carley: the world looks very different. states are starting to reopen this week. hopefully a little bit of normalcy to come. rob: better weather, too. that will do it for us. >> "fox & friends" starts right now. >> the main thing i have to do is bring our country back and i want to get it back to where it was or maybe beyond where it was. we are winning bigger than we ever won before, perhaps. i think winning ultimately is going to bring this world together. we brought the greatest economy in the world. we have to get it open and as safely as possible. steve: good morning, everybody. it's monday may 4th, 2020. there you have president trump at the lincoln memorial expressing urgency to get all americans back to work as quick as they can during that town hall as you can see right on the mall. the president predicting a vaccine will be ready by the end of the year; brian. brian: yup, and at least 15 states today are easing more

restrictions. some say not soon enough. some say slow down. in florida phase one underway except in broward and miami-dade those numbers are going down. retailers can open one 25% capacity. see how that goes. restaurants also 25% capacity. special rules between tables, ainsley. ainsley: that's right, brian. in kansas, some businesses can open as long as they can maintain that 6 feet of distance between their customers. they must also follow cleaning practices. bars and theaters and night clubs and casinos have to stay closed. restaurants in missouri will be allowed to open with no more than 10 people per table. and then in nebraska, restaurants and salons, barber shops and tattoo parlors can open. elective surgeries may also resume as hospitals have a two-week supply of ppe and enough bed space. in new hampshire and alaska, some healthcare services can resume today. and, yes, last night we were all watching that town hall with bret and martha in front of

lincoln memorial. it was a beautiful site. sight. he said i don't think this has ever been done. balancing act. some of us are scared because we are going to get infected. others are scared they are going to lose their jobs. listen to this. >> well, i think you can satisfactory both. if you are scared, you are going to stay back a little bit and you are going to watch it. other people are scared about being locked in a room and losing their job and not having any income. for the first time these are workers and want to get back to work and make a living. they are afraid their job is not going to be there at a certain point, if you keep it going too long that's going to happen. so i understand that very well. steve: so there you have got the president of the united states. he understands that very well. also, what was interesting as he tried to reassure the nation was just a month after he predicted 60,000 americans could die, now he has upped that to 70, 80, 90,

perhaps 100,000 in all could lose their lice. he said we are going to be wearing masks and going to social distance for awhile. we heard from mike pence who said yeah, that trip to the mayo clinic last week i should have been wearing a mask. let's bring in stuart varney, host of varney and company on fox business. he joins us right now. stuart, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. steve: wee did hear from the president. obviously what he is trying to do is reassure people is as some stay-at-home orders lyfted and some states reopened it goes well. don't be afraid. of course, you look at wall street. the futures are down a little bit. they might be worried as they reopen there could be a bammer rang. >> the president wants to reopen the economy. open up for business safely, yes, but in his own words as quickly as possible. that's a very good thing because coming this friday we're going to get some absolutely dreadful numbers on employment. the numbers are likely to show

that we lost, lost 21 million jobs in april unemployment rate was well into double digits. probably as high as 14% or 15%. the president wants to leave it to the states. is he encouraging people get back to work. is he saying maybe a vaccine by december. dr. fauci says it might be january if everything goes well that would be a good thing in terms of opening up. because it reassures people of the safety of the environment, put it like that. so he is working towards opening up as quickly as possible. he wants maybe a payroll tax cut. he wants to shift the supply chain away from china. especially antibiotics. he is saying, look, if you do all of this. if you start to open up, his economic team is saying you can have a more robust recovery by the end of this year and larry kudlow is saying you will have the best growth rate in history in 2021. all depend dental, of course, upon the re-election of president trump.

brian: there has got to be liability insurance woven in there mitch mcconnell says it's a nonstarter without it because as much as people care about workers' rights no, business will open up if they think one person is going to turn around and sue them destroy the company that's already on death's door in many cases any way. how desperate the situation is as much as people are concerned, i understand that. as much as people are worried and that makes sense. new york, massachusetts and ohio have one week's more money left to pay unemployment benefits. elf california, texas, and kentucky two weeks more. 42% of american lives in states with less than six weeks. so there is not much more money left to pay people who have -- through no fault of their own lost their jobs. so, what are we going to do? steve mnuchin weighed in on the plan going forward. listen. >> we're not looking to bail out states that were poorly managed. what we did do in the cares act. there was $150 billion allocated

to the states for coronavirus expenses. one of the things the president just instructed me to do and we sent out guidance on friday that states can use the money for policemen, firemen, first responders without limits. so we can make sure that none of those people who have been fighting the fronts lines in any way are impacted by the states having lower revenues. the president is very clear, we are looking to help states, we are not bailing out state's finances. >> brian, we should be very clear here secretary mnuchin and the president will help states. they want to help states. replacing the losses which were not there fault. licenses because of the virus. what they will not do is give them money to take care of pre-existing conditions, so to speak like the extraordinary pension liabilities that places like illinois have. illinois has demanded $40 billion from the federal government. at least 10 billion going toward

their previous pension problem. the president and secretary mnuchin don't want that because that would be taking care of something that's not the fault of the virus. it was a pre-existing condition. they are very willing to provide a lot of money for those states which are now, as you point out, brian, running out of money, not through their only fault but because of the virus. ainsley: talk about fault. bret asked him yesterday about holding china accountable. listen to this. >> i think they made a horrible mistake and they didn't want to admit it. they tried to cover it. they tried to put it out. just like a fire. really like trying to put out a fire. they couldn't put out the fire. bret: are you considering new new testament on china for their punishment for how they handled the. chest or poker name whatever you want to name it's not checkers, that, i can tell you. ainsley: stuart, how do you

think we can hold them accountable tariffs? >> that's one. that is the ultimate punishment. he is holding that in reserve way down the road if we don't get satisfaction in the near term. china has to be held account being for what they have done. covering up the virus. allowing the spread of the virus which affected the entire world. they have got to be held accountable and ultimately maybe there will be new tasks but that's the president's decision based on what china does in the near term. i will tell you, ainsley, that threat of maybe more tariffs to come has upset the stock market. this morning we will open down 2 or 300 points largely because of that threat of reimposition of tariffs. that's something investors don't want to see. steve: yeah. something the american public wants to see, stuart, we want to see things back to normal as quickly as possible. until there is a vaccine that's not going to happen. the president did last night say that he hoped that there would be one by the end of this year.

there are currently 115 vaccine projects going on with big pharmaceutical companies around the world so the race is on to try to do it. at the same time, stuart, you have people who want to go back to work. they want to know that when they get to work it's going to be safe and then the people they interact with aren't going to pass on the virus to them or, you know, social distancing, its. in ohio, governor dewine says 90% of ohio's economy will be back to normal by next week. at one point he said, you know, everybody has got to wear a mask. then he reversed himself he said people don't want the government telling them what to do. ultimately it, comes down to we have got to do it. we have got to social distancing, but we have got to do it on our own terms. >> precisely right. we have got to open up. otherwise, we risk the collapse of the economy. we have got to do it in a way which it doesn't ensure the safety of the consuming public. but it reassures them that if

they go back to that restaurant. go into that bar into that store there is a high degree of safety built into the protocols for reopening. it's a balancing act. steve: got to be safe. >> exactly what the president said last night. got to be safe but gout to be done, too. brian: let's just finish up china. one thing that they found out and report is going to be coming out. the ghi is reporting that one of the reasons china delayed telling the world how bad this is in order to hoard ppe to provide to hurt the rest of the world and to help them. then they resell it to the rest of the world who clearly was desperate. stop chinese citizens to travel from city to city. they did not stop them from going to europe and california and the rest of the world and that's the outrage that's got the rest of the world. they have put out a propaganda video mocking our handling of the virus calling us incompetent and slow to respond. this is what i think is

affecting the market. you are the expert a lot too. >> yes, it is. brian: this is a divide. it's called the truths as opposed to playing politics. >> you have the two largest economies on the planet increasingly at odds. wall street is not going to like that. nobody is going to like that. and the effects will be adverse. however, it's got to be done. you can't let china do what it has done. brian: absolutely. and walk away completely. you can't have that, you to recess. brian: this is an opportunity. >> this is an opportunity to re-set. press that re-set button supposedly the way we did russia years ago. you need a new relationship based on trust and honesty. we are going to have to get there. brian: remind the rest of the world hot good guys are stuart. this reminds them. it's stark. one country tries to poison the world. the other is trying to help the

world. should help with us huawei and let the american people why we are paying more for goods. taking our manufacturing out of that communist country and bringing it back. that's what this is an opportunity for. >> it is. the biggest change, perhaps is, diplomatic, of course it is. but it's rearranging the supply chain. if china is no longer the manufacturing capital of the world, it returns to america and elsewhere in asia. that is a fundamental shift and it's probably going to have to take place. ainsley: there is a report out today that says that china covered it up so they can stock up on all the medical supplies before the rest of the world does. >> absolutely outrageous. ainsley: thank you so much, stuart. good to see you this morning. 6:12 on the east east coast. hand it over to carley shimkus with breaking news. >> we are going to start with a fox news alert. a police officer is shot and in a shootout with a hit and run suspect.

