that's been a nice thing for me. steve: i think that is it. we are out of time but i'm sor sorry. great to be with you all. thank you for coming. see you next sunday when the next revolution will be next revolution will be >> the whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the fbi, clapper, brennan, and the oval office meeting that day with president obama. >> it is monday, may 11th. a fox news alert, michael flynn's battle could end in a matter of hours. new problems for the obama administration are just getting starredded. rob: -- started. rob: a new twist, putting barack obama in the hot seat. >> this is the biggest negative shock to an economy that we have ever seen in our lifetime. there's a lot of hope that we've done enough to make it so when we get to the other side we can get going again. rob: the country's top economic

minds trying to assure workers we will see prosperity again. >> all eyes on california where elon musk is threatening to take tesla elsewhere. we're live with the latest. rob.>> a pro baseball player td a bad situation into an opportunity to give back. "fox & friends first" starts right now. ♪ rob: good morning you're watching "fox & friends first" first on this monday morning. i'm rob schmitt. jillian: i'm jillian mele. a judge could sign off on the justice department's decision to drop the case against michael flynn as soon as today. rob: griff jenkins is live in washington as president obama faces new criticism on his reaction to this reversal. griff. >> reporter: good morning. yeah, flynn's lawyer, sidney powell, speaking out in a big

way yesterday saying the former national security advisor is relieved and expects the judge to sign off soon, and she wept further, suggesting former president obama was involved in the plot against her client. >> the whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the fbi, clapper, brennan, in the oval office meeting that day with president obama. >> maria: so you think this goes all the way to the top to president obama? >> absolutely. >> reporter: this after a call between obama administration alumni and the former president was leaked to yahoo news. >> that's the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic -- not just institutional norms, but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. >> reporter: as for when judge emmett sullivan may or may not sign off on flynn's dismissal.

trey gowdy says without a legal predicate for prosecution, not signing off presents problems for doj. >> good luck prosecuting the case, judge. have you to have a prosecutor to prosecute the case. if the doj is not moving forward on michael flynn, i don't think the judge is going to do it him self. >> reporter: it seems the door is open for a possible return to the administration. >> i believe the decision by the justice department lays bare what was clearly prosecutorial abuse and for my part i'd be happy to see michael flynn again. >> reporter: we expect to see vice president pence today at the white house. there was some question over the weekend whether he would be in self quarantine after one of his staffers tested positive for coronavirus but the vice president's spokesperson says he will be at the white house today. there is a press briefing this

afternoon from the coronavirus task force. rob, jil jillian. jillian: thanks, griff. rob: it will be worse before it gets better, advisors warning the u.s. unemployment rate could go above 20%. jillian: 12 states are set to ease restrictions today. good morning, todd. >> reporter: good morning, jill jillian, good morning, rob. senior economic officials saying the next jobs report will show the unthinkable just a few months ago, that one-fifth of americans are out of a job because of the virus and while they expect employment to rebound in the middle of the summer, treasury secretary steven mnuchin says brace for more pain in the short term. >> the reported numbers are probably going to get worse before they get better but that's why we're focused on rebuilding this economy. we'll have a better third quarter. we'll have a better fourth quarter and next year is going to be a great year. but i think there's a considerable risk of not

reopening. you're talking about what would be permanent economic damage to the american public. >> reporter: meantime, another day, more states reopening certain services across the country. as for the types of businesses allowing customers back in today, the list is highlighted by restaurants, barber shops and hair salons and manufacturing. governors like ohio's mike dewine acknowledging the life and death balancing act they're forced into every day. >> it's really a risk no matter what we do. it's a risk if we don't do anything, it's a risk if we do this. what we have done is come up with the best practices for businesses to reopen. the economy's not going to open no matter what we do, whatever we order, unless people have confidence and we're trying to give them confidence. but at the same time, we're telling them, look, the virus is still out there. >> reporter: and there's this, tesla's elon musk threatening to move his electric car making company out of california, to

