get our special tv offer a 4-week trial plus postage and a digital scale go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again! we continue to see evidence that our aggressive strategy is working. working at a very high level. 18 states now show a decline in a number of positive tests in the last seven days, so over the last seven days have been very, very significant progress. >> good saturday morning and welcome. that was president trump yesterday touting progress made in the fight against covid-19. vice president pence says more than 5 million americans have now been tested for it as several states show a decline in cases. >> leading governors to lift restrictions in several states across the country. but in hard-hit california, tens of thousands of people ignore the state's stay at home order, flocking to open beaches during a heat wave. with that we say good saturday

morning. i'm jillian mele. good to see you, sir. >> good morning. i salute you with a mug. >> glad to be with you. >> i don't have a mug to salute you. but i still salute you. >> this is fun. >> it is. >> i miss the couch but this will be fun. >> i'm here. i have my mug for you. how are things in utah, jason? >> they're good, they're good. it's a bit early. i've got to tell you, i'm excited about what's happening. we've got a lot of good people coming up today. we've got kaley mac makananay, senator tim scott, texas torn general ken packston -- attorney general, ken paxton, and herman cane. he can talk about the economy, he can talk about politics. he's got it all. it's going to be a good show. >> the conversation has shifted a little since i last saw you. we're talking about a number of states that are starting to loosen restrictions, that are

starting to open for business. we saw that in georgia this week. the conversation is moving forward this morning. >> very much so. we're looking into the month of may where a lot of people hope as it gets warmer the states will have an opportunity with the drop in cases to get back to business and, jason, we actually saw something happen in washington, d.c. as president trump signing the latest coronavirus relief bill, the $484 billion package set to replenish the ppp program that was so popular, giving aid to small businesses and american workers. garrett tenney joins us with more on the bipartisan deal. garrett. >> reporter: good morning, y'all. fox news learned that the small business administration could begin accepting applications for these loans as soon as monday. this latest relief package from congress replenishes the paycheck protection program with $320 billion in new funding to help small business owners cover

up to 8 weeks of payroll with forgiveable loans. it provides $75 billion for hospitals and $25 billion to develop mass testing capabilities. here's president trump touting the bill at his oval office signing ceremony. >> $320 billion to refill the paycheck protection program, helping keep millions and millions of american workers on the payroll. great for small businesses, great for the workers. >> reporter: there's growing concern among lawmakers over how the payroll protection program initial funding was distributed, while many large businesses got massive loans while many small businesses waited in line while the money ran out. james clyburn tweeted the first round of the paycheck protection program was inebbing at this at. more must be done to ensure equity in all covid-19 relief

efforts. but house minority leader kevin mccarthy said it's democrats who should apologize for holding the additional funding up and not getting it passed sooner. >> it's an example that america wants to see, that we know as americans we'll get through this. i think those in politics that held it up just for a political purpose owe this country an apology. >> reporter: this by no means will be the last action coming from capitol hill because a phase four relief package is already now in the works but after spending close to a trillion dollars, there's growing concern among lawmakers about this spending and adding to the national debt because this phase four relief bill is expected to cost even more than the last. back to y'all. >> garrett, thank you very much. jason, i've got to get your take on this, having been a part of the sausage making in washington that leads to a deal. what do you make of the impact of the stimulus 3.5? >> two things come to mind.

one is the democrats legitimately held it up for a week or 10 days. nancy pelosi showed off her ice cream or her super expensive refridge traitor -- refrigerator. the second thing that comes to mind is they knew, the lawmakers knew when they passed the first bill that they needed so many trillions of dollars that they thought oh, we can't sell it as being that big so we'll pass the smaller bit, knowing it was maybe i'm guessing 20% of what they actually need so you play these little games with 3.0, 3.5, now it will be 4.0. it's all political spin. they know it's going to cost trillions of dollars but the warning to the republican as gay garrett said, you can't spend your way out of this and cause economic growth. that's not the way it works. our debt is so huge, you're

going to have to cut spending somewhere, somehow. >> where and how do you do that, jason? there's so many small business owners right now who are suffering day in and day out and every day matters and they need that money but i know that the money's got to come from somewhere but where do we cut then? what do we do? >> the federal government can just print more money. but states, counties and cities, that's where it's really going to get difficult because they're going to have to make some difficult decisions and if you listen to what larry kudlow is saying, may is going to be a very important thing. listen to larry kudlow. >> you've got to meet the guidelines and good scientific, good based guidelines, you've got to have your downward adjustment in infection cases in a 14 day period. he ran it down pretty well. you've got to have the testing. you've got to have the cleaning. you've got to have the hand washing, all the rest of it. you've got to have the distancing. if you meet that criteria, i

think you'll see a lot of states opening in the next few weeks and i think the month of may will be a terrific transition month as the economy reawakens. >> jillian, i think you asked the right question coming out of that, where does the money come from? it comes ultimately from opening back up and businesses becoming viable again. because jason, to your point, we're going to run a $3.7 trillion deficit in this year, 101% of gdp, utterly unsustainable. you have states that are effectively bankrupt and people are just saying out there across the country, let me responsibly reopen my business, let's not pick winners and losers and they're looking at the politicians in the states and saying do something about it. in fact, thousands flooded the wisconsin state capitol yesterday to protest stay at home orders which are set to remain in place until the end of may in wisconsin as many other states are looking at easing restrictions as well. and we've got a map, glias that's right. if we take a look at the map,

you'll see a number of states with rallies and protests to reopen the country. they're going to continue, they're scheduled from april 25th to may 2nd. one of the places we've been talking about is michigan, we spent a lot of time talking about this and governor gretchen whitmer lengthened the stay at home order through may 15th but did lift restrictions on some businesses and some activities, talking about motor boating, golfing, she's allowing the state to open up some of the big box stores, places like home depot and lowes, you can get gardening and things like that. people haven't been able to leave their houses, haven't been able to go to their second homes. we've had some of the restrictions in place, you are seeing some of the activities to be curtailed a little bit. >> remember, there were nine states that didn't have these ultra prohibitive restrictions, utah being one of them. but at the same time, i've got

to tell you, people, they need answers and trey gowdy was on last night, talking on hand at this' program with governor huckabee as the guest host and as always gowdy made the right point. >> i'm not a protester but i want government to explain to me, if i'm going to infringe on your freedom it's for a compelling reason. americans are sacrificial. it's too much to ask, why are you making me do that and it is rooted in rationality connected with what we're trying to prevent and if it's not we have this thing called civil disobedience and people can engage in it. >> people are reasonable, they want to apply common sense. i talked to people in wisconsin, retailers, rural hospitals that are closed because they can't do elective surgeries and they point out, we don't have the number of cases, we can responsibly go about our lives and i think we have a fish full

and fancy house problem here. the problem is big in new york and new jersey. so much of the media is here and they focus on us, the elites in new jersey and new york and they think the rest of the country is facing the same thing. then we have a fancy house problem, all the folks in the media living on their compounds in their fancy homes, broadcasting from the safety of their paycheck, not realizing how much it's affecting real people across america who have a very different reality and so this is where the president is so right to say based on where you live, and areas you need to responsibly start to open up and i think we're going to see this pressure build more and more. >> let's talk about this for a second. i want to get your take on this, both of you, actually. new jersey governor phil murphy was asked about this at a press briefing. he said he's open to the idea of the state providing illegal immigrants money, $600 a week. listen to what he had to say. >> i'm open-minded to the $600 a week under the theories i've mentioned.

we're running out of money but we want to not just bring as i said -- not just because i think we're good guys and gals but because we're not going to break the back of this virus unless we bring us all along. nobody should be denied access to healthcare. >> jason? >> jason remarks d, what do youk about that? >> those are two different topics. access to healthcare is different than $600 a month. i happen to be a resident of utah. i don't know if i'd qualify as an illegal alien in new jersey. $600 a month when people are losing their jobs, millions of americans have to file for unemployment insurance, it gets -- it's offensive to those people who have been paying taxes their whole lives as american citizens. i don't think that's going to fly. it may fly in new jersey but i've got to tell you, don't think that the federal tax payer should have to pay for california and new jersey to hand out money to people who are here illegally. >> jason, unfortunately i am a resident of new jersey so i would be paying for that. >> i am too.

>> it makes -- this is pressure from illegal immigrant rights groups. they always cave. they don't know what to do in the face of that pressure. new jersey is effectively bankrupt as well. where this money comes from i have no idea. you have tax paying citizens saying i didn't get my money, yet we're going to give it to illegals. it's a head scratcher. >> let's talk about headlines. we begin with extreme weather. southern states battered by severe storms as they recover from this week's deadly tornadoes. a massive funnel cloud touched down in texas, the lone star state seeing hail as big as golf balls. >> wow. look at that. the powerful storm knocked out power to thousands of people across texas and louisiana. grocery stores struggling to keep fresh meat in stock as production plummets under the pandemic. the wall street journal reports chains like costco and walmart are turning to new suppliers,

buying shipmentings usually made by restaurants and converting plants to keep up supply. it comes as the nation's biggest suppliers, tyson and smithfield foods, shut down more factories drew to outbreaks -- due do outbreaks among employees. day two of the nfl virtual drafts seeing more trades and surprise picks. >> with the 53rd pick in the 2020nfl draft, the philadelphia eagles select jeylon hertz. >> the bengals picked t higgins and the colts picked michael pitman junior. the biggest show stopper of the night, bill bel belichick's dog. round one of the virtual draft had 16 million people tuning in.

the nfl virtual draft continues tonight. i think people are so excited to have some kind of live sports to be able to watch. on the philadelphia thing, carson wentz, he can't stay healthy. >> bill belichick does not care and i love it. the vikings fans were siked psy. >> i got to tell you, if you want live sports, you know what i wish they'd do, i wish they would do the cannon ball run. with the streets so empty, let them go for from coast to coast and see how fast they could do it in a car. i would love to do that. >> sounds great to me. let's try it. i think there's one governor that may not like it, michigan's governor. lawmakers plan to curb her authority and strip her of power, we'll talk to one of those lawmakers, next. al strength, stability, and online tools you need. and now it's no different.

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>> i signed an executive order this morning to extend the stay home, stay safe order. while the order is extended until may 15th, i am lifting some of the restrictions. the new executive order will now allow some workers to perform lower risk activities to go back on the job. >> michigan governor gretchen whitmer extending her stay at home order as you heard but easing some restrictions to begin reopening the state. this comes as really intense backlash from protesters while state republicans call to curb her powers. here to discuss, speaker of the michigan house of representatives, lee mcgil. thank you for being here. we appreciate it. >> good morning. thanks for having me on the show. >> of course. tell me where we're at right now. we heard a moment ago that she extended the stay at home order but some of the restrictions have been lifted. is that enough, do you think? >> there's thousands of people and families across the state of michigan who are hurting right now. they've had their livelihoods

taken away. michigan is an outlier with how we're handing the covid-19 pan demick. we believe here in michigan as republicans you, you can take covid-19 seriously yet be more reasonable in your restrictions hind you're dealing with it. that's what we're calling on the govern r nor to do we don't feel we've had the reasonableness up to this point. >> a lot of critics accused her of overstepping her authority. what do you say about that. >> i think there's a false narrative out there right now. i think the people are saying that you have to choose either the economy or you have to choose public health or you have to choose constitutional rights and i say that's a false narrative. we can choose all three, we can prioritize the public health by being reasonable, ensuring that people can have their livelihoods back. we have thousands of people that are fractures traited. they don't know what data the governor is using. they've had their livelihoods

taken away. they're demanding answers. we created a committee to ensure we have oversight over the governor, ensure we are getting answers people are demanding from us as lawmakers. we want to make sure we hold government to a higher standard and as the legislature we're the people's voice and that's what we're trying to do in michigan. >> tell me more about this committee. i understand you'll be reviewing the orders. we're hearing the committee could potentially look to strip her of some of her powers. >> so we also passed a kim coupe bills. as we approach april 30th we want to make sure all options are on the table. in the state of michigan, in order for the governor to have an extension, the state of emergency, it requires legislative approval. that day is quickly approaching. it's april -- >> looks like we're val an issue with -- we're having an issue with skype. we'll attempt to get him back. coming up, mississippi now the

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good morning. and welcome back. we have quick headlines now. a russian cargo docks at the international space station, it reached the station in just under three hours, making it the fastest trip to the iss in history. the capsule carried three tons of food, fuel and equipment to the station. nasa is telling space enthusiasts not to show up for next month's rocket launch. spacex's first human flight is set to take off from kenny space center, called critical to

operations aboard the international space station. people can watch the launch online on may 22nd. going to space is the ultimate social distances. >> china's response to the coronavirus outbreak under fire as some states look to hold the communist country rightfully accountable. mississippi now the latest to sue the chinese government, blaming what they call, quote, a coverup for the suffering of more than 5,000 residents affected with the rye jus viruse state, not to mention the businesses impacted. mississippi's attorney general lynn fitch joins us now. thank you for being here. tell us about the suit you are bringing on behalf of mississippi against the communist chinese. >> good morning. it's a pleasure to be with y'all this morning. my role as the attorney general is to protect all mis mississippians. this suit allows us to seek justice and hold china accountable. when you look at what they've

done, it's a malicious and dangerous coverup. the coronavirus has killed. the coronavirus has caused serious medical damage and harm across our country, our state, it's destroyed our businesses and it's altered the way americans will live. so we have to rebuild. and so we see the damage, the issues they have caused, so i'm bringing the suit on behalf of mississippians. >> what are the prospects of this lawsuit against one of the largest countries on the planet who is going to want to just swat it aside, doesn't even take responsible on the international stage. >> that's true. it's the right thing to do. we must hold them accountable. they've gone in and they have silenced doctors and journalists, whistleblowers, they have caused us not to be prepared and this has damaged us on so many levels, loss of life,

economic damages, and so it's a tough one but we're going to win because we're going to hold them accountable and we must do that in order to make them not go down this path. they cannot continue to take advantage of america. >> amen. well said. good luck with the suit. i have to ask you as the chief lawmaker in mississippi, bill barr called into question some of the stay at home orders, how far should government go. how have you viewed the powers in the state of mississippi as far as allowing residents to get back to work. >> we're always ready to get back to work but we're going to do it very carefully, very cautiously, following the executives orders of our governor. we must protect all mis mississippians but do it the right way to get us back to economic prosperity. >> i have a feeling in mississippi the bill of rights is not above your pay grade like

governor murphy said in new jersey. good stuff. attorney general, thank you so much for joining us this morning. good luck with that suit against the communist chinese. we appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> you got it. >> still ahead, president trump predicted joe biden would get a free pass from democrats in the media. but a resurfaced video clip is giving new credibility to claims against the former vp. that's next.