oberlin park officer michael mosier was following the car when the driver got out and started shooting. >> he was a good officer. he did his job. he did his job all the way up to the end. carley: mosier was 14-year veteran on the force he leaves behind wife and daughter. on to extreme weather now. tens of thousands of people waking up in the dark after powerful storms roar through tennessee. heavy rain and strong winds blowing through nashville. take a look at that more than 120,000 people in the city left without power. an off duty veteran firefighter was killed at his home in nashville suburb as the storm rolled through. more severe weather is expected in the midwest today. well, the pandemic is forcing the supreme court to make history today after a two-month hiatus. the highest court in the land will kick off hearing arguments by phone for the first time

ever. the public will be able to listen in, which is also a first. the court will hear a total of 10 days over six days. among them, president trump's bid to keep certain financial records secret. hundreds of boaters in florida setting sail to show their support for president trump. residents taking to the water in mar-a-lago after a resident was told he couldn't have a trump flag on his dock. carlos, a coronavirus survivor joined us earlier on "fox & friends first" to explain. >> i didn't know the rules about no political flags so i ended up taking flag down, but i went to the coast guard and had my boat documented as the name trump and we decided to do a parade. it exploded. carley: president trump showed his appreciation on twitter saying thank you very much to our beautiful boaters. i will never let you down. carlos did not confirm who he

was voting for in 2020 but i'm pretty sure we can all assume, guys. steve: i think so. i was reading in the palm beach coast, carley this morning. apparently his neighbor didn't like that he had a trump flag so he spent like 5 or $6,000 to wrap the boat in the trump name. he put it out on social media. according to one of the cop friends i have down there in the jupiterer area 600 or 700 boats showed up for the trump killa and flying the trump flag. ains. carley: i want to know where he got that giant decal. steve: good question. carley: all right, guys. send it back to you. steve: carley, thank you very much. i did not hear the end of what she said. quarter after the hour. joe biden's presidential search kicking in to high gear as a new report claims no one is taking one of his top con senders seriously. what this means for the future of joe's campaign coming up

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ainsley: good morning. i'm great. thank you. he told msnbc he was looking at more than a dozen women. out of the list, the short list, who do you want? >> really, to be quite honest with you i want to put the claim iser out there pee personally i'm more interested in a black agenda than i am black symbolism leadership. we certainly have enough political puppets in politics. however, in the case of joe biden. this is not just about symbolism. this is about will vice president joe biden slap black voters directly in the face? this comes down to the fact that black folks resurrected his dead campaign and it was completely dead in the water. black folks came through and resurrected. he should be willing, since he is so eager to get trump out. he should be willing to give black folks symbolism and throw in the supreme court for good measure. i really want to see how he is going to move forward with this i note article came out and said no one is taking stacey abrams

serious he better damn well take serious if black people do not feel they are getting their just due from this particular candidate who did not have is that campaign without black folks he will be in trouble. we have to look at standpoint black folk have to decide if we are going to continue begging and go ahead and start bossing. ainsley: do you think they have already made a decision. >> absolutely they have made a decision. i would just like to get it out there on the record. but the bottom line is there has been a decision already made. this is just a game to once again pretend as if they are taking input into consideration. same thing with the fraudulent task force moving forward with. and pretending as if progressives will have a voice at the table. i believe they have already made a decision. i believe that decision probably will be elizabeth warren. they said they want a woman. they already locked themselves in with that they say they want a progressive. i believe that's what it is, they are just dragging black folks along like the mistress like they always do. the black pundits particularly

on other networks that hate the fact that i come to fox news, i want to ask them if he does not pick a black vice president, what are you going to do about it? i have heard all the threats but i don't hear any of the consequences. ainsley: there is online cbs u gov poll does not meet fox's standards but yet. 36 percent said they want elizabeth warren as vice president. kamala harris comes in next at 1%. then stacey abrams and amy klobuchar and susan rice. we haven't heard her name in a while. after all of those, do you think -- you said you think it's going to be elizabeth warren. where do you think she fairs when it comes to the black agenda? >> she didn't have one. nobody is confused with this black agenda that they like to put on heir website including vice president joe biden. one minute it's black agenda and then minorities and people of color. we have read the details and we are quite clear about the specifics of what a black agenda is actually mayor pete and mike

bloomberg had a stronger when you use the word actual black on their policy. so, this is not about -- this is just the bottom line is it doesn't matter to him whether she has a black agenda or not. he knows that unfortunately black people vote 90% lock in step with the democratic party. he knows that as long as black people continue to say that you will have our undying support, that he will just do whatever the hell he wants. representative clyburn has already said it doesn't have to be a woman of color. that's t. seems that's who he listens to. if our black leaders tell him it's okay not to pick a black leader he will not do that. bottom line leverage. support folks to be independent across the board so we are not always showing our hand like the hispanic community they have conservative, independence as well as democrats. black folks only ones that line up it. is possible to still vote for your candidate of choice and still make a demand. those things can happen simultaneously. that is where we are flailing and i blame it on our black

leaders. ainsley: tezlyn, when will they make the announcement. >> probably as long as enough to drag us along. this is just guessing. i think after he actually becomes the nominee since he is the alleged presumptive nominee of course he is. bernie sanders already bent the knee. august or so they will probably make the announcement or july. i'm making it up as guy like all the other politicians. i think they already know what they're going to do best to go ahead and stop playing this game so we can move forward with the general election. ainsley: he is saying that he hopes to have a running mate by july. so we will see. okay. tezlyn, thanks so much. great to see you. >> thank you so much. ainsley: you are welcome. president trump promising help for struggling restaurant owners. >> the bigger problem is what are you going to do with a restaurant that all of a sudden have half the number of seats. we have to get our life back. ainsley: our next guest's restaurant is still afloat thanks to the stimulus bill. he joins us to react to the president's town hall.

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brian: president trump sharing a hopeful message at the fox news town hall sharing concerns of small businesses including the hard hit restaurant industry. >> the restaurant business is a tough business to start off with. not an easy business. we are doing a number of things. number one the supply chain is going to be in great shape. i did the defense production ability. we have tremendous supply. we have tremendous demand. we have to get it from supply to the people, to the restaurants. the bigger problem is what are you going to do with a restaurant where all of a sudden they have half the number of seats? no. we have to get our life back. bret: our next guest is one of those restaurant owners. the stimulus bill helped him keep his florida business afloat as it remains closed. craig gado owner of burger. he joins us now. thanks for being here.

you were not one of the counties that governor desantis said could open up their business in any level. only to go. how are you surviving? >> hey, brian, thanks for having me. we're surviving. we are taking it day by day and as you said as luck would have it our county was one that was not open for business. everything has been challenging. we see different challenge every day. and we'll continue to go to work every day and try to make it happen. brian: how many employees have you been forced to lay off? >> we are proud to say we have not laid off a single employee because of the virus. the pppp loan was a tremendous success in my opinion. it helped us. now, we have had attrition. we have some younger team members that, you know, work after high school. they work on the front of the house. they work helping me. juicy burgers and crispy crunchy fries. their parents out of an

abundance of caution have told them hey we don't want you working right now. i completely understand that i have a 16-year-old daughter and i feel the same way. so they have come to us and told us hey, sorry, my mom, my dad doesn't want me working right now. some of them are in tears. they love being there listen to mom and dad we are here when you get back. so we have had attrition but not because we have laid them off. brian: greg, your other problem is unemployment pays pretty well hard to get people back to work when they're paid not to work, right? >> brian, that's a great point. unemployment is paying well right now. fast casual business we are not google or microsoft or amazon. we don't pay $15 minimum wages. in the fast casual business we have thin margins. some people have realized it may make more sense to stay home, collect that unemployment check than get on a bus and work 8 hours standing over a grill or a fryer. so that is also challenging.

and we have lost a team member or two because of that at this point, we actually have an ad out right now to hire people. so, if we can help the economy by hiring, we'll continue to do it. brian: governor, how close do you think your county is to where the majority want to reopen? i know you guys have been hit harder than most areas of florida. what's your message to governor desantis? let me feed people or i want to hold off? >> governor desantis and president trump, i fully support what you are doing. i believe that you have everybody in the state of florida and to you, mr. president, the country for that matter. you have our best intentions at will. i support what you're doing. it is time to get back to work. we have people that want to work. our guests by the way are so supportive. they come in how you guys doing? we're here to help. so in my humble opinion, people want to go to work.

people want to get back. people want to go out to dinner. want to do it safely. we trust you, mr. president. take care of business, we support you. let's get it done. brian: i trust guys like you and women who run businesses to the make it social dance friendly because you want people to come back and feel safe or else you won't have a business when they open up the doors. leaders should trust business owners who know how to take risks to make a living and they're the ones on the hook. hopefully you will be talking about, greg, how people are sitting in your place again and maybe outside. greg, best of luck. burger fi i love those franchises. they do a great job. you must be a pleasure to work for. greg, good luck the rest of the way. >> thanks, brian. you really appreciate everything. burger fi could not have been more supportive through this pandemic. brian: stay in business and keep the economy afloat. new york city mayor de blasio is there you know that he

