on streaming and download with proceeds going to the covid-19 response fund. rob: good stuff. friday already. the weeks keep going by "fox & friends" starts right now. steve: thank you rob and jillian friday may 1st, 2020. we start with this fox news alert. don't do so yet disgraced fbi agent peter strzok stopping the bureau from ending the michael flynn probe. brian: that move coming despite a lack of quote derogatory evidence in the case. ainsley: griff jenkins is live in washington to break it all down for us. this latest weave an waive mored documents released, griff. griff: good morning. these documents are painting a fuller picture of what transpired in the fbi's case against flynn dub you had

crossfire raiser with the revelation 20 days before they would be interviewed and may have been trying to get him to lie the investigation lacked derogatory information meaning they found zero evidence that flynn was colluding with russia january 4th memo released the fbi decided to close the case writing. this. the ch team determined that crossfire razor was no longer a viable candidate as part of the crossfire hurricane umbrella case. but these documents show now disgraced. going texting unidentified case manager this: hey, if you haven't closed razor don't do so yet. the response okay. three weeks later flynn would be interviewed by strzok at the white house at the direction of james comey and now flynn's attorney is demanding a dismissal. >> the case must be dismissed preferably for government misconduct but in any event the guilty plea or guilty verdict thrown out because general flynn

is absolutely innocent. so the case has been a travesty of justice from the get-go with the documents that have just come out explain and make clear. they were planning to set him up in some fashion. first the russia hoax and there was absolutely no evidence of that. griff: all but certain the flynn would get a pardon from the president if necessary. the president isn't ruling out bringing him back to the white house. listen. >> well, i think he is a fine man. i think it's terrible that they did to him. something nobody has asked me. you are asking me for the first time i would are certainly consider it, yeah. i would. griff griff emit sullivan is weighing the request graham and grassley are growing louder for deeper investigation into the roles that comey and mueller may have played in all of this. remember, the senate comes back next week. brian, ainsley, steve?

steve: all right, griff. thank you very much. senator grassley yesterday tweeted out. he wants to know if mueller had access to these documents, the get him to lie documents. and if they did, why did they sit on them? what else did mueller and the team hide? that's exactly what apparently the people in the senate wants to know on the republican side. meanwhile. somebody who was also in the administration for a while k.t. mcfarland looks at the document release so far from the department of justice and said it's very clear to her and others who saw it with their own two eyes that something was up. and listen to this. it's jaw-dropping. >> they were desperate to stop flynn. because flynn had a plan to reorganize the intelligence community, all 16 agencies, reform it, streamline it, reduce it. they had to take a preemptive strike against flynn before he could go and start carving up their old athlete domes.

that'thief domes.flynn and i wel damage we didn't matter. the goal was to get donald trump and stop his administration dead nits tracks. steve: so they were collateral damage k.t. says. brian, when you look at -- i just look at it and you see so the fbi closed the investigation on january 4th, 2017. but then peter strzok who had asked did the cia find any dirt on him because the fbi can't. cianer got back to him he sent that note, keep it open and they did and look what happened. brian: so more revelations come up. this thing should have been closed. we also know that grassley was told by comey flat out we don't think there is any we're going to look to prosecute him there we also know the agents that interviewed him didn't think he lied. it didn't stop henchman robert mueller saying i was at the

department of justice for 20 years parochial point of view i think what the department is doing, i think the department is trying to soften the blow to make it politically easier for the president to pardon general flynn. i don't know if it's going to get to general flynn. i think they are providing a lot of information, ainsley that makes it seem as though this judge has a legitimate -- has a legitimate option now to -- instead of berating him as a traitor, apologizing and saying you can go. and then maybe he can mount his civilian -- in civilian court offensive to get some of the $6 million back. ainsley: you are right about the $6 million. that's how much he allegedly had to pay in attorney fees. he lost his house. they were trying to -- they were saying if you don't tell us the truth we are going to go after your son you are in business with it doesn't add up and everyone said that from the beginning. think about this you have the fbi agent who stormed the white house. comey admitting that normally wouldn't happen under another administration. taking advantage of president trump because he was new to the

office and trying to figure things out. logan act has never been used to criminally prosecute anyone but it is here. the 3 star general was already fired by barack obama. they had their outs because they didn't agree the war strategy. and then now the latest information is keep the case open because i say so? they didn't have enough information, enough derogatory information to keep this case open and then one of the higher ups says let's keep it open and they say okay. and think about this. i heard an interview with an fbi agent earlier on "fox & friends first" who said, you know, i have been with the fbi for a long time. i was a prosecutor or maybe this was on shannon bream show's last night that i watched while i was getting ready my history in the fbi never would comey get involved in an investigation like this. that would be left to agents.

they wouldn't be the ceo, the director of the organization getting involved like this. so there are so many head scratchers here. finally we are getting to the bottom of this. if this is all true, somebody needs to be held accountable, steve. steve: absolutely. let's hope they're, ainsley. that's one of the reasons why as give just told us the president was thinking about you know what? maybe i will bring mr. flynn back to my administration. more on that later on. 6:06 here in the northeast. time for another fox news alert. and did you know that the federal coronavirus expired at midnight. 19 states are now easing restrictions today all across on, this may 1st, all across america. brian: michigan is not one of them and that's why hundreds of protesters flood the capital after the governor extended the state of emergency declaration through late may. they aren't the only one. thousands of protesters expected to hit the streets today in california demanding the state reopen, especially the orange county beaches. ainsley. ainsley: yeah. some counties are even vowing to sue the governor there, governor gavin newsom over those beach closures. he shut them down after massive

crowds hit the beaches last weekend and those photos were released. bring in senator rick scott from the great state of florida good morning to you, senator. >> people wants to give back and get out of their houses and get back to their jobs and open up their businesses. you can see the peng pent up interest. people are tired of being home. ainsley: your work and desantis' work. it's not a one size fits all like in michigan you see these presses in michigan. certain counties, many feel like are able to reopen. but in florida there are a few counties that aren't. so you are taking it a county by county basis, right? >> yeah. i have been talking to the business community. i have been talking to our chamber's economic development. people are excited about getting back to work. i put out a plan. i know the governor is working to open up the state. i put out a plan. it takes all of us. bills are going to have to figure out how you make your employees comfortable to come back and how do you make your

customer comfortable. they are going to be creative and we're going to get this economy going again. steve: right. senator, you know, let's take a look at some of the restrictions and requirements in the great state of florida starting on monday. indoor retail establishments and restaurants can open. but only at 25% occupancy. and this is what ainsley was referring to, except in broward, miami-dade and palm beach counties. they are still being more restricted because if there are hot spots in the state of florida, it's right there. so, senator, regarding the beaches of florida, you know, looking at what gavin newsom has been trying to do out there, after it was a beautiful day and everybody and their brother went out to the beaches last weekend. that could be a problem in florida as well how do you make schuyler what happened in california does not happen in the sunshine state? >> i think they are going to

social distancing. we saw it in deval county. what mayor curry said you can go to the beach. you have got to be moving. you are going to be careful. i think that's what people are going to do all across the state of florida. i have been talking to the county commissioners and the sheriffs. and they know that their citizens want to get back there i think they are going to do it in a safe manner. brian: by the way if you look at some of those photos from california they did a great job on staying apart from each other. move this story forward and that seems to be punitive. does it matter that that's a conservative enclave in california? i'm not sure that didn't play a role. we will see. let's talk about the war you are having now with new york which really represents the high tax states against the minimal tax states maybe red and blue. you wrote a op-ed in the "wall street journal" to andrew cuomo. don't reward states' bad decisions. there is a good reason florida doesn't need a bailout while new york and illinois do. here is what andrew cuomo said to you yesterday.

>> senator scott, florida? you're going to bail us out? you take out $30 billion more every year than you pay in. how dare they -- how dare they when those are the facts? how long are you going to plate american people and assume they're stupid. they're not. brian: governor scott, why don't you hit us with your facts. >> you know, governor cuomo and i got elected at the same time. we started in january of 2011. in the 8 years we were there, he was always mad at me. he always held a grudge i would come to new york and i would recruit businesses and they would constantly move. in that 8 years people kept leaving new york. in the 8 years he couldn't grow jobs. he couldn't balance a budget. he kept borrowing more money and

he kept watching people keep moving. and businesses keep moving. he doesn't understand the difference between state policy and federal policy. here's the deal. what people do in new york they make some money, they pay into social security. they pay into medicare and guess what? they get sick and tired of all those taxes and they move to florida and eventually they receive their social security and medicare payments. their benefits. he says that's somehow is that they are paying -- his citizens paid in for a benefit that they decide to receive in another state. well, i will give you an example about medicaid. he gets paid out of the federal government almost double per medicaid recipient than what florida gets. double. i mean, he can't balance a budget. he is just mad because he keeps losing. ainsley: is that what he means what does he mean by 30 billion out more than what you are paying in? >> ainsley what he is talking

about is when people are living there, they pay in, as you know, for your social security and your medicine care. ainsley: trust me, we know. >> yeah. and then you receive those benefits in florida. so he is saying oh, we paid. ainsley: got it. >> that's not his money. by the way, look at his budget. his budget 2 to 3 million less people than florida is almost double. think about the taxes those poor new yorkers are having to pavement beautiful state. wonderful people. but cuomo has just taxed the living daylights out of them. steve: all right. meanwhile, move on to something else. it looks as if the administration, according to "the washington post," speaking of four different sources in the admin talking about some sort of punitive damages against china. it's uncertain whether or not any money would ever be seen, but, you know, it would be a signal to china that the united states is really angry they were not forthcoming.

