holding little walter. he has tested negative for covid-19. she contracted the virus in her third trimester forcing her to have an emergency c section. that's a look at your headlines. i will send it back to you. incredible story. ainsley: thathat is. two weeks ago she delivered in a coma. goodness. glad they are back together. thanks so much, jillian. america's truckers getting a hero's welcome that they deserve at the white house as they

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♪ >> at a time of widespread shutdowns, truck drivers form the lifeblood of our economy. truck drivers leave their homes and deliver supplies that american families need and count on. i speak for the 330 million-plus americans that we say thank god for truckers. ainsley: president trump celebrating the men and women of

the trucking industry, highlighting their continued dedication during this pandemic. and joining us now one of the featured speakers at the event america's road team capital steven richardson. >> good morning, how are you? ainsley: i'm great. tell me about yesterday's experience. what was that like? what was it like to seat trucks on the lawn on the back of the white house and the president addressing you? >> oh, it was definitely an experience of a lifetime that i will never forget. you know, just being on the white house lawn and seeing the trucks that me being on the road team that i do events all over the country with at the white house. and getting the honor and respect that i think the three and a half million truck drivers deserve. it was just heart-warming because it's not personally me, it's all of us out there doing our jobs. ainsley: you know, steven, the silver lining in all of this is we are remembering all the people that are out there working their tails off.

all the first responders, people in the hospital and our truckers. every single thing that are on the shelves in our grocery store is because of you. and we can't thank you enough. every pen that we have on the desk in front of us. the papers, it always comes to us on a truck. tell me about your business, what do you, and what company you work for and what your daily life is like? >> well, i drive for big e express. i live in alabama roll tide. i haul barrels from trinity alabama out of their plant coop ridge to the main plant where they make the wine, spirits for bottling. best of your recollection my everyday life is just picking up a load, a trailer and going to jack and just dropping it on the yard. but during those travels during the day i'm seeing these first responders out there, the police, the fire, the rescue. you know, i know that the nurses

are in the hospitals and you see the cars passing you, and they have their nurse's uniforms on. you know they are headed to a hospital or home healthcare such as my daughter does. my daughter is a nurse. so, you know, i have to speak on that. ainsley: well, god bless her. what's the biggest challenge for the truckers right now? >> i think food is a major issue because, you know, they have to walk up to windows and it's kind of difficult and it takes them out of their comfort level. it takes away that time that they have to go sit down and relax and get away from that seat and steering wheel and hectic busy day that we have dealing with the traffic and the customers on each end. and that takes away that personal time that they have to go and relax and gather their thoughts so they can continue on their mission of the day. ainsley: well, stephen, how can we thank you? is there something we can do

when we pass you on the highway now? >> well, my 29 plus years, almost 30 years of driving, i love to seat young kids wanting us to honk that horn. and that's a thrill for me. because i did it as a child. my dad was a trucker. and i rode in a truck with him as a child just the waving of the hands ant the children recognizing us. but also the respect we get such as friends have told me they walk in the stores and people pat them on the back. you know, it's just the little gestures that add up to me more than one big event. it's every day people just thanking you. ainsley: steven stephen, you are a hard worker your daughter is, too you raised her right. god bless you and thank you out othere on the road. >> i wanted to give a shoutout real quick. us truckers out there we ride up and down the road but the mechanics and the technicians and people that keep us running they need to also be recognized. ainsley: that's so nice of you.

the gas station attendants, too. >> right. steve: thank you, stephen. be safe out. >> there thank you for your time, ma'am. ainsley: you are welcome. americans coming together across the country proving that laughter can be the best medicine. comedian michael loftus on why it's important to find a laugh and find humor in life right now. he is on deck. when you own horses, you don't just own horses.

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the loftus party michael loftus joins us with the importance of laughter. michael, welcome back, i know you are excited about fox nation special tonight friday night live. first things first. how does a comedian stay happy during a month of sequester? >> well, you know what? i have to look on the bright side. i am getting some of the things that i want. like the whole social distancing, i was into that way before the coronavirus. i don't like it when anybody rolls right on and starts breathing on the back of my neck. you know those people in line at the bank rolling right up on you. that is out that was out with me for a long time. i wish the masks were sexier. i feel like batman this virus is mobile i don't want to breathe on anyone. there are good sides. ainsley: how being sensitive what people are going through. people are dying, do you focus on commonalities? how do you write a joke?

>> i really do i have to look for the silver lining and looking for the bright side my grandparents made it through the depression and you have to laugh. you really do. if you don't laugh bad things happen. like a tea kettle coming up on solid boil let some comedians take the kettle off the stove for a little while and can all laugh at some of this. come on, we all have horrible hair right now. if we can't celebrate our roots, who are we? excellent point all ending up with the hair from our high school years. michael, when i'm out social distancing with people from my neighborhood, yeah you have a good head of hair there as we pass on the streets they go it's groundhog day. every day is the same. thursday feels like friday feels like saturday but tonight your friday night special is going to be on fox nation.

tell us a little bit about it. >> it is so much fun. because really it is every comedian's dream to tell jokes in your living room in front of a bed sheet you ripped off a hippy. that's the finish line. i'm like an u. absolutely. i want to do my part. people making masks. so i reached out to some comedian friends of mine and everybody was like yes, we want to do it i got big-time celebrities coming by. super funny people. great music. it is -- it really came out great. and it's okay to tell jokes in your living room by yourself. and it's okay to do morning television shows just wearing pajama pants. brian: we didn't have to know that michael, you have to have like the inner audience to know if what you are doing is funny

or not? >> yes. that's true. fortunately, like i talk to myself quite a bit. so i love me. my audience. [laughter] >> i'm getting standing ovations just going from the bedroom out here. [laughter] ainsley: michael, we can't wait to watch it. go ahead, brian. >> it's going -- brian: you said something to me, you said there's going to be creative boom in hollywood and around the country after this. because the people you know for the first time in their lives have calmed down. they look around. they can't do anything. so they are writing. from script writers to comedians, you still hold to that? >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. i have finished an episode of television. i had to write it anyway for netflix for the show i work on. i finished a screenplay, my youtube channel, the loftus party, the videos have never been better. i'm doing comedy specials from my living room. i think we are going -- when we

are on the other side of this, we are going to have a renaissance like nothing else. we just have to get nancy pelosi to stop disliking americans. just get the money to americans. when you the democrats can't go any lower, you get nancy pelosi and just i'm going to put the brakes on all the -- just get the money to the people, nancy. ainsley: that's a great message. people are hurting. thank you so much, michael. we'll be watching friday night live on fox nation tonight. >> me too. i will be there. ainsley: okay. brian: you are doing it. we're laughing on the inside. ainsley: you better be there 6:36 here on the east coast. president trump declaring the worst of the coronavirus outbreak is behind us. listen. >> our strategy to slow the spread has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. ainsley: dr. marc siegel on what's next in the effort to reopen our great country.

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♪ >> through unified national endeavor we have made great progress our strategy to slow the spread has saved hundred of thousands of lives models predicted between 1.5 1.5 millin and 2.2 million u.s. deaths. if there was no mitigation, could have been even higher than that the curve has flattened and the peak in new cases is behind us. steve: there you have got the president of the united states last night from the briefing room talking about reopening the economy as early as targeted, perhaps may 1st is leaving it up to the state governors, however, they get to call the shots. but, to start, and it's a phased in process, it's three phases. to start to get to phase 1, the cases of coronavirus have to decrease in a state over 14

days. let's bring in dr. marc siegel, fox news medical contributor, he joining us right now. doctor, what did you make of the approach. >> good morning. steve: offered to the cdc and birx and fauci where they phase in a restoration of life as we knew it? >> steve, it's cautious and with gaiting the first phase here. before phase one it's gaiting they look to see if 14 days have gone by and you are not showing any surge up in cases. we are actually starting to see that in many areas we were worried, about florida, texas, even on the west coast in san francisco. so we are seeing this already if you go phase one restaurants reopening. sporting events reopen. elective surgeries reopen again. we we need it badly. a lot of times it's somebody in pain and suffering waiting. so this is phase one we are

