toe i hope i am tcial pronouncing his name right disinfect with the sanitizing blue. jillian: i'm sanitizing right now. rob: we have got to go, carley, thanks. ♪ brian: here we go. right to this. a fox news alert. covid-19 cases in the u.s. topping over 1 million. 58,000 americans sadly have passed away while 115,000 have recovered. that number will go way up. despite the numbers, tennessee, wisconsin among the states moving forward with restriction rollbacks as early as today. steve: state of tennessee allowing retail stores to reopen with 50% capacity. you can go in but only half as many used to go. in restaurants giving the same guidance on monday. the roll backs do not apply to

six tennessee counties which include major cities like nashville, memphis and knoxville. leaders there will determine on their own their own reopening plans, ainsley? ainsley: in wisconsin, nonessential businesses will be allowed to do curbside services. rentals will also be allowed for outdoor items like kayaks, boats and golf carts. we expect to learn the plan to reopened florida later today after governor desantis' oval office meeting with the president. each of these governments reopening on their own terms when they see fit because you have to remember, everyone knows what's best for their community. and they are working with healthcare leaders. they are working with washington, d.c. to decide what is best for their towns because what's best for new york is different as we know for rural -- a rural town in the middle of the country. brian: i think that's a great point. because, in washington and in california, in the rural areas, they are standing up and

protesting and letting their leaders know why are you suppressing what we're doing. we are not downtown los angeles. we are not downtown seattle. we are rural community. we need to be able to go to the store. i want to be able to reopen my restaurant. and new york is going to deal with the same thing on 15th. nassau and suffolk county 15 straight days of decreases. that's the criteria. maybe manhattan won't. but maybe upstate new york will but maybe west chester won't. as a governor it's easy to leave everything in place. drill down and do the hard work. ask the american people to do what they have been doing. do me a favor if syracuse is open manhattan don't go there. hang out in your area, we will get to you. i think people would adhere to that. steve: well, plus, also, big states are different. for instance, in new york. we don't know when the schools are going to reopen. gavin newsom said yesterday of california it looks like they

could actually reopen their schools in july which is unusual happenstance because usually people go back to school? august. how would that work? they don't know. also regarding going back and openings up retail, the simon property group, which is the largest prosecutor of malls in the united states, they're going, to as of friday, open up 50 malls in 10 of the states that are going to start to reopen. this is good news for people who want to go back. but, listen, it's going to be a lot different than it was before. you're going to take your temperature now when. in there is going to be somebody right there with a scanner. they will hand out free sanitizer. hand out free masks. if you go to the food court, every other chair, every other table is going to be blocked off, if you use the facilities, half of the toilets and half of the sinks and half the urinals will be blocked off so that people keep social distancing. the big question is, even with all of those restrictions, and requirements, will people feel

safe enough to go back? and that is the 64 trillion-dollar question. ainsley: you are right. the small business administration approving more than 475,000 loans from round 26 the payment protection program. and griff jenkins is live in washington as we are learning that those funds could run out by the end of this week. griff? griff: that's right. 50% gone out door and it's flying. senate members meet on monday as tell fox news the ppp is running out this week. steny hoyer says the house will not return next week following discussions with the cab toll. the decision frustrated minority whip steve scalise saying if president trump and senate republicans can be in washington working safely there is no reason from house democrats to prevent from us doing the same. meanwhile the president was praising ppp despite the rough start saying the sba has done in

14 days than they have in 14 years. let me show you what we have been doing. 475,000 new loans approved, 52 billion, 51,000 hebsd ders yesterday compare that the first round you had 1.6 million loans approved 342 billion by just under 5,000 lenders. big corporations taking money from small businesses. treasury secretary mnuchin now warning those corporations could face criminal liability. brian, ainsley, steve? brian: think will come back and say you didn't have strict enough guidelines. we didn't know. the lakers obviously somebody shake shack obviously. cornell, yale, harvard, obviously groups that don't know -- not known to be hurting for money, but they will come back and say you didn't write that in so i took it because i thought i was eligible for it. thanks, griff. meanwhile the senate has decided we are an essential worker. we are going to have to stay in

washington. and get things done. it's going to be risky. washington is a hot zone. but we know how to do it. we are going to stick around. to the surprise of many, the house decided we're going home. even though there is so many things to do and this country is -- the other definition of crisis. and kevin mccarthy just weighed in as minority leader in the house and said listen, i had a plan to get us through committee meetings and get us to vote safely. look,. >> i think the american people deserve leaders who will work day in and day out for them. who can up stand the test, be able to do it in a safe, smart, steadfast manner. we have 12 bills to actually fund conscious. the subcommittees could be in there. have the rooms to themselves, get the work done and then bring the rest of congress back to vote on those. i don't understand. the democrats have no plan whether it's to hold communist china accountable or to reconvene congress itself. brian: 100 percent right.

kevin mccarthy is somebody who said listen, i know life is not without risk. there are risks every day. people working in the subways right now taking risks. people working in the hospitals getting cheered by the fire department taking risk. when you are a part of the office part of the risk. legislate in first pandemic in over 100 years. get together and not come up with partisan ideas. brainstorm the best ideas and you can't do that from san francisco and you can't do that from florida. there are things that have to be done six feet away so-called shoulder to shoulder. what a disappointment. i know many of them are at an age where they're most susceptible there are people older in the senate side, too. they think they can be best helped in washington. they can best help the country in washington. if you don't view yourself as essential worker, don't run for office. ainsley. ainsley: a lot of people agree with you.

have you got this doctor in washington telling the house members it's not safe for them to come back. so, you know, i see both sides here. i agree with you. you have people that are without work. they need relief checks. they are talking about another check, $1,200 to go out. but, can't they find a way to do this from their houses though, brian and steve? can't they just work virtually? steve: you would think. ainsley: don't feel comfortable in washington? this is unprecedented. this is something we haven't been through as a country. can't they just change the rules for a few months just to get things passed. they can do it virtually, steve? brian: ainsley,. steve: yeah. you know. brian: real quick. if you are in sanitation, i'm sure things would go a lot better if you stayed home. they are essential worker and they decided to roll up their sleeve and do the jobs. why can't lawmakers do that? ainsley: brian, if we are asking people to pay attention to the healthcare workers and the experts, dr. fauci, dr. birx, and we're asking them their advice and they say don't do

something. brian: they're working. ainsley: have to keep their advice. can't we do it a safe say. go ahead, steve, we have been talking too much. sorry. steve: no. not at awesome ainsley, remember last week the house of commons kicked 700 years of tradition to the curb. ainsley: exactly. steve: decided to start meeting and debating things by zoom meeting which is what all of our families are doing these days it, seems like. nonetheless, keep in mind, as the company -- as the country is reopening, we are doing that because we are social distancing if lawmakers could simply follow the social distancing guidelines set out by the administration, you know, they could figure a way to do it. ainsley: exactly. steve: yesterday, at the white house. they had -- the white house is not closed. it's open every day. they practice safe distancing. everybody gets their temperature taken. a number of small business owners showed up at the white house to talk about how their businesses were saved by the

paycheck protection program. michael hupp is somebody who works at a company called -- they have 120 locations. he works. ainsley: 120 employees. steve: 120 employees, that's right. he has developmental disability. and he had an inspirational message for all those michael hupp. >> i love my job and i'm excited about going back to work. we like to use the phrase called not broken. that means me and all my amazing co-workers are not broken and we have lots to offer. i know the great country of the united states isn't broken either. >> i think we found a couple of stars in this room today. this guy right here is the biggest star in the room.

[applause] we'll all agree. i vote for you, okay? great job you've done. ainsley: so sweet. steve: that young man michael heup invited the president or secret detail to stop by and visit our stores. the president said don't be surprised if we do that apparently when you order through their company, biddy and beau. one of the 120 workers will include in your order a handwritten thank you note because it means so much to them that you are buying from them. brian: so i think it's really important this program, i think the administration has done a brilliant job over the last three and a half years of looking at a big program and personalizing it. big program. let me show you how it's actually helping. and i think between ivanka and the president and other creative

people in communications, i think they have done a great job. that's what i saw yesterday. it makes me think what is the ppp program doing. those big corporations cashed in maybe inadvertently the optics problem is terrible. the whole thing that some people are concerned about with this sba program is number one the speed in which they are doing it. the banks have been scratching their head for the last two days. they haven't been able to get answers. they slowed down the system to be careful. gummed up the works to a degree to hopefully fix that number two, tell small businesses about repayment program. a lot of them with the restaurant, all their meat and food has gone bad. the beer has gone bad. if they have to give all that money to workers who they are not sure who a worker is and who a part-time worker is who is going to count against payroll? they're not going to take on more debt. when they go to the banks and ask this question the banks go i don't really know. i'm here to give you the money. they pass the money over. they get their 5%.

the government is just trying to keep these businesses open. so, ainsley, i just think they have got to be able to inform the banks continue to form the small business what they are on the hook for and be able to speed through these loans. they will be out of money again in two weeks. they will have to go back and watch this all happen again. nancy pelosi is going to sit by her refrigerator. nancy pelosi urge to go back do a few late night shows and how businesses twist in the wind again unless they find a happy medium. ainsley: have you been mentioning that 75, 25 thing a lot. i have talked to restaurant owners and they agree with you, brian. >> they need to use that money as they see fit because they know what's best for their restaurant and not just allocated for certain things. to go back to that scene at the white house yesterday, how special was that? this lady, if you want to support a small business, biddy and beau's coffee shop, there are five shopsz in the annapolis area. and she employs 120 people all

with disabilities. many of them she says this is their first time having a job. it was really tough to close the doors on those five locations. what a beautiful message. we are america. we are not broken. we will be back. in a few months we have the election. we have been talking about corona, and that's been as you guys were saying yesterday the a block, the b block, and eventually we will get to the politics. this november we have the election, hillary clinton endorsed joe biden in a virtual town hall yesterday. watch this. >> i want to add my voice to the many who have endorsed you to be our president. just think of what a difference it would make right now if we had a president who not only listened to the science, took facts over fiction but brought us together, showed the kind of compassion and caring that we need from our president and

which joe biden has been exemplifying throughout his entire life. ainsley: these same politicians that we have senior after year after year and brad parscale who runs the campaign for donald trump he says no greater concentration of the democratic establishment than those two together and he called it a baggage of beck cadz in the dece washington swamp. steve: you know what's interesting is that kind of endorsement is exactly what campaign managers dream of. it would be great to have hillary clinton standing right next to joe biden, you know, they are arm in arm and waving a cheering throng. but due to social distancing and quarantine obviously that image is not going to happen. instead they did a zoom conference where luckily they both used just their home computers. although does hillary clinton still have that home server?