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15 miles south of where you are jupiter inlet it looked like yet they had all those trump supporting boats socially distanced, 600, 700 boats. what's going on? it seems like a tale of two different states. >> well it, should governor newsom in california needs to stop treating people, grown adults, personal citizens like children, steve. you can't have it both ways. you can't say on one hand yeah, we believe in the science, the data, the facts and the figures and then when the science and the data says there is very little evidence of significant outdoor transmission and there is very little evidence that if you are 6 feet apart or more you are going to get. this a low probability of catching it but then say we are going to close the beaches, too. do you believe in the science or don't you? stop treating people like infants. these people -- american citizens can handle this and be responsible. and another thing, actually the more important point here. listen, to all the tyrants and

mini tyrants trying to shut people in their homes with very little today base it on and treating them like kids in the process, the bill of rights was not a suggestion, okay? the constitution is not optional. i'm not sure if they read the first amendment. it wasn't a joke. it wasn't a mild suggestion. people should obey. you raised your right hand. you swore to it as a public figure. people in law enforcement, too. you swore to protect and defend it. the first amendment, steve, is crystal clear, people should read it. again, it's not a campaign slogan. congress shall make no law, no law prohibiting the establishment of religion. everybody has read it. peace cybil assembly. i don't understand, did that take a vacation, the bill i have rights? i'm still having a hard time digesting where these governors think they are getting this authority from. >> brian: couple of things which i think is important to point out. the cops and firefighters last week had no problem with huntington and newport beach

from what they saw. they saw people staying apart. they had choppers in the air and they were on foot. his reaction that you ignored me so i'm going to shut the beaches down like is he raising us and we are his children even though i'm 3,000 miles away from him is beyond insulting. and number two shut the beaches down, he is going to get people instead of democrat or republican, who is for freedom and who is for authoritarianism. this is really changing the argument. it is like if you are walking through traffic with a small child it's dangerous. just so you know, if you take your time, there is someone with cardiac arrest on the other side. and if you take their time, they have less chance of survival. that person with cardiac arrest is our economy. and if they die, if that economy dies, there is no reason to cross the street. >> well, brian, that's a great point. lord atkins famous line power corrupts absolute power corrupts absolutely.

there is a second part of that people forget that most powerful men are also very bad men. unfortunately that applies to women, too. and it's happening with the governor in michigan, the governorful california and in many cases the governor of new york and even the governor of maryland. this is a bipartisan issue. i don't understand where you got this power. and i don't understand on one hand how you keep indicating facts, figures and data matter but ignoring the fact. you mentioned you are crushing the economy. perfectly valid point. ruining people's lives and businesses. the left comes back typically in the authoritarian some on the right and say well, this isn't all about money. it's not 100 percent correct nor should it be. brian, have they thought this through? forget about the money for a second and people's jobs. that matters. but put that aside. what about the hospitals that are claiming they are going to go bankrupt? have you thought that through? brian: absolutely. >> hold on, hold on. here is point number two. the food supply that's drying up. in the name of public safety you are going to bankrupt our hospitals you elm bissells and

good job you thought this through you knuckle heads. are you kidding me? this is the tip of the spear is stupid. ainsley: de blasio is using coronavirus as excuse tomorrow at this nyc jails at public's expense. he set more than 2,000 loose over virus fears. >> well, here's what concerns me from a law enforcement and tactics perspective, ainsley. most of the overwhelming majority of crime, you look at any criminology studies. the overwhelming majority of crime is committed by very few people. a small solicitedder of the population. overwhelming of people will never be involved with the justice system at any point in their lives, thank god. when you start releasing that very small sliver of the population back into the population, it is the -- you know the peace loving

noncriminals are the ones that are obviously going to be become offended by this because these repeat offenders are going to get out. what country are we living in? is this the soviet union? you have to ask yourself honestly. have you videos everywhere of law-abiding citizen citizens feed their kids and keep their heads above water. to say keep food in their table or businesses aflow. walking out of their businesses in handcuffs for the very act of opening their door. there is a video of a tattoo parlor in north carolina. i actually spoke to the owner this weekend. while we are releasing dangerous criminals back into the population, is this cuba? what country are we in? are we in some kind of a police state now? this is dangerous. brian: crazy, insane. of the 1500 who de blasio released at least 50 have already been arrested once again. let's see where this goes? dan bongino joining us from stuart, florida, dan, thank you very much. >> thanks, guy.

steve: quarter before the top of the hour and carley shimkus has headline duty today. she joins us from our world headquarters. carley: we begin headlines with. this overnight a retired paramedic is remembered as a hero for volunteering to fight the coronavirus in new york city before losing his own battle. paul kerry spent nearly three weeks in new york before he tested positive for covid-19. the 66-year-old's body was flown them colorado to a procession with more than 165 emergency vehicles. kerry spent 32 years with the aurora fire rescue before retiring. well, nothing there. dnc chairman tom perez no need to investigate a sexual assault allegation against joe biden comparing it to the hillary clinton email scandal. >> this is like the hillary emails because there was nothing there. when you ask the university of delaware to take a look at something, you are 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. carley: former senate staffer tara reade claims biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 when she worked in his office. look at this. caught on camera a pair of thieves described as nurses stealing packages. medical scrubs. one wearing surgical scrubs and package. releasing these photos of them in the car they were seen. in yikes. speaking of yikes. women order fake air pods on amazon and got surprise of her life when they arrived. they didn't fit her ears because they were bigger than her head. tweeting god these are huge. the woman from dubai says she knew the air pods were fake since they were so cheap about half the price of what apple charges, she would give them a

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potential for very hot temperatures across the south and southwest. but then very cool over the northern tier of the country. including the northeast. just a heads up as we head into the weekend. mother's day weekend. we could have the risk for snow across portions of the northeast. incredible. steve, ainsley, brian, back to you. never boring. ainsley: and your big birthday coming up this weekend. janice: it's coming up. might as well break some records and have some snow. ainsley: all right. thanks, janice. car sales are plunging during the pandemic and now dealers in one state are pleading to let them reopen. their message for the governor next. ♪ dad, we need to talk about something important. you don't need to go anywhere dad, this is your home. the best home to be in is your own. home instead offers personalized in-home services for your loved ones. home instead senior care.

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stay-at-home orders are lifted. uber said it would ship millions of masks to drivers and disinfectant to those in hard hit areas. all right. steve, i will send it over to you. steve: all right, carley, thank you very much. on friday, half of our telecast was all about the fall-out from the revelation that these documents had been released that showed exactly what was going on behind the scenes with the fbi when it came to questioning michael flynn. now the news is apparently, you know, going forward, as we wait for more documents that are being released by the attorney general bill barr, apparently, according to axios, the president has had it with the guy who runs the fbi, chris wray. he would like to get rid of him but he is deferring to bill barr. and says nothing is going to happen before the election. he just doesn't like him. nonetheless, trey gowdy was on with maria yesterday. talked a little bit about what he saw with those documents that

is a real head scratcher. >> peter strzok seems more interested in setting up an american general than he is what the russian generals were doing to this country. they sent two agents over there without informing the white house. without informing the department of justice and they wanted to set him up. that is not the fbi that this country needs. we need an fbi that we can trust. what i read in these notes is not the fbi i used to work with. brian: that was trey gowdy yesterday in a very impassioned statement about the michael flynn reports which other networks don't have a problem with. well, he lied. you know what struck too struck in the "wall street journal" former fbi guy writes you know what's never been done before joe peneka and peter strzok interviewed michael flynn. turns out peter strzok went back in and changed the 302, which is a rundown of the interview

almost entirely. lisa page helps him change it, who wasn't even there and then when it came to actually giving the judge the 302 form. which is their debrief of flynn, he provided to the court wasn't even a 302 when he first talked to flynn he used a conversation from months later. this thing had corruption all over it. i'm more outraged that more people aren't outraged especially if you are in the fbi, ainsley. ainsley: i know. those field offices work so hard. you have a few bad apples it looks like and hopefully they will be held accountable we see. ready for that did you remember report will come out. we have josh hawley and newt gingrich coming up. stay with us. and grass is growing. and families are giving their all to the soil

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>> main thing i have to do is get our country back and where it was. maybe bigger than it was before. i think that winning ultimately is going to bring this country together. we built the greatest economy in the world. but know we have to get it back open. we have to get it back open safely but as quickly as possible. brian: absolutely. president trump expressing the urgency to get all americans back to work during a fox news town hall at the lincoln memorial predicting a covid-19 vaccine will be ready by the end of the year. ainsley: at least 15 states are easing more restrictions today. down in florida phase one gets underway except for broward, miami-dade and palm beach

counties. retailers can open up with 25% capacity and restaurants also have 25% capacity with 6 feet between the tables. steve: meanwhile in my home state of kansas, some businesses can open as long as they can maintain 6 feet of distance between customers. they have to figure out how to do it. they must also follow cleaning practices. bars, theories, night clubs and casinos must stay closed. meanwhile one state over to the east of kansas, restaurants in the state of missouri allowed to open with no more than 10 people at any single table. meanwhile in nebraska, restaurants salons, i almost said saloons, salons, barber shops and pat too parlors can open. elective surgeries can also resume if hospitals have a two week supply of personal protective equipment and enough bed space. and in alaska and new hampshire, some health services can resume later on today meanwhile the

u.s. senate getting back to work at 3:00. lawmakers said to return to capitol hill. however, the house will stay home. and that is where we are going to start, brian. brian: yup, let's bring in missouri senator, senator josh hawley, member of the house judiciary committee and small business and entrepreneur committee. the president was talking about vaccines in january. by the fall they will have multiple manufacturers who have cleared early stages of trials on vaccines and look to mass manufacture. so more hope that american company will bring this. so, senator, welcome, as you go back to work, what do you expect to accomplish? one thing i know for sure anthony fauci has been cleared to talk to your committee. not the house committee. >> yeah. we are looking forward to that i think the number one thing has got to be jobs right now, brian, this has got to be our top focus.

