them clapping for the first responders every night it's just beautiful. rob: a lot of tornadoes to the south, texas, oklahoma, the house voting today, trying to get this phase 3.5 more funding for the small businesses and that will do it for us. jillian: "fox & friends" starts right now. brian: working to open america. several states unveiling plans to loosen coronavirus restrictions allowing americans to get back to work. steve: when it is safe. meanwhile the state of oklahoma set to reopen some businesses as early as tomorrow ots golden state of california gives the green light for elective surgeries in some cases to resume, ainsley. jillian: that'ainsley. ainsley: that's exactly right. a live look on capitol hill where just a few hours the house is set to vote on phase 3.5 of the coronavirus stimulus plan. brian: all right. griff jenkins knows this already that's why he got dressed this

morning as nancy pelosi backtracks on proxy voting where can you vote from your pricy kitchen. so far republicans weren't going for that, griff. griff: no kitchen voting yet, brian, ainsley, steve. pelosi's proxy voting plans got pushed to the side after republicans were willing to revolt over it. pass that urge bill. massive pangs won't stop there phase 4 is expected to have funds for state and local governments and a fight is brewing between senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and the nations governors. mcconnell is weary of more unrestricted aid to the states who are requesting an additional 500 billion in the next relief package. and he made a strong statement in a radio interview wednesday saying states facing severe budget short falls should have the option of declaring bankruptcy. >> i would certainly being in favor of allowing cities to us e bankruptcy route. it saves some cities. borrow money from future

generations to send it down to them now so they don't have to do it. that's not something i'm going to be in favor of. griff: those comments drew a furious response from new jersey's governor phil murphy. >> come on, man, that is completely and utterly irresponsible. we will gut the living daylights in every state in america out of the services, the exact services that our citizens right now. griff: to be clear current law prohibits straights declaring bankruptcy. we seal where that goes. another thing to watch today, guys, in addition to the relief bill also consider resolution creating a select committee on coronavirus oversight. actual voting, which will begin around 10:00 a.m. will look very different. they will be operating under safety circumstances, very unique limiting the amount of members allowed on the floor wearing masks and requiring social distancing. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: griff that is right it. is all about safety in the

voting. that's why they are going to start some time afternoon they should be all wrapped up by 4:00. what mitch mcconnell was just talking about on that radio show, you know, while it may anger the state of new jersey, the governor here, there are some who say that is actually a smart thing to do. if you have another half a trillion dollars in stimulus for a lot of states, you know, if a state were to do what some cities are able to do and declare bankruptcy. they could reduce pension; bond debt currently off limits to states. however, some cities can do it. art laffer looks at that question about whether the states and there are a particular number that really need and it why. he talked about it last night on the story with martha. >> when i listen to the discussion of the states, especially connecticut. especially illinois, especially new jersey, these states have been so bad in their fiscal controls that they have run out of money. they are in bad shape.

people are leaving the states in droves. and then they want the federal government to bail them out? i don't think so. this is their problem. illinois, michigan, new york, connecticut. new jersey. these states have had a big problem long before coronavirus came and coronavirus came along and just popped them. and they don't need to be bailed out by the federal government, believe me. nor do a lot of other people. but especially not these states. ainsley: he brings up some really good points, guys. we have all heard these stories living up here in the tri-state area. many people who are in the city in new york city have moved out to the suburbs. getting out of the urban area because our city is going through so much. they are not going to go back. people aren't selling their apartment in the city. people who own apartments in the city and trying to sell them they are worried about that because people are getting out. they are moving out because taxes are high. now they are realizing you can

have an easier life. you can have a yard. the schools are really good. the public schools are really good. people are trying to make decisions. he brings up a good if you are in debt before because of decisions you made as a governor, should the country come in and bail you out because of coronavirus. brian? brian: ainsley, you are describing life before coronavirus where people were leaving high tax states in droves. ainsley: that's true. brian: a lot had to do with the new tax structure no longer write downstate taxes so all the sudden people say why am i here? i'm going to florida and texas and tennessee and nashville specifically. governor cuomo and all these other state governors are right. they have had the coronavirus drill their tax revenue down to zero. it doesn't mean they have patience for the prophets profig

upset lives on hold. governor cuomo went back to his old arrogant ways and said. this. >> i get the economic hardship. everybody gets it. everybody feels it. you want to go to work, go take a job as an essential worker. do it tomorrow. there are people hiring. can you get a job as an essential worker. so now you can go to work and be an essential worker and you are not going to kill anyone. brian: okay. so that's nice. can you go over and hold and become an essential worker or work for the state or go into the medical profession; however, let's say you had a career in a different direction that you feel you could pull off. let's say you were a manager at dick's sporting goods and you feel as though you want to continue with that career or you were the general manager at a chain restaurant. if governor cuomo has his way, you should stop being so selfish, give up your career, make less money and do something that he deems essential. and sits back there as his

paycheck goes directly deposited into his checking account. inexcusable. steve: there are some states like georgia where they are going to start relaxing things, and yesterday the president disagreed with the governor down there, he says yeah, i'm not so sure that it's time to actually or there's a way to safely get a tattoo or go to the barber or the salon or things like that. but, down there, i was reading in the "wall street journal" today the whole question is as they do it, it's all about safety. and then also, about demand as well. because, you know, they can open places up. there is a bowling alley near an air force base they have 50 lanes. they have decided they are going to try to open up by reservation every third lane, no food served. if you want a drink, order it on the intercom, they will bring it to you behind you. but, in the meantime, the attorney general was talking with hugh hewitt a couple of days ago about how some states

have gone too far with the stay-at-home order. and he said, you know, when you look at stay-at-home orders, they're kind of like chemotherapy for coronavirus. and he around with we are getting to the point where we are killing the patient. well, let me tell you. the attorney general has taken a lot of heat for saying this. >> we're looking carefully at a number of these rules that are being put into place. and if we think one goes too far we initially dry to jaw pope the governors into rolling them back or adjusting them. if they are not and people file lawsuits we file statements of interest and side with the plaintiffs. as lawsuits good morning as specific cases emerge in the states, we'll take a look at them. ages ages you mentioned is he getting a lot of heat for that listen to what the media said yesterday. >> attorney general william barr who is not a medical doctor going after the white house guidelines for gradually lifting stay-at-home rules. >> trump has picked up an assist

in his campaign to reopen the country from compliant and helpful and loyal attorney general bill barr. >> what is motivating this administration when it comes to these rolling reopenings? is it health, the economy or the election in november? ainsley: you might not agree with what these protesters are doing. but they have the god-given right to do it. we live in america and they are free to go and protest these states that have these stay-at-home orders. >> i understand these governors don't want to get back too quickly. they really want the testing to come out. i definitely think we need to prioritize if we are going to open back up. you mentioned georgia, steve. the governor there is getting a lot of heat because he is really opening up that state even the president yesterday and lindsey graham the day before said, you know, i think you might be opening up too quickly. the president said i don't agree with how quickly you are opening up; however, you are the governor and you have the right to do that. the only issue i have with what they're doing in georgia is we

need to slowly reopen, we need to prioritize. we need to look to the scientists and the doctors and the administration, the people who are experts here and follow their pat follow their guidelines they came up with a plan phase 1, phase 2, phase 3 georgia is opening up things not in phase 1. tattoo pafer lores is that a priority right now? be careful. we don't want to go through this as a country brian and steve and take a step back and do it all over again. we have been through so much. let's take baby steps. it's not a lit switch where we are going to do this quickly, right? brian: right. unless you are running a tattoo parlor you can't believe you are high fiving today and get back to work and put those safety measures in. georgia. ainsley: brian, how are you social distance yourself if you are getting a tattoo you are not 6 feet away. brian: same way to get within 6 feet.

same way surgeons get within 6 feet. ainsley: that's true but those are priorities. brian: non-corona patients. there is a way to do it. if it's not acceptable they are not going to go. in that's the marketplace. you make a good point, ainsley, oklahoma, florida, georgia, south carolina, tennessee and texas all open up around the same time. georgia you are about to get some company and pennsylvania as well neither is governor whitmer who tells us not to buy seed or home improvement production. you a d.a. does city i care about people i want to make sure some people have somebody watching their back because no one seems to be they keep on saying stay inside, don't do admission. don't play ball. you better do shopping. if not we have a drown over your head to tell on you or de blasio is going to say pick up the

phone and turn your neighbor in. attorney general god forbid says i'm going to watch your back, american people, republicans and democrats, and they are offended by that. i'm offended that they are offended. figure that out. so let's go over to jillian mele who never offenders me, i watched you for two hours this morning. jillian: thank goodness. thank you, brian. start off with this fox news alert now. new tornadoes are on the ground right now following an outbreak leaving at least six people dead. jillian: this twister devastating oklahoma. buildings being torn apart one of 27 reported. the wind so powerful it flipped this tractor-trailer on its side. in texas a tornadoes ripping through on alaska north of houston leaving behind a trail of destruction. u.s. health official claiming he

was removed from his post after greetion with the white house coronavirus response team. >> i never heard of him. you just mentioned a name. i never heard of him. when did this happen? >> this happened today. >> never heard of him. if a guy says he was pushed out of a job. maybe he was. maybe he wasn't. i don't know who he is. jillian: he oversaw the agency in charge of coronavirus research. he was moved to a lesser role after he disagreed with the trump administration push to expand the availability of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. dennis rodman telling his friend is he praying for kim jong un. is he hoping reports the reports north korean leader is in critical condition is a rumor. they go back years. he last visited north korea in 2017. tonight the first round of this year's nfl draft kicks off. >> the virtual draft starts at 8 eastern time from roger

goodell's basement. brett favre will join us 8:00 hour to talk all things draft and griff give us his pick. latest video to welcome ron gronkowski back to the nfl. ♪ will. [gron.. >> from the movie anchorman appearing lure gronkowski. out of retirement. they are really having fun with, this guys. steve: yeah, no kidding. stay classy, world. awesome. first thing we are actually going to be able to see live which will be fantastic. ainsley: yeah. people are excited about it. brian: next couple days we will be able to see it. i'm curious about what brett favre is going to say about

switching teams late in his career. that's exactly what tom brady did. that's actually what he did. and he had a lot of success with the vikings as pete hegseth knows. go ahead. steve: well, there you go. so that's coming up tonight. in the meantime later today the house of representatives, lawmakers there set to vote on billions of dollars, half a trillion, actually, in new coronavirus aid. how soon can americans expect some sort of relief? we're going to talk to georgia congressman doug collins coming up next. my patients

