>> my concern is a spike that might turn into outbreaks. >> consequences could be pretty dark. >> consequences could be really serious. rob: it is wednesday may 13th. top medical experts warn a rush to reopen could reopen pandora's box for states showing progress in stopping the spread. jillian: there were key facts in their rush to turn the hearing into an attack on the white house. chaos in the court. another hurdle for michael flynn in his fight for exoneration. rob: the same judge who accused flynn of treason before the

latest doj revelations says he's not ready to drop the charges. >> the united purpose we have as americans to beat this enemy of this virus, that purpose got hijacked by partisan politics. rob: matthew mcconaughey lends star power to fox news with a message for america. jillian: "fox and friends first" continues right now. a cool interview to see on special report. you are watching "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. rob: thanks for getting up early with us today and serious consequent is, agree morning from doctor anthony fauci if the us reopens too soon. jillian: the member the air force clashing with senators to open the door to schools and businesses. todd pyro joined us as more states plan for restrictions this week.

>> reporter: good morning to both of you. all eyes glued to washington as senators grilled white house experts most notably on when we can open up our country. >> it is important to emphasize we are not out of the woods yet. my concern in some areas jump over those various checkpoints and prematurely open up without having the capability of being able to respond effectively and efficiently. my concern as we start with a little spike that might turn into outbreaks. >> reporter: but the hearing was not without tension was a widely reported exchange between rand paul and anthony fauci with paul express her frustration about a 1-size-fits-all national strategy especially when it comes to keeping kids out of school and these comments from tim scott who will be a guest on "fox and friends" later this morning. >> we are too often presented with a false dichotomy, saving our economy or saving lives.

we have seen the call posts move and that is unfortunate because that same time we are doing that businesses have collapsed, mental and physical health has declined. depths of despair escalate. >> reporter: is more states prepared to loosen restrictions including hotspots new york and louisiana news that the country's largest four your college system plans to cancel most in person classes it is 23 classes moving them online with reports the state system, schools like how and ucla may follow suit as residents learn they can expect to remain under some type of saver at home restrictions well into the summer. arizona lifting a stay-at-home order by this weekend now will because it would allow professional sports teams to begin practicing in the state and the texas attorney general warning counties not to exceed

state law on restricting private citizens and businesses. finally donald trump set to meet with the governors of colorado in north dakota later today to discuss coronavirus response. rob: house democrats introducing an enormous $3 trillion relief bill, the biggest of your package yet. rob: a year of economic output, republicans pushing back on this measure calling it a liberal wish list. lawmakers say this bill is dead on arrival. >> reporter: the bill is an 800 page wishlist that seeks to expand the cares act. individuals would get $1,200 payments but those with kids would get $1,200 per child instead of 500, up to $6,000 would kids 17-24 excluded from previous stimulus bills would be included and eligible for funds. the bill would sensory was checks to illegal immigrants as

long as they file tacticians using a federal id. nancy pelosi says the bill takes the fed's advice to go big. >> everything is coronavirus centric and in a timely way that relates to the virus. it is too deadly to our lives, livelihood and democracy for us to use for any other purpose. >> reporter: here's how it breaks down, 15% food stamps, $150 million for food banks and mortgage and rent assistance. a second round of cash payments extending unemployment benefits and providing hazard pay for essential workers and more than $950 billion for state and local governments and $10 billion for small businesses. republicans have already declared the bill dead on arrival. >> what you have seen in the house is not something designed to deal with reality, but

designed to deal with aspirations. this is not a time for aspirational legislation but for practical response. jillian: republicans slamming several parts of the bill including provisions to aid cannabis related businesses and $3.6 billion for mail in voting which many republicans said lead to fraud. $50 million of the epa, the environment has affected the spread of covid-19. rob: thank you so much. jillian: secretary of state mike pompeo is meeting with benjamin netanyahu in israel. they are expected to discuss a number of topics including iran, coronavirus relief effort and donald trump's peace plan. >> we get a chance to talk about the vision for peace, from the day you came to