here's the president yesterday at the white house. listen to this, senator. >> could have been stopped it. came out of china. and it could have been stopped. and i wish they stopped it. it's not acceptable what happened. it came out of china and it's not acceptable what happened as to how it came out. we should have the answer to that in the not too distant future and that will determine a lot how i feel about china. steve: yesterday, senator, the director of national intelligence came out and said that the virus, according to their information, not man made or genetically modified. but they are looking into whether or not it could have been an accident or if it was spread from animal to animal to human. >> here's the way i look at it. whether it came out of that lab or a wet market, china didn't do their job. they were not transparent. we have lost all over the world we have lost people because of china's lack of transparency and think about what they have done to these economies all over the

world. so, what i hope is that all of us hold them accountable. the best way to do it, we can pass legislation. i have got legislation to do it. but the first thing is don't buy one more product from communist china. first off, help americans by buying american products but don't -- every time you think about buying something from china say boy, they took our jobs, steal our technology and look at what they did with the coronavirus. brian: right. senator, i almost said governor. senator, there's a problem not being transparent, they are on the offensive. in the south china sea they are flexing their muscle. blew a vietnam fishing boat out of water. they are use it's this to take advantage of us and the rest of the world. in the european union they are intimidating the european union to deflect blame from them to a generic let's just try to fight the virus together. using what they done to 184

nations to their advantage. if we don't move quick, they will actually gain ground through this horrible virus that they projected on the world. what is the plan in congress and the senate to make sure that doesn't happen? >> well, first off, what you just said, they are clearly -- they are not a competitor. they are adversary. we have got to treat them that way. you know, we cannot let huawei come into this country. we have got to stop buying their products. we have got to understand they are building a military to defeat us. we have to build our own ppe and get away from doing business with china. everybody in this country has to -- if we all understand that they're an adversary, we will have an impact on their economy so they cannot spend money like this. ainsley: yeah. when you said you went to new york to bring businesses down to florida, can you go to china and bring all those american businesses back home, please? thank you, senator, for being with us. yeah, go ahead.

>> if we buy all of our products from the united states, those jobs are coming back. ainsley: great. brian: i think the walmart shelves would be empty without chinese products, unfortunately. ainsley: hopefully that will change soon. >> you know, all of our where they are from, too. ainsley: i'm sorry? >> amazon, all their resalers they ought to be telling us where every product is made. ainsley: wouldn't that be great. put that at the top of the screen so we can make a decision which products we are going to buy. >> i have a bill for that. thanks. ainsley: all right. thank you. still ahead, the media spent months blasting michael flynn. so will they change their tune in slight light of the shocking revelations? our next guest says don't count on it.

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now putting pressure on many in the media who spend months blasting trump's former national security advisor to come clean. here to discuss it is senior writer at the heritage foundation kelsey bolar. kelsey, what's your take on what we now know about michael flynn now that these notes have been out over the last two days? media is doing the same thing with the michael flynn allegation joe biden. avoid covering it. when they do cover it, make it as boring as possible and bury it so it's very difficult to find and understand what happened. take the "new york times" for example yesterday had to scroll to its in other news section to find the story. the way they frame it trump allies cheering that these new documents were revealed. they didn't actually tell

readers what was inside those new documents about the fbi setting up a 3-star general in a perjury tap. the way they framed the story was that trump allies were cheering for this. many in the broadcast media mocked those who raised the question about the possibility that michael flynn did, in fact, get set up by the fbi. and now today, yesterday, did you see anybody playing back those clips apologizing, admitting that they got things completely wrong and actively work to defame someone who has devoted his life and career to public service? of course not. brian: right. here is. so headlines "new york times" flynn lawyers seize documents. politico documents show debated on how to handle investigation of michael flynn. daily beast the fbi didn't frame michael flynn. that's just trump excuse for a

perspective pardon which is essentially what we saw from andrew weissman. we saw pushback from randy ellieson talked about how he is a three star general. how can you intimidate someone to not telling the truth. he never should have taken the meeting. i don't want to break down the whole situation, but if you are the national security advisor and are not talking to representatives from key governments around the world, you are not doing the job. and, remember, this is how they covered michael flynn when he was rounded up and marched out. watch. >> the white house got was a blistering rebuke of their made up claims that flynn was somehow entrapped by the fbi. >> it was in the intelligence community the thought was michael flynn may have been a turned agent to russian intelligence. >> flynn was a double agent. >> michael flynn was betraying his country. >> really? so, do you think that they are going to use this opportunity to say i overstepped?

>> of course not. we have seen this happen time and time again in the way that the broadcast media covers the trump administration. and what's really sad about this situation is a man's life has been destroyed. michael flynn had to sell his house to afford attorney fees to pay to defend himself. and, you know, if we just -- if the media did cover it fairly, i think most americans would be able to take a step back and look at this situation with the fbi using very immoral tactics to go after a 3-star general and, again, someone who has devoted his life to public service. i think most americans would agree that is highly questionable. a tactic bo we do not want to see our government using. this is a difficult time for our country. this is a time we need to be able to trust our government officials. stories like this, unfortunately, degrade that trust and give americans a reason to be very skeptical

about our government. brian: kel circumstance important to point out people say to me got fired by trump for not telling the truth to the vice president. the vice president weighed in and said is he more inclined now to believe the former national security advisor unintentionally mislead him in 2017 because did he not remember everything that was in every conversation that he had on that beach that day and the other thing important to point out is other agents didn't think he was lying either when they talked to him. if he had a lawyer this whole thing wouldn't have happened. kelsey, thanks so much. >> thank you. brian: meanwhile, as states begin to reopen and americans look to return to some sort of normalcy, what will the future of air travel look like? we will talk to the president of the flight attendant's union next. to everyone navigating these uncertain times...

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welcome back. we have headlines for you. joe biden has yet to break his silence on sexual misconduct allegations. former staffer tara reade claims he assaulted her in a senate office in 1993. house speaker nancy pelosi snapping at a reporter who compares the democrats' response to these claims on how -- to how they treated supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. listen to this. >> i respect your question and i don't need a lecture or a speech. there's also due process. and the fact that joe biden is joe biden, i have great comfort level with the situation as i see it. jillian: pelosi says she supports the me too movement but stands by biden. workers at some of the country's largest retailers will walk off the job today. employees at amazon, target, walmart, whole foods, fedex and instacart all planning mayday protests. they are demanding higher pay and better safety during the pandemic.

mayday is usually marked with worldwide demonstrations. stay at home and lock down orders are likely to keep many protesters off the streets. the nypd saluting medical workers on the usnf comfort. the navy hospital ship completing its mission against the covid-19 outbreak in new york city. [horn] jillian: the fdny fire boat escorting out of the harbor. the ship arriving one month ago to help overwhelmed hospitals. steve? steve: all right. jillian, thank you very much. as states start to reopen on, this the first day of may, and americans look to get back to everyday life, what will that mean for air travel? let's talk to the international president of the association of flight attendants, sarah nelson. sarah, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, steve. steve: it's good to have you. you tweeted out an image of a packed plane where there were

not many masks. and that really worries the professionals who spend their lives in airplanes with a bunch of people. and it's particularly important now because i don't know if anybody has looked but the price of a seat on an airplane is really cheap these days. and so many people are trying to get a flight and you are worried about safety, right? >> absolutely we are worried about safety. and we are also worried about public confidence in aviation. so as we have pulled down flights with demand going rock bottom, we have fewer planes in the air. and a few more people who are wanting to travel here. and that has created these full flights. what we have heard from health officials that if everyone is wearing a mask it helps to stop the spread. the people i represent, flight attendants have to go to work. we are essential workers. we don't have access to the n 95 masks that would help keep us safe, but if everyone wears masks it will help keep all of

us safe and increase confidence in aviation so people will buy tickets when we get to the other side of this. steve: sure, i understand at this point because the government has not mandated it, it's just the various airlines have said okay we are going to require people who wear them. i understand that jetblue is going to require it may 4th the same as delta and united. frontier starting on may 8th. and american airlines starting on may 11th. what's curious though and you look at the cdc statement that they have had regarding social distancing, and they say that the cdc recommends that everyone wear a cloth face covering over their nose and mouth when in a community setting. and it goes on. you know, i would say that being on an airplane, being about two feet from somebody else is a community setting and they have you had have probably mandated this at the get-go. >> we wrote a letter a week ago to hhs and dot ask for the government to mandate. this you are right that would have been in line with cdc

regulations. so -- or guidance. what the airlines have done is followed that guidance now and they're making this policy. but i think we can have some more clarity still from our government so that when people hit the door of that airport, we are really from start to finish having everyone with masks to help all of us be safe. we are all in this together. and it's going to take all of us to get through it. and if we are all doing this, we can increase confidence in starting to recharge normal economy. this is important for safety and it's also important for our continued business. steve: sure. and just out of curiosity because a lot of us have not been on an airplane in a month or two. do they still do the beverage cart? is there beverage service? i know it varies probably from airline to airline and food service and things like that. do they still sell the middle seat? have the airlines responded with their own social distancing such as it is at 30,000 feet?