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paycheck. we just increased it by $310 billion. i urge the house to pass the bill without delay. steve: later today on capitol hill the house set to vote on that nearly half a trillion-dollar relief program, rescue program to bring more relief to millions of americans impacted by covid-19 this as speaker nancy pelosi pull as plug on proxy voting following republican backlash. joining us now republican florida congressman doug collins. good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. how are you? steve: i'm doing okay. but there are a lot of people across the country thinking hey, congress, come on, what's taking so long? help us. >> i agree with you. we should have done this a week and a half ago. this is when the administration and the president asked for this. the president made it very clear we had a program that was working. secretary mnuchin talked about this. taken this long before we could get speaker pelosi and finally ms. schumer on board in the

senate. we're going to vote it out today. it's going to get to the president's desk. he will sign it and these businesses who need that money are going to get that help that they need because we are in a time now which we don't have the health of our country will we have the economic health. steve: looked like $310 billion will be earmarked for the paycheck protection program which the president was just talking about. but when you look at some of the money, you know, it's frustrating to see, you know, harvard was getting a bunch of money. they decided to not take it. stanford is not going to take the money. prince ton is not going to take the money. yale is not going to take the money. then when you look at other colleges that are going to take the money. you have columbia university one of america's most elite universities taking 13 million. arizona state university is going to take 63 million. penn state 55 million. cornell 12 million. usc is going to take $20 million as well. i know josh hawley in the senate is going to introduce some sort of legislation that would limit

the amount you can get if you have an endowment at your university above a certain threshold. >> i think we need to look at that. that's what happens though steve whether you have a situation like this when you need to get a lot of money to a lot of people real quickly. a lot of people that don't need it eligible to take it. it's do you need it? are there other people out there 74% of the first round went to payrolls less than 60,000 a month. that means we are getting a lot to small businesses. we do have the outliers that's what happens when you trying to get money to folks quickly. steve: i think that's probably right. i'm sure of the governor of your state, his ears were ringing last night because he disagrees with the president and the president made it clear maybe he is going too fast. watch this. i told the governor of georgia brian kemp that i disagree, strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phase

one guidelines. at the same time, he must do what he thinks is right. they can wait a little bit longer because safety has to predominate. steve: it's all about safety. and, you know. i was reading an article today from the atlanta journal constitution where it talk as little bit about how people in the atlanta area where they are close to 6 million people, you know, they are a little worried about it. whereas people outlines of the metropolitan area, they are like, you know, there are no cases here. we're probably going to be okay. >> the president wants the country open. i want the country open. the governor wants the country open. the problem is how do you do it? that's the problem with leadership. leadership is about communicating. when you are not communicating clearly. look, the governor did not take away the stay-at-home order. yet, selectively decided certain businesses are going to open up. i will tell you this: my concern was not having the local input into that. up in my area which is north of atlanta. we are having increase in cases in my local hospital they are seeing a rapid increase.

so it is, depending on the spot, that's where i think locals needed to have more input and made people nervous. clear communication is what has to happen. when you are telling people to still stay at home but yet we are going to open certain businesses that creates a problem in which people are not sure what to do. steve: sure. i know congressman right after this interview you are going to somehow travel to d.c. how are you going to logistically do this? i mean, because have you got to go vote on it because it's not by, you know, zoom or anything like that. you actually got to show up in the big room. >> we do. they are actually going to be having different places for us to enter. enter in by alphabetical designations so we can do our social distancing and keep our votes away from each other. look, conscious is -- should be working. i think for us to get back up there and do this vote is important for the american people to see we are concerned about what's going on. we are making this happen. we can do this. we can be safe, and we can also do our job at the same time.

steve: all right. good luck to you. stay safe. >> thank you. steve: if it's alphabetical you will be one of the first ones doug collins from georgia. thank you, sir. good luck. >> thank you. steve: 6:24 here in the east. antilockdown protests have erupted across the nation as millions are going without a job. they want to work. our next guest says this reveals a tale of two americans. his message for the protesters you are going to want to hear it. it's coming up next. i just love hitting the open road and telling people

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will save american education from itself which is a great topic its n. itself. harr harlan, first off when i look at the protests media is writing who is behind this? why would anyone protest? why what don't they get about the unrest people feel? >> one thing they don't know is people are hurting. law processor like me you have a professor you still get a paycheck. people who work for media they are inconvenienced working from home but money still come in. a friend who run as skin care studio and she has had no money in almost six weeks and her land lord is not working with her and she is going to have to move. there is just a lot of people out there who are just not seeing any money coming in. and they are really hurting, and, yet, their pain is just kind of dismissed by all the sort of powers that be and loudest voices in the media. it's not surprising they are angry about that.

brian: look, we understand, no one's fault coronavirus except the chirnz. we get it. you want to blame people natural reaction i understand it. having said that how could you watch protesters that might be sales people car dealerships. construction workers told they are nonessential or people that might be upset because their surgery to have a knee replacement is put on hold. how could you not el empathize h that? yet, they want to attack the attorney general for sticking up for the american citizen. >> yeah. it's really been a bad showing for a lot of our sort of political ruling class. i mean, have you got your worse cases, of course, which is like gretchen whitmer in michigan who acts like angry third great teacher telling people if you protest my quarantine i will lock you down for longer. that will teach you. you are seeing some reso thing. houston police saying they are not going to enforce the mayor's

order that everyone wear masks. going to throw people in jail for not wearing masks. there is good there is some push back. i was an early advocate of quarantine. i want to be clear. it's been done in my community here in knoxville. our city and county mayor locked us down early. we are down to very few cases and it's worked great. there has to be some compassion here when you are full of arrogance and con de condescensd foot downs. even if you think you are public health genius if you are acting in ways that makes people want to revolt and break your rules you are not a public health genius you aren idiot. you are doing it wrong. public health is managing people. you can't manage people by treating them like garbage. brian: hey, professor, i think this might be right up your alley. here is governor cuomo yesterday. >> you want to go to work? go take the job as an essential worker. do it tomorrow.

right? you are working. >> i am. >> you are an essential worker. go take a job as an essential worker. >> but people aren't hiring. >> no. there are people hiring. can you get a job as an essential worker. so now you can go to work and you can be an essential worker and you are not going to kill anyone. brian: give my job at g.m. as a car dealership and put on a reflecter vest and hold up a flag not that there is anything wrong with that. that's not what i intended to do. i should do that because the governor says i should. >> that's super insensitive and stupid. let there be essential jobs. i have people sending me pictures of people in line at soup kitchens and food pantries. i don't think those people are going to get jobs as essential workers. what if you have got a family business that you maintain that's in trouble now. you know, going and taking a job as a flagman on a highway construction project is not going to save your family business. this shows how out of touch so much of our leadership is he

should look closer to home his brother chris cuomo got caught breaking quarantine when he was recovering from coronavirus and went out and attacked the guy on the bicycle who called him out. this double standard. chicago mayor lori lightfoot got her hair done illicitly because she said she is in the public eye. again, if your leaders don't act like leaders, if they act entitled and spoiled, people aren't going to take them seriously and not going to do what they are asked to do. that's a failure of leadership and it doesn't do any good to try to blame people for not acting the way you want them to if you yourself don't have the necessary self-control and self-discipline to be an effective leader. brian: i hear you. professor, i appreciate it. good luck with your book. it looks great. thanks so much, professor. >> thank you. brian: some states relying on drones to track fevers and enforce social distancing. who will protect you from mile high tech surveillance? judge andrew napolitano is outraged about this. he will join us next.

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♪ steve: the experts say surveillance technology can help restart the country but a "the washington post" op-ed warns that it is essential to avoid what they are referring to as a pandemic patriot act. brian: is it possible to use technology like drones to combat coronavirus without creating elements of a police state? ainsley: here to discuss this is fox news senior judicial analyst and hois of liberty file on fox nation is judge andrew napolitano. good morning, judge. >> good morning, ainsley, brian and steve. ainsley: how do we create the surveillance program using drones and phones without compromising our civil liberties? >> we don't. because the use of a drone to watch people, we're not talking about a bank robber running out of a bank because there is probable cause to believe that he has committed a crime. you don't need a search warrant

to watch him. we are talking about people peaceably walking down the street. use of a drone to watch them and to monitor their body temperature and their heart rate is obviously a search under the fourth amendment. the supreme court has said using drones period is a search. those cases were written before this technology existed to monitor heart rates and body temperature. and searches can be done without a search warrant. now, the police claim that they are just using this to monitor group temperatures. is the average temperature of the group above 98.6? and we're going to pass that on to public health authorities. will the software that they have sounds so science fiction but it's true allows them to monitor, to zero in on an individual human being and capture that person's heart rate and body temperature from 190 feet in the sky.