texas or nevada, because of shutdown rules that have stalled his operation. in response, a california democrat lawmaker not very happy, tweeting what's on your screen, i'm not going to say it because this is early in the morning. later, justifying her expletive in a rant accusing tesla of violating worker safety and union busting. on a more positive note, more than 216,000 people have recovered from the virus so far here in the u.s., that number jumping above the 200,000 threshold over the weekend. rob and jillian, back to you. rob: a lot of states would love to have elon musk and we're going to talk about that in a few minutes, todd, thank you so much. jillian: after coming under fire over the handling of nursing home coronavirus outbreaks, new york governor andrew cuomo is reversing course, nursing homes must test staff twice a week and hospitals cannot release patients to nursing homes unless they test negative. that's a change from a state order requiring nursing homes to accept recovering patients.

critics say that accelerated outbreaks. 5,200 people died of covid-19 inside new york nursing homes. the wall street journal reporting federal health regulators are developing guidelines for reopening nursing homes nationwide. senator lamar alexander entering self quarantine overnight after one of his staffers test positive. the tennessee senator is at home and has tested negative. he will remotely chair tomorrow's senate hearing on covid-19. dr. anthony fauci, cdc director robert redfield and fda commissioner stephen hahn will testify by video conference. they are on full or partial quarantines after being exposed. rob: venezuela said it has captured three more figure misss in the failed raid against nicolas maduro. at least 34 people now detained including two former u.s. special forces members.

ma do yomaduro claims the attacs backed by the u.s. and colombian governments. both countries have denied any role. iranian leaders say they are ready to discuss a prisoner swap with the united states without any conditions. or cording to -- according to iranian media, they are concerned that the prisoners are at risk. the u.s. says there is no deal at this point on the table. jillian: the navy blue angels and the air force thunderbirds are taking flight to salute covid-19 frontline workers. rob: it's really cool. come pro, the blue angels will fly over chicago, detroit and indianapolis. the flight routes will be released later today. for more of these great stories, inspiring covid stories like this visit foxnews.com/america

together. all right. it is 8 minutes after the hour. tesla versus california, elon musk suing a county in northern california to let his company reopen and even threatening to move to texas. jillian: chuck devore left california for texas and says the move will save tesla a lot of money. he joins us, next. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation.

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rob: welcome back. tesla's ceo, elon musk, could be ditching california. he's threatening to move his company headquarters to texas or nevada as local leaders in one county refuse to let factory employees go back to work in spite of a state-wide reopening for manufacturers. jillian: joining us to weigh in is former california assemblyman who left the state for texas, chuck devor. thanks for joining us.

here's what elon musk has to say. this says quote, the unelected and interim officer is acting contrary to the governor, the president, our constitutional freedoms and plain common sense. frankly, this is the final straw. what's your reaction when you heard this in. >> well, it sounds like elon musk is channeling his inner davey crockett when he said you may all go to hell and i will go to texas. it must be really frustrating for him. you can't make any money if you can't make any cars. the challenge of course with doing operation in california is he's operating the last remaining automobile manufacturing plant in the entire state of california, america's most populace state, it's the last one. they don't make cars in california anymore because it costs so much, the regulations, the taxes, the environmental burden, the labor cost, the land cost. people have calculated that if you move your business out of california, you can save 32% on

your operating cost. so he would be able to increase his profits immediately if he moved his operation to a place like nevada or texas, where there is no individual state income tax. unfortunately, he started business in california. rob: yeah. it makes you wonder why anybody really operates, especially a factory, in california at this point and so many of them we should state have moved out to places like nevada, arizona, texas. let's look at the statement from alameda county. we need to continue to work together to sacrifices don't go to waste and we maintain our gains. they say it is our collective responsibility to of move through the phases of reopening and loosening the restrictions of the shelter in place order in the safest way possible guided by data and science. we need to re-emphasize here that gavin newsom who has been very, very careful with this thing has said these people can go back to work and this one county and really specifically one person is saying no, not yet. what do you make of that?