washington that donald trump announced the vision for peace when you were there. there remains work to do and we will make progress on that. i am looking forward to it. jillian: mike pompeo landed in tel aviv wearing an american flag facemask in the first high-ranking trump administration official to visit israel since the coronavirus outbreak started. rob: a nice mask. primary voter steering clear of open polling sites in nebraska marking the first in person election in more than a month. record highs for mail in voting, 400,000 ballots by mail, the president sailing to victory in the status democratic contender joe biden gained 27 delegates and senator ben sass defeating republican challenger matt ines with 70% of the vote in the primary, he will face democrat in november. the democratic national committee taking the first steps to preserve social distancing at its convention amid the covid-19 crisis. the rules committee approved a resolution opening the door to allow part of the event be held online including virtual voting.

joe biden is expected to be declared the party nominee in milwaukee. jillian: major league baseball, the players union ending their first round of talks, a detail on the season, focusing on new rules and efforts to keep players safe. the league could send a health plan to the union as soon as today. salary cuts, former yankee slugger mark tiexeira should says they should take lessons from it. >> people all over the world taking pay cuts, losing their jobs, losing their lives. if i am a player i don't like it but i will do whatever i have to do to play. jillian: it is not clear when the two sides will meet again. rob: we will see about that. the coronavirus pandemic is changing how florida is preparing for hurricane season. jillian: state officials considering using hotels as

shelters to avoid overcrowding at existing shelters and advising residents to be prepared with their own facemasks. rob: janice dean talking about the weather and there is a disturbance already off the coast of florida and we are months early at this point. >> janice: the official season starts june 1st but we have had storms that formed as early as may even earlier than that, they can for many months of the year but we have a disturbance off the coast of florida. talking about tropical disturbances that form this time of year, the season june 1st-november 30th above average activity is expected this year and we have a tropical storm every two years on average in june in the pre-june 1st storm, we had one last year, that was andrea in the atlantic basin, this one is off the coast, you see where bonnie is, that is the disturbance we are watching right now off the coast of florida into the bahamas. this storm will be named arthur and we do anticipate either a

tropical or subtropical storm to form this weekend. the good news is all the tropical models have it offshore but bermuda has to watch this. we will be watching the tropics as we get into the weekend and we have a severe threat across the central us, large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes possible over the same areas we have seen over and over this season. tornadoes and tropical season watching both of them through the next couple days. we will keep you posted. back to you. rob: birthday girl, good to see you again. >> janice: i had a long long weekend birthday and thank you for celebrating with me. jillian: the media twisting anthony fauci's testimony to so fear and division. >> doctor anthony fauci spoke

publicly today about the pandemic without donald trump over his shoulder. >> donald trump, listen to anthony fauci, follow science, not your ego. wuhan they are trying and failing to pit anthony fauci against the president. the heritage foundation joins us next.

>> doctor anthony fauci spoke publicly about the pandemic, disagreeing. >> we saw him contradict the administration from one to another. that doesn't sit well with people inside the administration. >> listen to anthony fauci, follow science, not your ego. jillian: democrats in the mainstream media, framing anthony fauci's testimony as a rebuke of the president. rob: anthony fauci says it is

not accurate. why does the media insist on this narrative? jillian: thanks for being here, beverly. there was a lot you could take away from yesterday including the fact that anthony fauci talked about headway with possible vaccines and he is looking forward to having one but there is a lot of positive you can take away from it. why are we not hearing that? >> it doesn't fit the narrative the media wants go the media wants to fit anthony fauci against donald trump. they have done this from the beginning even though anthony fauci said please don't pit us against each other. he said he has a good working relationship with the president, the president listens to him, they work

together on phased reopening of the united states presented a few weeks ago but it seems the media and the left only want to listen to anthony fauci when it comes to his public health advice but not at his word when he says he has a good relationship with the president. rob: the more divisive headlines out of a hearing, pull them up on the screen, from cnn, the guardian, here is anthony fauci, he has had to do this before and has done this before. he is again defending the relationship and how the president thinks. >> i give advice and opinion based on evidence-based scientific information. he hears that, he respects it. over the last several months never has there been any confrontational relationship. rob: there's a lot of further right voices that are hardly critical of the president for listening too much to anthony fauci and birx so you can't win. >> absolutely. we are seeing that narrative presented more and more, people wondering if the president