steve: right. that is really extraordinary. you know, judge, it's lik day u all over again. only going to last five years. here we are so many years later and we are still being surveilled on a mass scale. and some people -- i have this conversation with people all the time about at the end of this pandemic, once this evil -- invisible evil is gone, how many of our civil liberties did we relinquish? >> we have relinquished a lot of civil liberties, steve. because we have been compliant with the edicts issued by governors and mayors. not one of whom has the authority to write the law and assign a penalty. they have the authority to bully us, intimidate us, tell us what is right from wrong. of course they're write we

should social distancing. of course they are right that we should wear mavericks. to prevent us from sitting in our cars to protesting, to prevent us from saying some of have you gone too far? by the way governor whitmer -- brian i loved that interview you just had with my friend professor reynolds. by the way governor whitmer, don't treat us like we are children. you work for us. we don't work four. the people have the right to say that and do that. and the constitution guarantees it. they also have the right to bodily integrity. the government can't download medical data about you without your knowledge and consent without violating federal privacy laws that the government has sworn to uphold. brian: judge, do you feel differently, if i choose to go to disney and trying to get people into that park again and they say well, you know, as you come n a crowd, we are going to to have a drone above to you see who has a fear and we will pull you aside. if i choose to go to the airport. i put my hands up and they have that infrared thing and go

through the metal detector and different lines. do you feel differently about those two things because it's my choice to fly. my choice to go to disney? >> brian, that's the key it is your choice. if you choose to do certain things. you accept the consequences. but if it is your choice to walk down the street, it is not your choice for the police to capture your heart rate and your temperature. there enough to choice that is the essence of this, brian, choice. i choose to go to the town square and protest against the governor. i do not choose to have them take a picture of my face and my body temperature. ainsley: you bring up some good points, judge. >> thank you. all the best i miss you. i miss all of you. ainsley: you too. we are in this together. hopefully. janice dean tracking tornadoes in texas and oklahoma. we need this now, janice. janice: unfortunately we have the threat for severe storms

stretching across the gulf coast. we have tornado watches in effect and we have had over two dozen reports of tornadoes. one of them proving fatal in oklahoma last night. so it's not over yet. we are going to see the potential for strong storms, including deadly tornadoes. the risk for deadly tornadoes across portions of louisiana, alabama, mississippi, through georgia and florida and then the carolinas. tornadoes watch in effect. this one is good until 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. local time. the one that stretches across portions of louisiana in towards mississippi and alabama. and then we also have a tornadoes warned storm right now. that is moving into alabama. so, some of these storms are producing large hail, damaging winds. and doppler radar indicated tornadoes. know what to do if there is a watch or a warning. your severe threat today extends into portions of georgia in towards the carolinas and stretching back into louisiana,

mississippi, and alabama. and those storms are going to continue to be on the move north and eastward throughout the day today and in to the overnight. so that's when it could prove dangerous. if you have got power outages in the area and you don't have a way to get a warning. make sure you have ways to get your watches and warnings in these areas. plus, the risk of flash flooding. several inches of rain in a short period of time. this is going to be an ongoing situation throughout the next 12 to 18 hours. certainly watches and warnings will be posted throughout the day today across the southeast in towards the mid-atlantic including the carolinas later today. the other big story we are watching on the other side of the country is the extreme heat over the southwest, with temperatures soaring in the 90 degrees to 100-degree range across portions of phoenix, arizona. we will keep you up to date on those watches and warnings as they come into us. steve, ainsley and brian back to you. steve: all right, ainsley, thank you very much. keep an eye on the sky today

especially if you are down south. jillian joins us from our world headquarters. good morning to you. jillian: that's right. good morning to you. we begin with this. a new search warrant is issued in the disappearance of kristin smart 23 years ago. the college freshman vanishing while walking back to her dorm at polytechnic university in california. police believe her former classmate is the last person to see her alive. his los angeles home is being searched for new evidence. flores has been a person of interest in the cold case for years but never got charged, authorities also searched his home back in february juliette's malicious prosecution lawsuit against the city of coshocton and several police officers thrown out. the city sued him after charges against him for filing a false police report were dropped. you remember he allegedly staged a hate crime against himself. he counter sued. a federal judge ruling he can't pursue the lawsuit until all proceedings against him have ended. he is currently facing new charges connected to his hate crimes -- alleged hate crimes.

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ainsley: a new report is now blaming chinese agents for spreading fake messages meant to escalate panic here in the united states. this as secretary of state pompeo calls out china and the world health organization for their handling of the pandemic.

>> the chinese government hasn't permitted chinese government to go into china go into not only the wuhan lab but wherever it needs to go to learn about this virus. to say learn about its origins we know it began in wuhan. we need to figure this out. this is ongoing pandemic we still don't have the transparency and openness we need in china. it is the worl world health organization's responsibility. ainsley: here to weigh in is state spokesperson morgan ortagus. >> hi, ainsley thanks for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. china's failure to alert the united states, w.h.o. down played it waited six days in china to notify anyone of you who bad it was now we are learning they tried to spread pan enrique here in the united states. what do you know about that? >> if you look at what president trump and secretary pompeo have tried to do since the beginning, since january when we started looking at this crisis, ultimately the fundamental

question that we all have to answer that the world has to answer coming out of this coronavirus crisis is how do we prevent a pandemic of this scale from ever happening again? we know this isn't the first pandemic that the world has ever faced. we have had ebola. we have had sars. how do we prevent that again? we need what secretary pompeo is calling for as real transparency out of china. the world won't be able to answer that fundamental question, ainsley, until scientists are allowed. in until every theory about how this virus emanated can be thoroughly researched by scientists and by doctors. and this is why princ principaly president trump is holding the world health organization accountable until we can get to those answers. the scary news, ainsley, is that we still can't. ainsley: i was impressed with what the president said he doubled down yesterday. we are all sick of iran and what they are doing with our boats. they had 11 fast boats that harassed and approached our warships in the persian gulf.

the president said. this. >> we don't want their gun boats surrounding our boats and traveling around our boats. and having a good time. we don't want them anywhere near our boats. we are not going to stand for it. so if they do that that's putting our ships at danger and our great crews and sailors in danger. i'm not going to let that happen. and we will -- they will shoot them out of the water. ainsley: he is saying iran, you have been warned. >> yeah. secretary pompeo said yesterday the president has been very clear with the department of defense and department of state to protect our diplomats, to protect our soldiers. our sailors everyone who is overseas there was another important thing that happened with iran yesterday in addition to the president's announcement. we saw another missile launch out of iran. secretary pompeo said that he believes that this defies resolution 2231. we are calling on the world to

join us and hold iran accountable for that at a time whether you have had at least 17 iranian senior officials die of the coronavirus. you are seeing this virus just wreak havoc in iran. iran is spending their time harassing american ships and launching missiles in defiance of u.n. security council resolutions. why don't they take that time and effort and money and actually use it towards their public health ministry to help the people of iran. ainsley: how do you explain that to your people who are dying and don't have jobs? meanwhile. >> right. ainsley: they have the satellite. they said it was successful yesterday. what i does the state department say about that satellite that they launched? >> yi. so the department of defense confirmed some of the details last night. we think this is a flagrant violation. this is something that the world should be up in arms about. iran, while they were launching this missile, mind you, are asking the united states for sanctions relief is it would almost be comedic if it wasn't sad for what the iranian people are going through. while they are simultaneously launching missiles in defiance

of national security resolutions they are saying please trust us. please let go of sanctions. that's not going to happen. not in this administration. ainsley: morgan, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. immigration into the u.s. now on hold. president trump signing an executive order on a 60-day ban. how does this protect you as an american worker? acting dhs secretary ken cuccinelli is going to tell us coming up next. because your derriere deserves expert care. preparation h. get comfortable with it. ♪ ♪

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♪ steve: it is 7:00 in washington, d.c. and we start with this fox news alert. as you look at capitol hill where just about four hours from right now, the house is set to vote on the so-called phase 3.5 coronavirus relief plan. brian? brian: yup. it comes as nancy pelosi backtracks on proxy voting after major backlash. ainsley: yeah. griff jenkins is live in washington as we anticipate this week's jobless claims it's-8:30 right, griff? in about an hour and a half from now. >> a little over an hour and a half. proxy voting got pushed aside after republicans were ready to revolt. most lawmakers come back here operating under safe social distancing rules to deliver the much needed 484 billion-dollar relief. and they are talking about the next one already as well. this phase 4 is expected to focus on state and local

governments as a fight brews between the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and the nation's governors. mcconnell is weary of more unrestricted aid to the states who are requesting an additional 500 billion in the next relief package. he made a strong statement in a radio interview yesterday, saying states facing severe budget short falls should have the option of declaring bankruptcy. >> i would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route. it saves some cities. my guess is their first choice would be for the federal government to borrow money from future generations to send it down to them now so they don't have to do that. that is not something i'm going to be in favor of. griff: current law prohibits states from declaring bankruptcy. those comments drawing furious responds from new jersey governor phil murphy. >> come on, man, that is completely and utterly irresponsible. we'll gut the living daylights in every state in america out of the services, the exact services

that our citizens need right now as for today's voting begins in about 3 hours. in addition to the social distancing and face masks we will see they will vote in nine clusters to limit the number of members on the floor at any given time. so it's going to take all day long as we wait for those jobless claims report coming out and it certainly will add to the 22 million americans currently out of work. brian, ainsley, steve? steve: all right. griff, thank you very much. and speaking of the states and where, you know, it has been suggested that maybe the states because they have got such a bind they are in right now financially, declaring bankruptcy. the state of georgia is starting to open up a lot sooner than other states. we have a map that shows you some of the states that will open by may 1st. and it is, you know, it's growing by the day. oklahoma is going to start some small business as early as tomorrow. but the president last night,

from the podium, made it very clear, as you look at states that begin reopening, the president made it very clear down in georgia where governor brian kemp has suggested that salons and tattoo parlors and gyms can open essentially very, very shortly, the president doesn't think it's quite time. watch. >> i disagree strongly with his decision to open certain facilities which are in violation of the phased 1 guidelines for the incredible people of georgia. i think it's too soon. and i love the people. i love -- i love those people that use all of those things. the spas, and the beauty parlors, barbershops, tattoo parlors. i love them but they can wait a little bit longer. just a little bit. not much because safety has to predominate. we have to have that i told the governor simply i disagree with

his decision. but he has to do what he thinks is right. steve: it is all about safety. there is no one size fits all plan that's going to work for different states because you look at the state of michigan. you know, detroit has been a hot spot but other parts of the rural portions of the state not so much. so when you look at georgia. you know, the city of atlanta has 6 million people. then did you go out 50 miles and there are places where there are very very few cases. ainsley, it's been interesting to see the dogs. we would like to open up safely and smartly. but, at the same time, we don't actually know if there is going to be demand there because people who come in to us have to feel like they are safe. ainsley: yeah. that's what a lot of the protesters are saying let me make that decision. if i want to go into a tattoo par lover. i want tpar -- parlor. you are not going to be 6 feet apart from one nomplet people need to get back to work it.

