♪. pete: welcome to sunday edition of "fox & friends." we start with a fox news alert. white house task force members in quarantine after being exposed to covid-19. >> dr. anthony fauci and stephen hahn are self-isolating. >> welcome to fox and friend. i'm pleased to be here with grinch jenkins and pete hegseth. i'm here in for jed.

pete: got the pink memo. pete: we'll bring in everyone's share of love of their mother which everyone has today. griff: pete, we're subservient to our lovely wives and mothers and cherish them. there is also news out there. happy mother's day to everybody, but let's get to this. top white house coronavirus members testifying in a senate hearing on tuesday. emily: comes amid increasing concerns over white house staffers testing positive for the virus. pete: mark merideth is live. mark, good morning. pete: pete, top government officials are keeping physical distance from the white house as they found to be in contact with

someone who tested positive for the coronavirus. among them dr. anthony fauci. the good news he tested negative for the coronavirus but we're told he will get his temperature taken daily to be on the safe side. in a statement the national institute offing a lettergy and infectious diseases said quote he is considered relatively low risk based on the degree of his exposure. he is taking appropriate cautions to minute mate risk for personal contacts still allowing him to carry on the his responsibilities in the public health crisis. fauci is one of several people supposed to testify later this week on capitol hill. that includes the head of cdc, officials at dhs and head of the fda. the president says the viewing lincoln my remains top of mind. he tweeted on saturday, starting early next week at my order, usa will purchase from our farmers, ranchers, specialty crop growers, $3 billion of dairy meat and produce for food lines

and kitchens. farmers to family food box. great news for all. administration says talks for another stimulus are paused. house speaker nancy pelosi says she and the president are not on the same page. >> is the president part of these discussions, these negotiations. >> i don't have any idea what the president does. >> he said the house is on vacation? >> you know, don't waste your time or mine on what he says. reporter: doesn't appear that pelosi and president are talking at all. we're waiting to find out whether or not senate democrats will try to force senate republicans to send more stimulus checks. something the white house does not appear to be supporting at this time. pete, emily and griff. back to you guys. griff: thank you, mark. pete: nancy looking he will gam gam -- elegant as always.

we'll see what happens there. hard to get things done -- it is amazing, us because this president is actually a deal-maker f they could get past their hatred they might get to a deal but she can't do that. we'll wait to see what happens with congress. griff: just to weigh in listen, she is about to gear up to do a phase four. she wants to take care of the states and local governments. it i will was big fight. obviously the president and mitch mcconnell indicating. this is pelosi's number one play in her playbook. you know, we're going to see how it goes. this is very clear that we will not be rushing into a stimulus package like we have for the first three. emily: what jumped out to me the loser in this all is us. the american people are losing when the highest ranking female in the nation's government, saying petulantly, i don't know what he is doing and not waste our time of what he says. no matter what she thinks of him

he is still president of the united states. she should articulate policies and thoughts and everything. that is such a turn off unfortunately to my. griff: they use phrases like current occupant of the white house, if he hasn't been the president of the united states since he was elected in 2016. go ahead, griff. griff: i was going to say, there may be the need for a new kind of lawmaker. i will tell you someone who would be very interesting if they got elected to congress, tesla founder and ceo, elon musk who has been in the midst of the pandemic making a lot of noise. now he is threatening to file a lawsuit against the northern california county of alameda. tesla is located in fremont, california, just south of san francisco and here is what he tweeted yesterday or on friday. saying teslas is filing a lawsuit against alameda county

immediately. the unelected ignorant interim health officer of alameda is acting contrary to the governor, the president, our constitutional freedoms and just plain common sense this is directed at the health official because while the governor newsom says he will start opening manufacturing, they will not open tesla's manufacturing which is head quarted there. griff: pete: went on to say frankly that is the last straw. tesla will move its headquarters to and future programs to texas and nevada immediately. if we even retain free month manufacturing activity at all it will depend on how tesla is treated in the future. he has new model after tesla coming out. he has business interests here. he has been tweeting about freedom, let people open up make

choices for themselves s. this is stand i don't have. emily: this is where i'm from. what breaks my heart of this is next thing in a long line of businesses and franchises run out of town. we lost raiders. golden state warriors and that is alameda county. we appreciate our residents and businesses made tremendous sacrifices. together we've been able to save lives around protect community health in our region. we need to continue to work together so the sacrifices don't go to waste and we maintain our gains. it is collective responsibility to move through phases of reopening and loosen restrictions of shelter-in-place order in the safest way possible guided by data and science this is one decision in a long line of many that is not business-friendly. not as if the tax situation has somehow gotten better. the fundamental argument in the lawsuit he is making is that they are, this is not the least restrictive way for them to

trample on his constitutional rights. they said manufacturing will open. he is arguing as well, discrimination against him. why not us? we make 418,000 cars there a year. texas is sounding better by the minute. pete: data is a pesky thing too. what if we start testing more and as a result of more testing we find more positives? is that a good thing or a bad thing? if the leaders say we have more positive tests therefore we need to delay even further that doesn't make sense to people. maybe those are the same amount of people had it before. we just weren't testing. so data can be the type of thing that leaders can also manipulate as we try to get forward and past this. griff a representative a certain type had a response to this as well. griff: that's right. jane crenshaw responding to elon musk. texas gets better every day. good conservative principles attract the best and brightest the future is happening in texas. this would not be the first time

we saw california businesses relocate to texas. this is a story that we're bringing to you this morning because it's really private industry, the free market principles at stake standing up to a government county here, saying no, this is not okay. that is really where we're going to be as we watch these states and cities reopen trying to find a way to recap what was the worst job lose in our history. emily: it is the same pattern -- i'm sorry. pete: please exel millie. go ahead. emily: it is the same pattern we see from the liberal states, right? coming from there, i feel a america sure of frustration bit as a resident that these business leaders, government leaders are making decisions hamstringing business leaders. to watch as these cities are depleted of income and depleted of commerce because of these democratic leaders who are throwing money at the problem,

seeing a decline in solutions. then cities are becoming wastelands. elon musk will be another example. i want to switch topics with you guys, talk about the "new york times," sort of attacking ag barr. they're saying a perversion of justice. editorial board they wrote an op-ed or set line of "the new york times," william barr's per version of justice. the attorney general is turning the justice department as a political weapon of weapon. pete: here is what the "new york times" editorial board continued to write. mr. barr's cities to drop charges against general any may be the most egregious abandonment of his role but certainly not the first. after a month confirmed with his post and he stood in front of the american people and misrepresented contents of long-awaited report of bob mueller. president trump couldn't be more pleased. rather than respond myself, here

is senator lindsey graham who has been in the middle of this, who understands this case, has watched the impeachment nonsense go on capitol hill. here is his response. >> so i want to have an oversight hearing to find out why the justice department now believes that general flynn was unfairly prosecuted, try to figure out why this system failed. you know barack obama said dismissing the flynn case compromises the rule of law? president obama, you know what come proprized the rule of law? hiding evidence from a court, altering emails, trying to manufacture a crime versus investigating a crime. pete: particularly rich considering what we learned in the last couple of days regarding declassification of testimony where not a single person had a single shred of evidence of collusion, griff. griff: let's get the facts accurate here in comparison to this op-ed where "the new york times" is trying to scare people about

bill barr's america. number one, a u.s. attorney from st. louis named jeff jensen, led the guidance to barr to dismiss it based on the fact there was lack of legal predicate for flynn's interview. then went on to say that was actually exculpatory, therefore should have been made available to flynn's attorney which it was not. the fact you're getting now "the new york times" saying this is a all basically trying to politicize the trump white house through the doj is really quite stunning i've got to believe to constitutional attorneys which i'm not but the facts are pretty clear on this. pete: griff, you're letting the facts get in the way of their leftist ideology. don't do that anymore, please. griff: turn to the headlines. extreme weather. report setting cold sweeping the northeast with winter like conditions in the heart of spring. foal lar vortex moving down from canada causing light fluries in

central bank. this the city setting a record low temperature in pittsburgh at 28 degrees, dropping snow near the city. parts of vermont seeing 8 inches of snow. wow. georgia attorney general is examining how the ahmaud arbery investigation is being handled. they are concerned of conflicts of interest because one of the suspects is a former police officer in the area. gregory mcmichael and his son are accused of shooting arbery. his family says he was just jogging. video shows arbery minutes before he was killed, the video showed him not committing any crimes. sad one, the world is mourning the death of rock and role icon, little richard. ♪ good golly miss mama griff: the legend passing away at a family home in tennessee of

bone cancer. born richard pettimun he helped break the color barrier on music charts with good golly miss molly and "tutti frutti." bob dylan said he was my shining star, my gooding light back when i was a little boy. he was the spirit that moved me to do everything i woe do. little richard was 87 years old. pete: talented soul. states wrap up covid-19 testing the number of positive cases will obviously rise. is this a reason to delay reopening? congressman and physician mark green is urging governors to take another look at the data. he explains next.

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testing to nearly nine million tests naturally the number of positive cases will increase but should the correlating rise in cases be used by governors not to reopen? tennessee congressman mark green is a physician, retired army major and a member of the house covid-19 house oversight committee. thank you for being here this morning. you have the kind of expertise we need here. we're testing more, jet states are clamoring to open up. how should governors be looking at this testing data? >> it is great to be on the show. thanks for having me. good to see you again. the thing that some of these guys are doing now and in your opening monologue for the show you guys really hit the nail on the head. they have moved the goalposts essentially. first we were quarantining to prevent, or flatten the curve, basically, just, keep from maximizing our icus and ventilators that turned out to

be a great success. so we need to start opening back up. well, unfortunately the goalpost changed. they now want to prevent anyone from getting the virus which is impossible, number one, because when you look at the serology data, you go out, i know there is some criticism much some of these studies, but when it is santa clara, when it is los angeles county, miami-dade they all start saying the same thing the virus has penetrated the community much greater than we thought, which makes the mortality rate much lower. pete: yes. >> we have to make better decisions. people if you look at unemployment rates in the past and increase in suicides they correlate with the unemployment rate. cancer deaths, we've got predictions now say 30,000 more people will die next year because of delayed cancer deaths. we only had 80,000 people die from the virus. pete: congressman, more people are infected than we thought which is not a good thing but it is a sense it is meaning

infection rate is higher, death rate is lower. if more people are infected and surviving it and moving past it, then that could be a rational for opening up. what would your advice be to governors who see the infection rates go up because they're testing more? is it time to open up? what number should we be looking at? >> they're absolutely looking at the wrong number. the case number, the people with a positive test, that is not the number to look at. eventually, everybody either will have the virus or you know, we're going to have a vaccine and stop it. so you can, those states, liberal states you talked about again in your opening monologue, if they want to stay closed until we find a vaccine, fine. move to tennessee. move to texas. we have states out there ready to go. they're looking at the wrong number. they should be looking at the mortality rate, not the case fatality rate. pete: which continues to drop as

we test more people which should be encouraging to open up. representative mark green, thank you so much, appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me on. good to see you again. pete: chicago's electing new police leader. outspoken critic of the local government and supporter of president trump. see the new fop president next. is what we're made for. noticks and fleas?o simplifies protection. see ya! heartworm disease? no way! simparica trio is the first chewable

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♪. emily: welcome back. i have some quick headlines for you. the ufc returning to action in florida with saturday night fights. president trump praising the ufc for bringing sports back to the u.s. >> we love it. we think it's important. get the sports leagues back. let's play.

congratulations to dana white, ufc. emily: more events are scheduled this month. driver, denny ham minute taking the spot at the last virtual race. it is second win. he celebrated winning at home. nascar returns to a real track sunday, may 17th. we can't be more excited about it. don't miss the race only on fox. griff, over to you. griff: you have to be a huge nascar fan. bold move by the chicago fraternal order of police, the police elected a outspoken 25 year veteran as its new president in a run i don't have election. the seasoned officer caused a bit of a stir in 2017 when he posted a picture on social media supporting support for national anthem and president trump. we have the head of the police union. congratulations, to you, sir, thanks for joining thus morning. >> thank you. griff: so they have stripped you of your powers.

they have put you on a desk but yet you would not stop. you seemed to want to be a check against the city's police department. tell me what has been the reaction since your election and what do you hope to do, john?? >> [inaudible]. griff: he might be hearing us. >> we're good now. griff: what has been the reaction to your election. what do you hope to do as the new union president? >> well the direction has been twofold. there are two simple mindsets. there are many members who were crying out for a voice for a long time, someone who would say the things they were thinking which, is kind of been me for a long time. and there is a bunch of people who think maybe i should go a little softer, a little easier attack against the city or more professional as they would put

it. so i get both sides. obviously i have my supporters, i have my detractors even within the fop. my job obviously to convert the detractors and get them to understand this is what is needed in this time and date. griff: for our viewers let's talk about that need. you have a crisis on your hands. you have 146 homicides, 715 shootings i believe just in this year alone. >> even with the stay-at-home order that has been very stringent in the state of illinois, specifically the city of chicago and yet it continues. griff: so, john, you have held up the american flag. you have supported president trump. you even filed a report against a previous police superintendent that ended up in quite a bit of trouble. why are you going so far out on the rails? >> well, the department has forever liked to talk about

accountability and fairness and i have just always tried to point out the unfairness and lack of accountability, the higher up the chain in the command that this department has. as they say, the crap rolls downhill. it doesn't go uphill, that is for sure. we're held to a higher standard as police officers. logic would dictate that the standard shuttle evade higher up the chain you to. it is quite the opposite. griff: thanks for coming on. i wish you success. the union hasn't had a contract in two years. hopefully you bring help there as well. thank you, sir. >> all right. that is the effort. thanks. have a good weekend. griff: you too. coming up, restaurants and shops are back open for business in georgia after the governor was criticized for his reopening plan. but as the rate of hospitalizations decline in the state did he make the right move? joey jones lives in atlanta. what does he think? we'll ask him when he joins us