not sure about that. anyway, it went off with the zoom, brian. but it wasn't quite what we're used to seeing. brian: right. steve, overall, you are right about they like the big crowds and barack obama endorsement. 6:00 at night in front of 18,000 people would have been great, too. overall joe biden is benefiting from not having a campaign. he had a hideous year. the more people that saw him the less they liked him. they consolidated around him after clyburn as everybody knows we have no other choice. let's go with him we will prop up people around him. story simmering underneath that allegation from tara reade, staffer who said something happened very specifics who mom backed it up on larry king and neighbor came forward and said the same thing to me back in the 1990s. i voted for hillary clinton in 2016. i voted for her in the primary. i'm a lifelong democrat but yet what i see now is someone

enabling a sexual predator. let's add to that, everyone is writing about it. this is shoe on other foot disease. remember the republicans were very aggressive against bill clinton. they said ah-ha now you want us to pull back when it comes to kavanaugh. obviously distinct differences one say happened in high school and one didn't happen in bill clinton victims people like monica lewenski. now the shoe on the other foot democrats were coming out and saying women have to be believed. i look at meghan mccardale in the "the washington post" today for those who insisted kavanaugh must go. hard to argue mercy painful words i was wrong back then. good luck with that democrats. you can't duck that forever. here is sarah sanders. >> i think that's one of the most outrageous things about this is the double standard. for people like justice kavanaugh, they are falsely accused and the media gave it wall-to-wall media coverage youl

day every day. if this was a republican and these accusations were being made against them, you would see, again, wall-to-wall media coverage. the hypocrisy is shameless. just when you think the media can't go any lower, they find a way to go lower. ainsley: we just want to hear his explanation of this. and i'm surprised that these journalists are not asking the questions when they interview him or when they interview his potential vice president candidates. i just, as a woman, and these journalists are interviewing other women, they need to ask at least about this. i mean, he has denied it. and she is saying it's true. but i would like to hear his response to this. i would like to hear what these women that he could select as vice president what they think about this. they need to be asked. and some of them recently have been but over the course of the last few weeks, when this has come out we have seen some of these prominent journalists not even ask these questions. it's something that needs to be asked and we need eantsz.

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>> over the last six weeks my three restaurants have been devastated. dining room closures h to furlough over 100 people that was hard phone call to make. i promised my people we would bring them back now with the help of the ppp loan and the success of the ppp loan that we were able to get, i'm going to be able to keep that promise and

bring every one of those employees back. so thank you. brian: our next guest had a chance to speak directly to the president. you just saw him about the impact of the paycheck protection program on his business. chef and owner of ford fish shack tony stafford joins us now. tony, can you bring us through the process? i know a great moment at the white house but to talk about your real life story. your restaurants opened no 2010. had this success. then this happens. you lay everybody off. how soon did you get the money after you applied? >> >> thank you and good morning to you. we got the money in about 9 days from start to finish. we were blessed there. brian: nine days and got the money from your local bank. option to get paid, especially the tipped employees. >> we reached out to every one of them hey, as soon as we can get open and get guest back in the dining room, we're bringing

you back we want to bring every one of our employees back after. did you tell them you good morning pay them? >> absolutely. brian: did they all say yes i got unemployment i'm not sure i want to come back? what percentage want to come back? >> i would say well over half. 75%. 80%. brian: that's great for the percentage program. when you closed how much of your food went back. >> well over 1518, $20,000. brian: that has to be replenished. are you concerned at all the money will end up being a loan because you don't have the breakdown of 75/25. don't understand what payroll is a lot are contract workers thought f.i.c.a. would be part of payroll. they are not sure. are you clear? >> you know, i'm as clear as probably everyone one sells out there. i know as a restaurant owner we have a lot of expenses. but inventory is a big expense,

paying our vendors is a big expense. and that's important. we would like to be able to, you know, get some help on all of that and then also get some help because some of our restaurants -- all of our restaurants in virginia are still closed. we need to get those restaurants open. at least get some seats and energy this these restaurants. brian: when your governor said june 15th is the day i'm reopening, is that soon enough? don't you think that you should -- he should consider opening up earlier being that indications are that you are on track with the rest of the country? >> absolutely. you know, we want to get that energy back in the restaurants. we feel like we are regulated enough from the local health department to protect all of our guests as they come in through social distancing. we are just ready to get them back and serve them great food. brian: hopefully the governor reconsiders that if your area is hitting all the guidelines the president laid out. tony, continue the fight. congratulations on getting the money and to all your employees

that are lucky enough to be working for you. good luck the rest of the way, tony. thank you. >> thank you. have a great day. brian: you got it. still to come. cancer screenings plummeting across the country as americans avoid hospitals and stay home. just howe dangerous is that? dr. nicole saphier is a ralings. she joinradiologist. she joins us live next.

ainsley: as covid-19 keeps americans at home many are missing doctor appointments and potentially life-saving screenings. new report finds doctor panels and screenings have fallen 68% since the beginning of the pandemic. here to join success author of new book make america great again dr. nicole sapphire. hey, dr. saphier. >> good morning. ainsley: good morning. this is something we are trying to weigh our options and weigh out the benefits do. we go get these tests? do we go get our yearly mammogram or do we stay home and wait a few months? what's your advice? >> >> ainsley cancer screenings, early detection of cancer amongst other diseases important part of healthcare system especially cancer care. we lead it across the global that we're the best in cancer care in the united states. and that's because we have the most robust programs. the truth is though the time of year that you actually get your

cancer screening is not necessarily as important. the bottom line is what was best for everyone in the beginning when we didn't know much about this novel coronavirus and infection rates were really high we needed to delay cancer screenings; however, that being said that doesn't mean that you stop cancer screenings all together, that means you delay it for a few months and then you get back to it whenever it is safe to go again, can i tell you all across the country right now different hospitals and institutions are implementing safety measures who get people back in to do that cancer screening because just like i talk about in my book and i see every day in my job, early detection saves lives it. is crucial that we get back in and we have early detection of disease. ainsley: okay. so if you look at the stats, 31.8% drop in monitoring for ovarian cancer. 17.4% drop in testing for breast cancer. do you think it's safe now for us to go and get these

screenings? dr. saphier? >> it depends on what part of the country you are. in make shoe are going at a time where you don't have increased risk of getting the covid-19 or the flu or anything else. because the truth is, you know, if you have pre-existing conditions or you are considered high risk. your chance of dying from the viral infection may be much higher than someone else's. you also don't want to neglect early cancer or early disease detection. the best can i tell you call your facility or doctor and see what safety measures they are implementing. i'm sure things are changing all over. you will probably see fewer people in the waiting room. probably see more people wearing masks which is probably a good things. it's a little bit more hygienic. the bottom line is we still want to make sure that you are getting early defection but also doing it safely. ainsley: yeah. and make your appointments. because i have a feeling in our country gets back up and running again, then doctor's office was are going to be full. dentist chairs are going to be full. even hair salons and things like that it's going to be hard

getting. in are you anticipating a longer wait for your patients? >> i can tell you we are anticipating a very busy summer when it comes to cancer screenings. but that's okay because early detection saves lives and that's what we are here to do. ainsley: okay. thanks, dr. saphier. 34 minutes after the top of the hour. hillary clinton sparking backlash for using the pandemic to push socialized healthcare. lawrence jones is on deck with a reality check coming up next.

ainsley: look at that. steve: amazing. take a look. there is new york city below. our shot of the morning. take a look. this is inside the cockpit as the navy blue angels and air force thunderbirds combine forces and fly over new york, new jersey. i heard them.

and pennsylvania. honoring medical workers on the coronavirus front lines. brian: there is nothing like this. the defense department releasing this awesome video overnight. the nypd sharing this powerful photo of an officer saluting sag this sky high service members. how great is that? ainsley: isn't that a beautiful scene. the fly over is part of operation america strong. they will be happening in other major u.s. cities like chicago and miami and in new orleans. everyone was talking about this in our area yesterday. and it was just a beautiful scene. and brings our country together. it's wonderful. steve: it really was. but the problem was it brought too many people together, particularly in new york city and they came out of the houses to look up at it and next thing you know there is a social distancing problem and the police tried to keep people apart but nonetheless, it's just one of those things, it's the new normal. let's bring in lawrence jones, fox news contributor. he joins us all the time also

fox news host. lawrence, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: good to have you. lawrence, you know, we are in the midst of this covid crisis. and yesterday at that virtual zoom town hall where hillary clinton endorsed joe biden, it was interesting. because she was kind of pushing a little agenda because there is a crisis and you would hate to waste it. listen to this. >> every form of healthcare should continue to be available, including reproductive healthcare for every woman in this country and then it needs to be part of a much larger system that eventually and quickly, i hope, gets us to universal healthcare. this would be a terrible crisis to waste as the old saying goes. we have learned a lot about what our absolute frattleds are when it comes to health justice and economic justice. let's be resolved that we are

going to solve those once you are elected president. [laughter] steve: so, lawrence, don't let this crisis go to waste regarding health justice. >> well, she is right in the sense of that this is an old saying for big government advocates, never let a crisis go to waste. but the problem is government has been extremely ineffective when it comes to doing the basic job. i mean, have you got testing kits just sitting in garages. we can't get certain things. they told us we need th the big comfort plus. we didn't need it. all the models are wrong. i'm not sure we want universal healthcare when they can't even get basic things right. when you look at the v.a. system, how would you feel the same government that runs the v.a. system providing for average day americans as well? but again with most democrats and big governments, republicans, when they see these