the president talked about it last night. we have got to get this economy reopened. we have got to get people back to work. i think any future relief, any further relief that congress passes has got to be focused on jobs, jobs, jobs. ainsley: can you get anything done if the house is not convening? the senate is coming back to work but the house is not. don't you need both parties. >> sooner other later the house is going to have to actually show up and do some work. that doesn't mean we can't get after it in the united states senator. we have 27 million people unemployed in this country. unemployment rate in the upper teens. the president was right last night the greatest economy in the history of this economy. we have got to get that back. and that means getting people back to work. missouriens i can say from my own state. ready to work and want to work. as soon as they get the green light, they are ready to go after it. more green legislation gets people focused on getting back to work and that's going to be my number one priority.

steve: you know what, senator, it sounds like you are in line with the administration because last night on the town hall, the treasury secretary steve mnuchin made it very clear they are out to help the little guy. and they are not out to help bail out states that have been run badly in the past. listen to. this what we are not looking to bail out states that were poorly managed. what we did do in the cares act. there was $150 billion allocated to the states for coronavirus expenses. one of the things the president just instructed me to do and we sent out guidance on friday that states can use the money for policemen, firemen, first responders without limits. so we can make sure that none of those people who have been fighting the front lines in any way are impacted by the states having lower revenues. the president is very clear. we are looking to help states but not bailing out states' finances. steve: that's really critical. the president also said last night while, you know, the

democrats have talked, senator, about infrastructure going forward in this next rescue plan, what he would prefer would be some sort of a payroll tax cut which is popular with him but not necessarily popular with everybody in his own party. >> well, i would say a couple things about that. number one i would go a step further. payroll tax rebate. advancable rebate actually help businesses cover payroll right now. would give them incentives to hire workers they had to lay off right now, get that money into the hands of businesses to get it into the hands of employees and let's do it fast. second thing i would say is absolutely on state and local bailouts. we shouldn't be doing that at all. fiscally responsible states shouldn't be using this as an opportunity to get free money from the taxpayer because it isn't free. secondly that's not the priority right now in the least. we need to be focused on jobs and getting people back to work. that you will talk about state and local bailouts is misguided.

brian: senator, also you have got to work on this liability situation. you want to keep workers' rights in mind, of course, you want to keep people healthy, of course. but if businesses are going to get sued because somebody came back and got the virus or they are going to find something that wasn't copasetic with the environment, then they are not going to open up their business. it's not going to be worth it. that's what mitch mcconnell says i want to see what you thought about that and also what you thought about this poll. gallup did a poll are you ready to go back to work? 44% of americas would return to normal activities right away. only 4% of democrats. how do you explain the discrepancy there? >> i think some of that frankly has to do with the media hysteria. listen, this virus is very serious. the public health pandemic very serious we all know that if you listen to some of the media coverage, my goodness sakes you would think that the world was coming to an edged. listen, we have got to continue to take smart mitigation steps.

we have got to continue to do everything we can to break the back of this pandemic. we also have to allow people to get back to work in a safe and responsible manner. that needs to be our focus. work, jobs. let's get people back at it again in a safe and responsible way. on the liability issue i would say you cannot punish businesses and workers from going back to work. we have to find a way to allow people to get back to work in a safe and responsible manner and get their jobs back. ainsley: you said don't want to punishment american worker. the president was talking about punishing china last night in that town hall. listen to this. >> i think they made a horrible mistake and they didn't want to admit it. they tried to cover it. they tried to put it out like a fire. really like trying to put out a fire. they couldn't put out the fire. bret: are you considering new punishment on china for handling of the virus. >> it's ultimate punishment, i will tell you that again, i don't like to tell you because we are awful playing a very complicated game of chess or

poker, name whatever you want to name but it's not checkers. that i can tell you. ainsley: tell the folks a the home about the bill you have to hold china accountable and do you think tariffs are enough? >> well, tariffs, absolutely, have to be on the table. we need even mother. we need an investigation. i would legislation stand up international investigation led by the united states to affix the responsibility where it belongs which is with beijing and allow other governments including our government led by ours to get back the money that we have had to spend on this. china should pay. beijing should pay. something else, too. we ought to allow individuals and states to sue beijing. we should wave their sovereign immunity. that's the immunity every government gets in u.s. courts. china shouldn't get it right now. we didn't give the 9/11 hijackers immunity after the 9/11 massacre. we shouldn't be giving beijing

immunity after what they have done to this country. give people right to sue to recover damages. get damages for this country and our allies and let's hold china accountable. steve: there are a lot of people who would like to see the liability with china indeed, senator. meanwhile, let's talk a little bit about the show me state of missouri. i know you are entering phase one officially today. what's the reaction been from the people you talk to? i know you are back in washington right now but you have been home in missouri for a while. how anxious are people about reopening and trying to figure out how to do it going forward safely? >> very anxious. missouriens have been willing to do their part to break the back of this epidemic and they certainly have been observing the social distancing guidelines staying home, doing all of that i can tell that you people are so anxious to get back to work. they are anxious to have that job security and anxious to contribute. missouriens are workers. americans are workers.

they want to be contributing and out there doing. this is great. missouri today gets the option to go back. and missouri the counties and the state and the municipalities i should say the local governments can set their own rules as well. you will see different rules in different parts of the state and that's appropriate. every region ought to follow what the data shows for that region. wherever we can safely get back to work and safely reopen, we ought to do it. brian: right. senator, finally, the new revelations come out according to the a.p. that it looks as though china when they got hit with the virus one of the reasons they weren't transparent they wanted to hoard all the medical equipment and they did. realizing how bad it was, they stopped travel within our country but sent their people to other countries. europe, then to new york. mostly and then, of course, out to tijuana got this right away. and then out to the west coast. we are especially were hit. if these revelations prove true. what does this do to the dynamic between the nations and the rest

of the world? >> well, it means that china ought to be on the hook to pay for what they have done. we know that beijing lied about this virus. they knew about it way earlier than they let on. they knew it was going to be a major pandemic. brian: now we know why. >> they actively lied and they concealed. now we know why. they were stockpiling their own equipment. their own protective gear. listen, they ought to be on the hook to pay back to this country and other nations, our allies what they have done the damages for what they have done. ainsley: all right. thank you so much for being with us. brian: thank you so much. ainsley: yeah. thanks, senator. >> thank you. ainsley: carley shimkus is back in the studio with headlines for us. carley: we begin with your headlines and a fox news alert. a kansas police officer is shot and killed in a shootout with a hit and run suspect oberlin park officer michael mosier was following the car when the driver got out and started shooting. >> he was a good officer.

he did his job. he did his job all the way up until the end. >> mosier was 14 year veteran on the force. he leaves behind a wife and daughter. the fda giving the green light to a covid-19 antibody test that boasts near perfect accuracy. roche's blood test determines whether someone had contracted the virus and possibly built immunity. meanwhile the makers of remdesivir says the drug will be available at hospitals. the company donating entire supply of the drug helping more than 150,000 patients. meat packing plants across the country are looking to ramp up production as some shoppers see limits on the amount they can buy. u.s. output is down almost 11%. factories were shut tfactoryiest down. reopening pork plant in south dakota. shut down two weeks ago due to

outbreak that sickened hundreds. tom hanks lifting spirits to bring a virtual commencement speech to ohio graduates. the academy award-winning actor telling students from wright state university they're the chosen ones. >> you succeeded because of the aid and the love of others that are in your lives without a doubt. but, you have succeeded mostly because you and you alone chose to do so. you are the chosen ones. carley: hanks unking the new grads to help we build. he was the first major celebrity to announce his covid-19 diagnosis has recovered and looking and sounding great. guys. steve: he is indeed. all right. so they did get a commencement and a great speaker. all right, carley. thank you. 15 states that are easing restrictions today including the state of colorado. so why now? we are going to talk to governor

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>> we're not looking to bail out states that were poorly managed. we are looking to help states but we are not bailing out states' finances. >> state and local bailouts we shouldn't be doing that at all. states shouldn't be looking to get free money from the taxpayer because it isn't free. that's not the priority right now in the least. we need to be focused on jobs and getting people back to work. steve: can you see right there moments ago republican senator from mishedz josh hawley echoing the treasury secretary warning

cash strapped states not to expect a federal bailout or other programs as congress eyes another relief package. here with reaction we have the democratic governor of the great state of colorado jared polis. governor, good morning to you. >> good morning, state ultimately all the states need help, what do you need help with? will it include. so big legacy things that some of the larger more industrial states have been asking for? >> it's a time of belt tightening for everybody. families are tightening their belt if they are going to from two people to working to one or somebody is out of work for a few months. appropriate that state and local governments also tighten their belts. it's a difficult time. we appreciate the role our federal government has played. certainly to support the states on the covid response has been great. the cost could very well be more as covid response lasts more than people think while the state at home periods were effective in bringing down exponential curves.

