>> all right, set your vcr for fox & friends every single day and if you have some time listen to the radio show from nine until noon. ♪ >> sandra: president trump accelerating his push to reopen businesses across the country saying americans should return to their routines while acknowledging the virus will claim more lives in the process. good morning everyone, i'm sandra smith. >> ed: very pleasant good morning to you. i met henry. he made those remarks while touring a mask factory in arizona and he also said the white house would wind down the coronavirus task force as the nation enters the next phase of reopening. that process ramping up this week with more states lifting even more restrictions. today kentucky allowing outpatient surgeries to get going again. in tennessee, tattoo parlors, tanning salons and barbershops can reopen in most counties.

personal services may also pick back up today in arkansas under certain guidelines. >> sandra: arkansas also extending its emergency declaration for 45 days while ordering travelers from places like new york and in new orleans to self quarantine. all of this easing restrictions as trump's expressed support the importance of getting back to work. >> president trump: i think we are looking at phase two and other phases. the country is starting to open up the task force and has done a phenomenal job. we can't keep our clothes mike country closed for the next five years. most doctors, some doctors say it will happen and it will be a flame and we will put the flameout. >> ed: chief white house correspondent john roberts starts us off on the north lawn. >> what we are saying play out here across the country is keeping americans safe and healthy and to other competing pressure of a potential for an

economic collapse if the economy doesn't get rebooted soon. the white house and many of the nation's governors betting that the mitigation efforts that we have come to accept, social distancing and wearing masks, disinfection and hygiene will keep infection rates in check. the goal of mitigation was to save lives and keep hospitals from being overwhelmed. now the next phase will be containment which is identifying outbreak, fires as the president says and putting them out before they grow out of control. listen to what he said. >> thanks to the profound commitment of our citizens we flattened of the curve and countless american lives have been saved. our country is now in the next stage of the battle, a very safe phase and a gradual reopening. it's a reopening of our country, who would have ever thought we were going to be saying that. a reopening. >> it really is a political higher high wire act.

the economy is in the dumper now but if he pushes too quickly the political cost of doing that could certainly be an arms. for example, new cases in new york state are one quarter of what they were just ten days ago and if those were to start going back up significantly there would be a real problem. nationally the numbers remain naggingly high and some states are still on the increase. the white house believes it is time to begin transitioning to a different phase. a job on the task force was to ramp up domestic supply chains to protective equipment, expand testing and guidelines keep the virus in check. vice president pence saying by memorial day or early june he wants to have the fight against coronavirus over to the agencies responsible likely led by fema and here's what the president said about all that. >> president trump: i think that as far as mike pence and the task force, they've done a great job but now we are looking out a little bit of a different form and that form is safety an

opening. we will have a different group probably set up for that. >> i sat in on a briefing with the coronavirus task force yesterday and what they were driving toward is the idea of getting a vaccine out there as quickly as possible. operation warp speed is what they are calling it and they hope to be on track. they have 100 million doses of what a workable vaccine by sometime in the fall and 300 million doses available by january. it was described as a manhattan style project, the only difference is the manhattan project was a secret and this is not a secret. >> ed: they want everyone to know about it. john roberts, thank you. >> so do you view this as a closed issue or what is your response? >> while it is for me. i have said i'm proud to support joe biden for president and i believe him when he says it didn't happen. i'm not going to answer this question again, i will just say

that i have every confidence that joe biden will be a great president of the united states. >> sandra: house speaker nancy pelosi shutting down questions on sexual assault allegations against joe biden saying she will not answer any more of them. as we learn to, senate records will remain on lockdown despite biden's request to unseal any purported complaint. miranda devine is a columnist for "the new york post" and she's writing about this. good morning, nice to see you this morning. we all heard and nancy pelosi in her own words a case close, i don't want to be asked about this again. what does that tell you about how democrats want to move forward? >> good morning sandra. it's unbelievable really. there is nancy pelosi and what she has said is, believe all women has turned into, "i

believe joe biden" that is just rank naked hypocrisy. these are the same people who just two years ago were branding justice kavanaugh, a family man with an impeccable reputation based on allegations from christine blasey ford with no witness to cooperate and they were saying "believe all women" and justice kavanaugh is a racist. and yet now they rally around, no worries about the women, just i believe joe biden. this is -- men are not by default racist, this is what those of us who were defending justice kavanaugh were saying but it's just incredible the way the democrats are behaving now.

>> sandra: in that same interview she did of course agree with joe biden in the senate source for those documents which we have now been told the senate office can't release those records. maranda, if you can talk directly into your microphone, the challenges of those home studios that we are dealing with every day, so we can hear you loud and clear. because i'm going to read a portion of your op-ed and joe biden is helping to bring the "me, too" movement and is collapsing with it. in that piece you say, "believe all women" is dead, let's dance on its grave. thanks to joe biden, the "me, too" movement has collapsed under its rotten contradictions. it's a poison relation between the sexes than any sapporo said

sit's end of the patriarchy. you have some pretty harsh words there and there -- adjusted you also made some comparisons to the handling of the kavanaugh allegations in the double standard that many have pointed out. >> well joe biden is a man who has spent his entire career zealously consuming the sexual misconduct of others and trampling all of their new persons has accused. like you said years ago, a former staffer. and so he's -- the feminist and justice kavanaugh, and all of them, the many young men on campus. generations of young men who have been demonized thanks to the zealous prosecution and the

rewriting of consent consensual on campus. that is the way our legal system worked. essentially on the conservative side, which is you don't label a man a racist based on that. >> some strong words you had there in that opinion piece published over the weekend. good to see you this morning and thanks so much. >> thanks, sandra. >> ed: a newly unveiled letter from the office of former president barack obama written back in march is now eking out, privately bashing senate

republicans claiming the investigation was it giving "credence" to a russian misinformation campaign. joining us now is kentucky senator rand paul, then at her, good morning to you. why do you think barack obama is playing in the comment do feel there is something that they are trying to hide? >> there's been rumors for a while that people within the obama administration knew there were problems and they want a vice president and maybe even the president about it. i think there could be a smoking gun, that there's actually a record of some of these complaints are going on at the time. there have been some articles written claiming that there were some assistants and others around joe biden saying this hunter biden thing looks bad and you should put a stop to it. but they never did. i think president obama knew about this. i think it's surprising that they should try to keep a lid on it.

>> ed: and as you remember there was a testimony from the diplomat who said, particularly vice president staff privately way back when when they were still in office. they said it was largely ignored. here's a quote from the letter, former president obama writing the current request is not a proper use in terms of documents the republicans want. it arises out of efforts to shift the blame for russian interference in the 2016 election to the ukraine. in the interest of countering the misinformation campaign underlying this request, we have prepared on this occasions to provide the committee access. what are your thoughts on whether you are ever going to get answers about hunter biden's dealings not in just the ukraine but in china? >> i think he's looking into this, and what we have found is every time we have looked into

the corruption, hunter biden said, the russians interfered in our election, not hunter biden in the ukraine. but no one is saying that russia didn't interfere in the election and that russia or the ukraine couldn't interfere in the election. the one thing that had more effect on the election was the firing of the trump campaign chairman over things that came out of the ukraine. these documents were released on purpose from some secret notebook saying that the former chairman had been paid by entities in the ukraine and that probably was more damaging or as damaging as the released emails for hillary clinton. >> ed: i want to get to fisa in a moment, but mitch mcconnell is saying that he has sort of a wait-and-see approach. are we going to seo for stimulus or do you think we will wait and see how the first three are working?