probably two weeks away from it. we need testing tracing and isolating sick people to get this to work. we need to ramp up the testing. we know we have 675,000 cases in the united states. but we're probably have more than a million or two million if you count all of those asymptomatic spreaders. so we need to know what's really going on in the region and to do that we need the rapid testing i have been talking about in place that will really make this work. steve: you mentioned gaiting, which is the process to get to phase 1. dr. fauci talked about how critical this is. listen to this and we'll get your reaction t on the other si. >> that there are some regions, states, locations, that are going to be almost already in to some of that gaiting and will have already fulfilled some of those criteria. you don't get to phase one until you get through the gaiting. you go into phase one if you get no rebound and you satisfy the

gatting. yet again a second time then did you go to phase 2 satisfy gatint go into phase 3. we can get back to some form of normality. ainsley: dr. siegel, when you look at phase one is there anything that's a red flag something that you don't like? >> >> i like his point about rebounding, ainsley. have you got to make sure we don't go backwards as we start to open up events. i would caution something like sporting events which i adore, of course everybody listening on the virtual couch adoors. here is the problem with sporting events it's very hard to obey social distancing when you go to buy a beer or hot dog. i would really caution that you can have sporting events but not in the usual way restaurant obey

social distancing at a restaurant. those are the areas thyme concerned about with that. brian: different states. i was struck by the fact that ohio is ready to open may 1st. remember, they were the first ones to shut down sports and shut down their doors. in florida they are talking about opening up their beaches as soon as this weekend for certain hours. they are seeing this and saying yeah, we can do it. dr. fauci talked about returning to normalcy. but, he knows there is something that has to happen first. listen. >> it's not going to be over to the point of our being able to not do any mitigation until we have a scientifically sound, safe and effective vaccine. that does not mean that we can't approach a significant degree of normality. throughout all of those phases there is a baseline level of care that we have to be addressing. that's what we feel is going to

be safeguarding any explosion which we hope will never happen and, if it does, one of the requirements of this is to make sure we have the capability of jumping all over that. brian: you know, personally dr. siegel, i was so relieved to see this. a lot of people want to seat outline. i want to go back to your original point. we came up with the innovation on the quick test. now we have got the saliva test. we have the drive-in test. until we get it mass produced all these phases won't matter. do you think that the white house and these states have that message? >> yeah, they better have that message. and what they have to do right away, brian, right away, there is 90 companies trying to get approval from the fda for emergency use of serology test, antibody tests. that's what i mean by testing. not your point of care do you have it. i want to know if you were exposed or not. we should be testing millions of

people across the country that will help us know where the hot spots are i want to add one other point that dr. fauci left out. rural areas tend to be different than cities. a lot of our hot spots, almost all of them have been cities for obvious reason. if you are living on a farm somewhere in the middle of nebraska, the chances are you are already somewhat socially distant. you still have got to learn what social distancing means and all the precautions, but it's different in rural areas than in cities. >> that is such a good point, dr. siegel. when i grew up on a farm, our closest neighbor was a half a mile away so we didn't have to worry about much back in those days other than someone picking up the party line which is a whole other story. dr. siegel thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you. thank you, guys. ainsley: thank you. steve: you bet. all right, it is 12 minutes now before the top of the hour on this friday. jillian joins us from fox news 1211 avenue of the measures with the headlines. jillian: we begin with this. a licensed gun owner is arguing

self-defense after shooting three teenagers. the man says he was sitting on the back of a philadelphia bus when the group started attacking him. that's when he fired. the teens are recovering. the da is reviewing the surveillance coverage to determine if anyone will face charges. 2020 hopeful. joe biden shoots down rumors having new york governor andrew cuomo as his running mate. the presumed democratic nominee says he is sticking to his pledge of having a woman on his ticket. >> i think governor cuomo is capably as president. a great guy. i think it's already important that it be a woman. there is plenty of woman with the experience and the capability of being president tomorrow. and i think it's important that we begin to have my administration, god willing, is going to look like america. jillian: many speculating that senators kamala harris, elizabeth warren and amy klobuchar are biden's on his short list of vp picks. stay tuned. well, this story is great. the harlem globe trotters delivering a virtual surprise to

some kids inspired by their tricks. the boys were going to show their globe trotter skills in a talent show. when it was canceled, they did it for their families over zoom instead and then this happened. >> harris from the world famous harlem globe trotters and with awesome moves like that i had to join the party. come out. oh. their faces absolutely priceless. for more inspiring stories like this. can you head to our website foxnews.com/america together. i love it. it never gets old. ainsley: how did they organize that? one of the parents call the globe trotters? so nice of him to join: thanks, jillian. a new outbreak spreading to cyberspace as more americans are working from home. kurt the cyberguy is here with a warning about scammers. when you're confident

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steve: welcome back, some cyber criminals exploiting the pandemic to steal your personal information. here with how to avoid the scams is kurt the cyberguy from the west coast. kurt, good morning to you.

>> hey, good morning, steve. steve: okay. so, you know we are all at home. we have a lot of time to look at our phones or look at our email and then there are some unscrupulous hackers who are trying to pose as public health officials to get us to go to a fake website and download some software that's going to hack us, right? >> we knew this was bad. we didn't know it was going to be this bad. so google, with their gmail system. their free email system already blocking 18 million phishing scam that are related to covid-19. and if you think about it, 240 million spam messages per day are being blocked there alone. that's just one email service. so, the other thing to consider is in terms of these web sites that these phishing attacks either come by text or email or by social media links. they will try to get to you go to a website. now, if you were to look in december at web sites registered with names that include the

phrase corona or covid, there were less than 200 back then. there are now over 45,000 web sites. now, some are good and legit. but, a lot of them are not. and they are going to try to drive you there. so here's what you need to be watching out for right now. any time you receive a text, an email or see a link on social media that seems to ask you to do something, such as click a link or check something, don't do it. that should be your red flag right there. and then the kind of attacks that we are seeing right now involve preying on what people want to learn about. they want to hear about covid-19. they want to hear about a drug break through. there are so many phony drug break through links that are going around. also fake supplies to phony hand sanitizer to all sorts of face masks that don't exist and simply trying to gather data and put malware on your system so they can record what goes on.

it's something you want to avoid all together. and, you know, if you see this text or email, bottom line, don't click it. just under no circumstances click it even if it's sent from a friend. one thing, have you noticed, this steve? i just seem to have a bombardment of spam hitting me on a phone all of a sudden. so you go to cyberguy.com and sign up for the free newsletter i will send you step-by-step tips for how to block. don't do the thing where it says oh just stop in stop in all capitals to get this to stop. don't do that what you want to do is block it. steve: kurt, thank you very much. great advice. thank you, sir. >> have great weekend. steve: all right. the surgeon general and tom cotton coming up next. usaa has been standing with them for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve you for a hundred more. ♪

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>> we are not opening all at once. but one careful step at a time. we are starting our life again. we're starting rejuvenation. of our economy again. in a safe and structured and very responsible fashion. ainsley: that was the president yesterday with those plans to open up the country. ultimately, it's in the hands of the governors, he just formed a list of guidelines for those governors for individual states. dr. jerome adams is with us. a u.s. surgeon general and a member of the coronavirus task force. good morning to you, doctor. >> good morning. ainsley: good morning.

tell me about the process to get to these guidelines and what do people need to know when they are watching at home this morning? >> well, in the disaster response cycle, we are always -- while we are actively responding to the crisis, also planning for the future. and so what we put out yesterday were guidelines for what people should be thinking about now so that we can event actually reopen across the country. they are deliberative and measured and taking a approach letting people all across the country how they can open safely. there is criteria that people need to make sure that they can satisfactory before they even start to think about reopening. progress through so you are not flipping on a light switch. you are slowly going back to work. you are slowly going back to movie theaters and restaurants with social distancing. and one of the things i want the american people to know is that we do expect that there will be

set backs in some places but one of the criteria is making sure you have the ability to quickly detect these setbacks and respond to them so that one case doesn't become a thousand cases so we can do contact tracing and shut things down if we need to and the places we need to. brian: you go into detail i think in a very broadway in respect i know a little bit contradictory. i know exactly what you are getting at while giving states some leeway to do their own thing on phase one when it comes to individuals as we put up some of these bullet points vulnerable issues shelter in place. those i guess older or have under lying conditions. they maximize social social distancing. hang out with people 6 feet apart and minimize essential travel. if you can go to your summer house can you go to your summer house. i imagine. four employers telework. return to work in phases. so you don't want everyone back at the same time. maybe monday, wednesday, friday. minimize nonessential travel.