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jenny. maybe a glass of wine, right? >> yeah. >> uh-huh. what did we get for mom today? we got matching -- [laughter]. we got matching mom tattoos, for the moms we love. happy mother's day. turns out she loves getting a tattoo. she is sleeping right now. we wish a very happy mother's day to the love of my life, jenny hegseth, the mother of our large brood of blended family of seven. she is an amazing mother. god bless her. i hope she is sleeping right now, has a blessed day todayal together. happy mother's day to my mother as well, penny. emily: that was such a sweet video pete. oh, my gosh, i love that this is my mom and my sisters. anyone with two older sisters know they are like moms. happy mother's day to my mother

and my two older sisters around to all the mother figures out there. pete: love it. griff: here is my mom sylvia. my mom, 88 down in florida. of course my wife kathleen and other daughters. we have a special day planned for you. i don't know what it is. i will come up with something. happy mother's day, kathleen. my mother-in-law as well. emily: blessed with beautiful family. pete: blessed with beautiful women in your lives. griff: yes, we are. emily: i want to take you guys through our very own joey jones. georgia governor brian kemp vowing to win the fight against covid-19 as he announces his state has seen the lowest number of hospitalized patients in over a month. pete: it wasn't supposed to work that way. he faced backlash over his decision to reopen non-essential businesses. critics feared there would be a surge of cases. is reopening the right move?

griff: fox news contributor, georgia resident joey jones joins us to discuss. happy mother's day to you. >> good morning. good morning. happy mother's day to all the moms. my mom is here this weekend. i'm excited by that. griff: very cool. you're in georgia there. are they making the right move? >> i think so. it is hard to claim victory when you just don't know much. that is the biggest problem, it feels some days like we're being scared into submission. other days like it is all overblown. other days it is like it will kill us all. i'm not epidemiologist or a doctor, but the big point to be made here, brian kemp knew what most georgianss knew, we had already restaurants take-out only, delivery options only. lines six feet apart outside places like academy or home depot. some businesses were already taking precautions. our governor knew that wouldn't changeover night because he allowed other businesses to open

up with precautions. if we order a pizza, we have to pick it up. we can't sit down and eat it a lot of things like that are happening in the state. it is allowing people to get back to life around get back to work. griff: joey, isn't estimate of common sense, he took a ton, the governor took a ton of backlash, going everyone said too soon. everyone said there would be a huge surge in is cast. instead you're at a low level. we all can't predict the future, i get it. it seems to be a good sign, retailers, individuals can make their own skises and choices and everything can be okay. >> governor understands the value of small businesses and mom-and-pop restaurants and hypocrisy of box stores, home depot a hometown store, but to have big box store sell products because they didn't have something essential in their inventory. you have to allow those

businesses to survive probably more so than anything else. our governor understood that. the people in this state appreciate each other and love each other. we'll take care of each other and get through this. emily: joey, we're so excited to talk about your new show on "fox nation." it is called "warrior ranch." walk us through the point of the show and what it's like to do it. >> yeah. real excited to be a part of this project. i was brought in to help narrate and tell the story but really what's happening, i didn't get to play a big role in. there is a place in new york called warrior ranch. they're taking racehorses that don't fit the track anymore, physical injury or temperment. they're rehabilitating them to be more docile and relationship focused with humans. at the same time they're bringing in veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder to help train the horses. what you see in some of the footage there, basically that horse becomes an embodiment of the struggle that veteran has. there are times when it needs to be vulnerable and connected. there are times when it needs

the person in charge of it to take authority and control. so as the veteran learns these personality tools to control the horse, really what he is learning are tools that control himself and struggleses inside of him. it is amazing thing to see. i'm proud to be a part of it. see it on "fox nation." pete: both sides train to run, learning from each other. here is a quick clip from it. >> i don't want to fail. you want to do good. so i'm kind of a little anxious. >> he is probably calming me down more than i am him. >> relating to a horse does help about the symptoms ptsd. alan made a relationship with red and continues that relationship to help cope with his ptsd. emily: can't wait to watch that. that sounds incredible. pete: joey, well don. emily: "warrior ranch" is available on fox nation. pete: sign up for "fox nation" today. get the first month for

99 cents. get this program. i must say if you purchase a year-long plan, you get a copy of my new book, american crusade, signed by me and maybe joey jones. probably not. [laughter]. we'll see, joey, thanks. >> don't ruin it for you. pete: make it even better. joey, you're the man. thank you. >> thanks, guys, have a great morning. pete: turning now to a few additional headlines a surfer is killed in a shark attack in northern california. witnesses described what happened. >> there was this very, very large, dark fin and it came out and came out of the water and then there was like a feeding frenzy and all this activity. pete: whoa. the attack happened at manresa state beach. the county's public health orders closes beaches certain hours of the day, allowing people to surf, swim, kayak. the beach will be closed for the

next five days. things may be turning around for carnival cruise lines which plans to resume trips in august. a travel advisory firm says cruise line bookings are up 200% from the same time last year when covid-19 wasn't a concern. the firm says travelers do not seem concerned. they're looking to have fun after being on lockdown for so long. people saying i'm ready to go. a construction company isn't letting people inside who are wearing a facemask. signs placed in front of a california company saying quote, no masks allowed. instead, promoting handshakeses and hugs. california entered its phase one of reopening last week, requiring all retailers to create plans protecting customers and employees from spreading covid-19. we reached out to the company for comment. you can go in, if you agree. his story took netflix by storm. >> my name is "joe exotic" this

is sarge. good-looking, love to party, have fun. pete: the "tiger king," "joe exotic" has become the king of fashion. the new street wear line inspired bit incarcerated star selling out within just two hours of launching, called, revenge. the pieces are a tribute to his feud with big cat activist carol baskin, featuring hoodies, t-shirts, facemasks. the sales brought in $20,000. those are your headlines. "joe exotic" will always be synonymous with covid-19. griff: i tell you. emily: this halloween, $20,000 worth of paraphernalia on halloween. everyone will be that tiger guy. pete: who will be committed to get the haircut for real? that is commitment. griff: are you kidding me. i'm working on my halloween costume. i watched "tiger king." perhaps one of the silver linings. an amazing show.

i will be a griff exotic for halloween. that is a teaser. rick, can i pull off "joe exotic" look-a-like on halloween? rick: for sure you can. for sure you can. i gave myself a haircut this week. it turned out not too well but i can't do anything with the back. pete: turn, turn. rick: there are things sticking out here. everybody good to have all of that hanging out. we're destined for it. pete: everyone has hockey hair. rick: totally agree with you. when this thing happened i watched "tiger king," i will forever think of covid with "tiger king." no way to separate the two things at all. there you go. talk about a little weather, guys. we have another really cold morning across parts of the northeast. look at the maps. freeze warnings. one more warning across parts of southern appalachians across parts of the ohio valley.

get ready for another chilly morning. it is going to get better. temps will be back up into the 60s for a lot of people. the know yesterday will be gone. we have one more chilly morning to get through with this. we have precipitation one more day. this isn't really that much moisture. you see the white. that is little traumatic for people across the up of michigan and upstate new york. lake-effect snow continues to fall. down across the south, this is really good news. might not want to get this on mother's day, much of florida desperately needs precipitation. we have heavy rain across south florida. next few days that pattern sticks with us. we really need the moisture. some spots maybe two to three inches over next couple days. temperaturewise across much of the country, we have another cool one across the far northern plains. we improve across parts of the southwest where you have been baking way too early this time of year. you get the idea the cold sticking around monday and

tuesday and we begin to creep up a little bit by wednesday. a lot of moisture across parts of the central plains. we'll talk more about that later in the show. back to you. griff: coming up our next guest own as bait and tackle shop in rural minnesota and says the governor's lockdown is costing business owners like him big time. we'll discuss after the break. that's buy one, get one free. for a limited time only. can it help keep me asleep?ee. day sale on the sleep number 360 smart bed. absolutely, it senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. and now, save $1,000 on the sleep number 360 special edition smart bed, now only $1,799. only for a limited time. "show me what you're made of." so we showed it our people, sourcing and distributing more fresh food than anyone...

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mine, i've been to the store, it is beautiful. you're taking a hit right now, jim and why is it so urgent we reopen the economy in minnesota. >> first of all, pete, i want to thank you for having me on. you know, we've got five months up here, pete, to make a living, okay? a year ago, pete, we were rocking and rolling up here. the united states had the best economy going. the jobs were, we couldn't get enough people. president trump had the best economy going, as a matter of fact, in the world. and, we got our minds were going strong. our paper mills were going strong. all our resorts down here was full, the store was full. we had people going up fishing. we had camping going on. it was unbelievable. we had everything rocking and rolling, the best economy in the world, the united states of america and all of sudden here

it comes. here comes the old chinese virus. here it comes. and they shut us down. they said, mr. president, you got to shut it down. we shut it down. we have gone too long, pete. we need to get this open. now everybody i talked about when i first started, now all their people are getting laid off. the mines, they laid off people. the resorts are empty. you can't go out camping in the national park. it is shut down. are you kidding me? you got a better chance, pete, of getting eaten by a timberwolf or a bear than you do catching that virus out there. we've got to get things opened up, pete. it's got to happen. pete: do you feel, could you responsibly social distance in your store there as people come up and get gas and get things they need at your store? >> exactly, pete. let me just tell you something. we're strong. we're minnesota strong. we're smart people.

we've been told how we can do this. we've been told. we listen. when they come in the store, i can't hug the pretty girls anymore. i can't shake peoples hands. i have got plexiglass up. we can do this. we can open up this country. we can open up this state and we can do it the safe way but we need to get it open. we need our governor down here to realize that these people up here, pete, including myself, we've got everything tied up in these businesses. we to the our heart and soul and all our life in these. if we go down, pete, what is going to happen? pete: amen. amen. >> what is going to happen? pete: it is life or death. it is your business. it is your livelihood. the families of people that work for you in the community. jim knutson, thank you for being a voice for so many in minnesota around the country want and need to be heard. god bless you. jim's ash trail store. check it out up in northern

minnesota. >> thanks for having me on. pete: you got it, brother. still ahead a grand slam shoutout to the america's nurses from the boston red sox. out to fenway's field. meet the ground keeper who made it happen next. nature made, the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand

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♪. emily: a grand slam tribute to nurses with a message on the outfield. the boston red sox grounds crew mowing the team logo with a heart and the word nurses into the fenway park. david joins us now. thanks so much for being here today. tell us about the logo and symbolism where those two socks are placed? >> i'm humble to have the opportunity to be here today.

thank you, a big shoutout to my coworkers to have the opportunity to put that out there. certainly special to me, having had been hit by a car three times, nurses have played an important part in my recovery. the red sox wanted to give a personal thank you to all of the nurses through the world and it is our tribute to honor them in awe, we're really humbled to be able to do that. emily: thank goodness that you are well and recovered now. that you have that personal experience with them. that makes this all the more personal with you. share with viewers about the placement of the socks and what that represents? >> well, when we've done our morning patterns in the past we put the socks together. this time we did them separate as social distancing, in putting the logo out there. any mowing pattern is possible with the light sections mode

away from you, and the dark sections motoreds you. we separated the socks, put the heart there and put the word nurses at the bottom. emily: that looks incredible, david. i know i speak for probably all americans saying how excited we are for the return of baseball that hopefully will be just around the corner. best of luck to your boston red sox during the season. thank you, david, for expressing that gratitude for all we feel? >> we appreciate the opportunity. the red sox certainly appreciate the nurses and all the heroes on the front line. emily: thank you, sir. uncertainty surrounding the future of the democratic party. scandals starting to pile up own joe biden a former top bernie sanders aide calls on progressives to hold the party hostage. those stories and more after the break. stay with us. (announcer) in this world where people are staying at home,

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griff: straight to fox news alert. 11 states easing restrictions tomorrow as the country pushes to reopen. emily: americans protesting nationwide this weekend demanding they get back to work. pete: starting next week president trump says the u.s. will buy billions of dollars worth of product from the american farmers as demand plummet the during covid-19. we welcome you to the second hour of this sunday edition of "fox & friends." we're joined coast to coast by emily compagno in washington state. great to have you, emily and griff jenkins, the swamp man himself. griff jenkins. griff: i reject that title. pete: i know you do. griff: happy mother's day to everybody out there. pete: happy mother's day. emily: happy mother's day. pleasure to be here. pete: go ahead, emily. i cut you off. emily: no, you didn't. pleasure to be here with you both. the fact that we span the whole country, apologize for the slight delay, seems like i'm interrupting. this is honor filling in for jedediah. as we welcome here later on in

the show. we have special segment on mother's day. pete: big show all morning long. great to have you both. it is a big moment. we get a chance on weekends to the breathe, what happens all weekend long. a lot of political news as we saw general flynn vindicated, more information coming out there was no connection on russian collusion. we're in the covid-19 moment. people are focused on their states, their counties, their cities and their lives. thankfully tomorrow morning, 11 states are set to ease even more restrictions as stay-at-home orders continue in other states. there is a quick glance some of the states where some of the restrictions will be happening tomorrow. again, i think, if you're like me, a little underwhelmed by that map. there is a lot of gray on that map of states that may have gone further. that is good thing. or are still waiting under stay-at-home orders. a lot of people feeling like, hey, what is happening next for me and my business? we had a great interview with

jim knutson up in northern minnesota. he said, a lot of people texting me. i'm more likely to get eaten by timberwolf or a bear than catch covid-19 in northern minute south. states are big. businesses need their livelihood. he has a bait and tackle shop a gas station, convenience store up there that relies on people coming up there camping, getting outdoor and fishes. fishing opener was on friday in minnesota. when the trickle-down effect of businesses being closed is massive and we're running out of time, guys. griff: we should also point out that wherever you are, this is a mosaic, this is not a one-size-fits-all response hard to overstate how big after moment this is in our history and how we respond to it and ultimately rise again. to that guest's point we're seeing a lot of protesters who have that we want everyone to be sensible. we have guidelines, masks, social distancing, there are

protesters that see the economic storm that is already arrived and will continue to plague us as well as the actual virus itself. here is what some of the protesters are out there saying. >> i don't need the government to tell me how to be safe that. is not their job. their job is to protect rights. it just doesn't seem right to close everybody down. it's overreach. >> people are being terribly hurt by not being able to go back to work. >> reason says this is not reasonable. that we should be able to go about and choose. give a recommendation. i recommend you stay home but don't make us. it is unlawful. >> we cannot survive. we can barely pay the bills. we won't be around if this continues. emily: right. it is such, it is such a heart-breaking thing to hear all of these stories. especially we all have loved ones affected drastically by this. details of it, people unable to make the rent.