should have listened to anthony fauci is much as he has. even in a hearing yesterday anthony fauci said i don't focus on economic issues which he is coming at this solely from a public health perspective. he has been wrong along the way and some of his predictions, there should be at least leeway for that as we learn more about the coronavirus that there are reasons you have senator rand paul say we need to look at the economic aspects of this. we are talking people's livelihoods as a small business owner, have been impacted by the decision to shutdown the economy and people say we need to weigh the two, public health with the economy and the ramifications of shutting down but what we are seeing from the mainstream media is every life matters and anyone who wants to open the economy you therefore don't care about people's lives. the media are using anthony fauci to pilfer that narrative

to push that narrative forward and they started by saying there is an issue between anthony fauci and donald trump because they think that will help the narrative they are perpetuating. jillian: we are hearing the talk but not in all cases the walk, by that i mean how do we get to the point where we have more people coming together in this conversation to say scientifically here's the information we have, let's take this into consideration and look at the economy. we have millions of people out of jobs, businesses that may never be open, a lot of them, we have to find a way for businesses to reopen so people can work again and do it safely. when do we get to that point? people are frustrated waiting for that to happen. >> people are frustrated. this is why you see protests across the country. part of this frustration is the goalposts of changed when it comes to what our goals are. first it was don't overwhelm the hospitals, now it is we

have to protect every life at all costs but the reality is, anthony fauci mentioned this, we don't know when a vaccine will be available. this was never supposed to be shut everything down until a vaccine was available was what we need to do is instead of putting people against each other with a binary choice of opening or staying closed, let's look at sensible ways that we can be as safe as possible realize we want kids to go back to school, people who have surgeries and other health needs we want them to go back to their doctor. rob: you will hide in your house until a vaccine was out in a year, that was never spoken. 19 minutes after the hour. the house speaker wants to make it rain with $3 trillion and a wish list for coronavirus relief. republicans call this build that on arrival because it is packed with pork. jillian: brian brent briggs is the bill is designed for a shutdown economy when it should be focused on recovery, he joins us live. they are compelled to step forward.

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>> more money in the pockets of the american people. it will costs more. >> this is not a time for aspirational legislation, to prop this economy up forever. rob: nancy pelosi facing push back against her $3 trillion proposal. jillian: the house is expected to vote on the heroes act friday the gop leaders are already shutting down the possibility of passage. rob: breaking down the so-called liberal wish list. this is almost a year of economic outlook in one part of this.

>> spending $3 trillion to provide relief and stimulus. people asking the question we spent $3 trillion, where is this money coming from? how do we pay it back and is a going to achieve the objective more and more americans want which is not just money in my pocket. how is this going to help me here. it is not going to help people back to work. jillian: let's look at the breakdown, $150 million for food banks, second round of cash payments, extends weekly unemployment units, hazard pay freezes or workers, $915 billion for state and local government, $10 billion for small businesses.

in the wish list, $50 billion to colleges and universities, $3.6 billion for mail in voting, $25 billion for the post office, $100 million to combat domestic violence in provisions that allow banks to work on cannabis related regulation with thoughts on all of that. >> my friends and neighbors, the question is what does the federal government doing to make it possible, we just went through millions, billions of dollars of spending, people scratching their heads saying how will that get us out of this and get the economy back on the right track. you can't put money in people's pockets that we don't have, spending has to be geared toward helping businesses hire again. people want to go to work, small businesses wants to higher. you talk to any small business owner they will tell you that

is an impediment to hiring, to stay home instead of get back on the job, it is going to wreck the recovery extending through the end of the year forget about fourth quarter bounce back. we will not see that until 2021. rob: it has nothing to do with the recovery. you got an op-ed, frivolous lawsuits. at a time of coronavirus we had a number of lawsuits against businesses. is it imperative the government protect these businesses with a won't reopen? >> talk about things we should be doing, one is a liability shield for businesses. you hear the critics saying provided liability shield means given carte blanche, immunity from everything and they will exploit workers, nothing could