>> people ask me and i remind them we have no money. we have no rainy day account for savings account. the 3 trillion we have already passed out his imaginary money being borrowed basically from china. the irony is we got the virus from china and now we will be more dependent by borrowing money from china. the only thing that recovers our economy is opening the economy. it's not a lack of money, it's lack of commerce. if you let people have commerce and if you let them trade, take them out from forcible home arrest, they say you cannot practice your business and cannot sell your goods. now they are clamoring for federal money and no state mon money. >> ed: last question before the pandemic, the

attorney general said he believes that the terrorist tool and he has to have this. what are your thoughts. >> and it, you shouldn't never allow the secret power and secret courts. americans should not be investigated by the secret court because it's not constitutional. and, it's not okay for americans, so i ban it outright. other people have some window dressing kind of reforms, but i don't think they are enough. and i think that will happen to

president trump again. i hope he vetoes any of this week's sauce with fake reform. >> ed: good to see you back and healthy working on capitol hill. in the meantime, the white house and congress are working for more funding on small businesses. eugene scalia and south carolina senator tim scott will join us in the next hour. >> sandra: we look forward to all that. meanwhile, a bizarre story out of venezuela. the pentagon now denying any role in a botched raid to overthrow venezuela's socialist leader. >> the united states government had nothing to do what was the mic with was happening, and he's a brutal corrupt leader who has oppressed the people of venezuela. and they continue to make the case that he should step aside. >> sandra: two americans allegedly of involved in the operation of the are now under arrest. a closer look of their story and a video of the arrest, just ahead. plus a community outrage after a

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>> ed: supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg has been admitted to johns hopkins hospital after hospital after suffering a gallstone infection where she is expected to remain for two days. she underwent a nonsurgical treatment for a gallbladder condition but still plans to take part in today's oral arguments by our telephone. we will have shannon bream later on that. >> jesse: and while the u.s. hasn't denying any involvement in alleged attempt to overthrow venezuelan president nicolas maduro. this is we get dramatic new video of the botched raid showing two americans among those arrested by venezuelan troops. phil keating is live in miami with more on that. phil? >> 's president trump and defend

secretary esper denying any u.s. involvement, and no details yet involving the status of these two americans either from venezuela or the u.s. state department. both of these men are former special forces soldier is described as venezuela as nothing more than mercenaries attempting a coup. fox news cannot yet verify the validity of this video obtained by "the new york post." aaron berry and luc denman are being arrested after venezuelan security forces said they intercepted them on boats as they approached the coast. nicolas maduro says it was an invasion by a small band of mercenaries aiming to topple his socialist regime. the venezuelan government tweeted out this photo showing the passports and military ideas of the two men. at state tv also showed this video of the group of men under arrest allegedly captured after the sunday incursion which also appears to show the two americans.

a venezuelan helicopter buzzes overhead on the banks of the coastal town of makoto. they claimed responsibility saying it hit a force of 60 venezuelans. i fox news per producer spoke with the parents of one of the captured americans, luke denman. his mother linda k denman says she does not know how her son ended up in venezuela and is worried about him. venezuela's of madero accuses the united state united united d columbia for being behind this coup. they say it's another round of propaganda >> sandra: phil keating, thank you. >> ed: today is national nurses day and the start of nurses week 2020. this week's tribute to our

health euros is particularly emotional. fox news talked to some nurses treating people right now who are terminally a with covid-19 and they fought back tears as they described how they became family for dying patients isolated from their actual loved ones. our correspondent matt finn is live in the chicago hospital with his very poignant story. matt, good morning. >> edit, this morning johns hopkins in chicago has fifth deadliest in the country and the numbers have been bad here for quite some time. then nurses do have their hands full. we went inside of a busy hospital to talk to nurses about this year's national nurses day which falls in the midst of a global pandemic. nurses share their story of patients that recovered and also what it's like to be the only person in the room as coated mic in covid patients in isolation. >> i'm seeing them recover on ventilation, on just almost near death and they are walking out

of here. that gives me so much hope. and i'm proud to be a nurse. >> >> we are completely isolated now, no visitors or family and it's hard to understand the gravity of the situation if you have not experienced it or if you don't have a loved one who has experience it. >> nurses tell many hospitals have been providing patients with the digital pad to video chat with family during isolation. nurses say there is light at the end of the tunnel because people are recovering but the sanitation and social distancing and ppe will be at the new norm for quite some time. for all of our much appreciated health care workers, today businesses like dunkin' donuts are offering free coffee so check out the offers in your area. ed? >> ed: they are heroes.

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market comes up. make sense of all this for us. >> the market is looking toward the future. we knew the number would be bad and it was around as you pointed out 20 million jobs. it was about 9 million slipping away, the small business sector and 5 million. retail operations, none of this is the prize. we knew that and we were expecting that. we were expecting the awful numbers and all of them have come in as people had expected and even worse. the market is looking ahead to all of the states reopening and businesses tentatively reopening, and making the argument. we go from 0% capacity to now a little bit more capacity

depending on the state. 25-50% capacity. we are convinced it will go up. >> sandra: and this is the third straight day of gains. we see many states reopen for business and the president talking about the progress in those states. it would appear the market will give us a chance as the white house keep saying, let's give this a chance and see if this business can open safely as we move through the phases. and reacting to it. every morning i look like, if i share this with the public,

microsoft is launching a whole bunch of new gadgets and already coming up with an apple ipod rival. we just don't know exactly when it's coming out. they eventually will be able to sell that stuff. gm surprised everyone. at gm by making money in the first quarter, and they will lose a lot of money likely in the one that we are in. it does plan to open up a lot of its facilities. it does open up production by the middle of may. if we were really going into the hangman's noose, so they are convinced that better days are ahead.

there is no consistency to this, and i will say that a lot of this on the virus itself, and there are concerns as well about the president may be disbanding or looking at sort of toning down the health care task force. that worries people at these cases do spike. but having said all of that and looking at the promising treatments, focusing on gilead sciences and some of these others but, there are better than 100 vaccines and treatments being worked on simultaneously around the world. something will come of that and i'm not smart enough to know how soon. but i think that is the half full glass on this picture. >> sandra: that is a fascinating aspect to all of this. neil, can you tell us about this town hall coming up? >> i'm really looking forward to this.

ken langone and bernie marcus, they cofounded home depot. what's amazing about the time that they founded, and that's one of the worst recessions we've had in the post-world war ii. neither of these guys can tell the difference between the screwdriver and a hammer. yes, they felt that there was a need for it kind of fix-it operation. they are an eternal optimist and that kind of dna behavior is what we are looking at on fox business. people like that who see beyond the clouds come see beyond the politics, we see beyond the party. >> i love watching the conversations you to have together. we will be watching that.

>> italian versus italian, there you go. >> sandra: good stuff, neil. thanks, see you later. >> ed: meanwhile as the presidenviruskeeps joe biden at, peter doocy is live in arlington, virginia, with the latest on the campaign. good morning, peter. >> the new contract on the campaign trail. arizona, and all the trappings of the presidency. >> i'm thrilled to be here in the fantastic state of arizona. i love arizona. with this incredible crew. had some good moments here especially on election day. >> the morning after that,

photos of his socially distance event on a factory floor are splashed beneath it and this comes as a democratic challenger joe biden exclusively hosts digital events, like tomorrow where they are going to try to limit the people logging in to zoom town hall. and they are connecting with people in public places. he still attempting to do that with a program where they just post a letter someone wrote them and then they post a letter that he wrote back online. a campaign aide tells fox, this series titled specifically "joe biden" will allow people to write to the president about their hopes and struggles and provide a window for those to connect to that moment. for now joe biden will flip multiples swing states without stepping foot in them for several more weeks even though president trump and many residents in the swing states are getting back out there.