consider special accommodations for vulnerable personnel. have you schools remaining closed basically shuts it down for the spring. large venues operating under strict physical protocols. elective surgeries can resume. some of these empty hospitals in states fortunate enough not to besiege. bars remain closed and gym reiss main open. out of all of these phases, roughly, how many states do you think are ready to do this now? have already hit the criteria and are ready to start phase one? >> well, again, the president was clear yesterday on the phone call with governors and i was on this call. that we are not going to tell these states they are open. it's got to be at a comfort level with the governors, with their healthcare systems and public health systems and people of their state. just to be honest with you. i don't want to say a state is ready, i don't want to put them on the spot and i don't want to say a number of states are ready the thing i'm most concerned about as a public health official, i want to make sure each of these states is public

health capacity and understand they have testing in place and the ability to contact trace again so you don't have a big blow up if we do have a setback we can quickly quash it. steve: that's exactly right. the president made it clear yesterday and so did dr. fawch fauci and birx you don't get to phase 1 until your state and at the discretion of the governor has 14 days where the coronavirus cases are going down. because you don't want another hot spot as the president said last night. >> as we see a hot spot possibly developing. maybe not. but if we see a hot spot developing, we have learned a lot. we will be able to suppress it bacwhack it. steve: ultimately if there is another hot spot, you know, you would be going the wrong direction. however, in the initial phase over the last month or so, doctor, the number one priority

was to make sure that our healthcare system is not overwhelmed. that there were enough hospital beds. and enough ventilators and things like that. obviously now, as we progress, you must be confident that we're going to be okay in that department. >> well, it's not mission accomplished and, again, this is not one size fits all. we are increasingly confident that we're meeting the ppe demand on a national scale. that we have enough ventilators that we're actually increasing testing and i don't want anyone to hear me mistake that i'm saying it's all done or that it's perfect everywhere. but we are moving in this direction. that's why it's appropriate now to start thinking about what happens in the future. here's the thing. some places aren't going to open for two weeks. for four weeks. for six weeks. and that's okay. but we want people to be thinking now about how we can be in the best position possible when the time comes to open because if we don't think about it now, we won't be ready in two weeks or four weeks to actually do it.

ainsley: what do you think about the governor implementing that rule in new york you have to wear a mask in the public. >> you all know i have been really in the thick of this whole mask discussion. and we know that wearing a cloth facial covering prevents from you spreading to other people. in new york, especially, there are challenges because it's a densely populated areas with keeping people inside. and if you are going to go out, you wear your mask to protect me. i wear mine, my facial covering to protect you. i think it's sign of respect and appreciation for the fact that you could being symptomatically spreading to someone else. that's something the governors are going to look at as we think about reopening. the president emphasized this is not the about the economy. this approach is about doing it in a safe way with the recognition that we can't keep the economy closed forever. the number one priority is the safety of the american people. brian: right. do you feel as though we

already -- we fully understand this virus? because we do hear some contradictory information. get it from surfaces, you can't. you know, within six feet mite not be enough. should be further away. do you feel as though we got this down? >> this virus has hummed me. it's humbled the task force. it's hummabilitie humbled the e. what i can promise the american people is that the task force has gone over the most recent data for hours a day every single day and having the humility to say look, we thought it was a, now we find out it's b. let's change our recommendations to the american people so they can be as safe as possible that is the most that i can promise you that we will give you the best information available at the time and if the information changes, we will have the humility to change it, change our recommendation so that can you be safe. steve: well, that's what it is all about, it's about safety. and it's not about a date.

it's about data. all right. the surgeon general of the united states, dr. adams, sir, thank you very much. >> thank you. and, please, check out these guidelines. we want you all to be thinking about it now. we don't want you to rush. we want you to understand the more you think about it now, the more we will have the infrastructure in place. the federal government is going to be there to support you. steve: all right. very good. glad to hear it. all right, sir. thank you very much. 7:08 here on the east coast. let's bring in senator tom cotton republican from arkansas. a member of the senate armed services committee and senate select intel committee, and he has been isolating just like the rest of us. good morning to you, senator. ainsley: good morning. >> good morning, everyone. steve: all right. there is a little bit of a delay here. all right. let's start with what you make of the president's plan to reopen the country? >> the president's plan is measured. it's judicious. it's the right approach. we can't set an arbitrary

deadline. we can't have a single plan for the entire country. obviously some parts of the country hit hard like new york or detroit. other parts of the country, especially the rural parts have seen very little cases at all. as long as that remains the case, i think it's the right thing to do to encourage our governors to begin on a slow, gradual calibrated basis to get people back to work. to get people back to their normal routines. taking appropriate measures like maintaining distances at the workplace or in shops, wearing masks and so forth. obviously we have to be prepared for any surge in new cases as we begin to do that. but i think it's the right approach to begin to get the economy back on its feet. ainsley: let's talk about the letter that republicans sent to the president talking about funding for the w.h.o. i know that now democrats are saying that he is violating the same spending laws that brought about impeachment. they are talking about impeachment again. the president is not allowed to do this and take away funding from the w.h.o. in the letter that the republicans sent, it said

basically we need to just get the leader out of the w.h.o. and then we will continue funding. here is an exserenity fro excere letter that was sent: have you heard anything from the president on that? is he going to recommend the firing of him? >> well, i think the only way we can have confidence in the w.h.o. in the short-term is if dr. tedros and senior team leaves. he was a well-establish reputation for corruption going back to minister in ethiopia when china was handing 'ow out bribes belton road initiative. and going back to the earliest days of this pandemic the w.h.o. under his leadership seemed to prioritize political correctness

and sucking up to china not trying to focus on what their name calls for which is world health. brian: right. there has been a problem. we allowed china to get dominance in there dating back two administrations. we'll find ourselves caught. meanwhile, let's talk about china. we watched japan make a national movement to pull manufacturing out. we have seen statements from the u.k. and france showing how upset they are with the lack of transparency with this whole pandemic that has poisoned 180 countries. so, right now, with their economy shrunk at 7%, what, senator tom cotton, do you think should be the next step as more and more focus is on that lab in wuhan that you talked about in january where you thought this thing could have emanated from? >> >> yeah. brian, the circumstantial evidence, which i began to site in january is stacking up pretty quickly that this virus may have originated in those labs in wuhan. we knew from the very beginning

that the chinese communist party's front story about the food market was probably wrong. for one, it appears that they don't even sell the kind of bats at that market from which this virus originated. and, two, chinese scientists in an authoritative study as early as january found about a third the early cases had no contact with the food market whatsoever. we know that china has a very sloppy history of laboratory safety. some of our own diplomats at the embassy in china went to these labs as far as back as two years ago and said the practices there were very alarming. and you can see how chinese communist party has continued to lie about this from the very beginning as if they have something to cover up. if that's the case, it really is the biggest, costliest most deadliest cover-up in the history of mankind. steve: no kidding. senator, let me ask you about this. a lot of people wound up with $1,200 directly deposited in their accounts over the last week or so.

but, because there has been such conflicting signals from washington about, you know, the sba has -- small business administration has run out of money right now for these loans and people don't know exactly what the next step is until the senate does something and congress does something. but, regarding just those checks that people have gotten, oddly, it seems likes there is lot of misinformation. i had two people ask me, they said okay, that 1200 bucks, i have got to pay it back next year, right? and i said no. you get to keep that this is not a loan or anything like that. it's to stimulate the economy. and to get to you buy groceries and everything like that, right? >> yeah. that's exactly right. for anyone making less than $75,000 or any family making less than $150,000, it's $1,200 a person, $500 per child. those are simply payments designed to help our people get through the worst of this crisis. it doesn't have to be paid back in the future.