be further from the truth, businesses need to know they are not subject to a frivolous lawsuit because they want to bring workers back and do it knowing there is not a lawsuit waiting around every corner. that is the kind of thing we should be talking about, it should include liability protection for freedom to get back out. and to get on with it. both businesses and workers need that to get the traction. jillian: 988 virus funds. thank you for your time. it is 27 minutes after the hour. the fast and furious scandal rolling back into the headlines. as mexico demand answers. rob: the cross-border gunrunning operation resulted in the death of american border patrol agent, his family calling for an honest investigation. they join us live. ve shoppers. we laughed with you. sprinkles are for winners.

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jillian: pumping the brakes, the federal judge overseeing michael flynn's case delaying the justice department effort to drop it by allowing third parties to weigh in. rob: griff jenkins live in washington in anticipation is building whether the d and i will release the list of obama era officials behind the unmasking of the former national security adviser. >> reporter: we may soon see those names but we won't see a end to the flynn case anytime soon. an unusual move given the doj abandoned the effort saying they should offer their opinions, ordering the court to accept amicus briefs or court filings. the court will enter a scheduling order governing the submission of amicus briefs. flynn's attorney responded the proposed amicus brief has no place in this court, no delay

should be tolerated or expense caused to him and his defense, leading flynn in legal limbo a little longer, it would be further extended if call for evidentiary hearings, acting dni rick grenell classified this behind the unmasking of flynn carrying the list to the doj last week. the justice department says they are not releasing it but it is within his rights to do so. unmasking to be clear means revealing the names of us citizens contained in the intelligence report. senate judiciary committee chairman lindsey graham has this to say. >> if i ever find the intelligence community was in masking my phone calls with foreign leaders where i discussed foreign-policy, i find it unbelievable the outgoing administration is surveilling the incoming administration. >> on the senate floor they

take up fisa reforms, senator rand paul is offering an amendment. >> they brought him in to create a crime, terrible travesty of justice, the ultimate thing for us in the legislature is we should not let these abuses of power happen again and i am pushing hard to make sure we take this power away from government. >> reporter: as for the timeline for grenell let's release it could be as soon as today. we have to wait and find out. it may be additional intelligence or information released in addition to this list. more to come. jillian: a lot more questions. rob: the obama administration in the hot seat over the cross-border bug running scandal, mexico demanding answers as they try to weed out corruption. >> the government of mexico request to be provided with all the information available regarding the fast and furious operation.

>> brian perry exposed the operation in 2010 when he was fatally shot by a mexican gang member and like mexico they need transparency. terry's brother joins us to explain. i know that for a long time your family has been trying to get answers and you have been demanding them. do you think you will get them now that mexico is demanding it? >> we have been waiting 9 and a half years to get something. we got 0 accountability, 0 answers. whatever doj and oversight agreed on we don't know nothing about it. we are hanging in limbo. my brother is a marine. he deserves answers. rob: absolutely agree with you. it has been 10 years, let's do a reminder what this operation

was. illegal gun purchases allowed from this country, essentially looking to track who is buying these illegal guns and hoping somehow to limit gun smuggling across the border with what they learned, they are letting these things be sold but in the end, the 2000 firearms that they say were justifiably sold to learn information only 710 were recovered. why do you think mexico suddenly has an interest in this? >> that is a good question. bobby for ten years, thousands of deaths over there, these guns ran across the border. these were known felons, running guns across the border.

isn't mexico a non-gun state country? they can't have guns. why would you ship guns to a country especially cartels where you know it will harm people on both sides of the border? it boggles my mind. jillian: it has been frustrating, can't count the amount of times you try to get answers. >> this is america. we should have the best justice system in the world. we would be in jail right now. democrats preaching the last year and a half nobody is above the law, prove it, you have major corruption here, the whole country is running like crazy. not one person has been in prison. what is my brother out there for? rob: thank you for your time.