breaks all of our hearts when we see people and we hear these stories. brian had an interview earlier and he was talking about his friend who -- she has a skin care company and hasn't worked or gotten a paycheck in six weeks. how do americans -- some people are suffering. we have got to get back to work and do it safely. i do understand what the president is saying. is he saying let's take it easy. we didn't go through all of this for nothing. we don't want to get back to where we were. so let's listen to the experts. the scientists. the doctors. and we have to rely on their knowledge. they really know what this virus looks like. they know what it can do again. so he is just saying let's take it slowly. it's not a light switch. we're not going to quickly do. this let's go through these phases. that's why they have these guidelines and phase 1 does not include tattoo parlors. brian: they wanted 14 days of decrease. he said, the governor there would have been 14 days of decrease if it wasn't for albany. we will give it a shot. if there is a hot spot, they know how to -- the same they did

in sweden. they kept their economy going the whole time. the same thing they have done in china, south korea and they have done it before. meanwhile, this is what the governor said in response. minutes after the president said i have great respect for him but rush ago little. earlier today i discussed georgia's plan to reopen. shutter businesses for limited operations with the president. i appreciate his bold leadership and insight during these difficult sometimes and framework provided by the white house to safely move states forward. senator collins from georgia was on with steve and said this. >> the president wants the country open. i want the country open. the problem is how do you do it? ened and i think that's the problem with leadership. leadership is about communicating. when you are not communicating clearly, look the governor did not take away the stay-at-home order. yet, selectively decided certain businesses are going to open up. i will tell you this. my concern was not having the local input into that my area north of atlanta. we are having increase in cases. in my local hospital they are

seeing a happened increase. when you are telling people to still stay at home but, yet, we are going to open certain businesses that creates a problem in which people are not sure what to do. brian: just keep in mind, georgia is going to have a lot of company. oklahoma, florida, georgia, south carolina, tennessee and texas are all bringing portions of their state online. so, the governor is out there. but we all have our fingers crossed that it's going to work. steve: that's what it is all about, brian. it's got to be safe. it's got to be smart. meanwhile talk to ken cuccinelli joining us from the d.c. area. acting secretary. sir, good morning to you. >> good morning. good to be with you. steve: good to have you. we finally got a look last night at the executive order that the president has signed suspending some new visas for 60 days. apparently it does not apply to healthcare workers. it doesn't apply to people who are related to american

citizens. doesn't apply to healthcare workers. who does it apply to? >> well, everybody else coming in and seeking a green card that might normally get that from the department of state on their way in. and so it delays their entry for now, at least 60 days. and the goal, of course, is for the president to be able to focus on rebuilding the american labor pool. and he doesn't want to be bringing -- enlarging that pool artificially with foreign workers right now when americans are filing unemployment claims at a record level. he is very worried about that. very worried about american opportunity. and he knows -- this president, have you heard him say it many times, his first job as president, after keeping us all safe, is creating opportunity for americans. and that's what this executive order does. and you also saw, if you read it, that it creates certain bench marks for those of us in government to come back with

further proposals for the president. so this is another step in a process of protecting opportunity for americans. ainsley: what did you think of the attorney general in new york's reaction to this? she tweeted out she said the proclamation is antithetical everything we believe as americans to everything we believe as americans. immigrants working essential jobs on the front lines of this crisis and keeping our nation and economy moving forward. i stand ready to take legal action. >> well, she is welcome to lose. but, you know, the essential workers in those exceptions you just identified. and there is a reason the president put them in there. because his first goal is to keep us safe. and so people working on medical response to the virus, food supply, still come in. it is the other folks that don't come in and can't enter our job pool and can't compete with americans right now at a time when we have gone from record

low unemployment to skyrocketing unemployment claims. it's something that the president is very concerned about. brian: all right, going to keep up it 60 days and reevaluate along the way. green cards are going to be very much effective. ken, something else the president is doing. is he keeping a camera on the building of the wall. basically got a wall cam. a wall site can track it. >> that's right. brian: why is that important? >> so, customs border protection just put up a website yesterday went live. so you can watch footage of the wall being built. and from all the way across the border, see pictures of it new wall across the border. and the reason is this is ongoing work. look, we can walk and chew gum at the same time. we are still fighting terrorism. the department of deference is still working to keep us safe -- department of defense still working to keep us safe. the virus makes that tough but

we have missions to accomplish. one the president has made pursued determine natalie build the wall on the southern border. it works. ask the agents down there they are safer and reduces the traffic which is also a public health benefit we get we don't want any new cases coming in although the united states currently has plenty of them. we are the world leader. >> we have plenty. steve: leader in coronavirus infections. we do have plenty. the way you talk about it's all about with the unemployment rate so high expecting another 4 million to apply for unemployment insurance in the next week. the president wants to make sure that americans get jobs. it's all about the job pool. >> right. that's right. steve: it sounds like this is the president's using this pandemic to clamp down on the southern border which he has

made a hallmark of his campaign. and his administration. >> well, certainly we have heard that criticism there is nothing new to what we are doing here in the day-to-day work with the exception of the public health order from the centers for disease control that we are enforcing traffic traffic. they are afraid to travel. the conditions people come illegally in this country in are human petri dishes for disease. i mean, if you see the pictures of the trips they take up to these smuggling pipelines it's terrible health conditions. terrible. and the immigrants know that think are lied to a good bit by the smugglers. they know some basics there is a reason that traffic is all down. there iwe have been working with partners in mexico to keep it down. it's good for america, it's good for mexico. it's good for the western

hemisphere. ainsley: ken, thank you for being with us today. >> my pleasure, always good to be with you all. have a good day. ainsley: thank you, you too. hand it over to jillian who has more headlines for us. jillian: that's right. we begin now with a fox news alert. new tornadoes on the ground right now following an outbreak leaving at least 6 people dead. devastating madill oklahoma. that's one of 27 reported. the wind so powerful it flipped this tractor-trailer on its side. and in texas, a tornado ripping through onaalaska leaving behind a trail of destruction. u.s. health official claiming he was removed from his post after disagreeing with the white house coronavirus response. >> never heard of him.

you mentioned a name i never heard of him when did this happen? >> today. >> i never heard of him. he said he was pushed out of a job maybe he was or maybe he wasn't. i don't know who he is. jillian: bryce said he was moved to a lesser role after he disagreed with the trump administration push to expand the availability of antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine. today more people are expected to protest stay-at-home orders across the country. in michigan, a rally being dubbed. this after hundreds ignored social distancing guidelines demanding the state reopen businesses. but the organizers from that say they are not behind this demonstration. other protests today are expected in kansas and minnesota. and tonight the first round of this year's nfl draft kicks off. the virtual draft starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern time live from nfl commissioner roger goodell's

basement but buzzfeed still wants to make sure the can a coh can hear those boos. >> come on, philly, come on. >> promising to deliver them all to goodell. brett favre coming up talking all things draft and his picks. excited to hear from him, brian. brian brian he was a very good quarterback. i watched the foot fage before the show he got tackled a lot too. we will look forward to that in about an hour. stunning new report blaming chinese operatives for spreading fake messages. i'm not kidding. warning of a nationwide lockdown. how should the u.s. respond to the communist country's tactics? we are going to ask former cia operative bryan dean wright next. strength, stability, and online tools you need. and now it's no different.

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♪ ♪ a stunning new report now blaming chinese operatives for spreading social media posts and text warnings and messages warning of a nationwide lockdown. here in this country, in the early days of the pandemic. how should the united states respond? joining us right now with insight is former cia operative bryan dean wright. bryan dean good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: okay. so while china was covering up the very beginning origins of this virus in their country. shortly thereafter, it sounds like they started this disinformation campaign, apparently they learned a lot from russia. and tried to say hey, there is going to be a nationwide lockdown. and this was mid march and when i was in new york city it's all anybody was talking about. but it wasn't true.