doesn't matter about rent forgiveness in the moment. there is ongoing ripple effect. one size fits all application, solution from the top down is very beneficial, help ad lot of people but there needs to be more action on the local and state levels because these small businesses are being annihilated. it is families behind these small businesses. the bigger businesses, that is who employ people. so the restaurant industry alone that is 2.5% of our gdp. so i think we heard a lot of talking points from the left, oh, only helping big businesses or corporations but that is employing a lot of families. that is 900 billion-dollar industry for example. there needs to be so much more communication and understanding on part of local and state legislators and decisionmakers. so that they can send messages that they are pro-business and pro-saving and preserving jobs. pete: such a great point, emily. the best one size fits all solution is one person making a decision for themselves and their family because the size of that impact is what matters to

them the most, respect people enough to trust them and give them their common sense to make a risk come class for themselves. ultimately they can decide to go out. they can decide to go into a store. they can decide to not go into a store if they're not prepared. that is respecting citizens. i wish more governors would understand that we're learning more, testing more, we're finding out the mortality rate, thank god, is lower. more people have it. that is not necessarily an indication that things are getting worse. griff: you know, emily, you had a good point. we were talking earlier about the gdp. in october we will get the third quarter number, that number will be remembered in history forever. it will largely reflect how we responded as pete says with common sense as we get into june, july, august, when these things are more apparent. it is interesting, perhaps refreshing on some level to hear

some members of congress, like representative mark green who is a doctor in his own right but also understands the need for businesses to reopen and to not be wiped out as we're already seeing. here is what congressman green had to say. >> they moved the goalposts essentially. first, we were quarantining to prevent, or flatten the curve, basically, just to keep from maximizing our icus, ventilators. that turned out to be a great success. so we need to start opening back up. those states, the liberal states you talked about in your opening monologue. if they want to stay closed until we have a vaccine, fine. move to tennessee. move to texas. we got states out there that are ready to go. pete: such a great point, guys. data is important. flatten the curve is never about people won't get infected. it is about we can't overwhelm the health care system f we made sure that is not the case, you

can't just say because more people are testing positive we have to keep it all closed. it means we have more information. so watch these governors as they talk about data and infection because a lot of them are using it to justify stay-at-home orders and lockdown orders into june? business are saying, i can't do that. emily: that is exactly right, pete. in california where i'm from, the governor threatened counties that don't comply with stay-at-home orders with losing disaster funding. one he named in particular, yuba county, they have had zero covid-19 deaths. that is families there. they want to be put food on the table. they're told they can't come out of their home. if they do so they will lose funding for the fire season and disasters narrowly occurring experience. it is so unfortunate these governors are really making that one size fits all application and it is ruining people's livelihoods. griff: not all, quite a contrast in the state of georgia where

governor brian kemp tweeting this today, today marks the number of lowest covid-19 hospital patient the 1003 since hospitals began reporting data on aprilth. lowest total of ventilators in use, 897. we will win this fight together. governor kemp took a lot of criticism including president trump saying if it were me i wouldn't do that, but i will allow him to make that decision. we'll see if there is a rebound. georgia, unlike any other state in the fear of a rebound but it is an interesting contrast to what you have out on the west coast, emily. emily: exactly. our own joey jones, "fox nation" host, he lives in georgia and earlier we had him on the show. he says governors need to give business as chance to survive. take a look. >> brian kemp knew what most georgians knew, we already had restaurants converted to take-out only, we had delivery

options only. lines six feet apart in places like academy and home depot. some businesses were taking precautions. our governor knew that wouldn't change overnight because he allowed other businesses to open up with precautions. you have to allow the businesses to survive, probably more so than anything else. our governor understood that. pete: this chipses away at false choice, either you're safe or reopen. turns out you can responsibly reopen. he went further on the president. good on the president saying hey, i will not stop you. this is federalism. make your choice. governors are in charge. you don't have to sacrifice public health in order to revitalize your economy. governor kemp shown that in georgia because the people act responsibly. you can do that. griff: we'll see how it goes. you have had some 32,000 cases in georgia. they have had over 1400 deaths there. pete: absolutely. go ahead, emily. emily: i think it illustrates

there are some factors go into it. as you keep saying and stressing pete, not just one or the other. it is not just economic deaths or actual deaths. there are so many things come into play. as we keep acknowledging we don't have, we don't know everything yet. so we have to make the best decisions that we can with what we know now. what we now know in part is that in april 20 million americans lost their jobs. that is according to "the wall street journal." we know also that is an underreporting because plenty of people who have not filed for unemployment. they reported that company lay offs are accelerating as economic recovery is looking positive on the stock market for example. pete: we're almost out of time. companies announcing layoffs, past few weeks, airbnb, boeing, lyft, raytheon, uber, united airlines. the list goes on. these are just the big guys of the these are not small restaurants that employ 25

people or family businesses, construction companies that employ a couple hundred people. these are big and it all has a trickle effect. it is going to start to hit even more. imagine where we are if we don't reopen, it will get worse. griff: without a doubt. turning now to your headlines, the nypd preparing for a spike in crime as new york city reopens businesses. the police commissioner blaming the mass release of inmates as a possible culprit. more than 1600 inmates were freed in an effort to slow the spread of covid-19 in jails. the commissioner says more department members are calling out sibling, possibly affecting nypd patrols across the city. chinas president xi xinping is accused of telling the worth held organization of hiding vital information about covid-19. a german newspaper says xi told w.h.o. to hold back information about person-to-person transmission of the virus. w.h.o. called the allegations

quote, unfounded and untrue. the report comes after u.s. block as u.n. security council resolution after klein added language supporting the w.h.o. smokey mountains national park reopens for the first time since march. visitors heading to the park. checking on crowded trails and blocked off areas. a lot of people were not wearing masks. some of the park's most popular trails remain close. officials will decide to reopen them in the coming weeks. look at this, a fleet of world war ii planes taking to the skies honoring health care workers in arkansas. >> i know folks have been lonely. it has been a tough couple months for people in the state and to be honest, we want to just reach out to people, let them know that we're still together. we're still moving forward and that better days are ahead. griff: that pilot will joins us next hour telling us about the incredible fly over of 15 cities

in the state. those are your headlines. pete: very cool. thank you, griff. appreciate it. one of bernie sanders's former campaign officials urging progressives, leftists to hold the democrat party hostage and take a page out of the tea party's playbook. tony katz was a tea party founder out in california. what does he think about that? we'll ask him after the break.

♪. pete: welcome back, a former campaign official for senator bernie sanders is speaking out, calling for progressives, for leftists to take action against the democrat party. >> i would love to see the progressives movement do from the progressives members of the

house of representatives and progressives members who may be in the senate is to go crazy. maybe take a page out of the tea party book, for good, and hold the democratic party hostage until they do something on behalf of the american people. pete: here to react, radio talk show host, friend of the show, tony katz. thanks for being here, tony, really appreciate it. so joe biden -- >> good to see you. pete: the left-wing portion of his party says let's hold him and the party hostage. what does that say about where joe biden is right now? >> first, we should accept the fact this isn't new. this is what representative ocasio-cortez wanted to do to the party to hold them hostage. she supports candidates the democrats were not supporting, supporting people to run against other democrats. what is says about the tea party effect the culturally, when you want to get something done, you

go the way the tea party did, that goes without saying. the problem the tea party was not crazy. this is wants to push ideas of new deal. she wants to push the left further left. you and i both know that is really difficult thing to do. what does it say about joe biden? everything we discussed right here between us on this show, joe biden has a problem getting 9 progressive wing of the party. they are the true believers, they are the bernie bros. they don't want to vote for joe biden. when representative ocasio-cortez said we need to vote for biden the alternative, president trump, was unacceptable, that was seen as a traitorous moment for representative ocasio-cortez. traitorous for people supporting her and her unbelievably far left ideology. this does not portend well. it really shows the larger problems, the progressive side of the democratic party, the real true believers they don't have any faith in joe biden at

all. pete: the big difference as you know the tea party was reminding republicans of first principles, to fight for things that they said they went to go fight for whereas the left-wing part of the base, they're saying reject america all together. we want a radical new experiment in marxism. slight difference there. as i want to go to as you know very well, i want to go to joe biden the bad couple weeks he has had. he is not running a race for president here free and clear. scandals are piling up. obama's knowledge which we know of fox news reporting of the flynn wiretap. you have the tara read allegations. you have continue to have questions about hunter biden's business ties. here is a flashback of how joe biden has tried to talk about some these things. >> did you sexually assault tara reade? >> no. it is not true. i'm saying unequivocally. it never, never happened. >> hunter said the only thing you said to him was, quote, i

hope you know what you're doing? >> he was already on the board. he is a grown man. and it turns out he did not do a single thing wrong. pete: tony, will this matter with the fawning media? can he do enough in his basement to get past all of this? >> oh, two questions, fawning media, or america? pete: take which one you want. >> makes no difference to a fawning media if they're so absolutely enraged with president trump that they refuse to be journalists, right? put that over there. the question how does this play with america? joe biden was really desperate to take the moral high ground against president trump. i'm not saying that president trump doesn't have his issues. i'm saying this eliminates that opportunity for joe biden. it creates for him bigger, bigger problems. now he has to talk about things like the economy. he doesn't believe in fracking. it is a big issue. pete: tony katz.

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governor california newsom did not deem churches essential to reopen the state. our next guest is part of evangelical leaders planning to open their churches by the end of the month despite stay at home orders. we have danny carroll. >> i'm fine, how are you doing? griff: happy mother's day to mothers in all of your congregation. let's talk about this. governor newsom is sensitive to congregations. he is worried about the health risk of them. you and other pastors had a conference on thursday with the governor. where does it stand and what are your plans? >> there are a couple of things here really important. first, i want to say we are not not -- openly defy the governor's rule or anything like that. we want to partner with the governor. his office has been in touch with us. we understand governor newsom's job is very difficult.

he has done a great job for us. we finally started to interact with this on thursday when we found out there were 1500 churches gathering, opening on pen at pentacosh sunday. [inaudible]. we have at this point 4,000 churches that are prepared to open at the end of the month. so we're trying to negotiate with the governor's office. we'll send them a proposal, a detailed proposal how churches can open safely -- and partner with this administration to do that. we're hoping that monday or tuesday that will take place. griff: all right. now the governor, in fairness has said, quote, nothing is etched in stone but yet, pastor carroll, you believe churches have been a little bit kicked to the curb, if you will, you feel like you're part of the solution in this pandemic. explain. >> well we do. we really feel like, prior to

covid we couldn't get any response from the administration at all. only thing that the governor mentioned about churches, was in one of the phone calls i was on couple weeks ago, look, you're not going to like to hear this but i don't like large gatherings of strangers, things like nba, major league baseball and churches. you guys -- [inaudible]. well, for those of us who work in church life with our people, they're not strangers to us. these are people we walk with every day, we cry with them, we bury their family members. for him to compare us to major league baseball and the nba is complete mistake on his part. it is one of the things that provoked a lot of pastors, we've been patient, we're trying to cooperate but we're not going to sit on the sidelines forever. you deemed us non-essential. [inaudible] then thousand people out of our

church last week. we took hundreds of meals to seniors homes. we're caring for the poor. setting up covid medical unit to do covid-19 testing. griff: good on you. >> we're essential but don't deem our as essential our worship time. we're -- griff: pastor danny carroll, stay safe out there. please keep us posted. as it stands under phase three you would be allowed to reopen on may 31st. looks like you guys will do something. thanks for being here. my best to all the the congregation, stay safe as well. >> thank you very much for having me. griff: national police week starts today. officers face new challenges as they enforce coronavirus restrictions. how has the job changed? our panel is here to discuss. chris wallace shares his mother's day message. >> i want to say thank you to all the mothers out there, because, especially in these