>> so this has all happened so fast, obviously. and you are right there. are different policies everywhere. for the most part they have suspended aisle service to cut down on the contact between people. and some of the airlines have started to put in place social distancing policies so that we have extra space on the plane. i actually expect all of them to be doing this so that for a period of time until we have a vaccine that's readily available. we have the ability to separate people and use social distancing and the masks and deep cleaning and all these other things to help regain confidence in the public and make sure we all stay safe in aviation. steve: that's right. because social distancing, the science shows, is the best way to keep it from spreading. sarah nelson, the international president for the association of flight attendants. sarah, thank you very much. have a great weekend. stay safe. >> thank you. you too. steve: 24 minutes now before the the top of the hour. as we have been talking this morning, newly released documents show there was no solid evidence of a crime.

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for what? to find out there was no collusion. part of their prosecution conduct was going after general flynn. with what evidence? no real evidence. but getting him to make a misstatement. that was their idea. james comey says because i think i could get away with it. there is something else at play here. that is the initials on the actual notes and documents that have been released that sydney was able to get. osc. office of special counsel. bob mueller. where was he when this was going

on absent without leave. awol. brian: of course that was jay sekulow the president's attorney. bring in brett tollman as we talk about the michael flynn case what we now know now if anything changes. brett, let me since we spoke it's now become apparent that peter strzok kept this investigation alive when they were about to close it. he said keep it open. now we have a big push back and for example "the washington post" who said that michael flynn was not set up. he said there was legitimate reasons to ask him. there was a real investigation on russia's effect on the election and michael flynn had contact with the russian ambassador. why wouldn't you want to interview him? what do you say about both of those things? >> first of all, is he entitled to talk to an ambassador. there is not an underlying crime there. there is not evidence that they have that they are following up on, for example, that they are really concerned about the

behavior of international security advisor. instead, what they have is their own doubt that there is anything that's gone on that's wrong. their own effort to try to create something when they don't have it. then you see someone like peter strzok saying keep the investigation open. for a former federal prosecutor like myself or anybody else, it should be offensive, because you have to be just as good as getting rid of the case as you are at driving forward and presenting a case for indictment. ainsley: you know, when i first heard about this and we talked about it as a team, he lied to the fbi. okay, there are consequences to that now, when you see this memo that came out on wednesday or thursday -- wednesday night, and it talks about how let's get him to lie. then yesterday, the information comes out this is the information that peter strzok, he wrote someone on his team, he said the ch team conducted a check -- actually, this was from the fbi team. they did a check, a logistical

data bases on any for crossfire razor flynn stuff. no derogatory information was identified in fbi holdings. then peter strzok sent to unknown person on january 4th, 2017, hey, don't close razor. what do you make of that? what do you think -- why we want to keep this open if the fbi had already concluded there was not enough derogatory information to keep it open? >> look. they had an agenda against this president. don't forget that. they had to have high level prosecution. there are over 300,000 federal statutes that have criminal penalties. i used to tell people give me anybody. let the fbi spend some time with them. you could find a criminal charge to bring against them. here, this is an area where it's completely subjective. the agents themselves get to make the determination whether or not they think there is honesty or not. they indicated, the notes suggest they didn't think he was

being dishonest but peter strzok, who is at the heart of this storm that was unleashed on a sitting president in his administration, he is at the heart of it and he keeps it alive. they had to have it. in order to justify what they were doing with the mueller investigation. steve: you know, bret, what's curious and chuck grassley tweeted this out yesterday. he said wanted to know if mueller had access to these documents. and the answer would be yes. obviously he did because they were stamped with sco special counsel counsel office. why did the mueller team sit on this? what else is the mueller team hiding? when we saw what we thought was the exhaustive final report of the mueller team, you would think something like that would be in it. does it look to you like they just conveniently left that out or is there something else goings on? >> it is convenient they left that out.

they left a lot out if you recall the office of inspector general's reports that came out, they identified facts that it's mind boggling that mueller didn't include in his report. did they know about it? they absolutely knew about it. can you see from the defensiveness of weissman and others in the investigative and prosecution team, they are worried about it. they are worried because of the scrutiny of their case is suggesting that the evidence doesn't add up or justify the results they got. brian: yeah, he says this whole thing is laughable, andrew weissman he did all the work while robert mueller seems to have been the figure head. we will see if the judge feels it was laughable. he was belligerent to michael flynn. more than likely get to trump whether or not he will pardon him. brett tolman, thank you so much. ainsley: thank you, brett. >> thank you. brian: over to jillian what's on

your mind now. jillian: the nypd clashing with the orthodox jewish community while breaking up another large funeral. social media video showing officers chasing a van in brooklyn. another showing taped off streets where police tried to get the crowd to leave. several were cited. this comes just two days after this massive funeral crowd in brooklyn. mayor bill de blasio was criticized for selling out the jewish community for not following social distancing guidelines. the mayor hasn't commented on yesterday's incident. we will keep you updated. today a california county is reopening schools and businesses defying the governor's stay-at-home order. sparsely populated modoc county in the northeast corner has no confirmed cases. the county supervisor says mental and economic health is just as important as physical no. word if the governor plans to take legal action to stop them. the seattle seahawks thought they were going to meet their new teammates but they got someone else instead.

watch. >> i want to welcome in greg olson. come in and tell us what you are all about. [laughter] >> yeah. >> coach, thanks so much. so excited to be here. i'm going to be adding a lot to the playbook. this one i just drew up it's called 90 go flywheel. kanye starburst. jillian: will ferrell pretending to be olson. the real greg olson signed with the team in february. a look at your headlines. send it back to you. [laughter] ainsley: i think i have watched every single one of his movies during quarantine. i was so bored i went on youtube and watched his outtakes. jillian: that's another level, ainsley. ainsley: it's a new low. okay. let's hand it over to janice. janice is in the weather center down in her basement. hey, j.d.

janice: the weather bunker. i do have the weather bunker which is great. no real severe storms that are going to disrupt people this weekend. great news. it is the first of may. just a reminder on your calendar that we're now officially into may. temperatures a little cooler than average across the northeast. we have the system that brought a ton of rain yesterday to parts of the big cities across the neath and a lot of wind. that system is exiting thank goodness. we will still see some lingering showers for the next several hours. but saturday into sunday, things will improve across the northeast and will improve for much of the country. the only other big weather story we are watching is the heat across the southwest. temperatures are still going to be above average for parts of the dessert southwest. although the pete warnings have since expired. so that's the good news, a much improved weekend with no big systems to report no. tornadoes. fingers crossed. back to you steve, ainsley and

brian. happy friday. steve: all right. indeed. that's good may 1st "foxcast," j.d. still ahead on this program. the race is on to find a coronavirus vaccine as the administration rolls out a plan called operation warp speed. dr. marc siegel on that coming up next. s. but now, they are forever our heroes, too. and while they're working to keep us safe, prudential is proud to provide over one million health care workers with benefits that help bring peace of mind in times like these. with benefits that help bring peace of mind if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, now might not be the best time to ask yourself, 'are my bones strong?' life is full of make or break moments. that's why it's so important to help reduce

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♪ ainsley: researchers racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine in what's being dubbed operation warped speed. how soon can we expect one let's ask fox news medical contributor dr. marc siegel. this is great news. >> good morning, ainsley. ainsley: tell us about this vaccine. how quickly do you think we can get it? >> well, this is very exciting news. the goal now is to get a vaccine by the end of the fall or early january. let me tell you what they're doing differently with operation warp speed. first, and this has never been done in human history. first they developed a portfolio of different candidates that they think are exciting. second, the government is stepping in. and i talk to hhs secretary azar about this yesterday. hhs together with the department of defense have a joint effort here. ainsley, they are going to absorb the risk as they go forward. so instead of each step of the clinical trials gating it

slowly, looking at the risk. they've keep ramping up. and at the time that they have the vaccines ready and this is the key part. they are already going to have the manufacturing in place so that they will be able to put out 10 to 100 million doses as soon as they prove that it's works and it's safe. ainsley: that's smart. if this candidate doesn't worth. worth the effort. they will end one a vaccine much faster this way than has ever been done. ainsley: that's great. have you been on talking about remedieremdesivir and clourng. hirk. >> remdesivir antiviral drug works to decrease viral spread. it's been studied out of nebraska and about 70 centers around the world. most of them in the united states. a thousand patients studied. in severe cases it decreases the

amount of time you are sick by about 3 to 4 days. it may even be more effective in mild to moderate cases. they are are going to be able to spit out about 140,000 courses of this by the end of may and by the end of the year, over a million treatment courses. this is definitely a game changer in terms of decreasing severity. we're very excited about the clinical trials here. and they seem to have been very, very effective, so this is now an arrow in my quiver to treat covid-19. ainsley: okay. good deal. thank you so much, dr. siegel. governor of tennessee bill lee on the president's push to protect our senior citizens. that's coming up. (announcer) in this world where people are staying at home,

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i'll only use the one that's round. oral-b. brush like a pro. ♪ brian: we begin with a fox news alert. here's the quote "don't do so yet." disgraced michael strzok stopping the bureau from ending the michael flynn probe. ainsley: that coming despite a lack of derogatory evidence in the case. steve: that's right. they couldn't find it at the fbi and it doesn't sound like they could fixd it at the cia either. kristin fisher is live though at the white house to break down this latest wave of unsealed documents, good morning to you, kristin related to michael flynn. >> good morning brian, ainsley and steve. not only is president trump considering pardoning michael flynn. he also says is he considering bringing his former national security advisor back into his

administration. >> well, i think he is a fine man. i think it's terrible what they did to him. it's something that nobody has asked me but you are asking me for the first time. i would certainly consider it, yeah. i would. >> new documents released yesterday january 4th lacked derogatory evidence that flynn was colluding with russia. january 24th, 2017. it reads the c.h. team determined that crossfire razor was no longer a viable candidate as part of the larger crossfire hurricane umbrella case. but the same day, former fbi agent peter strzok texted an unidentified cases manager this, quote: hey, if you haven't closed wraz zore, don't do so yet. and less than a month later, flynn was interviewed by strzok at the white house. flynn's attorney now demanding that his case be dismissed.