to brian and his memory, glad to see this story is not going away and hope some answers are coming from you. >> of donald trump is listening, investigation to an honest you are, that is all i ask. jillian: we will be right back.

rob: airlines under 5 refusing refunds under the pandemic. jillian: the government's warning. >> reporter: it has been happening in the department of transportation has logged 25,000 complaints from passengers that airlines are refusing to give their money back up from 1500 complaints that they get at the agency. they have to offer cash refunds, not just vouchers that

they are significantly changed. the number of passengers drop by 20% since the pandemic, they are struggling to enforce safety guidelines telling flight attendants not to force passengers to wear face coverings and a message acquired by reuters american airlines said once up the gate the face covering policy becomes more lenient, the flight attendant's role is not enforcement with respect to the policy. jetblue told staff there will be challenges to enforcing the policy and it will not be possible for everyone to have a face covering. the responsibility falls on flight attendants, they demanded a federal plan of action to implement safety measures. there will be exceptions, somebody is older, without breathe, a child will not wear a mask the entire flight, there

will be religious reasons, all of that is laid out by airlines and flight attendants. it will be a process to see how we fly again. rob: the show will not go on, stay leaders pushing back on travis mccready's concert friday. representatives for mccready, the venue would enforce social distancing guidelines of all attendees would wear masks, the health department sent a cease-and-desist order but tickets still for sale. jillian: matthew mcconaughey offering unity in the fight against coronavirus. >> partisan politics is not what we need, we need a collection right now. this is a tug-of-war, we need all hands on the road if we are going to beat it.

jillian: telling fox news on special report coronavirus fight has been hijacked by partisan politics, he says it is not about political division in america should focus on taking care of one another. rob: a good message i don't know if anyone will listen to. what is coming up on "fox and friends". >> a great interview as well. 17 minutes from now. what is going on in washington dc but josh holly, the great state of missouri and mike o'brien in illinois. and michelson case with molly hemingway and tammy bruce, the judge will not throw out the

case. with tesla out of california inviting him to texas. and his 87-year-old grandma, his grandma missed getting her hair done, the two will join us live, a busy 3 hours kicks off. the channel you transfer your morning news. back in a couple minutes.

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edited clip of william barr discussing michael flynn's case. >> when history looks back on this decision how do you think it will be written? >> histories written by the winners. depends on who is writing a history. >> reporter: in the full clip he said he believed dropping flynn's case upheld the rule of law. the cut was not intentional. rob: did not edit that out. that was not our edit. we didn't included because we only fall short of two clips that cbs did air. we should have looked at both and checks for a full transcript, a mistake i wish we hadn't made and one that i wish i hadn't made. we are sorry for that mistake. jillian: donald from calling for todd's firing over the incident. rob: chuck schumer plans to support joe biden amid the sexual part allegations. >> i encouraged joe biden's explanation. it is sufficient, he will be a great candidate, he will be a

great president. rob: that is all it takes, many believe joe biden is being given a pass when it comes to these allegations. biden assaulted her in 1993. jillian: ready to race, all eyes on nascar, drivers make highly anticipated return to the tracking arlington. rob: what can we expect, caitlin vincey, thanks for coming out today. what should we expect? >> thanks for having me on this morning, appreciate it. the nascar season, only four races into the year. we went through this stay-at-home pandemic.

a bit of unknowns, the biggest factor the changed is the fact they won't have practices or qualifying going into these races typically on a normal race weekend, the drivers would have an opportunity to get behind the wheel and have several crack positions, fight as well, have a better understanding of where their setup is before the race comes around, they are getting behind the wheel to go out and race at one of the racetracks at darlington raceway. that has the drivers on edge. with jimmy johnson, we are not really sure how this will play out, they are looking forward to getting behind the wheel, that will provide additional challenges. jillian: the statement on covid-19 modifications, it is a huge responsibility for us as a sport, we will learn as we go. the industry and the confidence that we can be first in here is