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while on vacation in florida last year. beautiful. here is stage manager joel and his daughter with his mother mary. joel is right in front of me. you can't see him. i'm staring at him. we're both eating a egg mcmuffin. this is producer nicky castillo with mom and son in sunflower field. we're usually on the road in diners across america. may we be there again soon. beautiful photo right there. emily, over to you. emily: those were wonderful, pete, thank you. today marks the first day of national police week. this year we're honoring law enforcement through the lens of the coronavirus pandemic highlighting how the job has changed. joining us to discuss is our police panel, national vice president of the fraternal order of police, new jersey sheriff's association chief, rich busby and a police chief. thank you for being here. joe, start with you and the your

role and how has the role of police changed during this pandemic? >> it certainly changed because now we go from normal enforcement practices to deal with the coronavirus and things that come along with it. we're trying to handle calls on the phone. we're distancing from folks and donning ppe. we have counties, mayors, across the countries starting to introduce these new disa conian laws. that is no big deal for them. they sign on the dotted line. they make us have to enforce these things. it is completely ridiculous t puts our officers in a horrible position because now they have, while everyone is asking us to bridge the gap with the community, they want our officers in everyone's faces asking what they're doing. why doesn't their child have a mask on. why aren't you social distancing? with 33 million americans unemployed right now, it is putting us in extremely position to have to enforce these laws. emily: chief, i would like to ask you about an expected crime surge we've been covering on "fox & friends" on the

conclusion of the pandemic when everyone is finally allowed to leave their homes to operate in businesses due to the release of prisoners and also the desperation happening, tell us about your expectations for the future and how viewers can keep themselves safe. >> well, viewers should conduct themselves as they always do. it is not a time for panic. it is a time for sir -- circumspection and caution. we anticipate things will change. things changed across the world. the world is different than we lived in a few weeks back. however the situation for police officers at the present time has changed in the nature of calls that we're handling. unfortunately suicide and suicide attempts are up. mental, mentally ill people, having more frequent and significant encounters. the overall danger to officers in addition to the disease itself is actually quite significant. with we have been able to tailor

the rules of engagement in this state through leadership frankly. our attorney general and our superintendent of state police have taken a leadership role along with the governors office and chiefs throughout the state and getting us rules of engagement that actually make first-responders safer and having those valuable and precious seconds to don the ppe and use the protocals that make these responses work. emily: sheriff eroll, what is your message for the american public as we go into law enforcement week and we want to honor you and those who are sacrificing putting their lives on the line for us, how can we back the blue? how can we support you? tell us what you would like viewers to know? >> thank you for having me on, emily and happy mother peace day to all your viewership. the biggest thing, our men and women that don the blue and go out to protect and serve the

communities biggest thing respect us. we're also dealing with a pandemic. we also have families. we're going out every single day to serve our communities and protect our citizens and making sure the bad people are no longer walking the streets and they're incarcerated. everybody should respect each other. respect the men and women in blue and really work hard to get through this together. emily: sheriff, can i ask you a follow-up question, then? as you talk about keeping bad people incarcerated or in jail off the streets. now we're seeing a release because in part of the covid-19 considerations, what has been your reaction in the department? how is your officers dealt with that and managed that? >> well, what we've done is really work hard with our courts. we're very fortunate. we've been able to through the practices and protocols we implemented no one has really been released from our facilities except for those on new york state patrol but we're

concerned these individual will reoffend when they turn back into the community because there are no services for them. those advocates ad vote can advocating them to be released from jail when they return to the community. many are right back in the public. they're reoffending an coming right back to jail. emily: thank you all so much first and foremost for your service and also for joining us today. happy mothers today to you all. griff, over to you for the headlines. griff: emily, thanks. turning now to your headlines a potential legal battle could get ugly in california. the state's professional beauty federation vowing to sue governor newsom demanding salons should be reopened in the state. they should be able to reopen under certain protocols. they slammed newsom said that outbreak started at a nail salon despite giving no details or evidence. prince harry giving a message on the coronavirus

outbreak from his los angeles home. he spoke during the video of what was supposed to be the opening for the invictus games. >> all those in the invictus family will be well and supporting each other through this challenging time. griff: the prince, i still think we call them that, encouraging athletes to reach out people alone in quarantine and praising first-responders from the coronavirus front lines. singer gwen stefani makes her "grand ole opry" debut from hundreds of miles away in oklahoma. ♪ griff: stefani and boyfriend blake shelton singing their hit song nobody but you from shelton's ranch. the "grand ole opry" suspended all the live shows through may 16th. if you haven't heard that song. check it out. i was listening to this before this show getting ready. those are the headlines. let's toss over to rick

reichmuth. rick, how are you? any chance it will warm up? rick: there is a big chance. it is may and record breaking cold and i promise you it will warm up. maybe not as fast as we would like it. a really chilly start to the day across parts of the northeast. look at the maps. we'll show you what is going on. cold air is in place. it is breezy out there. we'll talk did windchill. far northern plains, great lakes, across the ohio valley and northeast, factor in the wind. a lot of spots feel like below freezing this will be last time i show you any kind of a windchill map, until we get back towards fall, i promise you that. here is the precipitation. one trouble spot across parts of the great lakes. you see the snow, across the up in michigan, upper minnesota. obviously that colder air is in place. that was shun of moisture not significant moisture but will be a nuisance as it makes its away across parts of western pa and

western new york later on today. this is what we have going on parts of florida. we've been not talking about moisture of florida all throughout the winter. we had incredibly dry winter and incredibly hot winter. now we got moisture. this is really good news. so much rain across parts of the southeast. it has not been along the immediate gulf coast. a drought across louisiana and much of florida. any moisture we can get in there, extremely good news. we have moisture across south florida and eastern shore. maybe three or four inches of rain by the time this is done. 9 rest of the country, here you go, looking pretty good especially across the west where you've been so hot from maturely. temps till above normal. we're getting better across the northern plains. we have pics of my mom? show you pics of my mom. amazing mother's day today. emily: yea.

rick: griff, i don't know if my mom is like your mom. there is a stubborn streak in her probably where i get at at well. griff: you bet. rick: trouble getting her to stay home. stay home if you can. she is rebellious. what kept her so healthy for so long. griff: indeed. i can relate to that. certainly stubborn as well. usually right as i point out. pete: only hope to contain him. the fda approving a new covid-19 test you can take at home. dr. nicole saphier joins us to explain how this will affect the nationwide testing effort. i'm greg, i'm 68 years old.

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very happy's mother day. this is content producer michael and his dad and his mom kathy. happy mother's day. great photo. throw back photo of production assistant peter maguire with his mother and hits mom joanne. happy another's day to you. pete? pete: grown up a little bit. beautiful photo. summer's hot temperatures bring an end to covid-19 you may need to think again. researchers at university of toronto saying summer will not make this go away. important for people to know that. more public health interventions areas had in place the bigger impact on slowing the epidemic growth. here to discuss fox news medical contributor, author of, make america healthy again, dr. nicole saphier thank you very much. thank you for being here. we heard a lot about tests. how definitive is this? because early on the assumption was, hey, heat, sunlight, warm weather will be good. what do you say?

>> well you know traditionally, historically talking about a respiratory virus you do see, seem to see a slowing of the spread. you have hotter more humid months. this global survey reported in the canadian jama, actually when it came to the novel coronavirus, temperature, latitude did not have direct effect on the epidemiological growth of the virus or spread of it but what they were showing there was a direct relationship with the social distancing measures which i'll be honest, we kind of already knew that. we've seen that here in the united states. all the stay at home measures, people taking responsibility that helped us flatten, decrease the curve. it is a little disheartening going into the summer months maybe it will not slow as much. i can tell you warmer weather, means increased activity, vitamin-d exposure which is good for physical, mental health. i'm looking forward to the warmer months. cross ventilation of the homes

will decrease spread a little bit but maybe not as much as we wanted it to. bottom line we have to be responsible with our social distancing measures while also getting outside, making sure we're active. pete: on balance hopefully summer is a good thing. on the fda, they first approved a at home covid-19 saliva test. what do you say about this? >> this is another facet to the rapid response the fda makes sure we have access to the tests this is something they have been doing since the beginning. now emergencies, authorization. what it is, it is essentially a saliva test. you can spit into a test tube, send it back to the lab instead of that invasive nasal swab. they wanted to restrict to people with symptoms right now. you need a doctor's prescription for it. there is 48 hour turn around. with all these tests there are such thing as false negatives. people want to know if they get a negative test result, they are sick, you should still stay at home.

a step forward, making sure we have access. people are sick, they don't have to go to the doctor's office. potentially get it from home, continue to stay safe at home. any new test approved needs more access, keeps us on the right path. pete: i buried the lead. i want to wish you a happy mother's day. you are did he dedicated to your kids. you have a special surprise for us as well. >> wonderful mother and daughter due row, beatrice and anna, are joining us today. they have been working together on the front lines caring for covid-19 patients and we are very honored they have decided to spend their mother's day with us and telling us a little bit about their story. so we have beatrice and anna who are both on the front lines. can you hear me, are you guys on with me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> okay. so tell us a little bit about it. you've been working together on the front line, caring for

covid-19 patients. what are some of the challenges that you have not only keeping yourselves safe but your family at home safe? >> so, i think one of the challenges that we have faced, like, you had mentioned, you know, me being a nurse. my daughter being a nurse assistant. we both work together. although in separate units, now that covid-19 has, you know it is here, we had the opportunity to actually work together in the same unit. it is challenging for us in a way where we both work and we both have to come home to like my other kids and, not expose them but it is a challenge. it is a challenge because, i cannot come home and hug them like i used to before. tell them to stay away from me for a few minutes, until i get dressed, shower, but it is not

the same. is there anything you want to share. >> thank you so much, beatrice, anna, everything you're doing for our country and family. have a beautiful mother's day. thank you for everything that you're doing. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back.

♪ griff: a new york principal taking a lesson from santa claus, leaving surprise gifts on the doorsteps of his school's teacher and staff to let them know they are all appreciated that principal of ps3 in pleasant planes new york, elmer myers, joins us. good morning to you, elmer. thanks for joining us. >> good morning. griff: so you turned into santa claus a little bit and delivering these gifts. first, why are you doing this? what brought this on and what

are you delivering? >> so we normally every year for teacher appreciation week provide a gift as a thank you to all the staff members for what they have done all year. this year, especially with everybody working from home every day, they're going above and beyond i wanted to make sure they get a gift and knew how much i appreciated all the work they were doing. we, a couple years ago provided a lunch box with a ps3 logo on it, and it went over really well. we heard, over the last year-and-a-half that the lunch boxes were wearing out. so we provided a new lunch box. i wrote them a letter saying how much i appreciated them. i added thank you for what they're doing. griff: elmer, how many of these have you done? are you doing this out of your on pocket, out of your own goodness. >> no. the lunch boxes we used school

money for that but everything else is from me and, i did on saturday i delivered 101 in staten island. on sunday i delivered 19 to my staff in new jersey. griff: wow. let you share a message about how you feel about all the teachers during the time like this. what is your message to them. >> just thank you. teachers sometimes we forget that they're going above and beyond every single day out there. they're trying to make life as normal for their students. they know that their students, especially the younger ones truly miss them. this is very strang for them, es especially four and five years olds learning from him. they're trying to make life as normal and thank you to my staff and all the staff. griff: thank you. principal miers, thanks for being here. thanks for the work you've been

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we want to help, with real questions from you, and real answers from experts. we can get through this together. visit letsbreathetogether.com. pete: here we are the halfway mark of this sunday edition of fox & friends and we start with this fox news alert. top white house task force members now taking precautions after being exposed to covid-19. griff: cdc director robert redfield and doctor anthony fauci are self isolating. emily: all three are testified to schedule before the senate on tuesday. 11 states are easing restrictions tomorrow as the country continues to reopen. happy sunday, happy mother's day day. welcome to fox & friends. we're excited that we have two more hours for you in store. it's such an honor and pleasure to be filling in for jed today.

we look forward to filling in with you this hour. pete: griff, this morning from washington, d.c. our swamp master, it's always great to have you. i mean that with all due love. griff: you and you're executive director have both called me a swamp creature. i'm happy to live in washington even here in the swamp we are also cherishing mothers on this important mother's day to make sure they all know how much we love them and how much had he do for us. pete: absolutely. important correction. i said everyone has a mother in the six o'clock hour. adam and eve did not have a mother. just -- i checked. not an original joke at all. but -- no, it's wonderful, happy mother's day to everybody. it's a special day for the special people in our lives for sure. >> top white house coronavirus task force members set to testify in a senate hearing on tuesday. it comes amid increasing concerns over white house staffers testing positive for the virus. our mark meredith is live as top task force members quarantine

after being exexposed to covid-19. good morning, mark. emily: good morning to you, emily. a number of top health officials are keeping their physical distance from the white house because they have come into contact with someone who was infected with covid-19. dr. anthony fauci is now in a modified self-quarantine. the good news, he has tested negative for the virus. in a statement the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases said he is in low risk based on his degree of exposure. nevertheless he is taking appropriate precautions to mitigate any of his personal contacts whilst still allowing him to carry out his responsibilities in this public health crisis. fauci is one of several people that are expected to testify before the senate later on this week. this includes the heads of the cdc physicals the f.d.a. mean it the president says the struggling economy remains top of mind. he tweeted yesterday the usa will be purchasing from our farmers, ranchers, and specialty

crop growers $3 billion in dairy meat, and produce for families and kitchen, for the family food breaks, great news for all. there is no movement from the white house and congress on another package. house speaker nancy pelosi says she and the president are not on the same page. >> is the president part of these discussions, these negotiations? >> i don't -- i don't have any idea what the president does. >> he said that the house is on vacation. >> you know what? don't waste your time or mine on what he says. >> a handful of senate democrats are calling for another round of those stimulus payments, but so far there's no movement with that between the white house and capitol hill. griff, emily, and pete, back to you guys. griff: thanks, m.rk emily: thanks, mark. pete: yeah, with statements like that, griff, from nancy pelosi, the arrogance dripping from her lips, hard to see that anything will get done although there's going to be a big difference here. you've got the belief that we