>> good sa saturday morning. welcome back. take a look at the screen, the empire state building lit up in honor of fdny workers. the initiative pays tribute to those on the coronavirus frontline. for more inspiring stories, visit our website, foxnews.com/americatogether. beautiful. >> i love that story. i love seeing things in our community that just come out. well, the sexual assault allegation against joe biden taking a new turn as a resurfaced clip seemingly confirms claims by his accuser. she says her mother made this phone call in 1993, referencing her encounter with the then senator. >> wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in washington. my daughter has just left there

after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all. the only thing she could have done is go to the press and she chose not to could it out of respect for him. >> she had a story to tell, out of respect for the person she worked for, she didn't tell it. >> that's true. >> so will democrats condemn the former vice president or will they give him a free pass? here to discuss is turning point usa spokesperson, author of the upcoming book, always a soldier, rob smith. rob, thank you so much for joining us and thank you for your service in iraq. we cannot as a nation thank you enough. you know, when justice kavanaugh was up for confirmation, there were literally hundreds of stories about an unconfirmed allegation and now we've got this allegation about vice president biden, the former senator, and seemingly this mother comes on. do you think that the media and democrats are going to do anything to hold him

accountable? >> i mean, i don't think they will, just look at how long this story has been out and i think that what this entire situation shows us is the hypocrisy of what's going on with the left. it turns out the believe all women crowd only believes some women that are politically convenient to them. i don't believe they're going to hold joe biden to the high standard they hold everybody else. you brought up a really good point when it comes to the kavanaugh hearing. we saw hundreds if not thousands of articles in the mainstream media about an assault allegation that had maybe one percent of the credibility that this assault allegation has. you have her mother calling in at the time. you have the own words. you have people that were around her at the time that were saying that, yes, we heard the story at the time. so there is so much there. and the fact that there are so many people from the alyssa milanos of the world to

everybody else on the left that are ignoring the story or downplaying it because it's not politically convenient for them highlights the high problem consider sighip problemhypocris. >> the biden campaign put out a statement from march 27th, it says women have a right to tell their story and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. we encourage them to do so because these allegations are false. but there again seems to be this new information here that is time stamped. when they went on and talked and called into that larry king program, there's a time stamp there, and actual evidence that if this indeed was this woman's mother she was saying, hey, this is happening in real-time. >> yeah, absolutely. i mean, the time stamp is there. all of the evidence is there to

say that this is a very credible allegation and it's very interesting to me that the biden campaign puts out a statement that says that we invite the media to investigate this, we invite the media to do something because they all know the mainstream media and the left is completely in the face tank of democrats, will do nothing of the sort. i think there was a podcast host in a smaller outlet that is kind of nonpartisan and it took them to bring the tara reid story to the forefront. this has been on the internet for weeks, the story has been out there for weeks t podcast has been out there for weeks, the fact that it has taken this long to get a scant amount of attention from the mainstream media tells me they're not interested i in covering because it doesn't fit the agenda they're trying to promote. >> i want to ask you one more thing. we asked the biden campaign for an additional comment

up-to-date, up-to-speed, and they have yet to provide one. i want to get your take, i've got 30 seconds or so, but the chicago tribune is really going after the state of illinois. they're asking some $41 billion in relief. essentially trying to go and get all of their past sins of spending too much money in illinois back and with the chicago tribune, your own paper is going after you, that ain't so good, is it? >?>> that's not good at all. the chicago tribune called the ad shameless and it is shameless. in the ad, 10 billion of those dollars were for the pension shortfall in illinois. so that so me is complet compley ridiculous. a lot of states will be using this pandemic to clean up their messes. >> first of all, thank you for your service to the country. good luck with the book. and these two subjects are not

going away and i hope you continue to join us. so thank you very much. >> not at all. >> all right, pete. >> thanks for having me. >> great interview and shocking, no one in the media has yet asked joe biden that question about that at all. maybe some day. turning now to a few additional headlines. auto nation, a retailer worth billions, received nearly $95 million in funding from the paycheck protection program. the company reportedly got most of money by using separate tax identification numbers that were assigned to dozens of dealership locations. auto nation says now that they've been exposed they will return the funds. and take a look at this. shocking video shows the moment a chopper spins out of control before crashing into the ground. one person tragically was killed in that crash in arizona. the accident happening an hour after takeoff. the ntsb is now investigating. and disgraced lawyer michael avenatti walked out of a

manhattan correction alphas it yesterday after a judge ordered a 90 day temporary release amid the coronavirus outbreak. avenatti, who represented adult film star stormy daniels in a lawsuit against donal presidentp was found guilty of trying to export nike. he faces -- extort nike. >> a nurse on the coronavirus frontlines wins big on the wheel of fortune. >> what will we do with the remaining nine seconds? $37,000. >> not bad. the nurse winning the final puzzle, taking home $56,000. she works as an er nurse in california and says it's been a life-long dream to be on the show. >> wow. >> those are your headlines. >> that's so cool. >> yeah. i mean, talk about a break.

i went on a break, played the game, won 56 grand. the right person to win at this point. >> wheel of fortune's been on the air for a long time. to see a nurse win it like that, i love it. that's a good show, between that and jeopardy and the price is right, i like that one too. >> found a little bit more time to watch those these days at home, so a lot more people playing along. good for her. >> good for her. that's right. thank you to her for everything she's doing right now. coming up, the fight for small business pouring into the streets as protesters rally against pennsylvania's stay at home order. we'll talk to a business order to argues the shutdown favors big box retailers, after the break. like helping you understand what the recently passed economic package can mean for you.

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>> good morning. welcome back. a quick look at headlines now. the ceo of ryan air calling a plan to leave middle seats open

idiotic. he says the british airline can't make money that way. some major airlines are already doing it to promote social distancing. ryan air says the airline, if they're forced, they will adopt the rules. the government can face for rules or else they won't. >> hawaii paying for tourists to leave they if don't follow quarter tooquarantine rules. they wilso far, the state has p9 people to go back home since the beginning of april. pennsylvania governor tom wolfe extended the state's stay at home order, just hours after hundreds of protesters took to the streets outside the state capitol urging the governor to reopen the economy, at least be fair about it. our next guest was as that protest. she owns a consignment retail shop and argues the governor's guidelines are being unfairly

applied. here with more is owner of fashion sense consignment, britney allen. thank you for joining us. i think this is an extremely important story. we're honored to have you. you're pointing out a double standard, target and walmart can sell the kind of clothes you're selling, you are forced to be closed. why? >> i'm being forced to close because i don't have a grocery section in my store or i don't sell cleaning supplies either. >> could you -- what is this doing to your business, the fact that the big guys can sell the stuff you sell but you can't? >> well, what's happening is when i can finally open my doors again, all the moms that need clothing for their kids are going to be going to walmart and target. they've already gotten all their clothes. so when i open my doors again they're not going to need me. >> britney, what is the rational? do you feel like -- before we

get to that, do you feel like you could responsibly open? practice social distance inside your store and keep your customers safe? >> i definitely think i could safely open again. i mean, we were starting to do these things even before we were shut down. i feel -- i've been in stores now that don't even provide hand sanitizer or wipes right now for your carts. so we could definitely -- we have wipes for our customers, we have hand sanitizer, we could have someone -- an employee going around wiping down doorknobs and we would require all our employees to wear a mask and gloves. >> all the things -- >> yes, i definitely think we could. >> all the things that grocery stores and liquor stores, i saw cell phone stores open even in my state of new jersey. you were at the protest. what's your message to the governor of pennsylvania that keeping businesses like yours closed, while others are making

lots of money? >> my message would be just be fair. if you're not going to let -- if you're going to let target sell probably about 75% of their store is nonessential items, if you're going to let them be open and sell nonessential items then you should let everybody sell nonessential items and be open and be able to open safely. >> it's america where you should be allowed to do just that. how long can you stay afloat, britney, in your business? >> i might be able to go another month like this but the restrictions he's talking about is -- there was a headline that said maybe one person could be in my store at a time, maybe ma. i think he rejected that. but we have an 8,000 square foot store. one person could get lost in my store and i would never see

them. i mean, the restrictions have got to be reasonable. you have to look at the size of the location and you have to let -- you have to let -- you have to take the size of the store into consideration. >> you probably can't see this. i'm looking at pictures of your store right now, the inside. it evidenc effectively looks lie clothing department of a target or walmart, big aisles, lots of space. that is shuttered and closed, no one coming in. you're saying if the government lets you open, you could maybe have one or two in your store at a time? i mean, i've been to garden centers. i've been to liquor stores, i've been to grocery stores, i've been to retail stores in the state of new jersey which is the epicenter of this and they're packed with people. but they're practicing responsible social distancing and wearing masks. how frustrating must it be for you to look at your empty store. >> it's really frustrating.

yeah, we can't go on much longer like this. and to have one or two people in my store isn't worth it and right now we are trying to do some online sales and we did enough sales this month to be -- that were equivalent to one day if we were open and for all those people it's really frustrating for all those people who are saying oh, yeah, as least you can do online sales or you can do curbside pickup if you're a restaurant. they don't understand it's hardly worth your time to do these things. >> congratulations on building a business, that's not an easy thing to do in this country nonetheless. i hope someone's listening and we need to be listening in this country because hard-working business owners like you put all your sweat equity in and now the government has shut you down. time to get you open. britney, thank you for sharing your story. you shouldn't fall second fiddle to the big guys. we really appreciate it.

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>> good morning. welcome back. police officers in fort myers florida sending a message of support to healthcare workers on the pipeline frontline heroes al hospital as a way to say thank you for the service. dr. scott wolf joins us from lee memorial hospital. thank you all for being here. >> good morning. thank you. >> of course. lieutenant, i'll start with you. i know that this is something

that you wanted to do. you proposed the idea to your chief and your command staff. why did you want to do it? why was it important to you? >> you know, we have a special relationship with our healthcare system, especially lee memorial, and when we were -- we had discussed ways of wanting to thank our local hospital. so we pitched the idea to chief diggs. we got a group together. kristin helped me. dr. wolf helped me on the lee memorial side. we thought it was a great way to represent the agency and to basically just say thank you to our healthcare workers and specifically lee memorial. they've always opened up their doors and their hearts to us. in times of our need. and we just felt that it was an appropriate way to say thank you especially during these times. you know, they're right now -- they're, along with ems, they're

the frontlines and it was a great way to say thank you and pay respect to them. >> it's beautiful. so touching to look at. dr. wolf, how is everyone doing? how are the nurses and the doctors? how are they doing? second of all, what does the gesture mean to you. >> all things considered i think we're doing quite well. lee memorial hospital has been serving the community in fort myers for over 100 years. we're also the regional trauma center. this is what we do. this is what our frontline staff does. this is what they're trained to do. we're prepared. we've had our incident command open for over 45 days. well before even our first patient opened. so we're prepared. we'll continue to be prepared. and we do -- this is what we do every day. as far as what it meant to us, there's no words to describe what it meant to our staff. as lieutenant rogers said, it's an honor and privilege for us to serve side-by-side with the fort

myers police department as well as all of our first responders and for those who put their lives on the line day in and day out and for them to take time to come to our campus with that type of gesture of respect and gratitude, it was just an incredibly moving experience and it meant the world to our staff. >> absolutely. kristin, i want to get you in here. i know you guys didn't invite the media to this event. you wanted it to be subtle. now the world has seen it. what has the response been from people, even outside the community. >> it's truly incredible. we tried to do something very personal for our hospital and just the response has been overwhelmingly heart-felt through comments, through e-mails, and we're just simply happy that so many different people got to smile from our gesture. >> it is beautiful. kristin, lieutenant and dr. wolf, thank you for joining us and thank you for everything you continue to do. >> thank you. >> and coming up, joe biden facing pressure from his own

party to release the supreme court short list just like then candidate donald trump did back in 2016. but would running on future court battles cost him moderate voters, that's coming up in the next hour.