it's designed to make sure that you could put food on the table at the end of the week, that you can pay the bills and put a roof over your kid's head at the end of the month as we get through the worse of this crisis, hopefully sooner rather than later. those checks are designed as emergency lifeline for our families. ainsley: senator, our anchor and friend bret baier who lives in d.c. is talking to these lawmakers on both sides left and right, he said that they are discussing a possible payback for china and one pat could be suing china. class action lawsuit for their negligence in this. is that possible? >> yeah, ainsley, with legislation i have introduced with dan crenshaw it will be possible. foreign sovereign immunities act allows foreign officials to be sued in our courts. this is exactly what congress did for the victims of 9/11. we should do it for the victims of this pandemic. that's just one step we can take there is a lot of other things we can do as well. for instance revoking chinese visas for the kids of chinese ole guy darks studying in

advanced scientific computer science and other kinds of technological fields they go back to the united states or simply bringing back more of our manufacturing capacity so we create jobs here. jobs that are going to help ensure our safety and our health in the future. brian: senator, i'm going to put you in a difficult position. i will put you in the white house for a second. the president is in a tough spot. is he close to doing a deal with the other economic behemoth and that's china at the same time he knows they are responsible. at the same time he knows currently we have a lot of our manufacturing there and a lot of our ppe we need to come out of there. how do you do this gradually in a way that's diplomatically savvy and not emotional at a time like this where currently we are interlocked? >> yeah, brian, sadly, we are in a situation where china does have the market cornered on things like masks and gloves and other medical splice. even on some of the components for testing. and just this week it was

reported that china is withholding a lot of that medical equipment from the united states on spurious grounds. so obviously we don't want to rush into this change. we don't want to say that we are going to put import bans on chinese goods in place next week because we have to have those goods now to protect our doctors and our nurses and all the people struggling with this virus. but we also have to begin to plan for how we are not going to be dependent on china in the future because this cannot be allowed to ever happen again. brian: we have make our own stuff. steve: thank you very much, senator, thank you for joining us from the d.c. area. >> thank you all. steve: you bet. 16 minutes after the top of the hour, jillian joins us now with headlines on this friday morning. jillian: that's right. we start with this. building our differences. the u.s. space force is working on nearly 50 ground based weapons to temporarily jam russia and china satellite frequencies in the first hours of a potential conflict.

according to bloomberg, the systems will be developed over the next seven years. 16 are completed. the new sixth branch of the military has been focusing heavily on safeguarding u.s. satellites. michael cohen will be released from prison early over covid-19 concerns. president trump's former lawyer will be quarantine for two weeks and then serve the rest of his term in home confinement. cohen was sentenced to three years after being convicted of fraud and lying to congress. he is at a new york prison where 14 inmates and seven staffers have tested positive. he was set to be released november 2021. today beaches and parks are reopening in jacksonville, florida. amid the covid-19 outbreak. beach access will be limited to essential activities in the early mornings and evenings. that includes running, biking, swimming and dog walking while social distancing. less than 50 people will be allowed in parks at a time. picnic areas and park restrooms will remain close you had. the state has more than 23,000

covid-19 cases with nearly 670 deaths. overnight, two american astronauts returning to earth amid the pandemic. drew morgan and jessica mear leaving the international space station after more than 200 days on board. the pair and a russian cosmonaut safely touching down in kazakhstan. this comes after the apollo xiii crew splashed down in the pacific following abandoned moon mission. they are landing to a much different world, guys. ainsley: glad they are home safely. 200 days up there. -- i don't know what you said. a number of michigan sheriffs are refusing to enforce their governor's strict stay-at-home orders. accusing heller of abuse of power as protesters swarm the streets with the same message. hear from one of those sheriffs when he joins us live next. there will be parties again soon. there will be parades and sporting events and concerts.

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♪ brian: you might have seen, this thousands of protesters filled the streets of michigan's capital over the governor's stay at home order. now governor gretchen whitmer facing major backlash from four michigan sheriffs who say they will not enforce some of her increasingly strict restrictions in their county. sheriff ted shindle joins us now. he is one of them that are currently -- that are currently is in charge of an area that has zero cases of covid-19. and now you cite 62 executive orders you are expected to enforce. why push back? >> well, it's for the people. like i said, i'm an elected official. i work for the people. we have been getting countless phone calls.

people are afraid. they are confused. there is anxiety. and that's why i reached out to the three other sheriffs in my area and asked them if they were getting the same phone calls and they said yes, indeed, they were. so that's why we put out this press release. we just wanted everybody to pump the brakes a little bit and say you know what? we are going to get through. this this is america. the constitution still matters. brian: what do you think is reasonable in this time of a global pandemic? the masks? would you enforce that? do you enforce the 6 feet between people? >> well, you know, we don't want anybody to get sick. and in our statement, we said yes, we have to follow the cdc guidelines. yes. social distancing, wear a mask. wash your hands. follow all medical advice. we are not against that you know, i have got two daughters that are police officers that work down in south florida.

hollywood and davey, florida. they are on the front lines. i'm just as concerned about this as anybody else. brian: some of the rules i think the governor is missing. it's not about the pandemic and the stay-at-home. we are doing that it's about what she put into this. they are unreasonable. she had so many executive orders you say they are up to 52. you can leave your house, you cannot leave your house but you -- you can't leave your house to buy a gallon of paint or flooring but can you leave your house to get an abortion. can you have a boat but not a motor boat. can you have a kayak or a canoe. really? you can't use your other house in state which a lot of people use to get out of city. that is not allowed. so no wonder these people are protesting. you can't have a landscaper mow your lawn. you point out the fact that some of the stuff is unenforceable and not -- it can't be one size fits all. >> right, brian.

you brought up an interesting point. one of the things that's really gotten a lot of the folks up here you mentioned it about being able to go up to their property in northern michigan. well, michigan ganders are not allowed to do that right now. if you live in ohio, indiana, or chicago. come on up. there is no restrictions against them and michiganders are going what is going on? brian: lastly, sheriff. a lot of people saying well, sheriff, even if you don't agree about the law and you should really go along with the law or else there is going to be anarchy. what do you say to that? >> i'm a compassionate, constitutional sheriff. i care about my community. and right now my community is hurting. they are scared and they are afraid. so, that's why we all got together to stand up and say, okay, we got your back. we are here for you. brian: yeah, let's see how quick she lifts the restrictions, michigan hit hard but seem to be coming back well.

sheriff, hang in there hope your daughter stays safe too. we appreciate what you do on a daily basis. >> thank you so much. you guys have a great day. brian: all right. appreciate the stand you are taking. meanwhile fox and friends reached out to the governor's office. we have not heard back. maybe if we said we were joe biden we would get a call back immediately. americans directly coronavirus taking china to the court and looking for trillions of dollars in damages. geraldo rivera on the legal war china may be facing. that story next. he is a lawyer. ♪

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damages from china. brian: at least four class action lawsuits filed by plaintiffs who say the chinese government failed to contain the virus before it could spread to the u.s. strong case. steve: meanwhile, we are joined right now by fox news correspondent at large and attorney geraldo rivera who joins us from ohio. >> hi, steve, i hi, anxiously, hi brian. steve: is in ohio where the governor says they are going to open on may 1st. ainsley: hi, geraldo. >> hi. steve: zero chance that's going to actually happen where they will sue china and end up with any sort of verdict in their favor. >> i think the first hurdle, aside from the foreign sovereign immunity act 5bsd i can get to that on the legalistic side of it. i think, first of all, most americans are very practical people. reasonable, prudent, normal people. they look at what happened in china and they know instinctively that this was not

some best of my knowledge biological accident in wet lab imarket in wuhan biological lab. probing this in bats coronavirus. two years ago. i saw a cable expressions of concerns about the safety at this very lab studying this very virus and bats come on it's not a circumstantial situation and all the world hears the outbreak of the e.p.a. here iepidemic. here is the lab cooking that work. logical to assume that somehow by accident it was on somebody's shoe or glove or something it got out of that lab and got into wuhan and caused this untold misery. the question you ask whether or not because of china's culpability's negligence at the very least can china be sued by people in the united states and