need trillions more in money on the democrat side, and a lot of people are the president's side feeling like, hey, let's see how the previous ones work out firs. griff: well, we'll see what comes in this next phase 4 and obviously republicans indicating they're not in a rush to do this nor issue those stimulus checks that mark was talking about. but, you know, it's really interesting as we have gone through eight weeks now of this pandemic, the reaction, as you keep pointing out a lot, keep, the businesses wanting to open not necessarily needing the government to solve the problem now letting them reopen perhaps is important. and, emily, the story coming out of your hometown out there in almeda county and what elon musk is trying to do is quite something. emily: exactly, griff. tesla is filing a lawsuit against almeda county immediately. this, by the way, is elon musk's tweet. excuse me. so he talked about that he'd filed a lawsuit immediately. he said, "the unelected and

ignorant interim health officer of almeda is acting contrary to the governor, the president, our constitutional freedoms, and just plain common sense. frankly, this is the final straw straw. tesla will now move its headquarters and future programs to texas or nevada immediately. the bee even retain fremont activity at all it will be dependent on how tesla is treated in the future. tesla is the last car maker left in california." and griff, as you pointed out, i'm from that area, and what i see is a pattern where the local elected officials hamstring businesses there, and they have no choice but to evacuate. who's left but the residents. we've seen the oakland raiders leave, the golden state warriors warriors. it's not just about jobs and the surge in the economy that these businesses represent. also that this decision about the pandemic. it's the fact that up until now there's been a succession of poor decisions by these business leaders, high taxes, constant

overregulation. it's everything at every junction that can prevent growth and commerce and jobs thriving. and you guys, more than ever after this pandemic we need business friendly policy and that's not what we are getting there in california. pete: isn't that right. elon musk and tesla he's gotten his shares of subsidies over the years, i'm just saying, but at the same time he's saying, "hey, freedom, give us a chance. i think he's seeing what a lot of us have understood and seen for years that state policies and county policies, who your governor is really matters. yes voting for president sets the overarching sense. in this case the president set out guidelines for states to follow. but if you're in state that is being heavy-handed and putting a one-size-fits-all as you talked about, emily on businesses, and then they have counties and places where they can and should open up because it makes common sense and they can could so responsibly, they're going to start going. this is a microreaction to a bigger problem of why businesses

are leaving for texas and they're leaving for business friendly states, as you said. griff: speaking reaction here is almeda county's statement. "we appreciate that our residents and businesses have made tremendous sacrifices and that together we have been able to save lives and protect community health in our region. we need to continue to work together so the sacrifices don't go to waste and that we maintain our gains. it is our collective responsibility to move through the phases of reopening and loosening the restrictions of this shelter in place order in the safest way possible guided by data in science. emily, do you think that's going to be convince elon to stay? emily: i think it depends on this lawsuit. and i don't think so. i think that's a weak argument, it's a weak defense on their part, especially when as he articulated in the lawsuit when you trample on your constitutional rights regardless if you have a reason like the public health and overall emergent quality you have to provide the least restrictive measure in doing so and in accomplishing that legitimate goal and he points out the fact

that the governor had said that he wanted to open manufacturing jobs. this is a state, by the way, with 58 counties, 14 of which have had zero corona deaths. so this is again that one-size-fits-all that we've been talking about, this is a prime example of that. and representative dan crenshaw responded to the situation in a tweet. he said, "texas gets better every day. good conservative principles make good governance and attracts the best and the brightest. the future is happening in texas texas." he's absolutely right. there is a reason why businesses are league these democratic-run cities and states. how else will we get jobs? yeah, sorry. pete: totally. no, you're exactly right. and that statement from the almeda county, it reads like typical bureaucratic mealy mush and it ends by yogurt data. everybody loves data. we had mark green on who is a physician, a congressman from tennessee pointing out that they're moving the goalposts on the data. the data for flattening the curve was to prevent a spike in

people in our icus and hospitals not some sort of a false reality that we could stop most people from eventually getting the virus. you slow it down so the system can handle it. but if you're saying we can't -- we can't ease our restrictions until no one's getting the virus you're going to be closed throughout the summer all the way into the fall and all these businesses elon musk is leading the way as an example say it's untenable, and they are right. griff: and it's not just businesses. also the faith community and churches and congregations feeling a huge impact on this. in fact, we spoke with a california pastor earlier and we've got the story of a federal court halting a kentucky governor's ban on mass gatherings from applying to religious services, clearing the way for sunday church services. now, that pastor, pastor carroll is vowing to open his church doors now. he is talking with a handful of churches, as many i believe as 4,000 are looking to possibly defy california's order at the end of the month because he believes that they're ready to open.

here's a little bit of what pastor danny carroll of water of life community church in california had to say. >> the only thing that the governor mentioned about churches was on one of those phone calls i was on a couple of weeks ago he said, look, you're not going to like to hear this, but i don't like large gatherings of strangers, things like the nba, places like major league baseball and churches. for those of you who work in work life with people, they're not strangers to us. this is why we probably have 4,000 churches that are prepared to open at the end of the month. and so we're trying to negotiate with the governor used to have office. we're going to send them a proposal, a detailed proposal on how churches can open safely. griff: we'll see how that goes. going to be talk to the governor later this coming week. emily: exactly. you know, this is not the first time that that governor has blindsided his constituents. again, with all of those counties reporting vastly different covid dittos, most

coming from san diego, and all over california they are now saying that faith based gatherings when they can socially distance inside these huge churches when people were trying to do driveup worship that those are not only un unessential but noncompliant with social distancing. >> you mean big gatherings of strangers like at walmart and target? you know, new jersey governor mill murphy summed it up for all these governors when he said the bill of rights was above his pay grade. this is an important moment for people to remind them, no, it is his rule book, examine their rule book and -- and ultimately those amendments given to us by god, government exists to protect them, not endorse your inability to actually use them. we'll continue to follow these church cases. once again like they did in the revolution, pastors leading the way shepherding their flock. good stuff. we'll bring you more on that throughout the program. we have additional headlines as well starting with stream weather. record-setting cold sweeping the northeast creating winter-like conditions in the heart of spring. a polar vortex moving down from canada causing light flurries in

central park tying a decades-old record for may snowfall in new york city. the system setting a record low temperature in pittsburgh at 28 degrees, dropping snow near the city. and take a look at this. parts of vermont seeing up to eight inches of snow. that's vermont. the taliban companies they're holding an american contractor hostage after this. navy veteran mark furek has been missing since january. the u.s. has been pushing for his release working with pakistan to locate him. days after furek disappeared navy commandos raided a village where he was believed to be. several members of a taliban related group were detained. things may be turning around for carnival cruise lines which plans to start up in august. the cruise line says bookings are up 200 percent since last year when covid-19 was a concern concern. the firm says travelers do not

seem to be concerned and they're looking to have fun after being on lockdown for so long. and the boston red sox making a grand slam try to be to nurses. the grounds crew mowing a team logo a heart and "nurses" at fenway park. the head groundskeeper told us earlier why the project was permanent for him. >> to have the opportunity to help put that out there is certainly special to me. i mean, hit by a car three times nurses have played an important part in my recovery. pete: the team kept its sox logo separate in a nod to social distancing. and those are your headlines. griff, don't try that in your yard. griff: no, what a great job they did there. stem cell ahead, democratic leaders target a 77-year-old barbershop order for defying michigan's lockdown order. he says this is the worst oppression he's seen and refuses

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♪ griff: welcome back. support is the borrowing for a michigan barbershop owner defying the state's order to shut down his business. >> we were asked to bring that to you by the attorney general. so i'm just the living it to yo. >> that's fine. listen. you guys -- you're doing your job. you know i'm doing what i think i have to do. griff: the 77-year-old decided to reopen after the governor extended the lockdown until may 28th. that barbershop orthopedic, carl maeke joins us now. good morning to you, carl, thanks for joining us and taking time. so what we were saying that -- >> good morning, griff. griff: good morning. what we were seeing in that clip

was the michigan police delivering a cease-and-desist order to you but yet you're staying open. tell me why. >> well, you know, back in march 21st was the last day that i had worked. and we were sort of -- the indication was it would be a couple of weeks. and, okay, you know, i'm not fine with that, but a lot of the other businesses were still staying open. you know, there were some guidelines that were set up and, you know, that walmart stores were opening and gas stations were opening, food stores were opening. and we were dreamed, you know, essential or nonessential by some call. i'm not sure what that was based on. but then, you know, a couple of weeks went by, and then they extended it for another couple of weeks. and it was about april 30th the legislative branch of our state had decided that the governor was out of order, that she had

used up her 28 days and that she could initiate that type of an order so i planned to go back to work. well, then i don't know what happened. you know, the politicians got a little contest with each other and one is going to out door the other one, and she obviously got a little bit mad and she extended another 15 days, and then some other legislative material happened, and she extend it another 15 days. well, this just absolutely brought me to my knees. i just couldn't do that. i'm a small business owner. griff: yeah, karl -- >> i'm a small business owner. griff: excuse me. you've been in business since 1961, i read, and you've him seen anything like this in your life. what's your message now? what do you want to see to your governor, whitmer? >> obviously she has no concept at all, the damage that she's

doing to our state. you know, it's -- and to families. you know, the people that i -- when the state police came in here the other day, they came in eight of them, powerful, powerful people. and i had families in here and little kids jumping up and down and, you know, one mother with quads trying to hold him still. it was a really something to see with this extreme fo.ce griff: karl, you treated them with great respect. we'll look forward to following this story. keep us posted. and please, above all, stay safe safe.

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pete: this morning we're celebrating moms all across the country including ones of our own right here at the fox & friends family, the families of the people that make this show happy birthday. executive producer -- carol and 10-year-old daughter -- 10 10-year-old matt sap land, and here's writer john nria with his mom diane. wonderful. thank you for all he does on this show and everyone here associate producer mary carol with three generations of her family celebrating an early mother's day. mary always has a smile on her face, often in the greenroom here, we miss her, miss everyone on fox & friends. we don't have a show. we just talk on tv and use

teleprompters. we thank the producers so much and thank the mothers that brought us into this world. griff: 11 states are set to start easing coronavirus restrictions tomorrow as protests ramp up throughout the country over lockdown orders. many americans hitting the streets this weekend to put pressures on their governors demanding to let them get back to work, and so now we want to bring in the former governor of arkansas and fox news contributor mike huckabee. governor huckabee, good morning to you. what are your thoughts this morning on that? >> well, i think governors across the country are recognizing that people have had about enough being told to stay home, don't go anywhere, don't do anything. everybody wants to be safe. people have applied extraordinary measures to protect themselves and their friends and their neighbors but there's also a point that we cannot live hunkered down forever. it's not like bombs are dropping on top of london. we're at a time when we've got to get back to work or there's

not going to be anything to get out of the house to go back to. so increasingly governors are ramping up. and it's interesting to note, brian kemp in georgia is a good example. people were just hammering him for starting to open back up. but his state has seen the lowest number of covid-19 cases now since this whole thing started. ron desantis in florida where i am right now, he was getting hammered. "he wasn't doing enough." but the truth is florida has a bigger population than new york, more senior population than new york, and a small fraction of the number of cases. so these governors who have managed by saying, "let's not shut everything down too quickly quickly" have actually had far better results than the ones who closed the doors, locked the key and started arresting people for doing such things as getting a haircut or buying seeds to plant tomatoes in their garden. pete: yeah. i mean, 60% of the cases in new york came from people at home as well. is there a perverse incentive in

some cases for politicians to sort of move the goalposts and continue to keep it locked down to say, hey, we're going to prevent every single death we can? of course we want to do that, but it seems like there's a political incentive to do that, too,. >> well, there may be a political incentive. you know, there's certainly a power grab that i find revolting revolting. we don't live in a police state. i've been all over the world. i've been, as you have, pete, to places that are authoritarian, totalitarian governments. and every time i'm there, i'm thinking, i want to get out of here. this is not america. i like freedom. and i've visited some police states. i don't want to live in one. and i think one thing we are beginning to recognize is part of the reason this has extended is because all of the government people who are telling us to lock our doors and not go anywhere, they're all getting their paychecks, every last one of them. not one government employee is failing to get their paycheck. so if we really want to solve this, let's say this. if you're a government person

and you're telling other people they can't get their pay, you don't get yours. and that includes nancy pelosi and the members of congress. emily: governor, part of what impresses me so much about you is your ability to articulate so simply and clearly solutions, and that's partly what i loved about your book, "simple government." and so i wanted to get your thoughts on the u.s.'s relationship with china; right? because we're sparring with china right now over many things and we have for so long. and right now we're sparring with them over the pro-hu language and u.n. security council ceasefire resolution language, and beijing wanted to mention hu's role -- we have demanded for critical language. what is your solution that you recommend, what are your thoughts on how we can disen disentangle ourselves from china china's grip? >> well, great question, who's that's exactly what it is, china china's grip. this started when a lot of american multinational, globalist countries decided they could make a real quick buck by

shipping all the manufacturing that we used to do here to china where cheap labor would do it without any regard whatsoever for the environment or for human rights abuses. so we did that, and we had cheap stuff. but now we're seeing the cheap stuff under the iron hand of communism isn't cheap at all. it's like "pay me now, pay me later." well, we're paying. boy, are we ever paying for all of the things that we sold out to china. and, frankly, the way that the world health organization, who, has kowtowed to china is discussing and revolting and president trump is exactly right to do what he's done. let me just say this. i've got more confidence in the rock band who than i have in the who, world health organization. griff: good line. governor, giving you a chance to share your mother's day thought. >> well, happy mother's day to all the moms. my own mother has been deceased for a number of years. i've got a photo of her but not

one with me because she refused to be seen with me in public from the time i was a tot. i have a wonderful wife to her three children and a wonderful grandmother to her six grandchildren. she's recovering from a bronco ankle, stepped on a grandchild's toy; so her mother's day is a lot more painful than it ought to be. facing surgery tomorrow. pete: we hope she recovers quickly, governor. thank you so much. >> thank you. great to see you guys. griff: still ahead, as we recognize all moms today we're celebrating our own jedediah bila's first mother's day, jedediah joins after the break. hey, can i... hold on one second... sure. okay... okay! safe drivers save 40%!!! guys! guys! check it out. safe drivers save 40%!!! safe drivers save 40%! safe drivers save 40%!!!