the case must be dismissed preferably for misconducted. in any event the guilty plea or the guilty verdict thrown out because general flynn is absolutely innocent. he has been the entire time. >> so president trump is calling it total exoneration, even vice president mike pence who michael flynn was accused of lying. to say even the vice president seemed to be sympathetic when asked about these new developments and these new documents just yesterday. brian, ainsley, and steve? brian: thanks, kristin, appreciate it. so many different facets to this story number one what's coming out. why is it coming out now. number two is what exactly was the deal that michael flynn cut? did he actually fall on his sword to make sure his son wasn't prosecuted for anything he might have -- any transgressions he might have done. what parent wouldn't have don't same exact thing? you also have the people in the background like senator grassley who have come forward and said i

was told by the fbi they don't think he lied and they don't think they were going to prosecute. next thing you know he is the poster child for corruption and treason and russian interaction. brett tolman was on with us earlier. is he a former federal prosecutor. he says i looked at this thing. i understand the law. i understand investigation and prosecutions. this was not right. >> they had an agenda against this president, don't forget that they had to have high level prosecution. what they have is their own doubt that there is anything that's gone on that's wrong. their own effort to try to create something when they don't have it. then you see someone like peter strzok keeping the investigation open. for a former federal prosecutor like myself or anybody else, it should be offensive because you have to be just as good at getting rid of a case as you are at driving forward and presenting a case for indictment. brian: so that was brett tolman

on that, absolutely. just so you know there is a big pushout in the "the washington post" and other places and andrew weissman the bulldog with robert mueller who say this is a joke, this is a distraction. michael flynn lied, he paid the price for that i want that judge to not only exonerate michael flynn but to apologize for calling him treasonous and some of his dismissive terms he used with michael flynn last time. this is a 3-star general running the dia. had everything to do with the takedown with the most vicious terrorists around and that is zarqawi after 33 years in the military. ainsley: you are right, brian. he spent more than 6 million, we're being told, on his attorney fees. he lost his house. they were threatening his son. the logan act had never been used to criminally prosecute anyone. the fbi storms into the white house taking advantage of a new administration and you even have comey admitting that that normally would not have happened. but he saw an opening.

he was told he didn't need a lawyer. andrew weissman, we are going to tell both sides, flynn says that he will probably change his plea. he pleaded guilty. now he might be pardoned by the president. but then andrew weissman was asked about it yesterday and he was the top prosecutor for mueller, the guy his nick name is the pit bull. he says this is laughable as you mentioned, brian. he said this is a way president trump because he knew he wanted to pardon flynn, this was a way to soften the blow. but my question is president trump had already fired flynn for lying allegedly to the vice president. the vice president says now in light of all of this information maybe is he starting to change his mind. he thinks maybe he unintentionally lied to him. why would the president want to pardon him now unless it was just having knowledge of this information that's come out in these recent memos this week. he had already fired him. why we want to pardon him if he already felt he had lied, steve. steve: i think part of it, ainsley, when you hear the

president yesterday referred to them as dirty cops on top of the fbi. i think he feels like there was government overreach. ainsley: a lot of people feel that way. steve: yeah. people have said looking at what happened, you know it, looks like ultimately they got flynn but they were really out for president trump. and now he is president three years later. he suggested maybe he would bring him back into the administration. the one person i want to hear from after the judge looks at all the stuff and thanks to bill barr we are getting the information released slowly but surely. one person i want to hear from michael flynn. haven't really heard his side of the story. once this is completed we will hear it and we will have a better idea of what went down. meanwhile the president of the united states was there at the white house and apparently according to the "the washington post" this morning. they have got some reporting that says that four administration officials says the administration wants to go after china. financially get rid of their sovereign immunity clause so that they can be sued. all sorts of things.

chances are we won't get any money out of that at the same time, the president is really steamed about where this thing came from. we are pretty sure it came from china but we don't know exactly the circumstances. came from that lab, probably. here's the president. he is telling us as much as he can about the origin of this virus. >> have you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that the wuhan instituted investor rollininstitute verlg was the o? >> i think the world health organization should be ashamed of themselves like the public relations agency for china. this country pays them almost $500 million a year and china pays them $38 million a year. they shouldn't be making excuses horrible mistakes how it came out. we should have the answer to that in the not too distant

future that will determine a lot how i feel about china. steve: exactly. sounds like some of the things the administration could do going after china in a dramatic fashion which would probably have them coming after us as well. they could strip sovereign immunity so you could sue for money president has not made up his mind on that. we could cancel interest payments to them. the president has also said, ainsley, there are other ways that we could -- rather, brian, we could raise a trillion dollars through tariffs and other stuff that would require congress to be on board. but there are a lot of members of congress who are already on board. brian: guys, it has a lot to do with who wins election. joe biden has a history of saying they are not a competitor, they should be friends. come on, man we can eat their lunch, famously. this president will probably do

what japan, pull the manufacturing out. i'm really concerned about how china is not only not contrite they are aggressively trying to take advantage of what they have done to the rest of the world. in europe, they didn't like the conclusion the european union went through that said that china is accountable for this virus, so they expressed discontent with it. guess what, the european union had their ambassador change dismissive and joe burrellly told to revise their condemnation on china and russia through this whole process. that is not stopping the secretary of state, the president and, i think bipartisan way congress. here is rick scott. >> whether that came out of a lab or a wet market, china did not do their job. they were not transparent. we have lost all over the world we have lost people because of china's lack of transparency and think about what they have done to these economies all over the world. so, what i hope is that all of

us hold them accountable. the best way to do it, we can pass legislation. i have got legislation to do it. the first thing is don't buy one more product from communist china. they are not a competitor, they are an adversary. we have got to treat them that way. brian: up agree. i'm sorry, go ahead. ainsley. ainsley: thanks, brian. if you go on amazon it would be great at the top of each product told you where it was manufactured. i think all of us would be willing to pay a little bit more for an american made product when you think about all the jobs that have been lost that would be a way for us to give back to people who were trying to keep their businesses in business. and all the deaths. so many people are died in our country because of an accident, maybe in china, we're trying to figure out what happened in that lab or in the wet market. but it all originated there. if they had been more responsible then we wouldn't be dealing with this now. so many people are out of work. i love that idea. nikki haley said the only way to

deal with china, she learned in her experience as a u.n. ambassador is to call them out. she said we have to call them out. that's the only way they'll listen. steve: right. meanwhile, ainsley, president trump is ramping up protections for our nation's seniors. watch this. >> no effort will be spared to give american seniors the care and support and devotion they have earned. i will sign a proclamation going to designate older american month. >> joining us now bill lee at the white house event and is ramping up his own push for seniors in the state of tennessee. governor, good morning to you it's become abun dangtly clear that one of the ways you can stop the spread is to stop the spread, social distance. we are all doing that. at the same time the brightest minds in the world are suggesting however, there is a demographic of people, older americans, particularly those

with co-morbid circumstances. they need to be isolated. that's why you are so interested in figuring out how to protect our seniors. >> that's right. i mean, if you think about it, this is the most vulnerable population of anybody in the country and that's our seniors especially those in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. these are the lives that protected this country. these are the lives that we honor and value for their life. neighbors and friends and grandparents. it's really our turn to protect them and as the most vulnerable in this coronavirus effort, we have to put a real emphasis there. and the president is doing that. i commend him. you know, president trump has

worked hard to make sure that the federal effort is supportive and complimentary of the states. that's what's happening with our state. we have made a strong effort to put an emphasis on protecting the elderly. we have made a commitment to test every resident and every staff in every one of our 700 long-term care facilities. it's going to be a tremendous challenge to do that. but we know it's where the greatest risk is and it's where the greatest focus should be put. brian: right. governor, i know we are looking at seniors. slow off the mark in new york and new jersey especially. the numbers are devastating. we seemed to have ignored the senior centers in florida. they have really taken care of the villages. good example example of that look at tennessee. tell us what's open. what kind of schedule you are on. a lot of people are waiting for nashville to reopen and you are saying not quite yet. right? >> you know, we can't keep our economy shut down forever. we know that and so though, at

the same time, we know that opening up an economy has to be opened up in a really different way. it's not business as usual. social distancing works. we have to maintain that commitment to that and so in tennessee we have cracked the door open. so, business owners and those that are unemployed can see a little light and have a little hope for the future ahead. we have opened up in our -- in 89 of our 99 counties. the less populist counties in tennessee. restaurants at 50%. retail 50%. gyms. next week we will be opening up our close contact services. all of these in the least populated counties. and with very clear guidelines we have rolled out something called the tennessee pledge. that businesses take to pledge to keep their customers and their employees safe. it is the beginning of putting people back to work. and we are doing it geographically. and we think that's the best way

to approach it in tennessee. ainsley: governor, i know you talked to the president about protecting our seniors. did you all talk about what's your advice for in the very beginning of this so many of us were worried about we kept hearing if you are young, you will be okay. don't go and see your elderly parents if they underlying conditions. did the president give you any advice about how we can or when we can go and visit our elderly parents? >> you know, this social distancing that protects people, with the elderly, it feels like a gulf. i mean, i haven't hugged my own 86-year-old mom in 8 weeks. that's particularly hard. steve: wow. >> so we know that we have to do this. and we have to stay commit you had to it. and we have to get protection for them and we have to in the meantime make sure we talk to folks to reach out in new and innovative ways in the same way we are doing school differently, we are doing business differently. we have got to continue that contact with the elderly

differently. until there is a vaccine, until there is some treatment or some different situation other than what we have got right now. we all know that we have got to protect them. and we have got to take new measures and new approaches to make sure that they are safe. steve: and we're all, it seems, trying to protect somebody in our lives. governor bill lee where they are cracking the door open to reopening down in tennessee, sir, thank you very much. good luck. >> thank you all. thank you for having me. ainsley: thank you. steve: 7:16 here in the east. we have been telling you about this newly released document showing disgraced fbi agent peter strzok targeted michael flynn. now will are calls for attorney general bill barr to get involved. what does congressman steve scalise think? we are going to talk to him next.