>> yeah. here's what i think american people need to understand. by design or effect, these were acts of war. because you put it all together for a moment. we have chinese government who knows that the virus was virulent, was deadly, cass communicable. they locked down wuhan and allowed international flights. they used propaganda arms to insight fear, panic and ultimately riots, unrest. so we have to remember by describe or effect what they were after. what you are seal is in fact fox news has reported exclusively the intelligence community is out on the streets right now, the cia, nsa, department of defense, state department, they are collecting the intelligence necessary to show what w. a high degree of competence that the chinese government has done this who are risk thing that you are saying now and reporting now. that there were these riots and

inciting panic. but the chinese were trying to do. all the way back to where did the bias actually come from? right? so once all that information comes out, we are going to be looking for a high degree of confidence from our sources and from our intelligence community. to be able to shoat world, to build those alliances that in fact china is culpable for this. over the next couple of weeks that's what you are going to see hopefully a report put out unclassified for the american people and a classified version for our allies as we form that global response and then president trump has an opportunity to share with the country what we know. we have to rally around those facts and ultimately rally around him. and that's what it's going to take to show china, to demonstrate to the chinese that we are serious about what they did. steve: so bryan dean, you are talking about the public statement that would come out not classified. what does the president of the united states say to the

president of china, president xi say, look, i know what you did. we know the virus started there we know you were trying to sow disinformation to sow panic on the streets in america. and then what does the president say? because obviously the president would know what was going on there and that's not helpful to mr. xi. >> what i think he ought to do is give president xi the chance do the right thing culpability and offer up solution to the united states and all countries effective this here is how we will make this right. i doubt that they will having worked with these folks in the past. we have to then rally the troops. and not, of course, not just the american people here. i'm talking about a global alliance to tell president xi that, in fact, is he culpable and we have a number of different tools. removing them from the world trade organization. tariffs, sanctions. we have a way to hit them back where they don't want to be hit the most. which is, of course, their

economy. now, china is going to push back. we have already seen them in the past couple of months. i hate to say it. but using some of the useful idiots in the democratic party pushing their talking points to say that, hey, it's all trump's fault. so we are going to have to be able to respond as a country to say enough, grab our alliances all these allies and demand that they make it right. so that's what you are going to see. and i think there is a profound impact then on the november elections in who we choose for our president. right? we have to say no to joe. because joe biden has been in the tank for the chinese for so long. he and his son flew over to beijing and sucked up $1.5 billion. you have to remember biden was vice president of course under mr. obama when, we all know, what the chinese did in terms of taking our intellectual property, stealing those jobs, facilitating the nuclear program with north korea. ballistic missile program of

iran. the horrific record goes on and on. we have to say no to joe so we can continue to push forward with this country. hold the chinese to account. that's why this election in november is so incredibly important. steve: bryan dean, before we go. i have to got to ask you before this no to joe business. you are a democrat. you voted democrats your whole life. you are going to vote for trump now? >> look, this election is too important to be focused on party. you know, and when you go back to president george washington he told us that parties are actually the vein of the nation. we have a responsibility to the constitution and to the nation. that's my ultimate loyalty. i'm focused on ensuring that america continues to be exceptional. that's how we all should be focused with this election and that, for me, is why i'm going to be supporting president trump. steve: all right. he, once upon a time, was a cia operative. now he is joining us from

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is dr. nicole saphier and author of that book right there "make america healthy again" that came out on tuesday. hey, dr. saphier. that's great news for those patients in new jersey. >> it sure is, ainsley. and to be honest. we are hearing reports like this all across the country as well as in different countries as well. the whole concept of the convalescent plasma which we talked about before where one person who has recovered from covid-19 don't united states their serum. they take those antibodies and put it in someone who is suffering with covid-19 and people are recovering. these two patients out of southern new jersey, they were both on the ventilators as you said. and one was 61. and one was 65 years old. that's the average age of people who are dying from this illness. now, both reports say that within 24 hours, some within several hours, they were able to have increased oxygenation in their blood after receiving this convalescent plasma. that's pretty incredible with both people being removed off the ventilators within five days. you have to remember, ainsley.

we are seeing right now about 88% i fatality rate of people pt on ventilators. if two out of two people who receive the convalescent plasma taken off the ventilators that's really encouraging. ainsley: we have known about this plasma treatment for a long time. does it take a lot of effort? why aren't we doing this -- why haven't we been doing this for weeks? >> i think a lot of places are actually are trying to do it. i know there are multiple hospitals here in new jersey and new york and really across the country who are working on this. really there are a lot of things that go into it. one, you need someone who has actually recovered from covid-19. it has to be about 14 or 28 to 35 days. so several weeks after they have recovered from the infection can they then go donate plasma. they have to contact the red cross or local hospital systems to see if they can do it. just like giving blood that one person who don't united states their blood, that plasma can be used for two to three patients who may be severely affected by the viral illness. you to find the right either get

in contact with red cross, the hospital system. but really we have the resources to do it. so we're imploring people out there, if you have recovered from covid-19 and it's been a couple of weeks at this point, please reach out to local red cross, your hospital system and see if you could potentially donate there are people still on ventilators there are still people still in the icus and you may just save a life. ainsley: that is great advice if you have it and have recovered contact the red cross. dr. satisfy fireworks tell us about your book. >> so, ainsley, one of the things that i'm really excited about my book coming out right now it seems like bad timing for a book to come out. let's think of it this way. we keep hearing about that there may be another wave of covid-19. people are really concerned about that. knowing that it may be cold, flu and corona season again. one thing i can tell you that if we are healthier, if we're stronger for this next wave, we are going to have a better chance at fighting it. look at the people who are struggling with this illness? it's the elderly, but also those

with chronic illnesses. so, if we can do our best right now by living our healthiest lives to overcome some of those chronic illnesses, we may not be so vulnerable to covid-19 in the future. and my book goes into that. it talks about some of the leading causes of death and disability that potentially we could prevent through some very simple lifestyle choices. look, it's not a self-help book. it's an information book giving u. some awareness of some of the things that you may not have already know that potentially you could prevent to make not only you healthier, but everyone around you. and not only will it help be just living a healthier life, but it will drive down the healthcare costs for everyone. ainsley: i think it's a great time for a book to come out. people are staying home and reading more. look at that title. we need that more than ever. thank you so much, dr. saphier. go buy her book. "make america healthy again." >> thank you, ainsley. ainsley: see you tomorrow. freaking out bill barr threatening legal action whose

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♪ ♪ steve: attorney general bill barr warning governors not, to quote, go too far in their stay-at-home orders like likening some of them to house arrest. ainsley: while the head of the justice department said he would consider legal action to protect american civil liberties. some in the mainstream media had a different reaction. >> attorney general william barr, who is not a medical doctor, is going against even the white house guidelines for gradually lifting stay-at-home rules. >> trump has insisted campaign from compliant and helpful and loyal attorney general bill barr. >> what's motivating this administration when it comes to these rolling reopenings i is it

health? is it the economy? or is it the elections in november? brian: right. here to react the host of fox nation lara logan and of course her series is called lara logan has no agenda. but right now on her things to do list was to be on our show. so, larr remarks first off, do you think it's wrong for the attorney general to want to stick up for the citizens of this country who in many cases with being steam rolled by an oppressive governor? >> you know what i think, brian? i think that people should go and livable to what attorney general barr actually said and not take anyone in the media's word for it. because that's what i did, right? when i knew i was going to be doing this i wanted to note truth. i listened to the whole interview and it's very clear what attorney general barr is saying no is not going against anyone's guidelines. it's not against the science. it's not going against any of that. that's fundamentally

false and dishonest. what he actually said was that these are unprecedented burdens on our civil liberties, on the constitution. and that burdens like taking away your livelihoods and putting you shelter in place in your home, that those are unprecedented and temporary measures. and they were lever meant to be a permanent way of dealing with this disease. and that's all he was talking about. so, my recommendation is that you can't trust people in the media to be honest with you about this. and where possible, go to the source. that's what we do. steve: lara, why don't you trust part-time ipeople in the media? you have got to hope they're giving you exactly what is the truth. but i get a feeling you think some have an agenda. >> well, this is what i think is that anyone can have an opinion,

right? we all have differing opinions. we all have bias and all of that but there is only one truth. so i gravitate towards news sources where the information that's being shared is actually true. now, we all make mistakes, right? i have made mistakes. but there is a distinction between journalists who are reporting something because they genuinely believe that it's true. you know, someone in a position of authority like adam schiff as head of the house intelligence committee. you know, former director of the cia has told you something and you have a reasonable expectation that that person is not flat out lying to you, right? fabricating things that are not true. telling you that there is incredible amounts of evidence that proves that the trump campaign was colluding with vladimir putin. and suggesting that trump is a russian asset and a spy. you know, condemning carter page as oa russian spy when they really know he is working for the cia and not the russians.

once you know the truth about those things, you then have a responsibility if you say who you say you are and you represent the truth, right? then you have a responsibility to actually report the truth. and that is not what's happening. that's why i say people are not trusting the media. ainsley: larr remarks you talked to congressman nunez about that very thing on your fox nation special. watch. this i said many reporters will take an unrelated fact and use that to tie to you something damaging. it's a common smear tactic, he said. and he has had enough. >> defamation is so bad, slander is so bad we don't even have the time or the means to take them all to court. have every single news organization in the country in court. ainsley: larr remarks tell us more about that interview. >> well, congressman nunes said that there are many reporters that he has known for years who have told him i don't even want to do an interview with you because it's not going to come out honestly. it's not going to be factual.

it's going to have a spin on it. that really speaks for itself. brian: it's a sad state. but that's why your series is so special and so important. it's called your agenda. questions with lara is your agenda questions with lara is out now. so, we're going to watch that on fox nation. so, you are one of the people that can still do stories, season 26 lara logan has no agenda is available only on fox nation. i recommend unbiasedly you do that for 9 cents we have a special. 9 cents a month for the first month. larr remarks thanks so much. ainsley: thanks, lara. >> thank you so much for having me. the next one is on veterans. i know that you guys will love that. ainsley: yes. brian: absolutely. all right, thank you. have you done so much in war zones. it's right up your alley. meanwhile, i'm going to toss over to janice dean because you have been looking at these tornadoes and you have been tracking them all. janice: yes, brian, steve,

ainsley and to everyone at home we want people to be aware especially if you live across the southern plains, the mississippi river valley. over two dozen reports of tornadoes yesterday for parts of oklahoma, texas, in towards louisiana. and it's not over yet. we have active tornado watches and warnings still in effect. the watch that you see is good until 1:00 p.m. it. includes louisiana, mississippi, alabama, parts of the florida panhandle in towards georgia. and we have a tornado warn storm just north of mobile, alabama. so, rotation on doppler radar indicating we do have a tornado on the ground. so this is going to be an active situation throughout the day today. know where you are going to get your watches and warnings. we will keep you up to date. back to you steve, ainsley, and brian. steve: all right, janice dean, thank you very much. meanwhile, let's go to our world headquarters and jillian joins us with headlines. jillian? jillian: that's right. good morning to you. start with this. president trump doubling down on his threat to let the navy open fire on iranian navy boats.

