the dnc, the very fake dnc. [inaudible conversations] steve: i'm sorry i have to cut you off but see you next sunday you off but see you next sunday >> we're winning bigger than we've ever won before. i think we saved millions of lives. but now we have to get it back open. we have to get it back open safely but as quickly as possible. rob: it is monday, may 4th. happening right now at 4:00 a.m., the president's promise to get america safely back to work one step closer as more steps reopen today. jillian: we're live with the encouraging motion about the future of a covid-19 vaccine. >> china behaved like authoritarian regimes do, attempted to conceive and hide. it's classic communist disinformation, that created enormous risk. rob: intel on a chinese coverup during the pandemic now coming

to a head as the trump administration promises accountability for beijing's secrecy. jillian: the bombshell new report reveals the country kept silent to get more medical supplies for themselves. ♪ god bless america. rob: heros honoring heros, the air force patriotic performance bringing the country together. jillian: "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ jillian: good morning, you're watching for "fox & friends fir" on this monday morning. i'm carley shimkus. rob: i'm rob schmitt. president trump is expressing the you urgency to get america k on its feet during a fox news townhall at the lincoln memorial. >> we have to get it open.

i see new jersey's opening up their golf courses, florida is opening up golf courses, parks and beaches are opening. at some point we have to open our country. and people are going to be safe. we have no choice. we can't stay closed as a country. we're not going to have a country left. >> todd piro joins us live as more states plan to ease certain restrictions today. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. the president unequivocal on the need to reopen the economy, endorsing a state by state approach, while predicting a coronavirus vaccine could be available by december. >> we're so far ahead of any vaccine ever in history. you know, these things would take two, four, five, six years, 10 years. i think we're going to have a vaccine, i'm telling you, by the end of the year. >> reporter: cases of the virus in the u.s. approaching 1.2 million. deaths approaching 68,000. president trump predicting that

as many as 100,000 americans could die from it. still, when asked about schools and colleges resuming come september, the president said he wants class back in session. >> i am. i want them to go back. we have to get our country back, yeah. i don't want to do this forever. i would say with the exception of teachers at a certain age, maybe they should wait until this thing passes. it will pass. >> reporter: meantime, today is may 4th, a day many states targeted for reopening parts of their economies, from surgeries to salons, from gyms to groomer, 15 states beginning the road back to normalcy with different paths forward. with florida, governor ron de santis says he's optimistic. >> i think it's going to be an important step for people of florida to know that there is a light at thend of the tunnel. we're going to follow a safe,

smart, step by step approach to florida's recovery. >> reporter: less positive vibes coming out of michigan, tensions high between governor gretchen whitmer and those protesting the stay at home order which was extended until the end of the month. the governor having this to say. >> some of the outray justness of what -- outrageousness of what happened at the capitol this week depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country. >> reporter: as states continue to figure out their own reopenings, we have to mention 180,000 people have recovered from the virus so far here in the u.s. rob and carley, back to you. rob: that number has really shot up, the recovery numbers. todd, thank you so much. >> president trump slamming china for a lack of transparency amid the croo the covid-19 outb.

griff jenkins joins us live in washington with why they hid the truth. >> reporter: most u.s. intelligence agencies believe the virus originated in the whew hand -- wuhan lab. they accused the u.s. army of starting the outbreak by bringing it to china in the first place. the president says he can't go into the intelligence but he wants accountability. >> i think they made a horrible mistake and they didn't want to admit it. we wanted to go in. they didn't want us there. world health wanted to go in. they were admitted but much later, not immediately. my opinion is they made a mistake, they tried to cover it, they tried to put it out. like a fire. >> are you considering new tariffs on china as a punishment for the handling of the virus. >> it's the ultimate punishment. >> reporter: the chinese foreign ministry is rejecting the claim,

citing the world health organization as the source of confidence, which tweeted there is no evidence of human to human transmission. secretary of state mike pompeo is saying the evidence is taking us elsewhere. >> china has a history of infecting the world and running substandard laboratories, this is not the first time we've had the world exposed to viruses as a result of failures in the chinese lab. there is a significant amount of evidence this came from the laboratory in wuhan. >> reporter: some, like senator lindsey graham, are calling for action. >> where is the democratic party? don't give china a pass. so to senator schumer and nancy pelosi, why don't you work with me and others to hold accountable -- china accountable for killing over 60,000 americans and having 30 million people lose their jobs. >> reporter: state department officials tell fox news that beijing is now accusing the u.s.