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brian: a fox news alert now. g.o.p. lawmakers demanding answers as more and more explosive documents in the michael flynn cased a new questions about the whole origins of the russia investigation. remember that. senator chuck grassley asking this on twitter. did mueller have all these documents? why did his team sit on them while calling for attorney general barr to intervene. here to discuss house minority whip congressman steve scalise as you try stand your case back up and make progress with your democratic governor. i'm sure you have been look at the flynn case. what sticks out the most is the biggest surprise with these two days of revelations? >> brian, the thing that sticks out the most is that the fbi was getting ready to close the case and peter strzok came in and we all know his moa motivations. he was a strong anti-trumper. he had motivations against donald trump not as a cop trying to find out facts.

he went to push to get this thing going it turned out as you saw strzok and page both who were dirt cops from the beginning were trying to get flynn to entrap himself it looks like. it looks like they were literally trying to set a trap to him as they say lie to get him fired or get him indicted. they had a motivation against trump and against flynn even though the evidence didn't show that they should move forward, he is the one who pushed to do it anyway because he had anti-trump motivation. that's not the kind of person you want with a badge. that's what the definition of dirty cop is all about. i want the attorney general to look into this and frankly people ought to go to jail. and he would be at the top of the list. brian: pick up the pace if they want to do it during the president's first term if he gets a second term because we're running out of time to actually get answers on this. michael flynn, this is in the "the washington post" today. michael flynn was not entrapped.

he says he is a military leader who rose to attorney general. led troops in combat. how could he be intimidated by two fbi agents. what's your response to that? >> well, it's not that he was intimidated. it was that he was set up. my goodness. when you have got fbi agents on record. i mean, have you seen some of the documents already, by the way, remember, it was strzok and page who were going back and forth during the presidential election saying hey, they were setting up an insurance policy to stop donald trump from getting elected president. have you got fbi agents trying to are not against a candidate for president of the united states. that should disturb everybody. republican democrat and independent alike. they are dirty cops and they ought to be held accountable and go to jail. brian: meanwhile instead of that getting book deals and tv contracts. meanwhile nancy pelosi, the speaker how look up to floats almost -- has an idea for a rescue 4 package. we need at least $1 trillion. we all know where every state is

hurting. should we write more checks of money we don't have o on an account that's empty. >> did she forget congress just sent out $150 billion to states just last week. most of these states just got the money, haven't even started spending it yet. and we is talking about giving them more money? for goodness sake. trillions of dollars out the door. we are trying to help families and small businesses hang on right now. it seems like the only state she is helping in helping those states that had multi-billion-dollar deficits before covid-19. we ought to be spending our time making sure that the trillions we have sent out the door are being spent properly and helping those small businesses stay afloat and those families stay afloat so they can have jobs to come back to when we start opening the economy soon. we need to start opening up the economy in a safer way as we are doing this right now. brian: by the way, you guys don't have a plan to remote vote and you are not in town.

your speaker said everyone go home. how are you guys not essential workers and why aren't you back in washington getting stuff done in this vice? >> i have been very vocal that speaker pelosi canceled votes we were going to have next week. don't be afraid of bringing members back. we just went back last week to vote on the next round of relief package for the paycheck protection program. it went smooth. you didn't see major incidents. again, the senate is going to be in next week. is there some reason why nancy pelosi doesn't think the house should be working as well. you know, there is ways to do this safely. congress, by the way, should be leading. congress shouldn't be the last people to come back. we should be the first to come back showing those safer protocols and getting our job done. brian: right. >> and holding china accountable too by the way, brian. brian: yeah. that would help. we have been talking about that all morning. we have got to be on the offensive and get our allies involved too. congressman steve scalise, thank you so much. >> congress needs to be holding

hearings and holding china account being. good to be with you, thanks. brian: can't do that when everybody is home. food supply chaining breaking tyson foods. could a food shortage be looming? the president of tyson food will join us live next.

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jillian: good morning, welcome back. we have quick headlines for you. joe biden has yet to break his silence on sexual misconduct allegations. former staffer tar reade claims he assaulted her in 1993. biden needs to speak up. >> i think he should respond, you know. it could be false accusations. i know all about false accusations. i have been falsely charged

numerous times. i can't speak for biden. can i only say i think he should respond. i think he should answer them. jillian: house speaker nancy pelosi is defending biden saying she is satisfied with his response. take a look at this. the u.s. coalition joint task force destroying an isis system in northeastern iraq. see the moment hit targeting 10 caves. the complex filled with tunnels is to hide weapons and smuggle terrorists. discovered isis weapons and devices. at least five isis fighters were killed. ainsley? ainsley: okay. thank you, jillian. grocery stores could soon see a shortage of meat according to the chairman of tyson foods is warning that the nation's food supply is quote breaking. tyson shutting down indiana facility after 900 workers tested positive for covid-19. the company is implementing new measures to ensure the health and safety of their employees. here with an update the

president of tyson foods dean banks. hey, dean, thanks for joining us. >> thanks, ainsley. ainsley: you are welcome. i read this article or this ad that was in the "new york times" on sunday. it was a full-paged a that tyson foods put out and it was written by john tyson just about how we can get up and running again and help this food chain supply. tell us what's the plan for tyson so that we, when we shop in the grocery stores will have meat on the shelves. >> absolutely. first off, ainsley, i want to send a thank you to the hundred thousand plus coming in to help the food supply. [broken audio] thank the president of the united states food industry and agriculture industries through this crisis. and also thank the county and local officials working closely with us to make sure that the communities are safe and that our plants are safe to operate that really is the key to making sure that food ends up on the grocery store shelves is taking

care of our team members. we have taken every possible precaution just announced yesterday bringing in matrix medical a group coming in to visit the very few facilities where we have seen a surge in cases to make sure that the disease is not spreading in the plants and we know what's going on in the community. that gives us the team that we need to come in and make sure that we put food on the american table. ainsley: okay. so the president did sign that executive order on tuesday saying that the meat plants can stay open. you know, we all eat pork and beef and chicken and those plants halfback to closed. how are the workers doing that weraffected at your plant in indiana and what's going forward? >> we had phenomenal interaction with the community. team member safety is there and our top, top priority. and so we [inaudible] disease. [broken audio] and we have been interacting very closely with that. and have had some very positive

progress. [broken audio] ainsley: dean, can a meat shortage be prevented. obviously it will help. can it be prevented, the shortage? >> i would say between the administration, the local authorities, tyson foods working closely with the cdc, osha, the usda, we have done everything we can to first and foremost make sure our team members are safe. that is the key to preventing a shortage. as have you seen, we have had some intermittent plant closures. we bring in groups like matrix medical to do additional testing to make sure we are doing everything we can to ensure the disease isn't spread not guilty plants. either staggered closures as best as we can imagine. really focus on team member safety. as soon as we have confirmed that we can operate the plants again, we bring them back up with team member safety front in mind. ainsley: that would be great. the farmers you mentioned in this article he mentioned that the farmers are affected too because they have to raise this

livestock and sell it to you guys and we buy it from you. thank you for feeding america. 85th anniversary of tyson foods. god bless all those workers that caught this virus. and thank you for giving the $60 million thank you bonuses to your employees and truckers out there on the roads. god bless you all. thank you so much for what you do. >> thank you, ainsley. ainsley: feeding america. protesters storm nation's capital demanding freedom back after the governor extends the state of emergency. pete hegseth sounds off on the struggle people trying to regain their lice again. their lice again. he joins us next. and every time, you've shown us, you're much tougher your heart, courage and commitment has always inspired us and now it's no different so, we're here with financial strength, stability and experience you can depend on and the online tools you need because you have always set the highest standard and reaching that standard is what we're made for

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and we'll see you soon. steve: all right. 20 minutes before the the top of the hour vice president joe biden now denying allegations of sexual assault from former staffer tara reade. biden campaign just released a statement moments ago saying, quote: so i want to address allegations by a former staffer that i engaged in misconduct 27 years ago.