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>> there she is. good morning, jed, jeremiah, and baby harley. pete: as we celebrate all moms today we wish a very special first mother's day to weekend co cohost jedediah bila. griff: she gave both to her son harley in november. emily: jedediah joins us now, jed, welcome. happy mother's day to you. what an exciting day for you. this is your first mother's day, and the fox family and all the viewers are so excited to see you right now to celebrate with you today. and especially because they have been sharing your whole journey this entire time. share what it's like right now to finally celebrate in front of everyone. jedediah: yeah. so as you say we have hartley here who may or may not cooperate but it's been pretty amazing. i first off want to wish everyone a happy mother's day, my mom happy mother's day, all the moms out there. it's kind of a surreal time to celebrate mother's day especially with what's going on. can't unfortunately see my mom

in person just yet. i've been a little overly cautious with my parents right now now but we do a lot of zooms and we do a lot of facetimes and this is my little nugget. as you may notice he has grown quite a bit and he's doing really well, and it's just -- it's really surreal to be someone's mom. you find yourself in a position where you look at life completely differently and suddenly everything you didn't worry about before you worry about now 'cause you have someone else to think about. but he has -- he's managed to get my priorities in order faster than anyone else in my will you identify ever has so it's been really great and i just hope all the moms out there even it's a really difficult time find a way to enjoy your kids, enjoy my mom, your grandma grandmas, all your important moms out there. as we know they're just so important all the time and hartley really wanted to say hi to you guys. pete: jed, what's the biggest surprise you've found from motherhood? jedediah: you know, i've always

been a worrier. people who know me know i'm one to worry about a lot of stuff but it's just different. i had always lived my life kind of footloose, fancy free, skydive, do this. and now suddenly everything you do, you think, "okay. i need to be here for someone else, i need to stay safe, i need to stay healthy and even when i got sick it was crazy. i wasn't worried about me, i was constantly worried about the baby, will i give him something, will he be okay?" so it's amazing how you really, your entire focus just shifts to another human being and all you care about is just them and their safety and their security. and it's kind of nice. because you don't -- you know, all the little petty stuff you think about yourself, your whole life, you kind of just forget that and you know what? none of that matters. there's a little person that relies on me and that's what's important. i'm going to pass him to jeremiah. he's big. this is my exercise right now is just lifting him up and down. he's quite a load. griff: good.

soon we'll get you back to the soulcycle. jed, you mentioned that you yourself had covid-19. tell our viewers, give us an update of how you're could go and what it's been like. jedediah: yeah. you know, griff, i want to thank you because one of the first messages i got when i got sick was your text message, and griff was like, "come on, beel, you got this, you're in the clear, home run, team bila." and it was right out of soulcycle, but it really made me smile and laugh right from the get-go. so, yeah, listen, i'm going through what a lot of people around the country are going through. everyone's feeling this in a different way. some people got sick, had family members who get sick. some didn't get sick but their businesses have been shut down and they're scared. everyone is dealing with covid-19 in one way or another. i got sick first and there was a little bit of a delay, my husband got sick and while the baby did not get a fever or anything like that, the baby

wound up a couple of weeks later getting a rash, which i was really worried was a covid rash, and i wound up doing a lot of telemedicine appointments. it was not a covid rash, but it was a tick-up in eczema that was a response or an immune response to exposure to the virus so he was -- this poor thing was covered in eczema. so it's been quite a ride. i am doing better, much better. you can see me right now getting my energy back. i will say, though, i wasn't sleeping a lot. and as you guys know, i'm not a sleeper; right? i'm always like, let's go, let's get it done. when i first got better i got better after about seven to ten days, i was feeling like myself again, i started exercising in my room and i was making plans to come back to work but i wasn't sleeping because of the baby and i almost felt like i got a relapse and i wound up getting really scared calling the doctor and saying i have chest tightness, what's going on and basically it was just you need to rest, you need to recover. this thing kind of buries itself in the body a little bit and you can't do what you were doing before in two seconds so it's

kind of been a lesson for me. i consider myself a little bit of a warrior, you guys know, i'm into health and fitness and all that. the body needs sleep. you're up all night with a baby and you can imagine a teething baby with eczema, he wasn't happy all night. i kind of just had to take a minute. but i've been working behind the scenes to try to figure out the best way to come back, obviously want to do it safely even though i'm well out of the zone where i would be contagious, i just want to make sure -- i'm always paranoid because i feel like we learn something different about this virus every day, and you just never know so i'm being extremely careful but i have missed everyone so much. and i do want to thank everybody who wrote me. this audience is pretty amazing. i got so many messages from people rooting for my family saying, "we got you. we're praying for you. we're thinking of you." and i want to thank jillian mele who did obviously emily you're filling in for me today and jillian filled in so many times. she worked her fingers to the bone.

she is a warrior. she called me. we were on the phone and just really grateful for everyone that stepped up. ainsley, like everyone has stepped up with, like, what can we do. i was kind of blown away by that even people i don't know that well as part of the fox family reached out and i really appreciate that so much. so i'm okay. i'm okay. and i kicked into my, you know, my nutrition head and my food head and i -- i'm okay, but i am definitely feeling a lot of what's going on in manhattan. and my heart just because i live this side of the story of getting sick and having a lot of fear around that, i have a lot of friends who are business owners in this city who have lost businesses, who have had to lay off employees. and i feel their suffering as well. so it's something that's hit us all. griff: jed, we have missed you so much. we are so glad you are on the other side of this and feeling better and for your first mother's day, happy mother's day try to find some joy and today you certainly deserve it.

>> thank you so much. and hartley can't wait to meet you guys in person. he never did that since all this happened. he wants to come in and hopefully we can be back on the couch and he can with all parta. emily: happy mother's day. >> stay safe, and i appreciate you all so much. pete: god bless. thank you, jed. still ahead, world war ii era planes fly over the heartland to salute front lines workers. the lead pilot a member of the walton family of walmart. stewart walton joins us next.

griff: welcome back. we're celebrating moms all morning long, including the special ones of our own, fox & friends family. this is production assistant julianna de donato with her money geena while on vacation in italy. what a great shot. this is graphics producer

anthony roccio with his mom laura and associate producer kate keegan with her mom liz. great picture there and this is producer jason stein with his niece, nephew, and mom marla and her dog buttercup. happy mother's day to everyone there. and thank you for being great moms. pete? pete: can't wait to see jason still without a haircut. a salute from the skies to health care heroes in the heartland, a team of arkansas pilots flying vintage world war ii era planes over 15 cities to say thank you. and our next guest led the fly flyover. pilot and chairman of the arkansas economic recovery task force and member of the walton family of walmart, steuart walton joins us now. steuart, thanks for being on the program. that is a heck of a plane behind you. you have flown either that one or ones like it and you did it to salute front line workers. explain how it all came togethe. >> hey, pete.

thanks. good morning. in bentonville. it came together with an idea actually from a friend of mine up in new york who sent me a flier of the blue angels that flew around the cities that got everybody fired up in the city, brought them out to their windows, at least, and we started thinking about whether we could do something similar for the state of arkansas in recognition of some of the steps that we've taken to reopen the state but really to recognize the front line workers, the people who've been working round the clock seven days a week to take care of folks who've fallen ill with the virus. we put this together yesterday, think it was a big success and had a lot of positive feedback and we had perfect weather to boot. pete: good on you. world war ii era as well, maybe some flashbacks for people too. super cool. got to ask you about reopening cause you mentioned it. restaurants will open for service to by 33% capacity. you're a member of the state's recovery task force.

is it going fast enough? what's your take on reopening right now? >> ever since i got involved with the task force that the governor asked me to lead i've been surprised with the complexity of reopening. and so, look. there's no playbook for this, and we are really trying to take safe steps but important steps to reopening the economy. with respect to restaurants within you know it's going to be a little bit different experience that we're all used to, but i can tell you, i'm very excited to have somebody ask me, what would you like to drink? 'cause it's been too long. pete: i've heard that before. it's troupe. and i got to ask you this. this is not a hit on walmart because it provides so much for so many. but walmart's open, target's open, home depot's open but yet you've got a lot of these small mom-and-pop shops that sell the exact same thing as walmart and they are closed when they could probably social distance even better than groups of people at walmart. what do you say to those folks that feel like there's a double standard? >> not so sure that's right

because, look, walmart provides an essential service. we're the largest grocer in the country and so i think it's incredible essential that we're open in the first place. and with respect to the smaller stores here around this we never actually closed nonessential retail so retailers can stay open to the extent possible. the problem is demand, and this crisis both -- you know, it's a health crisis, but it's on an economic -- spawned an economic crisis, and the economic crisis is as much about demand as it is about regulation, closing businesses down. like i said earlier it's really complex to try to manage through this, but at the same time i'm really proud of the way arkansas arkansas's approaching it. it's data driven. it's nuanced. but it's a difficult situation. pete: absolutely. we wish you the best and of course every business and job is essential to the person that has it and that's the tiptoe and businesses have been open, that's a good thing, allowing people to act responsibly as we try to get our economy back. steuart, thank you so much for raising everybody's spirits today with that flyover and for

your participation in that task force. good luck in opening the state. i appreciate it. >> thank you so much. pete: still ahead, celebrating moms with breakfast in bed. chef ryan scott shares the quick and easy recipe 'cause if you haven't done it yet you're going to need quick and easy. that's coming up next. can my ? and my side super soft? yes. with the sleep number 360 smart bed, on sale now, you can both adjust your comfort with your sleep number setting. can it help me fall asleep faster? yes. by gently warming your feet. but can it help keep me asleep? absolutely, it intelligently senses your movements and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. so, you can really promise better sleep? not promise. prove. during the memorial day sale, save $1,000 on the sleep number 360 special edition smart bed, now only $1,799. only for a limited time. to learn more, go to sleepnumber.com many of life's moments in thare being put on hold. are staying at home, at carvana, we understand that, for some, getting a car just can't wait. to help, we're giving our customers up to 90 days to make their first payment.

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♪ griff: what better way to celebrate mom on her special day than with breakfast in bed. emily: our next guest has an incredible recipe anyone can whip up this morning. pete: owner of ryan scott to go catering and former top chef contestant chef ryan scott joins us now looking good. ryan, emily and griff and i we had excuses. we had to be on tv. other people may not. how do we make that beautiful

looking thing right there? >> hey, guys, good morning. so nice to be with you all. through skype i'm going to show you all here. everybody has overripened bananas in their house right now bananas that turned brown. everybody has a blender at home. in here is one cup, two whole eggs, one banana and all you do is put the banana right inside here. this is the overripened banana, the brown one, the one that looks like it's not going to go anywhere. in here is one cup of flour. when i put the one cup of flour, and this is-all-purpose flour; so a.p., whole wheat, that's fine, one teaspoon of salt goes inside here and this is how we get the pancake to look gorgeous and nice and fluffy. two teaspoons of baking soda and then two teaspoons of baking powder goes inside there like this, guys. all you did -- i can't wait for somebody to have -- my wife and

daughter are both asleep. let me show you real quick. ready? it gets pulled just like that and all you do is mix it, mix it mix it, the great thing about it is put it in the blender and the pancake goes right inside the pan. this goes in a dry pan. here's my favorite part. you ready? pete: ooh, that's delightful. >> nice and fluffy. you guys see here the baking soda and the baking powder allow the pancake to rise like this so by blending this completely i add no sugar, i has had no honey i add no agave. this is a sugar free pancake at the same time. then what i like to do is i put all the pancakes on a half-sheet pan here where i cool them down and that way for my daughter during the week if you make these i can cool them down, i put them in a ziploc bag and all i have to do is put them in a microwave to reheat them. pete: bingo. >> and last about not least for you guys i did another stack

here with some caramelized bananas here on top, and emily happy mother's day to all the beautiful mothers out there, and you guys get just a dollop of whipped cream that goes right on top. and this is pretty much what every mother wants during quarantine on mother's day; right? emily: i think anyone in general general. seth, that looks so incredible. you are in california. i used to live in stinson beach. what i most appreciate like this right now are your tips on the presentation, how to make it look good. a lot of things i cook might taste good but it looks hideous. it's good to know about the baking soda and baking powder. >> everybody asks what does baking soda and baking powder, they work together. makes it rise to look fluffy like this and makes the pancake go outside on the outside. you can't miss that. and then don't tag me on that; right? griff: great job and great camera work as well. pete: i love the blender tip.