in the west of failing to take care of its citizens or help others. carley, rob. >> unbelievable. griff, thanks so much. we appreciate it. rob: a fox business alert, a kansas police officer is shot and killed in a shootout with a hit and run suspect. michael mosher was on the way to work when the driver got out and started shooting. he returned fire, killing the suspect. >> he was a good officer. he did his job. he did his job all the way up to the end. rob: sad story there. mosher a 14 year president of the force was the president of the overland parkal and daughter. he is the 18th officer shot and killed in the line of duty this year. the nypd looking for this suspect accused of trying to rape a nurse who was helping on the coronavirus frontlines. police say the suspect followed the woman into an apartment building and attacked her. the new york post reports that

visiting nurse from upstate new york was able to fight him off but the man did take her cell phone. more than 90,000 retired and also active healthcare workers signed up to help new york fight the covid-19 crisis according to the governor's office last month. michael flynn's lawyer now questioning robert mueller's mental acuity as she works to dismiss charges against the former national security advisor. >> things like some neurological problem has evolved there for mr. mueller. but i don't know how soon that started. i mean, ultimately he's responsible for all of this because he was supervising the investigation. >> the former house oversight committee chairman trey gowdy said the alarming information makes americans second guess the agency's intentions. >> we need an fbi that we can trust and what i read in these notes is not the fbi i used to work with. >> calls for action come after

unsealed fbi documents show top officials were looking to fire flynn and get him to lie when questioned in 2017. the justice department is siding with a virginia church, suing democratic governor ralph northam. pastor kevin wilson threatened by the state with jail time and a hefty fine for holding palm sunday service. the 16 person mass was in a church that accommodates more than 200 people. state officials accusing them of breaking social distancing guidelines. the justice department citing the commonwealth had of virginia has offered no good reason for refusing the trust congregants who promise to use care in woreship in the same way it trusts accountants, lawyers and other workers to do the same. rob: today the senate returns to work on capitol hill. lawmakers asked to wear face masks, stay six feet apart and keep most of the staff at home. the house speaker, nancy pelosi, hospitalling to keep the house

adjourned for member safety. it last held floor speeches on the 23rd of april with many members wearing masks. you remember that. >> that's right. get ready to get chilled. the u.s. air force backed saluting those on the front lines battling covid-19. take a listen. ♪ from the mountains. ♪ to the prairies. ♪ to the oceans. ♪ white with foam. rob: that's a nice voice. members of the band singing god bless america, thanking nurses, doctors and everyone for hard work and sacrifice during the pandemic. >> so many talented people out there. for more inspiring stories, visit foxnews.com/americatogether. rob: 10 minutes after the hour. the president says china made a mistake with the wuhan lab. >> they knew they had a problem. i think they were embarrassed by the problem. they tried to cover it.

they tried to put it out. it's like a fire. rob: two new reports say china covered up just how bad this pandemic is so will they finally be held accountable? gordon chang says china is facing "an inconvenient truth." he joins us live to explain. >> a nurse on the front lines gets an unforgettable birthday surprise from taylor swift.