>> it's putting our ships at n. danger and our great crews and sailors in danger. i'm not going to let that happen. and we will. they will shoot them out of the water. jillian: the president responding to iranian boats caught on camera performing dangerous maneuvers around american warships in the persian golf. earlier morgan ortagus told us the move is necessary. >> as secretary pompeo said yesterday the president has been very clear with the department of defense and department of state to protect our diplomats, to protect our soldiers, our sailors, everyone who is overseas. jillian: ortegas adding rocket launch violates u.n. security council resolutions. harvard university changing its tune saying it will no longer accept the millions of dollars in federal coronavirus relief. the ivy league school was set to receive nearly $9 million under the cares act. president trump said the university shouldn't be taking

taxpayer money when it has such a massive endowment. stanford, princeton, and yale universities said they too will reject federal funding amid growing scrutiny. and now to some of the top trending stories on foxnews.com. first up, nearly all coronavirus patients in new york had one thing in common. an underlying health condition. next, dennis rodman says is he praying for kim jong un's recovery. unconfirmed reports claim the north korean dictator is critically ill following heart surgery. finally rob thank you speaking out about the patriots after being traded to the tampa bay buccaneers. you can't say they aren't easy organizations to play for. interesting. to read more about these stories and many more, can you download the fox news app. the news moves fast and we can help you keep up. send it back to you. ainsley: disowndz good. thank you, jillian. morgan spent nine months in space before returning to world

changing pandemic. he shares what he saw and tips for living life in quarantine. that's next.

he is back to tell you about quarantine. he knows what it's like to be in limited space. he is here to tell you about his experience. morgan, welcome to "fox & friends." >> thanks brian for having me. andrew, while you were in space, describe the experience going up in july, the types of things you were doing. >> it was a tremendous experience. and a great honor for me to represent our nation and the entire planet at as part of their international space station crew. we had some of the busiest operational time on board the iss in its history. and then all the while the world was changing beaten neath our feet. brian: you said you get news on a regular basis and watching this pandemic hit. what are your thoughts? >> talking to friends and family

as they experienced it back home on earth, it started to build the pictured that the earth that i was going to return to wasn't going to be the same one that i left. brian: also you are a doctor and salute the medical profession and fdny and fire departments all across the country. what you have seen and the first responders really struck you. >> yeah. absolutely. so, before i was selected as an astronaut, i was an emergency physician. i'm still an emergency physician and military officer. so i have great respect, tremendous respect and affection for the profession putting their lives on the line when their country, when the world, when humans -- when humanity needs them. and to be able to have touched that as a matter of my career was a tremendous honor for me. but, also, it was very difficult for me to watch this from the international space station and not be able to be there and

participate and contribute myself. so i thought the best thing i could do is inspire and tell everybody how proud i am of them and that i'm aware that times like these highlight the sacrifices of first responders and hospital providers and the medical profession as a whole. the reality is these are the types of sacrifices in the way that they risk their lives on a daily basis. brian: you also know what it's like to be in a confined space for a long period of time. we were going crazy here in a few weeks. you were up there for nine months. what's some advice that you have for people stuck in the same thing with limited opportunities about things to do? >> yeah. astronauts we are experts. we are professionals at living in isolation and enclosed confined spaces. i think one of the first things that any astronaut would tell you is the importance of maintaining routine. knowing when you eat and eating a healthy diet. exercising on a regular basis.

know when you rest. know when you work. and balancing those times and sticking to that schedule, makes you most efficient, effective and good for your mind and your body. and then i think the next thing would be the importance of being a good crew mate. thinking about how your actions have impacts on others. brian: andrew, the other thing to keep in mind, too. we are getting our act together when it comes to space. spacex is going to put an american on the space station for the first time in 10 years. what does that mean for the program and the country? >> well, any time that we -- we are creating more opportunities to get astronauts on board the international space station it makes the program more robust it. really is a demonstration of you who we can come together as nations and solve tough problems think about how this global pandemic effects us all equally, the iss is a great example of you who we solve tough problems together across borders.

brian: you already had the fourth longest space walk in history. off the nine month journey at the space station. andrew morgan, thanks so much. >> thanks very much, brian. brian: all right. still ahead as i change my suit back, dr. oz, sarah sanders will be here live and brett favre, a really good quarterback according to ainsley who will break down the draft. don't move. quitting feels so big. so try making it smaller, and you'll be surprised at how easily starting small can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette. confident financial plans, calming financial plans, complete financial plans. they're all possible with a cfp® professional. find yours at letsmakeaplan.org. they're all possible with a cfp® professional. if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, now might not be the best time to ask yourself,

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ainsley: fox news alert. work to go reopen america. several states unveiling plans to loosen coronavirus restrictions allowing americans get to back to work. brian: can you imagine that. california gives green light for elective surgeries to resume. steve: brian, much more needed relief may be on the way. live look at capitol dome in a couple of hours the house is to vote phase 3.5 of the coronavirus stimulus plan. ainsley: griff jenkins live in washington as nancy pelosi backtracks on the proxy voting after a lot of backlash, right, griff? griff: the house under strict social distancing rules are set to deliver that much-needed 3.5

phase $484 billion of relief. they are talk about the next one. that would be phase 4, focus on state and local governments as the fight brews when the senate majority leader mcconnell and local governments. current they are receiving 150 billion in blank checks in the care's act. mcconnell made an argument saying state facing shortfalls should have the option of declaring bankruptcy. >> i would certainly allow states using bankruptcy route, states, cities. my guess the first choice would be federal government to borrow money to future generations to send them to now so they don't have to do. that's not something that i will be in favor of. griff: current law would have to be changed for states to declare bankruptcy.

furious response from governor phil murphy. >> come on, man, that is completely irresponsible. we will take out services, the services that our citizens need right now. griff: gets under way in 2 hours in addition to face mask and social distancing, they will limit numbers of members in the floor at any given time. that may take us past 26 million americans out of work, brian, ainsley and steve. brian: interesting because a lot of people getting back to work, oklahoma as well as south carolina, tennessee and texas, pennsylvania may sixth so they are getting in gear. thank you very much, griff. we will check with you later. a lot of people aren't over the fact that the house is pass

expected it and someone like aoc doesn't like it. this was delayed a week and a half, out of programs that were not out of money got additional funds. for doug collins it's inexcusable. >> we should have done this a week and a half ago. that's when the president asked for this. the president made clear that we had a program that's working and secretary mnuchin spoke about this and now getting pelosi and schumer voting on the senate. we will vote it out today and get to the president's desk and we are in a time now which we not only we have health to think about but economic health to think about. brian: a whole bunch of loans in the hopper will banks will hit send. steve: let's bring in dr. mehmet

oz, he joins us every day during the pandemic. dr. oz, good morning to you. dr. oz: good morning. steve: we will talk to you in a moment about human trial for vaccine developed in record time. let's talk about the fact that last night the president of the united states said of the state of georgia that he thought relaxing restrictions on barbershops and salons and tattoo parlors is a little too early because you still have to social distance. dr. oz: well, social distancing is a key no matter how you do it. different states will have different approaches. the most important insight that i have to share with you is you have to test, test, test as you do whatever we do. you just don't know. it might be that you wear a mask and looking the other way and the shop is well ventilated an you have a filter that clean up the air, you might be able to be

at an area that's more congested. it might be you can't until restaurants are in trouble. you just don't know until you test and states are going to have different philosophies of how to do it but slow is definitely the right way to go. you have to be enough humbled back to pull back if testing and contact identification yields data that sometimes we will find which is that you have a hot spot. ainsley: this is incredible news. we learned about this this morning. the vaccine is entering human testing trials at unprecedented speed. tell us more about this, dr. oz, are we close to a vaccine in dr. oz: well, we are making rapid progress on a bunch of different approaches to vaccination, this study in particular, this report is from the university of pennsylvania where i went to med school actually. they have done work in this technology use against zika but 83 days after starting they came up with the dna plasma vaccine. a circle of dna that you push

into a cell. the guys have a unique way of getting it there. brief electrical pulse and opens the cells and allow plasma to get in there. the cells make antibodies to it and if you were to get the coronavirus you would knock it out. the united kingdom and germany approved one. it's moving faster than we expected. hopefully they all keep making progress and we would be able to beat the expected timeline of a year out. brian: so dr. oz, i have to tell you 19,430 people have died in new york state of the coronavirus. almost all of the new york patients had underlying health conditions, number 1, your reaction, number 2 give us idea of what the fatal underlying conditions are. dr. oz: this is one of the most important papers i could talk

about. came out of northwell, series of hospitals in new york city, 5700 patients. 21% mortality rate. sick people that came in. slowly but critical. 94% of people that came to the hospital covid-19 had at least one underlying chronic issue. 88% had 2 or more. now what were the issues? most common was high blood pressure, 52%, 32% had diabetes. i will say that real quick. 94% had at least one underlying issue. if we can change that reality, we can change the possibility of people needing to go to the hospital. this is why with the cdc planned to open up the country we are asking people with chronic underlying health conditions to stay at home for phase 1 and phase 2. we have to go from being vulnerable what the folks are being called to vital by addressing the chronic problems. you can do it at home, you can lose weight on your own, it's