the nascar covid-19 precautions, all participants wearing face coverings, health screenings for people entering the track, participants completing e-learning tutorials by july 30 first. with all this in mind a lot of different sports facing different challenges as you know and a lot of them with convinced schedules. how will that play a role? >> we are doing a tremendous amount in a short period of time. that is different for the teams to adapt. we typically operate on a 38 weekend schedule. putting that many in the timeframe will be tough. the best teams rise to the occasion. the drivers and crew chiefs that have been paired together for many years thinking of our past champions with kyle busch and adam stevens, kevin harvey,

those guys have been together and warned of the ups and downs, they will be one of the more prevalent teams adapting quicker than others. rob: we are looking forward to it. we appreciate it. you can catch the race on sunday at 3:30 p.m. in thank you again. jillian: may be a lot of new nascar eyes. rob: a banner rated nascar race. elizabeth warren flubbing her fact on the severity of the coronavirus outbreak. >> we have 25,000 new infections a day and over 2000 deaths a day. i think those are the right numbers. rob: warren thought wrong, was quite high. the white house press secretary is letting her know it. jillian: the cover of gq, the social media response to the quarantine photo shoot. we will tell you about it. they're our parents...

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and over 2,000 deaths a day. i think that's the right numbers and some are estimating we could be at 200,000 cases a day by june. rob: senator warren spouting off covid-19 stats without a fact check and the press secretary had to set her straight. jillian: carley shimkus here with the reaction to the

correction. carley? carley: senator warren had no intention of becoming the topic of conversation at the white house press briefing that's what happened in kayleigh mcenany issued this correction. take a look. >> elizabeth warren erroneously said there were 25,000 new cases today. in fact there were less than 20,000. senator warren said there were 2,000 deaths in fact less than a thousand. i would encourage our democratic colleagues and all americans to put out correct information because it does have consequences. >> asked if numbers were correct he said yes. dr. birx told m |1 cenany they were inflated. given the unforgiving nature of social media. this has landed warren in hot water. really does anyone still believe her? stephanie accusing warren of lying to congress. another twitter user right here dianna says it's important we pass out good information. good for kayleigh, m |1 cenany

says these numbers are important because they can lead people to make critical decisions about when they can leaf their house and go to the doctor for cancer screenings, mammograms, et cetera. >> if there is one company where you think working from home would be easy it would have to be twitter. >> a lot of those tech companies. we talked about how this pandemic could change the way we do business. guys, it is happening. twitter ceo jack dorsey says his employees can work from home permanently. company released a statement if their companies are in a role or situation that nabletion them to work from home and they want to continue to do so forever, we will make that happen. if not, our offices will be their warm and welcomingselves. this twitter user right here says that he just wants to work. i want to work regardless. not just at home. but be working on sites. another twitter user says super. i hope the money he saves in overhead goes to his workers to pay rent, electric, internet

costs and stuff like that. where do i sign up? everything is so interconnected if companies do down size how will that effect things like construction, real estate? we might just find that out in the future. jillian: interesting. robert pattenson with the ultimate selfie. >> speaking of working from home robert pattenson he actually photographed himself for the cover of gq magazine. these are pictures he took himself in his house. he did mirror selfies for some. he used the timer for others. he has that artsy desshelved look down. he has been worried how long his hair is getting. maybe he should go for this look. jillian: could do photo. carley: if he watching right now i'm sure he is working on his own. >> pattenson or mcconaughey.

>> i'm a heterosexual and i think i agree with that as well. jillian: thanks for watching on this wednesday. be back here same time, same place tomorrow morning. rob: i guess come back. right? thursday. jillian: "fox & friends" starts right now. bye-bye. brian: here we go with a fox news alert. pumping the brakes. the federal judge overseeing the michael flynn case delaying the decision to drop it ains 80s the move drawing immediate backlash from flynn's attorney and from critics, steve. steve: no kidding, ainsley. griff jenkins is live in washington where we could soon howard k. stern who from the obama administration was involved in all of this, including the unmasking of michael film's name, griff, from that secret document. griff: that's right, steve, ainsley and brian, good morning. remember dni unmavericked the names unmasking of flynn