>> we continue to see a number of positive signs that the virus has passed its peak nationwide we now conducted over four million tests as our experts said yesterday, america's testing capability and capacity is fully sufficient to begin opening up the country totally. indeed our system is by far the most robust and advanced anywhere in the world. pete: president trump praising steps taken in the american fight against coronavirus. jillian: some states gearing up to restart their economies. texas and vermont allowing some businesses to reopen tomorrow.

griff: in south carolina and retail stores and some beaches are expected to reopen sometime next week. i'm griff jenkins in washington, pete and jillian up in new york. good morning guys. jillian: good morning. pete: give jenkins is fired up. you heard him before the show. he is raring, ready to go. we have a great show for this morning. governor asa hutchinson, republican from arkansas. the governor will be with us. devin nunes and mark johnson and dr. siegel and dr. saphier. they will give us texture and flavor to this moment. talking about how the spread has been slowed although it is different across the country. you're seeing protesters taking to the streets, saying hey, time to reopen. griff: those protests here in the annapolis area is only 30 minutes from d.c. maryland, one of the hardest hit

in this area, governor hogan, a republican governor, trying to do what he can to protect the safety of his residents. but you see all the cars are lined up i heard for miles in annapolis, yesterday. voicing their opinion. they are upset. they want their constitutional rights heard, guys. jillian: absolutely. this scene is playing out across the country in multiple scenes and multiple states. you will see protests across the nation. people are struggling, want to get back to work. there is a way to do it with a fair balance of getting businesses back open where you can social distance, where you can take into account all the protocals we have to do. in addition to still watching the health factor in this. to watch to see where we are with the vaccines. to listen to what our experts are telling us. these two things combined are what is going to be important. the last thing anybody wants is to get back to work too early, to have to go through this

again. there is certainly a balance. pete: that is what the protesters were saying. there were protests texas, nevada, new hampshire. some. protesters spoke to the media yesterday. here is what they said. >> they need economic engine up and running. if this happens a month or two. we'll have not have a city to come back too. >> tired of the state shut down. if i ban to go to church on sunday, but i can go to work at las vegas convention center, five days aweek, eight hours a day. it is absurd to think that's okay but shut everything else down. >> we're here for our freedoms. we need to open up california. people need to get back to work. >> we feel like our freedoms are being taken from us. pete: we missed california and salt lake city. first freedoms.

why are you arbitrarily shutting down places of worship, ability to access the second amendment, right to assembly in some cases. there was a woman aren'ted. cite notice new jersey attempting to organize one of these which feels very un-american to a lot of people. jillian: i mentioned there will be rallies and protests continuing throughout the country. see here scheduled between april 19th and may 2nd. rallies across the country. i think sometimes you need to take a step back here. i personally have not had anyone in my family or close circle impacted by this i know people who i love dearly who lost family members to this. if you haven't experienced it i think you have one idea in your mind. if you have experienced it, i know people who lost multiple loved ones. people need to step back for a second. what is the best way to do this, get all these things done at once in compliance with the rules we need to, in compliance

with what health officials are telling us. being able to be smart, getting business and economy back open so people can get back to work. griff: that is important, jillian. the guidelines released by white house, before you get to phase one, you have to have a 14 period of downward trajectory in cases. more than 20 states, i believe that 24 believe they were did i for for phase one, reopening, a gating criteria. at same time live free or die principle is the corner stone of our country. president trump saying some of the governors went a little far with putting these restrictions in place. here is what the president said at the white house. >> and i just think that some of the governors have gotten carried away. you know, we have a lot of people that don't have to be told what they're doing. they have been really doing everything we asked them. we have a few states where frankly i spoke to the governors

and i could have gotten them to do, if i wanted to do what woe have been perhaps politically correct, but they have been doing incredibly anyway. pete: i think the president is speaking to the balance you're referring to jillian. you can do both things at the same time. take very seriously impact this had on tens of thousands of americans at this point. also realize, every job, every business is essential to the person who has it. there is a huge double standard right now that i'm hearing from people everywhere. so the big box stores, targets, walmarts, your home depots, they're open selling all the stuff that the mom-and-pop stores which are smaller, maybe three, four people on staff, who could easily social distance and manage the amount of people in there, those stores are told to be closed. what about the livelihoods of those people who sell things, retail stores, south carolina, opening up retail stores after two weeks. that is because in south carolina they can do that.

when governors don't apply common sense and they're draconian, especially about religious worship. the president pointed out will there be a double standard on ramadan versus easter, we'll watch that closely. people start to get their sire up. feel like at local level common sense is not being applied. jillian: nancy pelosi was asked about this, people taking this out to the streets and protesting. here is what she had to say. >> people are taking to the streets, pushing back against some of the more stringent restrictions in some states. can you understand why they're doing that? >> no, not really because what we have to do is, is shelter in place. that is really the answer. testing, tracing, treatment, shelter in place. and i do think that it is unfortunate you but you know people will do what they do but the fact is, we're all impatient. we all want out but what they're

doing is really unfortunate. pete: is there more, a more out of touch person in american politics than nancy pelosi? as she stands in front much her 24,000-dollar ice cream freezer and talks about, and stonewalls the fund for the ppp, another $300 billion that is needed for small businesses because they can't get it, she then doesn't understand why people might look at these governors and wonder why the measures are so heavy-handed. not a good look foreher. griff: she has a challenge now, she is in control of the house of representatives and she obviously held out on phase, the third stimulus package. now this need for a fourth one, looks like concessions will have to be made. as small businesses continue to make tough decisions, many going out of business without the new 250 billion being added to ppp, picking and choosing who to offend doesn't seem like a path to bringing everybody together because it will take unity to

get these big spending bills across the finish line. pete: that's true. jillian: i will just end with this. every day matters. some businesses at this point will not come back. for those businesses on the line right now, every single day in this battle matters. pete: very true. we have a live look at capitol hill where lawmakers inching closer to fourth coronavirus relief package as griff mentioned. giving struggling aid to small businesses. david joins us from arlington, virginia, as bipartisan efforts are underway. david, good morning. reporter: griff was mentioning ppp, $200 billion for the paycheck protection program. house speaker nancy pelosi says congress very close to a deal when they get back. president trump is calling on members of congress to call back as soon as possible to replenish the fund, $250 billion for specifically for the ppp,

paycheck protection program. for the employers to keep employees on their rolls. it ran out when the small business administration reached 359 billion-dollar lending limit as part of the cares act. >> we have already processed nearly 350 approximately dollars to 1.6 million small businesses across the nation to keep american workers on the payroll. so we're asking the democrats to get it done. this should be bipartisan. this should be 100% vote. reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi in a letter to colleagues wrote, quote, i am pleased to report we have been engaged in bipartisan negotiations on our interim legislation and our progress is encouraging. we are also working on cares 2 to prepare for the path ahead to support the lives and livelihoods of the american people. recognize to key to opening our economy, testing treatment,

contact tracing and quarantine, end quote that from house speaker nancy pelosi. she says we're very close to a deal. members of congress could be voting on this according to sources in congress and administration either tomorrow or tuesday. you can hear more from the house speaker with chris wallace on "fox news sunday." pete: she will be on today. david, appreciate it. we have great guests talking about the possibility of the bill being passed. i want to talk about what the president talked about yesterday which is china. we will bring you new information a german newspaper pointing the finger at china, pointing who is at responsible. president had words on it yesterday. watch. >> we should be back at work doing the work of making sure that paycheck protection program has the resources it needs to help small businesses and help families but got all the task forces meeting. one at the white house the vice president overseeing doing a great job. other task forces around the country meeting but the one task force that is supposed to meet

to address big issues that face our nation is the united states congress and we're not in session and the speaker of the house says we're not even coming back into session until may 4th. >> well, if they were knowingly responsible certainly. if it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. but if they were knowingly responsible yeah, there should be consequences. you're talking about, potentially lives like nobody's seen since "1917". i think you have numerous countries waiting to see whether or not sleepy joe wins because if sleepy joe won, they own our country. for years i've heard by 2019 china will catch us. there is only one problem. trump got elected in 20 sift. pete: only one problem, griff, the second clip was the right one. your thoughts? griff: the facts are china knew about it, knew about the spread. knew it was human-to-human transmissible, in a rate we

haven't seen in modern history, lied about it. continued to deny origins of it. instead blaming u.s. for politicizing it. when you talk about accountability, whether there should be consequences, you only look as you mention in germany's largest newspaper, the editor-in-chief there calling on china to come clean, taking them head on. also germany's government, india, uk, taiwan, there is a global pressure campaign coming right now to get china to come clean and let's not forget the w.h.o. who appears to at best look the other way, at worst, aided and abetted in the spread. jillian: look we'll have much more about this coming up in the next few hours. when there is coverup of that magnitude, you have to figure out what needs to be done. let's talk about other headlines we're following. we again with this overnight a texas police officer is shot and killed in an ambush attack. the suspect opening fire on officers as they responded to a domestic dispute at an apartment

complex. two other officers were shot. they're undergoing surgery in a hospital in critical condition. the officer who has not been identified is the 15th cop killed in the line of duty this year. hospitals are scrambling to handle an unforeseen crisis of dialysis machines shortages. "new york times" reporting that hospitals are in dire need of the machines as they see a surge in patients dealing with kidney failure. doctors estimate, 20 to 40% of coronavirus patients in icu suffer from kidney failure and need emergency dialysis. new york city mayor bill de blasio is urging people to snitch on their neighbors who are not social distancing. >> when you see a crowd, when you see a line that is not distanced, when you see a supermarket too crowded, anything, all you got to do is take the photo, and put the location with it and bang, send a photo like this and we will make sure that enforcement comes right away. jillian: people can send the photo to 311692.

mayor de blasio vowing to take action against defenders including a 1000-dollar fine. those are the headlines poet pete now he wants us to spy on each other. coming up, the wuhan lab under investigation for the g.coronavirus outbreak. can we believe them? of course not. ♪

>> could have been stopped in china before it started. and it wasn't. the whole world is suffering because of it. if they were knowingly responsible certainly. if they, if it was a mistake a mistake is a mistake but if they were knowingly responsible, then, yeah, there should be consequences. pete: president trump suggests china could face consequences over coronavirus they were knowing responsible? as a representative of the wuhan lab speaking publicly for the first time, telling chinese state broadcaster, as we said early on no way this virus came

from us. we have a strict code of research so we are confident of that our next guest says it is time is not now to forget the true nature of the virus. jim, thanks for being with us, this morning they say no chance it could have come from them. >> well it almost certainly did and the question whether it came from the wuhan lab whether it came from another source, they covered it up once it started and that's the true crime against humanity. they knew it was human to houma transmissible. they hid it from the world. they disappeared the evidence and disappeared the doctors and take away our chance potentially stopping it from becoming a global pandemic. pete: what should the president do to make them bay because we know the evil nature of this

regime? >> they can't be trusted and we can't disentangle ourselves from china as we would like to. secretary mnuchin said we should help u.s. companies that do work in china to come back here, come back to the united states this is perfect "art of the deal" moment for president trump. he has got all the leverage because the world knows this is china's problem. he should use that to make some massively good for us, trade deals with the chinese. pete: jim, put us inside of the head of the chinese communist party. what is the play behind covering up, disappearing scientists, delaying letting the world know, denying on the back end, even all the evidence is against you, what are the communists trying to do? >> avoid blame. you know the nice thing about an authoritarian regime is you can do things like make a city disappear. they more or less disappeared wuhan for a while. they shut it down. they ran people away. and what they did was use their authoritarian, totalitarian

powers to shut down media, shut down any ability to report and they tried to hide it hoping it would go away. unfortunately for the world it didn't and now it is time to hold them and global organizations like the w.h.o. that helped them, that colluded to hide them from the world, hold them accountable in some sort of tribunal or let's fire the wholeup of the w.h.o. and start over. pete: absolutely i could not agree more. now is precisely the time to bring all that manufacturing, all the business home here, and follow the abcs anywhere about china. jim hansen, thank you very much, for your insight and your service. we appreciate it. >> good to be with you, pete. pete: got it. this is not stepping a emergency room nurse from bringing family mem which is to the bedside of covid-19 patients. that nurse joins us with her that nurse joins us with her extraordinary effort

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♪. griff: back now with quick headlines. vice president mike pence honoring nearly 1000 cadets honoring from the air force academy. this is the first virtual a graduation ceremony. the u.s. air force saluting medical workers in an incredible way. watch. eight f-16 fighting falcons flying over medical facilities in colorado honoring those on the coronavirus front lines. for more inspiring stories like this, visit foxnews.com/america together. jillian. jillian: thank you, griff. an emergency room nurse brings comfort to her covid-19 patients one photo at a time.

boston nurse gina barbieri is printing family photos for patients to keep at the bedside while under a no visitor policy. she is a e.r. nurse at lowell general hospital. >> hi. jillian: tell me how you started this idea. this is really unique and i imagine bringing so many smiles to the patients faces. >> i think we're all kind of going through it with all this, all the health care workers on the front line, trying to get creative for the patients when it is not necessarily business as usual. so really what systemed it i had a very critical patient, actually a week ago, that i was last one to spend time with her and while that's a truth that many of us are facing all over the country in every hospital, just really touched me and i was really feeling the weight of the situation and a, actually old friend from high school reached out this week and was just offering up thanks for

everything that we're going through. after we started talking i found out his father was in our icu. i offered to bring in pictures of his family. i swung by the house. picked them up from the mailbox and brought them in. decided this could really help a lot of other people as well. jillian: you got a printer. you set up a new email address. you said, hey, if you have a family member at the hospital, send me the photos and i will gladly print them out and deliver them, right? >> yes. that's what i've been doing. jillian: what have the patients said? >> you know, again an interesting time. i have only personally got to hand over one of them. i've been bringing the envelopes with the printed pictures to the units that they're all on and giving them to the staff there to bring in because what trying to be really careful about limiting our exposure as much as we can. jillian: what is it like on a day-to-day basis, gina? >> it's, you know it is hard to say. it is a different work flow. there is constant changing of

information and policies and procedures. our hospital has been incredible of supporting us and helping us get the right information to keep us safe but you know, we work together as a team as we always do. we're getting through it. jillian: what have the family members said to you? they can't go in and visit their loved ones in the icu, it has to be devastating for so many people? >> yeah. this has been, this project helped me see the other side of it. i've been on our side of the phone calls saying they can't come in, trying to update the families as much as we can but now i'm getting messages, just people feeling like they're finally getting to do something. i think they feel like they have a tiny bit of control in taking care of their family members. one message yesterday that really made all of this worth it and, it was a daughter of a woman who sent me pictures to bring in to her husband and the daughter told me it was the first time her mother had smiled

and had good news and really touched me, made all of this really -- jillian: really gets you. pictures for patients at lowell general.org. that is where people if they have loved ones in that hospital and icu, they can send you their pictures there. gina, thanks for what you're doing, and for joining us. >> thank you. jillian: of course. coming up protesters across the country call on their governors toe roll back stay-at-home orders arkansas asa hutchinson has been taking heat for not rolling out a more aggressive lockdown. what is his plan to reopen? he joins us live next.