>> the fda approved the first at-home covid-19 test kit. just got approved, the fda's been incredible. they've been approving not only this but they've been approving many things at a pace that never happened before. many tests are going on. many vaccine tests and tests of every different kind and things are happening just like this event, things are happening very rapidly. >> president trump praising the fda's approval on at-home coronavirus testing kits as the u.s. sees real progress in the fight against the pandemic. the president signing the latest $484 billion covid-19 stimulus bill providing much needed relief to american families, hospitals and small

businesses. the additional funding comes as governors start to slowly lift restrictions and reopen some businesses in several states across the country. good saturday morning to you. thanks for joining us on this second hour of the weekend edition of "fox & friends." jillian, good to see you in studio f and jason joining us all the way out there in utah, jason, great to have you. >> hey, glad to be here. this is fun. there's a lot happening in the news. and i'm impressed with who is coming up. there's really good guests we'll get to talk to including kaley makanany, senator tim scott, texas attorney general ken paxton, herman cane who can talk about the economy and business, and i am so thrilled when i read the lineup because charlie daniels, we're actually going to get to talk to country music icon charlie -- i didn't think that was going to happen. i'm thrilled to be here to talk to him. >> it's kind of like the time

that i met brett favre. it's those moments in your life that tv gives you. >> it's like the time i got to interview nick foles after winning the super bowl for the eagles. >> there you go. and you remind me time and time and time again. >> had to do it. >> jason, we're glad to have you join us all morning long. tons to cover. it's been yet another week, right, watching all of the coverage, watching all of the developments. a lot of the focus is turning to states and a lot of the states this morning set to ease restrictions, open their economies. michigan's governor who has been forefront on all of this is facing mounting protests and calls to curb her powers, the state extended stay at home orders until may 15th with some concessions, jillian, is what we're hearing. >> i was reading about this this morning and we can take a look, you can see on your screen here. on the restriction toss the stay at home order, residents will be

required to wear masks in enclosed public spaces. that's nonmedical grade, whatever mask you have at home. you will be required to wear that. you're doeyou're discouraged tol between residences, but you are able to. people have second homes, they weren't allowed to do that before. you are discouraged. >> can't go to your other home. >> landscapers, lawn service companies, bike repair shops will open with social distancing. a lot of people have been upset that they weren't allowed to do things outdoors like motor boating, golfing, activities that will allow you to get outside, have a little fresh air, do something outside of your home while social distancing, some of those activities people are now able to do if you remain six feet apart. so a little bit of good news there but still people are saying that with the extension until may 15th they're not exactly happy with that, jason. >> well, i got to tell you, the science is telling us that we should be outdoors.

it makes sense. if you want actual social distancing, go outdoors. it still drives me crazy that our national parks are closed, a lot of the national monuments are closed. some of the restrictions the governors have put into place, particular michigan, seems to be the most egregious out there. she put out a statement, here's what she said. with new covid-19 cases leveling off, however, we are lifting some of the restrictions put in place in the previous order. i want to be crystal clear, the over-reaching message today is still the same. we must all do our part by staying home and staying safe as much as possible. except science says staying in confined places next to people isn't necessarily the best way to kill the virus. >> that's a great point. the other thing to think about, we had a retailer on from the state of pennsylvania who owns a huge consignment shop that's empty right now. if more businesses are open,

then not everyone is crowding into the same businesses all the time next to each other. i think we're at the moment where people can starting to say it's getting warmer, sunlight i good, i understand the rules, i'm happy to follow them, just don't apply them differently in different places in ways that crush my livelihood and these i think what you're hearing in places like michigan and pennsylvania. there's another side of this, lee chatfield, the michigan house speaker vowing to take a look into what the governor's really doing here. watch. >> we believe here in michigan as republicans, you can take covid-19 seriously yet be more reasonable in your restrictions and how you're dealing with it. you have thousands of people who are frustrated and they don't know what data the governor is using to make shareholder her d. they've had her livelihoods taken away and they're demanding answers. we created a committee to ensure we have oversight over the governor, to ensure we are getting the answers that people are demanding from us as

lawmakers and we want to ensure that we're holding government to a higher standard and as the legislature we're the people's voice. >> then i will say on the other end of this, you look at what has been going on in georgia over the last couple days and a lot of people have argued, even the president has argued that it's just too soon to be easing as many restrictions as they have there but even in georgia you have a lot of independent business owners who say look, i'm still not comfortable opening right now even though we can social distance and even though i can do what's being asked of me i'm still not comfortable so you are going to have business owners across the country who choose not to at this point. but at least in some areas those who are able to, in some of these states, and we can pull up the map here, set to ease restrictions in the next week, in some the states that's what they're going to be able to do, jason. >> i think the mantra really ought to be one of personal responsibility. if you're a business owner or restaurant owner and you don't want to have people come to your establishment, then don't. if you want to put up restrictions and say you have to

have a face covering in order to come to my store, then do that. if you don't feel comfortable going out in public, then don't. you know what, i don't care what the government says, wash your hands, do some personal hygiene, and you should be good. that's what the science is telling us. and yet some of the things that the governors had told us before and pushed restrictions on us are totally counter to actually what you should do. look at -- think about nancy pelosi, and bill de blasio in new york city, oh, come on the trains, come right in. you know, you'll be just fine. you don't need a face mask. follow the science and the science will be -- you know, take some personal responsibility. >> we all know what we need to do and the business woulds do it. otherwise, customers won't go there. let people choose, use their common sense while being responsible. there's also a study out of miami-dade that shows that the infection rate of covid-19 is actually much higher, 6% of the population which would put the mortality rate down there, just one example, at 0.17%.

so as the science shows us that healthy people can and likely should go out responsibly, sunlight is good, exercises good, social distancing is good, let businesses choose what they want to do. problem is, you alluded to it, nancy pelosi and others, the priorities of democrats have been releasing illegals, abortion clinics are essential but you can't buy a gun and you can't go to church and you can't go in your car and go to church. that's where people see the disconnect and it doesn't make sense. silence. that's how well that point was made. >> we're waiting for jason to respond. >> just kidding. there was a great interview on tucker last night with a state representative out of michigan, karen whitset who -- she's coming up on the program at 9:20. she got the treatment that worked for her, went to the white house, thanked the president and now the democrat party in michigan is trying to vote her off the island, tell

her she's not welcome anymore. she'll be on the program at 9:20. >> that's an important story about how the political things have been going. in illinois, i've got to tell you, in illinois what they did, what the state is trying to do to all of us other taxpayers across the country is absolutely shameful. so much so that the chicago tribune has taken them on and said what you're doing is shameful to go after and actually dishonest to ask for a federal bailout. they're asking for more than $41 billion to basically cover up all the other misdeeds and how they have mismanaged the state of illinois. has nothing to do with covid-19, probably part of it does, but not all of it does. and the chicago tribune, hats off to the editorial board for taking them on and highlighting this problem. >> here's a quote from the article. it has also helped expose agenda for 2020 while asking for a

bailout, they have shown no movement toward cutting spending or removing an amendment that will mean higher income taxes for millions of illinois taxpayers. >> this is not the new york port or the wall street journal. this is the chicago tribune in the pockets of democrats for decades, pointing out the obvious, do not exploit the crisis to fix the budget problems. now you want us to bail you out. i think a lot of people look sideways at that, jason. >> yeah. earlier i had a chance to talk to rob smith from turning point usa and here's what he had to say on the topic. >> chicago tribune they called it shameless. they asked for over $40 billion from the federal government and realize in the ad, 10 billion of those dollars were for the pension shortfall in illinois. that's completely ridiculous.

it speaks to me, a lot of states will be using this pandemic to clean up their own messes. >> yep, not the right time. >> if this is happening in illinois, i worry that it's going to be happening in other states. jillian. >> we'll certainly be keeping an eye on that. good interview, jason. >> let's take a look at some of the headlines now. a police department mourning one of their own. illinois officer joseph kapello passing away from covid-19, becoming the first officer to die from the virus at the melrose park police department. he served for two years after retiring from the cook county sheriff's office. his son keeping law enforcement in the family, serving the police department in chicago. navy leadership calling to reinstate the captain of an aircraft carrier sidelined by coronavirus. captain brett crozier was released from his duties. the uss roosevelt has been stationed at guam since

march 27th. nearly all 4800 crew members have been tested with at least 840 testing positive. the outbreak has spread to another navy ship at sea. there are now 18 confirmed cases on the uss kidd which is operating an anti-narcotics mission in the pacific ocean. the first sailor tested positive was evacuated off the ship. the happiest place on earth is now in the comfort of your own home. look at this. ♪ the story come to life. >> walt disney world streaming the happily ever after fireworks show online. fans can watch the entire show on instagram. disney closed its parks in march and could reportedly remain closed until 2021. a lot of people are saying the reason they could potentially have to remain closed so long is waiting on the vaccine to see how the progress is coming. you have to figure so many

people at the parks at once, we have to keep an eye on that. right now there's only a report that they could remain closed that long. >> i just don't need any more disney in my house at all. i've got a 2-year-old girl, elsa and anna is on, frozen, frozen 2, its inundating me. i will not be watching. >> i love disney but have you ever had a friend come to you and say hey, i went and saw the fireworks, you want to watch it and they try to show it to you on your iphone. >> never cool. >> it's just not quite the same. >> never. >> i don't want to watch fireworks on video. >> that's very true. summed it up nicely. >> coming up, joe biden facing pressure from his own party to release his supreme court short list. just like then candidate donald trump did back in 2016. would running on future court battles cost him moderate voters? we will discuss that, coming up next, let's be honest. quitting smoking is hard.

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mounting pressure for joe biden from his basement to take a page from president trump's campaign playbook. progressives urging him to release his supreme court nominee short list like president trump did back in 2016. our next guest agrees, saying voters deserve the opportunity to see his picks before casting their vote. here with more is president of the judicial network, carrie sevarino. you probably don't agree with his types of picks but you think he should put forth in front of voters what his priorities would be. >> it's a strange alliance where i think the loud and well funded groups on the left are absolutely right, president

trump made history when he told americans not just i'm going to appoint kind of a constitutionalist judge or someone like scalia and thomas but i'm going to appoint people off of this list and these are the kind of people i will put on the court and this is my list of what i'm doing. that was something the american people responded overwhelmingly to. now the left's is like maybe we can try it too. i don't think it's going to work quite so well for them. i think the american people deserve to see that. the key to trump's list, these are men and women who are committed to the rule of law, not just talented lawyers and judges but they have a history of applying the constitution and the law as it's written. they have a history of standing up with occurring for those principle -- courage for those principles. we'll see who biden puts on the list. not only does he not want to talk about it. when he talks about his record with judges, it's things like helping destroy robert borg's nomination, giving us a new

verb, to borg someone, he was instrumental in that process. of leading the clarence thomas hearing, that was a circus. you want more of that kind of aggressive politicization of the courts, we'll see. i think that's not what the american people want. >> we have a sense of the type of people he would nominate because he talked about this in a statement to cbs, biden said as president, biden would appoint judges who shared his values and would protect the constitution and promised to make history by appointin appoie first african american woman to the supreme court of the united states. clarify for me, does being white or a man or black of a woman help you interpret the constitution better? you know, unfortunately it looks like he may be trying to use these seats as a give-away to different interest groups. i would say if he's looking for an outstanding african american female judge, he should look to janice rogers brown, a dc circuit judge who he helped block the nomination of.

he was a bush appointee. she was outstanding. he filibustered her multiple times, did everything he could to keep her off the court. he's coming late to the game, recognizing these judges. >> she probably believes in the original intent of the constitution, that's her pesky problem right there. carrie, thank you so much for breaking this down. we know who biden would nominate. he's captured completely by the left at this point. >> still ahead, americans may be forced to stay at home but the real estate is on the move. what should you know about buying or selling a house in the middle of a pandemic? we'll ask the pros, coming up next,

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shares are up for an exercise equipment company as all exercise equipment companies as gyms remain closed during the pandemic. peloton stock increasing by more than 16% since january 1st as the company sees the largest online workout class yet with more than 23,000 people feverishly pedaling against each other. and kanye west is now a billionaire. he is worth a whopping $1.2 billion. west is reportedly unhappy with the number, saying he's worth more than $3 billion. you know, pretty good either way, jillian. >> i might be the only person who has never used a peloton. moving on. spring is typically a hot time in the real estate market. with the pandemic putting nearly every aspect of life in flux, many are wondering if now is a good time to make a move. what should buyers and sellers be focusing on right now?

joining me with insight is rogers heely, broker and owner of roug rogers heely and associs and mitch rochelle, thank you for being here. rogers, what are you seeing right now? >> we've seen a pretty good slowdown, january, february and march were probably the best three months we've seen in austin, houston, dallas, san antonio, the major markets. the last three weeks, people have re-evaluated and they've taken a massive step back. but people still need to move, for the most part, but all in all it's been pretty slow here the last few weeks. >> i guess that's not really surprising that it slowed a little bit. mitch, i'm sure you're seeing a bit of the same. >> yeah. the reality is everybody is stuck in their cabin. one thing that happens when you have cabin fever, you start dreaming about having a bigger

cabin. what you're seeing is if you look at zillow data, there's a tremendous amount of people sort of looking at homes and i think once buyers can get out there and buy a house, once sellers start putting them back on the market, i think you'll see a lot of activity, perhaps this spring or early summer. >> mitch, let's pull up some of the points, you may need a higher credit score, appraisal and inspections may be harder to coordinate. employment verification will be a key lender environment and everyone understands that closings will be virtual for a while. when you talk about employment verification, i think that's just so up in the air for a lot of people right now. >> yeah, it's hard for two reasons. one is, if you aren't gainfully employed just getting someone from human resources to confirm your employment is probably difficult. lenders are worried. look at the unemployment numbers. they're alarming. i think lenders will be rightfully worried about the

future employment prospects of would-be borrowers. i think that's going to be a challenge for some trying to get a mortgage. >> what's your advice for someone looking to buy or sell right now. >> people looking to buy, if you're going to finance something, try to get locked into a contract sooner than later because the mortgage rules are changing pretty frequently. we haven't seen this kind of volatility on the back end, really in the last seven or eight years. i think having a sense of urgency if you have to move is crucial. right. but with that being said, like we talked about, whether it's cabin fever or apartment fever, you guys got to make sure you put your safety first. so i do think a lot of the rules of real estate are going to change and on the seller's side, whether in texas, new york, california, wherever you guys are, there have been a lot of mandates put in place from the local board of realtors. make sure those people are adhering to those rules. a lot of times you have to get a disclosure signed saying the

buyers, sellers, the realtors, don't have a temperature. people need to educate themselves more than ever before, outside of what they want in their new property. i think being well-informed is crucial given the crisis we've been dealing with. >> good advice from both of you, that's for sure. i won't be surprised if we see virtual showings and things like that continuing for a little while. mitch, rogers, thank you both. have a good day. >> thanks, guys, stay safe. >> coming up, with many states still under lockdown, what's the strategy for businesses once things reopen. up next, a panel of restaurant ceos weigh in on the path forward as the industry works to rebound. ♪ limu emu & doug [ siren ] give me your hand! i can save you... lots of money with liberty mutual! we customize your car insurance so you only pay for what you need!