>> they made a horrible mistake and they didn't want to admit it. we wanted to go in. they didn't want us there. they tried to cover it. >> the chinese communist party did all they could to make sure the world didn't learn in a timely fashion about what was taking place. we're going to hold those responsible. carley: signs of a coverup coming from a u.s. intelligence.

rob: there were labs in case reporting, misinformation about the spread of the virus coming to the surface. carley: author of the coming collapse of china and senior fellow, gordon chang, join us now with what justice might look like. good morning, gordon. >> good morning, carley and rob. carley: there is a new dossier out, called the five eyes dossier, it shows that other nations other than the united states like the u.k., canada, new zealand, australia came to the same conclusion that china knowingly covered this up. so what sort of pressure does this document put on china and what sort of ramifications will they face? >> this creates enormous pressure on china, not just among the five eyes partners but around the world. because the five eyes partners and around the world, there are calls for china to compensate the losses and the deaths. but also it's an issue of reputation and i think this is where china initially is in

problem. the inconvenient truth i talk about is that china maliciously spread this disease. xi jinping, once he saw the devastation, if he wanted to level the playing field, he would do what he did do and that makes china looks like it attacked the rest of the world. rob: it certainly does. it looks really bad on a lot of counts here. let's look at some of the key dates from the dossier. this goes back to december 31st when it appears they had a pretty good idea of what they were dealing with when they started to censor some of these terms like they do with so much of the media, including sars variation, wuhan seafood market, wuhan unknown pneumonia and some of the doctors that wanted to warn people were disappearing and how about them

allowing international travel coming from hubei and wuhan, so you can send people all over the world but not let them travel domestically through china. it is very damning evidence. >> there's two pieces of evidence that make china look malign. one is they allowed travel outside of china. they pressured countries to not impose travel restrictions. the second piece is, chinese leaders only admitted human to human transmisability object january 20 but doctors in wuhan knew as early as the second week in december, maybe even earlier, that it was human to human contagious and beijing knew about it a few days later. there's about five weeks or so where china deliberately lied because china tried to convince the world it was not human to human transmisable when they in fact knew it was. carley: the department of homeland security is saying something that peter navarro has been saying for a while and it's the why.

why would china try to cover this up. it's that they were potentially hoarding ppes, trying to get all of that personal protective equipment to them so that the rest of the nations around the world don't have that. do your think that's the reason why they acted the way they did? >> i think that's part of the reason why they acted. i mean, they did buy ppes from other countries, even though they are the world's biggest maker of ppe, by far. but also, i think that there were other things going on. you know, xi jinping believes china should rule the world. it's very difficult to rule the world if his was the only country affected by coronavirus. also, they're just very sensitive about china's reputation. you put all of that together and you get to some sort of explanation why china was maligned in this sense by deliberately spreading the virus. carley: , well, they may be sensitive about their reputation but they certainly did not help their reputation in the handling

of this. gordon, thank you so much for that information. we appreciate it. >> thank you, guys. rob: thanks, gordon. 18 minutes after the hour. lockdown until july, france taking new measures to stop the spread of the virus. we're live with the new travel quarantine about to go into effect in that european nation. and a win for religious freedom, a federal court ruling kentucky's governor cannot stop a church from holding drive-in services. our next guest led the lawsuit against the governor, calls it a huge victory for faith nationwide. audible is my road-trip companion. it's kind of my quiet, alone time. audible is a routine for me. it's like a fun night school for adults. i could easily be seduced into locking myself into a place where i do nothing but listen to books. i never was interested in historical fiction before, but i'm obsessed with it now. there are a lot of like, classic and big titles

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rob: welcome back. a federal appeals court paves the way for kentucky churches to hold drive-in services, the ruling comes after a baptist

church sued to block the governor's ban on in-person worship. carley: the legal representation says this is a huge victory that could have an impact on other services across the country. joining us live is roger ganum. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. carley: you are a busy man. you're at the forefront of the fight in kentucky where a church sued the governor after people who attended this drive-in service received citations by the state police. so why do you say that this is a victory and a huge win for religious liberty? >> well, the court of appeals for the sixth circuit has ruled that governors have to have a good reason for treating churches differently from all of the businesses that are allowed to remain open by applying social distancing and hygiene rules. so the governor of kentucky couldn't come up with a good reason why this church should be