it's likely the virus will be with us for many months or god for bid years until we develop a vaccine or a cure. steve: that's right. fingers crossed. president said last night he hoped we have one by the end of the year. 115 different projects are being run right now all in the name of trying to figure out how this disease, this virus works. and impacts people. meanwhile, let's talk a bit about what's going on in your state as we move from stay-at-home to safer at home. what does that mean? >> yeah, basically coloradoens are able to return to work. we had our stores open last week and barbers and salons. today this is a monday. first day office workers are back. doesn't look exactly like it does. so our offices are going to be at half capacity to make sure people can be a little bit further away from one mother. we are encouraging telecommuting for everybody. state is an employer. model 70% telecommuting right now. any company that could be tell

telecommuting should. we realize some have to go in. today up to half can go in and stores are open. steve: right. stores are open and i know barber shops are open and salons as well. things are happening differently. i was reading one report of a barbershop where they were so excited to get back to work. then they were thinking how do we do that in the customers all sit out in their car until it's their turn and then they get a text from the barber who says come on in and they have got disposable cape and it's just a completely different world than it was two months ago, governor. >> that's right. no waiting in the lobby of the store when it's your turn you go in. there is nowak-ins. it's reservation only. obviously the barber is wearing a mask. and the customer is wearing a mask, too. which means they can't get a shave service right now. you know, for this to work, people have to do it safely, right? we want to make sure that the virus doesn't get a foot hold

and we have the kind of that trajectory like they had in new york city and italy. that's why we want to avoid. at the same time, people want to be able to earn a living and be able to work. we need to do it with safety protocols weren't in place in italy or new york. steve: sure. of course, the safety net has been unemployment insurance. and i know a number of states have struggled with the overwhelming demand. how has your state done and i know the money comes from the federal government. do you have enough to satisfactory the requirements of the people who are coming in, knocking on your virtual door and asking for help? >> we prioritize scaling up our website. nobody anticipated i think in any state how many unemployment states would be filed. colorado, ui.gov. we just hired a private call center to augment our department of labor. yeah. there is a lot of inquiries come in. i hope that tapers off a bit now that folks are able to go back to work and earn a living. the truth is this is a major

economic event. not just the health event. you know, when you talk about colorado, two of our important industries are tourism and the energy industry. it's going to be a long time until those two industries recover even if manufacturing and retail and other industries recover. it's not so much that folks can't come here, they can. the flights are still flying. tourism a long time until it's back and a long time until we are ready. steve: people of your state must be happy while things won't be back immediately. you are taking a testament ultimately that's how you get where you are going. >> it is. and it's just, you know, stay-at-home is so unsustainable. like the most draconian thing can you ask people to do for a short period of time. and across the country. all 50 states people really did stay at home. it was incredible. that's not the way we humans live. we are social animals. we interact with others. we have to do it in different and safe ways. groups of 10 or less. 6 feet apart where we can we

have to start being able to do this the way that's psychologically sustainable. economically sustainable but also works from a health perspective so we don't overwhelm our hospital system and everybody who contracts covid-19 gets a fighting chance of making it through by having a hospital bed available for them if they need it. steve: that's absolutely right. we didn't want to overwhelm the hospitals and so far so good. governor jared polis from the great state of colorado. good luck to the great people of colorado. >> thank you, steve and good morning. steve: good morning to you. more protests erupt over lockdown orders. some in california have had enough and defying the governor and reopening businesses on their own. dave rubin says california is a diverse state and should be treated that way. dave is coming up next. - [narrator] soon, lights will come on.

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carley: justice department siding with a virginia church suing democratic governor ralph northam. threatened for holding palm sunday service. accusing him of breaking social distancing guidelines. the justice department saying the state should trust that worshipers would keep a state distance. nebraska will open its polling stations for the primary election next tuesday despite coronavirus concerns. this will be the nation's first in person election in more than a month. state legislators are encouraging people to use early and absentee ballots. steve? steve: all right, carley, thank you. meanwhile antilockdown protests continue across the country. out west in california, hundreds rallied against governor gavin

newsom's order to close the beaches. something president trump says should be open. >> i really believe you can go to parks. can you go to beaches. you keep it, you know, you keep the spread. you stay away a certain amount. and i really think the public has been incredible. brian: three counties in california taking it one step further defying the governor's stay-at-home order allowing businesses to reopen. ainsley: joining us now from the golden state is author of the new book "don't burn it book, thinking for yourself in an age of unreason" david reuben. good morning, david. >> good morning. ainsley: we will talk about your ghook a minute. wanted to get your reaction to the three counties in california gavin newsom stay at home one of those counties doesn't even have a case. not one covid case. so, why do we have to follow these rules? california is huge. it's not a one size fits all

thing. what do you say? >> yeah. well, as you guys know i'm in california right now. it's super early. it's still dark so i was able to walk my dog this morning without having a neighbor snitch on me. that's one thing apparently our mayor eric garcetti wants. in terms of the whole state and what gavin newsom is doing. if you take the beaches away from californians, it was about 85 and sunny this weekend the entire time not a cloud in the sky. it's like why are we paying these crazy taxes? you know, we have a state that the infrastructure is failing. our education system is terrible. without the beaches and without the ability to be outside and i will give trump credit where it's due, yeah, of course, open up the beaches. make sure people are social distancing. but the idea that you can't walk out there with a towel, sit with your family, stay far away from somebody else, wear a mask if need be, et cetera, et cetera. just because they have the power to do something doesn't mean they automatically should. and they don't really explain why they are doing it. so you may have seen the video

of the deputy mayor of los angeles in a helicopter. and he is showing a completely empty beach. and the way he treated it implied he was sort of proud of it. it's like that is really a rest pay for a disaster in a state like this. i know a lot of californians that are thinking of looking at texas and florida and washington and some of these other states. steve: you know, what dave, while the beaches are locked down in california, they are closed there. yesterday, we ran some video earlier of this great big trump boat parade that went from jupiter inlet down to mar-a-lago where i think there are 600 or 700 boat. everybody walls flying trump flags. everybody was social distancing. it's a tale of two different states. what does california know that florida doesn't know? >> well, i don't think california knows anything that florida doesn't know. florida may know something that california doesn't know. i think when you have big

government progressives in charge of the city here in los angeles and then the state itself, it's like they like the opportunity to use state power. and all of us have been trapped in our houses for two months. we haven't rioted. we have done things right. we have gotten through this unemployment. we have tried to help each other. i now know more of my neighbors from the last two months than i have in the previous two years. we are going out of our way to do good at the individual level. but i think some of these people come in and then they think that it's their job to just tell us all absolutely how to live. and it's not to say that we should just open unjust like that and there is a one size fits all policy to do it. obviously it's different in every state. new york has a particular situation that say montana doesn't have. california may have a unique situation. but it's like if you don't let us go to the beach, if you don't let us -- i can't just invite two friends over for dinner at the moment? i'm fairly certain that i can't even if they have been

quarantining and i have been quarantining. it's like if you don't let us do these things, then at some point people will break. and do you know what i think that the progressives are misunderstanding here is that americans love liberty. americans love being free. we will be responsible. and we're willing to take some risk. but we can't live like rats trapped in our houses forever. brian: absolutely, i just saw in illinois. you can take your boat out only with two people. really? if you have a family of four and have you been hold up with that family of four. have you got to tell two of the little kids to stay home because obviously they are a threat. meanwhile, let's talk about your book. says don't burn this book thinking for yourself in the age of unreason. give me an example of the unreason. how see it but in many cases we are afraid to point it out because of ri ridicule. >> that's exactly the thesis of the book there are way too many. i would say almost the largest

growing political movement in the united states right now is good, decent people who are just afraid to say what they think. they are afraid of the mob. they are afraid of outrage cancel culture. i'm not talking about people with truly nef nefarious believ. people want lower taxes and afraid they are going to be called racist. really sort of crazy stuff that we have seen this twitter mob and online mob go after people's jobs. it goes after virtually every fox host for saying things. there is a reason that they do. this because they are just trying to instill fear in people. i'm someone that's been through many versions of this myself. as you know i'm a former lefty that has moved right in recent years. and one of the things that the left doesn't like is they don't like when one of their people walk. so i have been through the outrage machine and i have survived it. really this book is a tip on thousand think for yourself. you know, we live in a time where everyone seems to think

you have to check off the 10 boxes that the lefties want or the 10 boxes that the righties want and that's the only world we can exist. in most of us have a drs set of views. i try to lay out what my political views are. if you have 8 of these 10 things that's okay too. and we're too obsessed with political parties instead of thinking about really what makes us better as a nation. the things that i think make us better are limited government. our states' rights. things that we're suddenly thinking about states rights. that's great we haven't talked about that in america in a long time and individual rights. if you are a member of america, if you are a legal citizen in america, you should be treated exactly the same under the law as anybody else. ainsley: congratulations, dave on the book. dave reuben if you want to pick up his book "don't burn this book" thinking for yourself in the age of unreason. have a good one. >> thanks, guys. ainsley: you are welcome. 7:36 here on the east coast. new dhs report says that china