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the service industry has been hit especially hard by the coronavirus pandemic. according to the national restaurant association, four in 10 restaurants are currently closed. two-thirds of employees have lost their jobs. and sales losses could total $240 billion by the end of the year. joining me to weigh in on the current state of affairs is a panel of restaurant ceos. we have todd graves, founder and ceo of raising cane. jim krele, president and ceo of taco johns. ran citrandy dewit and brandon , see o-- ceo of rave restaurant . it's the same question to all of you, business is about overcoming obstacles. this is one of the biggest obstacles we've ever seen. how is your industry going to thrive? what do you need to do to gain the public's confidence and have a growing, thriving restaurant

business? >> well, thank you, jason. what our industry has to do is do what we already do in a whole greater level. our responsibility is serving our customers a food safe product and -- we feed people's kids. we have a great responsibility to do that. we have to keep our crew members safe as well. with this coronavirus, and what's happened, we've had to take that to another level. we've had to learn things like social distancing and uber sanitization. we've learned it overnight. our restaurant leaders and crew members have done a great job with this. to come out of this, and as some of the stay at home mandates are coming back and restaurants start opening their doors and having dine-in business, we have to be self-policing. we have to guide our customers on how they can come back into our restaurants, practicing proper social distancing. we open our dining rooms, we're going to have to guide but we're also going to have to police. to have people come to our

restaurants, they want to have a good time. they don't want to think about rules and regulations and that sort of thing. well, we have to guide them. you have to stop here, have you to go back to your tables. >> so jim, is the dining experience ever going to be the same? you have dining rooms, you have hundreds of them. how are you going to deal with that? >> you know, it's not going to be the same. we'll be closing our salsa bars, the self-service areas i believe are going to go away. the tables will be about half as many tables in our restaurants as there were before to provide the social distancing that we need. so it will be a whole new experience, even dining in, our food will be delivered to the table in bags to help protect the guest as well as our crews. >> and randy, how are you going to deal with it? how is the experience going to be different for the consumer? but how does the average person who maybe only has one or two stores, you've got so many of them, how are these restaurants

going to serve america? i mean, the loss of $240 billion in revenue is going to -- it takes a huge bite out of the economy. >> yes, it does. we'll never get back that revenue but i do look forward to the time when we do get back to normal and restaurants can be bustling, busy, happy places again. during the initial startup, though, we're committed like everyone else to occupying 50%, committing to social distancing. it's going to feel different and weird for the customer coming back. we're hearing from social media channels, people can't wait to come back. i have a restaurant in oklahoma city, the governor up there is allowing restaurants to reopen dining rooms starting may 1st. we are awaiting here in texas our governor abbott to make an announcement on monday and we really hope he announces that it's may 1st as well for

restaurant dining rooms. we're prepared. we're ready. we have people undergoing training right now on our new procedures, on how to do it safely. a lot of the things already mentioned by my fellow ceos on this panel. we're on-board with doing it. but, you know, what i think everyone needs to understand, especially our legislators and our landlords need to understand that half of the restaurant is just a way to lose even more money. it is -- it has to be a temporary steppingstone to getting back to full occupancy. >> brandon, you don't get a body like mine by missing meals. i more than anybody really want to get back in these restaurants. you've got operations in georgia. you're going to actually open up as i understand it on monday. how are things going to be different and how are you going to do this across the country? >> listen, congressman, the u.s. consumer is resilient. people said after 9/11 nobody will ever fly again and flights

are at an all-time high before the virus. we launched a contactless buffet to go. we run two brands, we have pizza inn, a 60-year-old brand, a fast casual pizza concept. we know our consumers are ready to come back. we launched a contactless buffet to go. people will be back. people will be back to vegas. vegas is one big buffet. we are opening in georgia on monday. our dining rooms are open. buffets are not yet open. we are launching what we're calling the right way buffet. we put in a lot of operational changes and are making it safe for our customers to get the variety and value that they love from pizza inn. we're continuing to move forward. we think this is really -- thins ought to be consumer's choice on where they go. the government certainly has a role but it's been a little heavy-handed thus far.

>> gentlemen, thank you. we wish you nothing but the best of luck. you employ literally so many people, millions of people throughout our communities and we rely on your product, your service and the good fun that it is to get out there so we wish you nothing but the best. thank you all. pete. >> thank you. >> a bit heavy-handed so far, he summed it up newsily and getting back to full occupancy, that's where they make money. great job. >> miami's homicide rate plunges during the coronavirus crisis, police say there hasn't been one homicide in seven weeks. first time in 63 years. authorities say overall crime is also down including thankfully dough mess particular violence -- domestic violence. it's all being attributed to the stay at home order. the u.s., mexico, canada, agreement takes effect in july. the new trade pact is replacing nafta, a signature of what the president said he wanted to get done. it was delayed amid the

outbreak. the new agreement places tougher rules on labor and automotive production. >> and first lady melania trump sending care packages across the country to hospitals hit hard by the coronavirus. the packages are filled with blankets and other gifts for medical staff and children. the first lady said small token of prior united nation apprecial community's courage and leadership. very cool to see. jillian. >> that is nice. an arkansas family goes viral for making a plastic protective hug blanket. paul reported his wife's unusual product on tik tok. his wife made what they call a plastic hug blanket to attach to the front door. she came up with the idea because she wants to hug her sister's baby when the child is born. they hope it sends a message of hope. wow. now let's go to rick because the south has just been ravaged by

storms this past week. we've seen it over and over again. it's pretty awful, rick. >> yeah, it is the season for it and unfortunately it's been really rough across parts of the southeast. a little bit of a break for the next up he'll days, -- next couple days which is good news. there are a lot of tornadoes across parts of the south. we had the storms on easter. you see the storms, that's where the storms have been the last couple days. the tail wind of that front is now down across parts of south florida. and to be honest with you, this is really good news finally. if you took april's temperature so far, you would tie the hoedeshoedest ever may. i think -- hottest ever may. i think the temps will drop down over the next few days in south florida. florida has been hot and dry. you need moisture. the weather is headed across parts of the mid-mississippi river valley. eastern tennessee, we could see

a few tornadoes later on today. one other story we're watching is across parts of california and into arizona. temperatures are baking there. we're in april and take a look at the temperatures today, into tomorrow, 104 tomorrow in parker, 104 in phoenix tomorrow on sunday, this is early in the season to get these kind of hot temperatures out there. obviously causing a problem with people on the beaches across southern california. when you get these kind of temperatures in april, doesn't bode well for the summer that's coming your way. all right, guys. back to you. >> thank you, rick. we see you've added flowers and a vase to your shot. >> i think if we take a clip of every week, we can see your entire house. >> it's such a long, complicated story. next week, the sun angle will be back and i'll have the church back behind me. >> love it, rick. thank you very much. >> coming up, federal stimulus checks are meant for americans but that's not stopping democratic governors for going

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>> hope you're having a good saturday morning so far. we have quick headlines for you. a major update on the irs website is changing the get my payment tool after taxpayers complained about the feature not working properly. the tool helps people track their stimulus payment from the government. amc says it won't reopen any of its movie theaters until new films are ready for release. hollywood blockbuster movie releases have been pushed back until mid-summer because of the pandemic. pete. >> some democrat leaders are looking to provide taxpayer funded relief for illegal immigrants who do not qualify for federal symptom liss aid. california governor gavin newsom

was the first to introduce such a measure. now he's being sued. joining me now is hairmead dillon. thank you for joining us. tell us what the governor is attempting to, he's not the only one, but we're focused in california, and what you're trying to do about it. >> the governor, gavin newsom, announced because the several hundred thousand, potentially over 1 million undocumented workers in cal california who ae out of work who are not eligible for unemployment benefits that he would use $75 million of california taxpayer money to hand to illegal aliens through a network of nonprofits that he designates and also raising money from his foundation friends at some of the big tech companies. this violates our state constitution in california because it is giving out taxpayer dollars through nongovernment entities and violates state and federal laws. none of the states are allowed

to do this unless they pass a specific law allowing this which they have not. we at the center for american liberty sued to stop it and the california strowrt ordered -- supreme court ordered this to stop. >> the national bill did not allow for illegals to get it. at the state level, gavin newsom said we want to give money to illegals, so we'll give to nonprofits which are illegal immigrant advocacy groups and who then give out the money. >> that's the way he wants to do it but laundering the money in a slush fund through nonprofits doesn't cure the problem and it's been long illegal under federal law, it's a federal criminal offense for anybody to give this money out in cash. you can give them health benefits, you can give food in kind, that type of thing for an emergency purpose but giving out cash like this as if they were citizens is inconsistent with current law. >> yeah.

and certainly while call importancaliforniais drowning oe sheet, doesn't seem to calculate with a lot of people either. here's what the governor's spokesperson said about this. he said california is taking legally justified and morally necessary action to assist all californians impacted by covid-19. these actions benefit public health and economic well-being of families hit hardest by the pandemic. we look forward to defending what we know to be right in court. they think it is the right thing to do to give money to illegals, will it stand up in court. >> i don't think it will. you can't defl deny the emotionl ameal. yoappeal. you can see why the governor goes there, instead of paying to attention to the legal issues. he needs to really defend that he has friends who are contributing $50 million for this purpose for the $75 million that are going to be handed out. he can just ask those friends to donate $75 million if that's the purpose. but in fact, this is only going

to cover a fraction of those california workers who are undocumented and so i think this is just the tip of the iceberg and he really intends to ask for a lot more money to be appropriated, which is even more illegal. >> the special interest groups on behalf of illegals are powerful, especially the modern democrat party. thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> still ahead, what better way to stand together during these hard times than to salute the stars and stripes. the new challenge encouraging kids to recite the pledge of allegiance. we'll talk to the group behind the effort and how you can get involved, after the break. >>.>> for which it stands, one nation, under god, ind indivisi, with liberty and just justice jr all. an annuity can help your retirement plan ride out turbulent times.

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what better way to stand together during these hard times than with a salute to the starts and stripes. >> the we pledge allegiance challenge encourages kids and families to say the pledge each day while at home. >> joining us now, executive director, karen worster and her grandkids. thank you for being here. we appreciate it. >> thank you. thank you for having us and this one obviously over here is not my grand kid, that's my husband and i do have to say, i don't have all the grandkids. this one is going to come and go. and i have two grandkids who are down in dc, down in virginia area, and able an abe and jonahd another grandson in alabama but you have the rest of the gang and really proud to be here.

>> wreaths across america, what you do at cemeteries, an amazing effort. tell us about this challenge. >> wreaths across america is known for what we do at cemeteries during the holiday season. we have a mission to remember, honor and teach year-round. and this what's going on with this pandemic, we wanted to step up and help people grab ahold of that sense of civic pride, civic duty and take this opportunity to teach about character. everything that's good about this country and everything about the character of those that support is represented by the flag and so we thought that it would be a great opportunity for people to come together much like we did after 9/11 and show these kids that, that patriotism, civic duty begins at home, represented by the flag so let's pull out the flag, let's say the pledge. we ask everybody to get the kids, get their phones, everybody's got their phone and

just video saying the pledge of allegiance with hashtag, we pledge allegiance and then just tag the wreaths across america facebook page. >> love it. karen, we want to hear the pledge. can you do the pledge for us? >> i can. i'm going to ask my cameraman to step out and, kids, lilly, you've got to dismount your horse. come on, quickly. we've got to say the pledge. >> get off the horse. >> all right, everybody. say it proudly. you guys at home too. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands. one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> very well done. they are well trained, karen, the hashtag is we pledge allegiance. we love what wreaths across america does and you're continuing it today. so post that video with that hashtag and keep it going. karen, god bless you. >> beautiful. >> thank you, guys. american strong.