crises they never let them go to waste after 9/11 they implemented more government regulations and big government spying it never went away. although they told us they would be going away. we are seeing the same thing right now. brian: lawrence it, bothers me so much when people go for agenda instead of fixing the problem they go for their own agenda. i find it despicable. pivot if we can over to the vice presidential search. operation behind the scenes lobbying going on and everyone wants to be biden's number two. probably the most number two pick in modern politics being the 77-year-old lawmaker. clearly lost his fast ball in my mind. here is one of the quotes in the political article. stacey abrams former georgia lawmaker, unsuccessful candidate for governor has been calling powerful democratic power brokers to they will biden she should be the vice president. according to multiple labor leaders with the discussions. meanwhile stacey abrams was

asked to weigh in on the claims of sexual assault against joe biden and guess what, she has seen enough. listen. >> i believe that women deserve to be heard, and i believe they need to be listened to. but i also believe that those allegations have to be investigated by credible sources. the "new york times" did a deep investigation and they found that the accusation was not credible. i believe joe biden. i believe the biden i know and i think that he will make women proud. that he will make america proud. brian: case closed, lawrence? >> first of all. she is not doing this behind the scenes. i have never seen someone publicly put theirself out there for v.p. the way stacey abrams has. that's exhibit a. exhibit b, when it comes to these allegations, the "new york times" did not do a deep dive. they didn't even interview half of the witnesses that we now know that are biden supporters

to say that she told them years ago. but, again, if this is the standard, why didn't they have the same standard of investigation when it came to kavanaugh or any other republican that they tried to take down just because they don't like him. this is a slippery slope. again, i'm so glad they are doing this now because it's highlighting the hypocrisy. they don't care about women. they care about power. they care about their side winning. if this was brett kavanaugh, if we had half of the corroborating evidence, he would no longer be a supreme court justice. ainsley: it begs the question such a double standard. where are the i believers. such a double standard. who do you think he should choose as vice president? >> well, i think he should choose cuomo. that's who he should really -- if he didn't lock himself in

with identity politics saying that he had to choose a woman, he would choose cuomo or if he really wants to go big and please that socialist base, bernie sanders. those are his only two options. we got the cuomo shot independent who has been on the national stage that people love right now. and then have you got bernie sanders that is part of the progressive base that will please them. but, again, he is not going to choose either one of those people because is he going to go to the identity politics lane, which is going to ultimately make him fail as a candidate because he doesn't have the identity -- his identity is what the people define him as which is going to be very hard to do when he is on the debate stage with a big personality like donald trump. steve: listen, lawrence jones has got a big personality and you can watch him on fox nation with "keeping up with jones" and man on the street. a lot of people are watching fox nation right now because we are all social distancing so lawrence jones, thank you very much for joining us live on this

wednesday morning. >> it's good seeing you guys. y'all stay safe out there. ainsley: thanks, you too. steve: all right. a quarter before the top of the hour, jillian joins us. jillian sought thunderbirds yesterday. they were spectacular. jillian: yes it was. so amazing to watch. good morning to the three of you and to you at home as well. the pentagon now considering given purple hearts for troops to suffered brain injuries from iranian missile attack earlier this year iran launched a barrage of missiles on two iraqi air bases in retaliation for the u.s. killing top military leader. more than 100 service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. the defense department says it's reviewing submissions to give troops a purple heart a city admissioner who went to michigan's stay at home protest has been punished. the royal oak city commission just outside of detroit voting to censure kim gibson. the mayor says she broke the law by breaking operation gridlock and wants her to resign.

gibson says she is staying put and calls the vote an assault on her right to free speech. the lawyer says she will sue the commission. firefighters raising the stars and stripes in solidarity for local veterans. the alabama crew using their ladder to lift the massive flag outside a veteran's home hit by covid-19. more than 64 residents have tested positive at least 8 have died from virus complicated. the department saying it was proud to show honor is and support to the veterans. for more inspiring stories like this, you can visit foxnews.com/america together. send it back to you. brian: all right. thanks, jillian. meanwhile, janice dean while we were reading the news and going over the stacey abraham situation. janice dean has been tracking the record. anything but traditional, right, janice? have you got challenges out there. >> we have had rounds of severe weather for the month of april, way ahead in terms of tornadoes reports. right now we have severe thunderstorm watches in effect for parts of texas through

louisiana. and this line is going to continue to move south and eastward and then up towards the mid-atlantic and the ohio river valley. severe thunderstorm watches in effect and severe thunderstorm warnings. main threat with these storms is going to be straight line wind damage and some cases that's almost as potentially dangerous as tornado damage. so that's going to be the threat as we go through the next couple of hours for parts of the southeast and then up towards ohio river valley and very heavy rainfall as well. we could see several inches of rain in a short period of time. and all of this rain is going to come up towards the northeast in the next couple of days as well. just keep that in mind. we will keep you posted. back to you steve, ainsley and brian. ainsley: out and about yesterday because they know the bad weather is coming. thanks so much, janice, they were social distancing which is good, at least everyone i saw. nice to see you, too j.d. 48 minutes after the top of the hour. coming up new jersey golfers hoping to flock the state's wide open fairways to fight the

governor's orders to keep courses closed. we will speak to one club owner who is pleading to let residents play.

steve: well, golf courses are shut down in the state of new

jersey and the golf courses now are pleading with governor phil murphy to let them reopen with proper safety precautions. joining us with more joe moore of the new jersey golf course owners association and owner of the ridge at back brooke. good morning to you, joel. >> good morning, steve. how are you? steve: i'm doing okay. why won't governor murphy allow the golf courses of new jersey to open? they are open in nearby connecticut and new york and pennsylvania and rhode island and those are the other states as part of this alliance everybody is open except jersey. >> that is correct. no one really knows the reason. we have been sending and communicating with governor and his office. they have said over the last two months critical concerns are

social distancing and congregating. and we-00 the new jersey golf course owners association led by our president dave wacinda and myself strongly believe that the proposed guidelines that we have submitted to the governor clearly satisfy those concerns. would you like me to go into any of those concerns? steve: absolutely, joel. because i'm sure you've written a letter and it's wound up on the desk of the governor. he is so busy. if you tell the governor right now, i guarantee he will see this video some time today. >> i would like to tell the governor that first of all, our plan for all golf courses in new jersey would be that when a golfer arrives at a club or a golf course that they will not have to touch anything but their

own equipment and their own personal belongings. we have structured and put together our guidelines based on totally focused and satisfying those two concerns. anyone's, if an individual is coming to play golf, they will not -- there will not be outside staff that will take their golf bag and put it somewhere. he the individual golfer will have to deal with it themselves. in addition, we are we are requiring that golfers have a choice they can either walk and carry their own bag, not utilizing a caddie or take a golf cart but it's only one person per cart. when you factor those two things in by itself it promotes social distancing. in addition, we are going to require other things that will make the playing of golf much

safer. we would be radio moving the rates that are in the bunkers. that will be a requirement, we will be removing or covering the ball washers that are on the golf course. the cup will be modified. so when the ball goes in the cup. steve: joel it. sounds like have you thought of everything. you are doing your best. the great thing about golf is, for me it, relaxes you. it's good for your mind. it's good for your body. as i go and find out where i lost that ball. it's a wonderful sport. i hope the governor is listening. joel moore, let's see if they open the courses in jersey. thank you, sir. >> thank you. thanks for having me. steve: we'll be back in two minutes.

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nashville, memphis, and knoxville. leaders there will determine their own reopening plans, brian in wisconsin curbside. outdoor items like kayaks, boats and golf carts, we expect to learn the plan to reopen florida later today. we got some indications yesterday though. ron desantis was in the oval office with the president of the united states. he made it clear and pushed back on a lot of critics that were saying they were too lenient. they weren't cracking down enough. and they had -- they let people go on the beach for spring break and let people go back on the beach in jacksonville and he said look at my numbers. they are better than all those states so critical of me. and hopefully with all the seniors they have they will continue that direction. let's bring in governor mike huckabee. he knows all about making big decisions state to state as former governor of arkansas, fox news contributor right now. first off, governor, how do you think governor desantis has

done? i think he has done very well. he has been hammered by national people and people in florida and very unfairly. he is exactly right 22 million people who live in florida very diverse state. areas very agricultural. you have areas that are very urban. have you areas that are suburban. so you have a very different kind of landscape and he has recognized that but the management of the crisis has resulted in really a very admirable sense of control, far less cases. far less than the numbers that were projected for florida. and he has been, i mean, just relentlessly attacked by people who prove to be wrong and prove ron desantis to be right. steve: you know, the interesting thing, governor. and you know a lot about florida because you do make the panhandle area your home part of the year. is florida has a very high population of senior citizens. and we have heard that covid-19

really strikes at that particular demographic. and so for florida to be sable to contain, this that's really something. that is one of the things he said when he sat down with the president. he made the trip to washington. here is a snippet of it from yesterday. listen. >> what have the results been? you look at the some of the most draconian orders issued in some of these states and compare florida. you name it, florida has done better. everyone in the media was saying florida was going to be like new york on italy. and that has not happened because we understood we have a big diverse state. we understood the outbreak was not uniform throughout the state and we a tailored and measured approach it that not only help our numbers be way below what anyone predicted but also did less damage to our state going forward. steve: governor huckabee while other states had super restrictive stay-at-home orders florida did not. that's one of the reasons why mr. desantis took so much flack

when this is all over in a couple of months or a year people will look back what they did in florida and w. what they did in other more restrictive states. >> the one thing, steve, i think the people just failed to factor in is the personal responsibility level there have been a lot of local ordnance decided by locally elected officials. when i say people say the governor ought to crack down more. ultimately it's the decision of the discontinues to decide. frankly across the entire country. most people have self-quarantined. i haven't left my house in six and a half weeks now. but i didn't do that because the government told me to stay home. i did it because you know, can i do most of what i do from home. a lot of people can't. even though all of my events that i have scheduled have canceled. my point is. this no matter what rules you put in place. some people are going to break