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♪. [horns honking] pete: welcome back. protesters across the country call on their governors to roll back stay-at-home orders and lift lockdowns, arkansas governor asa hutchinson has been taking heat for not rolling out a more aggressive lockdown. letting people use common sense. instead imposing other restrictions that close businesses such as gyms and casinos. jillian: he has since announced formation of a economic recovery task force. what is arkansas's plan to reopen? griff: governor hutchinson joins us live this morning. governor, thank you for joining us. we hear early may is your target in the state of arkansas.

you're one of only a handful that never issued a stay at homerd order. what is the plan for arkansas? >> we issued a directive, goal, by may 4 we will lift some of the restrictions. we tried to recognize from day one we have got to have a balance. we have got to make sure we close some of the person-to-person businesses which we've done, barbershops, gymnasiums, things like that. we hope we can lift some restrictions after may 4. but we haven't had a complete shelter in place perspective because we know that we're in this for the long haul. and you cannot simply do and it would shut down the economy over a very, very long period of time and put hundreds of thousands of more out of work. so we tried to maintain the balance but now we have our economic recovery task force combined with our medical team that is in our public health team and it is looking at how we

can convince consumers you can be safe going out because the consumers, the public, are not going to go into restaurants, they're not going into their places of employment unless they can people like they're been safe. and so we have taken this very, very seriously because when people die, it is highly contagious. we want to make sure that we put in the public health requirements that are absolutely essential. so we take it seriously you about we also recognize that america and arkansas needs to do business. we got to balance our economic sustainability and jobs with the public health requirements. i think we can do that. we got a lot of work to do between now and may 4th. jillian: governor at the top of the show, i was saying what you were saying, there is a balance to be had as different states start to reopen, reopening businesses listen to proper protocols, social distancing, wear a mask if you have to do in

the work place. taking into account people need the economy open and they need to work and we need to follow the guidelines. what do the guidelines look like for you in your state? >> in terms of our guidelines we do encourage wearing a mask if you cannot socially distance. i tried to set that right example by wearing a mask whenever i am out. when ever you look at the gatherings, it is restricted to 10 or fewer in terms of a social gathererrings in the workplace we're putting in the same requirements in the workplace. it is not requirements. it is, businesses want to stay open. so they want to keep their customer, the public safe and so they're putting in these requirements of checking temperature, making sure the counters are cleaned more frequently and, if you go into our supermarkets and our stores you will see they're putting limitations on how many people can be there at the same time. this is what i expect the economic recovery task force to

work on. it us not just how to rejuvenate business but how to do it in a safe way, including sports and churches because, we're going to worry next fall about a relapse of this, about new surge. so we want to prepare for the long term on this. that is what this task force is designed to do. pete: governor, other states similar to yours, some with more cases, some with less, made the decision to tell the residents to stay at home. they have closed more businesses than you have there in arkansas. why have you taken this approach? is it tied to herd immunity? is it tied to common sense? why did you say, hey, in our state we'll stay open but just do it with common sense? >> well, first of all, every state should have flexibility, i respect every governor who made a different decision because they did it for their state but in terms of arkansas i think shelter-in-place order would have led to confusion.

it is confusion you're seeing on the streets of america right now. why is our business closed or why we restricted from doing this when others can go out and continue on in their business? so it is confusion. but then, secondly, it's the long term. how long can america stay sheltered? that is not in our dna over a long, long period of time. i like people making good decisions. we educate them on the public health requirements and the risk of coronavirus. and so the elderly, the vulnerable, they're sheltering in place. they're not going out. griff: quickly, governor, almost out of time, you talk about people making good decisions who is heading up your task force? >> stuart walton. who is a entrepreneur. he is heading up our recovery task force and our public health director, dr. nate smith guides public health team. we have both working at the same

time. we are delighted for industry leaders coming together to help us on the recovery tack force. pete: governor asa hutchinson, thanks for breaking it down for us and spending time on the show. >> good to be with you today. pete: some governors leading the way. turning now to the headlines, additional ones, contamination at the cdc laboratory may have delayed the coronavirus response in the u.s. "washington post" said quality control issue delayed the agency getting tests out because they were showing false-positive results. the cdc is enhancing the quality control. always consider the source. federal judge blocked kansas from limiting church gatherings. the judge ruled laura kelly violated first amendment of gatherers of 10 or more people. kelly insists her order was not about religion but a public health crisis. passing the bill of rights.

couple serves up the stimulus check to workers at the arizona diner. >> i did cry but you know, somebody would think of us like that. it is a beautiful gesture. pete: the couple helping chase's diner with a check more than $1000. the money being split between employees. for more inspiring stories like that one, visit foxnews.com,/america together. very generous. griff: what a touching story. we have to find out were they promised as a result of their generosity free milkshakeses? that milkshake looked amazing every time they go in there. could have a benefit. pete: won't hurt for the future. jillian: griff, on that. i need a full investigation. griff: you got it. jillian: rick reichmuth is shaking your head like you want a milkshake. yesterday you were following storms in the south. how are they looking? rick: looking a little worse than we thought yesterday the threat for severe weather.

78 confirmed tornadoes in couple day period over easter now the same problem. there is warm air across down parts of the south. that is really the only spot where there is real warm air in place. that is enough warm air and enough humidity. here are the temperatures right now but the humidity is what is in place, the dewpoint, how much moisture in the area. that is enough moisture in the temperature we'll see storms start to fire early across parts of texas, louisiana and throughout the day it pulls off towards the east. that red bullseye is the biggest threat for large, long-lasting tornadoes that could be destructive like last week especially with all the fatalities. same set-up in the exact same place. we'll time this out for you? we'll take off the area we're watching. take a look how the radar plays here. starts earlier. we'll watch this go all day long with series of storms going

across the same area across number of areas. morning hours across coastal areas of carolinas a lot of rain with it. flooding threat anywhere you see the red we're talking about rainfall four to six inches. that will cause significant flooding especially because all of the storm last week. another sunday, rough conditions to get through. have a plan in place to know what you will do if the storm towers send off alarms for you. you need to know exactly where to go to be safe in the storm, guys. griff: rick, thank you very much. still ahead more than 700,000 people across the u.s. tested positive for coronavirus we're also learning more about the death rate. it may be much lower than previously thought. dr. nicole saphier breaks down the findings, and warns we cannot underestimate the virus coming up.

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a couple quick headlines for you. beer could soon lose its physician? the supply of carbon dioxide running low amid the pandemic, sparking shortage concerns of beer, soda, sellter water. ethanol production, part of nation's gas supply, sharply dropping with more than half of u.s. plants remaining idle. i think beer will keep the physician. optimistic. hallmark is helping americans thank essential workers on the coronavirus front lines. the company is giving away two million thank you cards saying showing their way of appreciate shun to the heroes. hallmark is giving away three packs of cards to anyone that registers. griff, get your beer now if you can. griff: thank you, pete. we're learning more about mortality rate. >> on per capita basis our mortality rate is far lower than other nations. >> they were able to decrease the number of cases so that in general most of the metro areas

never had an issue of complete crisis care of all of their hospitals in a region. and so you can see our face fatality rate is about half to a third of many of the other countries. griff: this as new data out of stanford reveals the death rate of the disease may actually be lower than previously thought. here to discuss it, fox news medical contributor dr. nicole saphier. dr. saphier. this is interesting news that we're learning. explain why it would be lower. >> well, first of all, griff, i have to leave and go get more bubble water. i live on that every day. if we're running out seltzer drinks, that might be a problem. i touched on this yesterday with neil cavuto. the stanford team did random testing of 3800 people. they drived through. pricked their finger, just checked people for antibodies.

didn't matter if they had an infection, not had an infection. they wanted to know a random sampling of the population who potentially is exposed to the virus we do not know about and the results were astounding but actually not so surprising. it is something we've been saying. the bottom line much larger population has already been infected with this virus and recovered from this viral infection. not surprising when we've been saying 25 to 50% of people who contract the virus would likely be asymptomatic if had mild symptoms at all. what their data showed, even though they had 1000 confirmed cases in their 130,000 population, they think there is 50 to 85 times that number of people who have already potentially recovered from this viral infection. so what does that mean? that means what we've been saying all along. that we truly believe the case fatality rate of this viral infection will be much lower than being reported across the world. we have to think, when we look at other reported case fatality

rates in italy being over 10%, china continues to fluctuate but always been three to 4% of sorts the reason the united states continuously reported a lower fatality rate because we have one of the best health care systems in the world and our country has done an incredible job at this point of testing over 4 million people. we had a more legitimate and accurate idea of how this virus is. that being said, griff, it is really important not to relax at this point saying i told you so. bottom line, over 33,000 americans have died in the last two months from this virus. last year, 34,000 americans died from the flu virus but that was from august to april last year. so think about that. if over 33,000 americans have died in such a short amount of time, this virus is still wildly contagious. it is probably still a little bit more fatal than the flu. we don't have a proven treatment

or a vaccine yet. so that is why the social distancing measures are still in place. but at least we can breathe a little bit of a sigh of relief knowing we'll get through the virus. as soon as we get the vaccine and treatment it could can be less deadly than the flu if we get it back. griff: your new book coming out, launching on tuesday, make america healthy again. i've been following dr. saphier, some of your tweets to remind us it can't just be cheeseburgers and beer every night. we need a healthy lifestyle. there are other problems facing americans health as well. >> that's right, griff. thanks so much for mentioning it. one of the things we're seeing with covid-19, the people most vulnerable are the elderly and those with chronic disease. well the united states unfortunately leads the world with chronic yet preventable illness. how do we gotten the rein in some of this preventable illness?

our health systems would not be overrun. we wouldn't see such a crisis in the beginning. we have to not loosen enthusiasm when this is done. make sure we rein in some of the preventable chronic illness. griff: we have to leave it there, dr. saphier. thank you. "make america healthy again." don't miss it on tuesday. back with more "fox & friends" in a moment. and we're taking extra steps, like no contact delivery, to ensure it. a lot of folks ask me why their dishwasher doesn't get everything clean. i tell them, it may be your detergent... that's why more dishwasher brands recommend cascade platinum... ...with the soaking, scrubbing and rinsing built right in. for sparkling-clean dishes, the first time.