>> well, i think what we're seeing here is the very difficult challenge that we're having in america and we've seen this in other countries as well where you have tension between elected officials and other government officials and the medical professionals and scientific professionals. unfortunately, you don't have any training on the side of the medical and scientific professionals to balance the consequences of a long-term shutdown. the economic pain, the destruction for example -- california's budget deficit has soared to $54 billion. you have additional suicides and drug abuse and other problems that happen when people can't earn a living. these things need to be balanced. if the governor, gavin newsom said to reopen then tesla ought to be able to reopen. unfortunately, he can't make any cars right now so, again, must be terribly frustrating for elon musk. jillian: what would be the

positives? can you give me any of why he might stay in california? >> you've got a lot of manufacturing plant that's already there. they had a pretty decent deal because the plant that he took over in 2010 was being abandoned by a joint venture between toyota and gm. so it was an unused facility. but now that he's proven that he can develop and produce cars, he needs to go to a location where he can make some money. and that's not going to be california. i think he has a similar problem in china where it's going to be very amazing if the chinese authorities allow elon musk to repatriate money out of his facility and of course what they're also going to do is steal all of his intellectual property that he has developed that's very unique to tesla. so he's got two difficult locations in china and in fremont, california. rob: thanks a lot for your

perspective on this. we do appreciate it. we'll see what happens. >> thank you. jillian: have a good day. it is about 17 minutes after the hour. president trump says the government will bible i don't think so worth of -- billions worth of products to help struggling families. will this be the lifeline our farmers need. rob: rob larue says it's a good start but there's a long way to go. he joins us coming up.

jillian: a volunteer doctor returning from helping with the covid-19 outbreak in new york city is blasting united airlines for a packed flight. the cardiologist sharing this photo on a flight out of newark, new jersey to san francisco. look at this. he describes passenger as scared and shocked to see the airline not practicing social

distancing. united previously claimed it was blocking all middle seats. the company claims it has taken steps to address the issue. a colorado coffee shop taking heat after it reopened in defiance of state orders. the video shows the store packed on sunday morning with many customers not wearing masks. restaurants are supposed to only offer delivery and drive-up service. governor jared pollus' office says they were breaking the law and endangering staff and customers. the restaurant tweeted it was taking a stand for america, small businesses, the constitution and against the outreach of our governor in colorado, quote, end quote, we should say. rob. rob: this week the u.s. is buying $3 billion of agricultural products from farmers who are struggling with a pretty big surplus right now and distributing that food to hungry americans across the country. it seems like a no-brainer, right. but will this temporary lifeline be enough to keep the ag

industry from sinking further? they are really struggling. here to weigh in on that is the president of the national farmers' union, rob larue. starting early next week the usa will purchase from farmers, ranchers and specialty crop growers, $3 billion worth of dairy, meat and produce for food lines and kitchens. farmers to family food box, great news nor all. what do you think of this plan? >> oh, it's absolutely positive news. it's really good that the president has focused on this and that the money that congress had authorized here is going to be used as quickly as possible. so the white house's intention is really a positive step. what we've seen is a real conundrum of farmers with products and no markets and prices really low and a lot more folks in need of the food and this will be one of the key pieces to connect all the surplus product to those in need. so it's good for food banks.