>> ed: peter doocy, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: bowed to mike ford motor company rolling out its fofirst air purifier. we talk about how they were able to produce them in just a couple of weeks. plus house republicans demanding adam schiff release documents from the intelligence committee russia investigation. in breaking news on all this, the director of national intelligence just revealing reductions have been made on the public can see the material without classified material being revealed. so why won't adam schiff release those? andy mccarthy will answer that question come up next. >> remember adam schiff is the guy who publicly released the phone records of the president's personal attorney. release a phone records of a

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adam schiff release the transcripts that you over committee already voted to make public. give us access to this agent who was there when they set up general flynn and let us see that original three oh two. >> ed: congressman jim jordan demanding access to russia probe transcripts to calling upon adam schiff to finally release them. jordan along with other house republicans are accusing him of blocking the release. we got some breaking news on that. joining me now is andy mccarthy. let's talk about what's at stake. why do you think adam schiff is reluctant to release those sent transcripts? might it show what was really going on behind closed doors during this investigation? >> sure, eddie. let's go back to the background.

this goes back to the time on that committee was led by devin nunes who is a ranking member, and while that investigation was taking place, adam schiff's main job was to spin for the fbi and spin for the intelligence community come spin for christopher steele and try to subvert and suppress what that then republican community was trying to do. this is just a continuation of that. he's in a continuation now which he wished he was in acton to block the stuff from coming forward. >> ed: because to your point devin nunes may have been pointing out problems in terms of how carter page was treated or michael flynn was treated and it would show that behind closed doors may be adam schiff wasn't being fair to the president. and ric grenell has now written a letter saying all reductions have been done.

there have and, i can tell you that that report, and that's the most important. there hasn't been a great deal of interest for it. i hope that reverses but people are looking at it as, what will durham do? >> ed: yes, john durham and whether or not he's going to get some accountability about how all these investigations proceeded. that leads me to, he's obviously looking to get his case dropped. interesting development, james

gagliano is a former fbi official and he's now saying in an op-ed in the "washington examiner," hold on. it's very upset with how michael flynn was treated. what exactly was to be gained, and it was never going to charge him so it passed. bottom line for you, what's next in the flynn deal and how bad is this for the fbi? >> that's a guilty plea, and there is a very good chance that will happen. do they want to come forward and try this case because that would be the posture we would be and if he got his playback.

that report which nobody can account for, and the credibility of two agents who have big credibility problems. peter strzok and this other guy joe guy who was the major agent in the investigation. if i'm the justice department and the fbi i don't want to go forward with that case. >> jim jordan as you know, we want to get more information. andy mccarthy, thank you. >> sandra: new fallout meanwhile from a shake-up at nbc news. why ousted chairman and a lack could find himself at the center of a new investigation at the peacock network. plus a business owner in texas sentenced to jail for opening her salon. why she says she had no other choice. >> i have rights. you have rights to feed your

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>> sandra: a texas woman sentenced to seven days in jail for reopening her dallas hair salon too soon and repeatedly ignoring court orders to close her shop. brian kilmeade is the coanchor of fox & friends. he joins us now. the audience to get enough of you for three hours this morning so we brought you back for more. but we know you guys were hot on this story this morning. so let's listen to the salon order comic owner, shelley luther, and her own words when the judge gave her an option. she could apologize, she could pay a financial her salon doors until friday or serve jail time.

>> i have to disagree with you sir when you say that i'm selfish because feeding my kids is not selfish. and they would rather feed their kids. so if you think the law is more important than kids getting fed to come then go ahead with your decision but i'm not going to shut the salon. >> sandra: brian, your thoughts on this story? >> number one, they are running out of money. you know the average small business, and do you have a business background, 27 days worth of money and they are out. so you have somebody in a salon, with a few other businesses much like restaurants, and we are all going to wear masks. if there's too many people, they have to wait outside.

income the cops come up they serve a restraining order and she rips it up on the 25th. they bring her to court and, as lonthe judge says you are selfi, i'm not selfish. the irony is, friday may 8th texas is opening up salons with 25% capacity and doing all things to keep people safe. the worry on law enforcement is that they will take people up on that. i just think that about people taking away people's freedom especially in texas is a bridge too far. these lawmakers have to work with business owners to stay open safely and then the customer decides that restaurant is not safe, this one is. this lawn care is about me and understands the potential for illness and i'm going to go there. the one i like to go to doesn't, i'm going to move on. they took that away from people especially in texas and they are

going to fight back. the people i feel worse for his law enforcement. they have to enforce these crazy rules. >> sandra: right. ted cruz the texas senator tweeted about it. he said seven days in jail for cutting hair, this is nuts. government officials don't get orders citizens to apologize to them for daring to earn a living. you look at just this company, they open on friday and they are going to have to social distance and they say the salon owners and barber shop owners have to use their best judgment. it wasn't just her and her kids is miles that needed fed to it was all the people that worked for her in that salon. everyone has an opinion on this. you surely do. we will see how this all goes with the reopen in texas. i've got to leave it there unfortunately brian, great talking to you.

>> all right, tell ed that i said high. >> sandra: i will do that. >> ed: thanks sandra and brian. fox news alert, just moments away from a briefing from secretary of state mike pompeo. it is expected to talk about that botched raid to remove nicolas maduro. we have a live report on this mystery coming up. >> president trump: we just heard about it, whatever it is we will let you know but it hasn nothing to do with our government. st and easiest refi they've ever offered. you can lower your payments by this time next month without having to verify your income, without getting your home appraised, and there's no money out of pocket. one call to start saving $2000 a year. every year. one call. then, sit back, relax and think about what you'll do with the savings.

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>> sandra: fox news alert, right now we are hearing from secretary of state mike pompeo who just began speaking as the u.s. strongly denies any role in an alleged attempt to overthrow the venezuelan dictator nicolas maduro. this is a live image here of mike pompeo at the state department talking about that botched raid ending with two americans captured at gunpoint. we are monitoring that for you. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm sandra smith. >> ed: i'm ed henry. they say secretary pompeo is holding a news conference as we speak and is expected to address what appears to be a failed operation organized by american nurse comic mercenaries. two former u.s. special forces soldiers behind bars. a former u.s. navy seal who is not involved in the actual operation described it as

foolhardy, adding there appeared to have been no serious attempt to actually seek u.s. military support. watch. >> within the first 5 minutes of looking at all the stuff they were telling me, especially when i looked into it, this is not legit, this is not backed by the u.s. government. >> ed: rich edson is live with more details. >> good morning. that's what the president, the pentagon and the state department say that the u.s. had no involvement in this operation and it leaves forces in the custody of the regime. they are trying to figure out what exactly happened. a state department spokesperson says "we will also be looking closely into the role of the madero regime into this melodrama. what is clear is that the former regime is using the event to justify an increased level of repression. venezuelan state media said it

madero security forces arrested ex-green berets of luke denman and aaron berry and showed their u.s. passports, expired military ideas and mva health cards. they learned about the incursion monday from someone who served with luke in iraq. they said they last texted with him a couple of weeks ago. the regime claims it captured denman, barry, and 11 others and killed eight more this weekend and operation designed to remove material from power. it also blames the american contractor who claims to have sent them to venezuela. it's a florida based company called silver corporation usa. the operation had started and silver corporation tweeted at "strike force incursion in venezuela. 60 venezuelan income up to it american x green berets untagged president trump. it's unclear who bankrolled this. we expect he will be asked about

this in the press conference and also will discuss china's early action when it comes to covid-19 and a number of other issues. back to you. >> ed: we will turn on the sound as soon as we get something big. >> sandra: a new report finding u.s. businesses cut more than 20 million jobs in april alone as the coronavirus outbreak wreaks havoc on the u.s. economy. a private industry report this morning from payroll company adp showing the vast depth and scale of job losses across all sectors of the world's largest economy. joining us now is u.s. labor secretary eugene scalia. mr. secretary, good morning. this is a huge day, a huge week where we are slowly seeing parts of the country reopen. first, to the goal of the task force in the shifting of focus to reopening the economy. how do you see that happening? >> well, we are reopening and i

think the majority of the states are putting in place their plans to reopen in a measured, gradual way consistent with what the president and task force outlined a few weeks ago. i flew with the president yesterday ouch that honeywell facility in arizona and it was exciting to be on the road again. i think the president really drew energy from being out with the american people and hearing from the workers and that's a great story by the way about the facility being put up in just five weeks to begin cranking out these n95 respirators. and we are seeing across the country where we've been disciplined and careful for weeks. and you are right, we had some difficult job losses. we are turning a corner now and we are ready to start reopening across the country again in a measured and safe way. >> ed: even mentioned being with the president, one thing that caught my eye is a woman who said she was a veteran

stepped up and wanted to help honeywell get the splint going and get more n95 mask to our health care heroes and all of that. you talk about the american ingenuity you soft close? >> that was so inspiring. at 22 year air force veteran, african-american got up there and spoke about her commitment to the country. as a president has said it, we are in a war and a war that is drawn on americans across the country in a way that i don't thickly seen since world war ii. one of the ways that we won that war, is that countries incredible reduction capacity. not just the front lines but rosie the riveter. what we did at home, ingenuity and creativity, the energy in the private sector. we saw that yesterday and that's part of how we are beating the coronavirus right now.