prohibited from being able to live by the same standards. because this church isn't looking for special treatment. they just want to be able to live under the same rules as everyone else. rob: basically they said it went too far. the court of appeals, the statement, orders prohibiting religious gatherings, enforced by plifers, telling consistent s they violated a law amounts to a -- a haven for numerous secular exceptions should give pause to anyone who prizes religious freem and a lot of the -- freedom and a lot of the angst came from the fact that could you go to home depot and other places and do things you need to do but you couldn't go to church, right. >> that's right. a mile away from the church at the big box stores and super centers, the parking lots are packed with hundreds of cars and no one there got a citation. carley: the kentucky governor's office is claiming victory, they say what the sixth circuit decided is that drive-in

services are okay but the governor's order prohibiting in-person services remains in effect. that has been the governor's exact policy since the beginning. so what's your reaction to that? >> well, the governor's talking out of both sides of his mouth. he can say that he always approved of drive-in services but he sent state troopers to our church to cite people who are in the cars listening to the service in the parking lot. i don't think we can trust what he's saying at this point. the fact that the case is moving so fast, once we show additional evidence of what's going on inside the church, we don't think the ban on in-person worship will be able to stand at all. rob: this is not unique to your state or your fight. this is happening in a number of places, virginia, california, states all over the country, colorado, kansas. why do you think these governors and these state leaders have gone after the churches in this way? >> well, it's hard to impute

motives to the governors. i'm certain many of them are trying their best to protect their states. the bottom line is, they have to have a good reason for singling out churches for different treatment when they let so many other businesses essentially do what they want. carley: the governor announced in-person service cans reopen on may 20th. i understand you're going to try to bump that up to this weekend so good luck with your fight, roger, thank you so much for coming on. we appreciate it. >> thanks again for having me. carley: it's 26 minutes after the hour. joe biden doubling down on his denial of sexual assault allegations. >> in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters. in this case, the truth is, these claims are false. rob: even the new york times calling for a full investigation of tara reade's accusations. how big of a problem is this for democrats heading into this big election? political analyst ron meyer and democratic strategist jason nicholas on deck to debate that,

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carley: welcome back. streets in france remain empty as the country extends its lockdown well into the summer and imposed a strict new quarantine rule for travelers. rob: trey yingst is live in jerusalem as some european countries are seeing the lowest number of deaths since the

lockdown started. good morning, trey. >> reporter: good morning, rob and carley. as many countries across europe evaluate the situation, there are some looking at extending lockdown orders in an effort to stop a second wave of the virus. over the weekend, we actually saw the french health ministry announce new plans to quarantine any incoming travelers for 14 days. while france had planned to start gradually lifting the lock dop next week, a new -- lockdown until next week, a new proposal will likely extend it until jul. the country's interior minister is calling the measures absolutely necessary. in italy, the country saw 174 deaths yesterday, the lowest in seven weeks. the development comes as italy prepares to lift some restrictions. as of today, italians will be allowed to visit parks and relatives who live nearby. in spain, new images show people walking outside after weeks of strict quarantine. the spanish government divided

the day into time slots for people who can go out on walks and play sports in an effort to slow any lingering community spread. spanish authorities are implementing a four step plan to reopen the country with a final target date in june. clearly, there is some significant progress being made across europe but there is a very real concern of a second wave of this virus. these european countries looking to avoid what happened in japan where in were early restrictions lifted and ultimately the country saw a second wave of covid-19. rob, carley. carley: thank you, trey. rob: ohio governor mike dewine backing off his order requiring shoppers to wear face masks inside of stores. >> it became clear to me that was a bridge too far. people were not going to accept the government telling them what to do and so we put out dozens and dozens of orders. that was one that it just went too far. rob: so store employees will still be wearing face masks.

today, ohio's manufacturing and construction businesses will be reopening. retail and other stores are scheduled to open in one week. ohio moves forward. vice president mike pence making admission during last night's fox news town hall after coming under fire for not wearing a mask during the visit to the mayo clinic. mike pence saying he should have. >> since the president and i are in the unique positions we're in, we're tested often, i didn't think it was necessary but i should have worn the mask at the mayo clinic. rob: fair enough. pence added that masks serve not only a health purpose but a symbolic one as well. senator elizabeth warren topping the wish list of democrat voters for the vice president spot. a cbs news poll finding the former 2020 hopeful raking in 36% of the votes. senator kamala harris in second place, georgia's stacy abrams and amy klobuchar also making the list.