it's good for folks who are now in need of extra food. and certainly will miltly be good -- will ultimately be good for farmers. rob: how do you connect the problems. you have people that need food, and food being thrown away. it was terrible watching that be a problem in this country. we're glad it's being addressed. here's some of the details. $461 million in fresh fruits and vegetable, $317 million in dairy, 258 in meat and combination of a number of these and a combination box they call it, $175 million. but as you said, this does not even come close to the problem that we're seeing right now, right? >> that's right. but the department of agriculture and the white house using the rest of a package that congress has implemented is really still going to be churning out additional help. we anticipate the needs are going to continue to grow, though, because farmers are still facing what has been a

really rough few years and so this pandemic has just been another wound that's going to make a real challenge there. i think the real focus for the food system in general and food security for the country is to make sure that these farmers stay on the land. so we're also excited that the president is also very much atune to the potential for price fixing in this system at a time when americans really don't need higher prices for food and farmers even lower prices. so he is directing department of justice to take a close look at this, particular any the beef market, and we see this as another positive sign of a big problem. rob: they're also going to be doing -- part of the plan to recover here is $16 billion going to farmers as well on top of this $3 billion in sales or of food going to the food banks and kitchens. let's look at how much is wasted here during this pandemic. it's unbelievable to see this number, 70% increase in demand since covid-19 began at these

food kitchens. you think about all the people that need something to eat. and at the same time, at least $5 billion worth of fruits and vegetables have been wasted during the outbreak and you've had so much milk dumped as well. you talk about -- i want you to address this. the pandemic has exposed a problem you say of there being too few processing facilities in the country, food processing facilities. why is that so bad? >> obviously it's good from a number of points, it's a very efficient system, one that has kept the costs down for processors in general. but for farmers and for consumers, we're seeing really the challenges right now and that is when you have, for example, four companies that control over 85% of the beef market in the country, this sets up an opportunity for price manipulation and for a situation where the system is way too concentrated and so for independent ranchers out there trying to make a living, they don't know what their prices really should be. they are at the behest of just

these few companies and for consumers we see even higher prices. so i think that one of the positive things that will come out of this, and we're glad to see the white house looking at it right now, is how can we make a more resilient food system here and kind of get rid of some of the concentration in the marketplace. it will be good for business. it will be good for the market. if there are more players in it. rob: that makes sense. that does make a lot of sense. rob larue, thank you for your time and getting up early. we appreciate it. >> thank you. jillian: it is 26 minutes after the hour. the trump administration urging china and the world health organization to come clean about how the pandemic started. >> china hid the virus from the world, behind the shield of the world health organization, putting pressure on those countries to deny that the virus came from china. rob: but the w.h.o. now denying a report that china urged it to delay a global warning.

who do we believe here? gordon chang says china has been trying to downplay this virus from the start. he joins us next.

jillian: we are back with a fox news alert. a military exercise turned deadly at sea. at least 19 iranian sailors are killed and more than a dozen hurt in a training exercise in the gulf of owe man. rob: the iranian missile

actually hit a ship that was placing targets for the exercise. instead of hitting the targets, it hit the ship that was placing them. iran regularly holds the exercises in the region where 20% of the world's oil passes through. to another fox news alert, a judge could sign off on the justice department's decision to drop the case against michael flynn as soon as today. the move follows the release of several alarming fbi documents raising doubts over the legitimacy of the probe against the former national security advisor. in the meantime, president obama facing new criticism for these leaked comments on the end to that case. >> that's the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic -- not just institutional norms, but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.

rob: flynn did plead guilty to lying to the fbi over election interference, a charge that was imposed by obama officials near the end of his presidency. jillian: the family of a veteran shot and killed after charging at a police officer with a sword says he had schizophrenia. the shooting captured on the officer's body cam. >> don't come at me with that. [bleep] >> don't come at me with that, justin. you don't want to do this. >> [bleep] jillian: just continu he was t police from a staircase and threatening to kill them before charging. police say they had offered him mental health help in the past. he was diagnosed with schizophrenia after leaving the military. rob. georgia's attorney general is requesting the department of justice investigate the handling

of the ahmaud arbery case. the deadly shooting back in february caused widespread outrage after a video surfaced appearing to show the deadly confrontation. a father and son were charged with murder last week. now chris karr is asking for a federal investigation into the first two district attorneys assigned to the case, both of whom recused themselves. georgia investigators have arrested a man accused of threatening protests connected to arbery's death. he is charged with making terroristic threats. rob: the navy's top add initias in self quarantine after being exposed to covid-19. he is the chief of operations, and has tested negative at this point. this as the chief of the national guard will get his third test today. general joseph lengell received positive and negative results over the weekend. it's not clear how he may have been exposed to the virus. jillian: the world health