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pete: welcome to the final hour of this sunday edition of fox & friends straight to a fox news alert 11 states easing restrictions tomorrow on monday, as the country pushes to reopen. griff: americans protesting nationwide this weekend demanding they get back to work. >> emily: starting next week president trump says the u.s. will buy billions of dollars worth of products from american farmers as demand plummets during the pandemic. pete: that's right. >> emily: happy sunday, happy mother's day. pete: we should try to say it together if we could we would but we've got a little delay but emily it's so great to have you on the west coast in washington, as always, and griff, our wonderful friend from capitol hill, washington d.c., america's

swamp. griff: [laughter] i knew it was coming. happy mother's day to everybody out there. pete: i tried to hold off. griff: you couldn't resist i don't blame you because really there's a lot of attention here on the nations capitol and our elected officials because so many of these state 1-s 1 of them actually now this week are set to ease restrictions tomorrow, because businesses want to get back to work, you got the stay-at-home protest continuing through the weekend more are planned for the upcoming week you'll see 191 states easing restrictions tomorrow. pete: that's right and the first map was easing restrictions this map right here are protests from saturday there are more planned going into next week, florida, minnesota, illinois, delaware, i'm sure there will be more to come and it started as everyone's protesting because we want our states open. there is the week ahead. now its moved largely into blue states where governors have made the decision a lot in the states hit hardest especially early on so the lockdown orders came down

hard and fast but now they are being extended and you have a lot of business owners you talk about it emily saying in places like california where yes, some urban cores need to have maybe additional restrictions temporarily but some counties have zero cases or a handful and business owners are starting to say i've got to open now. >> emily: that's absolutely right, pete and here in washington state where i'm sitting at this moment there's no plans to reopen really any time soon regardless of easing of restrictions and we're seeing protests here as well and i think the larger picture that's happening is that these states that aren't reopening soon people protesting especially on the west coast are sort of being slapped with some type of you don't care about human life when to them it's absolutely about putting food on the table. this is in critical time right now for a local and governors local and state-elected official s to make decisions that will preserve and sustain these jobs. reopening the economy is not about flipping a switch and i think the most important thing where we can call for and draw

attention to policy are things like letting business owners have a longer cure period a longer measurement period for the benefits they get from the federal stimulus program, the ppp, how will that help them if they are staying closed for another six weeks with no revenue. they are burning through their limit faster so it's incumbent upon the west coast especially local and state leaders to make the right decision. griff: even on the east coast, emily we were showing that map, earlier where delaware has a protest coming and that's unique because it's only about a 20 minute drive going down to ocean city, 30 minutes to ocean city maryland and maryland of course was hit hard but yesterday, ocean city maryland's beaches opened up but yet delaware is closed so there's business owner s of exactly the same type of ice cream parlor, whatnot feeling abrunt in some areas and we had that owner, pete that you talked to earlier,

jim of the ash trail store, speaking really pretty much from the heart feeling what a lot of these business owners are feeling. here is what jim knutson said. >> we've got five months up here, pete, to make a living and a year ago, pete, we were rock ing and rolling up here. the united states had the best economy going, the jobs we couldn't get enough people. the virus, here it comes and they shut us down. you can't go out camping, your national park is shut down. are you kidding me? you've got a better chance, pete of getting eaten by a timber wolf or a bear than you do catching that virus out there. we've got to get things opened up. pete: [laughter] back by popular demand jim speaking for a lot of people he runs a gas station, a bait and tackle shop a convenience store in northern minnesota. the governor has extended the lockdown in that state even though the cases are nowhere

near what they are on the east and west coast. he lives up north where the cases are very minimal, and he's simply saying i've got my whole life in this business, my mortgaged my life to open the shop and supply for people and if people can't camp outdoors or go fishing the way the governor said only on one tank of gas, these are arbitrary restrictions that people are rejecting and guess what he's not asking for a bailout. even more ppp. the bailout he wants is his business fully open by allowing people to go out, be responsible , make your own choice, but go as you see fit with your family and that's how you get the economies going again. it's simple stuff, but good for red for speaking up. >> emily: exactly and keep in mind too the response some of these governors are making so take california, 58 counties 15 of which had zero coronavirus steps and to those counties appealing to the governor, let us open our economies are being annihilated, the response is

we're going to withhold your disaster funding and you must not care about lives, but earlier on the show we had representative mark green whose a physician explain why states should reopen earlier. take a listen. >> they moved the goal post essentially. first, we were quarantining to prevent or flatten the curve basically, which is to keep from maximizing our icus and ventilators so that turned out to be a great success, so we need to start opening back up. those states the liberal states you talk about again in your opening monologue if they want to stay closed until we have a vaccine, fine. move to tennessee. move to texas. we got states out there that are ready to go. griff: the big question is whether the state of georgia has been ready to go, or not. they of course have had a lot of cases more than 32000 and had more than 1,400 deaths, but governor brian kim made a very bold move the first governor to really stand up and say i'm going to do it for the sake of opening businesses even

president trump criticizing him but allowing him to make his own decision and here is what governor kim tweeted saying this today marks the lowest number of covid-19 positive patients currently hospitalized statewide since hospitals began reporting this data on april 8 today also marks the lowest total of ventilators in-use. we will win this fight together, so he is not a state with the lowest number of cases by any stretch of the imagination but he's looking at the specific data as you point out, pete making decisions based on those trends we shall see how things end up in the end. pete: emily he's moving your point that it's a false choice to say you're either for health or you're for reopening, if you're responsible you can do both. he took a big risk, put respect, trust, and respect in the good citizens of georgia and they have responded, and that's the kind of respect a lot of citizens want from their own governor. we had joey jones on and he live s in georgia talked about

the governors decision to give people a chance. here is what he said. >> brian, he knew what most knew which is that we were already had restaurants convert ed to takeout only, we already had delivery options going, we already had lines that were six feet apart outside of places like the academy or home depot and so so many businesses were already taking precautions and now our governor knew that wasn't going to change overnight because he allowed other businesses to open up with precautions so you have to allow those businesses to survive probably more so than anything else and our governor understood that. pete: you know guys -- >> emily: i want to point something out. pete: no, i'd just point to the data one more time. we've heard a lot about data and a lot about models and a lot is wrong because good policies have been pursued, but data can also slide and be used to justify lockdowns in ways that are not tied to public health like hey its got to be the number of cases that we have in our states

well what if our testing is ramp ing up substantially, so now we just know more about whose had it. that doesn't mean things are getting worse so that's the wrong kind of data and mark green who was on the program talked about that as well so be weary and understand what the data means when officials are just saying this is why with ehave to stay closed for another month. >> emily: exactly true problem solving isn't just choosing a or b. it's accepting and analyzing all of the factors that go into this so i love we're focusing on georgia as a case study of how to assess what factors are important within your local region and i have to point out it guys i think moving forward we'll see a sluggish economy. this not a war. this is a pandemic. there's no infrastructure to rebuild or machines or loss of human capital and i think that a big part that we can all play is consumer confidence, as 30 million of our fellow americans and their families are suffering and are unemployed at this moment those of us who can it's really up to us to get out there to spend to support these local businesses once they open,

because they are also going to be dealing with reduced capacity and thinned workforces, so as scared as we might be i think is important for us to have to get out there and frequent those bars and restaurants. griff: that's a good message emily because look you can't overstate how disastrous, this is the worst jobs report since they started keeping records in 1948, the 20.5 million americans lost their jobs in april. the wall street reports company layoffs are accelerating at an unbelievably dangerous pace. these are prominent companies, not just the small bait and tackle shops you've got airbnb, boeing, general electric, mattel , you see them all here, raytheon, cisco, trib advisor you've seen these before and really it's not just the 20.5 million if you look back since this began it's 33.5 million jobs have been lost , wiping out the gains of the entire last decade, larry kudlow at the white house predicts there will be peoples

perhaps later on this year. here is what larry kudlow had to say. >> there's a lot of heartbreak and a lot of heartship behind those numbers no question about that. this is i call it a pandemic contraction. this is because of the virus, and because president trump, i think, was right, we had to shut in. we needed that for mitigation purposes and i think that part of it is working. i don't think the numbers are going to turn up in the next few weeks. i think for may, the job figures are going to be very difficult. really until we cross the bridge , get the economy safely reopened and then we'll see a lot of economic improvement in the second half of this year. pete: let's hope so but emily i was dwelling about something you said right before that. i'm in love with your idea that listen we're on tv. like this is the easiest job in the world. we're drawing a salary whether we're at home, home studio, here in the studio, this is not real

hardship for us. we're talking about it but our job is to try to live voice to the people who don't have the convenience of being at home , who really do have the essential or non-essential job that provides for their family putting themselves at risk maybe they are in the grey zone health wise or age wise they don't know whether to go in or out. that's ultimately their call but it should be their call not the call necessarily of leaders who say no you're shut until june. that crushes families and livelihoods. >> emily: thank you, pete. pete: turning to a few additional headlines new video released in the deadly shooting the video obtained by the atlanta journal constitution and not verified by fox news appears to show him running inside a house under construction. he leaves minutes later and two men are seen driving a truck in the same direction. that truck belonging to gregory mcmichaels and his son travis. they are charged with shooting and killing arbery.

they thought he was a robber and his family say he was just jogging and the new video appearing to show arbery not committing any crimes but may complicate it we'll see. attorneys for arbery's family responding saying this video confirms mr. arbery's murder was not justified and the world is mourning the death of rock and roll icon, "little richard." >> ♪ ♪ ♪ pete: the legend passing away from bone cancer at a family hope in tennessee, tributes are pouring in on twitter, paul mccartney writing little richard came into my life when i was a teenage teenager and he would say i taught paul everything he knows, little richard was 87 years old. griff: a legend indeed, that's right. still ahead from his son's business ties to halloweens allegations, what does that mean

for his presidential campaign? charles hurt will tell us next.

>> did you sexually assault tara reade? >> no it it is not true. it never never happened. >> hunter said the only thing you said to him was, "i hope you know what you're doing." he was already on the board and he's a grown man, and it turns out he did not do a single thing wrong: griff: the scandals are piling up for joe biden, and as these documents reveal president obama knew about wiretapped michael flynn phone calls and discussed it during a meeting the former vice president was a part of. so how does this bode for biden 's white house run, the next guest joins us as washington times editor fox news contributor charles hurt. charles good morning to you. >> good morning, griff. griff: first if you'd like to

say happy mother's day to your mother and wife please do so but then tell us -- >> you better believe it happy mothers day to mom and my wife. griff: so these are piling up for joe biden this is not where he wants to be six months out from an election what does this mean? >> no i think that it's very troubling, and in particular, the situation with michael flynn and this meeting in which joe biden was in with the president. i think that there are lots and lots of questions there. the unusual interest that the president took in mike flynn 's case and the unusual actions that the administration took to pursue general flynn i think all add up to lots and lots of troubling questions. obviously, the situation with the sexual assault allegations, that's starting to get a lot more traction and what's interesting here, griff is of course that whatever you think of the allegations that tara reade has made they are serious

allegations and i think that with any sort of politician, these kinds of allegations be taken very very seriously, up until just recently, the press has worked almost in concert with the campaign, the biden campaign to prevent those questions from being asked but just remember look at the standards that joe biden himself held for political opponents when it comes to such allegation s. that on its face is enough to ensure that joe biden needs to be pinned down on a whole lot more about these allegations than he's being pinned down so far on. griff: so how big of a problem, charles, is the hipocracy angle as you point out, he says he was an advocate for sexual assault victims but he seems to be down playing his own. >> yeah, i think that it's a real problem because obviously there's some degree of hipocracy

with all politicians, it's just kind of the nature of the game, but usually, there comes a point where a certain level of a certain type of hipocracy becomes a little bit more than i think voters even your own voter s especially you're dealing with a guy like joe biden where the democratic base is not all that enthusiastic about them. it's not like joe biden is a bernie sanders, whatever you think of bernie sanders, he had an enormously enthusiastic base of support there, and so when you have this kind of hipocracy laid on top of the lack of enthusiasm and then a lot of the stupid things that joe biden says, it's a real problem and then of course you look at that ad that the trump campaign put out just this week about biden and china, joe biden has been, you know, one of the most revered wise men in washington when it comes to foreign policy, for the past 45-50 years, and hanging china's rise on him is not going to be difficult to do

for the trump campaign. griff: we got to leave it there, and we reached out to the biden campaign for a statement they didn't respond. still ahead, the economy continues to struggle as more than 20 million people lost jobs last month, mike rowe says this shows every worker is essential, he and his mom peggy join us on this mothers day.

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gerri: welcome back as we continue to celebrate moms all across the country here are some of the ones at our fox & friends family happy mothers day to our senior executive producer tammy and here is her mother michelle, she's with her mom thank you, michelle for raising such an amazing and talented daughter, to get us through this show and here is production assistant, spencer diamond on a family vacation in jamaica with

his mom, happy mothers day and her is our writer at her brother s graduation, melissa happy mothers day to you and this is senior producer kelly with her grandmother sharon and mom christine at kelly's wedding in november what a beautiful picture kelly and happy mothers day to you all there. pete? pete: beautiful, kelly, kelly, where is the cat? i know not in that picture but we should have had one with the cat too, we love you, thank you. unemployment surges to a record high. we keep hearing talk of essential and non-essential workers and essential ones being the only ones who should be reporting to work. but isn't every worker an essential worker? >> emily: joining us is mike rowe along with his mom peggy who is the author of the new book "about your father." welcome to you both and happy mother's day. it's such a great concept that every worker is essential. tell us your thought, mike.