hard and doable. sometimes we need medical help to get there but not taking care of chronic issues has condemned the large part of the population to a higher risk from covid-19. we have to be focused on that. steve: dr. oz, are you saying that if you don't have one underlying issue and you essential don't have two, you so much less to worry about, but there's always the risk of exposure? dr. oz: the virus can surprise us in many ways and for that reason you never want to give someone, hey, the confidence that you're fine, but the reality that 90% in the cdc database of people hospitalized have a chronic issue. the study reinforces the reality and also what we are seeing on the ground as food for thought because it means that we have more control over our destiny than you might think and also means that the pros allowing folks without chronic illnesses to be the first ones to go back into mainstream life as we open the country is wise because that

population doesn't have as much of an issue. remember, still means 10% of the people hospitalized don't have any issues with chronic problems. it's not that you're going to be be getting clean bill of have and won't have problems, we still have the cases. playing the odds. you're much better without a chronic health issue getting the virus. ainsley: what do you know about covid causing strokes in their 30's and in their 40's? dr. oz: yeah, interesting letter from mount sinai. if you're at home even with mild symptoms of covid and you're not sure that you have it and you have any signs of having a stroke, classic acronymn is fast. time is critical. you have any of those signs, something is going on because the blood

thicker than usual, you want to make sure you don't ignore symptoms that you wouldn't be normally worried about because you never know what it's doing to your body. brian: we are learning so much on the fly about this. how much would we have learned if the chinese were candid and let us in when this happened and we wouldn't be in this mysterious situation doing reverse forensics and when it comes to standing up new york again, number one triple the testing and number two, one way to trace. if i come in, they need to find -- someone has to question me. if i'm positive for it, the people i was in contact with and mike bloomberg is stepping up. evidently he got money, i heard he's rich, $10 million to set up army of tracers in new york. do you think this is something that would cork, is there a game plan for this? dr. oz: well, the brilliance of this plan is mike bloomberg is good at running cities and very good at running business.

we need to have both public and private folks involved. you can't do it by yourself on either side and build a system that everyone trust. this is vital. if the people don't think it's safe, they are not going to the stores and malls and every place else. mike bloomberg is arguing that he can help to get with colleagues, built a testing and tracing program. that's huge. right now we have 500 contact tracers. these are folks that would call up the person who test positive for covid-19, listen, who are you living with, who else could have been infected, can we help contact them, here is what you need to do, we need to go up to 40,000 tests according to new initiative with mike bloomberg. that could be done and you have have to isolate the contacts which means by the way, don't go home but by yourself but do you have your ability to be by yourself. innovative ways of housing folks that have test positive to they don't affect anybody in the group. ainsley: dr. oz, this morning we are learning the first two

people got plasma treatment in new jersey, they were in icu, i think they were both on ventilators. you'll know more. they are both going home. they are fine now or a lot better than they were. they were facing death at the door. why aren't we doing more plasma stuff if we knew about it a month ago? dr. oz: like so many therapies that we talk about, until you have enough data to confidently move forward, there are risks involved and doctors don't know what to do, the devil is in the details. plasma therapy is old therapy and facilities are using, ainsley, and doesn't always work but what it does seem to do jump-start your body's immune system to catch up to the virus and once back to the game your body heals up. encouraging that it works at all. much more done about it and the cases are wonderful testimonials. the more data you can get around

the more you can use appropriately. it's going to be targeted to the exact person you know to help the most. start there, prove that it's effective and you can grow it. many of the therapies have a lot of promise. steve: speaking of therapies and i have to apologize to dr. oz probably because 3 times a day i send him different studies. yesterday i sent him a study from the university of louisville where they had a great idea, but -- and you wrote back and you said, it's all hands on deck for the medical community. everybody is trying to figure this out and at the same time people in private industry, you know, biocompanies and pharmaceuticals, it's all hands on deck. everybody is trying to figure this out and get us to the end of this thing as soon as possible. dr. oz: you know, i can tell that's happening, steve. i get a flurry of emails and texts around 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning from scientist who is did not sleep all night long because they were excited about an idea and quickly put it on

paper and started working on it. just like the manhattan project spread across the country. i hear so many ideas, new concepts that we will be able to treat the virus i'm confident much more effectively even before we get the vaccine which will change a lot of what governors are going to be doing because as we get better treatments for folks, smarter by keeping people out of the hospital because they were tested earlier or treated better, they would have a lot more leeway to open up america. brian: right, it's going to be real interesting, you to make sure that we get it and the west gets it and not china, we don't want them coming up with the vaccine and holding the rest of the world hostage, dr. oz, thanks so much. dr. oz: take care. brian: meanwhile jillian mele poised to tell us what is happening while talking to the doctor. jillian: now tornadoes on the ground following outbreak that has killed at least 6 people.

this twister devastating oklahoma, one of the hardest-hit communities. buildings being torn apart. one of 27 reported. the wind is so powerful that it flipped tracker trailer on its side. in texas tornado ripping north of houston leaving destruction in the state. president trump responds to top u.s. health official claiming he was removed from post after disagreeing with the white house coronavirus response. >> i never heard of him. you just mentioned the name, i never heard of him. when did this happen? >> this happened today. >> i never heard of him. maybe it was and maybe it wasn't. you have to hear the other side. i don't know who he is. jillian: rick bright says he was moved to lesser role after

hydroxychloroquine judge lina hidalgo requiring 4 million residents in houston and harris county to wear mask or pay a 1,000-dollar month. patrick released quote, the union outraged, they believe everyone should wear a mask the force the stretched too thin to enforce the mandate. draft start live from roger good ell's basement. brett favre to speak about that. tom brady with hilarious video

to welcome back ron gronkowski back. watch this. ♪ [laughter] >> a little tired but gronk reported. jillian: tom brady channeling his inner ron to lure gronkowski out of retirement. ainsley: very entertaining. that will be fun to watch tonight. thanks so much, jillian. andrew cuomo issuing tough rebuke to protestors in his state. >> i get the economic hardship, everybody gets it. everybody feels it. you want to go to work, go take a work as an essential worker. ainsley: tammy bruce has a message for the governor, she will sound off

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[ barking ] >> i get the economic hardship, everybody gets it. everybody feels it. you want to go to work, take a job as an essential worker, do it tomorrow. no, there are people hiring. you can get a job as an

essential worker. now you can go to work and you will not kill anyone. ainsley: here to react to fox news contributor tammy bruce, good morning, tammy,. >> tammy: hi, there. ainsley: you said heartless. why it's important to tweet that? tammy: he's been getting good reviews as what he's saying on a day-to-day, that he's a fabulous person and i think what's really good on a day-to-day basis you get to see who people are and the curtain is pulled back. the level of contempt in that state was extraordinary and it was a treatment -- when you say protestors, these were regular citizens, reporters spoke to them who have run out of money.

they lost their businesses, they don't know what's coming the next day and he's treating them and speaking to them as if they are insects. we all know what is at stake here and when we says we all feel the economic impact, you know, andrew cuomo is a multimillionaire. no matter what happens in this environment, he's going to be financially fine. we also know the suicide rate is now an issue and he says in talking to some of the reporters saying, there's nothing worst than death. well, for a lot of people is their lives' work and savings on top of the panic this is an existential issue for my own family and for people around us, so here is a reminder that you've got a government and this is the worry that really is so disconnected from people and there's, look, we love the essential workers and the workers in the grocery stores, et cetera, that's important, but

these are individuals. we are all living our each individual lives and individual accomplishments and have everything at stake. it was insulting and contemptible and the only thing that he didn't do is open up refrigerator and started ice cream. that's the only thing he do not do. ainsley: if you own a restaurant, he's telling the restaurant, go get a job. it's supposed to be that easy to get a job in the middle of the pandemic? everything is closed down. most of the people that are essential are healthcare workers, are law enforcement, you have to go through training, you have to go to med school, you have to become a nurse and years of schooling for this. it's not that easy and there are only so many grocery stores, you know, that are hiring right now. tammy: those individuals have been retained. the people who have been working in grocery stores, service individuals still have those

jobs. maybe you can go and i guess deliver food for restaurants on a bicycle and that's a service that new yorkers have been relying on but the fact of the matter is, it's an extraordinary attitude, lack of any kind of compassion, any kind of empathy for people who are -- know what the rules are and we have conversations on how to get back and continue the follow the rules as we have successfully flattened the curve. remember, that was the main issue when we started. don't overwhelm the healthcare serviceses. we have accomplished that. the comfort ship is leaving new york. we have done this. something that we think about when people become the budget and when we think about if politicians really understand our lives and are making decisions for us. andrew cuomo just proved at least the governor's office is not doing that and, of course, they all complain about president trump. we see him every day as well and

the american people we have seen poll after poll recognize that he's doing a good job and there's compassion and empathy at least, no one will be perfect but my goodness, this was outrageous statement and new yorkers have every right to be outraged. ainsley: tammy, thank you so much. we did reach out to the governor's office for a statement, we did not hear back from him. you can get tammy bruce available now on fox nation. you can join today and get your first month for just 99 cents. okay. now we have a fox news alert. so far more than 22 million jobs have been lost due to covid-19 and in just a few minutes, 3 minutes, we will learn how many more americans are out of work with the release of jobless claims reports. stuart varney will react to that. the breaking numbers next.