>> sandra: talk about the balance that this will take to reopen the economy, to reopen the country safely and the willingness on the part of the administration to pump the brake if needed. if we don't see this going well. and as a result, we do see the number of confirmed cases going up. what is the administration's plan if the doesn't go as planned? >> i think what you have seen has been care and thoughtfulness from the president and the task force, from very early days. you will remember that the president acted so swiftly to and to travel to and from china and drew some criticism at the time for acting in such a swift and decisive way and i think we will obviously keep an eye on developments, as will the governors. part of the phase that the president unveiled a few weeks

ago is that we will keep a careful eye on how cases are developing and the like. but we know the basic measures to be taken including in the workplace. we are putting out extensive guidelines for businesses and workers about safety steps in the workplace and we will field complaints, too. if we have complaints we will investigate them. >> axios hasn't interesting stories suggesting that coronavirus is outlasting. but for individuals, who got those stimulus checks, basically the treasury set all this is a bridge for ten weeks. those ten weeks are expiring the beginning of june and we are just a few weeks from that. what have you learned from the early phases that you want the president and congressional leaders to come together on to make sure individuals in our audience are getting the help they need in the next phase?

>> i think the president and congress did act with extraordinary speed up back march to put together the combination of paid leave with small businesses which is reimbursed to the small business and those of very important $600 per week unemployment benefits, unprecedented to have the federal government offering that much in unemployment benefits. and also the paycheck protection program, these are all different steps that are intended to bridge workers during this period of time. but we are turning that corner now and part of what we are focused on is helping workers transition from unemployment back onto the job and we always prefer to have people at work and so we are focused on that as well. >> sandra: mr. secretary we only have about ten seconds left but originally you said you

expected the economy to reopen quickly. he said we have to get the virus under control and then we will be able to reopen the u.s. economy quickly. do you still see that as the case after 20 million people lost their jobs last month alone? do you expect all those jobs to come back online? >> you know sandra, somewhere near 10% of the people who have gone on unemployment have said they expect to return back to their jobs. we know some will be quicker than others but we came into this economic downturn very suddenly because of public health measures and that gives me hope that we can come out of it quickly to the very strong economy that we had under the president's policies just weeks ago. i think we are well-positioned. >> sandra: thanks for your time this morning mr. secretary. >> thank you. >> ed: in the meantime, one month has now passed one we've had a day with fewer than a thousand deaths and new cases

are at about 25,000 per day. this as a handful of states in the heartland are seeing spikes in new cases. meanwhile, tysons foods will begin limited operations of its waterloo, iowa, pork plant which closed more than two weeks ago because of an outbreak among workers. jonathan serrie is live outside of the cdc headquarters in atlanta with a run a rundown elitist details. >> good morning to you. although new cases in new york city, the epicenter of the u.s. outbreak appears to have passed their peak, it's still a different story in other parts of the country. they are not in the clear just yet. part of the problem in the midwest is a meat processing plants where workers are in close quarters and because they play a key role in the nation's food supply chain, companies are making every effort to continue production. tomorrow tyson foods plans to resume limited production of its waterloo, iowa, facility with enhanced protective equipment and social distancing procedures for employees.

today, kentucky is allowing medical centers to resume outpatient surgeries and arkansas and tennessee are allowing close contact services such as barbershops, hair salons and tattoo parlors to reopen with certain restrictions. and now i will leave you with an outlook comic heartwarming story. the staff of a living facility have taken the extraordinary step of sheltering in place with their residence. approximately 70 employees that no longer commute from home but our camping out at work and sleeping on air mattresses between shifts. they are doing this to avoid accidentally bringing coronavirus and from the outside and not wanting to expose the most vulnerable elderly patients in their facility. back to you. >> ed: a very important measure to take indeed. sandra? >> sandra: an nfl hall of famer caught up in a criminal fraud case. investigators want to know why a

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>> sandra: former green bay packers cornerback brett favre is being named in an embezzlement case. a mississippi nonprofit is being investigated for using $94 million in federal money for questionable spending. the group that's accused of paying the hall of famer or a million dollars to speak at events that he never attended. he's not facing criminal charges and has not issued any statement on the matter. >> ed: meanwhile more fall out this morning at nbc following the announcement that and a lack of stepping down as chairman at the news network. reports now emerging that the new york attorney general's office is probing the company for sexual harassment allegation on his watch. howie kurtz is an analyst. we are do you think this story is headed? because he sort of abruptly -- if they announced a couple days ago he is leaving the network and all of a sudden the reports emerged that the new york attorney general is investigating things.

>> what we now know why nbc universal was in such a rush to push antilock out the door because of the state attorney general investigation in which antilock's role would be prominent. and instead of having nbc's own lawyer and maybe this could have been avoided. now they turned on the heat a little bit. that seems to have emerged in these reports that that might be part of it. >> it's a wide-ranging investigation and variety has some of the key details. linda vester who was a longtime correspondent who had already

accused tom brokaw of unwanted advances back in the 90s, she has spoken to the state investigators, as has a former aide to matt lauer as has an employee who worked for chris matthews who was recently fired amid complaints about his movement and also megyn kelly. so this investigation looks to be at a pretty advanced stage, although probably it might lead to some kind of civil suit if there is found to be a hostile work environment. it much less likely there would be criminal charges. >> ed: he is now investigating some of this from the outside as an independent journalist and he was on with tucker last night and here's what he said about the significance. >> that is true. i'm aware of it. i've been looking into it for a story and it was the attorney general's office civil division. so we are not sure if it could

be anything criminal but i do that they've been looking into this and interviewing employees over a number of months. >> ed: an important distinction there that we don't believe this is criminal, it's the civil division. talk about what kind of distinction this may mean in terms of what nbc may be facing? >> well you know, in order to have a criminal case you might have statute of limitation problems but nevertheless this means that the black-eyed that nbc has had through all this is not going away anytime soon. rich mccue is important because he was a vernon pharaohs producer at nbc when andrew lack played a key role in squashing at the reporting harvey weinstein. so while morehead's role? that's a question that people have been asking. when you have a new guy coming in from telemundo, usually a new boss wants his own people.

but they are the ones some of them who also refused to run reporting on harvey weinstein which might have won a pulitzer prize for. but i think that the shake-up is not over. >> so the last question, when he was at nbc, he was trying to investigate harvey weinstein and maybe others. he left nbc and didn't want to run these stories. some of this is coming out, and he was not as sensitive as he could have been, and simply they

all just lost their nerve. but it's a permanent stain. it kicked off the me too movement, and also run and farrell got involved in investigating matt lauer. it's a big fat mass, not to use a technical term and i think it's not over for that network. >> ed: i appreciate you coming on. >> sandra: fox news alert from china and a crackdown on coronavirus patients and their families. a new push to help small businesses wipe loans off of their books to get things up and running again. he will joining us live come up next. >> i've heard from a number of those small businesses that are

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>> i think the lack of chinese transparency is the real story here. it clearly exacerbated the problem and made its distribution around the world dramatically more likely. >> ed: that of course is senate majority leader mitch mcconnell as america ratchets up pressure on the international community hold, holding the them accountable. they have launched a campaign to punish coronavirus patients and their family members. the government is targeting people who reportedly are contracting new cases, speaking about being infected or even trying to mourn the death of a covid-19 patient.