organization now accused of withholding information about covid-19 to help china. rob: trey yingst is live in jerusalem with this new report. good morning, trey. >> reporter: rob, jillian. good morning. new reports over the weekend say that china pressured the world health organization to delay issuing a global warning about coronavirus back in january. today the chinese foreign ministry released a 30 page article on their website, saying they responded to the crisis and this outbreak in a timely manner. the world health organization fired back, calling the reports unfounded and untrue. the reality is that most western intelligence agencies believe china did conceal early numbers related to covid-19 and there is renewed pressure in the international community to hold china accountable. the developments come as concerning news out of asia was unveiled over the weekend. a second wave of covid-19 cases does appear to be forming in a number of countries. in south korea, 34 new cases of coronavirus were reported on

sunday. those cases were linked in part to an outbreak of nightclub goers, drawing fresh criticism of how quickly the country reopened. president moon is urging people not to panic and remain vigilant. in europe some countries are trying to reopen for business. the streets of paris are empty as they start a process of gradual reopening today. covid-19 restrictions are set to stay in place in some places. >> this is not the time simply to end the lockdown this week. instead, we're taking the first careful steps to modify our measures so that anyone who can't work from home, for instance, those in construction or manufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work. >> reporter: finally, here in the middle east, some countries are starting to ease covid-19 restrictions. over the weekend, here in israel, many people went to the

beaches and were outside participating in sports and other activities, though in iran there are new lockdowns going into place today after some parts of the country have seen a spike in new covid-19 cases. rob, jillian. rob: okay. trey, thank you. jillian: as china and the world health organization push back on news reports of conspiracy, the trump administration isn't letting them off easy. >> china hid the virus from the world, behind the shield of the world health organization and they vacuumed up virtually all of the world's personal protective equipment. they're selling it at profits to some and other countries they're putting pleasure on the countries to -- pressure on the countries to deny the virus came from china. rob: german intelligence estimates the world lost four to six weeks in fighting the virus worldwide as china built up its ppe stockpile. jillian: author of the coming

collapse of china gordon chang joins us with insight into how deeply we've been deceived. good to see you as always, thanks for being here. >> thank you, jillian and rob. jillian: what do you think about that, the four to six week time period we're talking about here from germany's federal intelligence service, four to six weeks could have made all the difference in the world, correct? do you think we'll get to the bottom of this? >> i think we will get to the bottom of this. it will take a long period of time. i think foreign intelligence services are going to have to disclose their signals intelligence. that would tell us a lot about what's happening. the four to six week estimate sounds a little light, it should be longer. china admitted human to human transmissions only on january 10. doctors in wuhan knew about that second week of december at the latest. we know that china actually took active measures even after admitting human to human transmissions. so for instance, on january 21

the date that the world health organization and china spoke according to german intelligence, we know that china trotted out one of its famed pulmonologists to say that covid-19 would be no more dangerous and actually a lot less dangerous than sars. sars only had 41 infections -- 8,400 infections worldwide according to official numbers. coronavirus is going to have millions and millions before we're done. rob: this latest example of just awful behavior by china, let's go to this right here. we're going to pull it up. on january 21st, this is from a german magazine, china's leader asked the doctor to hold back information about a human to human transmission and to delay a pandemic warning. the bnb, the magazine, estimates that china's information policy lost four to six weeks to fight