them. there are people who speed in their cars no matter what the speed limits are there are people who smoke and drink too much and act irresponsibly and recklessly. that doesn't mean that you ought to shut down the entire world because of a few people who are reckless with their lives. and i think we are missing that americans are basically overall responsible people. treat them like adults. tell them the truth. be transparent about what the issues are. what the risk are. for heaven's sake. don't strip their liberties away and take all of the healthy people and quarantine them meanwhile you are letting inmates out of jails in places like new york. a lot of people agree with you, governor. want to get back to work and do it safely and do it the right way. we have had these doctors on our show. we have interviewed them. they put together a video. and they were interviewed by a local news station and they put

the video on youtube and it was fruld youtube. here's the video. >> 0.03 chance of dying from covid in the state of california. does that necessitate sheltering in place. does that necessitate shutting down medical systems? does that necessitate people being out of work? when you are a little child crawling on the ground and putting stuff in your mouth, viruses and bacteria come in and you form antigen antibody complex. this is how your immune system is built. you don't take a small child and put them in bubble wrap and say go have a healthy immune system. ainsley: after it was on air, youtube pulled the video. here is the statement from youtube. we quickly removed flagged content that violate our community guidelines, including content that explicitly disputes the efficacy of local healthy authority recommended guidance on social distancing that may lead others to act against that guidance. however, content that provides sufficient educational

documentary scientific or artistic context is allowed. for example, news coverage of this interview with additional context. from the very beginning of the pandemic, we have had clear policies against covid-19 misinformation and are committed to providing timely and helpful information at a critical time. what is your response to that? >> that was nonsense word salad on the part of youtube. these guys are medical doctors. they are scientist. for heaven's sake they didn't say anything indisputable. they were giving facts, figures. they were invoking some opinion in terms of giving analysis of the facts they presented. i thought the most salient point they made in the video which did i see before it got pulled is historically when you have a pandemic, you quarantine the sick people, not the healthy people. and that was sort of like, you know, the light bulb went off. the one deep in my stomach that i swallowed last week after i washed it down with some colors.

again, that was a nonsense thing the president accused the president of saying which he never said. i think youtube has to answer for the selective content and the way that they have sensorren censured anything that doesn't. something is wrong with facebook, youtube and google. brian: unbelievable. i can't underline how alarming this is. these are doctors that came up with hard numbers and stats. all they said was argue with my numbers. i'm not just giving an opinion. i'm not spouting out on a soapbox on a vacant l.a. street corner. i am a doctor. how dare you take down what my facts revealed. shear him, here is dr. dan erickson explaining his reaction to having youtube act against him. >> we had tested about 5213 at the time of that video and we had about 340 positive which is 6.5%. i was giving them raw data it

was not a biostatistical analysis and it was not peer reviewed. we didn't say it was. it was raw data. they said what kind of an outbreak are we having? i think youtube would realize once we get the economy going and we get people safely back to work it would be better for them. and so really the herd immunity is really the main thing. how do we get herd immunity that 50 to 70% mark where the disease is controlled and we can get back to work. brian: governor? >> yeah. most of the people who think we ought to shut everything down are people who are on the government payroll. which means their jobs are secure and they are getting paid. there is 26 million americans who don't have a job right now because we have shut everything down. should would he be careful? absolutely. should some things maybe be slower in opening? but, what we have done is to put 26 million people out of work and the only people that still get their pay chexdz are government and that includes members of congress and they are

not going back to, woman of achievement cut their paychecks off. quit paying members of congress. let's see how long it is before they say you know what? i think we have got to ramp this economy back up and get people back out into the workplace. brian: great point. great point. steve: you know, the latest recommendation from the cdc, the government, regarding social distancing, governor, is that we should start social distancing our pets because the number of pets have tested positively so avoid dog parks and stuff like that nonetheless more on that later on. he feels the united states was deceived as with the world. they knew what was going on. they didn't tell us now the president is suggesting, governor that we hold them substantially liable for it. it sounds like in addition to germany suggesting they might try to get $160 billion from china. the united states would have an even bigger number. well, now, china is fighting back. their foreign ministry spokesman

said we advise american politicians to reflect on their own problems and try their best to control the epidemic as soon as possible instead of continuing to play tricks to deflect blame. so, is that what we're doing and they have just a clear vision of what's going on over there? >> one thing we can be assured of ised that the chinese communist routinely regularly and flagrantly lie. i was in ten minut tiananmen sq. and there was a young guy with my wife and me. we were talking to her about what happened. she had no knowledge of it. she never heard of it. she was in her mid 20's and something she had never heard of. she had no idea what we were talking about. the chinese government routinely lie. try to google something when you are in china, you will see all content is blocked. this is not an open country.

this is not a country that let's people think or know things. for them to dare say that the united states is the problem it's laughable and we may never know exactly what they did but by gosh they ought to pay for it. they ought to pay for it. ainsley: yep. we all agree. or at least i agree with you. we need to hold them accountable. brian: 100 percent. >> i'm not sure about brian he may not. brian: 100 percent agree. are you kidding in write a big check. ainsley: thanks, governor. great to see you this morning. jillian has headlines for us. jillian: 80 people have died from covid-19 at veterans gnome massachusetts. believed to be the deadliest outbreak in the u.s. a nurse at the soldier's home blaming staffing shortages and lack of supplies. >> it went very fast. very fast. and i do believe it is from the

transferring of the vets from unit to unit as well as the floating of staff from unit to unit. and in the beginning we were not given the proper pppe federal officials are. throwing a bone to the america's meat industry in hopes of prevent ago shortage. the president signing a new executive order meat processing factories as critical infrastructure. directing plants to stay open at the maximum extent possible. the factories must follow cdc guidelines as the government sends additional ppe to workers. at least 20 plants have closed from the virus u.s. powerful storms bringing heavy rain and damaging winds tornadoes sirens in tulsa, oklahoma. hail the size of tennis balls. knocking out power to thousands.

68 people from texas to wisconsin now under a severe weather threat as storms stretch across. jillian: have you ever imagined hitting the jackpot? >> i won. i won. for the first time -- >> sir, are you all right? >> oh my god. >> i won. jillian: great movie. one lucky man in colorado just hit 2-million-dollar power ball jackpots in one day. colorado lottery officials only identifying him as joe b. he bought one ticket in the morning. the other later that day using the same numbers he has played for the 30 years. joe b. i'm always welcoming new friends into my life. [laughter] brian: that's unbelievable that one store sold two winners also is a big story. we will continue to follow the lottery as people win it. thanks, jillian.

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>> come forward and let's see what works. what is operational and what needs other attention, others have suggested a minimum income for a guaranteed income for people. is that worthy of attention now? perhaps so. steve did you hear that house speaker nancy pelosi suggesting guaranteed income

among the pandemic. is she focusing more on government handouts instead of getting americans back to work? here with reaction is senior fellow at the national taxpayers union maddy did you hav maddy. >> good morning, steve. steve: some have suggested universal income. where everybody gets a check from the government. but isn't it the time to -- suggested that more stimulus for individuals is on the way in the form of perhaps a check. but is now the time to do some sort of guaranteed income rather than just simply get us through this crisis. >> right. you bring up an excellent point which is we are in unpress tented times. it required unprecedented policy response. however, at a time when you have got 32 million small businesses trying to figure out how they

are going to get back online after the pandemic is contained, i can't imagine how tone deaf it is to be talking about paying people to stay home and not work. usually people saying that a universal basic income is a good idea are suggesting it because they think it should be replacing our other social safety programs. nancy pelosi isn't saying that. she is saying we should consider an income on top of the welfare programs we have in place that would create massive distortion particularly at a time when people need to hire these workers back and we need to get people online to get these people working and get the economy moving again. steve: yeah. mattie, i have read so much about in this morning after her comment. what's interesting some people have suggested why don't we get rid of welfare as we know it. any sort sort of welfare payments to individuals instead do. this i saw one congress person

suggested that the federal government cover the wages of employees up to $100,000 and that just begs the question where is that money going to come from? i know right now we are inventing the money to get us through this crisis. if we start it now. it's going to be hard to get the horse back in the barn. >> that's exactly right. listen, i think we should have a robust social safety net exactly for instances that we are experiencing right now. however, a universal basic income is something that is supposed to get rid of all the deficiencies in the federal government and getting those checks out the door and how difficult the administration is having a ubi in place, however, does the one thing that you don't want in a productive economy. it pays people not to work. there are countries that are tried. this finland has tried. this cities in california and canada have tried. this all of them found the same thing it is not particularly effective because it doesn't get people out of the morass of

government support and back into work. steve: you know, we have heard a lot about it on the campaign trail particularly andrew yang talking about universal basic income over the last year. do you think that they think it is really a viable thing that the united states could do or is it just one of those things that we hear a lot of in a campaign year where they will be able to make the case hey, you know, i was fighting for you. i tried get you a basic garnl teed income but those darn republicans wouldn't let us. >> this is the remarkable thing nancy pelosi talking about this at a time when the idea has already been tested with democratic voters. listen, if this was popular with democrats, andrew yang would be the nominee for the democratic primary instead he dropped out. obviously this is an idea that even for democrats is not very palatable. for nancy pelosi to be bringing it up now when we are trying to

talk about getting people back to work i really think it illustrates just how far democrats are from the economic realities facing the country right now. steve: we just heard a soundbite from hillary clinton in the last half hour where she was talking about pushing healthcare justice because you never want to let a crisis go to waste she said as you know mattie, thank you very much for joining us today on this wednesday. >> all right. steve. good to see you. steve: all right. still ahead. today retail stores in tennessee will reopen for business. we're going to talk to one shop owner heading back to work for the first time in six weeks. what's it going to be like? stay tuned. how do your teeth get a dentist-clean feeling?