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and author of trump vs. china america's greatest threat. >> good morning. ainsley: i have heard some opinions about this. the president -- the government is telling us they were trying to stock up on their medical supplies that's why they didn't want our country to know. that's why they waited almost a week to tell everyone. theory they are such a powerful country, they didn't want to be the only ones affected by this and the economy was affected only in china. so they didn't tell the rest of the world. what do you think? >> >> well, i think we don't know some of their motivation but we know what they did. and i think if the chinese wanted to clear this up, the dictatorship could allow american and other western scientists and medical doctors to visit wuhan, to visit the labs to interview the people involved. i think secretary pompeo was almost certainly right when he said that the preponderance of the evidence now is that it came

out of the military lacks. it did not come out of the markets. and, if that's true. that raises some very serious questions. there has been a long period of people warning about the chinese labs that they are very badly run. they are very unstable. that people have a real propensity to leak out of them. and tough recognize, you are talking about probably by the time this is over, more than 400,000 people worldwide will have died because of the chinese dictatorship. this is directly the fault of the dictatorship which as early as november, first cases and as early as the middle of december began to realize that there was an epidemic in wuhan and lied to the entire planet until very late january and has never allowed any of the western scientists or doctors to come in to wuhan and find out what happened. so, i think the burden of proof is on the chinese. and i think that frankly the congress audited to be holding

hearings on this. we ought to be adopting legislation to allow americans to sue the chinese government for their loved ones and we ought to be looking at reparations from china. i think the germans have indicated they think the chinese owe them $149 billion for the damage they did to the german economy. the amount here would be incalculably bigger. steve: of course. not only has the united states been hit so hard, newt, you were ther --are there in rome, italy. the good news after 8 weeks the lockdown is going to be lifted today. 4 million italians who work in manufacturing and construction are going to go back to work. speaking of going back to work. u.s. senate going back to work at 3:00 this afternoon. u.s. house is not. nancy pelosi, the speaker, used to be your job, says not going to do it right now. >> well, i think, i saw something correctly this morning, she has indicated probably going to come back next

monday. i think there is no excuse for either the house or the senate not to be in session. you can't ask the rest of america to take risk. every truck driver, every grocery store clerk, you know, every first responder, millions of americans are taking risk and it's reasonable to ask our elected officials in a prudent way, following social distancing, washing their hands and when appropriate wearing a mask. but it's still they ought to be at work and really paying attention both to the chinese role but also what's happening at home let's switch gears and talk about the response. obviously joe biden doesn't agree with any of it. he combined with elizabeth warren kind of interesting combination there to write an editorial it. said this: there is no oversight -- here is an excerpt. no coronavirus that's what trump

wants. quote from the op-ed trump seems to think is he direct founding to the crisis depending on which politicians are nice to him. which states is he trying to win in november and which businesses he wants to enrich all without any accountability, we have a different view. that is not the case at all. no one has really said that but he has pointed out illinois who seems very hostile and he is not really pulling off the most efficient performance. but, do you think that's an accurate portrayal and what do you think of that combination of those two writing together? >> well, look. i just went through all of yesterday's introduce. the democratic governor of new jersey was praising trump. governor cuomo of new york has praised trump. even the governor of illinois a lot of resources. governor newsom in california, a democrat, has praised trump. so, i think that biden has got

us -- it doesn't matter whether it makes any sense or not. and i think he is in a difficult spot right now. so, i think he -- you have to assume he will attack the president. but the fact is when the president correctly cut off travel from china, it was biden who attacked him and said it was racist. it was xenophobic. biden has to look back and say was trump right? i think everybody agrees he was. was trump right or should we have followed the biden policy which would have allowed another couple hundred-dollar chinese to fly in bringing with them the pandemic. ainsley: all right, newt, thank you so much for joining us. >> good to be with you. ainsley: thank you. 47 minutes after the hour. everyone is talking about the new michael documentary. what was it like to try to guard m.j. in his time. we have jeff howard k. stern check. have -- jeff hornacek. and is he going to do it with his daughter abby

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brian: greatest player in nba history leading the chicago bulls to six championships. what was it really like to play against michael jordan? >> he was something else in terms of you could double-team him. he would know when it was coming.

he would get out of it. he was -- i always felt like i had a pretty gig challenge to his shot and i would fall back down in the ground and he would hang in the air. brian: that's part of a fox nation schedule called guarding jordan available told. here with more is fox nation host abby hornacek who nailed a big interview with her dad. i don't know how did you it? >> i had to call, it took a lot. brian: you were very friendly with his wife. so, abby, you did have that advantage. >> she did birth me. brian: jeff, i don't want to give away the whole special. we are watching fascinated by this series. even though i watched if. i didn't get inside documentary bring us inside this. give us an idea what it was like trying to guard him. >> well, you know, you see a lot

of highlights where he takes the ball with one hand and and just pulls it over top the guy. he had huge hands he could do anything with the ball. you had to double-team him. you know, as he older, we were already 35 years old. so we were at the tail end he developed that turn around fade away jump shot that you no chance of guarding you just hoped he missed it. still had the athleticism to still go in there and dunk the ball and slither between two guys and throw up his little spin shots. it was anner are a where you would grab and hold him and he still slid through. it was pretty tough. brian: you were 6 years old when he retired. what was it like questioning

your dad knowing so much about sports anyway. >> it was unique. being home and huge blessing to go through the old tubs where i found the old jersey. still has the box smell. a little big on me. he was going to work and then when he came home he was a dad. so i don't think i really understood the magnitude and now watching the last dance and watch the 1997-1998 nba finals over and over again, it's eye ownershipping how the nba used to be and how good he was. i watched his trick shots and he will be humble about it, but i think it's such a unique experience to get that firsthand and learned a lot of great stories. i don't want to give it away. you have to watch the fox nation special. brian: you guys have as many wins as the bulls in the beg season and even though the bulls coming in as champions, you felt as though you could win this series. >> i think in 97 we felt they were the better team. in '98 we felt like we were.

we had a 10-day layoff after we had swept the lakers kobe was young and we see those highlights shot a couple air balls. we had 10 days off. we got back to playing 95% 96%. to beat michael you needed 100 percent. we were banged up a little bit too. i had a couple things. they were banged up, too. it was one of those series that, you know, abby watches the games, i need to show her tapes when i was 26 not 36. >> you saw how tough they were. and i learned that he hit his head. going back to the first question he hit his head on the ground the night what was that the 97 nba finals against the bulls? >> it's embarrassing story. >> he was cleaning out the garage and at the hospital until 4:00 in the morning and went to play the game the next day. that's a pun thing i learned from my mom.

according to mom he was laying in a pool of blood. >> no concussions back in the day. >> he sure had one i'm sure. brian: i did not know that jeff. so you broke news again, abby. you raised a final journalist. i didn't know that story at all. jeff, look forward to meeting you in person. as you know abby is a super star. did you a great job raising her. i will make sure she stays in line in the office when we finally get back there when it's all said and done. jeff, thanks for your perspective. i look forward to the fox nation special on it. all right. thanks. guys. still to come on our show. sarah huckabee sanders and house minority leader kevin mccarthy will be here live. by the way don't forget the fox nation special. love it. ll start realizing that they don't recall things as quickly as they used to or they don't remember things as vividly as they once did. i've been taking prevagen for about three years now.

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counties. retailers can open up 25% capacity and restaurants with 25% capacity with 6 feet between tables, steve. steve: meanwhile, ainsley n kansas some businesses can open as long as they too can maintain 6 feet between customers and must follow cleaning practices, bars, theaters and casinos must stay closed. meanwhile one state over in missouri restaurants will will be allowed to open with no more than 10 people at a table, brian. brian: all right, in nebraska restaurants, salons, tattoo parlors can open and elective surgeries may resume, as long as they have two-week supply of ppe, varies from state to state. lawmakers set to return to capitol hill today, however, the house will stay home. that was their decision and that was interesting because we will have the house and basically let

the senate really have the floor and on top of that, the senate is going to be looking at a possible recuse but if you listen to larry kudlow, listen, let's pause. we haven't spent the 3.9 trillion we allocated for this emergency and they're all over the place on what they want to do with this whole package or whether we even need one, ainsley. ainsley: let's bring in, brian, and steve let's bring in sarah sanders, former white house press secretary, good morning to you, sarah. sarah: good morning, thanks for having me on. ainsley: we had the town hall, bret and martha did a great job interviewing the president at the lincoln memorial, many of us are scared that we will get it and many are scared of losing our jobs and watching the economy crumble. listen to this. >> you can satisfy both. you're

scared you're going to stay back a little bit and watch it but there are other people scared in locked in a room and losing their job and not having any income and for the first time, these are workers and people that want to get back to work and make a living and they're afraid that their job is going to be there. so i understand that very well. ainsley: what's your reaction? sarah: i think the president is exactly right, that he has a difficult job in finding that perfect balance. obviously we want to do everything we can to protect american lives while at the same time protecting american livelihood. i think the president has taken the right approach in allowing states to have a lot of flexibility and making decisions that are the best for those states. i think mayors being empowered are also a good thing because what works in arkansas isn't necessarily going to be what works in new jersey. i think the federal government has taken the right approach in providing resources and that

flexibility to allow states to make those decisions. as you guys talked about, there are a lot of states that are making some steps today to start the reopening process. the american people are the type of people that want to work, they want to go out and do their part and a lot of people have kind of that mental and emotional health tied to working and they want to get back out there and i think that if they're in a place and their workplace can allow them to safely return, that's a good thing for a lot of americans. those that are most vulnerable still have to take recautions -- precautions and make sure they are following guidelines. steve: you know, sarah, everybody is excited about reopening the country for business, but at the same time the door may be open, but the

question is, when will the people come in. as the people at the business try to figure out how to run and operate at a safe distance and things like that, then there's got to be confidence in the public that when i walk in the place i'm going to be safe and i think that -- i don't know if that happens today or if it takes a little time. sarah: again, this is one of the things that is so difficult about the process. it's unprecedented and something none of us have been through before and businesses are going the extra mile trying to reassure the customers, process that is -- processes that they have put in place allowing curbside pickup have helped a lot and i think we will continue to see that -- maybe that becomes the new normal. hopefully over the course of next several months we can get back to where group gatherings

something that we get to do again. some people in our household are ready to see friends and family on a regular basis again. brian: sarah, i don't want to think politics is playing a role but it's hard not to see what is happening in michigan, seeing the outrage and slow rollout and wonder if the democratic governor, democratic governor of maine and the democratic governor of california are creating outrage because of the citizens are seeing they need a faster pace with the rollout and i hope the democrat governors are going i'm no no rush to turn the economy around for the president, do you fear that or am i overthinking it? sarah: look, i think the governors are trying to make the best decisions they can but ultimately they have to remember that they have an obligation to the people of their state to allow them to provide for their families and if everyone else -- and they get to a place where they can safely do that they have an obligation to at some

point allow that to take place. i think we need to provide the support, the resources and i think the president has done exactly the right thing in providing that flexibility, providing financial resources for states and in terms of supplies so that they can do that and continue to do that and hopefully the governors will make the right decision to do what's best for the people in their communities, both protecting their health and protecting their economies because at the end of the day, those people are going to be voted for as well. they'll either get to keep their jobs or not because they did the right thing by the people in those communities. ainsley: that's right. so sarah, we've all had to find ways to talk to our children about this depending on their age we give them specifics. my daughter is 4, she doesn't really understand this but -- how old are your kids? >> i have an 8-year-old and 6-year-old and a 4-year-old. ainsley: okay, so the president was asked about it how he's telling his son, how he's talking to his son about it and grandkids, listen to him.