they aren't true. this never happened. while the details of these allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault are complicated, two things are not complicated, one is that women deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. and when they step forward, they should be no heard and not silenced the second is that appropriattheir stories should t to appropriate inquiry. joining us is pete hegseth. what do you think. pete: you talk about appropriate scrutiny. yet you can only imagine if this was a republican challenger to a democrat sitting president and how much scrutiny in the era of me too would have gone on. instead it has been no coverage. i mean, turn the channel, look around. almost no coverage of tara reade's allegations and vice president biden and when it is, it's written like an exoneration. so, from this case to the

michael flynn case it is glaring examples of you who the democrat media is willing to cover up for anyone that they are for. this is supposed to be a me too movement moment. instead, you find members of that movement finding ways to explain away these allegations against joe biden, which is far more credible than what were faced against justice kavanaugh. tara reade is a democrat. she has not want to be going on fox news but cnn's middle so she shouldn't get pigeon holed for someone who is doing this for partisan reasons. goes on to say if it's anywhere, if the complaint is anywhere, it's in the national archive they should open it up and find it. i'm sure that will happen. i'm sure the "new york times" isn't running to do that this is, again, a totally unbalanced story. i want to hear joe biden in his own words from someone who actually presses him. we will see if he ever has to answer a question at all which he hasn't been asked yet. brian: a couple of things, pete. number one, have you people say well, all of joe biden's

paperwork is at the university of delaware. and he can releetsz that paperwork. the problem is his staffers are in there going through those files a couple of weeks ago. pete: of course. brian: who know what is they did who knows if they did a burger and stuffed things in their short. these people need to be heard accusers need to be heard? is he inviting people to hear from tara reade? it's going to be interesting. pete: he should be. we will see where it goes. by flatly denying it he is saying what she is saying is a lie which makes it a he said she said and we know the national media. they will back their boy joe biden even though this allegation seems to at least be worth vetting in a serious way. and, again, it just makes our skin crawl and blood boil considering what was done to justice kavanaugh on something that was so much more loosely --

the allegation were so much more loosely put together than what tara reade is saying here. ainsley: what happens next though, pete. the president has said there have been allegations against me. both sides need to be heard. statute of limitations have already expired on this one. tara reade, i don't think she can press charges on this. where do we go from here? how do we find out the truth? pete: i don't know if we ever do find out the truth. that's the problem with this movement that's occurred where allegations that can't be corroborated are immediately under -- should be under scrutiny and examined and, yet, there is no way to prove it and you always are questioning the motives of the person making the allegations although shouldn't be. everyone was listened to as was talked about. for me it doesn't feel like a fair examination considering what's done to republicans. it all depends on what democrats do. whether the party is willing to

listen -- media is willing to take it seriously it. doesn't appear they will. they want joe biden to be president. so they will forgive almost anything as long as he says the right thing. again, this is a statement. not on camera. he can't put three sentences together. what happens if someone actually presses him with follow-up questions and evidence did you know her? we don't know what would happen there. i would be surprised if he submits himself to it because he hasn't held up very well under any scrutiny. brian: he might be doing that today. pete: we will see if he is doing that today, brian. i have heard the same reports. is he going to a friendly place where they will toss him softball questions and be almost no follow-up that's very different than sitting down to a cross-examination which other people have had to do in the past. steve: all right. by the way, you can check out american crusade on fox nation. right now if you don't have it, go to fox nation.com and check it out. have you got a lot going on

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big scandal. pete: my apologies, brian. brian: hearing great things about the book. i forgive you. i will never forgive jillian if she doesn't show up when i toss to her. that's why when i say jillian mele has the news she is always there. jillian: i will not be wearing a tie this weekend. just to set the record straight. brian: at least i know. jillian: a district attorney is furious after seven high risk sex offenders are released early due to covid-19. they were in jail for tampering with g.p.s. tracking bracelets. they all spent days hind bars in california instead of the six months required by law. orange county d.a. d.a. todd spr joined us earlierer. >> move to not incarcerate about anyone and anyone can be rehabilitated. i'm here to tell you sex offenders cannot be rehabilitated. when they are trying to avoid detection like they are here in orange county, they need to be locked up. and we need to protect the

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♪ steve: well, our next guest has been doing what she does best during social distancing, sharing her culinary expertise. here to kick off new weekly segment america cooks together celebrity cook from her home in savannah, georgia, the one, the only paula dean. paula, good morning to you. paula. >> thank you, steve, good morning to you. steve: you know you know what, steve, i have been cooking my head off and i'm into cakes. cakes. all i want to do is bake cakes. i have gained weight. i'm not going to lie to you. i have put on some weight. but this quarantine has -- i feel like i have made the most of it, steve. because i have been able to reconnect with my fans and i spend a lot of time shooting shows on my youtube and i'm calling them and they're calling

me. it's really been great to reconnect. how about you? are you staying quarantined? steve: well indeed, like a lot of people making a lot of comfort food which is great. cookbooks. we have been using your air fryer a lot. this thing is amazing. we will make peaches and cream stuffed french toast. i have all the stuff here. >> that's exactly right. steve: the syrup that janice dean gave me this is fantastic and half a dozen eggs are from my next door neighbor christine. how do i make it. >> stopped by your imagination because you can do this any way you want to. stuff it with anything. we are using cream cheese and add a teaspoon of

i'm going to squish that together and i'm going to beat these eggs up and milk. and, steve, i don't know how much you can see in here. but your cookbook is on one of these shelves somewhere. i keep it in my kitchen. and guess what? steve: i'm going to help you a little bit here. i'm going to help you a little bit. you put that in the air fryer for 10 minutes. at 350 and the thing works really well. halfway through you go ahead and you flip it. and then through the magic of television, because we are doing

a television show, paula dean. it comes out and it looks like this and then you adorn it with a little powdered sugar. i got one piece. with some powdered sugar and this is janice dean's syrup from the great country of canada. and it looks fantastic. paula, we will have to go. >> janice's syrup. but, look, i have pure main hell steve: thank you for joining us on our first america cooks together. delicious recipe on the website. her website is amazon.come/paula dean. paula, thank you. like prescriptions are on their way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will.

brien: right to fox news alert. joe biden breaking silence moments ago denying allegation of sexual assault from a former staffer, tara reade, the biden campaign releasing statement saying, quote, ainsley, why don't you take this? ainsley: i want to address allegations of misconduct 27 years ago, it's not true and never happened. the allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault are complicated, two things are not complicated, one is that women deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and when they step forward they should be heard not silenced. the second is that their story should be subject to appropriate inquiry and scrutiny.

steve: joe biden says he wants national archive to find records of reade's complaints if they exist. he's accountable to the american people as candidate. let's bring in karl rove, deputy chief of staff to president george w. bush, also fox news contributor. karl, what do you think of what joe biden has to say today? karl: first of all, i thought it was interesting that it was a written statement and we didn't see him oncoma e. he's had 25 interviews since this broke last month, -- in march and he's never been asked a question about it, so maybe there's a reason why they put out a written statement that was drafted probably by his aides and advisers signed off by him rather than putting him on camera to say those words. we've-this is really extraordinary. "the new york times" took 19 days from the time the story broke until it wrote its first

story and we now have -- we are up to at least 6 people who either were told at the time or were told shortly after, so, yeah, there's a double standard here and how the media is treating joe biden and how they treated brett kavanaugh. if there were a republican label behind joe biden's name i suspect the treatment would be somewhat different. brian: right, you can't say there's a pattern of behavior but the touchy-feely stuff has never been adequately explained what he's done for career, some of the stuff i have to cringe in watching it on television but that's who the democratics are nominating evidently. i want you to hear megan repino did not ask hillary clinton, did not ask her in her interview and nancy pelosi finally asked something yesterday and listen to the attitude. >> i don't need a lecture or a speech. there's also due process and the fact that joe biden is joe

biden. i am so proud, the happiest day for me this week was to support joe biden for president of the united states. he's a person of great integrity, i have great comfort level with the situation as i see it. brian: is that the way the speaker should be handling it? karl: well, look, with brett kavanaugh, we believed the women, that was the big line, we believed the women and now suddenly when a woman comes forward with an accusation about joe biden, supported by contemporaneous conversation with her brother and then mother that then called to larry king and another friend whose name has not been published and a colleague and at least two other individual who is have talk today new york times and ap. we are up to 5 people minimum

who she talked to and suddenly we don't believe the women and we are going to allow joe biden to go without being seen on record, being questioned about it, he can write something down on a piece of paper and hand it out and that's supposed to be tend of it, but, look, these things are difficult to judge, no if and or but's about it. if there's one standard to conservatives and there's another that's applied to liberals. dean, the big of new york times was interviewed and did superb job of putting him on the grill, why are we treating joe biden differently than brett kavanaugh, putting out a, you know, just sort of news story wouldn't have informed our readers besides kavanaugh he was in -- he was a hot-running show and, well, you know, the writer -- the media critic couldn't

help himself. you say we ought to watch this and research it and so forth, why did we run a story on ms. swetnick's accusation and turned out completely bogus but had she had her moment in the sun in new york times the same day she made accusations or within the same news cycle as she made her accusations and he didn't have particular answer to that and once again, we will see it here. 25 interviews and nobody asked him about it. can anybody suggest that if there were a republican in that situation, that they would have had 25 interviews without being asked a question about it as the evidence builds, as people come forward and say, yes, she told me that. i don't think so. ainsley: karl, take politics out of this, this is 2020, i was glad the kavanaugh hearings happened. i wanted to hear both sides.