>> well it's an odd argument for me to be making because i've spent the last 20 years of my missspent career celebrating dirty jobs was a love letter to essential workers and most everything i've done since, but in the age of covid when you're talking about the economy, i think that it's kind of a crazy distinction to make. you just told 35 million people who are unemployed, we just collectively told them in no uncertain terms that they are non-essential. that's not good. it doesn't make sense and if anybody doubts it, i think all we have to do is look at the economic impact of arbitraging that many people out of the workforce to see that, in fact, they are essential. pete: absolutely, mike thank you for your work all those years and for that message. peggy i want to go to you. it's one thing to be a mother. it's another thing to be the mother of mike rowe. that's a bit of a handful there. peggy if you would just share

your mothers day message with us this morning happy mothers day. >> good morning, hi. well this is really a strange time and i would suggest that every woman out there sit down and write something about her mother. we all had mothers, and that's how i began my writing career. i sat down and started writing about my mother and what better time than mother's day to do that. even if it's not published, it will give you great satisfaction pete: absolutely. >> emily: tell us a little bit about that book, peggy please. >> well it's called about your father, and other celebrities i have known, and it is just that. i've lived with my husband for 60 years, mike's dad and the father of two other sons, 60 years and he is walking, talking

material. he's a very quirky character and material just falls into my lap, and mike had a first, you know, a front row seat to that growing up. pete: mike your reaction to mom here this morning? >> look she's the ultimate essential worker. she's annoyingly modest. i don't know why she isn't telling you that two years ago, her first book about my mother went straight to the new york times best seller's list and now her second one has been there for nearly a month. the woman is 82 years old. she completely reinvented her life at 80 and when she tells the country that they ought to sit down and write the country ought to listen because it's transformative. i took her advice. i wrote a book, pete. i know you just wrote a book. there's never been a better time in the history of our country to sit down, take stock, and put your thoughts on paper. my mom just happens to do it

better than most. pete: [laughter] she sure does. >> emily: no doubt she does. peggy you're an inspiration to us all and mike your message is an inspiration and it's true every worker is essential. happy mothers day to you. pete: happy mothers day peggy thank you very much. thank you for having me. pete: appreciate it. still ahead, hundreds of pastors pushing to reopen churches, despite stay-at-home orders. ainsley air heart joins us on that and shares her mothers day message next but first a special mother's day message from you know him, you love him, fox & friends co-host, steve doocy. >> to my dutiful wife happy mothers day on sunday and for all you other mothers hope you enjoy the day and for your dads and children if you wanted an easy dessert or breakfast in bed go to foxandfriends.com, it's really simple and mom will love you. let's find the food that you like.

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>> emily: welcome back fox & friends is wishing a happy mother's day to all moms across the country including some of our own, here is production assistant nicole sharing a hug with her mom bernie and this is associate producer samantha sullivan along with her mom sandra and here is alex with her mother. and finally, this is jaylene

marie on her graduation day who works as an assistant to the weekday anchors fox & friends steve, brian and ainsley. pete: that's a big job. that's a big job. pastors across the country pushing back on lockdown orders to reopen houses of worship, churches. >> emily: hundreds rallied in california last week and there were at least three church leaders in michigan that have sued to reopen. griff: here to react this mother s day sunday is fox & friends co-host ainsley earhartdt with her daughter, happy mothers day. ainsley: happy mothers day. thank you so much. happy mothers day to your moms too. yes, so we're hunkered down out here in long island thankfully, i have a little place that i ran out here a little cottage and it's just perfect for us to get out of the city and have an oasis so when this pandemic hit six or seven weeks ago we moved out here and fox has been great with all of us as you know accommodating our needs making sure we're safe, so we're just

going live from a little studio out here about 10 minutes away, brian, a little studio out here, steve from a studio in his little area, as you are as well, so you know we're making due. i heard this local station here, news 12 and they always put up nice little comments and one of the comments they put up the other day was don't say i'm stuck at home. say i'm safe at home and i thought it was a positive way to look at it because we're all going a little stir crazy but thankful to god on this sunday on this mothers day that we're moms and all healthy and praying for foes that aren't. pete: absolutely ainsley wonderful to see you and beautiful hayden, good morning to her as well. >> hello. pete: i'm waving at you, you don't even have to wave at me there we go good to see you ainsley i have to ask you because faith is autopsy an important component right now we're talking about churches wanting to get back out there and opening up and what's your message to faith leaders to pastors to people that want to be back in church?

ainsley: oh, my goodness i miss our church, i miss our friends there our ministers, and just the music and everyone being together, and i know hayden misses church too but we do church online and we will watch it and we do praise and worship music on youtube and dance around the living room so i think my message is depending on your region, i understand why people want to open back up and some of these counties in michigan that the churches are suing the governor there because there aren't that many cases. one of the counties i know north michigan baptist bible church is in sheboygan county there's 19 cases and one death, whole life church is one of the ones in lawsuit, and they are in st. joseph county and there's 65 cases and one death and the third church is suing with more deaths is almost 900 deaths in that county, but they have 72000 people that live in that county too, which is a bigger county than the other two, so i understand if they're going to open them up just do it safely and distance yourself from one

another and these churches say they have a plan to do that so we need christ, we need god, a lot of people are hurting, and other things are up that as you know it's hard for me to talk about all of this in front of my daughter but a lot of people are sad and missing their friends and there are consequences to that so i just want it to be a balance and don't want the cure as the president says to be worse than the pandemic so just depends on where you live. we're in new york city, so i think it's smart for our ministers not to open our church back up. >> emily: ainsley keeping that message and focus of faith i wanted to share with you that my mother lost her mother when she was six years old and she then got cancer when i was three and it was something we dealt with that was incredibly traumatic and the prognosis was grim and she had on her bedroom wall a needlepoint that said in heaven a nobel work was done when god gave man a mother. and i wanted to ask you to share with us your family's mother's day traditions and how faith is such a big part of that.

ainsley: you know, i grew up in a very strong christian family, my parents are wonderful, hey, mom and dad down in south carolina watching right now, and my mom has made such a difference in my life. she was there for me every single day. she was a school teacher so there for 20 some odd kids every day too, so she would go to work early in the morning and come home and cook dinner for my dad. she was such a servant and a proverbs 31 woman, she got up early before the family and stayed up later and always clean ed and always took care of all of us. she took care of my dad in such a beautiful way and now it's really special because mom has been sick for a few years after her stroke, and dad is taking care of her, so its been such a beautiful love story to watch unfold and things weren't always perfect in our house, there was stresses and we were always working and trying to take care of one another but we have such good times. we always went to the beach as a

family and we have wonderful memories from there. our state dance in south carolina is the shag and mom and dad are beautiful dancers and they would always dance around the house and play beach music and cook shrimp and go grabbing and we have wonderful memories of our parents taking us to the beach with all of our friends so i can't imagine what your mom went through emily that had to be just awful and then the suffering that her mom went through to know that she wasn't going to be there for her little girl and what she was going to miss and so for those out there that have lost her moms like my mom has lost her mother our mimi , who was this amazing person, my dad has lost his mom, who was an amazing person and i was blessed to know all four of my grandparents so i pray every night that god keeps me around for a very long time because i want to be here for this little girl and today is so special. i got her a gift because she made me a mother today and god has entrusted me and this is our

new little puppy. so this hayden is a momma to her. pete: hayden did you say the name i don't know if i heard it. ainsley: what's her name? >> rosie tiny buttercup. pete: fantastic. griff: hayden can you say happy mothers day? ainsley: can you say happy mother's day? oh, let me show you one thing really quickly. so these are some of the art projects that hayden has donald some of the books we read at night and look at the book i just got. pete: [laughter] hayden thank you! ainsley: these are what i'm reading right now. american crusade. indication, pete! pete: thank you, ainsley you are too kind you're the best. ainsley: and then we set our dining room table, this is our little cottage it's small but it's all that we need and here is our little dining room table

that we set for our mothers day lunch. pete: you are the mother of fox & friends all the way, ainsley earhartdt, congratulations. happy mothers day. thank you so much. she's got a heart of gold absolute gold. still ahead america versus china , in a new fox special maria bartiromo dives into the origins of the covid-19 pandemic and communist china's role in it. she tells us all about it, after the break.

pete: welcome back here are more of our very special mothers day messages from the staff here at fox & friends. field producer sam hoenig, and her dad and sister are wishing mom susan a very happy mothers day to the hoenig family and this is writer katie with her sister and mom calissa, beautiful thank you and happy mothers day to you all and here

is associate producer montana with her mom colleen and when they visited the giant eyeball in dallas, texas. montana i didn't know about it i might have to check it out at some point. emily? >> emily: thanks, pete as pressure mounts on china to answer for the coronavirus pandemic fox business host maria bartiromo takes a deep dive into how it began. maria: questions about the coronavirus have been circulating since the world first learned of the pandemic and answers have not been easy to come by. china's lack of transparency and outright lies have not only resulted in over 100,000 deaths, but also triggered speculation about the communist countries intention. griff: joining us now the host of the one hour special america vs. china, and host of "sunday morning futures" maria bartiromo joins us, good morning, maria. what an important piece you have done. maria: hey griff, thank you so much. this is a compilation of three years of investigating. in the last three years i've

been speaking with business leaders as well as political leaders, congressmen all about china's goals and what the chinese communist party has been trying to do, and why it is in direct conflict with president trump's america first strategy. this special, which will air tonight on fox news at 10 p.m. eastern tonight, will look at putting the coronavirus aside, it is going to be looking at the military ambitions of the chinese communist government they have a strategy in place to be number one economically andmi litarily, and it's very important for the american people to understand how they go about this goal because they are acquiring companies in the united states, taking stakes in companies in the united states, forcing the transfer of technology, all at a time when they are moving their military bases across the world, very important point here is they are setting up military bases at ports across the world at the red sea. just to control the ports and

trade of the world, so it's very important to understand specifically the wide range in plans that the chinese communist government had in order to put this coronavirus crisis in perspective. maria: maria such an important special you can watch the whole thing tonight as maria mentioned but there's some stuff that made it on the cutting room floor so you can get it at fox news in full, i've seen pieces of this super important and no one better on the topic than maria bartiromo do not miss it tonight but another not miss show for you on "sunday morning futures" you're talking the economic side and the political side, tons of news maria: we are, pete thank you so much for that. very generous of you. this morning we've got breaking news coming up on "sunday morning futures." i'm going to be speaking number one with devon nunes who we all know, has told us about the coo to take down president trump from the get go, told us back in 2018, we're going to zero in on the flynn development s this weekend and i'm also speaking with the michael flynn attorney,

sidney powell who did a great job getting all of the information out in the public and then forcing the dropping of that case, plus peter navarro will tell us about the reopening i've got trey gowdy and tom cotton coming up as well talking about the fbi and the china story, two of the most important stories of our day, we are expecting to break news on all of the above coming up in about 10 minutes time. griff: all right, maria thank you and we are sending you a happy mothers day from your dog, dusty. hope you have a good one. maria: [laughter] thank you so much. pete: there it is. maria you're the best. maria: canine moms are the best. griff: tune in and check that out. coming up our mothers day celebration continues with a live performance from country singer cash campbell, you don't want to miss it. hey, cash.

griff: the celebration continues this morning with a live performance from country music star cash campbell. >> emily: cash says his mother and wife are the inspiration behind his new song. pete: part of the fox fox & friends living room concert series. thanks so much for being here, we'll hear from you but talk to us about the inspiration on this mothers day behind this song. >> yeah, man thanks for having me appreciate it. pete: of course good morning thank you. >> yeah, good morning. well, this was a really special one, that means a lot to my wife , my mom. family and friends, especially shoutout to all of the moms that were, all the moms that want to be and all of the current moms we love you, grateful, especially of mine, cheers. pete: it's okay to be selfish we

understand. so our viewers would love to hear a live performance. tell us what the song is and please take it away. >> thanks, bud. it's called "the woman in it." >> ♪ it's just a little black strap, hanging on a hanger, it don't steal the spotty light on a song, just silk and lace all thrown together, and it don't dance two drinks in, when our song comes up, but it don't laugh outloud from the other side, of a half-lit fire, with those violet eyes, make you lose your mind when you realize there ain't nothing special about that dress, it's the woman in it, yeah it's the woman in it, it's

just a california king size, laying in a dark room, it won't light your heart on fire all by itself, it ain't breathing it ain't kissing, it ain't fingers on your skin that keep pulling you back in and you don't laugh outloud from the other side, of a half-lit fire, with those violet eyes, make you lose your mind when you realize there ain't nothing special about that , it's a woman in it, yeah, it's the woman in it, yeah, it's just a day, just another minute

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>> it is mother's day weekend and i was lucky enough to have a great mom and i'm married to a sensational mom, dawn and it's not my words but dawn you're the

best you deserve everything that comes to you and this weekend wherever you want to go we're going. unfortunately our options are limited to the pharmacy, home depot, or the liquor store. your choice. happy mother's day, dawn. griff: [laughter] pete: only brian kilmeade can, love that guy, happy mothers day to his wife and we want to take a selfish moment i want to thank happy mothers day to my mother penny and i've got a little clip i cut last night as well, watch. twas the night before mothers day and all through the house not a mother was stirring not even a maybe a glass of wine, right? >> yeah. pete: what did we get for mom today? we got matching what, gwen? we got matching mom tattoos for the moms we love.

happy mother's day. pete: happy mother's day. >> illegal immigrants: happy mothers day to my incredible mom , i love you. griff: and happy mothers day to every mother out there and my wife kathleen. have a great sunday. maria: welcome and sunday morning everyone happy mother's day thank you for joining us and to our nations heros our mothers we salute you all of the wonderful women out there who make our lives so much better. i'm maria bartiromo, joining me straight ahead right here on "sunday morning futures", coming up, misconduct at the highest levels of the fbi, the justice department dropping its criminal case against three star general michael flynn last week, after internal memos uncovering what we've been reporting all along, and he was entrapped by his own government. his personal attorney sidney powell is here, live, with the next steps toward justice. also ahead newly-released russia probe interviews validating what two of our gue