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>> we continue to see evidence that our aggressive strategy is working and working at a very high level. 18 states now show a decline in a number of positive tests in the last seven days. so over the last seven days, been very, very significant progress. pete: welcome to the halfway mark of this saturday edition of "fox & friends." that was president trump yesterday touting progress made in the fight against covid-19. the vice president says more than 5 million americans have been tested for covid-19. several states show a decline in cases. good news. jillian: governors are starting to lift restrictions in several states across the country. but in hard-hit california, tens of thousands of people ignore the state's stay-at-home order

flocking to open beaches during a heat wave. and with that we say good saturday morning to you. i'm jillian mele in for jedediah. pete, good to see you and jason it's good to see you from afar. jason: good morning, good morning. pete: great to have you. we saw from rick it's warmer out there. those beaches are open for reason. a lot of sunlight and heat. how is it out in utah? jason: well, look, there is science behind. this we just heard scientists address in the white house press briefing room saying i if you gt outside, if you expose this virus in sunlight, you're going to diminish its life. so there are people across this country feeling very cooped up. but i'm very sympathetic that you should get out into the parks. they should open up the national parks. you should go outside. can you still be 6 feet away. can you still wash your hands and you can make sure that you are socially distancing and be

responsible. jillian: some states are starting to ease restrictions. we will have more on that coming up. white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany, senator tim scott is going to join us and herman cain and charlie daniels in addition to nancy grace joining us as well. great lineup. pete: great big lineup. everything covered. jason, we are looking now to washington, d.c. because this next bill looks like it's been passed. jillian: absolutely. so. jillian: go ahead. jason. jason: go ahead, sorry, jillian. pete: i called the wrong name. jillian: give the details president trump signing the latest 484 billion-dollar coronavirus relief bill. set to give aid to small business and american workers. garrett tenney joins us with more on the deal as the new partisan battle brewing on capitol hill. good morning to you, garrett. >> good morning, y'all. this bill provides desperately needed funding for small business owners struggling to keep their doors open.

fox news has learned on monday the small business administration will once again start accepting applications for these forgiven loans. this comes after president trump signed a bill and replenishing the paycheck protection program with $320 billion in new funding. the relief package also provides $60 billion for the sba's disaster loan. 75 for hospitals and 25 billion to develop mass testing capabilities. here is president trump at the oval office signing ceremony. >> $320 billion to refill the paycheck protection program. helping keep millions and millions of american workers on the payroll. great for small businesses. great for the workers. >> as the president said the payroll protection program was supposed to help small businesses. so a lot of struggling business owners were upset when large corporations like shake shack, potbelly, taco cabana and ruth's

crist got hundreds of billions of loans money run out. that has caused concern over bipartisan lending. calling on watchdogs to investigate. after sending a letter to the small business administration's inspector general senate minority leader chuck schumer tweeted you need to investigate reports that some lenders and sba's paycheck protection program were prioritizing larger, wealthier clients over small businesses in urgent need. senator elizabeth warren tweeted the ppp was created to help devastated small businesses but banks are playing favorites searching the wealthy and well-connected first and leaving mom and pops behind. it's important to note congress did include new stricter guidelines in this latest bill in order for these large corporations to meet eligibility to apply for these loans. the trump administration has also been commanding that large publicly traded corporations that receive loans through this program return that money. several like ruth's chris and

shake shack have already announced they plan to do. so thank you, all. jillian: absolutely. garrett tenney for us. now, jason, because i so rudely interrupted you. pete: that was my fault. not you, jillian. jillian: the floor is yours, jason. jason: i'm glad this money is going to get out. it's going to help people desperately in need of help. the dirty little secret in washington, d.c. though is when they initially did, this the version 1.0 they knew they didn't fully fund it because there were going to be so many more that were going to be eligible that wouldn't get it. i think they behind the scenes were looking at it saying we can't go out to the american people and tell them that it's going to be 6, 8, $10 trillion. that won't fly. why are you doing 1.0, 2.0, 3 -- now it's 3.5 and then a 4.0. there is a little bit of a shell game here going on instead of just being straightforward and properly funding it at the beginning. pete: jason, that's why democrats never accepted simply filling up the ppp program

because they wanted leverage to get the other goodies they want something you know far too much about having dealt with it for almost a decade in washington, d.c. one of your former colleagues representative jim jordan was on hannity last night and talked about how the democrats have handled. this this is what he said. >> democrats never miss an opportunity to try to advance their far left agenda and attack the president. think about what they proposed during this pandemic. release illegal aliens, pay states to let criminals out of jail. deem abortion clinics as essential businesses and stop americans from purchasing a firearm and stop americans from going to church. they attacked the president so much so that they now create a special select committee. wasn't good enough for the crossfire hurricane. wasn't good enough for the hurl investigation. couldn't get crazy impeachment over the phone call. select committee to go after the president. we already have 8 different entities doing oversight over the coronavirus response. jason jason jim jordan is

exactly right. he is spot on on this topic. the democrats -- i think it was rahm emanuel years ago who said you never want to let a crisis go to waste. and they are trying to put forward. they have since day one. other parts of their agenda to fundamentally change how we do -- do and run this country. and it is absolutely wrong. this -- these checks should have gone out a week or 10 days ago. you can only look to the democrats for delaying this. and you could see why there is so much frustration and why there is these demonstrations that are happening across the country. because there are a lot of people are feeling like their civil liberties and their basic, the mantra of personal responsibility is theirs. not their government's. pete: absolutely. jillian, as you pointed out. these protests are growing across the country. jillian: that's right. thousands of people flood wisconsin state capital to protest stay-at-home orders set to stay in place in the end of may as more states though prepare to ease restrictions in the next week. you can take a look at a map here with some of the states set

to ease restrictions that includes mississippi and tennessee. just to give you an idea what that is going to look like when some of these states do ease the restrictions in mississippi. the governor says it's going to be a safer at home order that will go into effect on monday. and that stay-at-home as much as you possibly can. it's mandated that the most vulnerable remainly inside. it bans nonessential gatherings of 10 or more people but allows businesses that can open and practice social distancing to do just that. and then in tennessee, you know, they are going to ease restrictions there. permitting restaurants to provide dine-in service limited capacity. some of the bigger cities by the way real quick in tennessee, nashville, memphis, and a couple others are going to establish their own reopening plans. we are seeing differential things happening in different states. pete: part of the reason frustration what jason was talking about in those states you mentioned jillian. a massive disconnect going on in this country between a self-obsessed media and their fancy second homes lecturing

everyone else you need to stay inside. you need to shut down and be responsible and listen to the experts. there is a lot of real estate in the united states of america. and a lot of the people who are smart in a reservoir of common sense. as it gets warmer. as people have been educated about washing hands and keeping distance and wearing masks. business owners feel a glaring double standard where the big companies can stay open and the small ones are told to stay shut. retailers and others. they want common sense applied so their livelihood is not destroyed unnecessarily. and that's the energy here. it has nothing to do with resisting for resistance sake of democrats. it's give me the opportunity to exercise personal responsibility so i can salvage my livelihood. i'm a healthy person. let me out. jillian: jason, if you compare the states i just beach town refusing to turn waters on at homes of seasonal residents that have yet to return for the summer. what do you make of that? that's a stark difference?

jason: no. this is the type of ridiculous thing that governments are doing. so much of what our government leaders told us to do and that was safe early on ends up not being so safe. we just heard the scientists say go outside. the sunlight is a good thing. and they are saying, you know, stay-at-home. early on you had nancy pelosi and bill de blasio telling people hey, you know, you don't need a to wear a mask. come here, get as close as can you in chinatown. those were all -- that was really bad advice. now some of these egregious things like not allowing small businesses to compete with the big businesses and to shut off water from people who might be going to their own home? i mean, it doesn't get any worse than that. pete: this is the headline from stock business to spread coronavirus spread massachusetts beach town will turn -- won't turn water on at seasonal homes. here's what the town manager had to say. we think -- the town manager. we think it's prudent policy to

not allow these seasonal hookups until at least may 4th or until and unless the governor amends his emergency declaration. my question is are they going to suspend property taxes? do they not have to pay for these homes that they can't access? if they are on the beach as it gets warmer where they may want to go, doesn't it make sense to go there and spread out? i don't know. this is where citizens won't follow guidelines that aren't based in logic and common sense. people are going to rebel against this kind of stuff. jillian: we will continue to keep an eye on this. meantime other headlines we are following. extreme weather we have been seeing. southern states battered by severe storms as they recover from this week's deadly tornadoes. massive funnel cloud touching down in texas. state seeing hail as big as golf balls. powerful storms knocking out power to thousands of people across texas and louisiana.

growing fears over meat shortage in the u.s. as the nation's biggest supplier shut down more plants. tyson and smithfield foods closing at least 8 factories amid coronavirus outbreaks among employees. plant in illinois shutter iting indefinitely. closings have sent the meat plant shuttering beef production down 24% last week alone. grocers turning to new suppliers and shipments usually made for restaurants to try to keep shelves stocked. hawaii is now paying for tourists to leave if they don't follow quarantine rules. the state's tourism authority has set aside $25,000 to send rule breakers pack going they don't self-isolate for two weeks after arriving. so far the state has paid to send 19 people back home since the beginning of april. a look at your headlines, guys. pete: all right, jillian, thank you very much. still ahead a repeat carjacker and a man wielding a machete

both avoiding jail time under california's zero cash bail policy. what else the goal? to control jail populations amid the pandemic. does it go too far? nancy grace sounds off. you're not going to want to miss this next.

jillian: good morning and welcome back. in an effort to thin out jails during the pandemic, california has a new zero cash bail policy letting some accused criminals back on the streets. some sheriffs are blasting the move after having to release a repeat child abuse suspect as well as repeat carjackers even a man wielding a machete. does this go too far. here to join us nancy grace. good to see you this morning.

>> good morning. jillian: good morning. what do you say? do you think this goes too far? >> it obviously goes way too far. and that is why there is an outcry right now. the guy that shows up -- think about it, on your doorstep with a machete trying to get in? and he just does a pit stop at the jail and gets right back out? where do you think he is going? back to your house. and what's really upsetting and i heard this from the san bernardino sheriff is about a child abuser that already has a record of child abuse gets out. where do you think he's going? straight back home. while we are trying to protect the prisoner, which i'm for protecting them, what about the innocent victims that are going to fall prey to these people and a carjacking, a double carjacking perp. the first carjacking i ever prosecuted the guy ended up dead, the victim dead over a car. but it's not a car theft.

it's a car jack. that means you're in the car in the driver's seat. you get thrown out, shot or worse so they can get your car. that is a zero bail offense? it's crazy. jillian: so, nancy, what would you say the answers would be then to this? what would do you? >> well, first of all, i would protect prisoners from covid-19, segregate them as well as possible. but violent felons should not get out. and that includes violent carjackers and child abusers. i don't know what they are thinking. jillian: here's the statement. part of california's judicial council statement to "fox & friends" and this reads, quote: there is nothing in the measure that says defendants should be cited and released before trial or that accused child abusers should not be detained. it's not a blanket release order. a judge can still deny or raise bail if they find good cause that a defendant is a threat to public safety. your response to that? >> um-huh, yeah. i'm glad they wrote that on one

of their documents. let them explain why a double carjacker is out. one guy gets out and r reoffends within 37 minutes. in new york an 82-year-old woman ends up raped and killed after somebody gets out on zero bond. now they are doing it in california. i really don't know what it is going to take to get their attention more dead bodies? i mean i don't want people to get covid-19 behind bars. but i believe there is an alternative such as segregating people who are high risk. releasing nonviolent or elderly. but this is not the answer. it's a blanket response to defense attorneys whining about covid-19. i get it. i don't want them to subjected to that either. but i don't want innocent people carjacked. jillian: yeah, absolutely. nancy, let's talk about this for a second. a three part investigation on fox nation where you talk to a

tiger king trial juror. let's take a look at this clip. >> tell me what you thought was the strongest evidence requiring the hit man count? >> there was long recording of him meeting joe. we could have convicted on both murder for hire counts based on one sentence that joe said, which was the first guy that i hired to kill her ran away with my $3,000, now we're going to try this again. jillian: wow. this looks interesting, nancy. >> yeah. joe exotic is not what is he portrayed as on the netflix special. that's a show. that was reality in the courtroom. and it's a sad day when a juror is afraid to have her last name out there. jillian: hey, nancy, real quick. i think america would frown upon me not asking you. what do you think? did carroll kill her husband? >> well, can i tell you this much.

jack don lewis is dead and she is the major beneficiary in a very hinky will. that is not a murder make. can i tell you he did not drop dead of a stroke. he was murdered. i will hold back on my personal indictment on baskins until i have more evidence. jillian: can't wait to watch that a tiger investigation with nancy grace is available on fox nation. join today and get your first month for 99 cents. as a number of cases decline in texas. the state is using a phased approach to open its economy? is it working? texas attorney general ken paxton joins us with an update, next. what do you look for when you trade?

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pete: lone star state texas easing restrictions to get back to work. texas has been reopening in phases before fully lifting its stay-at-home order next week before the month of may. so how has the process been? here to answer that is texas attorney general ken paxton. ken, thank you so much for being here this morning. i would expect nothing less from texas than to lead the way talk to us how you are doing and it i know you are being responsible. >> we definitely had our period of shutting businesses down. it's been a local decision. we have different decisions being made in different counties because we have had different levels of virus transmission in our 250 core counties. we are trying to take common sense approach to make sure this is not transmitted. at the same time, we recognize that people do have to eventually go back to work. pete: yeah on monday state parks reopened. on wednesday doctors were allowed to perform elective procedures. yesterday product pick up at retail stores.

it looks like thursday of next week the stay-at-home order will expire. so when that stay-at-home order expires, are you looking at effectively trying to gradually get business back to normal while protecting the people that are most vulnerable? >> yeah. and i think that's going to be a county-by-county approach there are certain counties worse than others. i think as that happens, each county is going to have to pay attention to whether things are spiking up and adjust as we go along. the goal here is common sense approach. make sure your elderly or if you have an immune system that's compromised that you stay more isolated. but, otherwise, i think texas is ready to get back to work. pete: common sense, a lot more of that needed these days. talk to us about churches because there has been a lot of consternation about crackdowns in other states. folks can't even go in parking lots and stay in their cars to worship. what are the new guidelines in texas that are opening back up there as well? >> well, from the beginning i could say that churches have

done a great job of cooperating with us. the governor, i think, wisely included churches and houses of worship and synagogues in his essential services. added to what the cdc put in there added churches. so, churches have done a great job of going online and having services in parking lots. and now we're letting pastors and leaders of churches make decisions individually and hopefully they will make wise decisions as they look at their own congregations in their own counties and make decisions about when it's time to go back and meet. pete: absolutely, if you are one of those vulnerable populations find a way to have service at home or online and someone can find a way to socially distance from you. what do you say a month from now in texas if you can look that far forward? >> you know, i'm really hopeful that a good percentage of our economy will be back up and running. i'm not sure if it will be 100 percent.

you know, i'm thinking somewhere between 75 and 90%. it's just going to depend on how things go and whether things spike up. it's going to depend on individual locations. i'm hoping that you know, just like with these churches, i believe these pastors are going to make good decisions. they see issues going on in their church, they will shut it down. i trust texans to make great decisions. they have done it in the past. i'm confident they will do it in the future. pete: ken, i have always wanted to move to texas now i think i have. to say ken paxton, attorney general. it's happening. thank you so much for your time. >> have a great day. pete: still ahead the nfl the national football league scoring a record ratings audience after rewriting the playbook and holding a virtual draft. how did it all come together so quickly the chief marketing officer for the nfl gives us the inside scoop. that's coming up next. i know that every single time that i suit up, there is a chance that that's the last time.