other countries for the devastation that china's negligence has caused? 10s of thousands of people are dead already. now the world is disrupted. the economy has really gone into the tank. trillions of dollars lost. the answer, i think though, coming back to your original question is, can china be sued? the answer is probably not. the foreign sovereign immunity act is pretty specific. was it an act of terror. no. probably not. was it torture? was it a hostage taking? you know, probably not. like holocaust victims were able to sue, you know, the governments of europe to get back art that the nazis stole because it was found that there was terrorism committed by the nazis against the jewish owners of the art. the victims of 9/11 terrorism were able to sue saudi arabia because that was an act of terror seizing american aircraft. but, you know, generally

speaking, it's very, very difficult, unless china were to volunteer o -- voluntarilily waive immunity, i think it's very difficult to sue them. brian: it's going to be interesting. go ahead, ainsley. ainsley: thanks, brian. who did you agree with when it comes to money being withheld money being held with the w.h.o. do you agree with the president and saying fire the guy who in charge or the democrats are saying the president doesn't have the authority to do this because that money was approved by congress? >> let me make one observation. first of all, it is interesting to me that left wing media does not talk about the chinese laboratory being the likely source of the epidemic. why? because it doesn't make trump look bad. they only want to talk about trump's failings in dealing with this epidemic. the fact that the chinese may have been reckless and negligent and allowed this virus to escape. that doesn't fit the anti-trump narrative. i think it's tragic that people are judging whether or not this happened the way i just

described. whether they like trump or they don't like trump. i think that's really really tragic. the answer to the question of who i side with is. the w.h.o. had intimate contact with the chinese very early on. the chinese convinced the w.h.o. that there was no person-to-person transmission of this virus an absolute lie. it was preposterous. the rural w.h.o. knew or should have known that there was person-to-person transmission of the virus because that's what happened in sars. that's what happened in ebola. that's what happened in h1n1. the w.h.o. must have known that the chinese were gives them a line of bologna when they announced to the world in january that don't worry, it's not transmitted person to person. so the answer is i side with the president but i think bill and melinda got it right. the w.h.o. as flaw you had as it is is the world health organization, let's help them get us through this crisis and

then we can punish them on the back side of it. brian: or remove that guy. geraldo, we have got to get back to work. we have three phrase plan. the president unveiled it yesterday. he will let states like yours do such stellar job and governors make that decision. i believe governor dewine says may 1st. number one, from when you look around, do you think ohio is ready? do you think the country will embrace the president's framework? >> >> you know, to really put an emphasis and exclamation points to the president's point of this country is very different. huge and very different. i'm in cleveland right now in cuyahoga county. 90 miles to the west as the crow flies is detroit and wayne the e county. here in cuyahoga county we have about three deaths per 100,000. in wayne county there are 15 times that many deaths to 100,000. detroit is obviously in a

different situation than cleveland. one size does not fit all. the brilliance of the president's plan and i think that it really was very measured, very logical, you didn't hear any really virulent criticism of it. it's very methodical. governor dewine knows ohio. governor whitner knows michigan presumably. gavin newsom knows california. andrew cuomo knows new york and so forth. let them decide. they are closer to their situations and the president will monitor it. his team will keep an eye on the decisions that are made. the stages, the phases, are very logical to me. let's take it easy. let's see what happens. if there is a hot spot, we will move on it. but america has got to get going. i mean, we have got an epidemic right now of domestic violence and suicide and, you know, mental illness caused by unemployment. and businesses going down the tubes. i think we have got to balance these equities. steve: so it looks like things

are going to start to get back to normal step-by-step may 1st. geraldo joining us from cleveland. sir, thank you very much. >> thank you, steve. steve: meanwhile, joe biden down playing the president's plan for reopening the country. watch. >> i wouldn't call it a plan. i think what he has done he has kind of punted. steve: pete hegseth on that coming up next. ♪ in nearly 100 years serving the military community, we've seen you go through tough times and every time, you've shown us, you're much tougher your heart, courage and commitment has always inspired us and now it's no different so, we're here with financial strength, stability and experience you can depend on and the online tools you need because you have always set the highest standard and reaching that standard is what we're made for ♪

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♪ >> i think 29 states are in that ballgame. not open -- not for opening. but i think they will be able to open relatively soon. i think the remainder are just getting better. and i call it a beautiful puzzle. you have 50 pieces all very different. but when it's all done it's a mow isaac. whemosaic.

when it's all done i think it will be a beautiful picture. brian: we will see. as many as 29 states could be ready to go may 1st. let's see if they fit the criteria. pete hegseth is getting stretched to host 8 hours of television. book coming out "american crusade." extra gel on this morning. ready to go. first things first, what do you think of the president's framework before i get to joe biden what joe biden thinks. pete: well, makes a ton of sense. he is saying the people who are governing locally should make the prudent decisions based on common sense, which is and in trusting people there to adhere to the guidelines that the cdc has put out but then go out and restart your business. go about your lives. you know who can be. so he is standing up on that podium doing precisely what he should be and america will get back out there. brian: so it's kind of interesting. because joe biden, who said the president has no right and

authority to decide when all 50 states are going to open up. the president gives states the ability and the power to decide when they are going to open up. and then he says this: >> i wouldn't call it a plan i what he has done is kind of punted. he decide he doesn't have the right to make the call for the country and faulked about phases that in a generic sense it doesn't give you any hard guidelines. brian: can you make sense of that, pete? pete: brian, what i say is joe biden doesn't know a punt from a kickoff. and as he tries to be relevant in his basement, he makes it clearer by the day that he could not handle the management of a pandemic like this. people watch the hour, hour and a half, two hours of president trump at the podium showing that he has got demand commands of the issue and they juxtapose that with joe biden barely able

to stumble through a video interview in his basement and wonder who why rather have at the helm as my commander-in-chief in a moment like this. to keep the football analogy, this ball is donald trump's fumble or bring across the goal line. so far is he showing that he has a handle on it completely and he wants to empower federalism while also showing that he has a view of the country and wants to keep everybody safe. makes sense to me. steve: pete, you just mentioned fumble, kickoff, punt. here's the president on sports in the future. >> many of them are going to be starting without the fans. so it will be made for television. the good old days, made for television. and it will go that way. and then fans will start coming in, maybe they will be separated by two seats. and then ultimately we want to have packed arenas. when the virus is gone, we are going to have packed arenas and back to enjoying sports the way

they are supposed to be. steve: all right. pete? pete: yeah. absolutely. i have said this for a while the first major sports league to open up will become a natural phenomenon right now. people are waiting for this. can you do it. these are young, healthy players. it could be golf. i don't know that's not a major sport to me. but i love golf some play it well and i don't. i'm talking about basketball, baseball, football, if they could figure out a way to play it and broadcast it, it would be gang busters. you can do it in a smart way. i wonder why one of them hasn't done it yet. it will be social distancing. it will be on tv. but it would lift the morale of the country and you know these players want to get back out there. they don't want to just play horse in their driveway over videotape: they want to get out and compete. it's always been a part of our morale. it will happen. take the leap. play the game. get out there. do the testing you need. and i think that's what the

president wants to see. before we know it, we will be backed in packed stadiums watching these teams. it will take awhile. but i think we will be back to right where we need to be. ainsley: individual sports first like tennis and golf and team sports after that. thank you so much,. pete: pete thank you, see you this weekend. i will use less gel for you this weekend, brian, sorry. ainsley: 48 minutes after the top of the hour. while you are stuck at home, have you got to keep that house clean. skip bedell going to join us next with dyi tricks and tips. living room concert with country music star chase rice. ♪ burn down this town ♪ let it roll ♪ let it roll

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steve: while the world is practicing social distancing at home, now you can take this time to tackle some of those home improvement projects that you have been waiting to do. here with tips is home contractor skip bedell. skip, good morning to you. you know,. >> good morning, steve. steve: america's basements and garages have never been cleaner. but at your house right now with some ideas on how to do stuff with things that can get ships to your house. >> yeah.