i think in this situation we should hear both sides as well. you have her side of the story. finally he's speaking out denying the accusations. will there be an investigation here? karl: well, the only investigation will be done by the media and let me -- again, not to dispute it but i'm not certain he's speaking out. what we are seeing is a written statement. when you speak out you're held on camera. you know, we like to hear from the people themselves so we can make a judgment about it and frankly i think it would be better for him if he spoke out on this, if -- ainsley: he will, he will. he's got an interview today about it. karl: yeah, well, about time, but let's not -- let's wait until that and make a judgment. let people make a judgment after that and say, well, crafted statement by a staff will resolve this issue. steve: karl, what about just the -- when you look at the timing that it's taking us this long to come to the stage where he is

coming out with a statement? karl: well, one of the things that he hoped for and his people hoped for that it would go away, sort if they didn't say anything, if they didn't respond, didn't engage that it would sort of go aaway. a couple of things happened, one is that the tape surfaced of her mother apparently calling larry king shortly after the supposed incident saying my daughter works for a powerful figure and she's suffered sexual harassment, what do i do about it? that hurt biden's ability to remain silent a lot and then we had two women in california whom she worked with who she talked about the incident the years following it, one was a neighbor, one was a work colleague in sacramento and those -- those -- that added impetus to it that left raft of stories where another two individuals popped up, mom, -- anonymous who talked to new york

times in april 12th story and the volume of this made it difficult if not impossible for him to avoid addressing it. his hope, leave it to campaign spokeswoman to say something about it and it would go away but it didn't go away. brian just a quick thing about the president, word is he's trailing in most polls in almost every battleground state and close in red states and word is last week he got very mad at brad, number one, should you be angry if you're the president of the united states of brad and is there reason to panic if you're the president? karl: yeah, i thought third-party reports were probably exaggerated. you know, in a campaign sometimes, you know, your principal will say, okay, you think you're right, go do do that but i think there's a level of trust between the two men that's extraordinary and i found the story frankly lacking of credibility.

we see a lot of this in reporting about campaigns but having been inside two of these presidential campaigns, a lot of the reporting about what was supposedly going inside didn't bear much relationship with reality. ainsley: karl, i know that you're in texas f you'll stick around, stay with us griff jenkins is in washington with breaking story that we have been following closely. disgraced fbi peter strzok stopping from ending the michael flynn probe. griff: we are learning from the new document that is the fbi now flynn did not collude with the russians but chose anyway to interview him potentially in trapping him even after a determination had been made to close the case against him n. january 4th memo, 20 days before flynn would be interviewed, the fbi says the investigation lacked, quote, derogatory information, no collusion, cross fire razer was no longer a

viable but that did not stop disgraced former fbi agent peter strzok who kept the investigation going texting unidentified case manager this, if you haven't closed razer don't do so yet, response, okay. now flynn's attorney is demanding a dismissal. >> the case must be dismissed, preferably for government misconduct but in my event the guilty plea or guilty verdict out because general flynn is absolutely innocent. the case is in the travesty of justice from the get-go. griff: pardon seems almost certain if necessary as he says he isn't ruling bringing flynn back to the white house. >> this is terrible what they did to him. something that nobody asked me, you're asking me for the first time, i would certainly consider, yeah, i would.

>> here is where it stands. we could see more documents, the fbi is not connecting and republican lawmakers are starting to make more noise calling for deeper dives into the roles mulley and comey may have played. steve: so, karl, yesterday the news was that bill after he had spoken to comey and also andrew mccabe, he wrote that note, what's our goal, truth admission or to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired and now we see that apparently the cross-fire hurricane team, they looked for dirt, couldn't find any, they closed it on january the fourth, 2017 and yet peter strzok who was fired from misconduct winds up saying, hold off as we just heard from griff there a number of republican who is are saying, we have to know more stuff about this, but the president is sitting at 1600

pennsylvania avenue, he sees this, he referred to him as dirty cops yesterday and now he's thinking about a pardon for mr. flynn. if he does, what does america say to that? karl: first, let's step back for just a minute. remember, the original intent of the peter strzok directed information was to find out whether michael flynn was quote, directed, controlled by or coordinated activities, end quote, with russia and when they could find no evidence of that whatsoever the -- there's recommendation to close the investigation. it's after that point that they try and go after flynn for having talked to the russian ambassador during the transition period and order to prosecute him in logan act, 1789, a act passed been john adams when adams was upset about a guy named dr. logan who he thought was trying to portray himself as representing the u.s. government

abroad. it's deemed to be largely unconstitutional, two only prosecutions have ever been tried under it. neither one have succeeded. the last one was 150 years ago and the idea that the incoming national security adviser should not during the transition period have contact with the russian ambassador is laughable, but that's only part of all of this. we also have this issue of -- and clearly the peter strzok being in charge of this, they were trying to get flynn on whatever they could, so when they couldn't find that he was directed, controlled by or coordinated activities with the russians, they then tried to get him on this really stupid thing of the logan act, but we do also have the separate issue of his failure to register as a foreign agent being paid by the turkish government through an intermediary i think from in the the netherlands to try to get political opponent of turkish

extradited which resulted in the man's death, that's a separate issue. jeffrey jenson, attorney to investigate all of the things around flynn and i think we ought to suspend our complement judgment until he completes his investigation. these documents came out as a result of his investigation. we now know looking at this one part of the flynn case that -- that strzok was trying to get him on a completely phoney deal after failing to come up with any evidence on the more substantive issue of directed control by or coordinating activities with russia. it sure stinks, at least the part of it but let's wait until jenson gets his work done. brian: karl, as you take a look back, like you like to do, when you look at all of that, do you believe there was a plot to get the president or was simple opposition to the president that

we see in every other administration? karl: no, no, look. peter strzok, lisa page, what we have seen of that, this was -- these were rogue agents in very powerful positions who were acting in a completely inappropriate way. when we look at the activities of james comey, we see an inappropriate activity by the director of the fbi. now, you know, there's no way that you can excuse things that those people did. i trust the fbi generally, but we had some bad actors and we've now seen a trail of e-mail messages, you know, love texts between strzok and page, comey's activities, comey's actions, comey acts to the president of the united states, no, we don't have flynn under investigation, well, at the very moment he knew that he was under investigation and that they were focused on on the logan act for god sake, come on, please.

the idea that you will knock out the national security adviser and you can't get him on the substantive directed, coordinated activities with and instead you're going after him under the logan act is laughable. we have to be careful because there's other things that are pretrump administration activities, failure to register as a foreign agent, that's a serious question, again, let's withhold judgment on the whole galaxy of things until u.s. attorney jenson finishes his work. ainsley: yeah, they ruined his life because of the phone call or that conversation. do you think that the president should still pardon though or should he wait for the investigation? karl: if jenson completes activity and report and have time to go over it.

we now know enough to -- to include this was peter strzok, this may be was part of his insurance policy activities to get the president of the united states, but let's wait until jenson does all of his work. i think the president is well advised to wait until it's all done and then have in essence input of independent authority who has done a rigorous investigation of all of these issue. steve: and we thought they'd already done that which apparently they have not. karl, thank you very much for joining us from austin, have a great weekend. karl: you bet. steve: all right, meanwhile 8:17 in the east, breaking news right, joe biden has broken silence on tara reade's allegations, he just spoke out releasing a statement you will hear and geraldo rivera will react next what makes you, you? your cells. trillions of them. that's why centrum contains 24 key nutrients to feed your cells,

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>> no, it is not true, i'm saying unequivocally it never happened and it didn't. it never happened. >> do you remember her, do you remember any types of complaint that she might have made? >> i don't remember any type of complaint she may have made. it was 27 years ago and i don't remember nor does anyone else that i'm aware of and the fact is that i don't remember. brian in written statements women have to be heard i don't remember this, it never happened. geraldo rivera, so many different scandals that you have covered in the past, how is joe biden doing with this one and do you think it's case close now?

>> geraldo: i don't think it's case close. i think the former vice president looked like a deer caught in head lights to me. now preventing access from outsiders to those records. they think the headline of the morning joe interview with candidate right now, he seemed very uncomfortable. of course, people, men are always uncomfortable when allegations like this are lodged against them, but what you'd expect certainly speaking as an attorney is symmetrical response. you had brett kavanaugh hearings with the supreme court nominee raked over by really wicked cross-examination by democrats for nominee of the high court. you know the democrats, though, are resistant to joe biden enduring the same kind of treatment that brett kavanaugh got. i believe that the charges are

credible enough with corroboration enough that they deserve to go to the next levels and the next level, brian, material that may be contained in those files that the vice president has lodged at the university of delaware, as many prominent people do, those are his papers, but those are the papers he speaks in the morning about, it was 27 years ago. if those are the papers that are represented by the filing at the university of delaware that he should allow outside access to them. brian: and i have some information on that according to foxnews.com joe biden dispatched operatives to the library in the past year to rifle through the senate records raising the possibility they accessed documents related to tara reade accusations, not a good combination of events even though we don't know what they found or what they did. >> geraldo: it's never the crime but the cover-up, it's

proven that the records have been tampered with that would go far to corroborating the inflammatory allegations by tara reade against joe biden. i think that the allegations if they go another step or two further would go toward cracking the egg. brian: with your experience, we will talk more about this on radio and, of course, watch your fox nation special looking back at your career, thank you so much, geraldo. joe biden finally speaking out on tara reade's allegations but nancy pelosi defending him before and snapping at a reporter just for asking about it. >> i don't need a lecture or a speech. there's also due process and the fact that joe biden is joe biden. brian: that's a good explanation. judge jeanine will sound off on that and so much more.