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from. ainsley: more than a dozen straits easing coronavirus restrictions this week including tennessee where retail stores are start reopening today at 50% capacity and one of those stores is bumble bee baby and kids. that owner is mary ogle who joins us now to talk about the reopening. good morning to you, mary. >> good morning. thank you for having me. ainsley: you are welcome. i have heard so many people that say i just opened my business and then i had to close it. i'm sure that was hard for you

how do you feel about reopenings? >> it was definitely hard. we had to shut the doors before this governor ordered us too to. i felt like that was the best thing to do with the uncertainty around the virus for our customers and family this is going on five and a half six weeks. i'm anxious to open the doors again. i am a newer business. and it has been especially hard for me and we were just getting established in our community. so i feel like with our small town, there is not too many people in the store at one time. and we can still keep a safe social distance. and i'm keeping a top priority to make sure that everything is sanitized. ainsley: that's great. how do you plan to reopen safely keeping people at a distance. only 50% capacity? >> right. well, on days that it's pretty, you know, we will open the door, of course, like i said,

sanitizing everything. washing down the door handles and hangers and things i'm in close contact with people. and i'm just hopeful that we can get back to normal soon. we, like i said, i live in a small town. and i have had community support through all of this. i rely heavily on foot traffic. i'm hopeful people can get back in and we can just keep a social distance but get to business as normal. ainsley: right. tell me about how it affected your employees. >> i had just hired my first employee at the end of february when this happened. so, i never would have dreamed that will will. [broken audio] ainsley: how do you feel about big corporations publicly traded companies that didn't ge got thy that should have gone to people

like you. >> paycheck protection program is something that i looked into but not every bank is participating and in particular the bank that i do business with was not so whenever i reached to some other community banks i had some people trying to help me but with me being so new and my eligibility being based on 2019 tax forms, that basically cut me out. i was only open two and a half months in 2019. even in that short time period with the all the overhead expenses did i make a small profit, but it wasn't enough to qualify for the paycheck protection program. ainsley: oh my word so you can't even take advantage of that money. how are you paying the bills? how are you paying that one employee or did you furlough that pinner? >> right now, othat -- that per. >> with the door shut it's just me operating things. i'm hopeful that now that we are

able to open today i can get her working back soon. right now we are just having to do what we have to do. ainsley: i hope. so mary, do you have a business online if we wanted to order? there are so many people that watch "fox & friends." >> yes. so you can social media pages we are on facebook and instagram. we are actually launching our online store this week linked on social media. ainsley: called bumble bee baby and kids out of fayetteville, tennessee. if you want to buy something on her website that would be very enful to her and her business keep our small businesses employed and keep the doors open. i love shopping for baby clothes. i have a 4-year-old. i will be shopping on your website later this week when it opens. thank you so much for being with us. god bless you. i hope that everything comes back in full force for you and a lot of people watching will go and shop. >> yes, ma'am. thank you. ainsley: thanks, mary. have a good one. huge news breaking overnight on the rails for a coronavirus

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>> hopely when we get to the coming winter we will know if we have a safe vaccine the challenge will be to scale it up a notch to be able to distribute it meaningfully both in this country and throughout the world. steve: that's right. scale it up so there are enough doses. there have you got dr. fauci predicting a covid-19 vaccine could arrive sooner than first thought. this as the company fisser is hopeful theirs could be ready for the fall on an emergency basis. >> what about the one in oxford. here to weigh in dr. mehmet oz

host of the dr. oz show. americans, you are a medical expert waiting for that vaccine. from what have you seen does oxford and this new vaccine pfizer, possibly do they have a reason to feel optimistic and does fauci have a reason to feel optimistic? >> they do have good reason to feel optimistic. to say put this in perspective, it takes years to develop vaccines. what every started general assumption much faster than usual it would still take a few years. now it's becoming evident that we have the ability to draft off of technology that was developed for other viral illnesses. when you put the entire world's effort into vaccine-making you end up with pretty smart people making rapid advances. the oxford folks have come up with the idea of taking a virus that's safe and manipulating it so it looks enough like covid-19 that our immune system would react and give it to monkeys unpublished data. seems over the course of the month since the animals have been vaccinated they have not contracted the virus even though

they have been exposed this new development from pfizer mrna vac seep basically give a piece of the covid-19 virus into people and they will react to that antigen, to that product that's made become immune even though they never got the virus. the key is to testing to show efficacy. give people the shot, make sure that they will still exposed to the virus as we are today in america. and because we are exposed, if significant number of people aren't vaccined get it and that's different from people vaccinated then have you got good evidence. for the high risk people for emergency use can you begin to use it by the end of the year. i must caution folks, i have had dr. hotez big time vaccine expert dr. lipton a well known epidemiologist. both of them have told me they don't think we will have widespread vaccine available for another year but we might have something by the end of this year. and i'm encouraged by what i'm reading.

ainsley: that's good news that would be wonderful. at least if we had it for emergency use this fall. okay. there is a study that says that covid-19 has been found in airborne droplets in chinese hospitals. is this just more evidence that it does spread through the air? >> actually, this is a very important paper. what they did was go around multiple locations in the hospital but also outside. and they went into, for example, the worst places were not the places you would think. they didn't find a lot of virus in the air in the hospital rooms. they are ventilated and taken care of. in the unventilated toilet a lot of virus particle. they found it at the department store entrance near the hospital because that's a congested area and people were sneezing and coughing, et cetera. interestingly, when they changed the way their protocols how people changed in the hospital and sprayed down with disinfect tantaros before they took outfits off could dramatically changed these droplets being released. put it in context the size of

the cop droplets 1/50th the strand of hair very small. those droplets can stay in the air for an hour or longer. of course reinforces that's the main way we get infected. it also i have got to say you actually had virus that could infect you. it points out where the problems are it's busy congested areas. thoroughfares, entrance areas to large buildings. that's where we want to keep people apart from each other. this is additional evidence. i don't know if you saw. this a nice study in jama in boston looking at homeless shelter. 36% of the folks there were positive. but 88% had no symptoms. i will stay again. a third the people in the homeless shelter were positive. and these people are not perfectly healthy, obviously. but 88% had no symptoms. which means if you are walking in a crowded street, there is a good chance most of us have illness don't know we have the illness. don't know potentially passing g

it to others. steve: such a good point about droplets in the air. in china the companies are now mandating as they reopen particularly at the factories, they open the window and get the air circulating because that is the thing that could actually impact it. meanwhile, dr. oz, there are millions of americans who have pets and i can't tell you how many people i see on my walks in the morning who are walking their dogs. the cdc now says we should consider and practice social distancing for our animals because there have been covid-19 cases in dogs and cats and if they're out on the street and they interact, that's a problem, isn't it? >> it is a problem. again, the cdc is stressing there is no evidence that animals can play a significant role spreading it to us. obviously a man mall w mammal wd

in the spreading it in the first place. there have been pits both in this country overseas they sometimes get it will bronx zoo they had a big cat that got sick. dogs can also have the virus. we know that from a case now in north carolina. the cdc is saying don't be afraid of your pet but socially distance them. don't get too close to them if you get sick. don't let other people who may be sick or other pets who may be ill get too close to your pets. i have been keeping our pets and cats and dogs away from other pets for a while for this reason. brian: he is dr. oz. dr. oz all over this story. dr. oz, thanks so much. >> thanks, brian. ainsley: thanks. brian: all right. meanwhile, let's go over to jillian ohio thank on a regular basis, too. for doing her job. jillian: thank you for thanking me. good morning to the three of you. steve mnuchin warning big companies could be criminally liable if they got loans through the paycheck protection program.

>> i think it was inappropriate for most of these companies to take the loans. the purpose of this program was not social welfare for big business. the purpose of this program was to help small business over $2 million will be reviewed. ruth's chris steakhouse and shake shack will return the funds. criticizing orthodox jews over a massive funeral. hundreds gathering in brooklyn to mourn a rabbi who died from the virus. de blasio and police broke up the crowd for defying social del distancing. the mayor calling it, quote, absolutely unacceptable and threatening arrest. tweeting in part, quote: my message to the judicial community and all the communities is this simple the time for warning has passed. this is about stopping this disease and saving lives, period. president trump was mocked for floating the use of ultraviolet light for destroying coronavirus.

not only is the technology real it's already being used in some capacity. this robot cleaning equipment with uv light at more than 50 u.s. hospitals. the ceo behind it explained-to-on "fox & friends first." take a listen. >> different germs are vulnerable to uv light at different wave lengths. whether you have broad spectrum high intensity light can you get pat though generals and germs wherever they are most vulnerable. jillian: enough energy to power 5,000 homes. interesting. now to. so trending stories on foxnews.com right now. first up california's newport beach city council votes to keep the beach open despite during huge crowds during the pandemic. nearly 40,000 people visited the beach this weekend. next a irs website bug isn't allowing americans to seat status of stimulus check. finally katie couric recalls

awkward interview in denzel washington in 2004 that left her shaken. to read these stories and mother download the fox news app. the news moves fast and we can help you keep up. ainsley: thank you, jillian. hand it over to janice who has the weather report. janice: another round of severe storms from last night extending into the next several hours along the gulf coast and parts of the southeast. eventually moving up towards the mid-atlantic and the northeast. so just be aware we are in for a couple of wet days across new york city. across the gulf coast, that's where we have the remaining thunderstorm watches in effect, couple of thunderstorm warnings earlier today, straight line wind damage is going to be the main threat with these storms. it's going to move towards the southeast and then up towards the mid-atlantic and eventually landing here in the northeast. heavy rainfall with this as well. flash flooding is going to be cancer. several inches of rain in a very short period of time. that's going to kind of linger

headinged into the weekend for parts of the northeast. so yesterday was really the day to get out because the next few days are going to be quite wet. the other big story we are following across the southwest, record setting heat. temperatures well above 100 degrees until at least friday. things started to relax a little bit on the weekend but still way way above average. look at some of these temperatures incredible. all right. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. steve: all right. j.d., thank you very much. hot out west. and rainy in the east. april showers bring may flowers. a dozen minutes before the top of the hour. if you are stuck at home and have you got no gym, that's no problem because our next guest is helping america stay in shape with two-minute at homeworkouts. creator of body by shake jake steinfeld seen right there with his son joins us with exercises you can do this morning coming upd next.