the virus worldwide. basically china said we know there's something here, we don't want to tell anybody about it so that we can get our stuff all together, and burn the whole rest of the world. what do you make of that? >> yes, you know, you look at the actions of chinese leader xi jinping, as i mentioned, it took him about six weeks to admit something. during that period he actually tried to tell the world it was not human to human trans missable. the world health organization helped him with the january 14th tweet. xi jinping wanted countries to accept arrivals from china. the world health organization helped him with his january 10th statement. you look at what xi jinping did and you could argue that after having seen the coronavirus cripple china, if xi jinping wanted to spread this disease to level the playing field he would have done exactly what in fact he did do and the w.h.o. helped him do that. this is a horrible crime, the w.h.o. was complacent, president

trump was right to say we should defund the organization pending an investigation. jillian: you look at the number, 2.4 billion pieces of p pe that were inspected here between january 24th and february 29th from chinese national customs, that's where the number is coming from. gordon, when this started to become spreading, when this started spreading in the united states and people started to realize what was going on here, that was the biggest story of the moment was there was not enough ppe for the healthcare workers and those on the frontline to be able to do what they needed to do on a daily basis and then you look at that number, i mean, it kind of blows your mind for a second to think we struggled so hard for so long in this country to try and gather the ppe that we needed here. >> yes. and while china lied about the numbers, it was substantially increasing its imports of ppe, it was substantially decreasing

its exports o of ppe. that is the basis of the charge that they were hoarding, they were lying to hoard. there is a lot of bad motives on the part of beijing and the world needs to get to the bottom of this. rob: we should say the world health organization is denying this, the telephone conversation between the w.h.o. director and president xi jinping of china are unfounded and untrue. they did not speak on january 21st. they allege they have never spoken by phone. again, w.h.o. and china denying a lot of things right now so we shall see. gordon, thank you so much. and we'll be right back. >> thank you.

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jillian: good morning. welcome back. the nypd is preparing for a potential crime surge when the city reopens, with officers out sick and criminals back on the streets thanks to coronavirus policies, the real question is what can we expect.

our law enforcement panel is here to weigh in. we have dr. darren porcher and former nypd officer, evie pomperus. doctor, if we take a look at some of the numbers here the crime increases in new york city in april, there's 169% increase in commercial burglaries, a 60% increase in auto theft and 4.1% increase in murders. what do those numbers tell you and where does that take us in the upcoming months? >> well, it's clear that the de blasio administration placed crime control strategies on the back burner. as a result of that you have criminals acting without a fear of retribution from the criminal justice system and speaks volumes to the inability to assess the safety of new yorkers moving forward through the covid-19 pandemic. jillian: so there are two things at play here, right. let's take a look at this number, the 1600 plus new york

city inmates released during the covid-19 outbreak and then you take a look at this, a 22.5% crime increase in new york city, this is compared to february of 2019 and this is as a result of the nypd also dealing with new bail laws enacted in january that allows many defendants to remain free as they await trial. so new york police are dealing with a multitude of things right here. what do you see happening? >> i do see that number increasing if this continues because one of the things that deters crime is the certainity that somebody will be caught and punished for that crime. so what's happening here is if people are going to be released and we are going to see an increase of crime naturally it happens. any time the summer months come, crime does increase. but that combined with the factor of people being released, it's emboldens people to commit crime. they weigh out the risk, am i going to get caught and if i do get caught, how much will i get punished. if you take away the certainity,

studies have found that is the one main factor that helps deter crime. jillian: doctor, same thing to you. you look at what would happen with january, with the new bail reform laws that took effect and then you look at what's going on with covid and on top of that, you have a number of police officers, in the thousands, who have been out sick because of coronavirus, there are a number of them out right now. >> absolutely. what happens is the people closest to the problem are the people closest to the solution. that being said, police officers being on the frontline, they have the granular sense of assessing what the actual problem is on the ground level. the politicians never incorporated the practitioners into the solution in connection with bail reform. so as a result, you had policy being directed from city hall as opposed to a relationship with one police plaza. the two entities failed to conjoin and as a result we have a series of inmates that have been released and what we're seeing now is the recidivism