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ainsley: we are back with fox news alert. today workers at some of the nation's largest retailers are planning to walk off the job. it's all hart of a may day protest demanding better safety during pandemic. grady trembell from sister station fox business, hey, grady. >> good morning, ainsley, the worker demonstrations are at many of the businesses americans have come to rely on during this pandemic including, of course, whole foods, parent company amazon, as well as wal-mart, target and delivery services like ship and instacart and workers at companies have held individual strikes but this is the first time workers are calling for a mass protest with demands like hazard pay, better

sick policy and transparency when the companies are reporting coronavirus cases in warehouse and retail locations. all of the companies, though, say they have made changes to better protect employees, whole foods, for example, offering better pay and benefits for workers, they are checking temperatures and requiring face masks and they also have other ppe available for workers who want it. wal-mart as well adds it's adding bonuses and 200,000 employees to deal with the increase demand and target says while we take the calls for protests seriously, the concerns raised are from a very small minority. i've heard that same thing from just about every company and after previous strikes they tell me that they haven't seen any tangible impact on their operations, ainsley. ainsley: all right, thank you, grady. steve, over to you. steve: ainsley, this is a fox news letter, democratic

presidential candidate joe biden has broken his silence denying sexual assault, that allegation by a former staff member tara reade. >> they should be heard and then it should be investigated. it should be investigated and if there's anything that makes -- that is consistent with what's being said and she makes the case or the case is made, then it should be believed but ultimately the truth matters, the truth matters. at the end of the day, it has to be looked at. these claims are not true. steve: all right, joining us right now host of justice with judge jeanine, judge jeanine pirro, what do you think? jeanine: every time i investigated a case as a prosecutor a suspect or potential defendant came in and said it's not true and i just said, oh, okay, and went away, well, we would have no justice in this country. here is the bottom line, he can

say it's not true until the cows come home and there's corroboration in the case in recent outcry which is strong evidence in sex crime's prosecution trial, she told her mother, brother, her friend and neighbor and now we are finding out about more people that she told about this and contemporaneous with the act. that's important and as a judge i would tell this to a jury, it lends credibility to her complaint and it is admissible evidence. now, what i want is i want the documents of his senate time unsealed that are now at the university of delaware. i am very disturbed by the fact that apparently his operatives went in there and went through boxes and boxes of files. why is this important? it's important because she says that she made a complaint to 3

people in the senate in 1993 regarding the sexual assault, folks, this is not sexual harassment, this is not inappropriate jokes, this is real sexual assault that is a b felony in some states, so we need to know whether that complaint was reduce today writing and i can't imagine it isn't and three interns that she was supervising apparently she was abruptly removed from supervising them, moved to a room with no windows and she was in essence in 1993 kind of pulled away from all of her duties once she made the complaint. so we've got sufficient evidence to at least in this case go to general, you know, we have statute of limitations issues but let's not forget the fact that there's corroborating evidence, documentary evidence of senate records that she did

work with him in the senate, so this isn't like kristin blasey ford, i don't remember the date, the time and place, nobody corroborated, there's no recent outcry, this is the real deal in terms of a substantial complaint that needs to be further investigated. every one who went to go through his files of his at the university of delaware need to be questioned immediately. i want to know if they took those files. , if they took anything out of the files because there would be record of this as we unfortunately found out a year or two ago when we found out that congress is paying for all of the sexual assaults of young women who were working in congress. let me make one more statement, steve, here is a guy who publicly invades the personal space of women sniffing down their neck, kissing them on the lips, this guy is inappropriate as you can get and his behavior is questionable at best and this

woman is a democrat, even her neighbor to whom she spoke said i support joe biden and i will vote for him, but i must tell you tara reade told me this in '93 and she does not lie. so let's get cooking on this thing. this is a real complaint. steve: okay. i know you're going to be talking about that this weekend on your program along with the michael flynn documents. i can hardly wait to hear your opening statements. judge jeanine, thank you very much for joining us live. all right, have a good weekend, stay safe, meanwhile coming up some states easing into phase 1 as they lift restrictions to get people back to work. national economic council director larry kudlow on deck with that.

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brian: welcome back, everybody, my great pleasure to bring one of the busiest man in america, larry kudlow, economic director as he tries to stand up this economy. 19 state as cross the country, larry to relax restrictions, nine that never really shut economies down. in terms of numbers, what impact would this make, do you expect? >> wow, we have to get the economy open and we have to emphasize safety and public health. this is the moment that when the guidelines that were put out 2 weeks ago by our healthcare experts will go into play. on may first, probably marks transition. remember, you need downward adjustment in infection rate within 14-day period and, of course, good healthcare practice, testing, temperature, so forth.

the numbers that you cited which are consistent with our numbers give me hope and optimism, you know, and i pray that we continue this downward path in new cases and mortality rate and america can go back to work which is what we want. i dare say it's probably what everybody wants because when we do go back to work, we will start producing and consuming and buying and investing and going back to entrepreneurship, so let's hope and pray that the trends continue. ainsley: so today marks transition month and the s&p 500 and dow jones were at the best month since 1978 despite the slide on thursday, so that's good news. what do you say to the folks, 30 million people are without work, do you think as the states start to reopen, those numbers will significantly drop? >> well, i surely hope so. there's no way to sugar coat that. inside that number there's a lot of hardship, no question about that. having said all of that, of

course, you know, we put really in total, ainsley, we put $9 trillion between the white house, president trump's rescue plan, congress and the federal reserve to try to stabilize and provide cash and liquidity to get through this but it's a rough number. i get that. one thing i want to say, though, we noticed in the numbers a lot of people are furloughed which means they're not getting paid, but they are still attached to their company, and, you know, that's because -- that's because of the virus situation and it's because our paycheck protection has helped, so you may see them come back in a couple of months rather faster than have otherwise been the case. that's a good thing. the overall unemployment thing, very bad, look, we are going to take another bad hit in the second quarter because of the national shutdown, because of the virus, there's no two ways

around that. on the other hand, the congressional budget office and private forecasters seem to agree with the president trump that the second half economy is going to show significant growth going into 2021. steve: all right, going into the next couple of weeks, larry, nancy pelosi is floating the idea that state governments are going to need a trillion dollars in the next rescue package. and i'm curious what the administration's red line is because we had phil murphy, democratic governor of new jersey yesterday, he said he was going to ask for help in the white house but wouldn't be like pensions, however, you look at 41 billion that they're asking for in illinois and a quarter of it is for their pension program, so what's the red line from the administration, we will help you pay for this but we won't help you pay for that? >> yeah, good point, look, i was

in the meeting with governor murphy and he's impressive and he and president trump had constructive meeting. look, right now we are in a pause mode. maybe the next 20 or 30 days. let's see what happens with this latest tranche of help. by the way, i want to put this out, $109 billion, $109 billion on the payroll protection have been put out in just a few days to small medium and larger companies, that's a great number. now, we hear the other side of the aisle, we are looking at it. i'm not going to make any pronouncements. the president will be the decision maker as always. all i would say is this, on our side, we would like to see progrowth measures to help us in the medium and long-term, regain spectacular economy we had earlier this year and in prior years. look, we like to see things like payroll tax cuts for the

workers, business investment expenses, regulatory changes for small businesses, we would like to see some protection and safeguard against liability lawsuits, again, to help smaller businesses. we would like to help restaurants to open and we have our own set of asks and will probably come together in a few weeks and resume the discussions but our emphasis i believe is on future growth incentives, that's what made president trump's trump economy so strong? recent years including the beginning of this year, so we want to go in that direction. it's got to pay to work, it's got to pay to invest and has to pay for tax to take risk and we want to remove the regulatory handcuffs around businesses and that's where we are going to come from and it's early to predict outcomes. we will see how it plays out. right now we are all sort of pausing and trying to figure out our positions.

brian: right. larry, it's been a horrible spring but you're setting things up to hopefully make it a great summer. let's keep our fingers crossed. larry kudlow, thank you so much. you got it, still to come on the show "fox & friends" living room concert, the series continues, rodney atkins and wife perform duet but first sandra smith will join us at the top of the hour and tell us what is on her show. sandra: brian, good morning to you, good morning, joe biden moments ago breaking silence responding to sexual assault allegations against him, what he is saying, plus what the newly fbi documents revealing about peter strzok, the white house here to react, kellyanne conway at the top of the hour. stocks closing out with best

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releasing his latest music video, seen here with his wife rose falcon singing first duet together called figure out two. they are in hair living room it looks like, "fox & friends" living con letter, hey, guys. look at y'all holding hands after all these years. y'all have two sons. oh, my word, i know we don't have a lot of time so i encourage people to read about your story. y'all have been through a lot, losing your mom and your adoption, my goodness, you found each other through music, how are you quarantining? >> we are doing great and love being with our families. >> we have a 2-year-old and a 7 and a half month old that are keeping us on our toes up at night. ainsley: tonight at 8:00 o'clock

and i'm sorry so cut you off but i want to give you time to play your song or sing your song, what are you going to be singing? >> song called figure out you. >> t figure -- ainsley: let's hear it. >> we have had friends that have had to cancel weddings or postpone or shrink the size of the guest and we are sending it to those folks this time of the year. ainsley: that's sweet. god bless you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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remove the concert was terrific. thank you very much for watching, everybody. we will see you back here on "fox & friends" monday. >> sandra: fox news alert, gretchen whitmer extending emergency restrictions for another month after armed protesters entered the state capitol building demanding her stay at home order be lifted. this is ten more states i now set to ease coronavirus restrictions today. we will have more on the growing challenges governors are facing is quarantine fatigue sets in. meanwhile to this fox news ale alert, joe biden breaking his silence on sexual assault allegations by former senate staffer. denying those claims are saying they are "not true. this never happened."