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jillian: take a look at this not a player but a pup stealing the show at a virtual nfl draft. nike taking the coach's chair pick small school safety kyle duggar. surprising fans by picking the division 2 player easily becoming the highest drafted player in the north carolina school's history. wow. pete: that is bill belichick for

you. never a conventional guy. he should have been wearing a cut off sweatshirt for the dog as well that would have been more fitting. we have a great guest here not the only thing making this year's virtual draft memorable the league scored a record audience. >> last night we welcomed 32 men to the nfl family thank you for making it the most watched night in nfl history. that's a tribute to all of you and your paths for football. pete: the event's opening night bringing in 15 million fans a 37% increase over last year. >> the final rounds of this year's draft kickoff today at noon. so how did the virtual draft come together so quickly? joining us now with the inside story is the nfl's chief marketing officer tim ellis. tim, first of all, you have got the coolest job on the planet so congratulations on that. but you took some really sour situation and made lemonade out

of it. how did that all come together? >> well, thank you. and thanks for the invitation today. well, let me tell you, as you can imagine drafts pulled off. we literally begin years before it comes. last year in nashville we had over 600,000 people attend that draft about 38 days before the draft started we completely pivoted and realized hey we need to do this as a completely virtual draft. so, you know tweerks to make sure that everything was in order. there is the football business around the draft. the first thing we looked at, obviously, was to ensure that we protected the public, the players and whole nfl family to make sure that all went smoothly. then we had to have a good competitive draft from a football perspective. and then we just wanted to make sure, according to all of our strategies that we had an gaining draft four our fans. and, you know, we didn't want to put aside some of these

traditions like the booing of the commissioner for example. all of these things we wanted to make sure we made certain that we did to get people excited and get a great experience. jillian: hats off you to and the teams. you have received a lot of praise. a lot of people have been craving some live sports action, something to watch. did you it pretty flawlessly. the responses have been amazing. pete: tim, to her point, i thought i was going to hate it. i will tuned in thinking this was. jillian: pete? pete: i did. i thought there is no way this can be like the real deal. but you brought in the fans. you brought in the general managers and the coaches and owners and took them inside their houses and then inside the houses of the players. were you -- on the technical side, you must have been concerned something could go wrong but it went off pretty darn well and was very watchable. >> well, yes, of course you were concerned. there is a tremendous amount of work that went into that.

and as you can imagine all the testing, you know, back and forth over the last few days. you know, we literally sent boxes to 58 of the players who we anticipate you had would, you know, be going in the first few rounds. so they had to unbox and nobody there to help them. they had to do their own boxing and get their cameras and lighting ready of course a lot of phone calls back and forth. there was a lot of very strict guidelines in terms of you who folks could be inside the house and who went into the house to make sure, to again, ensure everyone was safe. but, you know how it is. if everyone is focused and everyone is keying in on this thing going off well those things happen. we'll didn't have one technical flaw for the first two nights. and on top of that -- jason: tim, the draft is a big deal and it's exciting to see where new teams get picked up. buff i have got to tell you gronk being reunited with tom

brady, he posted a video brady did. watch this. and i want to get your reaction to it. [horn] birds] >> a little tired but gronk reporting. [laughter] jason: you have got to love that so, tim, tell us, that's such a driving moment for the nfl tampa bay has become the epicenter of a lot of focus on the fans but this is an exciting development. >> leading up to the draft we could not have asked for a better scenario. you had free agency. had you tom going to the bucs. a third of all the conversation on the nfl is on tom making that move. and then out of nowhere suddenly gronk is going to join him. i mean, people were absolutely going nuts. so, like everyone was so excited for this draft to start, you

know, because they were all craving having some sports. but, also, because of the whole match-up again. the most famous duo of all times in sports is this gronk and brady. so, yes. that definitely -- that helped us get people even more excited. pete: montana and -- might have something to say about that. there is a few combos. i get your point they are pretty darn favorites. the reason people love the draft because they love football. are we looking at this as a precursor to getting some televised nfl? what's your look right now on the nfl season where we sit right now? >> well, it looks right now. we plan to start as targeted. in the fall. so, that is our plan. of course, you know, we will continue to monitor the situation. working together with all the regulators on the local and state and federal basis. but our i -- you know, our him a is to start this season and runt entire season starting

september. that's where our focus is. jillian: tim can i ask you before we let did you go real quick with a successful draft so far still going on. look, america has really needed that they wanted it. how does it feel to be able to provide that for so many people who are struggling and having a hard time right now and provided them successfully with a source of entertainment? >> that's right. well, we gave them some very needed entertainment or escapism. but, you know, the other thing we did, because we felt like it was very important to sort of balance the corporate responsibility together with escapism if you will. so, we had a draft-a-thon. and do you realize that 11 million people tuned in for that draft-a-thon. there was a livestream. purely online going into youtube and twitter and facebook and twitch. and together with the nfl family now, we have raised $86 million for covid-19 relief. just the last two nights we raised another 5 million through that draft-a-thon. i think that, of course, we

monitor this very carefully through research with our audiences and we have found that people really appreciated and they felt more connected to the nfl because, yes, we put on a great show but that we also used our platform in order to help people and to raise funds for the covid-19 relief. jillian: fantastic. pete: very cool. tim ellis of the nfl thank you so much for giving us that update. congrats on a successful draft so far. great to have you. >> stay safe. pete: you got it. we will. now we will toss it out to rick reichmuth who is safe in between the vase and the flowers. rick: yeah. exactly. all right. if you cross the mid-atlantic in towards the northeast and get out safely today is the day to do it. the gloom returns tomorrow. take a look at the maps right now and tell you what's going on. temperaturewise things across the east looking good. still out across the west this morning not that bad. bake this afternoon across parts of the southwest in fact all

weekend long. here is where we had storms tornadoes red triangles last three days. we get a little bit of a break here. not across south florida. south florida you will get some showers today and it's great news. we desperately need moisture and temps have been so incredibly hot. this will cool things down a little bit over the next few days. see temps below average. storm right there across the central part of the country pulls off to the east a tornado threat later today and across parts of tennessee. all right, guys. back to you. jillian: all right, rick. thank you very much. up next georgia going against cdc guidelines and reopening nonessential businesses like hair salons and gyms. business resident herman cain shares his strategy for reopening the country safely. that's next. now, simparica trio simplifies protection.

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steps towards reopening with restrictions now lifted on some businesses, despite concerns of the spread of covid-19. our next guest is calling the governor's decision the right move and says the risk is worth taking. here to discuss is the former ceo of godfather's pizza and georgia resident herman cain. her man, thank you so much for being on the program this morning. great to have you, as you always. >> thanks, pete. pete: the governor has taken some heat for this call. tell us why you think it's the right one and what will come of it. >> that's the difference between a leader and a non-leader. leaders have to take calculated risk. and the other thing that i believe that the governor recognizes as well as the other states around the country who are also doing a measured reopening is that total collapse of the economy is not an option. that's what all the doom and gloom crowd wants. a totally collapsed economy. why? so they can blame president trump. he didn't bring on this virus. but they will certainly blame

him if he doesn't move fast enough. that's why i support what governor kemp is doing along with a lot of other governors. you have to try some things. and see if they work. if they spiral out-of-control, which i don't believe they will, then you make another decision. but you just can't sit there and do nothing. pete: her man, you are right there is always a political undercurrent that doesn't capture the headlines. here are. so restrictions georgia is beginning to lift on friday, it was gyms, bowling alleys hair and art salons. theaters, private social clubs, restaurant, dine-in services. so states very draconian and georgia is trust in people, it's personal responsibility and common sense. >> yeah. pete: if you are vulnerable, can you make a choice not to go out. so you feel like that's the application in georgia and people can do it the right way. >> absolutely. on yesterday, piece, i talked to a salon owner who said that her

salon was not big enough in order to do proper social distancing. so, she made a common sense decision. she is not going to open right now. whereas a bigger salon, they can even though it's going to cost them about 50% of their business. i talked to a restaurant owner yesterday. same thing. they had the right to open on monday, but they have decided that they are going to wait another week while they get it all figured out. the bottom line is something that you said earlier. common sense. just because you have the right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. and people are showing that they have got enough common sense to figure out the right thing to do. that's why i applaud the move by governor kemp and the other governors around the country who are willing to lead. pete: what's your advice to both the leadership but also there is a lot of frustrated people in states who don't have the benefit of a governor who is willing to lead. what is your advice to people still stuck at home who aren't allowed to open their business?

what are their recourses right now? >> well, their recourse, which is what i think some of them are doing, is to approach the courts and do it legally. you know, there are certain first amendment rights that are being violated by some of the states. i won't call any names. and so the idea of taking them to court might be the only way for them to loosen up. i don't know. here's the other thing, pete. some people believe that we should state at home indefinitely that we should do a lot of these restricts indefinitely. you can't do that. that's not a practical solution. so my only advice to the people that are stuck in states where they have got restrictions that do not make sense, they are going to have to go to the courts. that's the way our system works. does that take a lot of time? yes. that's going to be their only recourse. pete: eventually you could move to texas or georgia or places where they still love common sense and personal responsibility and freedom.

herman cain, we appreciate your time. >> consume on down. pete: come on down. can i see you motioning it. thanks for cutting through it for us. >> thank you, pete. pete: up next, country music legend advocating for our veterans for years. now charlie daniels is making sure our nation's heroes don't slip through the cracks at this moment. the music icon joins us live next. ♪ devil jumps on a hickory stump and says boy, let me tell you what ♪ you probably didn't even know it ♪ but i'm a fiddle player too ♪ if you care to take a dare i will make a bet with you oh, so the legs on the bottom and motorcycle on the top? yeah. yeah, i could see that. for those who were born to ride, there's progressive.

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himself charlie daniels. >> good to see you all. thanks for having me on this morning. jillian: of course. such an important message. what's slipping through the cracks? biggest problem dealing with. >> always slipping through cracks in the best of times. but of course this exacerbates a lot of veterans are out of work. traditional funding dried up because of -- i know our outfit would not been able to do some of our fundraisers. it kind of limits it. we have joined ranks with code of vets. gretchen smith and her husband joe are both veterans. they tried code of vets filling in some of the places that are being missed and she -- you would not believe the amount of requests that she gets in the daytime just for the basics. just for food and rent. and, you know, like a house payment or mortgage payment or

something. so, we feel that this time that it's best to join ranks with them and be able to find out where the need is. her and her husband both are exmilitary. they are both veterans. they have a very special feeling for the vets. they are very respected by the vets. they get a lot of requests that probably other outfits wouldn't pay any attention to because they are very small. maybe just a couple hundred dollars from time to time. do an awful lot of good. we decided to join them and help our vets as much as we can the need is incredibly large right now. jason: now, sir, this is jason chaffetz. i'm honored to speak with you. i have got to tell you are an icon. have you been entertaining millions for decades. we love your music under a are entertaining. you don't have to do this but can i tell you have a passion in your heart from it. where does that come from? why are you so passionate and working so hard time after time to help our veterans?

>> i was born in 1936 and i was 5 years old when pearl harbor was bombed. i was born in a sea coast town down in wilmington, north carolina. we had ships sunk off our coast by german submarines. the war came very close to us. we always knew there was somebody out there between us and the enemy. there was somebody to get to them you have got to come through us. and that ain't going to happen. that was our military. they have been there for us. they are always there for us. we can never do enough for them. when they come back, the least we can do is take care of their needs. i have a very deep feeling for our veterans and our people in the military. our military people are the only thing that stands -- i always say two things protect america it's the grace of god and the united states military. jillian: absolutely. jason: thank you, thank you so much for all you are doing, if you want to help visit code of vets.com or the journey home project.org. charlie daniels, thank you and

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president trump: the fda approved the first at-home covid-19 test kit, just got approved and the fda has been incredible and they've been approving not only this but they've been approving many things that's never happened before. many tests are going on, many vaccine tests, and tests of every different kind and things are happening just like this and things are happening very rapidly. jillian: president trump prais ing the fda's approval on at-home coronavirus testing kits as the u.s. sees real progress in the fight against the pandemic. pete: the president also signed the latest $484 billion coronavirus stimulus bill providing much-needed relief to american families in especially

small business and the additional funding comes as governors start to lift restrictions and reopen businesses in several states across the country. we've talked to folks in texas and georgia and across the country this morning on this final hour of this saturday addition of fox & friends, jillian it's good to see you downstairs in studio f, and always jason, out in utah thanks for being here this morning. >> jason: thank you, glad to be here. pete: it is great to have you both and we got a lot of big news and we'll just kickoff this hour straight with a guest out of the white house, kayleigh mcenany, white house press secretary is joining us, thank you so much for being here. so i think a lot of americans were hoping congress would eventually get their act together, it took them a while but they did. the president signed the bill yesterday. what should people expect from that bill? >> it took congress a while and this could have been done very simply as mitch mcconnell described as crossing out a number and writing in a new

number. it didn't have to take a week but leave it to democrats to delay delay delay nevertheless we got here thanks to the leadership of president trump. this is an extraordinary bill, $30 billion going to help financial institutions and distressed communities, hundreds of millions more for small businesses and then it's important to know when a small business gets one of these paycheck protection plan loans, it goes directly to payroll, so to pay america's workers. this is really good thanks to president trump's leadership we've never seen anything like it and i'd emphasize the small business administration in 14 days processed more loans than they had in 14 years prior, so that's a pretty big number and a great accomplishment for president trump. jillian: a lot of people thankful. >> jason: yeah, and the other thing that really helped, was the fact that they were able to move back the tax filing deadline. not enough attention has been given to that but people were looking at writing some big

checks on april 15 and now that's been pushed back to july. democrats delayed these checks getting out to these businesses, by a week or 10 days, but may is going to be a pivotal time, because while the president seem s to be doing just about everything he can possibly do, may is the time when these states start to open up as revenue should start coming back into the treasury and people can get on with their lives. >> that's right and as this president said and he's exactly right there's a lot of pent-up demand in this country a lot of people at home who are ready to get out there, ready to fuel this economy, and we believe this economy will come back and come back in a very strong way because we have president trump with the greatest economy in modern history the cares act was a great stopgap measure as we waited and american workers needed those direct payments again nancy pelosi and chuck schumer delayed that for a week. she's out doing late night tv in front of her ice cream freezer and president trump has really motivated both parties to get back to work, the democrat

party especially. jillian: kayleigh let's take a listen to what larry kudlow has to say about may being a transition month for our economy >> you've got to make the guidelines and they are good , scientific, good-based guidelines you've got to have your adjustment and infection cases within a 14 day period, you've got to observe and he ran it down pretty well, you've got to have the testing, you've got to have the cleaning, hand washing and all of the rest of it, but if that is true, if you meet those criteria, i think you're going to see a lot of states opening in the next few weeks and i think the month of may is going to be a terrific transition month as the economy reassure wake ens. jillian: kayleigh we're already seeing a number of states and we know the president doesn't exactly agree with what georgia is doing right now to an extent but we are seeing a number of other states slowly reopening loosening some of their measures do you agree that may is going to be that month that transition period for everyone?