more than half believe that biden should make a bold choice in his vp pick. he has pledged to select a woman as his running mate. and dnc chairman tom perezs says there is no need to investigate sexual assault allegations against joe biden, comparing this to hillary clinton's e-mail scandal. >> this is like the hillary e-mails because there was nothing there. when you ask the university of delaware to take a look at something, you're asking them to look for something that doesn't exist. and the fact of the matter is that the president of the united states, the former president, barack obama, conducted an exhaustive search. rob: how times have changed. tara reade claims biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 when she worked in his office. carley: after weeks of silence, presidential hopeful joe biden maintains his innocence. >> i'm saying unequivocally, it never happened, period.

women have a right to be heard. and the press should rigorously investigate the claims like these. i always uphold those principles. in the end, in every case, the truth is what matters and in this case the truth is, these claims are false. carley: so is joe biden out of the woods or should democrats start thinking of a plan b? here to debate, political analyst ron meyer and democratic strategist, jason nichols. good morning, gentlemen. >> good morning. >> good morning, carley. carley: jay jason, i want tod something from the new york times editorial board, they say mr. biden's word is insufficient to dispel the cloud. any inventory should be information about ms. reade and conducted by an unbiased pack pl put together by the dnc. no relevant memo should be left unexamined. they're calling for an investigation to take place. jason, do you think that's going to happen? >> i think it should happen.

it certainly is something that i think would restore more public trust. he needs to get as many votes on the left as he possibly can. in order to do so, you have to do an exhaustive investigation. unfortunately, with these old claims, whether it's vice president biden and tara reade, whether it's e jean carol who claims that president trump raped her in a department store and claims to have physical evidence, you're not going to get too much, i believe, from something that's 27 years old. unfortunately. but i do believe that you have to do an investigation and show as much transparency as possible. carley: yeah. democrats certainly tried to get a lot out of that investigation of supreme court justice brett kavanaugkavanaugh. ron, part of his appeal as vice president is that he's a decent,

wholesome guy. how does the allegation affect his appeal for voters. >> it seems like the case against the president is he was someone that would fight for clarity and unity. joe biden has turned out to be someone who can't communicate and can't stay consistent. so joe biden was out there being very aggressive during justice kavanaugh's hearings, obviously all of the leading democrats were, saying that anybody who makes an accusation should be unequivocally believed with little investigation. they were criticizing people looking into the people who were accusing justice kavanaugh and now that the -- basically the shoe's on the other foot, joe biden is saying well, maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt but there should be heavy investigation into this person which is not what they said of blase ford and the other kavanaugh accusers. what it's doing is basically totally watering down their message against the president and while they can accuse president trump of some of the older allegations too, the truth is president trump was never out

there saying the sort of things biden was during the kavanaugh hearings and other circumstances. carley: there are headlines out about possibly maybe if joe biden can't withstand this, could hillary clinton come in and actually be the nominee, maybe a hillary clinton, barack obama as her vice president ticket. your reaction to that, what do you think about that? >> well, i read that piece and to me it seems wildly absurd. that's not what anybody wants. that's not what -- certainly, most of all, barack obama does not want to be vice president after being president for eight years. he's not clamoring to get back into the game. he's having fun with netflix and he's pretty much stayed out of politics except for making a couple statements that the public asked him to make. i don't think this is even possible. sure, hillary clinton wants to be president. that's without question. but i really don't think that she's the person who would step in. i mean, you still have elizabeth