>> i sat down with my son and i sat down with my grandchildren and i said a terrible thing that's happened and a thing that we have never experienced. something happened and we will be strong and get out of it and our country will be bigger and better and stronger than ever before. ainsley: how did you talk to your children, sarah? sarah: much in the same way. i think the most important thing we can do is be honest with our kids and transparent. my kids are young so it's hard for them to process everything that's going on. they don't understand why they can't go to school or why they can't play with their friends every day but at the same time we tried to focus on some of the positive things that we still live in the greatest country on the face of the planet, we have a god who loves us and ultimately this is all under his control and we got to pend a lof time with family. we have been homeschooling our kids and that could be a

detriment but at the end to have day we try to be honest with our kids and it's difficult to hear your 4-year-old pray every night that he hopes phone gets killed from the virus but at the same time we try to reinforce that, we have a god that loves us and that we are still in america, resilient and tough country and we will come back and we will come back stronger and we are going to do that together as a family and as a country. steve: that's right, we are in this together. sarah, what do you make of the fact that over the last week or so the president has done the nightly 5:00 o'clock or 6:00 o'clock p.m. press briefings where it might go half hour, might go two hours and does targeted business events, he has guests in the white house and you had big event last night at the lincoln memorial. is that more effective at getting the message out?

i saw that over the last 2 weeks, i think it was gallup says the president's ratings have gone up 6 points in two weeks? sarah: i think it's great for the president to speak to the american people. he does that in a variety of different ways. some days it's by twitter and some days by lincoln memorial hall and i think the most important thing is the president has been accessible and he has been up front and vocal and shown he's an actual leader in the time of crisis. he's presented up in the time that we needed him the most and he's been up front and center and that's been really important and when he needs other people to come in, whether it's the vice president, larry kudlow, dr. fauci and dr. birx and others to come forward and talk about a different message, he's done that. i think he's done the right thing in providing constant and frequent information. i love the different formats and venues. i think he should continue to do that and i also think kayleigh

mcenany did a phenomenal job last week in first press briefing. i think it's a good idea to mix that up and engage and speak on his behalf as well. brian: sarah, the new york city had a brilliant idea. they thought it would be a great idea for dnc to investigate joe biden about the sexual assault. let's really get to the bottom of it. you know they will drill down deep until they get the answer. everybody is saying, are you kidding me. i think i will reject my subscription again. also add to this on the allegation from tara reade, fox news has learned that ronan farro is doing extended piece of the new yorker. the last thing the country needs a sex scandal to go through it but it's not our choice, where do you think this is reading? sarah: look, when you first said "the new york times" had a good idea i knew something must be wrong. the idea that the dnc would be the one to take the lead on any

investigation involving one of their own candidates is laughable. i thought it was an onion headline and not a new york times headline. they should be ashamed of themselves for suggesting that idea. at the end of the day people want fairness and the hypocrisy from the left is truly mind blowing. the fact that they went so aggressively after justice kavanaugh and demanded to get to the bottom of things but we wanted to brush this aside i think is the real challenge that most people are dealing with right now and they want to see a level of fairness from both sides and the hypocrisy from the media and the left on this is really hard to swallow. i think that we should move forward and put the information out there and let the investigation go where it may and maybe joe comes out great and good for him if he does, but at the end of the day, we have to go through the process of the investigation and see what happens and it should be fair on

both sides. ainsley: okay, sarah, thank you for joining us. sarah: great, thank you so much. ainsley: you're welcome, we will hand it over to carley, she's back in the studio with headlines. carley: that's right, we begin with fox news alert. jillian assange extradition hearings from the uk to u.s. is postponed till september due to covid-19 concerns. wikileaks founder too unwell and could be moved to another court until next follow-up in june. he's accused of leaking thousands of u.s. secret intelligence documents. if he convicted he could face up to 11725 years -- 1725 years in prison. thousands waking up without power after strong storms rolled through tennessee. heavy rain and strong winds flowing through nashville, more than 100,000 people in the city

don't have power. it's one of the largest outages on record. sadly an off-duty veteran firefighter was killed by a fallen tree branch in his home, more severe weather is expected in the midwest today. listen to this, the u.s. air force bans saluting on the front line. from the mountain to the prairies to the ocean ♪ ♪ ♪ carley: member os testify band singing god bless america. air force thanking nurses, doctors and everyone on the front line, for more inspiring stories like this visit our website foxandfriends.com. steve: those all get me.

carley, thank you very much. straight ahead president trump thinks there could be a covid-19 vaccine by the end of the year, could that actually happen? dr. oz will explain how it might coming up next.

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could be one vaccine by the end of the year which is very ambitious? dr. oz: it is ambitious and i'm hearing optimistic feedback from guests on show. usually 15 to 18-month process because it take years to make a vaccine but also in line with dr. fauci i had on the show arguing by the beginning of 2021 we should have vaccine. what changed? , first off dozens of companies racing for vaccine. half of them are in north america. when we got news about the virus a lot of companies are running into the area and many are not traditional vaccine companies. now, member, 90% of the vaccines aren't going to work. they're looking at different ideas like taking snippets of rna or dna.

it's like putting a polka dot jacket and putting into a person and seeing if the immune person can recognize the polka dot jacket. here is the real issue, can we make vaccines available even before we know if they work? that's where a lot of the time gets lost. you have to gear up, build the factory to make the vaccine and with federal government support we can make some on the ones experts think are most valuable and start producing those and ready to go if we prove the vaccines effective. steve: one of the thing that the president said yesterday he doesn't care who comes up with it, whether it's somebody in another country, just so long as they get it done which would be great. meanwhile, you know, we have been talking about different medicines, pharmaceuticals used to treat the symptoms and try to alleviate or short the span of

it and remdesivir 15 days to 11 days or something like that. it knocks a number of days off of it and now we understand from the ceo of the company apparently they will start distributing that particular medicine to hospital this is -- hospitals this week. that's really good news, right? dr. oz: it's really good news and they are donating lute of the medication so people can get treated without financial concern. here is the reality we need to have something that works and nice way of starting to build the wall to protect us against covid-19. remdesivir is a good example of that. there's going to be others. nice concept to think about it and as just one block because you will have to have other additional elements that prevent from getting it from the beginning or people who have immune response at the end and

sometimes you want to use medication early and another one later. you need to have a slew of them. remdesivir is fantastic news in the community. so we will want more clinical data as well. that's all coming down the pike. steve: it's a race to figure out what works. dr. oz, thank you very much for joining us. dr. oz: take care. steve: see you tomorrow. all right, meanwhile calls for reform at the fbi growing this morning after the revelations from the michael flynn documents. ken starr say it is more we learn the worse it gets for james comey. up next.

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ainsley: restaurants across the country are preparing to open for full service amid the pandemic, but the coronavirus outbreak is changing the industry. kristina partsinevelos from sister station is live with how they are plan forking the future, hey, kristina. kristin: the big question for business owners to customers what is the new normal going to look like once all of the businesses start to reopen. we know across the country it's already happening in a lot of states as well as cities from alaska to utah. i'm in midtown new york right now standing in front of oceana, restaurant, high-end restaurant and we spoke to the owner and he has been describing how cautious they have been about the reopening process and thinking abit for quite some time and several important factors that are going to be changing going forward and the first that they have to move around all the tables, push them back so there's equal social distancing between the tables. they are also creating

single-use menus which means menus will be discarded once you touch them. there's going to be one staff member designated to touching the cut which is cleaned in high-temperature diswasher and the will be wrapped and eliminating private space. this is a bigger issue in areas like midtown where you have businesses around here, big banks, they won't be able to host events in the near term and you have the ongoing, you have to wear masks, i'm not wearing a mask because i'm talking to you guys and gloves, the situation for a lot of the restaurants that slowly start to open and, of course, that's going to hurt revenue and sales because they won't be able to operate at full capacity. something that we will have to get used to but this is slowly becoming the new norm, thank you. ainsley: yes, it is, we miss going to restaurants but we want to stay safe. brian, over to you. brian: all right, thanks, calls mounting for reform at the fbi