gillian turner is live in washington with more. >> we have learned that the chinese government has indeed launched a crackdown targeting coronavirusurvivors as well as y members who have lost loved ones to the pandemic. national security sources tell us this is the latest in the communist party's ongoing efforts to cover up the early days of the outbreak. inside of the city, which is the epicenter as well as the true extent of the virus spread across the rest of china. the crackdown against the bereaved includes online censorship, shuttering down support groups, police interrogations and even threats against lawyers who are representing chinese victims. secretary of a defense expert says it's all part of a very clear pattern to try to save face at the expense of people's lives. take a listen. >> they need to still allow us

in to talk to the chinese researchers and scientists and to have access. what are they doing? they are trying to capitalize on this by promoting their own image and somehow china is the good guy here. >> the crackdowns are particularly tough inside of wuhan, the outbreak of the virus back in december in "the new york times" was first to report that officials there have also been paying off family members to the tune of 420 u.s. dollars per member lost to the pandemic. china's ambassador to the u.s. is pushing back today and a new op-ed and he accuses u.s. politicians of scapegoating china in order to distract from their own failures. he writes behind the mind-set of always blame china is a kind of dirty politics championed by a few who shifted the spotlight for political gain. as the u.s. and international community ramps up pressure on china's government on the chinese communist party to come

clean and be held accountable for the spread of the virus, our national security sources say this is an important reminder to point out to folks, the chinese people and chinese citizens are also hungry for accountability and for the government to account for how they manage the crisis during the early days of the outbreak. >> ed: a lot of people looking for accountability. gillian turner, thank you. >> president trump: our ppp or paycheck if you want to call it that where a small businesses are given billions of dollars so they can take care of their employees, we've done a lot of other -- we've done $2 trillion and that's actually close to three if you really added up. but $2 trillion has been approved and we will probably do more. it's a stimulus, it's two keep people employed. >> sandra: that was president trump in an interview

talking about the paycheck protection program or ppp during a trip to the area. now our next guest is teaming up with democratic senator doug jones to give them better guidance on all of that. joining us now is republican senator tim scott of south carolina. senator, good morning. so good of you to be here and so many questions. we all want to help our small businesses, they are the engine to this economy. so, why is this guidance on loan forgiveness so important? >> businesses need certainty and predictability. and clarity on the forgiveness and divisions and we have

business owners that have taken the word of the government that these loans will be forgiven and for us to not have greater clarity of how that will happen, where you go to get that forgiveness, that will bring the ability and the focus on getting this economy going. the president has done an amazing job of probably saving more than 50 million american jobs and the two rounds of the paycheck protection program. now those business owners need the certainty and the confidence of those loans will be forgiven so they can focus on the future and not the past. >> sandra: very interesting. senator marco rubio and other lawmakers are on the ground in their state, and marco rubio said he talked to a bunch of restaurant owners. and they might need more. is the senator. >> i was with a group of restaurant owners yesterday.

and there's no way they will be up and running. >> it's not like the restaurant can flip a switch and they are back to 100% capacity booking every chair and table in the restaurant, senator. this will be a process. it will be a long painful process. you have a certainty and predict the building i was about before. but it will also require a new standard for those now with 40

people as a maximum capacity with 5 feet or 6 feet of distancing. but labor costs will either be stagnant or slightly less. and in places like south carolina we now have outdoor sitting which means you can sit outside but the vast majority of the seats are in the inside. that's really a challenging proposition and that is how these employers needed confidence that comes with certainty and some inns, insulation about what the future looks like. >> sandra: they will have to make decisions about how to provide a safe environment. and he said they also have to

see confidence on the part of the consumer should they actually want to do that. >> we are in a wait-and-see mode because we want to see how effectively people can turn their economies back on and how much output they can get when they do and how that slows the burn rate. because until you have some clarity about the first stage of the crisis, and that makes people optimistic. they look really now into the numbers. >> confidence is what drives the economic engine all over the world and specifically in the aftermath of a pandemic. that's one of the reasons why u-shaped recovery is more than likely then the u-shaped recovery. business owners to have confidence is one thing but for consumers to have that

confidence is another thing. does that mean that consumers are going to have the confidence to come into those businesses? two important components to that. i think the more components we have come and the second part which we have for business owners to open their businesses, they resolve the issue of liability and that's a major issue. so one of the things we should have it as our top priority to help build confidence in solving the issue of liability for business owners and providing more resources and for consumers. when that happened, liability issues, and those three things lead to a sharp recovery. >> sandra: sharp recovery. >> i think it will be slow for may and june but in july as

things start heating up literally in our country from a weather perspective, we also lead to heating up in our economy at the same time. june will look similar to me, and start seeing an uptick. we are looking forward to a sharp recovery in july and certainly august. football season, lots of confidence in the economy and that will also create the kind of skyrocketing effect to that we are hoping for in september and october. >> sandra: we go back to the words of kevin hassett, it will be a wait and see certainly over than coming months on how that all plays out. senator, great to talk to you and thanks for coming on this morning. >> ed: thank you senator and sandra for switching gears. meanwhile from going from building cars and trucks to building air purifying respirators. and now making the first delivery to health care workers on the front line.

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>> sandra: a georgia prosecutor is recommending a grand jury review in that fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by two armed men in glenn county. this in the new emergence of a shooting. the 25-year-old was out for a run when two men with guns confronted him. the men told police they thought he may have been a burglar. the county is to to press charges before the bid to make the video came to light sparking protestant parts of georgia. the state attorney general releasing statements with news reports that i have seen, i'm deeply concerned with the events surrounding the shooting.

>> ed: and e-cig good story, a case of american ingenuity. after teaming up with 3m to build urgently needed air purifying respirators against comic and the fight against covid-19, the first shipment is off assembly lines and on its way to health care workers who need it. joining me now is jim brumback, vice president i had ford. talk to us about this air purifying respirators we heard about, ventilators and respirator masks, but what is a function for them and what do they specifically do, and how helpful will these be on the front lines? >> they are trying to protect the occupants who are wearing them from contaminants who outside of the mask. there are a lot of covid patience and the virus could be airborne. by how having an air purifier on we are protecting them by filtering air and keeping that positive pressure inside of the

mask so that contaminants can't get inside to the person that isn't wearing it. and how did they come up with relatively short notice to help out? >> we got together about 45 days ago and we've been in an all-out sprint and were inspired by the men and women on the front line. the health care workers and first responder needs. i'd like to make sure we do anything and everything we could to help. and that required us to look at things we could do immediately fast and to date, we've shipped

over 12 million of these plastic face shields to frontline workers. and we want to make sure that they had that mass protection available. i'd be looking at what we had off-the-shelf with automotive components to actually make the path. how quickly do you shift back because as i understand there's a pretty big supply of cars in the pipeline already and people haven't been buying them. talk about the auto industry as well and how you hope it bounces back. >> certainly we are preparing to recover and drive the product lines and return to work, and it's most important that we are focusing on setting the plants up to provide a safe environment for critical employees.

we do believe there is a big opportunity for the economy to rebound and we have a lot of great products in our portfolio that we would be leaning into. >> ed: we had the eugene scalia on a short time ago, and he compared it to world war ii. the last minute we have, we go back to our history and learn about the arsenal of democracy that american companies did so how do you put what's going on right now in that context? >> your reputation isn't earned on what you are going to do, it's what you have actually done. you think about the arsenal democracy or iron lungs in the late 40s or even our support of the nasa project. in this case, it has always been here and in this case we want to make sure you are doing the same

thing. and it's time to celebrate american companies out there. we appreciate you coming on. i think you you. sandra? >> sandra: thank you. a new study revealing mars, more about its history and raising questions about the possibility of life on the red planet. ♪ ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ♪ hey! that's mine. i'll buy you a pony. advanced hydration isn't just for kids. pedialyte helps you hydrate during recovery.