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steve: it is 8:31 in the east. we are back with fox news alert. the weekly jobless claims just released and they were 4.4 million americans applied for unemployment insurance for the first time as the economy reels over the coronavirus crisis. that is more, slightly more than what experts were estimating. meanwhile as we bring in stuart varney, host of varney & company on fox business, stuart, the numbers, you know, they are staggering. brings up to 26 million americans are out of work and while 4.4 million is terrible, it's actually less than last week. stuart: yes, if you're grasping at straws, if you're looking for something that's positive, then the trend in the new jobless claims is a mile positive. last week 5.24 million people

claimed unemployment benefits. this week it's 4.4. so if you want to look at trends, the trend is down and some economists may interpret this as the peak in unemployment, the peak in unemployment bad news was last week and now we are now on the down trend. anywhere you slice it, steve, there's no question that april was a dreadful month for unemployment and employment generally. what was the number, 26 million i think it is now for the whole month of april. 26 million people thrown out of a job. that's the fasters employment decline in history, i do believe. it's certainly actually worse and faster than the decline in the 1930's. it is a bad situation, steve, any way you want to slice it. steve: yeah, absolutely, stuart. that is why -- there are still some people in states who are unable to get to their

unemployment insurance to file for it through the department of labor because the phone lines are just jammed, you know, i was talking to secretary of labor in kansas ten days ago and she said normally they might process a thousand, 1300 per week, now they are up to like 50,000 a week. they were absolutely overwhelmed. in the meantime everybody is looking to washington to help and that's why this latest stimulus that should be voted on this morning is going to be important but, stuart, i'm sure it really angered you to see that some of the most prestigious schools all got money, they took a lot of heat. now they are saying we are not going to take it, but you look, there's still 300 colleges that are. colombia will takes 3 million. arizona state will take 63 million, penn state 55 million and usc in california

$20 million from the paycheck protection program. stuart: look, that's hard to justify. harvard has endowment way north of $40 billion. how can you take money -- okay, they will give it back. how you can claim money in the first place when you have all that kind of money, mounting of money that you're sitting on and take the money extensively to go to students. you still take it, okay, you to give it back but that just leaves off bad taste in your mouth and colombia holding onto $13 million. i don't know if they got plans to hand it back but the bottom line is, some of these ivy schools are taking money, asking for money and i don't think they should have done that in the first place. you can see also that some big companies have been getting the money. morgan stanley says that $243 million went to publicly-traded companies which are pretty big companies, but

that's out of a total of 349 billion. so a relatively small proportion, very small proportionately actually went to big-name companies. secretary mnuchin told me yesterday, the treasury secretary, look, we are going to go through this process and hold companies accountable. we rushed out the money, we will take a look back at where it went. steve: yeah. and it will be interesting to see how many companies actually do claw it back from. stuart, busy program in fox business start 24 minutes from right now. stuart: thank you. steve: from 9:00 to noon. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez capitalizing on the pandemic to push her agenda. >> we, you know, have the discussion about going back, reopening, i think a lot of people should just say no. we are not going back to that. steve: sarah sanders responds to

the congresswoman coming up next.

brian: we are back with fox news alert. weekly jobless claims, climbed 4.4 million as the economy reels from the coronavirus, the crisis we are in the middle of. more than economists predicted. raising total jobless claims to 26 million since we were told to stay at home and stop being productive. let's bring in sarah sanders. sarah, last week 5.2 and now 4.4 million, a lot of the people applying for unemployment benefits and money that we had to print in order to put into states that aren't equipped to really handle this type of volume. this seems like a lose, lose situation.

>> sarah: the president is right on saving lives and saving livelihoods. that's why it's so important that we look at ways to help protect americans. for many people a job loss is a devastating blow to their family, to their way of life and their ability to feed their family and it's also one of the reasons that it's been so frustrate to go watch nancy pelosi drag her feet on getting emergency funding for small businesses to help a lot of the workers out in this really difficult time, but at the end of the day, we have to look at how we can safely return americans back to work and while those that are the most vulnerable, most at risk, we have to look at ways to protect them even further because they can't go back to work. the president has been smart to allow states flexibility because what works in new york isn't necessarily going to work in arkansas. working with them while at the same time providing resources to american workers. that's how we have to look on

best way to do that. ainsley: most people would want to go back to work, they would want to make a paycheck, aoc is urging a work boycott, listen to this. >> we talk about the idea of reopening society, you know, only in america does the president -- when the president tweets about liberation does he mean go back to work. we have this discussion about going back, over reopening. i think a lot of people just say no, we are not going back to that, we are not going back to working 70-hour weeks just so that we could put food on the table and not even feel any sort of assemblance of security in our lives. sarah. >> sarah: this is the woman who was celebrating devastation of

the oil industry and this is a person who may want to go back to her roots and remember that most americans unlike those in congress have to show up in order to get paid and that they don't have the luxury of not doing their job and still being able to provide for her family like she does as a member of congress. there are people who are really hurting. the president is looking for ways to protect them, to help them. she might want to join in that effort instead of putting people down who are struggling and trying to figure out how best to help their families and provide that food. she might want to go back and remember that when she was a bartender and not a member of congress she didn't have that luxury. she had to show up and do her job in order to get a paycheck and millions of americans that are like that that need that paycheck not just for the money but also their sense of sanity and their ability to be able to get out and do what they do best

and that's work hard because that's who the american people are and her totally out of touch lack of understanding of that is mind blowing. steve: sarah sanders joining us from her location, sarah, thank you very much for joining us. >> sarah: thank you, thanks for having me. ainsley: thanks. steve: stay safe. quarter before the top of the hour and it is a very busy day in the fox weather center and janice joins us live remote as well with the look at tornadoes and potential thunderstorms. janice: right, we had reports over 2 dozen reports of tornadoes yesterday, a couple of those tornadoes proving deadly for parts of oklahoma and texas and this destructive line of thunderstorms is now moving across portions of louisiana, mississippi, alabama, florida panhandle. we have a tornado watch in effect until 1:00 p.m. local time and within that watch, a tornado warn storm north and

east of mobile, alabama, still getting the watches and warnings and that's going to move north and east ward up toward the mid-atlantic, so the potential of large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes, some of which could be large and catastrophic, so this is going to be an ongoing situation and with that flash flooding will also be possible. we will continue to keep an eye on it and bring you the very latest, steve, ainsley, and brian. brian: big weather news, we will stay with you, janice. the 2020 nfl draft kicks off tonight. imagine that, something live but this will be virtual. our next guest says it might look a little something like this when he was drafted in 1991 from his bedroom. quarterback hall of famer brett favre but first let's check with ed henry, not allowed to do but asked to do his show from his bedroom. ed: you're kind of like the quarterback and appropriate that brett favre is coming up. house voting today and what

might be in fourth stimulus bill for your family? bill mcgurn with an early bill as president trump stacks up on joe biden and alexandria ocasio-cortez suggesting some americans should boycott work after the shutdowns end. are you ready for some football? jim gray on tonight's nfl draft, commissioner announcing picks from his basement. some general managers have high-tech setups and others be ready with string and coffee cans, so what, so many people are craving sports. maybe this will bring us together. join sandra and me 9:00 to noon you doing okay?

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brian: 2020 nfl draft kicks off at 8:00 o'clock, we are all looking forward to it at iron time. they will do it on zoom. could wind up looking something like this. this is brett favre in 1981, drafted via the telephone. got a call from his bedroom, mississippi. let's bring in brett favre, quarterback hall of famer with packers, jets and vikings. are you missing sports as much as america? bret: yeah, i'm missing sports.

you left out the team, the team that draft me falcons. brian you're right. >> brett: doesn't matter. you talk about the draft and the picture with the cordless phone and the jean shorts. even though this draft is much different than recent drafts, it's sort of taken a step back in the time, sort of. there won't be any cordless phones and there won't be blue jean shorts, i can assure you. brian: there won't be but the moment when you get the call, brett, do you remember the moment when you got the call, the nfl career was a reality instead of a dream? >> brett: that was almost 30 years ago. i remember the anticipation. i remember two things really,

the wait and -- and the call. you know, the anticipation that it was agonizing but when i got the call it was instant relief and i personally, i didn't care where i went. i wanted to go soon rather than later. i just wanted an opportunity and so the toughest thing for the players is the wait. you know, some will have to -- won't have to wait very long and others think will be quick but they'll be a surprise. brian: i want to get your take on tom brady, everyone knows in football and sports the greatest challenges is concussions, you got a few of them. why do you support prev pro as a way forward? >> first and foremost to my knowledge and to our team's

knowledge there's no treatment out there whatsoever for concussions. there's prevention. as you know, you're not going to prevent a concussion whether it'd be sports or outside of sports, playground at the house, elderly. it's going to happen. so why not come up with some type of treatment? we've been working probably 7, 8 years on a drug that is administered nasally and that requires fda approval and that's a long-drawn out process and in the short-term the head of our company -- excuse me, jake has developed a product and within 7 minutes is providing antiinflammatory protection for 7 hours. brian: got you. >> brett: and there's no side effects. your kids go out playing soccer,

rub it on his neck. football, rub it on his neck. the elderly, rub it on the neck. nascar, military, you know, the main problem with concussions is the brain swelling. brian: yeah, we will have you back for a whole topic, real quick, brady at the age of 42 goes to buccs with gronkowski, is this going to work? >> brett: if he will play it will work. i can't guaranty they'll be in the super bowl but i certainly believe if the season start and we have this season that they will compete, have a chance to go to the super bowl if not go. brian: number one pick joe burros to cincinnati, he's an ohio guy, do you see him forcing a trade? >> brett: i don't.

i don't know joe, i don't know anything about him that he was quarterback for lsu national championship team but i believe this is set up perfect for him to go back home, leave his hometown team, home state team to world championship title. i mean, it's set up perfect. i don't know why he would do anything different. brian: got it. brett favre, great to see you, i look forward seeing you again and then hopefully we will see you on the sidelines one time too. brett favre, thanks. more "fox & friends", you got it, in just a moment. in 1986, the late reverend david wilkerson

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>> okay, set your dvr for fox & friends every day, have a good one. >> sandra: powerful tornadoes sweeping through texas, and oklahoma. >> ed: a very pleasant good morning to you. i'd series of deadly twisters tearing through the southern plains have left thousands without power and dozens of buildings destroyed. >> sandra: casey stegall is tracking the story for us live from arlington, texas, this morning. hey, casey. >> sandra and added, good morning. right now the national weather service says that preliminary day data shows at least 26 different tornadoes touched on ye