after shocking revelations came to light of the bureau's handling of the michael flynn case. shocking to us but not the rest of the media. here with more potential implications for all of this white house independent counsel ken s, the -- starr, legally what changed with the revelations of the mind set going into the michael flynn interviews and knowing about what they concluded? ken: it was unlawful effort by jim comey's fbi. brian, it's very important to draw the distinction, jim comey and the leadership on the seventh floor and the agents, the agents we wanted to close the part of the investigation down, they were overruled. that is simply wrong. it may be unlawful but it certainly highly unprofessional and total unfairness to the

former national security adviser whose career was ruined and unfair to the country. brian: just to look at this a little bit closer, peter strzok was one of two agents that interviewed michael flynn and they had this guy michael -- mr. penetca, he's the one that wrote the 301, the overview of what michael flynn said. peter strzok went back in and changed all of it and in text messages he tells lisa page my hope is i don't change so much and lisa page helps him rewrite it and they come up with a different 302 to give the judge. when we see those facts, what does it make you think? ken: it makes me think that there actually may be criminal culpability on the part, maybe, presumption of innocence, but this is wrong. it is so incredible by wrong as a moral and professional level

and stinks to high -- how could senior people in the fbi engage in this kind of obstructive conduct. if it doesn't meet all of the elements of obstruction of justice it comes pretty darn close but at a minimum it shows that they were out to get general flynn. they being not the line agents but the senior leadership of the fbi. that means they were out to get the trump administration. brian: or does it go back to when he was fired in 2012 being very critical the iranian deal and the obama administration's approach to taking out isis. they we wanted to minimize what al-qaeda and isis was and does it go back to that or was he the obstacle standing in the way, president trump? ken: it may be the former, it may have to do with prior positions but, brian, i will tell you, i think this is all

about the president of the united states and the effort to obstruct the administration and the effort to do everything that they can to make the path forward for the president of the united states including the russia investigation as difficult as possible. it was very, very immoral and unethical. brian: it's a colossal waste of time for our country and so many issues that are going on right now, ken starr, thank you so much. ken: my pleasure, brian. brian house minority leader kevin mccarthy says he wants to get back to work, he has to plan to get back to work, he will share it with us.

>> the greatest thing we could do is get rid of the virus because everything comes back to together. you don't need stimulus once that happens. we are talking about 3 trillion, and could go to 6 and we will have a tremendous year next year because of what we are doing and laying the seeds. ainsley: that was the president last night at the fox news town hall. they were in front of the lincoln memorial. it was a beautiful sight. we all watched it last night. let's bring in house minority leader kevin mccarthy to react to that statement, good morning, congressman. kevin: good morning, thanks for having me back on. ainsley: good morning, do you think there should be more relief? kevin: yes, i do. i'm back in washington today. i'm watching the senate work. i think the house needs to work. i'm on a bipartisan panel. republicans layed out today a plan, four-phase plan how congress can work. we sit here and we look at the

doctors, the delivery drivers, dispatchers, they are doing everything they can to work through this pandemic except congress is not. republicans have a plan to get us back to work and the first phase is let's get our committees back. we don't have to have all of the committees at once but let's work on the bills that are most needed. that's about funding, that's about national defense, our water resources. they can take up the big room so they have the social distancing. the bills are more not partisan but bipartisan, they are needed essential bills. once we pass those, you can bring congress back to vote and we change our voting structure. it's a longer vote not everybody is on the floor at once. we can put flexy glass up much like grocery stores in the areas that are congested. these are the ways that we can make congress actually work because i believe we are essential instead of staying home. steve: yeah, what did you make over the weekend, mr. leader, of

mitch mcconnell and nancy pelosi put a letter together that said while the president had offered some of the quick testing machinery for congress, they declined it saying it should go to other places. would that kind of -- wouldn't -- i mean, the use it at the white house so everybody who comes in contact with the top executives of the country, they know whether that person has it. do you think mitch and nancy got it right and congress doesn't need that stuff? kevin: i have a difference of opinion. as we open up we have to be prepared for any flare-up and that's how you deal with it and having a machine, limit the number of staff, the press and others and inside the committee rooms you can test, that's probably 100 more tests in the process. maybe it would keep us safer and keep the essential work of congress going instead of staying home. i think that would be critical

at the same time and if there's a flare-up you make sure it does not continue to grow and you quarantine the area and tracing to be able to protect. brian: well, no doubt about it, you a plan to get back to work. the senate is back to work. nancy pelosi ran for the hills. so hopefully people understand there's a reason to be fearful but there's a way to do it. the same you can go to cvs and food store and there's ways to do it in congress. you're an essential worker. let's talk about california, also essential is that the governor looks at your state as diverse as it actually is, so many are getting upset because they are getting lumped in with los angeles and defying the lockdown orders. i hope i say that right, modoc, sudar and yuba and defying the governor, who will win the standoff? kevin: i hope it's not a

standoff, 40 million people, 12% of the population of the united states live in california. california is about 4 states in themselves and there's areas that have dense population and some that have large social distancing, those counties that you mentioned are not very large, but large in size but not in population. just as the governors are making decisions and not the president about their states, we should allow local governments to make decisions because they know best and they know how to manage and deal with that situation. that's one one size does not fit all for california. less work for with the local community and watch the governor make a decision about beaches in orange county while the locals wanted to be able to open it up. they had social distancing and it's warm outside and they are the ones with local public health that are dealing with the situation. they are best knowledge on the ground. now, remember, in california we have a democrat speaker of the

house. that democrat speaker in the state assembly is actually bringing their members back this week. unfortunately in congress which i believe is more essential is not, but we have a plan to bring people back in a safe manner working with public health and others just as i was in home depot and lowes this weekend. i think can open up and put plexy glass and get to work. ainsley: thank you very much so much leader if before with us. kevin: thank you. ainsley: let's hand it over the carley, she has headlines. carley: speaking of california, growing backlash in san francisco after a police chief bans officers from wearing thin blue line masks. some officers wore them at may day protests. chief bill scott calling the masks divisive and ordering them to use neutral coverings. blue lives matter new york city founder joseph joined "fox & friends first" and called the move a morale killer.

>> to go out there and you're supposed to be a leader and throw cops under the bus and when you're trying to show support for one another is completely disgusting and maybe the the leader shouldn't be in opposition. carley: well, it's not if but when, so called murder hornets are expected to hit the east coast within 2 years. that's according to bee experts. the asian giant hornet has been found in washington state. the deadly insects measure up to 2-inches long with orange and black stripes. they have long powerful stingers that can puncture bee suits. yikes. tiger woods revealing one of his biggest, biggest regrets is exercise. listen. >> one thing you can go back in time and tell your younger self what would it be, not to run so

much, running over 30 miles a week for first 5, 6 years on tour, pretty much destroyed my body and my knees. carley: 44-year-old has had several surgeries on back and legs and the most recent coming on left knee back in august. now onto some trending stories on foxnews.com, first up a new report by significant number of imported n-95 pacifics fall short of safety standards potentially putting frontline workers at risk. next charles barkley creating a list of the best players the league has ever seen with a few surprising snubs, the hall of famer leaving both kobe bryant and lebron james out and finally , president trump giving boxing legend mike tyson a shout-out on twitter after showing how strong he is. to read stories and so much more download the fox news app. good stuff, guys.

steve: it is, we all have it and we all look at it. thank you very much, carley. meanwhile let's go to janice dean, the weather machine who join us on this first monday in may. janice: yes, and we have interesting weather to cover. first of all, the severe threat that's happening across the plain states, the mid south, tennessee, mississippi river valley, we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect for many hours across portions of kansas and missouri and with that severe thunderstorm warning. that's the area of concern as we go throughout the day today and even into overnight, large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes. the other big story that we are following is the heat across the southwest yet again today and that is spreading into the southern plains with temperatures in the 90's, well over 100-degrees for parts of the southwest again this week. on the flip side of that, this is something we will be talking about for the next couple of days. below average temperatures

moving into the northeast, we could set record cold temperatures for mother's day weekend. we could also see measurable snow across portions of the northeast, may ninth and may tenth. just saying. happy mother's day. [laughter] steve: wow. oh my, oh my. brian: bundle up. thank you, teenager sings national anthem for neighbors every night. she performs live on "fox & friends" next. first on fox news channel ed henry at the top of the hour to tell us what's going on with sandra smith. sandra: brian, you never sing for me. brian: you're right, i never will. ed: good morning, slew of more states to open up economies, president trump declares in fox news virtual town hall that a payroll tax cut for hard-working americans is -- has to be in a fourth stimulus bill.

pete navarro exclusive guest this morning, we will find out what the president is going to do to hold china accountable and move supply chains back to america. navarro has been point on that, maria bartiromo, jason chaffetz, we keep hearing how important contact tracing, guess what, there's an app for that in israel and notifies users when you get close to someone with covid-19, privacy issues before it comes to america, join sandra and me 9:00 to noon ower rate? one call to newday can save you $2000 a year. with newday's va streamline refi there's no income verification, no home appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. it's the quickest and easiest refi they've ever offered. call newday now.

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social distancing, come in golf carts, why are you doing this? >> i did not hear any of that. ainsley: yeah. you are doing a beautiful job. what's your reaction of the neighbors? [applause] [laughter] ainsley: some of your friends come by and seen you do this? >> yes. ainsley: what does the national anthem mean to you? >> everything. it's like a country in a song, patriotism. ainsley: beautiful. okay, let's hear it, let's hear you sing. take it away, sonia.

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