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♪. jillian: good sunday morning and welcome back. amid the pandemic nurses are working round-the-clock caring for the sick but sometimes they need a little help. for one texas nurse a helping hand came from a stranger, who loaned her his car after her car wouldn't start so she could make it to the shift at the hospital. that nurse joins us now. thank you for being here. >> hi. >> thank you for everything you're doing by the way. tell me what happened the

morning of april 10th? >> i went out to my car to go to work and my car wouldn't start. my battery was very dead. you know with newer cars, everything was electrical, my battery was dead for my car's door wouldn't open for me to jump-start it. i flagged down a gentleman driving around in the parking garage, waving at him, looking all sad, he offered to jump-start my car, realized it was a bigger problem because my door wouldn't open. after trying several things i was finally on the phone with roadside assistance people came to under lock my car which would make me late. he looked at me in my scrubs so you're a nurse? >> i said yeah. he said are you going to be late? >> i said, well i'm already late. what is another hour. you know while i was rating on the roadside assistance. and, he kind of thought about

it. i know this is strange, but i've been in quarantine for a week or so with my wife. we're not going anywhere today. i don't have anything to do would you like to drive my other car to work? he handed me his car keys. after a lot of, i don't know, i just can't, we finally went over to his vehicle and, he said all right. here you go. i drove it to work. jillian: just the fact that he recognized you in your scrubs, that you needed to get to work so you could help other people. i know you're not treating covid patients you are helping with the resources and employee health command center. you're giving employees who are helping with patients every bit of details they need to know to do their job. this is just really incredible when you have someone coming to your aid like that. what did it mean to you? >> it meant a lot. it recognized, it showed he recognized the fact that it was more than just me. that it was potentially a patient on the other side of that waiting for the nurse to be

there. jillian: absolutely. >> potentially, family members counting on somebody to be on side of their loved one. jillian: we are out of time. i'm so sorry. thank you so much for sharing that story. it is incredible. thank you. >> thank you. jillian: coming up "the new york times" claiming republicans criticism of china and their handling of the coronavirus is largely because of the 2020 election. . lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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pete: good news indeed. it comes as americans protest stay-at-home orders from coast to coast demanding they get back to work. dozens of protests are scheduled for the next several weeks. yes. there were protests across the country yesterday, new jersey, austin, texas, indiana. we welcome to the 7:00 hour on this fox news on sunday. joined by jillian and griff. jillian: good morning. griff: good morning. pete: we have devin nunes, representative mike johnson from the state of indiana. his state was hit hard and mike johnson. don't go anywhere. griff: interesting to talk to lawmakers, particularly congressman nunes about the states looking to start the phase one of reopening. california was one of the earliest hit. they seem to be making some progress. gaff vin newsom who worked with

the president certainly doing what they can. this phase one has one basic criteria. that you have to be 14 days of declining cases. looks like california may not be one of those right away. we'll ask nunes why it is. meanwhile 24 states are ready. jillian: looking at ideas for phase one of individuals. that includes vulnerable individuals sheltering in place still, maximizing physical distance when in public keeping in mind the social distancing we've all been doing for a while. soaksizeing in groups of 10 people should be avoided, greater than 10 people should be avoided, minimizing non-essential travel. there are different ideas for phase one for individuals, for employers, for specific types of employers. employers encouraging telework, minimizing none essential travel and special accommodations for vulnerable personnel this goes to what i've been safing this whole time, guys, a lot of people need to get back to work. the economy relies on it. they need it individually. people are suffering. businesses are closing.

some will not reopen at this point. everyone else kind of on the verge right now they have to get back to work but we just have to be safe about it. pete: that last one specifics type of employers is sticky one. this is just phase one. schools would remain closed. for people who don't have child care options that's difficult. you're still limiting access to hospitals and nursing facilities physical distancing protocols. you can do elective surgeries again. there are a lot of hospitals, small hospital the, big hospitals, not performing elective surgeries. doctors and nurses are being furloughed. they're not working right now because there is no business for them. of course retail stores. gyms might even reopen. jillian: which is a bit surprising to me. i don't know the gym idea is a little bit surprising thome. pete: you can socially distance and sanitize. every, every, any distinction will be a bit arbitrary but i, i think the fact is that is just

phase one. if you can get to phase one you read those criteria, it feels like there is a lot of common sense a lot of room for latitude and businesses to open up as long as they adhere to the masks and social distancing which gives people a lot of hope. if you have got that many states in phase one or close we could be closer than people think. jillian: it is regional. every region, every state will be different. griff: you raise a good point, jillian, pete as well, these are recommendations, guidelines given to the states for governors, counties, states to decide. larry kudlow, white house economic advisor weighed in last night on the valuations taking place. listen. >> we want 14-day declines, within every 14-day period you have got to see a decline in volume of new cases. testing is very importance. surveillance testing, screening, diagnostic testing and of course best practices got to continue

throughout the entire process, right? you will have social distancing for quite some time. the downward movement continues. eventually go from flattening to adjusting downward to absolute suppression. that covers three phases, hopefully, and prayer fully we'll go back to work. pete: talking about normal life. gatherers of 10 people or left as we just mentioned but if you're responsible distancing at church service, there will be a lot of pressure to say more than 10 people in our congregation. the cadets at the air academy yesterday spaced out in a big crowd. things like that people expect going forward. jillian: we've been talking about rallies and protests happening the last few days across the country. there are a lot scheduled that are upcoming across the country as well. you're taking a look at video from austin, texas, yesterday. this is a scene that played out all across the country. if you look at the map, you will see protests upcoming at

multiple states all across the country. texas governor greg abbott mentioned that you know, he sim thighses with the need to get the economy open. listen to this. >> for these protesters, i sympathize with them. they're frustrated. because all of these forecasts about what a dire situation texas was going to be in have not come about. all these people have been sidelined. all these people have been unemployed. more than a million people have filed for unemployment claims in the state of texas. so they are rightfully frustrated way things are. my goal is to make sure i do my part to help these people get back to work in a very safe way. pete: contrast that with what speaker nancy pelosi said on, the clip we played last hour which we're sparing you from this hour where she doesn't get it. she doesn't understand the protesters. just stay at home. that is easy for people with lots of money and job security to do, stay at home, sift and wait. if you're livelihood is dependent on a shop or store, or

a restaurant, sitting and waiting every day as you have said, jillian, every week, every moment is potentially a lot of paycheck. it is closer to bankruptcy. when you look at the big bock stores, adding hundreds of thousands of employees, walmart just added 50,000 jobs, but your small store can't stay open, that is a picking awinner versus a loser in a environment where you can socially distant, to allow to be open again. jillian: to griff's point, every day does matter that matters. a lot of small bits owners they still haven't been able to get the money, the loans they applied for. a lot have applied. a lot are in limbo. a lot are approved. they're still waiting. there is no money at this point. griff: we would have likely had some indication this morning that there was some agreement between democrats, republicans, and secretary mnuchin, maybe that comes out later today. we'll start monday of this week without any progress and people

are upset with that. people don't want inaction. pete: they don't want games, they don't want games, they want congress to re-fund the ppp program. to get loans to their people as opposed to filing unemployment and leave the payrolls all together. you brought our attention in "the new york times" has you all kinds of fired up about it. jillian: all fired up. griff: what we talk about what we know is that china has not been forthcoming and likely has been lying an continues to this day to tell us about this deadly virus the most contagious in modern history that originated in wuhan, china. today in "the new york times," a paper i almost read every day, you have this headline, gop blames china but trump goes off message. this particular article struck me. republicans particularly believe elevating china as an archenemy coupled with spread of virus

panned growing animosity beijing may be best way to salvage difficult election. i find it unbelievable, blames republicans for sinister election ploy, we know documented by fact, china had they given us this information they had and withheld perhaps thousands of lives could be spared, onehundreds of thousands of people wouldn't have gotten sick. pete: president describes "the new york times" and others as enemy of the people. ultimately they're the leaders of the blame america first crowd. if this was a democrat in the white house they would be the first ones saying that china is to blame. instead it is donald trump who they hate so much they will say it is partisan to point the finger at china. i bet if president trump had not closed travel from china early on "the new york times" would be saying he should have done it. whatever he is done is wrong according to them. thankfully a new chorus out there too. the "jerusalem post" has a headline this morning, talking

about the fact germany's largest paper, to china's president, you're endangering the world. other countries, griff as you pointed out are joining in pointing a finger at china which is clearly to blame for unleashing it the way they handled it. democrats and our media, are siding with china, saying trump's the problem? mind blowing. jillian: there is also no, if i can interject for a tech, i'm sure you guys agree, there is no reason to interject the election what is going on. people have lost lives, people have lost jobs, people are struggling right now. they're not getting money they need. not getting approval on loans they need. now is not the time to bring election in. griff: forget timing, what it is information, "new york times" front page you're looking for journalism. they don't know what china knew or when china knew it but they somehow know this is sinister election ploy? that doesn't seem appropriate at this time. listen, we've had china say according to the w.h.o. they know that it didn't leak from a

lab yet there is an investigation underway trying to figure out how exactly we did get it yet throughout all of this process we have not been given the information that china needs, that the u.s. needs to determine what china did. we know that they locked down domestic flights in wuhan but let international flights happen. we know the w.h.o. was complicit parroting the same lie china told us, human-to-human transmission in early stages wasn't possible. that grave mistake alone could have saved thousands of lives. pete: yeah. well-said, griff. jillian: let's talk about some headlines right now because president trump says china could be punished as the u.s. investigates its ties to covid-19. david spunt joins us more as wuhan lab breaks its silence. dough we have david? good morning, david. reporter: we do, jillian, thank you. one of the executives at the wuhan virology lab, saying this is a conspiracy and he had

nothing to do with it at all. the vice director of the wuhan institute of virology says the story is bogus. this comes as the united states including president trump puts pressure as you mentioned on china to reveal the source of the virus. fox's bret baier and gillian turner reported exclusively a few days ago, according to sources the initial transmilks of the virus, natural occurring strain being studied was back to human and patient zero actually worked at the lab, went out into the population and the rest is history. listen. >> let's see what happens with the investigation. but we're doing investigations also. if it is a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. if they are knowingly responsible there should be consequences. reporter: the vice director there at the lab says as people who carry out viral study we clearly know what kind of research is going on in the institute and how the institute manages viruses and samples as we said early on. there is no way this virus came

from us. we have a strict regulatory regimen. we have a code of conduct for research. we are confident of that. it is important to point out in wuhan alone they raised the death toll by 50% a few days ago. that is just in wuhan. i think it is safe to say the death toll in china may continue to rise if those numbers are provided. obviously considering the population. guys? pete: david, thank you very much the vice chairman of the wuhan lab is probably the last person i'm listening to right now. jillian: let's get to a fox news alert. neiman marcus is expected to file bankruptcy as soon as this week. that is reporting from reuters. the high-end retailer is deep in debt and struggling even more amid losses caused by the coronavirus shutdown. neiman marcus closed its doors temporarily, furloughing 14,000 employees. several states set to reopen marinas and boat yards. governors of new york, new jersey, connecticut saying reopenings are for personal use only. people must maintain social

distance. restaurants can only serve take yet or delivery. those are the few headlines. pete: not clear why they were closed in the first place but interesting piece of niece. griff: restaurant closures force farmers to sit on their supply. next we'll hear from a fourth generation farmer about the 19 billion-dollar aid package being sent their way. and it won't be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve for a hundred more.

♪. jillian: good morning and welcome back. farmers now getting the financial help they need in the coronavirus pandemic. the government will send $16 billion directly to farmers and will spend another $3 billion on fresh dairy, meat, produce, that would otherwise spoil and give to those in need.

here so react, fourth generation rice farmer, mary. good morning. >> good morning. thank you for having me. jillian: of course. i imagine this is such a benefit. tell me how it is helping. >> i am so optimistic. of course it is very knew but wonderful to hear this. it is just so critical to know that the government is standing by farmers because we really need it. jillian: you know, i have heard so many stories about farmers having to let their crops and let the crops, let everything go to waste. i actually heard from a lot of farmers i've been trying to get this to the food banks that are so desperate. they're seeing such a increase in demand because of all the red tape we can't so that will help in that. >> it sure is, they will be spending about $300 million per month for the three months on dairy, on foots and vegetables, on meat. so all of this is going to be so beneficial and that will directly go to the food banks

and shelters that need it. so we're excited about that. because no one wants to see their food go to waste. you have to remember something, when you see, like a potato that has not been sold or blueberries going to waste and being tilled back into the soil, that is not only their money in that crop but it also represents all the months that went into the planning, the cost for fuel, the seed, the fertilizer, everything that went into that piece of fruit or food. so it's terrible to see that go to waste. jillian: mare i are, tell me what the last month 1/2 has been like for as a farmer? >> it has been so challenging. the thing we're used to challenges. we really are. last year was you know, a very difficult year with the tariffs and weather and the commodity crisis but now, with covid-19, that really could be the straw that broke the camel's back. you add this into the mix.

it is already a fragile system. because we have dependent on the conditions, the market conditions, the weather, and then this without having any place to sell our food to is really dire. jillian: this for you will make all the difference in the world? >> oh, it is so helpful. i'm so excited that trump has done this. i know all of us, i spoke to farmers all across the country, all my friends and colleagues and we're really excited to have assistance. very grateful. jillian: that is fantastic. good news to hear on a sunday morning. mary blacknom. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. jillian: coming up pennsylvania has been hardest hit by covid-19 shutdowns with 1.4 million people out of work. sean parnell is running for congress in the the biggest swing district. he has seen the economic impact first-hand. he joins us live with a message.

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♪. griff: back with some quick headlines. pope francis is praying for medical workers on the coronavirus front lines. the pope praising workers as quote, pillars of support, calling on followers to pray for those risking their lives to help others. amazon taking an additional step to help warehouse workers in the pandemic. the retailer is using thermal cameras to screen employees for fevers. the cameras measure how much people emit compared to surroundings. workers flagged by the thermal cameras are checked with a forehead thermometer. anyone with a temperature of 100.4 are sent home. pete? griff: thank you, griff. more 1.4 million people out of work in and 1000 ppp loans have

been approved for small businesses. our next guest has seen the economic impact first-hand in his home state. he has a message for congress. retired u.s. army infantry captain and candidate for congress, sean parnell. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. pete: what is your message to congress as they attempt to refund the ppp bank account? >> look, pennsylvanians were strong, we're resilient people but as you mentioned been among the most hardest hit. we have over 11,000 small distances in my district, pa-17 alone that employ over 100,000 people. every single one of those jobs and small businesses are on the brink and i have to tell you, it frustrates me to no end to see nancy pelosi in san francisco in her $7.5 million san francisco mansion earning tax-payer funded salary, she is there by choice, bragging, essentially bragging about blocking relief to the people all over the country but here in pa-17, relief for people

who need it most, while she sits in front of her 24,000-dollar refrigerators, eating 13-dollar pints of ice cream it, makes me sick to my stomach. what has my opponent has to say aboutth? he represents these people, he sees suffering first-hand, he says absolutely nothing, silence. mia. so in the hour of the people of pa-17's greatest need my opponent has been silent and doesn't have the courage to stand up to nancy pelosi when his constituents lives are on the line, frustrating to no end. pete: most democrats are not willing to do that. sounds like he is another one of them. you've been out in the district prior to this, talking to small business owners. now i'm sure you're hearing from them. there is a protest scheduled in harrisburg, pa, coming up this week. liberate pennsylvania, get back to work protest. what are you hearing from businesses about their desire to open back up? >> well, i mean, so most of these businesses when i don't hear from my opponent, in fact

they get form letters back from his office with no follow-up, they come to me. i have to tell you, i talk to democrats, republicans alike. 100% across the board they all recognize the need for a more surgical pandemic response. in other words, we have to figure out a way to get this state and get this country back to work because if we don't, generations worth of economic harm will be done to the our country. when we talk about the economy, we're not just referring to the stock market. the economy is made up much people who go to work to provide for their families and put food on the table for their families. we want to make sure as president trump said time and time again, the cure is not worse than the problem itself. people from pennsylvania are ready to go back to work. that is not to say we shouldn't take the virus seriously but we should trust people to go back to work, to adhere cdc guidelines, practice good social distancing. the plan moving forward to protect public's health and

safeguard the economy so we can pass on a strong, vibrant america to our children. pete: absolutely. rely on noble citizens who use their own common sense and still listen to what the experts are saying on the health side. sean parnell, thanks for joining us. good luck in the race. we appreciate it. [. >> thanks,. pete: pete americans coast to coast hitting the streets demanding an end to stay-at-home orders like we talked about in pennsylvania. we'll talk to a panel of protesters, my favorite kind, why they're pushing to get their communities back to work. prote, her strength respected. depend. the only thing stronger than us, is you. like you do sometimes, grandpa? well, when you have copd, it can be hard to breathe. so my doctor said...