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jillian: good morning welcome back. quick headlines now. the nation's largest mall owner is getting ready for shoppers. sigh monsz mall plans to reopen 49 locations in 10 states this weekend. a leaked memo says there will be strict safety measures including reduced hours, social distancing plans and free hand sanitizer.

meanwhile, disney world and universal studios are getting a glimpse at what parks could look like whenever they reopen. a florida task force revealing it could happen in two phases. the first calls for opening at 50% capacity and eventually boosting to 75%. staff would be required to wear face masks and have their temperatures taken before every shift. brian? brian: all right. thanks, jillian. no gym, no problem. our next guest has got you covered with a quick homeworkout and he has great ideas, watch. >> we have a great exercise for you. listen, we want to have some fun and i'm glad we are having some fun. if you knew to what we are doing here at official body by jake, we want to show you an exercise a day to relieve the stress and the tension and the anxiety and, most importantly, i want to build confidence. i want you smiling again, right, zac? >> right. brian: zac has to smile. that's his dad. is he creator of body by jake and his son zac who does all the hard work showing people of all

ages all exercises how to hit your entire body with no equipment. it's part of the don't quit challenge on instagram. jake, one of the good things about this pandemic is it brought to you social media. you are a monster on instagram. >> i tell you, brian, first of all you, it's great to be with you guys and everything that you are doing is so terrific. i do have to say it has brought me to social media. and what's important is, look, we live in the greatest country on the planet. i want to make sure that everybody last the opportunity to get their body moving, especially during this time and all your guests talk about it. how important it is to get your body moving. these are very simple, safe, effective, little exercises that you can do in your apartment condo, home, with a broom stick, towel, chair, a bat, a golf club. whatever it is, it really -- these exercises work. the don't quit family is growing. and it's just super exciting to see. brian: it's really cool. just so you know, this is how

jake broke. in he is a body builder, goes out to the west coast, no connections. starts making a real impact and training celebrities like harrison ford and steven spielberg they didn't want big muscles they wanted to be toned and fit. using towels and these items. going back to say even if you are in a small apartment no reason to not be in shape. sculpt the tricep you show us how. incline chair pushups. don't tell me you don't have a chair. you showed squats today low back hamstring stretch. jake, if i do all of these for one workout? >> all these exercises for everybody, no matter what your fitness level is. no matter what age you are, you can do these. we designed these and just like you said, look, i was the first guy to do personal fitness training. made it an occupation. and i literally started with a broom stick a towel and a chair working out all these big hollywood stars.

i found something interesting, too bry, all these people, you know the difference is? there is no difference. they had a dream. never quit on their dream or took no for an answer. that's what i want to give back to everybody today, especially during this time. i have always been a big believer when you have hope and you have your health, you have everything. these exercises as i said are simple and our don't quit family is growing. i want to give a couple of shoutouts. my goodness, i mean, sharon from memphis, marie, ojz. the mcjersey. palm springs. we get all this information going and people are sharing this momentum and we are building the endorphins and people's bodies and it's at official body by jake. brian: don't tell me you don't have dumbbells. do you have a broom stick, a towel, tomato paste? you can do it and it's all there

in front of you. with me i can't read it i have to see it so you have it out there. jake is also the director of governor's fitness council. is he putting gyms in schools across the country in the schools that need it most. so with kids not in school, this is a workout for them. real quick, jake, final thought? >> listen, this is for everybody. and just get your body moving. we're almost out of this. the name of the game is when we do get a chance, irving get a chance feel strong, feel happy. i want you to feel empowered. build confidence and self-esteem and we don't quit, bry. brian: i'm getting my speedo now. come up is jared kushner and mike pompeo.

>> as our nation battles against the terrible scorch we continue to pray for the victims as well as for those americans who are grieving their lost ones and their loved ones. we are coming back and we are coming back strong. we built the greatest economy anywhere in the world 2 months ago and we will build it again. ainsley: right to fox news alert, president trump urging americans to pray for victims of the coronavirus and promising our economy will come back as covid-19 cases in the united states now topping 1 million. despite the numbers tennessee and wisconsin and moving forward with restrictions, brian.

brian: tennessee now allowing retail stores to reopen with 50% capacity. it's interesting. restaurants will be given the same guidance, that'll be on monday. the rollbacks do not apply to 6 tennessee cities, major ones like memphis, knoxville. steve: meanwhile in wisconsin they plan on nonessential businesses being allowed to open for curbside services. rentals would also be allowed for kiyak and golf courts. ron desantis met with the president yesterday in the oval office and welcome it's hour 3 of "fox & friends" of this wednesday april 29th, thank you for spending part of your morning was. jared kushner senior adviser to president trump and son-in-law as well. he joins us, good morning to you, jared. >> good morning, guys, how are you? steve: we are doing okay,

although over the weekend we saw the news from tyson, the big chicken manufacturer that said that the food supply chain is breaking and apparently they say that has fallen by 25%, one to have reasons why president trump by executive order and using the defense production act ordered the meat plants open. how dire a situation was that? >> well, i think what we have seen with the pandemic that's approached there's been a lot of unforeseen challenges that we worked hard through. this is just one to have many challenges. the team was on it. president trump is working over the weekend, steve meadows and took strong action yesterday to make sure americans will would all the food supply that they need. ainsley: what did you make of china lashing out at the united states claiming we are lying through our teeth? this is what they said. this is from the china foreign

ministry spokesperson. we advise americans politicians to reflect and try best to control epidemic as soon as possible instead of continue to go play tricks to deflect blame. how can we cut reliance on china, people are furious with that country? >> yeah, well right now our job at the white house has been mainly focused on how do we take care of the american people. we've worked very hard to make sure that we've gotten all of the supplies we kneed for healthcare workers and made sure that we produced, i think we did 30 ventilators, over a hundred thousand ventilators in 3 months that we will create here in america domestically, showing that america does have the potential to do tremendous manufacturing capability again and we are working now on testing and doing great with that. but what we are learning from this as we take care of the american people, we are learning that the president, what he campaigned on was that we want to make sure we are bringing manufacturing back and we can't rely on other countries and i imagine after this we will put in place very strong strategies to make sure that america

doesn't have to rely on any other countries for critical supplies in the future. brian: jared, i know this question is easy for you to punt on and it's pretty clear germans $160 billion, australia says we are doing an independent investigation on what happened here and how the whole world has been poisoned by the country, knowing that we are still intertwined with them economically and adversarial militarily to a great degree, do you believe that they owe us a check and will there be an invoice hand today them shortly because the president seems to be slowly seeding with even progressing day, is there going to be an offensive move on them to replenish our resources as we have been brought to our knees economically? >> so president trump right now is obviously focused on the response, but he has asked the

team to look carefully what happened and how this got here and make sure he will take whatever actions are necessary to make sure that the people who caused the problems are held accountable for it. brian: so, yes -- >> steve: you know, jared -- i think he did not hear that. jared, since the beginning of the crisis. >> no. steve: there is the answer. we have a satellite delay. in the very beginning there was a shortage of masks and then we didn't have enough ventilators and now we are at the stage where certain states are clambering for more tests. from what i've read and what i've heard behind the scenes the president made you the point person and putting together all of the assets an let's bring in people from the actual healthcare private industry, supply chain to figure out how directly to where the stuff is to get it and essentially short circuit the way the federal

government has done it for a while. could you explain how that has worked because i've read that there were a number of democrats mystified about what are they doing behind the scenes, seems like you're trying to do the best to try to get the stuff out there as quickly as possible. >> look, this has been a historic challenge. you've never really had a situation where you had to respond in this quick time frame to this massive surge in demand for supplies that we didn't make in this country. the vice president's task force asked my office of innovation to get involved with innovation at cmmi to work on public-private partnerships to work with existing structures and we were able to work together to figure innovative public-private partnerships to get the missions accomplished. so the project air bridge where we were able to get now close to 100 flights, massive cargo flights critical supplies that we didn't make in america over to frontline healthcare workers, the healthcare sector in america is mostly controlled by private

sector and non-for-profit. it's not run by the government, so you needed to take a custom-tailored approach to make sure we were sufficient as possible. it's been quite successful. everyone is talk about testing and the work that's been done over the last 60 days on testing has been absolutely extraordinary where about 5.8 million tests now by far the most in the world and you will see the number accelerate. we are starting a round of calls with the governors to ask them what additional supplies they need and what's their two-month plan and what's their 6-month plan and right now we fulfilled all orders and yesterday governor desantis was saying that he was has more testing capacity than he has demand for the tests and so we are really doing quite well with that and i always find that we see leading indicators and the media sees lagging indicators and i'm very

confident that we have all the testing we need to start opening the country in cardance with the safety guidelines that president trump, vice president, dr. birx and dr. fauci layed out on april 19 president. ainsley: you mentioned dr. fauci, saying that everyone would be able to get one by june if you need it, listen to this. >> everyone who needs a test according to way we are approaching, the identification, isolation, contact tracing, keeping the country safe and healthy, that hopefully we shall see that as we get to the end of may, the beginning of june. that's what i'm being told by the people who are responsible for the testing. i take them for their word. ainsley: jared, so many people, they are saying have had it and didn't know it, didn't have any symptoms, many of us want to take the antibody test. is that the test he's talking about or is he just talking about the test to determine if you have it or not? >> i believe dr. fauci is

talking about both tests, both the antibody and surveillance testing and diagnostic testing. dr. fauci and dr. birx gave the innovation team and admiral goals that they would like to see on testing. we have been able to so far exceed the goals for the month of april. we will have almost 6 million tests in a month which is going to be extraordinary and we are really quite excited for what we will be able to do in may, june and july and beyond. so what we have really done -- the hardest work is developing the tests. we needed to engage the commercial market to do that. president trump and vice president did that and really historic manner and pace. somebody asked me why i took so long, you should look at how did we do so quickly and what's really happened is really extraordinary, so we don't want to let dr. fauci down and we will make sure that we get enough tests into the markets so we can responsibly test people and, again, the goal here is to get people back to work.