>> it certainly seems that way look you've had 16 states put out reopening plans, 34 states say those plans are forthcoming and this is made possible because when you look across the country as of thursday, in 46 states we saw a decline in symptoms of covid-like illness so this president put in place measures that have been very important like testing 5.1 million tests conducted, two times out of any country in the world, and n-95 respirators, he's done the things on the front end that have prepared us to slowly reopen and reopen in a safe way. this president is a businessman and he's ready to get back to work but he's going to do so safely and put in place the measures and data driven guidelines to make that happen. pete: yeah not to mention the framework which is effective ly voluntary for states but gave guide posts for governors to make those decisions but speaking of governors kayleigh some democrat governors especially gavin newsom out in california and mayor are trying to go around congress taking taxpayer dollars

and putting it directly into the pockets of illegal immigrant s as part of this pandemic effort, rightfully the federal dollars are tied to citizens and taxpayers. what do you make of states trying to find the dollars they can find and some of them illegal at this moment when they're almost bankrupt themselves and citizens are fighting to get that money. >> this isn't a time to serve whatever your political wish list is out there. this is a time for using american's taxpayer dollars to go to relieve american workers and american taxpayers and u.s. citizens so it's not a time for using this to try to jam through your political interests this is about one thing and one thing alone and that is the american family that is struggling as the president constantly put america first so that's the priority in this administration and that's how that money should be utiliz ed. >> jason: kayleigh you still have people who are out protesting, exercising the first amendment rights to go out and assemble and protest their government, places like michigan and wisconsin and others.

what's the message to those protesters and certainly those governors who are tightening some of these restrictions as opposed to starting to let people take on their own personal responsibility. >> yeah, we have a first amendment in this country. you have a right to speak. you have a right to protest and there's a way to safely do it as the president noted he's been impressed he's seen several protests social distancing measures you have a right to voice your opinion in this country and it's a great thing and one governor out there is saying oh, the bill of rights is not something i'm looking at or interested in so that's a real problem. it worked pretty well for all of the time in this country and it's something we honor and these protesters we encourage them to social distance, follow the guidelines but you have a right to protest. jillian: but kayleigh critics do argue and seen some of the video we've seen there isn't a lot of social distancing going on in a lot of these protests. we are seeing that across the country so i think that's what gets people upset is you have people in certain communities saying look, you

have the right to protest, absolutely exercise that right but you're putting others at harm when you're in these tight groups like that. >> well from the white house we encourage everyone to social distance, you're at a protest, take those measures, you know there's a way to do it appropriately and follow the expert's guidelines so that is certainly what we encourage but we also encourage governors across the country to take data driven approaches and there's been some criticism that alcohol is deemed an essential good but paint and seeds were considered non-essential like let's use data to guide our measures and use data to guide the message with which we protest. >> jason: you know for a long time the governors were saying don't go outside. you have to stay inside. don't go running or to your park but then earlier this week in the white house press briefing, you had homeland security saying well actually the virus doesn't survive very well outside. i also loved that the president said let's open up our outdoors and our national parks, but from

where i sit right now there are nine national parks and they're still all closed. when is the white house going to get the interior department to actually open up our national parks? >> yeah, you know, i would go to the interior department on that. we're looking at that closely of course and i'll give you an update, i don't have one for you now but look there's a way to be outside and to social distance. i'm from florida and i've seen very responsible measures of people who have been out and about that have done so in a way where they are six feet apart, acting responsibly. some people wearing masks for example, so there's a way to do it but follow the guidelines. we want to reopen this country but we're going to reopen safely as president trump has said. pete: kayleigh as we observe the press always likes to try to make the story about themselves a very self-absorbed group of folks but we saw yesterday no questions were asked it was only 22 minutes in the briefing and much shorter than other briefings and we've heard reports there may be shorter briefings by the president and maybe less of them in then

between. what can you tell us about briefings that have become a staple of people's evenings for the last couple of weeks are they going to change? >> they have. that's entirely up to the president i won't get ahead of him but pete, this president and i think february 26 has done 49 briefings, millions and millions of people tuning in, the ratings have been extraordinary just busting through any cable news ratings we've seen previously and that's because americans love to watch their president lead this country. he has navigated us through a great crisis, a pandemic, he's done so with leadership, with boldness, they watch him at that podium and they say this is the man i elected to be president. this is the man i trust in and this is the man that i enjoyed seeing and that's why millions of people are tuning in breaking cable news records and we're excited to see that and i love when i get to see the president speak directly to the american people when he's at his best. jillian: kayleigh if i may we've had a lot of conversation about a potential second wave of this coronavirus coming later in

the fall into the winter during our regular flu season. where is the administration with that right now because i know while they are still trying to curb exactly what's going on and wheat our curve flat you still have to look ahead because it is only a couple of months. >> that's right and that's why we have developed testing methods at rapid rates, fda approving tests as they come in, 5.1 million tests as i noted conducted already each week wear gaining more and more testing capacity so that's important as we head towards the fall but this president has stocked up on resources so that we're prepared and ready and a great example of n-95 masks, and in a typical year healthcare providers use about 25 million this president has already sent out double that more than double that, in just the last few weeks so we've got a businessman at the helm whose procuring supplies ready for the fall and also ready to reopen this country. pete: well kayleigh mcenany it looks like a beautiful day on the white house lawn thank you so much for joining us we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. jillian: let's turn to your headlines and talk about this.

a police department mourning one of its own. illinois officer joseph capello passing away from covid-19 becoming the first officer to die from the virus at themelrose park police department and he served for two years after retiring from the cook county sheriff's office his son keeping law enforcement in the family, serving the police department in chicago >> and a retailer worth billions , auto nation, received nearly $95 million in funding from the paycheck protection program. the company reportedly obtained most of the money by using separate tax identification numbers that were assigned to dozens of its dealerships. auto nation is returning the money. those are a look at your headlines and we've seen that a number of times with bigger companies across the country. pete: we have and thankfully they are shining the spotlight on it has made a lot of them change their mind but when you consider as kayleigh kind of mentioned when you consider the amount of money that was pushed to payrolls and to people and the short period of time in which it was done, you compare that with the obamacare website

which took three years and didn't work it's quite a feet to get the money in the hands of people and hopefully this next tranche will make it as well. jason? you got a thought? >> jason: well, i do. i just really am amazed that donald trump, he should be winning awards for his openness and transparency. the guy has done more press conferences, more availability and that pays off and a smart way to go. pete: absolutely, all right still ahead are democrats pushing for the economy to fail just so they can blame president trump and help joe biden? a former member of president obama's finance committee joins us on that coming up next. >> plus we earned the nick name the singing surgeon lifting spirits during the pandemic with his powerful joyce and now using his money to raise money for relief efforts. he joins us live, coming up next >> lean on me, i'll be your friend, i'll help you carry on ♪

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>> total collapse of the economy is not an option. that's what all the doom and gloom crowd wants is a totally collapsed economy. why? so they can blame president trump. he didn't bring on this virus, but they will certainly blame him if he doesn't move fast enough. >> jason: the former ceo of godfather's pizza earlier on fox & friends blasting critics of the president's plan to reopen the economy. our next guest agrees that this is not the time for partisan politics. here to discuss the founder, chairman, and ceo of the people 's corporation, and former member of president obama 's national finance committee, don peoples. don thank you so much for being here with us again. i really want your insight on this. there are lots of people that are concerned that donald trump

's political strong suit was the economy, and now, that this pandemic came out of nowhere and the economy is struggling, there's concern that people want this to actually extend a little bit because there's an election in november. >> well look, i think that i would hope that all american, democrat republicans and independents root for america's recovery but the political reality is you can see what's happening in congress, a push back that keeps happening is that the democrats do need donald trump to not be successful in terms of leading the country through this crisis. i think that they believe that his strongest suit has been the economy which it was for the first three years of his administration. he has enjoyed significant economic growth and significant reductions in unemployment and so it be hard to make a compelling case against him on the economy. i do though believe americans will judge him on the economy for the first three years of his

administration and then how he handles this pandemic and then whether or not they feel that joe biden has the capacity to lead the country more effective ly than trump does through this crisis. i think that's what the election will center around. >> jason: yeah and i think the capacity question for vice president biden is a legitimate one but the democrats as a whole , the 435,000 members that'll be up on ballots, senate races, what is the democratic message going to be about revitalizing the economy, because it can't just simply all be about how many trillions of dollars we can throw into the economy, right? >> right, yeah, i agree. i think look the democrats are left in a very difficult position. they cannot overtly root for trump to fail, because if the president succeeds america succeeds and that's the most important thing; however, they don't have anything else to really run on right now, because

that's driving everything, and so i think that they're going to look for things like maybe he didn't do something well enough and i think this reopening of our country your going to see a lot of pushback, and you're already seeing it in georgia for example,, democrats in atlanta are pushing back against opening while governor kemp is pushing along to open the economy. >> jason: yeah, and i think governor kemp is actually doing a very good job at taking a leadership role, don peebles, i thank you, and i think you give a very honest read from your perspective and we appreciate you sharing that with us today. thank you. >> thank you. >> jason: well still ahead, a democrat who thanked president trump for touting a drug that saved her life from covid-19. now, her own party wants to sensor her, michigan state lawmaker joins us live, coming up, next.

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pete: welcome back. get this story michigan democrat s planning to censure state representative karen whitsett a democrat today after she thanked president trump for touting a drug she says saved her life from covid-19. watch. >> thank you for everything that you have done. i i did not know that saying thank you had a political line. i can see that we appreciate that because had you not brought this to the forefront of the hq of being able to put this out here, i wouldn't be here today to even have this conversation. pete: now the president is welcoming her to join the republican party. we'll ask her about that democrat michigan state senate representative and coronavirus

survivor carolina en whitsett joins us right now. thank you so much for being here i caught your interview last night on tucker as well grateful for your willingness to come out and talk about what you experienced and then the political blowback. help me out for a second. you were very sicknd awe your doctor made a decision to use a drug and it worked and you thanked the president publicly and had a chance to go to the white house and thank him and yet the democrat party in michigan, is censuring you. there's got to be more to this story is there? >> thank you so much for having me on this morning i really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> there's so much more to this story, and it's shameful, actually on the democratic party congressional leaders jonathan kenlock who also works for governor gretchen whitmer has decided she is going to slap me on the wrist by silencing me and it's a shame that she's doing this.

it's politics at its best in a time like this during a pandemic when she should be focusing on the city of detroit and the state of michigan this is what she's focusing on trying to silence me and i guess this is teaching me to be in my place and that's not going to stop me. pete: clearly and it shouldn't. your sin seems to be complement ing the president that they're invested in hating more than anything else. here is what the resolution says about you. it says whitsett has repeatedly and publicly praised the president's delayed and misguided covid-19 efforts in contradiction with the action- oriented response from michigan's democrat leadership, and endangering the city of detroit and the state of michigan. this is not coming from the republican party from your political opponents. these are coming from your own party. >> only person being irresponsible in this situation is governor gretchen whitmer and

i will continue to point the finger at her as long as black people in the city of detroit are dying and it's not just black people but we are a predominantly black city and as long as bodies are piling up and these people have names to them, we've had a 5-year-old die in our city, i'm not going to be silenced. i have family members thad have passed away. they have been turned away at the hospital. as long as this in responsibility of water is still being shut off in people's homes , as long as people do not have dte and gas and electricity in their homes, as long as pipes that have been burst and they don't have anyway to replace those pipes, as long as people do not have the needs that they need to have to be in place in their home, such as food, and they have to walk to the gas stations and liquor stores every day just to purchase single items because they don't have a refrigerator, they don't have a stove to cook on. i'm going to speak out because you didn't help people to get what they needed. you had an opportunity back in

february to stop the water shut off in the entire state of michigan but she chose not to do that. she simply chose and said it was not statistically sound, she saw no evidence in stopping water shut off in the state of michigan. how irresponsible and we still have a flint water crisis. we still have prisoners that are not being tested. come on now, let's be serious and use some common sense here. pete: i agree on the common sense, karen you are clearly a passion all public servant and advocate but i've got to ask you the president has senior story and tweeted you're welcome in the republican party. is that something you're thinking about? >> listen i'm a democrat. i'm going to remain a democrat and i'm going to stay within the democratic party and do exactly what i do and that's work on the other side of the aisle. as long as the president is the president of the united states, i am going to work with the president of the united states, and i will ensure that what needs to be done is done.

i don't care who it is, as long as we need things in the city of detroit and we have a president of the united states that is willing to work with us, and get those things done, that's who i'm going to work with, and president donald trump wants to do that. it's common sense. pete: karen you had a breath of fresh air. >> complaining about those stimulus checks he's sending out i don't see anyone complaining about the stimulus checks he's sending out. i haven't heard one person say you know what i'm sending my stimulus check back. pete: that sounds like the opposite of resistance, like resilience and common sense and cooperation, sounds like putting the right priorities first. state representative karen whitsett thank you for speaking out. i know they couldn't shut you up if they tried, so keep it up, thank you so much. >> no way. pete: thank you for joining us on fox & friends and for your courage we appreciate it. we reached out to michigan's 13th congressional congressional district democratic party for a statement but we did not hear back surprisingly.

thank you so much. wow some people really step up in these moments. still ahead rather than railing on foot people are protesting from their cars in south carolina pushing to reopen their state so what does south carolina senator tim scott think we'll ask him when he joins us live, next.