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cars. why did you guys go out there? what was the message you wanted to send? >> griff, we want the governor to come clean with us. we want with state back-up. i work for a construction company. we do testing. you can get back to work and can do it safely he supposedly has a plan. he doesn't give us the plan. we are adults. people are hurting. businesses are going to fail. griff: melissa, in columbus, you had a similar protest. what was your reasoning, and what was the message you wanted to put out? >> there are several things. i happen to value my constitutional freedoms and those who bought and died to build the frail work of the republic we're watching crumble related before our eyes. i'm also a republican conservative candidate running in ohio senate district 2and i'm a small business owner. so i understand quite differently than the governor who has no business background,

no private sector background, implications of shutting business down. i can't tell you how many people have been in my living room, calling me on the phone. we have businesses, generational businesses that will never open again. this is a testament to the president coming in, with a plan for the governors because they're completely inept to be able to operate in a business-like acumen. griff: dan, let me ask you, you're holding governor larry hogan accountable. he is a republican. he wants to balance what's the best for his citizens as well as to hear your concerns but what do you say to speaker pelosi who tells your chris wallace this morning that she completely doesn't understand why you're even out there? >> speaker pelosi is ludicrous. she has a -- her family is from baltimore. she is sitting in her house, in her mansion surrounded by walls in california, eating her

15-dollar a pint ice cream has no idea what the working people need, what they want. how they want to get to work. while congress sits back at their houses and does nothing. griff: melissa, i will ask you the same question, with response to speaker pelosi, what do you say to her? >> i would say thank you for the work you've done to get president trump reelected for another four years. i find it incredibly ironic that someone such as nancy pelosi doesn't understand the suffrage of the working man and women. again, i am a small business owner t will be very, very difficult to recover from this. the irony is that these folks are being paid from the sweat of our hard-earned tax dollars, not understanding why we are upset in protest. this is insanity. griff: melissa, i want to ask you quickly, you say you're a small business owner. have you applied for ppp loans? have you gotten it, where do you stand and what do you make of washington's inability to get more funding?

>> you have to keep in mind not only am i a small business evener but i represent a significant amount of people who look up to me to be able to help them. our unemployment systems are overburdened to the fact they spend hours and hours on the phone. i have grown men in my living room crying trying to figure out how they will go grocery shopping for their families. as far as small business loans for our business, i don't have interest being a part of a small business loan frankly will strap additional backs on the debt of my children. i don't want to take part in that. what i want for ohio to be opened. i want data shrouded in secrecy from dr. amy at kin and governor dewine to be shared with the public. i want to make smart decisions allowing those with compromised immune systems to shelter in place while the rest of us can get back to work to take care of our families. griff: dan, give you the last word to respond to the criticism and your protests and ones like it are irresponsible and as far

we can't act too soon for fear of a rebound? >> i learned this a long time ago in the military, those who fought for him, freedom is a taste that protected will never know. we have freedom in the united states. we have liberty. it is our liberty to protest. it is our freedom to protest. we did it safely and we did it effectively. if they don't get that, they shouldn't be, i can't tell them what to think. griff: well thank you, dan mead and melissa atkins for sharing your viewpoints. we should point out more than a dozen rallies and protests planned to take place. dan, melissa, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. pete: thank you, griff, well-done. turning to headlines, broadway star nick cordero after doctors amputated his leg after complications with covid-19. his wife said he was experiencing clotting issues in his right leg. he has been been on a ventilatod

unconscious for 19 days. he is known for his tony nominated role in bullets over broadway. christmas comes early for 62 ny paramedics. they wore facemasks at the ceremony. a 96-year-old world war ii veteran who got a mohawk before d-day does it again. now he challenges you to do the same. watch. >> as a tribute to all the airborne guys up in the skies, this is something we can do during this present problem that we have, that will be solved shortly. pete: the veteran wanted to help keep spirits high amid the coronavirus pandemic. adding he feels like a young buck. for more inspiring stories like this, foxnews.com/america schmidt together. he first got a mohawk to strike

fear into the minds of the enemy in world war ii. that is my favorite story. jillian: that is my favorite story and that is my favorite person. take him up on the challenge. pete: i might. let me think about that. griff: i want to see that. i think we should see the mohawk look on rick reichmuth. rick, are you up for it? rick: i'm up for it. we're self-haircutting very soon anyway. that will be one of the few haircuts we can do on ourselves. jillian: he was so cute. rick: talk about the weather. we have a really big day in store on parts of the south unfortunately after severe weather last sunday. seven days later another set. let's look at the weather map, show you what i'm talking about. down in the south, temperatures are warm already and is really humid. this feels like that mid-summer humid air mass where you have

really, really sticking air conditions going on. when you have that air unfortunately you have a threat of severe weather a warm front will ride along that area. when you see the red area, you see the enhanced threat for severe weather. almost exactly where we were last week. look at hash marks, we could look at large, destructive tornadoes long-lasting. unfortunately things could get really bad. kind of going for much of the afternoon. watch how this plays out. this is the forecast radar. we see storms across parts of texas, louisiana, early afternoon. they stick with it. -- overnight hours and then by tomorrow morning, early afternoon, we see exit across parts of the carolina coastline. a threat of severe weather for us. we're seeing significant rainfall totals maybe over six inches in some spots. that will cause pretty significant flooding especially after what we saw last week. so a rough day ahead, guys. unfortunately sometimes you get

in these cycles. we're in one of them, where we have two weeks in a row, severe weather across some areas. pete: rick, you are totally prepared to take a passport photo with that shot. rick: i know. sorry. pete: bring it up every day, rick. love you. jillian: smiling passport photo. rick: i can't do a serious face. jillian: shaq taking off his hat to recognize food delivery drivers. >> if you guys feel the same way, hang the hat on the front door, so when you see them -- [inaudible]. jillian: oh. look at this. salute to workers who are often overlooked but critical to our every day lives. that is fantastic. fluxes into t. prilosec otc uses a unique delayed-release formula

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headlines. ticketmaster is offering refund for canceled other postponed events. the company received backlash only refunding canceled shows, not postponed. 30,000 ticketmaster events were either canceled or postponed because of the pandemic. in this story take your hat off for essential workers. basketball legend shaquille o'neal launching a campaign honoring food delivery drivers. >> if you guys feel the same way, hang your hat on the front door so when they see them they -- [inaudible] griff: shaq says the hats off campaign is a salute to those who keep us fit as we shelter at home and i will tell you, pete, jillian, my hat's off to shaq. jillian: hat's off to shack, whether doctors, nurses, grocery workers, delivery drivers. i see people working every single day.

it has to be hard for them. they are handling, packages, handling groceries, using cash, use the card more. everyone is doing a remarkable job right now. pete: it is remarkable how different people's scenarios can be to your point. some people have never been less busy because they're stuck at home without a job. some people are working, 12, 13, 14 hour days. ups guy, postal service, people delivering food are working incredibly hard. they're taking more risks out there. we should honor them. good on shaq. griff, i know you miss sports do. i miss the tnt show he hosts for the nba. it will be back. griff: you know, just to toot shaq's horn a little louder, his daughter in the last 24 hours got into lsu. she will abbasket ball star there he could be talking about that. instead using his platted form and his fame to make sure those that normally don't get recognized like delivery drivers are getting attention they need.

that is really quite a testament to what kind of guy shaq is. jillian: thank you to everyone out there working their tale off. pete: amen to that. i want to take a quick moment in the show to share the fact a month from today on may 19th, my book formally comes out, entitled "american crusade." we talked about it a little bit on the program. i shared the read the audio book last week. my hand is getting sore because i'm signing autographed copies available, available at books-a-million.com. books a million.com, i'm signing, signing away. thank you. thankfully i have a companion in the effort. watch. i'm here signing many stacks that i need to sign for my new book, "american crusade." taking a lot of time to sign them. everyone signed by me. i hope you order it, may 19th, "american crusade." go to the link on this.

get a signed copy. yes, she says yes. pete: might be a few books signed with extra squigglies on them, she got ahold of my sharpie. consider that the golden ticket version. jillian: so cute. pete: we watched trump press conferences together. i sign away books. she is my little helper. griff: i did not, but i will pay double what it costs if i can have one signed by gwen. pete: my griffin, xo, xo. this one is for you, my friend. griff: thank you. pete: little thing here, real quick. i discovered on-line, books a million, put in "american crusade "you can get the signed or not signed, the signed verse is the same price at as unsigned version. jillian: why wouldn't you want the signed version? pete: my signaturep apparently is worth zero.

get it while it is cheap. maybe they made a mistake. griff: you end up with a very sorry hand signing a lot of copies. people need to read this. get people thinking about. reporter: it is a passion project. we're in a political battle. we need to think how to fight. >> it is worth gold to us,.pete. pete: thanks. jillian: you may be putting off projects that you have. skip bedell shows you how to pressure wash like a pro.

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that will be very hard. or go to 40-degree. this is great for soft things. parented surfaces. don't want to damage the wood deck. i like the turbo nozzle. when you want places like high up, right? griff: i will be put up to do this with my wife. she always wants to clean windows? you use light one for windows, right? you don't want to hurt it? >> turbo nozzle for the window grip. this will reach up 20 feet all the way up to the second story on my house. unbelievable. jillian: wow. skipbedell.com for more information. skip as always, thank you. >> i have links, get it shipped to your house for free. pete: thanks a lot, man. we appreciate it. turbo nozzle good at squirting your kids. griff: how long will it take for congress toe describing a deal on more relief funding for small businesses? what house speaker nancy pelosi is now saying.

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>> we continue to see a number of positive signs that the virus is past its peak. nationwide we've now conducted over four million tests. as our expert said yesterday, america's testing capability and capacity is fully sufficient to begin opening up the country totally. indeed, our system is by far the most robust and advanced anywhere in the world. griff: president trump praising the steps taken in the american fight against coronavirus. pete: some states gearing up to restart their economies, texas and vermont, allowing some businesses to reopen tomorrow. jillian: and in south carolina, some retail stores and beaches are expected to reopen sometime this week. and with that we say good sunday morning, i'm gillian neely in

for jedediah alongside pete hegseth who is technically above me and griff jenkins who is in d.c. pete: good morning. griff: we've got some interesting guests coming up today. louisiana congressman mike johnson coming up as well as dr. marc siegel and the one and only maria bartiromo, definitely want to talk to lawmakers about when it is that congress is going to deliver on that aid to small businesses. as we're seeing, the american people are starting to voice their opinions on how they feel after these many weeks of being stuck at home. pete: boy, that's right. the protests are only growing. started in michigan over the heavy-handed measures of the above there and people saying, hey, i can't even have someone mow my lawn, or my basic business can't be open. now it's spread across the country. yesterday alone it was nap --

annapolis, indiana, texas, here's some sound from protesters with we had earlier on the show explaining why they'ren on the streets at this very moment. >> we want the governor to come clean with us. we want the state a back up. i work for a construction company. you can get back to work, and you can do it safely. we're adults, we need to know when the businesses are opening. buzzes are going to -- businesses are going to fail. >> i happen to value my constitutional freedoms and those who fought and died to build the framework of the republic we are watching crumble before our eyes. i want to make smart decisions, allowing those with compromised immune systems to shelter in place while the rest of us get back to work. jillian: excellent points, you heard the first man saying we have to be able to do this in a smart way. that's what i've been saying all along. i have received a couple messages from viewers saying, no, you don't understand, we are not working, we're about to lose

everything. agree 100%. it's going to happen when each state is ready, but there is a way, and i keep saying this, guys, there is a way to have that balance where we can get people back to work, where you can start making money, opening up your businesses, being able to pay your bill but do it in a way that's safe by with abiding -- by abiding by the guidelines and listen to the health experts. there is a way to do both. pete: that's true. i think the big difference between the way maybe conservatives and liberals might view this is an expert or a politician or a bureaucrat picking and choosing who's okay and who can go, that's very, very difficult to do. and usually leads to winners and losers and discrepancies. if you empower an individual to look at their own circumstances, their own risk tolerance, their own pre-existing conditions and say, okay, here's where i feel comfortable going, it shifts the responsibility to the person who should make that decision. and as free people, that's what