so we are doing stuff that makes the job of cleaning easier. and this is what we do around our house. one of the main things that you really want to focus on is the floor because everything obviously falls down from the floor from gazette alone. mopping dirty water around are the whole mop thing out for a long time. using hoover floor mate hardwood cleaners 20 years. corded and work great. all the newest stuff that i have just now been recently using unbelievable. new hoover floor mate with one power battery. all battery operated, steve. the best part about these machines, cleaning solution in the back it. sucks up the dirty water in the front. and you never touch the mop. you never touch the dirty water. so you clean it and you vacuum up all the dirty water right into the tank. you never using a mop. the best thing is that you have a battery, just one power battery operates all the tools in the one power line. it's a really cool way to clean. have you everything that you need to get the floors clean. the vacuums. and it's all on battery operated stuff. after i get the floor set up.

i like to use the rejuvenate products. this stuff right here is amazing. these floors you are looking at, steve, from 1945. these are the original floors in this house. and i use this product right here to keep it restored. this just seals it, hides all the scratches. and it has like a you that i know finish to reseal all the floors back to their original shine. so this stuff is great. all the rejuvenate products are awesome to keep everything looking nice. if you look around our house take you for a walk through see the woodwork in here and that stuff keeps all the woodwork looking good. take nut kitchen. steve: you have a beautiful house. wow. >> thanks, steve. a lot of work. one room at a time. 1945 re-do. we do a lot of cooking here as can you tell. i like to eat. keeping the stove clean is always so hard. you get sauce and cheese and every time you cook it's like more work to clean than actually do the cooking. this is an amazing thing. i don't know why i didn't think of this steve, this is teflon

covered sheet. send it to stove garb.com make and model of stove. teflon coded sheets. nonstick sheets that go right over your stove. everything falls on to it. steve: i love that. >> you put this right in the dishwasher and wash it off and put it back on, so easy, never have to clean down the stove. go to the stove guard.com website make and model number of your stove and send you cus tom made sheets and put it right on there. cuts the cleaning time down to a fraction. unbelievable stuff that makes it easy for the cooking and cleaning. and then, you know, cleaning all the bathrooms and like tile and grout and all the other hard to find places i love this stuff. this is drill brush. i'm a power tool guy, right? any time can i clean with a tool, any ordinary drill you take the drill brush, you stick it on and it allows to you get into places that you could never get to before. the really hard to find tough

places. so they have different brushes, all different shapes, tile it grout lines and everything can you think for cleaning the drill brush makes it easier. steve: skip? >> yeah. >> you know what? we are just about out of time. i know people want more information about all this stuff. they can go to skip bedell.com. you love the zep cleaner right there because it is something that can help you keep everything nice and clean. and the. >> also available right now, steve. steve: can you order it from your home and they will deliver it to your home. more information at skip bedell.com. skip, once again, you have a beautiful house. i love that chimney. thank you, sir. final hour as you can see. all those guests coming up. some work can't stop.

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>> we can begin the next front in our war which we are calling opening up america again and that's what we are doing. we are opening up our country. we must have a working economy and we want to get it back very, very quickly and that's what's going to happen. i believe it will boom. ainsley: fox news alert, president trump says the nation is ready for the next step in the war against covid-19. the white house releasing guidelines to reopen the economy in 3 phases. steve: that's right, ainsley.

this as people all across the country rally against stay at home orders. protests breaking out in the states of michigan, common wealth of virginia, north carolina and wyoming. some people demanding to get back to work because there are not a lot of cases of covid where they are. brian: yeah, different situation. total deaths topping 33,000. over 56,000 people have recovered and the number will grow obviously. you have 22 million people unemployed. one of four businesses closed at least temporarily. there's got to be a way for this economy to get going. the president's guidelines to jumpstart the economy met with mixed reactions from some. ainsley: griff jenkins live to break down what the 3 stages are in this process. hey, griff. griff: let's take a look at the 3-phase approach. data driven by medical metrics

and not dates. if you look into this. let's show them to you. phase 1, your state has had a downward trajectory of 14 consecutive days of no infection, right? restaurants, gyms, places of worship can open but restrictions. high-risk individuals stay home. phase 2. this begins to loosens up some. schools and organized activities and nonessential travel resumes. bars start opening with diminished capacity but large gatherings of 50 plus people are avoided. let's get into phase 3. that's when things open up because employers across the country have unrestricted staffing, bars operating with increaseroom and here is what former vice president joe biden says. >> i wouldn't call it a plan. i think what he's done, he's kind of punted. he's decided that he's not -- he

doesn't have the right to make the call for the country. he doesn't give you any hard guidelines. griff: speaker pelosi slammed it that the white house vague and inconsistent doesn't make up for the president's failure, well, so when does it all begin? consult your governor as the president says. as many as 29 states may be open before may first and you can go to the white house's website. let me see. it has the requirements that you have to satisfy before you begin doing it because people want things to open but, of course, they are being cautious because it's still very much a problem. brian, ainsley and steve. steve: it is a problem, griff, thank you very much. let's bring in dr. memeht oz. he's been joining us every day during the pandemic. dr. oz, what did you make of the

president's finally unveiling to the various governors, all 50 governors l -- will have a conference call with them today as this is going to go forward because as griff said we want to go back to cool, we want to go back to work, we want life to resume as close as normal as quick as we can? dr. oz the task force did a great job crafting a plan that people can understand and follow. i will call attention to two issues. one, they had the stages moments where for two weeks they want to see if what happened worked and they don't to make sure there's no explosion of new cases, that they can put out any brush fire if it occurs. not every part of the country will do it exactly the same way because we are in different places. culturally we are different. , but the part that i'm most proud of and hard decision to make was allowing people who are more elderly or had more

importantly core morbid conditions, obesity, warning them that they are at higher risk at being hospitalized if they get the covid-19 virus. 90% of people going to hospital are in those groups. reminding them that they don't get to go at the same pace as everybody else. it's an important move. a difficult discussion and has to be had. ainsley: one of the scariest things about the virus, you don't know if you get it how it will affect you. you hear people close to death and others not affected at all living in the same household. we had dr. jarome adams on the show earlier. this is not a one-part solution. >> it's not a one-size-fits-all. we want to make sure we are meeting ppe and we have enough ventilators and increasing

testing and i don't want anyone to hear mistake me saying it's done everywhere. it's important now to think about what is going to happen in the future. ainsley: dr. oz. dr. oz 100% on target. i've spoken to governor of georgia, folks from other states, they all have different needs within their districts and let's learn from each other. if folks are figuring out a great way to making it happen in kansas, let's take advantage of that and try to scale in new york and west coast. the ability for us to learn from each other is for people to develop best practices that might work elsewhere is a wonderful opportunity. brian: right. the whole thing is we are going about this if there's no vaccine. for dr. fauci he said that would be a game-changer last night. listen. >> it would not be over to the point of our being able to not

do any mitigation until we we he a scientifically sound and effective vaccine. that does not mean that we can't approach significant degree of normality. throughout all of the phases there's a baseline level of care that we would have to be addressing and that's what we feel will be safeguarding any explosion which we hope will never happen and if it does, one of the requirements of this is to make sure we have the capability of jumping all over that. brian: so they want to have a quick reaction team should we, you know, should they open up things in ohio and something happens in dayton, so that will be -- that was something in place. i just wanted to ask you, dr. oz, you seem to know what's going on with these would be therapies and vaccine. i hear oxford is getting close.