>> sandra: new images and data from marshaling evidence that rivers once existed on the red planet billions of years ago.

william mcmahon is a geologist in the netherlands. good morning and thanks for being here. >> good morning, not a problem. >> sandra: a fascinating new developments. how big are these findings? >> yes, it's really exciting for us. we've known that mars once hosted ancient rivers for a long time now and we have beautiful satellite images that have been coming back from a spacecraft for decades now but you're finding is exciting for two reasons. one, as its age. it's 3.7 billion years old which pushes back the known record of liquid water on the planet, even further back in time than we previously thought. and if that wasn't exciting enough, the characteristics of the rock formations that we've discovered suggest these rivers may have been active for the year round.

so they weren't just one off catastrophic events, flooding events, but more like long-lived rivers active for hundreds of thousands of years and that's a really exciting prospect. that's sort of place were now we can target and in the future go and look for ancient signatures of life. >> sandra: so not only a significant amount of water but also a sustained source. so talk about how the research really narrowed their focus here in order to find this all-out russian mark >> we have a huge repository of information available to us. satellite imagery of the martian surface are arguably more detailed than our own planets and a lot of that data is, we have not had a chance to study it, there's just so much sitting there waiting for trained eyes to take a look, so we have huge international collaborative efforts canon these images and i team and i come maybe we just

got a little bit lucky. but as soon as we saw the rock formations that are the center of this new study, we knew they were exciting and we'd never seen anything quite like them. now we have the nasa perseverance rover launching in late july and the european space agency will launch their own mars rover a year later and these are the sort of target areas now that we can send these rovers to to actually check out whether there are preserve signatures of life or not. we don't know. but what we do know is the sort of environments on earth are certainly habitable. and on earth today it would be covered in a whole species, whether or not a shred of microbial or bacterial evidence would be associated with these martian rovers, we just don't know until we go there. >> sandra: you know william,

we are taking it all in here with you and we are showing the imagery as we are speaking. with the short time that we have left, what strikes me talking to you is letter, how excited you sound about these developments and b, the amazing detail of the imagery that you have been able to study and come to these conclusions with. >> it really is amazing. it's the team who leads it based at the university of arizona in the united states. essentially the satellite has these very high resolution cameras that take two images of the same area from a slightly different angle and what we can do with that, the disparity between those angles is create a three dimensional model. and that's exactly what our own eyes do. we have two eyes that look at the same object from a slightly different angle and our brain computes a 3d image from that. the satellite images do the same

thing in the computer technology makes the digital elevation models, we call it, what you see on your screen. that resolution is remarkable and we can treat these geological outcrops, a red dot on the sky as if they were right in front of us. >> sandra: fascinating. william mcmahon, we really appreciate you coming on and telling us about your findings. it's fascinating. >> not a problem. >> ed: great stuff. don't go anywhere, a powerful hour ahead. shannon bream joining us to talk about legal battle in the supreme court. karl rove and martha maccallum will weigh in on one prominent democrat. the time to call newd their va streamline refi helps you take advantage of some of the lowest mortgage rates we've ever seen. one call to newday can save you $2000 a year.

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>> ed: fox news alert, on a fight over obamacare, a new case involving religious freedom, one that justice ruth bader ginsburg will hear from her hospital room after a brand-new health scare. good morning sandra. >> sandra: good morning to you and good morning everyone. and sandra smith. the supreme court hearing oral arguments by teleconference due to the pandemic and today it's a high-profile case centering around obamacare and birth control and whether employers can cite religious objections to opt out of the contraceptive mandate. it was brought by the little sisters of the poor and the nuns gathered outside of the court today in the rain is the longest

serving member of the court's liberal wing, justice ginsburg, recovers in the hospital on a fm a gallstone infection on the heels of battling cancer. >> ed: good morning shannon bream, thanks for joining us. we will get to justice ginsburg in a moment. when the extraordinary nature of this teleconference in terms of oral arguments but, this case is coming back to the court. >> if our viewers feel like this is deja vu, they are right. it'll sisters of the poor have been to the supreme court before and they've been arguing all along that they should be exempt from the requirements. did they work with their insurer to provide cost free birth control access to any employees who might be seeking it if it's one of those who consider, and once the trump administration got into office they decided to try to settle this once and for

all by carving out this regulation that would allow groups like a group of nuns to say, we don't want this, we don't want any part of it. we aren't going to object if our nuns want to go to another resource for funding or birth control but we don't want to be the ones who pay for this. that goes against everything they believe about conception and when life begins. so new jersey and pennsylvania decided to sue once the trump administration had written those regulations out. so here they are back at the supreme court once again fighting for the same thing they have been fighting all along. >> ed: interesting because one of the sisters has the headline, little sisters of the poor. we cannot hold the hands of the dying elderly, writes sister lorraine mcguire, while at the same time facilitating the ending of preborn life. our faith will not allow it. and when you hear that about end of life it's particularly

poignant of course. right now we hear about all these cases of nurses and doctors holding the hands of people dying from covid-19 can't be with their families. >> yes, and that's the mission specifically of the little sisters of the poor. they have homes where they specifically bring in the elderly, most of them are very poor. these nurses feel it's their mission on earth, they are committed to being there with these people if they don't have family or don't have funds to be in the traditional nursing care facility. so for them, they do believe in life beginning from conception until they say they are holding someone's hand as they are called home. what would you do if you were told you had to comply because the fines are astronomical. they just keep saying, we trust the lord. we are told she's going to

participate by teleconference? >> it's interesting because right now everyone is participating by teleconference at the supreme court so she's doing it from the hospital today. we have already heard from her as one of the more senior justices, she is one of the first to get in arguments. that's to be expected and she went through a procedure yesterday with that we told was nonsurgical. and she had very pointed questions for the attorneys today and she said what congress intended was women have seamless access to birth control through their employers. then she said that congress did and actually passed out aca. they are the ones that came up with the plan. she is a tough cookie, and seems fully engaged today. >> she's been through a lot already and here she is still fighting. last question of course, it's

interesting and federal society the conservative group that's front and center on judicial nominations, an editorial today in "the wall street journal" about how an ethics advisory committee is used to defeat a nominee and says the ethics committee is being nominated to stigmatize the federal society and a judge on the eighth circuit has let his committee be used. even when it's opposed by so many judges he will turn the committee and to precisely politicized body and basically this ethics committee wants to ban judges for part of the ethics society. it's been criticized, like supreme court justices but the other side will argue, the aba, the american bar association which puts out the qualifications or the ratings

for each of the judicial nominees, they are not exactly nonpartisan or super conservative. they are considered left of center by a lot of people. so are you going to tell judges and numbers of members of the bench that they can't join the aba? he is he did this morning. >> is a protege of the senate majority leader. i'm sure you will be talking about it tonight, 11:00 p.m. eastern. shannon bream, thanks for coming on. >> sandra: great to see shannon. meanwhile a form of vaccine director a whistle-blower complaint against top officials of the department of health and human services, claiming he was removed from his position for pushing back on unproven

covid-19 treatments by the trump administration. >> his name is dr. rick bright, and he is the head of barta over at hhs. he is now over at hhs. he found a whistle-blower complaint alleging that he was demoted for opposing the funding of chloroquine to treat coronavirus disease arguing that the money should go toward developing tough proven therapies. he's also alleging years of political cronyism at hhs and his whistle-blower complaint saying hhs leadership pressured dr. bright and barta to ignore expert -- dr. bright said in the three years he repeatedly clashed with dr. robert kadlec who is the hhs deputy secretary for preparedness and response.

and that's the role played by pharmaceutical clarice e. >> he is inappropriate to place inappropriate scientists. and protecting the health and safety of the americans. that's safety measures, like masks and decent action, but increasing testing to quickly identify outbreaks and contain them. >> thanks to the profound commitment of our citizens, and

countless american lives have been saved. so the reopening of our country, who would have ever thought we were going to be saying that? reopening. >> if that's a bit of a change from what i reported at 9:00, and now the president has come out and said the coronavirus task force which looks like it might be winding down by the end of may or beginning of june, there is a state of existence indefinitely. members may be added and the real focus of that will be again on three openings and development of vaccines and therapeutics as well. it has changed. john roberts at the white house, thank you.