the crowd can make jokes on late night television but the reality is the data is on our side and president trump created pathway to open safely our country and get economy going and get america back to a place where it would be even stronger than it was before. brian: jared, just we wanted to get things done. i know you don't want to get in the back and forth, questions that keep coming up on the sunday shows, number one where is the national strategy, that's from governor newsome on 60 minutes and amy klobuchar on morning shows and number 2 if you answer that, number 2, why did you guys collapse the pandemic office when you guys took over possibly to save money, do you want to answer both of them? >> sure. pandemic office, that was nsc situation but lots of parts of the government responsible for that and all of those have been functioning. again, we are on the other side of the medical aspect of this and i think that we have aleaved all the different milestones that are needed. the government, the federal

government rose to the challenge and this is great success story and i think that that's really, you know, what needs to be told and in terms of the national strategy that you mentioned with governor newsom, look, we've been very busy doing, we released the strategy document earlier this week. it was an 8-step plan and 7 of the steps have been completed. you can't accelerate to the levels that needed to be done. a lot of the work is up-front work and we needed more tests than any place in the world and we have to be doing a lot of things right. steve: a lot of people are pinning their hopes so, jared, the fact that pfizer is apparently starting trials on a new vaccine and it could be available for use on an emergency basis in the fall. oxford has -- is working on something and moderna. maybe one of them will work and when realized when one of them

is working, how is the federal government going to help private industries scale up so that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world can get the vaccine as quickly as possible? >> right, so we have been we have work stream devoted to that. we are doing everything to scale production w. manufacturing you can't just wave a magic wand. we have a lot of people use the defense production act and invent ventilators. in order to create a factory, you need to build robots and assembly lines and what we have been doing is forward work on how we build capacity and scale, so if they are able to innovate and create the vaccines, we will make sure that we have the production capability to oversupply the market. now, i will just say that part of what makes america such an incredible country is that we have the amazing innovative drug companies and they do an incredible job on solving all kinds of disease and i do have to give shout-out to fda which has really worked at record time, approved more things in a safe manner in the last couple of months than i think it's been

done in a very, very long time and my big personal hope from this is that we don't go back to normal course of business. there's been real urgency here to solve a problem and the whole government has come together. the whole country has come together. we have worked democrats with republicans and we put our political differences aside and by doing that we saved hundreds of thousands of american lives and we are also preparing the country so that we can really get as close back to normal as possible as quickly as possible and i think what you'll see in may as the states are reopening now is may will be a transition month, you'll see a lot of states starting to phase in the reopening based on the safety guidelines that president trump outlined on may -- april 19th, i think you will see by june a loft the country should be back to normal and the hope is by july the country is really rocking again. ainsley: we hope so much. thank you so much. >> thank you, guys, have a great day. ainsley: you're welcome, you too. let's hand it over to jillian, he has more headlines. jillian: 80 people have died in

veterans hospital in massachusetts. deadliest nursing home outbreak in the u.s. staffing shortages and lack of supplies. >> it went very fast, very fast. i do believe it's from the transferring of the vets from unit to unit as well as the floating of staff from unit to unit and in the beginning we were not given the proper ppe's. jillian: federal officials now investigating. >> i want to add my voice to the many who have endorsed you to be our president. just think of what a difference it would make right now if we had a president who not only listened to the science, put facts over fiction but brought

us together. jillian: former biden staffer says tara reade has, quote, enabling powerful men for inappropriate sexual assault -- conduct. biden has not commented on reade's allegations. amash running exploratory committee. and then there's this, a boy in blue sings the blues, disinfectant blues that is, take a listen. >> wash your hands, mask your face, stay away, 6 feet of space. ♪ [laughter] jillian: the police officer breaking out his guitar to spread the word of sanitizing

and social distance. he wrote it to lift people's spirits. here is a look at headlines bark -- back to you. brian: thanks, jillian. more than $50 million approved as the new report finds 200% surge in business closures. will the federal loans turn this around, we will ask marco rubio, the architect of it ming challen. usaa has been standing with them for nearly a hundred years. all. my patients

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never achieved before. brian: well, president trump giving update on round 2 of the paycheck protection program, no one has ever done anything like this, more than 475,000 loans that could be grants or approved worth more than $50 billion. this as a new report shows a 200% surge in business closures in two-week span across the u.s. is it working or not? will the federal loans turn this around? here to react republican senator marco rubio and one of the architects of this program who is working day and night to get it over. senator, the last thing i want to be is be a critic, i want to be supportive but i want to point out the challenges, with the second-round challenges is you -- it's kind of slower than it was. why sit slower? >> yeah, if you recall in the first round the complaint -- a couple of the criticisms that we saw on the press and others is why did states get more than other per capita and some people saying that big banks took a lot of the loans up and the second round the sba said here is what

we are going to do, pace it, only process x number of applications per hour, per lender, no lender can have no more than per hour. that slows it down. it's almost a game damn if you do and damn if you don't. anything this size that happened this fast is going top problems but it remain it is single most successful part of the entire care's act. when it's all said and done after the second round, i think it would have saved or preserved upward to 60, 65 million jobs. that's a lot of it. that's close to 35, 40% of all of the employment in america. that's a huge achievement. brian: senator, when we watch yale, harvard, cornell, notre dame apply for this and most of which are giving it back, not notre dame and cornell for some reason and shake shack and others, the lakers applied for ppp programming, $5 million, i

mean, lebron that makes that if an afternoon. did you not write something in that would further define why they wouldn't be eligible for this? >> well, it's interesting with the lakers. i have to see if they are eligible under existing sba law because right now a lot of companies that you're reading about the press publicly traded and otherwise are defined as small business under existing sba regulation depending on what industry they consumer in the case of the lakers and others i would say that the thing that's in there is the certification part and the one that the treasury has been hammer on. when you get this, you certify that you not only have been hurt by the virus but that you need this loan to continue operations and if you're sitting on a mountain of cash or you have other options for funding yourself, you can't make that certification that you need it because you have other options. that's the way treasury is interpreting it and that's why you're seeing banks -- sorry a lot of recipients come forward saying they will give it back. one last point about this, remember, this is about helping employees, it's capped at

100,000, no salary passed 100,000 is covered. don't worry about lebron getting paid through ppp or anything like that, but this is about saving jobs and ultimately we have to remember that we made some recipients might be flashy and maybe they shouldn't have gotten this, but the people who ultimate benefit is people making 15, $25 an hour. maybe not in the case of the lakers but the other companies that we read about. brian: we know people in the lakers make minimum wage, not everybody is rich, maybe an organization that can afford two months of a shutdown like the mavericks can as mark cuban talked about. in terms of small businesses and come of their complaints is they're saying that there was a point where independent contractors worked toward payroll and worried about the 75/25 breakup and they are worried about lobe being -- loan being more debt than grant?

what do you say to companies that might worried about debt and not prerequisite of lending? >> that's a rule, that's not in the law. that's a definition they came up with and maybe that's too high, whatever it may be. i don't think for these businesses they will have a problem for the most part because if you spend it on payroll or you spend it on utilities, rent, all such of overhead those are allowable, and by the way, there's a provision. the law says if you can't hire everybody back during the time that we've given you because they don't want to come back to work because for a lot of reasons, you're seasonal, there's a provision in the law that says that down the road you can come back in six months or whenever you have to get forgiveness. i didn't hire everybody back in 8 weeks but i hired everybody in 3 months and here is why it took me that long. we are asking them to clarify so more business have confidence that this isn't going to turn

loan for them. a lot of people are having hard time hiring because people are making more many in unemployment. brian: if you're an owner, document that you tried to get billy johnson back and he didn't do it and when you go back to local bank, guys, i need convert today a grant, you showed that you tried, correct, that would help? >> it would help a lot because you can't expect businesses that aren't operating to go out hire perfect strangers to not work. brian: got it. thank you for your hard work. appreciate it. when you do something a lot of complaints but also people appreciate what you're trying to do. tubing you soon. >> thank you. brian: it's also -- you're welcome. also the name of four pillar recovery plan and governor mike is here to tell us what it would take to get this to work.

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missouri governor mike parson. governor, good morning to you. >> good morning to you. steve: well, i was looking and i see that missouri recorded lowers tally of now covid cases yesterday so the show-me state is going in the right direction. mike: it is and one of the things that helped us is when we came out with, quote, the modeling being presented across the united states and frankly our state. we noticed that was inaccurate information that was given us and what really helped us to get to the point is we actually built our own model here in our state like other state governors did to really see what the real facts were in the state, what was the real use of the hospital, the icu beds, ventilators, the ppe gear and we really built a model on that so we could make decision and determine within our own state and missouri is so diverse because you is st. louis, kansas

city and rural areas. we were able to do that early on when we realized it wasn't going to be able to do that from another part of the country and it was a big plus to move forward to get to this day. steve: sure. i'm from neighboring kansas, i'm very familiar with missouri and i know for the most part the infection rate has been very low although you do have a couple of hot spots, one is in the st. louis metro area and the other has been in areas around meat packing plants. yesterday the president came out and, you know, he invoked the defense production act and said we are going to keep those meat plants open. how bed a problem has it been in missouri keeping the protein supply chain going? mike: well, first of all, i appreciate what the president did yesterday by keeping plants open, you to keep food chain open across the united states especially here in our state because that's an important part of it but you know the thing that we learned, we went through this process and i think you to

remind people, we have been only been doing 60 days in the state. seems months upon months. the reality is we can target or we can look at a hot spot or look at some place where they spike like meat processing plant and we did 3,000 tests over the weekend working with officials in the plant that we had issue with just to be able to go and testing and you have confidence today that you didn't have 60 days ago about what the outbreaks looked like and you can go in there right away and take care of the hot spots or targeted areas. it's changed a lot in 60 day's time and now much more comfortable in doing that. steve: good to hear that you do have a handle on testing and the infection rate is lowers in 3 weeks and you're starting to reopen. governor, thank you for joining us live today. mike: glad to be here today, thank you. steve: all right, good luck to you. all right 8:33 here in the east. china is accusing the united states of lying as communist party faces scrutiny over the