rate has gone up based on reoffenders, meaning people have gotten out on the bail reform and they're going out and they're continuing to reoffend and unfortunately the nypd is experiencing precipitous drops in personnel on the street as a result of officers being out sick. jillian: and, yeah, let's bounce off of that for a second here because it is national police week and as always we thank both of you for your service to your community and everything you've done. we always honor those who put their lives on the line for us. but it has been grueling for a lot of people right now on the job during the covid-19 outbreak. how has it changed, how has it impacted the job? >> i think you're seeing it's about a 20% decrease in personnel, of personnel being sick and being out on the street, not just policing but enforcing social distancing and not being receptive, combined with the fact that there's this -- i don't know want to say animosity but emboldenness to

resist law enforcement, be aggressive towards lawen fortment, it does affect morale. it makes it harder to do the job but it can be at times a thankless job. it's important to recognize the law enforcement people out there working, keeping us safe while the majority of us stay home. jillian: doctor, just about 10 seconds left. what's your message to america about the job law enforcement is doing right now? >> in many instances it's a thankless job but this what is we signed up for. police officers are public servants and we need to salute them during this period of law enforcement, national law enforcement week. jillian: we salute both of you. thank you very much for everything you do and for joining us. appreciate it. >> thanks for having us. jillian: of course. rob. rob: all right. the host of meet the press under fire over deceptive editing. >> well, history's written by the winner, so largely depends on who is writing the history.

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rob: back with a very sad fox news alert. jerry stiller, right there on the right, the long-time actor and comedian, has died at the age of 92. his son, comedian ben stiller, confirming that news on twitter just about a half hour ago. jillian: ben posting, quote, i'm sad to say that my father, jerry stiller, passed away from natural causes. he was a great dad and

grandfather and the most dedicated husband to ann for about 62 years. he will be greatly missed. love you dad. rob: seinfeld's frank costanza. great actor. funny guy. nbc and chuck todd facing back lash from the doj and social media after editing bill barr's to criticize his answer. >> when history looks back on this decision, how do you think it will be written? >> well, history's written by the winners, so largely depends on whose writing the history. >> i was struck peggy by the cynicism of the answer. it's a correct answer but he's the attorney general. jillian: carley shimkus with fox news headlines, 24/7, sirius fm, here with reaction to that display. >> you heard chuck todd criticize attorney general

william barr for cracking a joke and failing to come up with a legal argument for why the department of justice dropped their case against michael flynn. during the full clip that nbc did not air. ag barr did just that. take a listen. >> history is written by the winners, largely depends on who is writing the history. i think a fair history would say it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law. it upheld the standards of the department of justice. and it undid what was an injustice. >> you didn't hear that part of meet the press on sunday. the department of justice, president trump and countless others have slammed the move on twitter. denny says unbelievable, the hoop these people will jump through to dupe the public. another twitter user asking is this the end of chuck todd. meet the press has since apologized, tweeting earlier today we inadvertently and inaccurately cut short a video clip of an interview with ag

barr before offering complementary and analysis. the remaining clip included important remarks from the attorney general that we missed and we regret the error. that's how that is shaping up on this monday morning. jillian: carley, thank you. rob: we'll have more of these topics coming up in the next hour from carley. thank you so much. coming up in the next hour of "fox & friends first," democrats look to put the justice department under the microscope for moving to dismiss the case against michael flynn. jillian: hans vankospi joins us live.

>> the whole thing was orchestrated and set up within the fbi, clapper, brennan, and in the oval office meeting that day with president obama. rob: it is monday, may 11th. happening at 5:00 a.m., a fox news alert, michael flynn's years long legal battle could end in a matter of hours but new problems for the obama administration are just getting started. jillian: a new twist into the investigation into the investigators that's puting barack obama in the hot seat. >> this is the biggest negative shock to an economy that we have ever seen in our lifetime. there's a lot of hope out there that we've done enough to make it so that when we get to the other side we can get going again. jillian: the country's top economic minds reassuring america's workers we will see prosperity again as stas