you're seeing and why you're seeing these rallies grow. we've got a map of the protests around the country, they're only growing in more states through may 2nd, this as the president has laid out the guidelines in order to open up even more. give give that's right. and, actually, we also have a map to show you of the 24 states ready for phase one of reopening, what the white house has said, very important is that there's a criteria that needs to be met for these 24 states and that is a 14 consistent day period of a downward trajectory on the number of cases. that, obviously, is going to be perhaps the guiding principle to get those states started off. but that isn't doing much, steve and jillian. these small businesses are looking at existential threats. pete: yeah. one wrinkle in this, guys, if you move too quick -- and, again, i'm still for moving, get it open, go, make the choice --

there is a second spike of significance that has, a, real health consequences but, b, also very real political consequences for whoever deems to be responsible for that. so all that goes into why and when people are looking to open up. jillian: and i think that kind of goes to my point a little bit, pete. you know, we are still fighting this battle, and we're fighting it harder in some states and cities that others across the country, but it is still here, it's very real, and it's going to be until there's a vaccine. the last thing anybody wants is to have to shut down like this again. if we take the time, if we follow the plan, do it while social distancing, i think most people would say, great. i would love to do that. pete: but a debate about which way's the way to prevent a second wave. it's by keeping it open the entire time which means more people do get infected, but more people are um moon over time --

jillian: right, but -- pete: if you shelter everyone for a long time, when they go back out, they can get it again. so there's a debate about what the best approach is. jillian: to be fair, we don't know how long immunity lasts. that's one of those things we just don't have the answer to at this point. griff: yeah, that's a great point. look, it is very likely, almost certain i would say, that you're going to have a rebound in some lawyers. how those local states and municipalities deal with that, how prepared they are for these as it happens will really be the next chapter we'll be talking about. meanwhile, the president is continuing to pressure the lawmakers who have not reopened, who have not come back to washington -- although some republicans are speaking for an effort to do so, speaker pelosi they're not coming back soon, the president saying they've got to pass more relief in the short term to keep that small business loan program. here's a little bit of what the president said yesterday. >> we've already processed

nearly $350 billion to 1.6 million small businesses across the nation to keep american workers on the payroll. so we're asking the democrats to get it done. the republicans want it, i think the democrats probably do too. but they also want other things that are up acceptable. this is -- unacceptable. this is about covid. this is about the plague and what it's done to us. this isn't about extraneous things that they've been trying to get for years and that our country doesn't want them to have. pete: yeah. i mean, he's pointing out -- i mean, people, the disconnect is glaring and we're going to play a clip from nancy pelosi here in a moment. she does an interview with our own chris wallace on "fox news sunday" today, very interesting. but the disconnect of her in her kitchen in her lavish home saying she doesn't feel the

urgency of this bill to help small businesses, it's a really bad look for her. and i don't know how you can't exude you are general city at a moment -- urgency at a moment like this when people are in need of that money desperately. here's part of the clip. >> is there going to be a deal, and if so, how soon? >> yes. we want all of them to jillian: i've got to figure that out. they've got to get this done because there are so many people across this country that need that money in order to keep

their business going. griff: well, listen, we're going to talk this week about whether or not speaker pelosi is using leverage again as she did, to be fair, in the third stimulus package, in the fourth package to get a larger spending bill. republicans wanted a clean, simple, stand-alone ppp. she said, though, we also want to benefit hospitals and state and local governments which is actually needed as well. so now you're all arriving at the same destination, but they're not able to get it done very quickly, there's going to be a price to pay -- pete: yeah. i mean, it's horse trading, we get that. but the ppp program is money that comes from the government to banks, to employers, to payrolls, right? the money ultimately stays within where you're working and the people you're working for. democrats always wanting money and more direct payment to people as opposed to working through the private pseudoof

things. we'll see how that shakes out. but another big topic is the idea of china. the communist chinese and how they've conducted themselves, how long they delayed, what they've lied about, the desense they've used through the world health organization. president trump was asked asked about -- now that we know that the i wuhan lab, the great reporting coming out of fox news -- likely was responsible for the are release of this virus, he was asked about it at the press conference yesterday. here's what he said. >> well, if they were knowingly responsible, certainly, if it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. but if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, then there should be consequences. you're talking about, you know, potentially lives like nobody's seen since 1917. i think you have numerous countries waiting to see whether or not sleepy joe wins because if he did, they'd own our country. for years i've heard by 2019 china will catch us. there's only one problem, trump got elected in 2016. [laughter] pete: i love the way he says it at the end.

his point is you look at the soft statements of beijing biden as some hashtags go, how he was not for the travel ban at the beginning, the connections his son has to companies over there, there is a soft spot for the biden campaign, and he -- and there are people on the left who have said inevitably our decline is going to happen and china is on the rise. donald trump has always rejected that premise. griff: i was just going to point out, look when president trump stopped flights from china. january 31st. it wasn't until march 11th the world health organization in conjunction with china announced a global pandemic, more than 4,000 had died and more than 118,000 cases were in 114 countries. jillian: and he took a lot of heat at that point. thank you, guys. we're following this story, overnight a texas police officer is shot and killed in an am ambush attack, the suspect opening fire as officers responded to a domestic dispute at an apartment complex. two other officers were shot. they're undergoing surgery at a

hospital in critical condition. the officer has been identified as do 15th -- as the 15th cop fatally shot in the line of duty this year. look at this. >> when you see a crowd, when you see a line that's not distanced, when you see a supermarket that's too crowded, anything, all you've got to do is take the photo and put the location with it and, bang, send a photo like this, and we will make sure that enforcement comes right away. jillian: mayor de blasio vowing to take action including a $1,000 fine. major backlash over a star-studded benefit concert. the one world together at home concert raising more than $150 million for the world health organization, the fund raiser giving must be to the organization amid accusations that it helped china cover up the coronavirus outbreak. lady gaga calling the world health organization's director

general a superstar. those are your headlines. pete: consider the source. one world global citizen festival given to the world health organization, doesn't surprise me. nobody's putting america first there -- griff: could be backlash for the superstars like gaga because the world health organization's under a lot of scrutiny, and for good reason. pete: yeah. griff: still ahead, millions of americans are out of work. our next guest is on the task force to fix it. mike johnson joins us on how the u.s. will restart the economy.

♪ ♪ >> since we released the guidelines to open up america again, states -- led by both democrat and republican governors -- have announced concrete is steps to begin a

safe, gradual and fades opening. we're also helping governors to develop strategies to smart ally deploy their testing capacities while getting americans at lower risk safely back to work. pete: president trump doubling down on his push to get americans back to work. the president announced a new economic task force thursday to get that job done. louisiana congressman mike johnson is on that task forbes he joins us now -- force, he joins us now. congressman, really appreciate it. >> thanks, pete. pete: what do you anticipate from this task force? what are you looking to do first? >> well, it's a bipartisan group, many members of congress that are leaders across the political spectrum and from around the country, and i think that's good because you'll have perspectives from all corners of the country, so to speak. i think that there is a common sense of understanding amongst the members that are working together on in that we have a sense of urgency about reopening the economy. we realize we've got to get people back to work, back to

school, back to some sense of normalcy. so we'll be looking for the balance in how to do that. i'm so grateful the president has taken this take-charge kind of leadership and put out this three phase plan to get people back and to do that very thing. so we'll be doing that in each jurisdiction looking at it, i hope and i believe, by a regional basis even within each state. pete: absolutely. congressman, i know you've seen a the -- the protests, big businesses exempt, you can have as many people in a walmart as you want, but my local retailer can't be open, and that falls from experts and politicians trying to make decisions. will the task force use common sense as long as individuals are following guidelines to determine their own threshold? >> yeah, absolutely. pete, that's a great point. we have to apply common sense here, and you have to trust people to make those individual decisions. we need americans to act responsibly, and they've shown that they can. you know, it's not a difficult thing to utilize sanitation

protocols and to practice social distancing. everybody's getting pretty good at that right now, and we have to empower people. you have to remember that liberty has to be the overriding concern here. we have to protect people's freedom, and we're greatly concerned about that. as we go through the three phases, we immediate to start it as soon as, and we need to give due regard to that. you can't have arbitrary principles like some of these local leaders are trying to install, some of the governors have. it ultimately does more harm hand good. pete: the governor of new jersey famously said the bill of rights is above his pay grade, that's when people's ire starts to get up. i've got to ask you about louisiana, you guys have been hit hard there. how are things going, and when you look at something like reopening -- which there are the many states that qualify already, louisiana may be far from that -- what are the prospects there? >> well, we hope we're not too far. i've been working with a large group of conservative legislators in our state's capitol who are really urging, you know, what we're talking

about, the application of common sense. we recognize that probably the greatest danger to public health and the health of our citizens in louisiana and around the country is poverty, right? and, pete, the longer we keep the economy closed down, the more people are moved into that category, and that doesn't serve the well-being interests of the state long term. so there is a balancing, we have to recognize what may be necessary if for, you know, inner city new orleans, for example, is not the same standard for roping that should be applied -- reopening that should be applied in the northwest corner of the state where i live. we're urging the governor here, as all governors should, to take all those individual and regional factors into consideration and get people back to work as soon as possible. pete: we wish you the best of luck, certainly thinking of folks down there in louisiana. representative mike johnson, appreciate it. >> thanks, pete. pete: up next, as the coronavirus takes its toll on our nation's hospital -- health care system, hospitals face a

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♪ ♪ pete: we're back with some quick headlines. vice president mike pence honoring nearly 1,000 cadets in a virtual ceremony for the air force. cadets wearing face masks and stucking to social distancing at the -- sticking to social distancing. is and the u.s. air force saluting medical workers in an incredible way. watch. [background sounds] eight f-16 fighting falcons flying over medical facilities in colorado honoring those on the front lines. very cool. jillian: yes.

the thank you, pete. for weeks we've heard government officials and hospitals warning about a ventilator shortage as the pandemic grew, but now doctors are sounding the alarm about an unexpected crisis as a surge in covid-19 patients with kidney failure is reportedly leading to a shortage of dialysis machines. here to discuss is dr. marc siegel. good to see you this morning. >> good morning, jillian. jillian: what do you think about this shortage, and what can we do about it? >> well, i think, jillian, it's a reminder that this virus, when it really gets severe -- and this is a small minority of cases, when you're in the hospital, when you get into the icu, it's not just your lungs. we've been worrying about lungs, talking about damage to the lungs and inflammation and blood clots, but we have 6500 ventilators in new york, and it looks like that's been enough so far. the real issue is what else besides the lungs does this

virus affect. we know it affects the heart, it can lead to direct heart damage and the vessels of the heart, it can lead to strokes small and large in the brain. the kidneys, though, are affected as well. we see damage to the blood vessels in the kidneys, fluid in the kidneys, toxins overloading the kidneys, and now we're seeing a concern about not enough equipment for dialysis machines and not enough dialysis in general. about one-third, jillian, of the people in the icu suffering from covid-19 have significant and severe kidney problems. so there's been a lot of communication around the is city about sharing supplies and getting more supplies in place. swrl jl as more time goes on, the more we're going to learn about this, that's for sure. let's take a couple e-mails, some questions from viewers. grant writes: several meat packing plants are reporting breakouts of covid-19.

9 can it affect the meat they work with? >> grant out there the, that's a great question. here's the issue, everyone's worrying about the meat. we haven't seen that it lives on meat. i think it may, but we're way more worried about workers that are working with meat coming in close contact and spreading it among themselves. i think that's likely what's due to the outbreaks here rather than the meat itself. social distancing, you tend to forget about that when you're in the midst of doing your job, but it's really important. jillian: absolutely. bob e-mails, when can we expect the rereopening of museums and similar venues of large gathering places where there is no formal seating? >> well, on first blush you would think that would be an advantage, but that means people milling about. and the rule on the phases is even phase two you can't have meetings for more than 50 people. i suspect museums are going the reopen up whether it's phase one or phase two, but they're going

to be restricted entry so that we can make sure to monitor people and to obey the social distancing. museums are very, very important to us, but we can't have large gatherings right now. gillian: maybe similar to grocery stores where they let you in one at a time and they monitor the number of people who go in and out. >> exactly. jillian: all right, dr. siegel, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, thanks for having me. jillian: still ahead, dozens of states getting ready to reopen. our panel of economic experts on how to boost the economy and adjust to our, quote, new normal. that's next. for 45 years. i've been taking prevagen on a regular basis for at least eight years. for me, the greatest benefit over the years has been that prevagen seems to help me recall things and also think more clearly. and i enthusiastically recommend prevagen.