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>> [horns honking] jillian: hundreds of protesters blowing their car horns in frustration in columbia, south carolina demonstrate or s driving past the state house and around the city in protest demanding the state reopen. pete: governor henry mcmaster has already allowed some retail stores and beaches to reopen in the state but the question is, is it fast enough? are they going at the right pace let's bring in somebody who knows senator tim scott republican from south carolina member of the senate finance committee and author of " opportunity knocks, how hard work, community and business can improve lives and end poverty" senator thank you so much for joining us. we're all big fans appreciate your work. talk to us about your state and the process there, the timeline, is it going in the right direction? >> good morning, pete, thank you for that. i will say that our governor is doing a pretty good job of trying to make sure he has a slow but progressive approach to reopening the state and think about this. we have hospitals with excess

capacity but because of the lockdown, they have not been able to do elective surgeries and now the definition of elective surgeries includes heart stents, so imagine that if our business is shutdown but one of the most important businesses that wants to reopen, needs to reopen that would save lives and frankly reduce the amount of money needed for healthcare, it's our hospitals. we are a state that's driven by tourism, so retail, restaurants, and rooms, hotel rooms. these are parts of our economy that the governor is staging and progressively moving in the positive direction of allowing folks to come back to work. good news is our protesters yesterday, i heard the sound of freedom as you were getting ready to introduce me with the horns honking in the state capitol they were protesting from their cars so they were appropriately following the social distancing guidelines and this is what happens in south carolina. we are a very independent state. we want our state to open safely but in the middle of this

healthcare crisis, we've seen an economic tsunami being created. folks want to stay healthy, stay safe, practice social distancing but allow those businesses that can reopen to start that progressive path to reopening. >> jason: senator first of all congratulations on the opportunity knocks book. it's great i'm in chapter 3 so congratulations on that. >> thank you. >> jason: i want to talk about these checks because we got 3.5 is the version of the ppp, supposedly it's called, the paycheck protection program, money that'll go out to help these businesses, but there's a concern on the other side of that in that you can't just use stimulus to just grow the economy and you were one of the couple of handful of senator s who pointed out the idea that we don't want to create an economic incentive for people to go on unemployment we want them to stay in their jobs. >> well jason you rightly point

out the fact that these paycheck protection program actually save s jobs and keeps the relationship between employers and employees alive and well and that means your health care benefits, your retirement benefits are going to continue to be funded with 1.6 million businesses accepted through the paycheck protection program the first $350 billion was the resources to help 30 million americans stay on the payroll. we had a record 27 million americans file for unemployment over the last several weeks. this next round will provide more resources, hopefully another 20 million americans being able to stabilize at work. this is what we want to happen in this nation. we believe there's dignity in all work. we want to go back to work and if we can do it safely, we absolutely positively should go back to work when possible. and the ppp allows for that to happen. jillian: a lot of people need that money that's for sure. let's talk about this potential next battle over whether

congress will provide money to states that need it. where do you stand on this? >> well what we should remember is that bad decisions in state capitols should not lead to a worse decision in the nations capitol. the bottom line is simply this. a lot of states have miss managed for decades their resources and for those states on the bubble we should not come rescue them with other taxpayers money from other states, so when it comes to the actual coronavirus, temporary and targeted relief to help states battle this covid-19 and invisible enemy makes a lot of sense for them to use as i've seen some state legislators have asked for $10 billion for state retirement systems, that's completely inappropriate. we can't be in the business of bailing out retirement systems because states refuse to balance their budget and cut deals with unions that made their retirement unfunded liabilities explode. that is not the responsibility of taxpayers across this nation.

we'll deal with covid-19. states have to do a better job of dealing with their own methods they created over decade s. pete: it's not okay to throw your hands in uncle sam's pocket because he's distracted by this things. you wrote a great book, you've written a great op-ed as well as foxnews.com arguing here is the title, coronavirus an unseen enemy is hitting us hard but we will overcome. here is how i know. in addition to that senator i want to throw you a bit of a curve ball but you can hit lots of different types of pitches. what should be done in the communist chinese, on the beginning of this effort, what are you seeing brewing in washington to address their role in this as well? >> well there's a couple of things that we've seen already. one of the most important things that we could do is find a way to untangle chinese influence in this country, one of the fastest ways we've seen that happen so far is the doj commerce department looking at chinese telecom and trying to pull them out of our infrastructure in this nation. we've seen that happen and that's a positive step. i would love to see frankly this

is probably a radical idea, chinese should eat some of our debt frankly. they have cost this nation over $3 trillion. they have some of our debt that they've bought. they should hold it and dissolve it and get rid of that debt and that is just a down payment on a global crisis that they fed negative and poor information to the world health organization, the world health organization was complicit in making sure that that cover-up stemmed longer which cost even more lives around this world and frankly in our nation so the least they could do is resolve the issue of the debt that they hold on this nation. the second thing we have to do and president trump has already been doing this and has been fantastic. we have to have a tectonic shift in our trade negotiations with china. we have simply been too lackadaisical, too slow, and reaffirming our strong powerful position as the world's greatest economy, they need us

more than we need them and then finally, we need to create an incentive-based economy to attract more of our pharmaceutical companies back to the good oldu-s of a. pete: sign me up for that, senator tim scott fantastic stuff thank you very much. i don't think that's a radical idea at all. >> thank you all, take care. pete: turning to a few additional headlines, the sexual assault allegations against joe biden taking a new turn as an old interview clip seeming ly confirms the claims of the accuser. tara reed says her mother made this phone call in 1993 referencing her encounter with the then-senator. >> i'm wondering what a staffer would do besides go to the press in washington. my daughter has just left thereafter working with a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems at all and the only thing she could have done was go to the press and she chose not to do it out of respect for him. >> she had a story to tell but out of respect for the person she worked for she didn't tell

it? >> that's true. pete: the former vice president denies the allegation, but has yet to be asked by anyone in the national media about it. wonder if they're covering up their favorite candidate? >> miami's homicide rate plunges during the pandemic, police say there hasn't been one in one week, and overall crime is also down including domestic violence all being attributed to the stay-at-home order, los angeles and baltimore have also seen a drop in crime and those are your headlines. jillian: all right, thank you, pete. still ahead, president trump tou ting the first fda- approved at-home test for covid-19. how significant could this be in fighting the virus? dr. mark siegel joins us live with that, next. since 1926, nationwide has been on your side. we've been there in person, during trying times. today, being on your side means staying home... "nationwide office of customer advocacy."

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covid-19 test kit, just got approved the fda has been incredible and they've been approving not only this but many things that are pace that's never happened before. many tests are going on many vaccine tests, and tests of every different guide, and things are happening just like this , things are happening very rapidly. jillian: well there you have it the president praising the fda's approval of at-home coronavirus testing kits so will this be a game changer as more states look to ramp up testing and eventually get reopened? let's ask fox news medical contributor dr. mark siegel, doctor good to see you. >> good morning, jillian how are you? jillian: good, thank you and i hope you are too. it seems like big news. the question is how much of a game changer is this and when do you think people will be able to get their hands-on them to use these at-home kits? >> it's called pixel. it's from lab corp. and i think it could be a game changer. right now it's being rolled out to healthcare workers which is already a huge advantage.

healthcare workers on the frontlines that are exposed to covid-19 every day can now get a kit where they do their own nasal swab, put it in a medium and then send it in and get it tested over 24 hours. that's going to expand to the general public, and i'll tell you why i like it. because right now, i have so much trouble, jillian getting testing for people with mild symptoms or that were exposed to it that i think may have a mild case. i want to know who has it because maybe they have someone i'm afraid they are going to spread it to whose at higher risk in a high risk group. this is going to help with that because you don't need the personal protective equipment if you're administering to yourself. now, you have to know how to use it properly, if you don't use it properly you could get a negative. that's certainly not helpful. overall this is an enormous step in the right direction. it will allow us to save the personal protective equipment for our healthcare workers in the hospitals and clinics. jillian: absolutely do you think we'll be able to get an at-home testing kit like this for an antibody test at

some point? >> yeah, that's also on the way that's called the pinprick test but right now where we are with the antibody testing jillian is we want to make it standardized so that we only have a few ones out there, so we know what it means when you actually get a positive test. is it really covid-19, how immune are you? once we have that we're going to be able to do it on a pinprick test. jillian: that be great. let's talk about symptoms because the cdc actually tripled the number of coronavirus symptoms initially we were told the fever, the muscle aches, breathing things like that but now they are including chill, shaking, muscle pain, headache, sore throat and this big one that's been a talker, loss of taste or smell, doctor, what does that say to you they've expanded these symptoms? >> very wise, jillian. i've actually seen that with all my patients i've diagnosed or taken care of covid-19 with. there's a lot of vague symptoms out there. a lot of times somebody says to me i just don't feel like myself and i figure out they were in touch with someone or close to someone that had covid-19. the sense of smell or taste

especially is a big one. a study out of san diego showed that can be up to 50% of cases and if you have that loss of smell and taste, it's 10 times more likely that you have covid-19 than something else. also, sometimes somebody feels just chilled or warm. you know what interesting study out of the journal of medical association showed only one- third of the people presenting to hospitals actually have fever and a lot of shortness of breath. we thought that was you didn't have that you didn't have covid-19. we're finding out that that's a biggie, that it may not always be fever and it may not always be shortness of breath. one other thing to mention that's really astounding is that it looks like a lot of people with covid-19 have what's called covid toes, where they literally get blue burning toes that are related to not enough blood flow or blood clots in the toes and fingers and in the american academy of dermatology is looking at that now, very interesting. jillian: it really is you've been on top of this thank you very much for joining us

appreciate it. >> thank you, jillian. jillian: of course and still ahead he rose to fame as the singing surgeon lifting spirits during the pandemic. now he's raising money for relief efforts by releasing an album. he'll tell us all about it and perform, next. >> ♪ some times in our lives, we all have sorrow, if we are wise, ♪ whoo. i'm gonna grow big and strong. yes, you are. i'm gonna get this place all clean. i'll give you a hand. and i'm gonna put lisa on crutches! wait, what? said she's gonna need crutches. she fell pretty hard. you might want to clean that up, girl. excuse us. when owning a small business gets real, progressive helps protect what you built with customizable coverage. -and i'm gonna -- -eh, eh, eh. -donny, no. -oh.

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lifting spirits during this covid-19 crisis. >> jason: now he's using his voice to raise money for relief efforts. jillian: he joined us live last month and guess what he is back orthopaedic surgery resident at the mayo clinic and the man with the best voice in all of america in my opinion, dr. elvis francois. good to see you this morning tell us about the album and how it is going it is so incredible. >> absolutely thank you for the kind words and i'm honor ed to join you all again its just been an incredible past few weeks and we had the opportunity of going into record it and we have been given so much and in order to help support our colleagues on the frontlines we wanted to do something for them and we wanted , we recorded this and 100 % of the proceeds are going towards covid-19 relief and the album has done well and just been amazing a few weeks to see people come together around a little bit of music. pete: super cool it's a four song ep, called music is medicine, i couldn't think of a better name. would you play one for us please , our audience would love to hear it. >> absolutely i'm not with dr.

robinson, so i'll do this one cabbies a acapella. pete: go for it. >> ♪ easy you'll try, and will leave the skies, imagine all the people, living for today, you might say that i'm a dreamer , but i'm not the only one, i hope some day that you will join us and the world will

live as one ♪ jillian: wow, oh, my goodness. pete: [laughter] i don't think you're going to be a surgeon for very long. i think that you've got -- >> jason: some people get all the talent he's a surgeon and he sings? pete: unbelievable. thank you so much, tell everybody where they can find this album. >> absolutely, yeah, so on all music platform, if you type in music is medicine, dr. elvis you'll be able to download it and 100% of the proceeds were donated to charity and we're excited to help with whatever way we can, and thank you so much. jillian: thank you for what you're doing. pete: thank you for making everybody's day better. >> absolutely thanks so much. pete: more fox & friends. we will clap you out to commercial break. let's find the food that you like.

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>> jason: thanks for having me on. the nfl draft resumes in 15 seconds. jillian: absolutely, okay i want to say thank you to everyone on

the frontlines who continuously battle for us. pete: if you're not allowed to turn the channel you can only monitor the draft on your phone because fox news channel continues. hope there's sunshine in your neck of the woods go out and enjoy it. have a great saturday, everybody jillian:bye. neil: let the great reopening begin as day two of that in the peach state of georgia right now, texas also beginning to open up some businesses, but it's georgia that's getting all of the attention because you might have heard there was some concern that the governor there was acting too soon. there's been no screw-ups or problems with this but again a lot of people are concerned of the states that might want to pounce and open up too soon you might recall that the president told the governor he thought it was a little too soon, but all seems to be smooth on that front we're going to get into much more detail on that and how a lot of other states plan to rollout and it'll be a busy two