the army came out with a report that they are testing 3 vaccines in animals in open of opening up clinic trial. what can you tell the public of what is happening on vaccines? >> well, there's dozens of vaccines candidates out there. a lot of good ideas as well. the one in oxford is an interesting concept. you know what the virus are and if you can get our body to recognize the spike protein without the virus being in your body which is one of the vaccine ideas does just that, takes the spike of protein and puts it on a benign. so dr. fauci knows very well. appreciate it it's going to take some time. i heard rumors it's in the fall

but could be next spring before we have anything. i know remdesivir is one that steve sent me a note on and it's a good idea. medication that has been used in the laboratory successfully. it's now in clinical trials here in the united states. there's good theoretical reasons why it might work. it gets into the r&a of covid-19 virus and messes up the ability and inciteful way of mucking with the virus system. steve: stock market futures are up 700 because gilead that produces that, apparently they have been using it at a hospital in chicago and people with symptoms have been helped greatly. one other thing, dr. oz, that's fascinating. one other things that the governors told the president on the conference call yesterday was we need to have more testing, but, you know, the country is not ramping up fast

enough and that's a problem around the world. in fact, right now in england the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine apparently they are training dogs because they know that certain -- that dogs have -- are trainable where they can actually smell a respiratory on somebody like malaria. we have seen dogs figure who has cancer as well. they think there's a possibility that dogs could spot people who don't have any symptoms of covid-19. dr.oz: you know, i've done shos on dogs and cancer. we flow dogs can identify folks that have malaria. not all dogs and all people. interesting idea that dogs are sensitive of odors that come out of our lungs as we exhale. dogs will pick up and be able to

identify you. i want to throw the idea that taste and smell tend to be potent predictors of whether you had covid-19. we had temperature screening, smell screening, dogs could smell you. they could smell hundreds a people a day and that might coupled together ideas so they can quickly get tested. ainsley: dr. oz, at what stage are we going to be able to go back to restaurants, in big cities like new york we have apartments and everybody goes to dinner, it's so fun, it's a way of entertaining each other but if we have to wear a mask, obviously you can't eat with a mask on, when do you think restaurants will be up and running and we are able to go back? dr. oz first of all, i don't think they will open as we have eaten. you will have disposable paper menus, those kinds of things. maybe you wear a mask until you get to your table and then you take the mask in order to eat

your food, assuming the people you're eating with are in your friend network so you're exposing yourself to each other. there's a possibility that you could contaminate each other but i wouldn't put that first. that's not the easiest thing and what i like about the task force guys is get some of the key business issues up and running. let's make sure we get that, get people comfortable again and phase into opening restaurants and then the last phase obviously the bigger public gatherings. brian: all right, dr. oz, great to have you, thank you so much. ainsley: thanks, dr. oz. brian: with the origin of coronavirus in question, lawmakers in both sides of the aisle demanding china to be accountable and is it time for the united states to redeal how it deals with that country. four star general weighs in

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wuhan but china's foreign ministry denying it was leaked from wuhan lab. is it time to reset our relationship with china because it seems as our partners are. let's bring general jack keane, fox news strategic analyst. general, this this is uncharterd waters for modern china. the world is looking at them and not buying their propaganda that they are not directly responsible for poisoning 180 countries. jack: yeah, absolutely. i mean, china paranoia surrounds public image and particularly the domestic image from their own people and that has what drives them to lie into deception and conduct disinformation campaign steered away from this time this is all backfiring on them and the world is reassaysing the relationship with china. this administration already did this when they published national security strategy back

in december 2017. i think this is the direction we are moving in. there has always been the thought that you had to cooperate with china because they are competitor to be sure but they have a large economy and they have a very huge market of 1.6 billion people, but given what has taken place in the world in the last number of years with this aggressive behavior under president xi this administration now i think other countries will see it, that china is much more than just a competitor. they are a predator, economically, geo politically, militarily while conducting massive cyber espionage to steal property, intellectual property and massive disinformation campaigns, therefore, the policy shift, brian, is the confrontation and containment and i think the rest of the world will see that and hopefully the united states will be able to partner with them as we have with the countries in the western pacific and actually

work towards those ends. wanting to confront chain when their malign behavior gets aggressive and willingness to contain what they are doing because they want to dominate the world and replace the united states. brian: so i see that dominic who is the acting prove minister of the uk says they can't be -- they do not trust the information coming out of china on this disease and emmanuel macron says there are clearly things that happened there that we don't know about. we are not alone in this and we have an opportunity. you want to seize that opportunity and reclaim in some cases our leadership in the world morally, economically, militarily, what would you advise we do? jack: well, i take the administration -- watch what secretary pompeo is doing, he's the lead on this. he's stitching unanimity with

partners and all -- allies on how to deal with china and communique where we agree about deception and recklessness that china has exhibited and actually moving this infectious disease from epidemic to worldwide pandemic. there has to be accountability for that and this nation is onto it and we are responding as a global leader to work with other nations. the proof of it will be over 5g and hauwei, because a lot of the europeans including the uk and germany want to execute that with china when we are saying it's a compromise of our national security as well as ours an we should not go there. that'll be clear evidence that they've changed their policy if they move away from that. brian: just for the record as you know, russia was boosting that this is europe's problem, look at us, we don't have this problem, they have a widespread pandemic infection and even vladimir putin says, we don't have anything to brag about.

that's pretty significant and we know how iran has been overrun. so in the big picture it's easy for a senator and congressman to say very direct angry statements but if you're the president, general, how do you handle this knowing we are still so intertwined, what's the best way to navigate the waters? jack: well, the best way clearly is to send very unequivocal messages to china from strategic perspective in concert with our allies that this behavior is not going to be tolerated and i believe that it will bring us much closer together. we are already there with our partners in the western pacific because china has been so malign and aggressive and stomping all over them, but it's mostly the europeans and they know full well that china is trying to undermine their democracies and undermine their people's trust in the government as a result of covid-19 spread. so this is a huge strategic opportunity for the united states and for the democracies of the world.

this is a fundamental clash of values and these nations now have got to stand up and be united and face that -- that clash of values. brian: so we put this in laymen's terms, we understood an aircraft carrier went right by taiwan over the weekend as soon as our aircraft carriers were disabled and what exactly did we do? jack: well, look, the aircraft carrier, the chinese aircraft carriers go through the straits on a regular basis. that was a planned exercise. that was to intimidate tie wane -- taiwan because they have been successful in dealing with covid-19 and critical of mainland china and that was a stick in the eye from taiwan to mainland china. it's not out of action.

it's scheduled maintenance. the other one is out of action due to covid-19. the united states navy presence is considerable. they are you positive and doing what they normally do. we are conducting aerial surveillance on a regular basis, satellite surveillance, all the normal things we do from an intelligence perspective and we are working with our allies in the region. this is -- this is more posturing that china was doing than anything else. they are trying to say, look at us, look how active we are in the united states and the united states is crippled. look, if the united states has ten aircraft and china has one and bringing one online, there's a huge difference in capacity. brian: you got it, indeed, perilous times. general jack keane, have a great weekend. still ahead president obama back in the spotlight finally endorsing former vice president but is he also backing his party

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steve: well, after months of silence president obama reemerged in the political arena to endorse his former vice president joe biden for president, but is he also backing the democrat's party shift to the left? new op-ed saying president obama is caving to the left of the party. karl rove to that, deputy chief of staff to george w. bush and joins us along with dnc chairman donna brazile. lady and gentleman, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: karl, what are you talking about in the op-ed? >> he praised bernie sanders at great length. said that if he barack obama today wouldn't be running on 2008 platform. joe biden was the most left-wing

nominateed for president and then he went on the praise the -- the bernie sanders' agenda basically suggesting free college and affordable care act was insufficient and we should be, we have to do something about income inequality and i just thought it was an unusual way to go about, you know, he was endorsing the winner of the primary but he was saying that we got to basically run on the agenda of the loser because he represented the -- the energy inside the democratic party. not a good way to appealing in my opinion to swing -- to swing voters. steve: well, that's a great point. so donna, why did he do that? >> i don't know why the former president made the video in that way but i thought the video was inspiring. i thought the message was

hopeful and let me just be very clear. this platform will reflect the worries and concerns. it's going to reflect this pandemic and the steps that we should take to ensure that we are never caught again without having solutions to fighting such a virus. president obama remains extremely popular and i think what he was speaking to and the constituency that most concerns democrats are young people. we want to make sure that young people on our platform and the way in which we will run this fall will not be by looking through rear-view mirror but looking forward and looking through the challenges facing the economy and the american people and the american -- steve: well, ultimately joe biden needs all the bernie sanders people to vote for him and that's probably there's the outreach. meanwhile we were talking about