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restaurant ceo, author of the upcoming book getting america back to work, good morning to you, gentlemen. thanks for being here. i want to start with you with, paul, because you know a lot about the restaurant industry, these three phases laid out certainly going to be tougher for restaurants to get started. what do you see as the key to the reopening? >> well, it's a pleasure to be here, and i think we should maybe start a band up, peter, paul and andy. [laughter] you know, here's what i see. first of all, let's put it in context. the united states got sucker punched. i mean, it's really good to have a president that's a street fighter and recognizes that we need to get the economy back working again and the people back working again. because we know that while the pandemic kills a lot of people, so does poverty. so the pressure to get this second phase of funding is critical so we can get people back to work and restaurants back open. of course, now it's going to be a new normal where we're going to have to put in the proper

protocols,, the safety protocols, the food-handling protocols so people have, our guests have the confidence they can come into our restaurants and know that they're in a safe environment where they can still get a legendary restaurant experience. tbrf give andy, no stranger to this administration, how are you advising the white house in terms of what they need to do to reopen? >> look, they've got a lot of great advisers in the white house, people who are really on this. i think the guidelines that were set out, they're very strip gent. the health requirements are strip gent, they have to go through them every two weeks, you have to keep improving to get to a different phase. i think that's a great way. i think the most important thing once this coronavirus crisis begins to abate, we need to get back to the economic powells that president trump -- policies that president trump had in place prior to crisis that encouraged investment, encouraged business growth and

end couraged people to work. we need to stay away from the temptation to go to big government, we need to stay away from programs and policies that nancy pelosi and the democrats are proposing. we need to get back to what causes the economy to grow, not what causes the government to grow. it's a crisis, we should get back to what works. griff: setting aside pelosi 's leverage that she seems to be exerting on this process, professor, i want to ask you how realistic is the prospect of a quick recovery, a quick rebound? our last example was, of course, 2008. it took four years to rebound from that crash. >> well, the economy's going to jump as the restrictions are phased out, but it's going to be different so we're not going to get to the same level right away. the trick here is to empower businesses by essentially moving away from money to maintain payrolls to -- or to compensate workers for being off, to money for creating new jobs.

and to repairing household finances. to that effect, i would do three things. one is send every american family a check every month for 18 months to just here's the money, no questions asked. i'd send businesses a check for every employee they have when they're old or new or what have you, and i'd give another 10% investment tax credit because we're going to need new things to make the kinds of adjustments, for example, in restaurants or expanding zoom or what have you. so that empowers people. it doesn't create levers on the economy, and i think that will give us the fastest recovery possible. griff: paul, i want to ask you, you talk about new norms that we're going to have coming in regardless of whether it's a quick or prolonged recovery, what are some of those new normallings? >> well -- normals? >> well, i think, you know, let me just piggyback on top of peter's comments is that, you know, and andy's for that matter. i think that the incentive for

investment in new business, especially in franchising where you can be in business for yourself but not by yourself is going to be robust as well. i think this is going to be a lot of opportunity for people to stretch their entrepreneurial wigs. but in term -- wings. necessity is the mother of invention, and we've all been very adept at figuring out how do we generate revenue through drive-through or through pick-up or delivery, even grocery stores were delivering adult beverages where we're allowed to. so i think there's an ingenuity that has come out of this pandemic for those that have a little bit of a entrepreneurial spirit and are, as i said before, street fighters that can follow the marine credo which is improvise, adapt and overcome. griff: andy, how worried are you about may if 8th we will get the jobs numbers.

you were the labor secretary, how big of a deal is that, and how much of a hurdle will it be in this plan to reopen? >> look, i think the paycheck protection plan is working. we're seeing people remain employed so the numbers may not be as bad as we saw in march. i'm hoping they won't be as bad. but, look, we've got to expect a downside here. we're in the middle of a crisis. nobody expects the economy to be growing in the middle of a pandemic. i think we need to come to grips with that. but, look, this paycheck protection plan, the people that i speak to, the franchisees that i've spoken with would say it's working, the ones who got the money. now, there's a good percentage that got in too late and haven't been able to get money, so i certainly hope that resistance to increasing the amount of money available will dissipate and we can keep these businesses flowing. but once we're through the crisis, once the crisis starts to abate rather than sending people checks, i'd rather see something like a payroll tax

holiday through the end of the year which encourages people, also encourages businesses to hire. the government's not sending out checks, it's coming through the positive of working and hiring which i think is a better solution than the government continuing to issue checks. i think people would prefer to have paychecks. so i'm hoping we'll get to a point where we can start to get things back to normal. griff: well, peter, let me give you the last word. how optimistic are you about that? >> oh, i think there's reasons to be optimistic. when we're facing august, we're going to recognize that we need to make some adjustments. hopefully, a bit sooner. my feeling is once we get this payroll protection plan bill, you know, stimulus iv, and we start to see the adjustments and the dynamism of the private sector, the way the private sector is so adaptable in america, then the government, the politicians will see the need to assist, to give it a lift so they can follow through. because, let's face it, t much

better -- it's much better to have people on the job than getting paychecks at home. so my feeling is that it will happen. and the president has assembled a great team. i don't know of a time when the inner cabinet on economics, you know, mnuchin, kudlow e, etc., have conducted themselves so effectively. i mean, look at how quickly mnuchin turned around the sba and got the money out. twruf give and we'll see if he can get a deal with congress. speaking of assembling a great panel, we've done that right here. professor, andy, paul, thank you so much for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. griff: all right. we jump from the few to the weather. let's check in with rick and his department, see how the weather's doing. hey, rick. rick: hey, griff. yeah, you know, obviously everybody's at home, but when you're staying at home today across the south, just like last sunday, you're getting ready for severe weather. temperatures this morning are already into the 70s, 78 in new orleans. and then you add in the

humidity, and it feels hotter than that. very stuckey our, feels -- sticky air down across parts of the south and where that kind of line is, that's where we're going to see the severe weather. where you see that orange and the red, that's the highest threat. there's going to be some really large hail, there's going to be some tornadoes and some really strong winds, and some of those tornadoes could be large and long lasting. we're going to watch that. it's going to start a little bit earlier today in texas and louisiana, as early as around noon, and then spread to the east throughout the afternoon. all right, guys, back to you. jillian: reduction, thank you very much for keeping us updated. and still ahead, one minute he's in the classroom, the next he's fighting the coronavirus on the front lines. a teacher serving our country in the florida national guard shares his experience. you don't want to miss it, that's next.

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jillian: good sunday morning and welcome back. from the classroom to the front lines, frederick carmen's life changed in an instant. griff: the fifth grade teacher and sergeant in the florida national guard was deployed last month to monitor travelers coming in from coronavirus hot spots. pete: sergeant, thank you very much for being on with us, for your service. so you were in the classroom teaching kids when you were notified you were being mobilized within your home state. tell us about your experience. >> so when i got activated, i was kind of walking into my classroom because we had just gotten the call that we were going to be going into virtual teaching. i went into my classroom to collect the materials that we were going to need in order to finish that or to complete that mission if, and i got a text saying that we were being activated. so it kind of just automatically jumped right into sergeant

harmon mode. [laughter] been here ever since. jillian: wow. thank you for everything you're doing on all ends. curious what you're doing day in and day out right now and how this compares to, you know, the time you served before. how different is this fighting this battle at home? >> so day-to-day life is just kind of like teaching, you know, a little rue i teen will get you through the day. we kind of, we're being pretty vigilant about our health and doing temperature checks twice daily. kind of have a little workout routine every day, we go for a run and we work out in our rooms, go to work and just like everybody else, we try to social distance. so, you know, we spend a lot of time, you know, by ourselves. [laughter] griff: sergeant, you know, being in the national guard, you're essentially forward deployed on u.s. soil. what is that like, and when you finally get a chance to tell your students about it, what

will you tell them? >> i mean, being deployed on u.s. soil is, you know, you're among -- i like to think you're among friends and family. it's a lot of people that are, you know, very graduateful for what we're doing -- grateful. people are saying thank you, and i think, you know, we're grateful for their support. it's a lot of, you know, or people waving at each other. it's a lot different than being overseas, i can tell you that. pete: yeah, a lot different. i've got to ask you, what is your mission? what have you been mobilized to do there in the state of florida right now? >> so my mission, we're out in the wes palm beach area. -- west palm beach area assigned to the international airport. we're in charge of keeping track of people coming in from the hot spots like new york and new jersey, connecticut, and we're more or less tracking where they're going to be staying at in the state of florida so that in case somebody on their flight was, is diagnosed with covid-19,

we're able to, you know, contact them, let them know that they have potential risk of exposure so we can contact them so they can get checked out too. pete: oh, interesting. so the contact tracing can continue from places where there is a hot spot, you guys are the data source for that. somebody's got to do it. >> yes, sir. pete: absolutely. jillian: sergeant, what's your message to america for those that are watching right now? >> more or less i just want them to know that we're here to help. we want people to know that, you know, there will be an end to this eventually. i also want people to. maintain a positive outlook and and do their best to reach out and support their neighbors, you know? we are a community, and we want to, you know, stick together and help each other out. jillian: so important. griff: sergeant, thank you for your service. pete: and i believe you've got a wife and a 2-year-old at home, right? do you want to say hi to them real quick? >> i do. i really do.

i just want to tell them that i love them so much. i'll see them again soon, and i'll just keep work hard and i'll see you again soon. griff: what are their names, sergeant? >> my wife's name is courtney, she's supermom -- [laughter] and my daughter's name is addison. jillian: well, they are -- pete: a reason to do what you doing, and we're so grateful for it. thank you so much, sergeant. appreciate it. now get to formation. [laughter] jillian: so great. still ahead, a farm owner and instructor who organized this surprise visit at a kentucky nursing home joins us next. (music)

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this kentucky senior living center, residents overjoyed as horses were wrought over to brighten -- brought over to brighten their cay day. joining us now, julie kaufman and the instructor, andrea. good morning to you. >> good morning. griff: thank you for what you've done. tell us exactly how this came about and whew you did it. -- and why you did it. >> well, i have a mother herself that lives in a retirement community down in georgia and a very close family friend that's in memory care at a place here in lexington, and i know how isolated they feel and lonely. i thought that if we could take the horses over there, it would brighten up their day especially in this part of the country, you know, everybody -- it's the heart of horse country. so people just love them, and if they're in that situation, they haven't been able to see them or pet them in a while. so it was good.

griff: tell me about your experience. we can see these photos of the woman here petting that horse, that connection. i should be, full disclosure, i have daughters that love to ride horses, so i understand it. but really a chance to transcend the anxieties and the fear a lot of us are feeling. >> it was so heart warming to see the residents come up to the windows and the smiles on their faces. it was a truly unique experience. griff: and tell me, who do we have here in the shot? i know i've got you guys, julie and andrea, but who is that? >> this is grace. she is a morgan horse, and we've only had her for a few weeks. she wound up in a bad situation and needed to be rescued. so they were able to rescue her, and i was fortunate enough to be able to give her a home here at

blue willow. she's just fitting right in, and we love her. >> and this is -- [inaudible] he's a 19-year-old american saddle bred that we've had for about 1512 years now -- 12 years now. i think they had just as much fun as we did. griff: i know in that part of the country you have the saddle bred world championship, i mean, he's used to being around people now perhaps this is good for the horses as well, is what you're saying? >> absolutely. >> exactly. >> definitely a win/win for the residents and for the horses. and the american saddle bred and morgans have such a wonderful disposition, and they thrive on interaction and their personalities are just so perfect for this type of work and community service they do. so we're lucky to have them here. griff: and it's willow farms in

kentucky, right? if people want to go online, they can maybe find a way to help out because it's not done for free, is that correct? >> absolutely. dream scape is a 501(c)(3) that helps rescue horses, and then we have the morgan registry and the american saddle bred horse association and the united professional horsemen's association. and we all work together for the betterment of the breeds. griff: great. that's great. good job, julie, andrea. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. griff: and we have information on how you can help plus more stories of people going to extra lengths to help each other deal with that pandemic, all that at foxnews.com/americatogether. and still ahead, landscaping businesses forced to close in michigan while their big box rivals stay open. is this fair? lawn care companies don't think so, and they're suing. plus, congressman devin nuñes is coming up as well in

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president trump: as we enter the next stage of our battle, we are continuing our relentless effort to destroy the virus. i think we have tremendous momentum. first we get rid of the plague and because of what we're doing with the ppp, what we're doing with the paycheck we call it, i think we have a chance to have these companies get back to action quickly. pete: welcome to the final hour of fox & friends that was president trump praising the steps taken so far in the american fight against coronavirus. jillian: some states gearing up to restart their economies including some businesses reopening this week, in texas, vermont and south carolina. griff: it comes as americans protest stay-at-home orders from coast to coast demanding they get back to work dozens of protests are scheduled for the next several weeks good morning, welcome to our final

hour, i'm griff jenkins in d.c. with jillian and pete in new york. pete: good morning indeed absolutely you talk about those protests there were a bunch yesterday, nevada, texta new hampshire, indiana, new jersey, the folks there prevented from doing so and that map you showed is a big one. there are a lot this movement is only growing. this idea of liberate minnesota, or liberate virginia, or liberate pennsylvania. citizens feeling like some of the measures they are facing feel like they are heavy handed, a bit arbitrary and there are double standards for big box stores, in certain retailers that the small guys cannot compete with because they're not allowed to open up and they are asking governors to maybe use a little bit more common sense and empower the individual in the process. jillian: that's right so 24 states are ready for phase i of the reopening, and you're seeing those states on your screen right now. look it's going to be state by state, every state every city is dealing with a different aspect of this pandemic. if we take a look at phase i for individuals here, you'll see

that that's vulnerable individuals will shelter in place and maximize physical distance when in public, socializing in groups of more than 10 people should be avoided , and minimize non- essential travel. there are different options here , different guidelines excuse me for individuals versus companies. if we take a look at employers, that would encourage telework, return to work in phases, minimize non-essential travel, consider special accommodations for vulnerable personnel and then finally your phase i for specific types of employers. that includes schools remaining closed, visits to senior living facilities and hospitals prohibited, large venues operate under strict physical distance protocols, and elective surger ies can resume, and then gyms can open with strict physical distance and sanitation , and bars remain open i don't know about you guys but i like to think that look a lot of people obviously need to get back to work. people are struggling day by day , every minute here count a lot of people haven't received money for those loans that they've applied for and in some