warren who one of your polls said is still popular. you've still got bernie sanders who is the runner-up. there are many options that you can go to before you just pick somebody out of thin air who hasn't been selected by voters in four years. carley: yeah. and ron, we're looking at this graphic right here that shows a recent poll that -- of democrats, where elizabeth warren, if joe biden is -- becomes the nominee or is the nominee, that elizabeth warren would be a favorite among democrats for his vice presidental pick. how do you feel about that? elizabeth warren with a lot of democratic socialist views. >> well, not only does she have a lot of democratic socialist views, the perception of her in states that joe biden needs to win, right, the rust belt, talking pennsylvania, wisconsin, ohio, michigan, she's not popular in those sorts of places because she's seen as a northeastern elite, a former professor, someone who like i

said doesn't have that sort of working appeal and so i don't see that as very likely. something that i do see that's interesting as far as who might jump in if joe biden has to drop out -- it's not hillary clinton. she's tried to rehash her image. however, i think the more likely candidate rather than elizabeth warren or hillary clinton would be michelle obama, not barack obama. michelle obama could step in and be a very formidable candidate. carley: she is also having fun with that netflix stuff as well. ron and jason, thank you so much for coming on. we appreciate your insight. >> thanks, carley. >> talk to you soon. carley: rob. rob: 40 minutes after the hour. more than 30 million americans have filed for unemployment in the last six weeks. the president says some states will be bouncing back more quickly than others. >> new york is a very much different place than montana. certain states are going to have to take a little more time in getting opens. carley: so how did his message

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rob: welcome back. the president reassuring americans during a fox news town hall that states will reopen safely. >> it depends on where you're coming from. new york is a very much different place than montana. certain states are going to have to take a little more time in getting open. the restaurant business is a tough business. we can't stay closed as a country. we're not going to have a country left. rob: what will it take for business owners to open their doors again? joining me now is our small business panel this morning, fit body boot camp founder pay dross kolian, lasting impressions owner, jennifer mercuri and hedge tactical solutions ceo, kevin gunstrom.

pay dross, i want to start -- papedros i want to start with y. what did you make of the president's message last night. >> i got hope. i love hearing a sense of optimism in the president. but the truth is, he's right, we do need to open the doors, we do need to get back into business in a sensible way and we've created at fit body boot camp a training space for each client where we can do that, we'll be safe about it and we'll train in place. we need the opportunity to go into business so we can really help build the economy and help our staff. rob: absolutely. and that's the way of doing it, will be the trickiest part. jennifer, i want to go to you. as we look at the numbers here, we're expecting a really rough unemployment report coming out this week. we were around 4% for a while. we had a very strong economy. that could be ballooned up to 16%. what did you make of the president's message last night,

knowing that number? >> well, i think that the president was right in saying that we all need to be mindful of our own situation and we're waiting for guidance from our own governors. what we can do in our own personal businesses, to help ourselves. we're all entrepreneurs. we want to just make our own living without assistance and i think each business should have an opportunity to do that. rob: absolutely. kevin, over to you. you're in the tech space. what do you think the plans should be? when do you think people should be going back to work? >> yeah, this is a tough question. i was sitting here watching the town hall meeting last night and i think the president did a great job. like your first caller said, i think he brought in hope. but the thing that worries me most is without a vaccine how do you open restaurants, how do you bring people and get them back together? i would like to have a confidential -- a confidence plan that people can feel

comfortable about, that they can understand. i think that will bring people back together. we don't want to minimize deaths but if this is something of that major of a concern we have to have a plan, figure out how to get back together again. rob: one of the things that will hopefully save a lot of the small businesses has been the ppp program, getting that money. i want to ask, were you able to get it? and what would you like to see done here in the future as that money is eventually going to run out as we continue to be locked down for a longer time. >> well, rob, that's exactly it. in fact, we were part of the second round of funding for the ppp program and as you said, that's only good for eight and-a-half weeks. and so what happens if the shutdown, if the quarantines continue past that? do we just die? entrepreneurs are resilient. let us go back into market and create commerce. rob: that is the big story, if you've got this money six, seven weeks ago, unbelievably it's already about to run out. let's go to jennifer for a second. i want to listen to the