>> ed: texas meanwhile is easing coronavirus restrictions. the state is allowing hair salons to reopen this friday as a dallas owner is sentenced to come get this, seven days in jail for defying shutdown orders and opening her salon. >> i have to disagree with you, sir, when you say that i'm selfish. because feeding my kids is not selfish. it's better than going hungry, because i'd rather feed their kids. so i'm not going to strut my salon. >> ed: a lot of outrage about that this morning as a woman says she just wanted to feed her kids. casey stegall's life of the facts on the case. >> if only that salon owner had

waited just a few more days, because on friday is when barbershops, spas and salons are allowed to legally reopen across the state of texas, under governor abbott's new executive order. but there are restrictions that must be met. masks or face coverings are encouraged, as our appointments according to that executive order. only one client per stylist is allowed inside the shop at one time and social distancing measures are recommended. now, may 18 is the next big day. gyms are allowed to open at 25% capacity. similar to the rules that are currently in place for retail and dining restaurants. locker rooms will remain closed for the time being, the equipment must be sanitized after each use and people must wear gloves. office buildings also allowed to reopen on that day bring you back 25% of the workforce, so long as employees can keep a distance of 6 feet apart. this next phase of reopening

texas comes at a time when the health has shown an overall daily increase of both deaths and new positive cases. more than 33,000 people have been infected with coronavirus and more than 900 people have died in texas. however, governor abbott says that despite those numbers the state has plenty of icu beds and ventilators available should they be needed. listen. >> even though more people are testing positive and hospitalization rates and numbers fluctuate, the hospitalization rate has remained steady or steadily declining. >> the governor also warned that any people or businesses that were not following instructions or opening ahead of time would in fact be cited and they could be jailed, so that seems to be what happened here in dallas. she was given a citation for us but then continued to try to

reopen the salon. later today the blue angels do plan to do a flyover by the way across the region, through houston come up here through the dallas-fort worth area and then over in new orleans to show solidarity and support for all of those workers out on the front lines. >> ed: a very appropriate as nurses week starts. sandra? >> sandra: u.s. officials watching iran as it launched its first military satellite into space last month. while the top u.s. military officers says it's cause for concern. plus, president trump lashing out at the latest attack ad from the political group led by kellyanne conway's husband, karl rove will be here to weighn that straight ahead. >> president trump: with rebuild our military, always done things that nobody has been able to do. i got in the greatest tax cuts in history. with all of that, i guess they

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>> different missiles and do different things. one can carry a satellite and one can carry some sort of device can know mike that can

explode. so the bottom line is yes, it's a security concern anytime iran is testing any kind of long-range missile. >> ed: that is america's top military officer asked reacting to the satellite launch in april. it's a missile technology that concerns him. lucas tomlinson is live at the pentagon with more details on this. lucas, good morning. >> general milley is concerned about the rocket but didn't appear too worried about the satellite itself. >> i think we publicly stated it was at common link, but the missile technology, secondary and second and third order, that is a concern. >> u.s. officials have long warned the same technology used to put a satellite into orbit is same used for continental ballistic missile that would one day hit the united states. iran is called upon but doesn't say forbidden from this types of rocket tests.

for years iran has claimed its space program is peaceful and and the revolutionary guard corps makes clear what we set all along. iran's space program is neither peaceful nor entirely civilian. israeli officials say they've seen evidence that iran's proxy force, some of them have begun leaving syria and news that was welcomed earlier today by secretary pompeo. >> we have been very clear to the assad regime all along, iranians need to leave. not only the southwest corner that has a direct and real impact but more broadly, throughout the country. >> the arms embargo and iran expires earlier and the they will be crushing reaction if that arms embargo is extended. >> lucas tomlinson, thank you.

>> sandra: president trump lashing out at some conservative critics after they posted that ad criticizing his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic. the group behind of that ad led by counselor to the president kellyanne conway's husband, a frequent and vocal critic of the president. let's bring in karl rove, white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor. you can clearly respond to this, but first i want to show you how the president responded. in a string of tweets, this was the first one.

a group of rino republicans he launches back who failed badly 12 years ago and then again eight years ago, then got badly beat by me a political first timer four years ago and has copied the concept of an ad from ronald reagan. that's all of their many failures. he goes on but this character clearly inferior rating the president. >> probably there are five or six people who concocted that ad who were happy for those tweets and said the president will be well advised to ignore things like this. he had several million dollars in his campaign war chest and this group has very little. we would be spending a lot less time talking about this at the president had not tweeted, then we are spending now that he has tweeted. >> sandra: will he went on, and he did not mince words. >> of course he did.

>> sandra: he ends with "they are all losers but abe lincoln, republican, is all smiles. ">> i understand the president gets irritated about these kinds of things but again my point would be, the point of the ad -- and it is a rehash. it's a famous ad from the 1984 reelection campaign, it's all derivative. but the whole purpose of it was to irritate the president on a personal level and it's not going to have an impact on the election. it's a pip-squeak of a response and the president by drawing attention to it is merely giving the authors of the ad exactly what they wanted which is more attention and more coverage if he thinks it advantages him then he ought to keep doing it. but i'm not certain it advantages him at all.

every day the president gets to choose about the subject, gets to choose a subject about which he's going to talk. today, we are talking about this ad and i'm not certain that's the best use of the president's time. >> sandra: meanwhile i want to ask you about the messaging coming from the white house. obviously that ad was criticism of the administration's handling of the pandemic. but the president himself yesterday during the roundtable is suggesting what might be next for the coronavirus task team. and here's what he said. >> president trump: mike pence and the task force have done a great job but we are now looking at it different form and that form is safety and opening and we will have a different group probably set up for that. >> sandra: so that led people to believe that task force would be coming to an end but today we learned that task force will continue indefinitely, but the focus will be changing to

reopening the economy. how is the white house doing with this? >> better to have said what they said today, yesterday, as well. i think people heard that last night and this morning and they worried about it because it's been reassuring to the american people that the president designated the vice president and they had this task force, its pull together such an exceptional group of people. they need to have this continue going forward. and granted, the emphasis and the focus will change, that's automatic. that's every kind of emergency whether it's a hurricane or natural disaster, you will find the group of people working that problem will change their focus as they go through that problem. but it's reassuring i think to the country, like the president and the white house said today, we will continue it. the menu, the membership may change and the focus may change but we will keep it going. and i think that's exactly what

the american people wanted to hear. >> sandra: that communication from the white house will be so crucial. we assess the reopening of the economy and how it's going, and how safely we are doing it. karl rove, great to see you this morning. >> ed: speaker pelosi now saying case closed on the sexual assault allegations against joe biden. but the new poll might show a different story. plus how president obama's office properly reacted to the congressional probe. the former president tried to shut it all down and we will talk about the letter that angered some senate republicans with martha maccallum, straight ahead. >> i think president obama knew about this so it's not surprising to me that he would try to keep a lid on it and not let any records come to the public. to every american family out there,

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>> sir, do you view this as a closed issue or as a response? >> while it is for me.

i support joe biden for president and i leave him when he says it didn't happen. i'm not going to answer this question again, i will just say. i have every confidence that joe biden will be a great president of the united states. >> ed: house speaker nancy pelosi right there saying the sexual assault allegations are a "closed issue" for her and no longer worth discussing. here to talk about it and discuss it is anchor of "the story" martha maccallum. think back to that exclusive that you had about justice kavanaugh and his wife and i wonder now how they went to the case closed. >> it's an excellent question. when you look back deeply into joe biden's history on this issue, as vice president, that was a forefront of this movement. which includes college campuses.

they insist that they have these small, usually three-person judicial committees, and the big argument then, on the part of this young man and many other cases as they weren't given the opportunity to have a lawyer in the room. so here we are, it took hold and was such a tenant in terms of believe all women cannot and you see the response is basically to circle the wagons. >> a powerful leader and, it's interesting. some are saying it's not so fast and they have these headlines basically saying that it hurts

biden's bids. they deny the allegation which signifies democratic discontent. earlier this week just a couple days after the msnbc interview where he sharply denied the allegation, you have a liberal writer in "the new york times" that says, democrats, it's time foto push through and find an alternative. >> and it's so much more of an issue for him on the democrat side. it's less of a democrat issue and more of an issue for sort of coalescincoalescing. he didn't have the support of younger voters and more liberal voters, they were really very much behind bernie sanders. you get the vote out to people

supporting him and that's for this runs into trouble, with people who look at this and say that they aren't disenchanted. this happened a long time ago and unless there is some new evidence that comes out which is always possible, i don't think we will ever get a definitive answer to this. but it doesn't smell right to a lot of people in the democratic party and i think that will will continue to be a problem for them as they put together people and galvanize the party. >> ed: a key part of that is barack obama and our colleague mike emanuel has obtained this letter from back in march where it turned out the foreign president turned to the archives and didn't want to give up some documents that might or might not shed light. it's actively supportive.