cases, have been approved for and i think if people get back to work and they can practice social distancing following some of these guidelines a lot of people would say i'm in. pete: absolutely. griff: well those guidelines it's important to note that there's getting criteria to get there to start which is a two week period of downward trajectory of cases and also the fact they are recommendations, not set in stone and it's what the white house is giving to the governors to put out there. we had a panel of economic experts about getting back to work, they talked about how it's not one-size-fits-all but its got to happen. here is what they had to say. >> we need to get the economy back working again and the people back working again because we know that while the pandemic kills a lot of people so does poverty. >> we need to get back to the economic policies that president trump had in place prior to the crisis that encouraged investments, encouraged business growth and encouraged people to work. we need to stay away from the

temptation to go to big government. >> let's face it. it's much better to have people on-the-job than getting paycheck s at home. pete: yeah, i mean griff that was a great interview by the way and experts play a big role here the biggest expert on your own life is you. you know your health conditions, you know your risk tolerance, you know psychologically what you're willing to put up with and you can make choices about where you go. there's no bureaucrat or politician or central planner that can or should be able to say okay okay you here, and you here, no but you're shutdown and yours is essential and yours non -essential pretty soon people step back and say wait my job is essential to my livelihood and my workers need to get back to work so you look at those criteria i'm quite encouraged by that because if you see the slope going down and you meet that threshold there's pressure on governors to let people make prudent decisions in their lives, which can continue to slow the spread but allow our economy to come back which is what so many people want. jillian: and two things can be

true at the same time, right? in certain areas where you're able to start phase i, and you're not in a hotspot, you're able to get back to work and get people back to work, two things can be true. you can get people back to work in certain areas and you can do it safely while doing what you need to do. those two things can work hand in hand griff. pete: totally. griff: and listen as you see these protests come out there, you're going to hear two different sorts of narratives. one, which is the president encouraging it and two is speaker pelosi saying that they shouldn't be out there at all, but walk in the shoes of the people in these states. we saw in annapolis, those protests yesterday, the cars lining up outside the state capitol, on the same day that governor, a republican governor puts out an order that all citizens must wear a mask in public in grocery stores, on public transportation. we talked to a panel of protesters and one that was in

maryland here is a little bit of what they said about the protests yesterday. listen to this. >> we want the governor to come clean with us. we want the state backup, and i work for a construction company. we do testing. you can get back to work and you can do it safely, we're adults we need to know when the businesses are opening. people are hurting and businesses are going to fail. >> i happen to value my constitutional freedoms and those who fought and died to build the framework of the republic that we are watching crumbles right before our eyes, and i want to make smart decisions, allowing those with compromised immune systems to be able to shelter in place while the rest of us can get back to work to take care of our families. pete: boy isn't that the truth? i mean, the governor of new jersey and i've said this a couple times but it's worth repeating, says that bill of rights is above his pay grade. that gets a lot of people's antennas up who say those first rights, religious liberty, freedom of speech, assembly, second amendment, are the ones

most important in me through our declaration by god to me and no government official can take it away and when i want to go to church in my car or in a protest in my car and you won't let me, now that's just an arbitrary clamp down and i think these governors are starting to get a sense that that's too heavy handed. let's hope they get the message so that these protests aren't necessary and we're opening back up and communities are going back to work again. jillian: i also think that a lot of governors are as we've heard multiple times, the president say that he's working hand in hand with the governors they are having conversations, a lot of this too goes hand in hand with getting the economy open with being able to have the amount of testing that we need to be able to have the testing to see if you currently have the virus to be also, to also have the testing to see if you have the antibodies for it so it's not just one thing at play here. it's everything and there is a way to do all. griff: well of course, and look, this is not what we see with these protests so far, my children don't want to stay home when i make them stay home.

they want to do things. all americans want to get out and do things. this isn't just as pete pointed out about wanting to defy an order because you don't like it. this is about the principle, it's the forces that play in those local and state municipalities that's going to be the source of the frustration and as we see some begin to reopen some conditions become more suitable where the company to bounce back it's more difficult for the others to not follow suit. pete: just like the generals are ultimately not in charge of the military, it's civilian control with the president, the health experts are also not in control of the country's response. it is the president, and the governors who listen to the economists and listen to the health care experts and strike the balance jillian you've been talking about in this case. it deals very heavy handed from some and we'll see where it goes so we'll continue to follow these protesters and have them on the show, let their voice be heard but there's also another part of this coronavirus angle that's getting a lot of play and

griff you were spit and vinegar this morning at 5:50 over this story in the new york times griff: well the new york times has got a headline here and the copy that i've got it says " gop aiming to make china the s cape goal, the online version blame china utility and it is astounding, the new york times doesn't know what china knew when they knew it. none of us do because china has lied and suppressed that information and now there's a global appreciate you campaign to get those answers, but yet, they want to put an article out that the gop is merely trying to engage in pointing the blame. here are the facts. in late december, patient wherever he or she is contract ed the disease, china suppresses the information for at least six days and the world health organization decides to go in concert with china in saying that human-to-

human transmission is not evident in any way. it isn't until 48 days later that the world health organization declares it a pandemic after which the president in the end of january 31 stops flights from china to the u.s. , but yet, in those early days, we do know for a fact that china stopped flights internally. there are so many critical information data questions that need to be asked. one of them is not right now, who is going to be to blame in november. jillian: and you know you make a good point, griff, about the fact that we don't even know all of the information yet, the new york times doesn't know, we don't know all of the information yet about everything that transpired that's why there's an investigation going on right now to try to figure that out but pete what we do know is that we didn't have all of the facts at first. oftentimes i find myself thinking back to that moment when we were first starting to report that wuhan they were building that hospital in a

matter of days and it was that point where everyone is like okay they are building this for a reason what is really going on? they weren't forthcoming with the information the world needed pete: haven't been. here is what we do know about the new york times. they hate donald trump and anyone that supports him, and they are the lead dog in the blame america first crowd and because that's their globali sts who view the world that way, friendly with the chinese, joe biden has been friendly with the chinese, they are looking for ways to politicize the fact that donald trump has said what other political leaders won't do which is we have to stare down china and not be dependent upon them from a trade perspective so he's been clear on his chinese message, the new york times continued to fail us, griff as they always do. griff: and we'll see , pete, what the investigation turns up, because there was a conner praising the who last night a lot of stars and of course now the new york times placing the blame on republicans, but i would tell you i'd pause it that when it's all over we know a little bit more about it, it's

going to point with all roads leading to china's deception. jillian: we will stay on top of that in the meantime let's start with a fox news alert now. stores are expected to file bankruptcy as soon as this week. the retailer is deep in debt and struggling even more amid losses caused by the coronavirus shutdown. nieman marcus closed its doors temporarily for 14,000 employees furloughed. >> several states set to reopen, marinas and boat yards governors of new york, new jersey and connecticut say the reopenings are for personal use only and that people must maintain social distance. chartered and rental services will remain closed and restaurants can only serve take out or delivery. >> a federal judge blocked kansas from limiting church gatherings. a judge ruling the governor violated the first amendment by banning religious gatherings of 10 or more people and the decision will remain in effect until may 2, and her order was not about religion but

a public health crisis. those are your headlines. pete: another one who believes that the bill of rights is above her pay grade. thankfully, the court stepped in this is where if it doesn't pass the common sense test for people they are not going to want to follow it and if i can responsibly social distance or stay in my car and go to my church that has nothing to do with stopping the spread and everything to do with an arbitrary crackdown. griff: interesting. jillian: all about being safe. griff: up next china takes center stage in the 2020 race as the president, joe biden, trade attacks, live report on how crucial a tough stance on china could be to winning the white house, stay tuned.

pete: the coronavirus now turning the issue of china into a 2020 issue. president trump and former vice president biden clashing over the u.s. response to the pandemic. david spunt joins us with more on the campaign come flick.

david good morning. >> pete, good morning to you. on april 6 both men spoke on the phone and they had a cordial conversation, a productive conversation talking about moving the country forward through coronavirus, and since then both men have said listen they want to keep politics out of it so guess what they'vevery not been able to keep politics out of it. both campaigns taking swipes at each other talking about how the other one is responding to the coronavirus crisis. it didn't take long though for that campaign to creep in, china no question, becoming an important issue during this campaign. president trump: i think you have numerous countries waiting to see whether or not sleepy joe wins because if sleepy joe won they own our country. they will take our country, and if sleepy joe biden wins, you'll own the united states, and china will own the united states. >> but first former vice president joe biden not sitting back by any means. he's out with this ad hitting the president for his coronavirus response. >> donald trump left this

country unprepared and unprotected for the worst public health and economic crisis in our lifetime, and now, we are paying the price. >> both campaigns spending millions of dollars specifically on this issue, pete. no question, this is going to be such a big issue if not the biggest issue on the debate stage this fall. back to you. pete: david thank you very much. no doubt it'll be a huge issue, guys, griff you've been following normally following the campaign on the trail, now virtually. when you look at this issue and how both sides are playing it what's your takeaway? griff: well look in that same article in just the last segment , they do go into giving some fair criticism to president trump for being praising china's response early on. now, whether he wasn't fully informed because china wasn't forthcoming, then that's for another day, perhaps to be sorted out, but as we go on the campaign trail, you're going

to see a really very differing way that this would have been handled one of which in president trump's case involves shutting down flights when he was being called a xenophobe and racist and now, withholding the unthinkable withholding funding for who until they're brought to account. jillian: the president got so much criticism, griff for making that move back in the end of january, right? stopping the flights. pete: correct. griff: january 31. pete: and the criticism came from former vice president joe biden, amongst others calling him a xenophobe. it's going to be hard to connect those dots to the biden campaign to somehow make donald trump pro -china when he's stared them down on trade, when ultimately, he's been willing to call them out, call it the chinese virus, call out their duplies it and joe biden, his career, he's often downplayed the chinese threat, his sons worked with companies there. he's been behind the curve on

coronavirus, so both sides are going to spin it with campaign a ds, what matters is how it translates in the minds of voters. jillian: still ahead as michigan residents protest their governor 's strict stay-at-home order, lawn care businesses are taking the governor to court. two people who work in the industry and the attorney who filed the lawsuit join us next.

pete: well thousands of michigan residents protesting governor wh itmer's strict stay-at-home order and so are businesses challenging her in the courtroom. on friday, the michigan nursery and landscape association filed a lawsuit against the governor arguing her order is not being applied fairly.

joining us now is the attorney who filed the suit, john birch, and two people in the lawn care business, john darren jr. , president of english gardens and chris walton, co-owner of walton lawn care. thank you all for being here this morning. ladies first, i'll start with you. as someone who owns a garden center, what has happened to you and how is the government treated your business? >> well, we are representing thousands of business owners like us in the state of michigan it's our peak season, and it's devastating to the entire industry. we have customers that want us to come. they don't understand why we can't. we have lost revenue, employees that are laid off that we're trying to take care of, unused inventory, and customer retention issue that really is a problem. pete: chris we're talking about lawn care right so you're going to people's homes to help them with their lawn. what does that have to do with social distancing?

>> our employees work solo. they are the ultimate social distancers, they work outside, they have their own truck, their own equipment, personal protective equipment to keep them isolated from the rest of the world and the only contact they have is with customers through the telephone. pete: wow. john, on your side, what have you seen with your business? >> well first of all thank you very much for letting us come on pete: of course, thank you. >> our hearts and prayers to gout "people that have lost loved ones and friends and the frontline healthcare providers. we've been in business for 66 years. we have six garden center praise s, along detroit as well as a landscape operation our stores were all geared up for spring and suddenly we closed down on march 25, and we had to lay off over 200 people. in peak season we'll employ up to 400 people, so april is a very big month for us, our sales will be zero for april, and may

is the biggest month of the year and june follows, so now, people because of this virus haven't been able to find vegetable plants to grow in their gardens or flowers to plant which is great mental health therapy and when you do those things all of a sudden you realize you have tomatoes so we feel we can prepare a very safe workplace for our employees and our customers to shop, because our stores have large up-store areas it's not necessary for a customer to even come in a store pete: john, i was able to go to home depot and buy many of those goods the other day. i know there are walmart and target and other big box stores in your state who sell many of the goods that you sell as well. why are they able to stay open yet you're told to stay closed? >> well and the governor's last order, she closed all of the box stores non-essential departments which included their garden

centers. pete: so you can mingle with other stuff but you can't mingle with that stuff? >> right, their plants initially were deemed more essential than ours, but she has closed them now but it's not being enforced very well in some communities. pete: of course not. >> people are still able to buy pete: well, they fixed it by inflicting more pain as opposed to allowing you to in a common sense way open up your business and provide livelihood and plants for people. john i want to go to the law side of this you brought this suit, tell us the prospects >> about the prospects of getting an order that will stop the governors order as applied to these businesses some time this week. you have to understand that michigan is the only state in the country that prohibits the basic landscaping and lawn care services that we're talking about in this lawsuit, and what's more the order specifically allows public employees to mow the grass and trim branches and things like that in public parks, while prohibiting private businesses from doing the same for

compensation. and what's sad about this is there are elderly out there who need their grass taken care of and because they can't hire out these services, they're starting to get public nuisance orders from their local government, because their grass is too long. so what we need is a dose of common sense here in the midst of the stay-at-home order. pete: i don't mean to smirk, because it's not funny, but it's so lacking in any common sense that it makes decent people just look sideways. i'm going to go back to you briefly, chris. are you going to be able to survive this as a business? >> we will. some companies won't. many won't, and it's certainly not going to be our best year. pete: john, let me ask you the same thing. you said zero revenue in april. are you able to get access to funds? what are your prospects? >> we were able to get the sba paycheck loan. that's going to help, but it's going to be very difficult the next 12-18 months for us i

think, losing the amount of business we've already lost and depending what our may and june season looks like, but we will survive, and we will get our employees back working and we will be taking care of our customers. pete: chris and john i can tell you have a love both for your employees, who you respect and want them to get back to work and also your customers who you have longstanding relationships with. thank you both and john, as an attorney, thank you for taking up their cause and giving us the information this morning we appreciate you all. good luck. >> my pleasure. >> thank you. pete: all right, we reached out to the governor' office and did not hear back as of right now. still ahead, president trump calling on congress to replenish the emergency fund for small businesses. how close are lawmakers to a deal? we'll ask congressman devon nunes that's next. (somber music) - this is an urgent message