president. >> i want to see a payroll tax cut on both sides, a very strong one, because that's going to really put people to work. we're not doing anything unless we get a payroll tax cut. that is so important to the success of our country. rob: jennifer, would that be enough as the next round here or do you think your business is going to need more? >> we're definitely going to need more. i mean, the damage that's being done daily is almost beyond my repair. and every day it just gets worse. rob: yeah, absolutely. kevin, i want to go to you finally. there was a lot of talk initially about how the cure cannot be worse than the virus. we've worked really hard to flatten the curve. as this continues on, do you think we get to that point at some point where the cure is worse? >> i think we're already there, unfortunately. the economic fallout of this has not been seen yet. i think we're just going to get to the other side of this and start to understand what that

economic fallout is going to be. i think this is the pin that actually busted this economy and i think it's going to take some time. i think -- i love his aggressiveness but next year, fourth quarter, i just hope we can get to that point. your callers are hitting it perfectly. they need money now. it's a perfect time to inject those dollars. rob: if this has to continue on this way, if a lot of these states have to continue in this lockdown phase for another six or eight weeks, how many businesses are going to take a hit and might fall from this? >> well, i think you're going to see a lot more businesses take a hit in this second half than the first eight weeks that we've been shut down. and unfortunately, that's going to have a bigger negative repercussion than the actual covid virus itself. if we could just go back to business, we'll do it in a sensible way, we'll keep everybody sanitized and keep everybody safe and distance and we make sure the people who are

immune compromised and maybe elderly folks, let them stay in quarantine while the rest of us boost the economy. rob: i tell you what, the most important people to hear this from are the people that are running the businesses and employ all these people and we can't thank you enough for getting up early today. thank you so much. >> thank you. carley: a top cop under fire for what some view as a failure to back the blue. the blowback san francisco's police chief is facing after officers were told to stop wearing thin blue line face coverings. and a nurse who traveled to new york to care for patients getting something unexpected in return for her good deed. the pop star who sent the frontline hero a special birthday surprise. we'll tell you about it, coming up. you doing okay?

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rob: welcome back. an nypd officer on desk duty following a violent arrest in manhattan. it began as officers arrested a couple who were not obeying social distancing orders outside of a deli. one of the plain clothes officers with a taster in hand confronts a bystander, then the officer hits the bystander, sending him to the ground and punching him. internal affairs investigating all of this, pretty wild video from new york's manhattan. police in san fan facing their own -- san francisco facing their own controversy after officers were seen wearing thin blue line masks at a may day protest. the chief banned the masks, calling them divisive. the city's police union insists they were shown to scott's command staff before they went into use. scott says he's looking into more neutral face coverings. carley: cair carnival cruise s

planning to fully coop pratt coh a probe regarding coronavirus on the ship. carnival's holland america ships were evacuated in florida after four passengers died and at least nine tested positive for the coronavirus. uber didn't taking any risks with the virus as it rolls out a mask requirement for drivers. the ride sharing giant told fox business the policy will be rolled out over the next few weeks as stay at home orders are lifted. the company announced last month it would ship millions of masks to drivers to follow cdc guidelines. it also shipped disinfectants to drivers in particularly hard-hit areas. rob: pop star taylor swift going viral for surprising a super fan who is a nurse on the front lines of covid-19. carley: this is so cool. the singer sending a handwritten letter to whitney hilton for her

30th birthday saying i'm so grateful for you, i can't thank you enough for risking your life to help people. rob: 30's a big one. she also sent a box full of clothing and other merchandise. carley: she is calling the surprise the best day of her life. what an uplifting moment that taylor swift was able to give that nurse. that's so cool. rob: certainly deserves it too. 56 minutes after the hour. next on "fox & friends first," ohio taking another step in the reopening of its economy. one lawmaker says different parts of the buckeye state, though, require a different approach. gop congressman and former physician brad wi winstrop joins live. carley: and meet a man who was blocked from flying a trump flag on his boat and decided to have a pro-trump armada instead. oh, my.s

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