, that's disinformation campaign and that's without precedent. that is the letter from the former president. we had rand paul on, and he thinks the former president is hiding something. what are your thoughts? >> so there is part of this where he says it would release, but we don't think it's all that unusual. we do see, the president was supportive of keeping these under wraps. that was cramped senator grassley that suggested these impeachment and it all goes back to that phone call with the polish president zelinski and president trump

requesting, you might want to look at what's going on there with the bidens. this is a very sort of tug-of-war that has been very central to the question between joe biden and the general election. you see them weighing in on locking down these documents. >> ed: it's just starting to heat up. great job on sunday with a virtual town hall. thanks, martha. >> sandra: fox news alert as a new facility in north korea is linked to an expanding listing missile program. the center for strategic and international studies said to satellite images show the facility had a nearby underground structure which can accommodate intercontinental ballistic missiles. senior foreignness affairs correspondent greg palkot is live with more. >> if we needed any more proof that kim jong un and his regime was alive and well, we just got

it today. the csis think tank which revealed a brand-new missile base in north korea, just outside of the pyongyang capitals airport, just about a half hour drive from chairman kim's house in case he wants to check out anything. the author of the report told me it was unique and in satellite photographs it shows the location and the size that missile parts could be brought there, assembled, tested and launched. it could even handle the largest intercontinental ballistic missiles the regime has they have been proven to be able to strike mainlin mainland united . >> it shows us that they have -- they believe it is in strategic interest to have an icbm that can reach the united states and so far the talks whether they be

public or private have not been able to come to a point where they can address the issue. >> critically it was explained to me that this basis can be built from scratch over the last couple of years and as we know, kim jong un and president trump have been talking peace all during that time. by the way south korean officials confirmed today what we've been reporting for the last couple of days, that kim jong un is in alive and well and in control of his government and specifically they said today, military affairs. apparently more proof today as well. back to you. >> sandra: greg palkot, thank you. >> ed: we hear about the heroism time and again during this pandemic and now and a lawmaker wants to repay health care workers on the front lines. what she wants congress to do, coming up. plus a ventilator that does not run on electricity and you won't believe how they made it. we will have the details, next. >> president trump: we are harnessing the unrivaled power of the american industry and

using the defense production act to manufacture over 100,000 additional ventilators on top of our fast growing national supply. we have mobilized our country.

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albert madero is the ceo and cofounder of the limitless solutions. good morning and thanks so much for being here. i was looking forward to talking to you about this because obviously the ventilator solution became and still is a huge part of fighting this outbreak. you have created a way where you can 3d print a ventilator and it doesn't use electricity? >> this came about as a partnership between oregon health and scientific university, and originally we had been working on a clinical trial for 3d printed bionic arms. so in march when the coronavirus pandemic became apparent here in the united states, they wanted to be able to leverage the capacity of the equipment to support the effort. >> sandra: we are looking at some of the images of the 3d items that are printed and essentially assembled and put together.

we sort of put into bullets what it takes to get to this point, the design takes five hours to 3d print one ventilator, 10-$50 to produce it, and right now there are evaluation models that are being sent out to the hospitals as we know. they are being tested on site and awaiting fda approval and the goal is to develop on-site manufacturing during a crisis. so what was the inspiration, obviously the pandemic, but what was the inspiration to 3d print a ventilator? how did you do it? >> so we've been working with dr. chee and then his team who have been coming up with different designs and then 3,00o we've been working to optimize the production, shift them back and forth to be able to iterate the design and leverage the capacity of what we had established for the 3d printed prosthetics. but now directing it to really

help with the coronavirus pandemic. >> sandra: so how does it work if it doesn't use electricity? >> if the design is kind of a throwback to the original form of ventilators before we had the newest model, so as the flow of oxygen goes through the line, it's actually being regulated and that will be able to match with the and that's being used for international cases, and at the time where electricity might be unstable. >> sandra: it for so many of us it's hard to wrap our mind around the fact that you can send this design to a 3d printer and then have a life-saving device. i know you are awaiting life-saving approval on that,

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>> it's a constant matter in the sense that any time there are americans that are detained someplace, we work to get them back. if the moderna regime decides to hold them then we will use every tool available that we have to get them back. >> ed: a at the state department keeping a close eye on venezuela

after two americans were captured at gunpoint. good morning phil. >> no word on the condition, the health or a really anything about these two americans, both special forces soldiers, former soldiers, whom venezuela says were mercenaries captured in a bundled coup attempt. you could see the men here said to be aaron berry and luke denman being arrested after security forces said they intercepted them on both as they approached the northern coast. disputed venezuelan president nicholas madero says it was a band of mercenaries aiming to topple his socialist regime. to prove they have the americans in custody, the government tweeted out this photo showing

their passports and military ideas and also posted this video of surrender, with the military helicopter buzzing overhead. according to the u.s. state department former green beret gordon goudreau who owns the private security firm silver corporation took responsibility for the incursion claiming a force of 60 venezuelans and two former green berets were involved. another american, a former navy seal who provided medical training for the group of resisters confirms that was to overthrow madero but he said within 5 minutes he thought the planning was poor and foolhardy. >> looking at the stuff they were telling me especially looking into silver corporation, i thought this is not legit. they were being misled by jordan goudreau and these other guys. >> venezuela blames columbia as well as the u.s. for being behind all of this and of course

the u.s. and columbia deny it. >> ed: phil, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: as america comes together to help so many indeed, some college friends saw the incredible need at food banks and decided to take matters into their own hands. we will explain, next. can my side be firm?

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wanting that food to go to waste. they are bringing it from the farmers to the food banks in need. william la jeunesse is live in santa monica, california, with more on that. hey, william. >> l, sandra, we've all seen the pictures, right connect struggling food banks, and yet farmers dumping outcrops because of canceled contracts. well, it made no sense, especially to a group of college students who basically started this project. while we are here, yesterday davithey delivered eggs to a fod bank in l.a., running a truck. they delivered tons of onions and 50 tons of potatoes to wyoming, california, and to treat. it's a small operation, strung together by students with smartphones. no office, no overhead. >> for the farmer, it's very hard for them. they financially can't afford to pack these things and ship them off to the food bank. they are already struggling,

they're not going to make any money this year. >> james started the group with a few friends. now doesn't nationwide are pitching in and raising enough online and small donations to pay about $2400 in wages to field workers and truckers to make this work. >> if you can help us with the cost associated with transport, they are more than happy to donate. every farmer we've talked to have said it's been the worst day in their life when they've had to throw away or plow under produced. >> food that would otherwise be wasted is now a loss, it's tax-deductible. if you're interested this done again this is a farmer, you want to donate or you want to help, go to the website. it's on foxnews.com, as well. sandra, back to you. >> is wonderful to see some and people coming together to make the situation better. william la jeunesse, thank you so much for that. >> ed: absolutely, sandra. it's so nice to see so many people coming together at this time. we were talking about coffeecake

the last couple days. i know your mom likes it. my grandma in new england asked me to. i will make sure one of them gets your mom. they say it's the best coffeecake in the world. one of the guys who runs it, we will try and give it to the team. any other bakers out there, we let coffeecake. >> sandra: now i need some coffee cake. ed, great to be with you this morning. we'll see you tomorrow morning. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: president trump is pushing states to reopen as his administration considers winding down the covid-19 task force that has been a staple of their response to the pandemic. the president today tweeted, "the task force will continue indefinitely," however, and people may be added or subtracted as necessary. here's the latest from the president weighing in. >> i think that, as far as the task force, mike pence and the task force have done a great job. but we are now looking at a little bit of a different form, and that form