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president trump: she thinks it's politics i don't think it's good politics. nancy pelosi has been blocking it, schumer has been blocking it and i think they think it's good politics. i don't think it's good politics i think it's bad politics but i don't care about the politics. it's so great for our country. nancy pelosi is blocking it she sits in her house in san francisco overlooking the ocean and she doesn't want to come back. she doesn't want to come back to d.c. she's got to get back and get this thing approved it's very important.

pete: that was the president yesterday at the briefing talking about the prospects of a deal to replenish the coffers of the ppp program that's helped and could help so many small businesses. let's bring in california gop congressman devon nunes ranking member of the house intel committee, member of the house ways and means committee as well congressman thanks for joining us. where are we right now? and is nancy pelosi playing an above-forward game here and where are we in getting a deal? >> well thank you for having me on. pete: of course. >> what i would say is if any republican leader if mitch mcconnell or kevin mccarthy or any of our speakers in the past would have done something like pelosi did where she's sitting at home in front of her refrigerator with a $24,000 freezer that i don't think too many of us have except maybe for griff i think he may have one. pete: he might. jillian: [laughter] >> but here is the deal. it be a fatal flaw. we would boot mcconnell or

mccarthy out of leadership just like that. they would have been out four days ago the minute that popped up. when you have people, 20 million people unemployed and you have people that can't get paychecks you just had on the last segment they can't even mow their damn law in michigan what the hell is going on and she's sitting in san francisco eating gourmet ice cream? it doesn't fly out in the real-world. griff: congressman, fill disclosure my fridge is so tiny my daughters complain we can barely get one pint of ice cream in there but let me ask you because pelosi put out a letter yesterday last night about the talks are ongoing and she's feeling confident about progress being made. can you take us inside what you're hearing about talks and how close we are to actually se? >> well, we had a conference call yesterday. we have another one scheduled for tonight. i know the republican leader mccarthy is on his way back to washington right now and we'll have another conference call so the idea is she would plus up

the money for the paycheck protection, so that we can keep people employed and also give money for hospitals. that seems like a logical great plan, has huge bipartisan support, i think it's one the american people would understand. jillian: do you have confidence it'll get done this week? >> well, i would think so. it's like i said at the beginning when you have a leader that makes such a fatal flaw, what be a fatal flaw for a republican, for a democrat the media is covering up, fox and a few others are the only ones covering that, but if you have mitch mcconnell with a bunch of gourmet ice cream, he be thrown out of leadership immediately. pete: totally right double standards glaring. by the way can you prevent any kennedy center-type funding as we saw in the last one where they slipped in money for their friends or are they going to try to do that again? >> the only way you can prevent it is by not giving them the vote, but at the end of the day you have to judge, is it okay to not be paying people that can't mow their lawn in michigan? versus $25 million for whatever

the hell the democrats want to use for the kennedy center which i said last week on your show still has not been turned into a covid response center last time i checked. pete: very very true. griff: let me take you to a different topic for just a moment. pete has been egging me on. i've really been pressing hard on china. the president warned china it could be facing consequences yesterday and of course, you've got vice president biden weigh ing in as well. let me give you a little bit of what the president said about chinese consequences and get your reaction. here is the president. president trump: well if they were knowingly responsible certainly if it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake, but if they were knowingly responsible yeah then there should be consequences. you're talking about potentially lives like nobody has seen since 1917. i think you have numerous countries waiting to see whether or not sleepy joe wins because

if sleepy joe won they own our country. for years i've heard by 2019 china will catch us. there's only one problem trump got elected in 2016. pete: [laughter] griff: your reaction? >> so the house republicans have been running an investigation into china on the intelligence committee for many many years. we were the first to identify that we had a 5g problem that huawei and zte chinese companies were looking to own all of the networks all over the globe, so we've been on this for a while and remember, we were dealing with the russia hoax in the last congress. at the same time the house republicans were trying to run an investigation into china, and the democrats finally, we had a public hearing on this and they hijacked the hearing to try to subpoena whatever russian of the week they were looking after and so this has been a challenge for us to get china on the forefront. i think now, both republicans and democrats realize this and i'll just to finish that, the issue with this virus and china, the unusual part from the

beginning of this is just how contagious this virus has been, and what we need to know is did they do something to this virus to speed it up and i think that's the real question. pete: for sure. you mentioned the investigation, got to get your take. newly unclassified footnotes show that the fbi knew that documents used for fisa warrants were bogus. explain this. >> so what the american people are seeing is everything is coming into clear view, what the republicans on the house intelligence committee have been looking at for a while, the documents that have been declassified. there's been a lot of documents declassified in the last week. i'd summit up like this and this is really important for folks that follow this russia hoax closely. if you look at there's essentially three what i'd call phony documents, also called a dossier. you have the steele clinton fusion gps dossier that the fbi was involved in, there's a bunch

of questions there durham is looking at. you have the intelligence community assessment that was done by the obama administration and the days of 2016 before obama left office and donald trump came in. remember that was the document that said oh, yeah the russians were trying to help trump. well now we know there's lots of lies and omisions which i would say not only mislead congress, but mislead the american people. the third dossier is what people call the mueller report. the mueller report, i call the mueller dossier, okay? because it's also filled with both lies and omisions, and remember you have people that have been prosecuted over this , that have already spent time in jail over this. why when mueller and his team, this great team of experts that doj and fbi they brought all these people in, where the hell is all of that information now that you guys are all now seeing for the first time here in the last week? why did we not know about george papadopoulos being offered this

money, okay from russia. who were those russians and so moving forward you have the three dossiers that have to be investigated. i'm also interested in three russians that actually russian americans that we're looking into and then i would say final ly, in 2016 we know from great works that trey gowdy did at the time in questioning that the cia gave information over to the fbi in 2016. we now are laser focused on that we need to know exactly what did the cia give to the fbi in 2016? that's what our investigation is now focusing on. griff: it'll be interesting to see if we get that congressman i doubt they open that in the house, and maybe senator lindsey graham who now runs the judiciary committee will take a deeper look. pete: you've been on the case for the beginning thanks for staying on it congressman we appreciate you. >> absolutely and griff your mu

llett is looking good, man. griff: thank you, appreciate it, thank you, congressman. jillian: the stock market set to open tomorrow morning after two straight weeks of gains. griff: what can we credit for this? maria bartiromo will explain it.

griff: quick headlines century- old german breweries at risk of shutting down because of the pandemic. they're struggling without visitors or business from local bars and restaurants, with mass gatherings banded until september. here is a little hope on the horizon. the brewery you see here was just forced to close after being in business since 1617. >> and your beer with the supply of carbon dioxide running low amid the pandemic, sparking shortage concerns for beer, soda and the gas is a by-product of ethanol production, but the problem is ethanol producers closed plants and drastically

cut production because of low demand. something i know maria bartiromo will care about for sure. pete? pete: i think you'll find a way to keep the phase somehow. tomorrow morning the stock market set to reopen for the first time since friday 's close that marked two straight weeks of gains and trading experts crediting the feds policies for avoiding a complete economic meltdown amid the pandemic. jillian: here to react is "sunday morning futures" host maria bartiromo. good morning to you, maria. maria: hi there guys how are you doing good morning to you. jillian: good morning we'll take this bit of good news while we have it. this is we are looking up. this is something positive that i think everyone can take hold right now. maria: yeah, no, you're right. look i think the fact that the conversation has shifted to when we will open, let's talk about phases in terms of reopening the economy, and that and the progress that we've seen on the pharmaceutical side of things, you've got treatments being spoken about, whether it's hydroxychloroquine or the gilead drug remdesivir, and that's very positive, and we

know that a vaccine is a year and a half out this upcoming week you've got first quarter earnings coming out they are largely going to be down across-the-board but the markets are looking to head to when we get out of this , which they are looking at a path to do so with the president's guidelines. pete: absolutely, maria you've always been courageous and out front and this week fox did reporting pointing to the wuhan lab, and the fact that this pandemic emanated from there in some way, shape, or form. on february 16, you were the first to have senator cotton on your show to talk about something just like that. you took a lot of heat for it at the time. now, look who is on to something maria: yeah, i know you're right and you know, senator cotton was real courageous to come out and say look one thing that we know for sure that it did not originate in that open wet market, that was so talked about so much when the coronavirus first became apparent to everybody and the reason that he knew that is because a portion of the people who were infected

never went to that open market, and he also said very point blank, on my show on that day on february 16, what we do know is that the biochemical lab, the only level iv super lab located in china is in fact located in wuhan and it's only a couple of miles away and by the way what do they do at that chemical lab? they study coronavirus. and so senator cotton came out and i featured it on the show and i'm really happy that i did. i will say you're right. i got slammed after it and because i raised the issue of this biochemical lab but that is exactly where this is leading. griff: good for you for doing it because i want to point out you did that on february 16. now, on friday, china when asked about this lab said it was the who that tells them there's no scientific basis for that but yesterday the who would not declare a pandemic until march 11 nearly a month after you went out and pointed out the

wuhan look and for that i give you huge kudos. maria: [laughter] thank you so much. well we've got the timeline we're going to show in my show in the next 10 minutes and we're going to show how china has downplayed this from the get go. don't forget they knew about the coronavirus at the end of november into december 2019 and then they sent the whole delegation to the white house to do a phase i trade deal. they didn't tell the white house about coronavirus until after they left the white house for that phase i deal and then they sent the largest delegation ever sent to davos and they didn't mention it then, and it wasn't until later that we recognized that this was going to be a pandemic. we're going to talk with peter navarro among the first to say look, this is real trouble this is going to cause trillions in terms of market value and talk with him, steve bannon and we've got a couple of members from the president's task force to reopen the economy coming up at 10:00 guys. pete: maria i'm sure your in box will be full of i'm sorries from your critics no doubt you're the

best. maria: [laughter] jillian: have a good show. pete: still ahead, a dynamomite alter ego is getting one minnesota family through quarantine. watch. >> i think we really like this. >> no. >> [laughter] >> oh, my god. griff: i love it. lucky for you the dadosaur and his family will join us. you don't want to miss it we saved the best for last. rving ts you love. delicious subs made fresh and easy to get for takeout or delivery. and now, with our family takeout special, get a free footlong when you buy two. ♪

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knock it off. >> [laughter] >> don't. >> [laughter] >> knock it off. >> stop it. jillian: [laughter] griff: [laughter] pete: this is what this weeks in quarantine looks like for one minnesota family. jillian: frankie turning into his alter ego dadosaur becoming an internet sensation. griff: frankie joins us now with his wife christine and beautiful daughters olive and ellie. i mean, i don't even know where to begin. frankie, what in the world brought that on? >> oh, a lifetime of living with this wonderful family.

pete: obviously, you seem to have a playful nature and a great rapport as a family. christine you seem to not love it as much though maybe? >> no, this experience has been very eye opening, having all of the girls at home and realizing that a lot gets video tape and put out there. so i've learned a lot. jillian: how many times have you had to clean? >> he cleans. any of this , i mean, yeah. >> it isn't even my fault and they make me clean every time. i don't know how that woks out. pete: i love it. griff: now, olive, it seems that you have some specific powers to trigger dadosaur is that correct >> um, it seems that way. every time i tend to say it he turns into this alter ego as you said. griff: can you do me a favor and

say it right now? >> do you want me to say it now griff: yeah, trigger him. >> okay. >> you're going to say it now? >> if they want me to. pete: yeah! >> i think that the world would really love dadosaur. >> [laughter] >> [making dinosaur sounds] >> oh, no! griff: unbelievable. olive, well done. pete: how do you turn him off? jillian: you guys are lucky. i've seen so many comments that people say if my dad doesn't do dadosaur, i don't know. i want dadosaur as my dad. this is incredible. pete: you guys we got to leave it there, the magic of tv thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. we're big fans. jillian: keep going dadosaur.

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pete: well griff do i see a dadosaur in your future? griff: i could never repeat that he was so good and america thanks him for it. pete: we thank you both jillian thanks for being with us. jillian: thank you guys thank you everyone on on the frontline s. pete: have a great sunday. go to church. maria: happy sunday beings everybody. welcome to "sunday morning futures" i'm maria bartiromo, we have breaking news this morning, barbaric moves from china over the weekend, arrests of pro- democracy leaders saturday including media tycoon jimmy lie as the fight for freedom in hong kong continues, and all this as the united states is plotting a three-phase plan to reopen the economy amid more signs emerging that indicate the coronavirus escaped from that super lab in china, senator tom cotton told us about back in february. >> we don't know where it originated but we do know that we have to get to the bottom of that and we also know that just a few miles away from that food market is china's only biosafe