karl's op-ed, donna you wrote on op-ed and talks about how the democrats are coming together in 2020 presidential race and that's good news for democrats. first of all, why do you think they are coming together? over the last year, the party has really fractured. >> no, it wasn't fractured. look, this party is expanding. we are incorporating an including people who have never been involved in politics before. what bernie had was a movement, a movement of people made up of young people, old people, people from the suburbs and people from inner cities, they want change. they don't want us to go to the status quo and want an economy that works for all people and what you're seeing lately with elizabeth warren, bernie sanders and, of course, many, many others is that they are embracing joe biden as the leader of this but they also understand this they want a seat at the table and they will have an opportunity to help shape the

agenda not just in the democratic party but the country. steve: okay. karl, do you think the democratic party is coming together like donna does? >> well, i think they are coming together but they are coming together on behalf of the left-wing agenda. i don't think the election is going to be decided by republicans or democrats only. it's going to be decided by swing voters and platform that says we are willing to take away your private health insurance, we are interested in free college, we are interested in free healthcare for illegal immigrants, we are in favor getting rid of fracking and willing to, quote, sacrifice blue-collar jobs in energy in order to achieve goal. all of the things that are parse and parcel of the bernie sanders agenda being embraced by president obama and vice president joe biden will not sell in swing states and among swing voters. take pennsylvania, do you think

that the energy revolution that they've had there that's brought about renaissance in manufacturing all based upon fracking is going to be well received? we are going to shut off the valve of prosperity, no, i don't think so. yeah, they are coming together but they are coming together on bernie sanders' terms not joe biden's agenda. steve: all right -- >> i disagree a little bit because -- yeah. we will come together for an america that works for everyone and country that have heard cries from those who suffered from the virus and we look back at the primary, we should look forward to what the future might be given the pandemic. >> keep turning left. keep the left-turn signal on. >> if it means that we are healthy, we are turning in that direction. steve: donna, before you go,

what's the name of the dog? >> zara. i understand that carroll -- karl rove has a dog. she comes on my lap. she has a new viewer. i'm lucky to have her. steve: all right. >> she's ready for her debut. steve: indeed. i think just had it. all right. have a good weekend both of you. meanwhile coming up white house economic adviser larry kudlow on the company's three-phase plan to reopen the country. open road and telling peopleoe

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>> we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time. we are starting our life again. we are starting rejuvenation of our economy again in a safe and structured and very responsible fashion. ainsley: that was the president last night or yesterday around 5:00 o'clock, 6:00 o'clock with his press briefing saying he has plan to open up america again. let's bring in larry kudlow, economic council.

good morning to you, larry. >> good morning, thank you. ainsley: thanks for coming on. how did you do it, did you model it from other countries who have done it successfully? >> well, we sure looked at other countries but we really worked carefully with top health scientists, doctors, the people that have been guiding us all along and i i want to emphasizes the president layed out in the clip this happened phase by phase, gradual transition. basically we have given a set of guidelines, a road map, if you will, which will be data dependent within 14-day periods. there has to be a trajectory, decline in trajectory of cases and infections and so forth and that's going to be the basic guidance and hospital capacity and we will have, of course, social distancing, all the things are going to go on for a while and we really have i think

been steady stream, vice president built the task force. may will be a transition month and hopefully america will get back to work. we need it but it's got to be safe and secure. brian: larry, small business protection, paycheck protection money, it's out of money. went out of money wednesday night. why not give people almost a promissory note and reject them. you know the money will get there with some back-room senate deal, so why reject these people who have already been through so much in >> well, look, the loan itself is a promissory note. i don't know why the congress isn't getting going and just replenishing this $250 billion

when we flagged it ahead of time because the program has been a terrific success, absolutely terrific success and secretary mnuchin and i and others have said it's been eaten up rapidly, let's go congress, what are you waiting for? unemployment insurance claims, brian, as i'm sure you saw 22 million in the last 4 weeks, come on, 13 and a half percent of the workforce is unemployed. it's not because of what they've done. it's not because of bad business decisions, it's not because workers are slacking off, they are not. it's because of the coronavirus, so what is the congress waiting for? let's get going. this thing should be done in a couple of hours and a voice vote today. steve: well, you know, larry, because there's so many stories about the paycheck protection program and companies get to keep the money unless they get rid of employees so it would be either a grant or a loan. i think that has confused some

of the people who wound up getting their stimulus checks this past week because i had two different people say to me, i got the 1200 bucks, but i'm not going to spend it because i have to pay it back next year and i told them, no, that's not how it works, you don't have to pay it back. it's not a loan. it is money in your pocket to get through this rough patch. >> yeah, well, steve, you're mixing and matching if i may. the ppp program for small businesses payroll protection, that's direct checks. i thought you were describing the direct checks for 1200 bucks. steve: people are hearing so many different stories about it. they have confused the stimulus check with the program for businesses. my point is i think some people out there got the check and didn't realize they don't have to pay it back. >> well, i don't know the check will not be paid back, by the way, most of the small business

payer protection loans will be forgiven, so i think both are working. look, those checks direct deposit and other mechanisms, the direct checks, they are going out. we started it a couple of weeks, i thought that was pretty good. complicated program. when you look at this thing all in, i mean, we are just trying to help folks get through basic daily necessities, individuals and families and their kids are home. you know the whole story as well as i do. the whole point is we are helping 175 million people. it's the largest financial rescue package in american history. it's basically a main street middle class, blue-collar package and those are the folks who are getting it. the money is flowing. i don't have much hair up here. if i did, i would be scratching and i can't imagine why congress

will not replenish this program, it's fantastic. now is the time. as we move through the president's guidelines to reopen the economy, as we move through the data-driven, the safety programs working with the governors who have been terrific, mike pence has been terrific running this thing, we will get to the other side and we will resume what was one of the strongest economies in american history. that's what i want to get back to. i want to get back to the incentives from tax cuts and deregulation and the energy and good trade deals, but let's just get through the next bunch of weeks and we will come out okay, i firmly believe that. ainsley: okay, thank you so much, larry for joining us and hard work. >> appreciate it. thanks. ainsley: we appreciate you. coming up next fox news living room concert but first let's check with ed henry to find out what's happening in the top of the hour.

brian: i did. that was 2 and a half hours ago. [laughter] ed: love you, brian, have a good weekend. ainsley: keeping up with the jones. ed: jobless claims tsunami, 22 million americans out of work in just a month. senator john thune to talk about program to help small businesses, good news for 401(k) maybe doing a whole lot of better after the president unveiled plan to reopen the economy. liz claman joining us and backlash against china and protests in states like michigan over draconian stay at home orders. we will talk to a sheriff saying that governor whitmer is overstepping her authority. sandra and me 49...50!

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album. first one dropped in january but first he will join us for "fox & friends" living room concert. good morning to you. >> good morning, how are y'all doing? ainsley: we are doing well. thankfully we are all healthy and we all have our jobs, tell me about you, how are you getting through this time and tell us about your album. >> to be honest, i'm loving this. it's a tough time for a lot of people. financially it's crushing me but forced me to slow down, forced me to just not go and i'm on the go all of the time so it's a different time in my life but i'm getting used to it, i'm enjoying it. it ain't going to last that long so i will take it for what it is. ainsley: i know that you dropped 7 songs in the first part of the album in january and did really well. you've had so many hits, eyes on you on country radio, i love that song. >> thank you. ainsley: what are you performing today? >> i will be doing part one lonely if you are. it's time when people need

music. maybe next time on herely pay part 2. ainsley: okay, may 15th, we will be ready to get that album. we can't wait to hear it. go for it. ♪ ♪ [music] ♪ ♪ >> could be middle of the week or weekend! ♪

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>> trace, that was amazing. your music is getting us through this tough time for our country. thank you for everything you do. >> will keep rolling and will be back to normal before we know

it. >> that's right. thank you very much for joining us. that's going to wrap it up. we'll be back next week. we are going to get through this together even though we are apart. have a good weekend, see you on monday. >> sandra: the white house unveiling its three-phase plan to restart the economy. saying states with low coronavirus numbers could open by may 1st or sooner. good morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> ed: i'm ed henry. movie theaters, restaurants, and some sports venues could reopen but with strict social distancing measure still in place. elective surgery could also resume but schools would stay closed at high risk individuals should stay home. president trump emphasizing a return to normalcy comes one very careful step at a time. >> we can begin the next front in our war which we are calling opening up