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>> there are a lot of ways you can hold them accountable. we are doing very serious investigations as you probably know, and we are not happy with china. we are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source, it could have been stopped quickly and i wouldn't have spread all over the world. we think that should have happened. ainsley: you know, they're telling us to mind our own business, that's what china is telling us. let's bring in mike pompeo, secretary of state, good morning to you. mike: ainsley, great to be with you this morning. ainsley: can you believe that? they are telling us to mind our own business, that we are lying through our teeth meanwhile we have 60,000 people dead and so many people out of work and they are telling us to mind our own business, how are we going to

fire back and what are we going to do to hold them accountable? mike: it is our business and they are trying to figure their way out of this. what the chinese communist party did here in not preventing the spread around the world. they are responsible. australia demanding investigation because while we know it started in wuhan, china, we don't know from where it started and in spite of our best efforts to get experts on the ground they continue to hide, that's wrong and continues to pose a threat to the world and we all need to get to the bottom of what happened here not only for current instant but to make sure something like this doesn't happen again. there are still many labs operating inside of china today and the world needs to know that we won't see a repeat of this in days, weeks and months ahead. brian: if it did come from wet markets, they are back, i've

seen the video. you'll know more than i will ever know. they are back and haven't learned their lesson, either that or it came from the laboratory. here is what china said, we advise american politicians to reflect on their own problems and control best to control epidemic as soon as possible instead of continue to go play tricks to deflect blame. can you read between the lines for us? mike: yeah, they know that the happened in their country. this is classic communist disinformation. this is what communists do. the chinese people were harmed by this too. the chinese communist party, we know, there were journalists kicked out and doctors who tried to tell this story and instead they were pushed aside, covered up, taken out of the news. those are the kind of things that communist institutions do. we all know them from the soviet days. we know things that communist parties do to try to manage information aside from their own country and around the world.

we see the efforts. i saw foreign ministry official on this morning tv trying to change the narrative. we know that the virus started in wuhan, china. the chinese communist party has the responsibility to tell the world how the pandemic got out of china and costing such global economic devastation. steve: yeah, if we would have known earlier things could be a lot different. there's a story in the new york post that apparently dr. fauci's national institute of allergy infection diseases shelled out $7.4 million to the wuhan institute lab which has become the center of theories of the origin of covid and also, mr. secretary, i understand that apparently democratic senators have written a letter to you, they want to see some cables or all cables that the state department might have regarding this as well. what can you tell us what's going on behind the scenes at the federal level? mike: so i can't -- i don't know

the details of the nah grants. i do know a bit about the cables. we will do the best to respond to those two senators. look the united states for a long time and continuing today tries to help countries around the world who are conducting research on highly contagious pathogens. we do this not only in china but try to bring expertise of national institutes of health, from our cdc to precisely prevent something like this. that's the reason that we spend american taxpayer dollars is to protect the american people from labs that aren't up to standard. i can tell you there were real concerns about the labs inside of china and i have to stay i'm still concerned that the chinese communist party is not telling us all what is taking place in all of the labs across china today. ainsley: pretty scary. what's happening in north korea. what's the latest, any sightings of kim jong un? mike: ainsley, not much to add from what the president said

yesterday. we are watching loosely and keeping a track not only around chairman kim himself but broadly inside of knot korea, they -- north korea and there's a risk that they'll be a famine, food shortage as they have real impact on mission set which ultimate to denuclearize north korea. >> brian: and your administration knows what they are like because you've had all of the meetings since then. let's move over to iran. iran is flat on its back, economically with the coronavirus, humiliation of having solumani killed and shooting down a passenger jet but yet they are still up to unsavorily acts. they shot satellite into sky, so terrible, it's basically a traveling web cam up there so the embarrassment of that. would you say there's still up to no good in what way?

>> mike: you know, they are trying to puttys information out there and they are telling the world that they are broke and need relief from american sanctions and need humanitarian assistance. we have offered humanitarian assistance and the aiotolla are still spending money on things that don't benefit the iranian people, resolution 2231 and continue to fight lebanese, hezbollah, iraqi shiite, all of the things that take money out of the mouths, no one should be fooled of the regime. they truly cared about the people they would behave fundamentally different. that's what we have been trying to get them to do for 3 years in office and i am convinced to deny them resources, regime resources to threaten america. that's been president trump's goal to deny them a nuclear weapon. we are determined to do that. steve: all right, mr. secretary, the united states is mobilized in producing marketing and

ventilators as well as figuring out the testing situation. the president has made it very clear that he's talked to other countries about how we did it, but at the same time other countries reached out to the united states and said, hey, if you've got spare ventilators we can use them over here. obviously some countries are downplaying the impact of covid in their nations but who is reach reaching out for help to the united states? mike: steve, a lot of countries are asking us for assistance and a lot of countries have received assistance. we made the right thing and made sure we had resources for people as american greatness and prosperity continues to grow, we are building out and getting not only ventilators but all of the equipment that the world will be. the united states will be enormous force for good, countries in south america and africa, all across the world helping them solve the problem for themselves which in turn if we get it right we can reduce covid in their country and reduce that it comes back in the

fall or next year. ainsley: which countries that experienced both our country did, which ones are are you watching to see how they reopen businesses and they get back to work? mike: we are watching a number of countries, singapore, they had a resurgence of cases in their country as well, south korea too had some success at the front end and now they are trying to maintain that. we are watching each of them to see how they are doing inside their country but countries that buy products products from amern companies. we want to make sure that they get markets back open and american jobs return here in america as well. brian: for the longest time the defense department should we be tight with china, not be tight with china, they make things so cheap and things also that are cheap and break and ineffective but for the first time in all of our lifetime the world has been poisoned by this country and there's only one where to point and it's to china.

as secretary of state, do you have a unique opportunity to unit the world and open up their eyes to the type of regime this is and is there a plan in place where 9 months or 4 and a half years you have in place to neutralize the super power? >> president trump said it clearly himself the threat, the risk, the danger and now the harm that the chinese communist party imposed not only on the united states but all around the world. we not only have an opportunity but obligation to get this right, to unit the freedom-loving nations like many countries around the world to make sure it's not a communist regime that controls our infrastructure. we talked with you all, hauwei, telecommunications infrastructure. we know what this needs to look like and the united states has an obligation to get this right. we will do this to make sure we keep the american people safe and get our economy back on its feet and continue to make the america wonderful, prosperous nation in the history of

civilization. steve: you know, mr. secretary, i think before this covid crisis struck, i think the conventional wisdom was that the president was going to be able to broker a trade deal with china, maybe just 5 minutes before the election or whatever. it would just be one of those things that he would be able to say, look, i was able to do it with china. right now the politics are very complicated and given the fact that china has done what they have done, not being forth coming with the epidemic, you know, it probably doesn't look too good for a deal, does it? mike: so, steve, this is the conundrum, we have the phase 1 trade deal. china continues to make promises, i hope that they do, we have expectation that they will. certainly what they agreed to but we watched china now break repeated promises. they say they are transparent and they they want to be open and join the community of faces and that we watched them in this crisis behave in ways that are just the opposite of that.

i hope we can find a way and to have commercial relationships with them where it makes sense for american businesses, but president trump from the beginning has said we feed fair and reciprocal trade with china and that's what he will continue to demand. ainsley: mr. secretary thank you for joining us this morning. mike: ainsley, thank you, ma'am. ainsley: you're welcome, stunning salute for frontline workers. the u.s. navy blue angels and air force thunderbirds zooming over new york, new jersey and pennsylvania, the commander of the commission will join us live next. e of mind in times like these.

sandra: all right, good wednesday morning, we are waiting live event, the president and the louisiana governor john bell edwards will be meeting in the oval office. we will have that for you. meanwhile more states are reopening today. tennessee and wisconsin, we are watching it. they are starting to roll back some of the stay at home orders as number of confirmed cases in the u.s. tops 1 million, plus reversing course. the house will not return to dc next week because of the continued threat of the coronavirus. what's the likelihood of another round of stimulus for our nation's ailing businesses, congressman jim jordan on that top of the hour and rona mcdaniel from rnc will be joining as joe biden picks up an

endorsement from hillary clinton. we will see you top of the hour. ainsley: a tribute to frontline workers, watch this. [cheers and applause] ainsley: the air force, thunderbirds and the navy's blue angels launching america strong flying over new york, new jersey and pennsylvania yesterday. u.s. thunderbird pilot and mission commander for this flightover lieutenant colonel john caldwell joins us now. good morning to you, colonel. you're welcome, thanks for what you did yesterday. it was beautiful. so many people walked outside to see it. why did you want to do it?

>> whenever we developed concept to honor essential workers and healthcare professionals and people responded well to it. we came up with the idea that we should join forces together here in pensacola and hit some of the towns that have been impact bid covid-19 the most, so we decided to pack up and come to pensacola to train together and new york city, the largest city that we could think of that was battling covid-19 in an extraordinary way and we got together with the faa controllers, with all the air space controllers, local and state leaders and put together a plan and executed yesterday. ainsley: it's just awesome. how did you coordinate? was it difficult to do that? i know that you had never done this before? >> that's right. no blueprints. we had to develop on the fly. we spent a lot of time down here in pensacola training out of the gulf of mexico trying to perfect our tactics. flying 12 aircraft in employees

proximity is difficult thing to do. ainsley: i'd imagine. and what cities are you heading next? are you going to fly over next? >> next is going to be our nation's capital, dc, followed by baltimore in the same day and down to atlanta. this saturday, times are being sorted out but we should be getting information out to the publics quickly. ainsley: beautiful display of resilience and what america looks like, thank you so much for your service, god bless you. >> thank you so much. thank you. ainsley: you're welcome, you're welcome, more "fox & friends" straight ahead. if your gums bleed when you brush you may have gingivitis. and the clock could be ticking towards bad breath, receding gums and possibly tooth loss. help turn back the clock on gingivitis with parodontax. leave bleeding gums behind. parodontax.

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>> thanks to much for watching our star-studded show, if you can stick around, mitch mcconnell does an important job and we have this guy named randy levine who runs the yankees. we will find out if we are going to get baseball back. >> sandra: the number of covid-19 cases surpasses the 1 million mark. in the united states, as more states are now moving forward with plans to reopen businesses. good morning everyone, and sandra smith. >> ed: a very pleasant good morning to you, i met henry. the new milestone comes at states across the country try to decide how and when to safely reopen businesses to avert an economic disaster. today tennessee and wisconsin will use some restrictions on nonessential businesses. florida, alabama and texas will all plan to an and a stay at hoe orders this week. meanwhile dr. anthony